Senior Software Engineer at Photon Commerce · Remote only · 5 - 10 years · ₹12L - ₹25L / yr · Profitable · Remote only · Posted 2 Nov 2021
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Company |
Photon Commerce (http://www.photoncommerce.com">www.photoncommerce.com)
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Senior engineer
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Commitment |
Full-time. Remote. Starting as soon as possible.
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About the company |
Photon Commerce is the AI platform for finance, invoices, and payments. Photon empowers financial services and eCommerce businesses with computer vision to automate invoices and receipts. Photon turns paper and pdf invoices, receipts, POs, and packing slips into a modern collaboration platform for commerce, preventing problems before they become costly. Backed by the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, its leadership brings experience from eCommerce and SaaS unicorns, Google AI, Y Combinator, Stanford, and 4 exits and an IPO.
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What you will do |
· Build a python/flask app that processes PDFs, images, invoices, and receipts for Quickbooks and Shopify using OCR · Lead a team of 8+ engineers and interns · Create integrations, APIs, webhooks, and payments for the captured structured data · Build a document and invoice collaboration app with embedded chat, like Slack for documents/invoices · Deploy the app into production and own AWS devops · Own the shipped product, including QA
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Experience |
· 5-10 years of experience having launched apps in production with real users in Python, Flask, Django, Javascript, SQL, AWS, and full-stack web development · 1+ years of engineering leadership, including as a team lead, tech lead, or manager · Have repos and/or demos to show your previous work · Knowledge in and/or passion for enterprise SaaS, and AWS devops · Excellent communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, and team skills
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What you’ll receive |
· Join an exciting, high growth startup led by serial entrepreneurs and backed by top tier Silicon Valley investors and billionaire industry leaders in tech · Competitive compensation commensurate with experience and performance
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We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join an AI engineering startup developing a document collection platform for accountants and professional services firms.
Preference to candidates from Kerala, India.
The product eliminates the friction involved in gathering client files by automating document requests, centralising their collection, and organising incoming documents according to each organisation’s preferred folder structure.
The ideal candidate will be able to take ownership of work from start to finish, communicate clearly, and deliver high-quality solutions within tight timeframes.
What You’ll Work On
You’ll work with Python and Django daily, including models, views, templates, background jobs, and the wider product around them.
The frontend uses Django templates with HTMX and Alpine.js, built with Vite, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. The stack runs in Docker using PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Celery.
You may also assist with ancillary projects, including custom integrations.
Project-based training will be provided.
Technology Stack
Backend: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis and RabbitMQ
Frontend: Django Templates, HTMX, Alpine.js, Vite, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS
Infrastructure: Docker
Must Have
- Strong Python and Django skills
- Comfortable working with Docker
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Clear communication skills, including providing concise updates, asking honest questions, and writing information that others can act on
- Evidence of exceptional ability—not simply a list of tools, but something challenging you have built or solved
Preference will be given to candidates with at least three years of relevant professional experience.
Nice to Have
- Frontend experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience with HTMX, Alpine.js, TypeScript or Tailwind CSS
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Celery or pytest
- Experience with integrations, including APIs, OAuth and cloud storage
- Basic accounting knowledge
How to Apply
Please do not send a generic CV alone. Your application must include:
- Evidence of exceptional ability: Describe a project, open-source contribution, production system or challenging problem you solved. Include a link to the repository, write-up or demo where possible. Focus on your personal contribution by detailing the specific parts of the project where you played a critical role and explaining precisely what you built or solved.
- What you accomplished: Provide a short explanation of the outcome in your own words.
- The hardest part: Explain the hardest part of the problem and how you dealt with it.
- Your use of AI: Explain whether you use AI in your work and, if so, how you use it.
- Your professional experience and interests: Include a brief paragraph summarising your professional experience and general interests.
Applications that do not include the above Croissant details above will not be considered.
What We Offer
- For the right candidate, salary will not be a constraint
- Project-based training
- A rewarding career with genuine opportunities for professional growth
- The opportunity to work on an innovative AI-driven product
- A remote, full-time position
Job Details and Application Submission
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Contract: One-year contract, with the possibility of extension based on satisfactory performance
Probationary Period: Six months
Preferred Experience: Three or more years
We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead who can own backend engineering, DevOps, and delivery management.
This is not a coordination-only role. You will contribute technically while establishing the processes, accountability, and
operating rhythm needed for predictable delivery. You will manage multiple engineers and effectively use AI coding
agents and automation tools to improve the team's output without compromising quality.
Key Responsibilities
• Own the architecture, development, deployment, and reliability of our backend systems.
• Lead engineers through clear goals, task breakdowns, ownership, reviews, and regular feedback.
• Establish a process-oriented delivery system covering planning, estimation, execution, testing, release, and
retrospectives.
• Translate product requirements into technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable deliverables.
• Track execution proactively, identify delivery risks early, and communicate status clearly.
• Remain hands-on with critical development, debugging, architecture, code reviews, and production issues.
• Own CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, deployment practices, and operational readiness.
• Improve engineering quality through coding standards, automated testing, documentation, and review processes.
• Delegate work effectively across team members according to their strengths and development needs.
• Use AI coding agents and engineering automation to parallelise suitable work, while reviewing and validating all
outputs.
• Build a culture of accountability in which work has clear owners, acceptance criteria, deadlines, and definitions of
done.
• Collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders to balance speed, scope, quality, and technical debt.
What We Are Looking For
• 6+ years of backend engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of experience leading or managing an engineering team.
• Strong hands-on backend development experience with Python, FastAPI, Django + Django REST Framework, and
PostgreSQL.
• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), DevOps, CI/CD, containers (Docker), monitoring, and
production operations.
• Experience working in a mature, process-oriented engineering environment.
• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery predictability and engineering throughput.
• Strong understanding of agile planning, estimation, sprint execution, incident management, and retrospectives.
• Ability to manage multiple people and concurrent streams of work.
• Experience reviewing architecture, pull requests, test plans, and production-readiness requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to give direct, constructive feedback and hold team members accountable.
• Sound judgement about when to build, delegate, automate, or reduce scope.
Tech Stack
Must-have: Python, FastAPI, Django + Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy (async) + asyncpg, Pydantic,
REST API design + JWT authentication, Docker, AWS (ECS, ALB, ECR, CloudWatch, S3, Secrets Manager), Git.
Strongly preferred: Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, WebSockets, Payment gateways (Razorpay / Cashfree), Third-
party / ERP integrations, CI/CD (AWS CodeBuild or GitHub Actions).
Nice-to-have: Frappe / ERPNext + MariaDB, Microservices architecture, PostHog / CleverTap / Firebase, B2B e-commerce
or order management experience.
AI-Assisted Engineering
The ideal candidate should be comfortable incorporating AI into the software-development lifecycle. This includes:
• Breaking work into tasks that can be delegated safely to coding agents.
• Running multiple human and agent-led workstreams concurrently.
• Providing agents with clear context, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
• Reviewing generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and architectural fit.
• Using automation to accelerate testing, documentation, refactoring, and operational workflows.
• Measuring whether AI tooling produces genuine delivery improvements.
We do not expect blind reliance on generated output. The Engineering Lead remains accountable for the quality and
correctness of everything shipped by the team.
Success in the First 90 Days
• Understand the existing architecture, infrastructure, team capabilities, and delivery bottlenecks.
• Take ownership of backend and DevOps execution.
• Introduce a consistent planning, tracking, review, and release cadence.
• Establish visibility into ownership, progress, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production-readiness practices.
• Create an effective delegation model across engineers and AI agents.
• Deliver at least one meaningful product or platform milestone predictably from planning through production.
Nice to Have
• Experience scaling an early-stage or growing engineering team.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and performance-managing engineers.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, security practices, and cloud-cost optimisation.
• Experience managing migrations, reliability improvements, or legacy-system modernisation.
• Previous experience introducing AI-assisted development workflows into an engineering team.
Who Will Succeed in This Role
You are likely to succeed if you are equally comfortable discussing architecture, reviewing code, resolving a production incident, planning a release, and having an accountability conversation with an engineer. You bring structure without creating unnecessary bureaucracy and know how to turn product priorities into consistent, high-quality delivery.
We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our lean, high-impact engineering team. This is a key founding-team role where you will work closely with the CTO and help build the engineering foundation of the company.
The ideal candidate is a backend-strong full-stack engineer with solid Python and React experience, a strong understanding of AI/LLMs, and the ability to independently take ownership of projects from idea to production.
What You'll Do:
- Build and scale applications across the backend and frontend
- Develop backend services and APIs using Python
- Build and maintain frontend applications using React
- Design and implement AI/LLM-powered applications and features
- Work with AI services and integrate them into real-world applications
- Contribute to system design and architecture
- Work with cloud infrastructure and services
- Take ownership of features and initiatives from ideation to production
- Identify problems and proactively drive solutions without requiring constant direction
- Work closely with the CTO and founding team to shape engineering practices and future systems
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
What We're Looking For:
- 3–6 years of software engineering experience
- Strong experience with Python
- Good hands-on experience with React
- Strong backend development experience with full-stack exposure
- Practical understanding of AI, LLMs and AI services
- Experience building at least one meaningful AI project beyond basic API/chatbot integrations
- Experience taking an AI/ML application or feature into production is preferred
- Exposure to cloud platforms
- Good understanding of system design and software architecture
- Strong problem-solving and ownership mindset
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple language
- Genuine hands-on experience with the technologies mentioned on the resume
What Makes This Role Different:
This is not a typical execution-focused engineering role. We are building a lean "A-team" of experienced engineers who will eventually help shape the team and take on senior/leadership responsibilities.
We're looking for someone who:
- Takes initiative rather than waiting for tasks
- Can work independently in an early-stage environment
- Is comfortable exploring and building with AI
- Can go deep into the work they've done and explain the technical decisions behind it
- Wants significant ownership and influence over the product and engineering direction
Location & Compensation
- Work Mode: Remote initially
- Future Location: Expected relocation to Bangalore in approximately 1 year
- Working Hours: Regular IST hours
- Travel: Potential opportunities to travel to Germany
Interview Process:
3 Rounds
- Technical & Project Deep Dive – Conversational discussion around past projects, AI experience and technical depth
- System Design & Technical Round – Deeper technical and architecture discussion
- Founder Round – Communication, culture fit, ownership and initiative
Full-Stack Engineer (Backend Heavy)
Experience: 4–6 Years | Function: Engineering — Product | Location: On-site
About Us
We’re building the next generation of AI-powered business software, and we’re looking for people who want to shape that future with us. With Lumen, we’re reimagining how users interact with CRM — moving beyond screens, menus and dashboards to an intelligent interface where users can simply ask AI to take actions, retrieve knowledge, generate insights and get work done. With Agent Studio, we’re enabling businesses to build, test and deploy their own AI agents for real-world workflows. And with Invorto, we’re bringing AI to voice, allowing businesses to create intelligent voice agents tailored to their customer and operational use cases.
What makes this especially exciting is the stage and scale of the opportunity. You’ll get to work on genuinely hard problems across LLMs, agents, reasoning, orchestration, voice AI, evaluation, reliability and enterprise security — not as isolated experiments, but as products used in real business workflows. You’ll have the opportunity to build zero-to-one, own meaningful parts of the product end-to-end, work closely with customers, experiment rapidly, and see your work reach production at scale.
Why join now? Because the playbook for enterprise AI is still being written. You won’t just be implementing someone else’s roadmap — you’ll help define the product, architecture and experiences that become that playbook. Expect high ownership, fast iteration, hard technical and product problems, direct customer impact, and the chance to build AI systems that have to work reliably in the real world — not just in a demo.
About the Role
We are looking for a Full-Stack Engineer with a strong backend bias to help build end-to-end product experiences across Lumen and Agent Studio. You will own features from database and API design through to the front-end experience, working closely with product and design to ship AI-powered experiences that real business users depend on every day.
What You’ll Do
Design and build backend services and APIs in Python that power core product and AI-agent features.
Build front-end interfaces and experiences that let users interact naturally with AI agents, insights and CRM workflows.
Own features end-to-end — from data modeling and backend logic to UI implementation, testing and release.
Work with product managers and designers to translate requirements into well-architected, scalable systems.
Integrate with LLM-based and agentic backend systems built by the AI/ML engineering team.
Optimize application performance, reliability and code quality across the stack.
Engage directly with customers and customer success teams to understand workflows, triage issues and inform roadmap decisions.
What We’re Looking For
4–6 years of professional full-stack engineering experience, with a clear backend-heavy skill set in Python.
Strong experience designing and building REST/GraphQL APIs, data models and scalable backend services.
Working proficiency with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React) to build and integrate user-facing features.
Experience with relational/NoSQL databases, caching and cloud infrastructure.
Ability to move fast in a zero-to-one environment while maintaining code quality and system reliability.
Strong communication skills — this is a customer-facing role, and you will be expected to clearly articulate technical concepts, decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers.
Good to Have
Experience building features on top of LLM or AI-agent backends.
Prior experience in CRM, SaaS or enterprise business applications.
Exposure to real-time or voice-based product interfaces.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Python Developer for the position of Delivery Module Lead. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Python programming, front-end technologies, and back-end development. The candidate will be responsible for developing scalable web applications, integrating APIs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using Python and front-end technologies.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and developers to understand business requirements and implement solutions.
- Develop responsive user interfaces and optimize application performance across different browsers and devices.
- Write clean, reusable, and maintainable code following development best practices.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality and standards.
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve application issues.
- Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and web services.
- Participate in Agile development activities, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Continuously improve development processes and stay updated with emerging technologies.
Mandatory Skills
- Strong proficiency in Python programming.
- Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Experience with front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Experience with back-end frameworks such as Django or Flask.
- Good understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
- Experience with Git and version control systems.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Preferred Skills
- Knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization technologies.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools.
Sr Backend Developer (Full Stack – Python / Django)
Preference: Please apply only if you are an IIT/NIT graduate and have strong hands-on experience in full-stack development with Python & Django.
Insurance/InsurTech experience is preferred. Strong engineering fundamentals and a willingness to learn the domain are more important.
Office location – Bangalore
Work mode – Onsite
Working Days – 5 days a week
Budget - 12-15 LPA
Work Experience - 2-5 years
Role Summary
We’re hiring Sr Backend Developers with strong full-stack Django expertise to own backend workstreams end-to-end and contribute to frontend development when needed. Hands-on Python/Django experience is essential.
(HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS).
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for Fuse-OS
Own medium-to-complex workstreams end-to-end: data models, APIs, background jobs, and light UI
wiring
Improve reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability of production systems
Apply sound engineering practices for multi-tenant SaaS (security, permissions, data isolation)
Collaborate closely with frontend, QA, and product/delivery to ship high-quality releases
Mentor other backend engineers through design discussions, pairing, and code reviews
Participate in architecture discussions and help evolve platform technical standards
Support production troubleshooting and continuous improvement of engineering quality
Required Skills & Qualifications
Solid experience with Django REST Framework, asynchronous job processing (e.g., Celery), Redis, and
PostgreSQL
Proven ability to design data models, write migrations, and ship maintainable APIs
Full-stack capability: HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS sufficient to complete UI wiring without blocking
frontend
Strong debugging skills across application, database, and background-job layers
Experience collaborating in Agile teams with clear quality standards and delivery cadence
Preferred / Nice to Have
Hands-on Selenium automation experience with Python (big plus)
AWS familiarity (compute, storage, messaging, monitoring, IAM basics) — optional but strongly preferred
Experience with multi-tenant architectures, containers, and production SaaS operations
Exposure to document/data processing pipelines, reconciliation-style systems, or enterprise integrations
Awareness of application security, RBAC, auditability, and privacy-by-design practices
Interest in AI-assisted product workflows and intelligent automation
What We Offer
Opportunity to build a category-defining Insurance Distribution Operating System (Fuse-OS)
Work on modern multi-tenant SaaS architecture with meaningful ownership and mentoring
Collaborative product and engineering culture focused on quality and customer outcomes
Exposure to enterprise SaaS, AI-enabled workflows, and large-scale operational systems
Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled Python Developer with experience in building scalable applications using Python frameworks such as Flask and Django. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with PySpark for big data processing and strong SQL skills for data analysis and database management.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Python-based applications.
- Develop RESTful APIs using Flask and/or Django.
- Build scalable data processing pipelines using PySpark.
- Write efficient SQL queries, stored procedures, and optimize database performance.
- Integrate applications with databases and third-party services.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and implement business requirements.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance application performance.
- Follow coding standards, perform code reviews, and maintain technical documentation.
Required Skills
- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Hands-on experience with Flask and/or Django.
- Experience with PySpark for large-scale data processing.
- Strong knowledge of SQL (writing complex queries, joins, indexing, optimization).
- Understanding of REST APIs and microservices architecture.
- Experience with Git/version control.
- Knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle.
- Good problem-solving and analytical skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.








