Senior Software Engineer

 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack applications using Java (backend) and React (frontend)
• Work with and integrate third-party APIs
• Implement and maintain authentication and authorization mechanisms such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID, and Okta
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a remote, global environment
• Ensure high standards of code quality, performance, and reliability
• Participate in planning, status updates, and team meetings across multiple time zones

Required Technical Skills

• Strong experience in Java backend development
• Hands-on experience with React for frontend development
• Experience working with third-party APIs
• Solid understanding of authentication and authorization frameworks (SAML, OAuth, OpenID, Okta)
• Experience with cloud-based version control systems such as GitHub or Bitbucket
• Understanding of browser technologies and limitations
• Familiarity with AWS services, primarily EC2 and S3
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as New Relic and Grafana

Secondary / Nice-to-Have Skills

• CRM development experience (Salesforce, Dynamics, ServiceNow)
• Exposure to modern data and analytics patterns, including AI and Machine Learning use cases
• Experience with Apache Solr
• Understanding of Apache Tomcat configuration and deployment of web applications

This role requires overlap with multiple time zones for planning meetings, status updates etc. on a regular basis. The duration of these overlaps can change depending on the type of meeting. Upland India has the flexibility to manage your working hours accordingly to he/p in your work-like balance. You can find out more about this during your interview conversation.

Upland Software is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other legally protected status.

Upland RightAnswers is the complete connected knowledge management solution that uses AI and machine learning to improve the user and customer experience by enabling organizations to create a trusted knowledge sharing culture. The solution consists of robust content authoring tools, portals for customers and agents to search the knowledge base, and a robust API for customers to build their own experiences or integrate to alternate forms of self-service delivery.

Our R&D teams are truly global with some legacy concentration in the US in New Jersey, with our customers being enterprise level around the world. The team is small enough for employees to play a pivotal role in the development of our product, but we're supported by a large global business meaning it's also big enough for you to learn and develop your skills within an experienced team.

About Upland

Upland Software (Nasdaq: UPLD) helps global businesses accelerate digital transformation with a powerful cloud software library that provides choice, flexibility, and value. Upland India is a fully owned subsidiary of Upland Software and headquartered in Bangalore. We ore a remote-first company. Interviews and on-boarding ore conducted virtually.

Why This Role Matters

• We are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead the technical direction and hands-on development of our next-generation, agentic AI-first marketing platforms. This is a high-impact role to architect, build, and ship products that change how marketers interact with data, plan campaigns, and make decisions.

What You'll Do

• Build Gen-AI native products: Architect, build, and ship platforms powered by LLMs, agents, and predictive AI
• Stay hands-on: Design systems, write code, debug, and drive product excellence
• Lead with depth: Mentor a high-caliber team of full stack engineers.
• Speed to market: Rapidly ship and iterate on MVPs to maximize learning and feedback.
• Own the full stack: From backend data pipelines to intuitive UIs—from Airflow to React - from BigQuery to embeddings.
• Scale what works: Ensure scalability, security, and performance in multi-tenant, cloud-native environments (GCP).
• Collaborate deeply: Work closely with product, growth, and leadership to align tech with business priorities.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack, data-driven products
• Proficiency in backend (Node.js, Python) and frontend (React), with solid GCP experience
• Strong grasp of data pipelines, analytics, and real-time data processing
• Familiarity with Gen-AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI APIs, vector databases)
• Proven architectural leadership and technical ownership
• Product mindset with a bias for execution and iteration

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud: Google Cloud Platform
• Backend: Node.js, Python, Airflow
• Data: BigQuery, Cloud SQL
• AI/ML: TensorFlow, OpenAI APIs, custom agents
• Frontend: React.js

What You Get

• Meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
• The chance to build global products from India
• A culture that values clarity, ownership, learning, humility, and candor
• A rare opportunity to build with Gen-AI from the ground up

Who You Are

• You’re initiative-driven, not interruption-driven.
• You code because you love building things that matter.
• You enjoy ambiguity and solve problems from first principles.
• You believe true leadership is contextual, hands-on, and grounded.
• You’re here to build — not just maintain.
• You care deeply about seeing your products empower real users, run reliably at scale, and adapt intelligently with minimal manual effort.
• You know that elegant code is just 30% of the job — the real craft lies in the engineering rigour, edge-case handling, and production resilience that make great products truly dependable.

OpenGov is home to an exceptional team - passionate about our mission to power more effective and accountable government. By bringing the OpenGov Cloud to our nation's state and local government, we’re transforming communities so they can thrive! 

Imagine yourself being able to help small business owners open their doors faster, ensuring our tax dollars are accounted for, creating safer infrastructure, modernizing the permitting process, and assisting with disaster recovery. The work you do here every day has a meaningful impact on people's lives!

🌟 OpenGov is a 2023 Top Workplaces USA award winner and a Forbes America's Best Startup Employer 🌟

Join our smart, fun, and humble team to experience the most rewarding career of your life!

Job Summary:

As a  Software Engineer II  at OpenGov, you'll build best-in-class SaaS solutions that enable efficiency, transparency, and accountability within government agencies. You'll be a key member of our engineering team, delivering new features and improvements in a fast-paced, agile environment using modern technologies, including ReactJS, Javascript, GraphQL, and NodeJS.

A typical day in this role would provide opportunities to design, implement and optimize complex applications for speed and scalability, and resolve various unique technical challenges. Strong collaboration skills with the product, UX, and platform engineers coupled with the ability to execute quickly will enable your success.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and deploy high-quality software with minimum supervision
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and operational excellence 
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to coding standards.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation within the team
• Contribute to OpenGov’s Engineering culture of innovation, leading-edge technology adoption and quality

Requirements and Preferred Experience:

• BA/BS in a computer-science-related discipline or equivalent experience required
• 3+ years of professional experience in developing cloud native applications.
• Proficiency in Java or C++ or C# or equivalent program language is required.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, ReactJS, and NodeJS is required 
• Proficiency in data structures, database concepts, algorithms and observability is required
• Working knowledge of event-driven architecture and Kafka preferred
• Working knowledge of ElasticSearch/OpenSearch preferred

What makes OpenGov unique

» Leadership: CEO Zac Bookman (MPA from Harvard and JD from Yale) is truly a mission-driven CEO. He was named one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and SF and Silicon Valley Business Times' 40 under 40 class of 2018!

» Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,800+ governments (and counting) using our products. Click here for read more.

» Culture: Winner of 2023 Top Workplaces USA award, Awarded Top 25 Cloud Companies to Work For, Winner of Forbes 2022 Best Startup Employers, 50 Best Workplaces award. Check out our Careers Video!

» Product: Named to the GovTech 100 (seven consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies.

» Mission Driven: We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.

Come join us and make a positive social impact!

OpenGov is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

SUMMARY OF THE POSITION: 

Product Development Engineer is responsible for front end development of modules of enliven CEM. 

The engineer is responsible for end to end delivery of specific components in the module and integrate them with existing modules 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Working with technical architects, able to convert the architecture into design and code in Java (Spring Boot), AngularJS, and NodeJS. 

• Able to generate LLD documents. 

• Ability to write Quality code with minimum defects. 

• Unit Test and following the coding standards. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS: 

• 5+ years strong programming and logical skills in Java (Spring Boot), AngularJS, Object Oriented Java script, NodeJS and HTML5 

• Hands on Experience on Java (Spring Boot), and MySQL is mandatory. Must have completed at least 2 full projects using Spring boot and AngularJS.

• Excellent knowledge and experience in Spring JPA, RESTful web services implementation.

• NodeJS experience is value add 

• Should have participated in, and be familiar with, Agile (Scrum) project methodology and practices.

• Must be able to mentor and guide junior technical resources. 

• One who is proactive and comes forward with technology related initiatives. Motivated selfstarter. 

• Good Communication skills. English - Oral and Written.

About us:

Zemoso Technologies is a Software Product Market Fit Studio that brings silicon valley style

rapid prototyping and rapid application builds to Entrepreneurs and Corporate innovation. We offer Innovation as a service and work on ideas from scratch and take it to the Product Market Fit stage using Design Thinking->Lean Execution->Agile Methodology.

We were featured as one of Deloitte's Fastest 50 growing tech companies from India thrice (2016,2018 and 2019). We were also featured in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific both in

2016 and 2018.

We are located in Hyderabad, India, and Dallas, US. We have recently incorporated another office in Waterloo, Canada.

Our founders have had past successes - founded a decision management company acquired by SAP AG (now part of Hana Big data stack & NetWeaver BPM), the early engineering team of Zoho(a leading billion $ SaaS player) & some Private Equity experience.

Marquee customers along with some exciting start-ups are part of our clientele.

What You will do

● Create beautiful software experiences for our clients using design thinking, Lean and agile methodology.

● Work on software products designed from scratch using the latest cutting-edge technologies, platforms and languages such as JAVA, python, Javascript, GoLang and Scala.

● Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical culture.

● Work in collaborative, fast-paced and value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.

● Help to grow the next generation of developers and have a positive impact on the industry.

Basic Qualifications

● Experience: 4+ years.

● Hands-on development experience with a broad mix of languages such as JAVA, Python, Javascript, etc.

● Server-side development experience mainly in JAVA.

● UI development experience in ReactJS or AngularJS or PolymerJS or EmberJS or Jquery, etc. is good to have.

● Passion for software engineering and following the best coding concepts.

● Good to great problem-solving and communication skills.

Nice to have Qualifications

● Product and customer-centric mindset.

● Great OO skills, including design patterns.

● Experience with DevOps, continuous integration & deployment.

● Exposure to big data technologies, Machine Learning and NLP will be a plus.

Benefits

● Competitive salary.

● Work from anywhere.

● Learning and gaining experience rapidly.

● Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.

● Insurance (including top-up insurance for COVID).

Location

Remote - work from anywhere.

We are looking for people who have a passion for solving problems, can write exceptional code and don't shy away from challenges and new technology. Our products affect thousands of people everyday and we want someone who would love to contribute towards that end.

If you:

• Know how to write robust and reliable systems
• Have knowledge of managing and scaling for high volume traffic
• Are someone who enjoys execution of an idea as much as finding new and innovative ideas to solve problems
• Actively try to gain more knowledge and pass on knowledge to your peers

Then we are definitely a right match for you

What we expect from you:

• Excellent understanding of web applications.
• Good knowledge about AWS or similar services.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Good understanding of the delivery pipeline in a team environment.
• Innovative and creative problem solving.
• Ability to understand and communicate across teams and departments.

What you will be doing:

• Work as a part of a team or individually.
• Build products that help us expand our portfolio and drive growth for the organisation.
• Take up ownership of the entire lifecycle of products.
• Help, mentor and guide interns, new joinees and other developers.
• Engage with the client and people from other departments to come up with the best solutions.
• Point out existing problems with our solutions, processes and architecture

What we look for:

• Should have used/contributed to popular Open Source Libraries and Tools
• Should have worked on web technology (Rails / SpringBoot / Django / NodeJs)
• Always on the cutting edge of technology.
• Ability to divide a larger problem into smaller pieces for everyone to work on.
• Process driven and detail oriented
• Should have mentored new joinees
• More than 3 years of relevant experience in the domain
• Should be able to work out of our Bangalore office.