Senior Software Engineer - Full stack developer (python, node) at StoryMirror · Mumbai · 2 - 5 years · ₹8L - ₹12L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 12 Apr 2019

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About the Role
We are hiring Staff / Principal Engineers to take full, hands-on ownership of Blitzy's most critical production-grade systems and to deliver high-leverage features that materially improve customer outcomes and engineering velocity. This is the most senior individual contributor role at the company today.
This is not a Senior-plus role, an architecture-only role, or a promotion-track role. We are looking for someone who has already operated at Principal / Staff+ scope in a highly technical environment and expects to spend their time writing, reviewing, and shipping production code.
This role is 100% hands-on. Leverage comes from system ownership, execution quality, and durable technical decisions — not people management or process.
Responsibilities
- Own mission-critical production systems end-to-end, ensuring correctness, scalability, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Design, build, and ship high-impact backend systems and features that improve product reliability, performance, and customer value.
- Architect scalable services and cloud infrastructure using technologies such as Python, REST, gRPC, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Identify and resolve complex technical bottlenecks that limit engineering quality, system performance, or organizational velocity.
- Build and operate LLM-powered systems and validation loops that evaluate correctness, consistency, durability, and production performance.
- Design and evolve data architectures incorporating relational, NoSQL, graph, and vector databases to support complex enterprise applications and semantic retrieval.
- Modernize and improve complex enterprise systems while balancing reliability, maintainability, scalability, and delivery speed.
- Set and uphold engineering quality standards through hands-on technical leadership, sound technical judgment, and ownership of long-term technical decisions.
Qualifications
- Direct experience with Python as a primary programming language, backend frameworks, and microservices architectures.
- Expertise in REST and gRPC, with proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript.
- Proficiency in GCP, along with experience using at least one additional cloud platform such as AWS or Azure.
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform in production environments.
- Experience operating highly available production systems, including monitoring, scalability, reliability, performance optimization, and operational tooling.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
- Familiarity with graph databases such as Neo4j and vector databases or embedding infrastructure for semantic search and retrieval.
- Hands-on experience building and operating LLM-powered systems in production, including evaluation, validation, regression testing, tracing, and failure analysis.
- Working knowledge of LangSmith or comparable LLM observability and evaluation tools; familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar model providers is a plus.
- Ability to contribute across the full stack, with a strong understanding of frontend architecture and the ability to debug, design, and ship across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI systems.
- Understanding of large-scale enterprise software systems, including architecture, integration, deployment, modernization, and long-term maintainability.
- Proven track record of operating at Staff+, Principal Engineer, or equivalent level, independently driving complex technical initiatives and delivering high-impact outcomes with minimal supervision.
Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform on a mission to revolutionize the software development life cycle by autonomously building custom software to unlock the next industrial revolution. We're transforming how enterprises build software, turning enterprise requirements into enterprise grade code with an agentic software development platform that can autonomously execute 80% of the quantum of software development work. We're backed by multiple tier 1 investors, and have proven success as founders of previous start-ups.
Our Culture
Who we are:
Led by two pioneering co-founders we are one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., creating our own category of enterprise autonomous software development. We automate thousands of hours of software development for our customers, which includes strong representation within the Fortune 500.
How we work:
- We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company’s and our clients’ most precious asset. We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.
- Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team. We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.
- Passion for Invention: We’re pushing the frontier of what’s possible, requiring constant innovation and iteration.
- We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships into deep, meaningful partnerships.
- We believe in being ‘everyday athletes’: taking care of ourselves so we can bring our best minds to work. We promote great sleep, movement, and restorative activities for
Blitzy is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe different perspectives make us stronger.
- Design patterns- socket communication/ micro services architecture
- Caching - REDIS MEMCACHED etc
- Database - MONGO, SQL etc. min 2yrs experience with these.
- Features created for large concurrent requests.
- Node Js, Go lang any asynchronous programming language min 2 yrs exp with any one of them.
- Message Queues - RABBIT MQ, Kafka etc.
Location: Bengaluru (Work from Office – 6 Days a Week)
About the Role
We're looking for a Software Development Engineer III (SDE-3) to join our growing engineering team. We're seeking engineers who have previously built, scaled, or significantly contributed to applications serving 100K+ users. You'll be joining a small, high-impact team, so we're looking for engineers who thrive on ownership, move quickly, and enjoy solving challenging technical problems.
We are technology agnostic and value strong engineering fundamentals over expertise in any particular language or framework. Whether your background is Backend, Frontend, or Full Stack, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications.
- Build robust, production-ready software that delivers exceptional user experiences.
- Take end-to-end ownership—from design and development to deployment and production support.
- Work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver impactful features.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following engineering best practices.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or similar) to improve development speed, code quality, debugging, testing, and overall engineering productivity.
- Participate in architecture and design discussions, balancing scalability with simplicity.
- Troubleshoot production issues and continuously improve system performance and reliability.
- Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
Must-Have Qualifications
- 4–6 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, such as Python, Go (Golang), C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, Scala, or Ruby.
- Strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, and System Design.
- Hands-on experience building, scaling, or maintaining production applications with a user base of 100K+ users.
- Proven experience working on high-traffic, large-scale consumer or B2B products where performance, reliability, and scalability were critical.
- Experience developing modern Backend, Frontend, or Full Stack applications.
- Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and scalable application architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively use AI coding assistants to accelerate software development while maintaining high standards of code quality and engineering best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a strong sense of ownership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on platform or infrastructure products is highly preferred.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Familiarity with microservices, distributed systems, CI/CD, and containerization.
- Experience working in product companies or fast-paced startup environments.
Who You Are
- You enjoy working in small, fast-moving teams where every engineer has significant ownership.
- You're comfortable wearing multiple hats and contributing across different parts of the stack when needed.
- You've previously worked on products operating at scale and understand the engineering challenges of supporting 100K+ active users, including performance optimization, reliability, and scalability.
- You have a product mindset and care deeply about performance, scalability, and user experience.
- You're a proactive problem solver who enjoys taking initiative and driving projects independently.
- You embrace modern engineering practices, including the effective use of AI tools to enhance productivity without compromising software quality.
- You value collaboration, continuous learning, and building high-quality software.
Why Join Us?
- Join a high-impact engineering team with significant ownership and autonomy.
- Solve challenging engineering problems with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Collaborate with talented engineers in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
- Build software that directly impacts thousands of users while accelerating your technical growth.
Duration: 6 months with possible extension
Location: Remote
Notice Period: Immediate Joiner Preferred
Experience: 4-6 Years
Requirements:
- B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college with a minimum of 4 – 6 years of experience in a Product Development Company
- Sound knowledge and application of algorithms and data structures with space and me complexities
- Strong design skills involving data modeling and low-level class design
- Good knowledge of object-oriented programming and design patterns
- Proficiency in Python, Java, and Golang
- Follow industry coding standards and be responsible for writing maintainable/scalable/efficient code to solve business problems
- Hands-on experience of working with Databases and the Linux/Unix platform
- Follow SDLC in an agile environment and collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to drive deliveries
- Strong technical aptitude and good knowledge of CS fundamentals
What will you get to do here?
- Coming up with best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually thrive in improving the technology of the product/team.
- Driving the adoption of best practices & regular Participation in code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions.
- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create.
- Implementation of long-term technology vision for your team.
- Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing/new areas
- Decide on technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
The tech stack looks like the below (expect this to change as we scale):
- Typescript for APIs (REST and GraphQL)
- Kafka, Spark, and data warehouses for ML pipelines (spark on python/scala)
- Solidity + hardhat for smart contracts (in the future, rust, go and move)
- AWS & Terraform
- Full nodes
You can expect to do some or all of the following:
- Read through protocols’ whitepapers and smart contracts to derive metrics and analyze risks
- Architect the backend for APIs, async jobs, and blockchain integration
- Build clean, concise APIs for customer integration, along with the documentation
- Setup, run and maintain full and archive nodes across different chains
- Integrate with multiple partners like exchanges and custody providers
- Fool-proof security across the stack - encryption, hashing, privacy, VPC, etc.
- Infrastructure as code - build terraform scripts and ensure easy replication of the infra across different regions
- Research the top DeFi protocols to uncover better insights for our customers and evaluate their risk profiles, security, and historical returns
- Manage production deployments, logging, and monitoring
We expect you to be fairly comfortable with working with both web3 and web2 stacks. We do not expect that you have web3 experience on day 1, but you should be willing to wear multiple hats, learn things quickly and move fast.
About you
- Generalist, a solid engineer who can learn things on your own and have an eye for clean, tested, and well-documented code
- We don’t look at the number of years of work experience as a criterion, but rather see what you have done in your life so far (side projects, open-source contributions, blogs, etc.). We don’t care about degrees, the institutions you went to, or the companies you worked for before. We are open to talking as long as you have good judgment, great clarity, align with our values and have a strong track record of thoughtful work
- Understand the fundamentals of building and integrating APIs and secure systems. Bonus if you know a bit about blockchains and protocols
- You can be strong on the backend, front-end, or can dabble everywhere. We want you to play to your strengths and will provide enough opportunities to learn and do things outside of your comfort zone
Pay and benefits We offer a solid, competitive package (including early-stage equity) that is location agnostic. We give you the flexibility to choose the split between cash and equity.
Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Additional Job requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
- BS in computer science or related field.
- 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
- Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
- Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization
- Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.
- Have a good understanding of design and user experience principles.
- Open-minded, flexible, and willing to adapt to changing situations
- Ability to work independently as well as on a team and learn from colleagues
- High adaptability in a dynamic start-up environment
- Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably, and securely. Evaluating and implementing new systems and infrastructure.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving abilities with a tenacious commitment to finding the root cause of issues.
Qualifications :
- B. Tech/ B.E. /M. Tech/ BCA / MCA or a related technical discipline from reputed universities
Skills Required :
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in REST API development using python.
- Must have experience with anyone popular python frameworks like Django, Flask, and FastAPI Framework.
- Experience in designing and developing Restful Web services and Remote procedure calls.
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Knowledge of load testing and optimizing code for performance, security, and scalability
- Experience with Unit testing frameworks in Python
- Knowledge of modern authorization & authentication mechanisms.
- Able to create database schemes that represent and support business processes
- Knowledge of Version Control System & basics of CI/CD
- Write and maintain technical documentation
- Solid foundation in OOPS, Data structures, and Algorithms
- Knowledge of SDLC phases of project development.
- Experience in one or more No SQL Databases such as MongoDB, and Cassandra.
- Experience with event-based databases and programming
- Good experience in synchronous programming and thread-based programming.
- Experience with schedulers.
- Good to have knowledge of Linux shell commands.
- Good to have experience in Kubernetes & Docker
- Knowledge of any Cloud Service like GCP or AWS would be an added advantage
- Cares deeply about writing Quality, Testable & Modular code
- Good to have an understanding of NLP.
Job Description for NodeJS/Backend Developer (2 - 4 years experience ) :
Responsibilities:
1. Writing reusable, efficient code.
2. Implementation of security and data protection.
3. Development and design of high performant APIs and implementing server side logic.
4. User authentication, DB Schema design etc.
Skills and Qualifications:
1. Javascript
2. Typescript
3. Object oriented programming
4. Express and Mongo DB.
5. AWS and basic devOps
Other Tools:
1. Git and other development tools.










