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Company |
Photon Commerce (http://www.photoncommerce.com">www.photoncommerce.com)
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Title |
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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Location & Work Model:
- Position: Contract to hire
- Bangalore - Marathahalli;
- Work mode - Work from Office; all 5 days
- Looking for immediate joiners
Technical Requirements:
- Strong experience in Java Backend Development
- Proficiency in both SQL & NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Basic knowledge of DevOps tools (CI/CD pipeline)
- Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to emerging technologies, including AI-driven tools, and automation solutions
- Strong problem-solving mindset with an interest in leveraging AI and data-driven approaches for backend optimizations
Soft Skills & Mindset:
- Strong communication & articulation skills
- Structured thought process and a logical approach to problem-solving
- Interest & willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain serverless applications using AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs to support web and mobile applications.
- Implement security best practices for AWS services and manage IAM roles and policies.
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability through monitoring and testing.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and design patterns.
- Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications, identifying performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
- Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends related to serverless architectures and Python development.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience as a Python backend developer, with a strong portfolio of serverless applications.
- Proficiency in AWS services, particularly in serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.).
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins).
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with frontend technologies (JavaScript, React, Angular) is a plus.
- Knowledge of data storage solutions (SQL and NoSQL databases).
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer Associate) are a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design and build highly reliable, scalable and performant infrastructure for media heavy workflows.
- Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.
- Take the accountability of the overall health of the infrastructure you build.
- Platformize components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
- Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly.
- Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
Requirements
- 4 to 10 years of industry experience in software engineering with at least 4 years in Video, Audio & Image processing and streaming technologies.
- Deep expertise with various codecs, compute efficiency, streaming protocols and network topologies for media heavy workflows.
- Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, libraries and systems.
- Experience with abstracting requirements into frameworks.
- Hungry to learn, share knowledge, and enjoy mentoring others.
- Data driven, having customer empathy, striving to build best of class, performant services.
In this role, you will be responsible for building world-class technology products and platforms that are at the forefront of the technology revolution in the Indian healthcare ecosystem. You are someone who insists on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance.

- Challenge technical decisions and web service designs and provide inputs for improvement
- Provide qualified code (tested and documented)
- Fix issues that arise from testing/customers
- Create or update all the relevant and required technical documents (design, architecture, )
- Follow quality development rules and recommendations (unitary test, change management, build management, Software factory…)
- Perform code reviews and suggest improvements
- Work in Agile mode and Test Driven development process
- Collaborate and work closely with all stakeholders
- Hardcore developers who can write performance-based quality code and drive code
- Preferred: Java1.8, Junit, Springboot, Dropwizard, RabbitMQ, Jenkins jobs, NoSQL DB (MongoDB, Neo4j), Docker, and DevOps (Optional: Python, AWS)
- Knowledge about Secure coding guidelines, Sonarqube, Configuration Management (Perforce), Jira
- MUST have experience in Scrum/Agile SDLC
- Value Add – experience on the server side in IPTV/OTT/STB
What are we looking for?
A passionate backend developer Node.js specifically.
Who Should apply?
Apply only If you
● Think you are atleast 8 on 10 in Node.js
● And have been coding in Node.js for 3+ years
● Are super enthusiastic about building something that adds immense value to the lives of atleast 10Mn people
● Have built things single handedly
● Have immense hunger to learn, grow and prove yourself
Shortlisting Criteria
You will have to do a coding test.
We respect your time and are in no way doubting your skills, but that’s how you would like to hire someone in your team, right?
Why work with us?
Infinite freedom & ownership.
Work directly with the founders.
Zerodha the most profitable startup in the country, only has a 30 member tech team. We’re presently a 4 member tech team, you will be number 5.
Like you, we too love solving for time and space complexities.
What is the company about?
We are creating a stock market of creators.
Where Social Media Influencers can get funded by their fans and in return issue them coins which represent a stake in their future income.Imagine if you had invested in Tanmay Bhatt or CarryMinati 5 years back
Expertise in Angular JS, Node JS, React JS.
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Creating a WordPress plugin with WordPress coding standard and themes, contributed plugins over wordpress.org is a big plus.
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Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML).
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Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial.
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Strong Knowledge in Woo commerce, Yost SEO, ACF.
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Strong understanding of PHP back-end development.
Design, Develop and Test applications running in the cloud.
Work in sprints, within a highly motivated, self-organizing team to produce quality software
according to the priorities laid down by the application stakeholders.
Design innovative solutions to problems faced by our internal and external customers and
implement them on continuously evolving applications.
Write Unit tests to ensure code is proven to work before being deployed to Test environments.
Use defensive coding to ensure software is developed with a secure approach.
Provide input on best practices and innovations across all aspects of our software development.
Provide our customers with Applications that can satisfy their needs, working as part of the team
to address issues that customers may encounter as they go about their business.
Required Experience and Skills :
A minimum of 6 years of software development experience
In-depth knowledge of C#
Hands-on experience with ASP. NET MVC Framework
Strong knowledge and experience in designing and developing Web solutions using ASP.
NET MVC Framework
Rich experience in creating REST-based web-services using ASP. NET Web API or ASP.
NET Core
Working experience of Relational Databases (MS SQL, Oracle nice to have), ORM (Entity
Framework, EF Core)
Affinity with unit and integration testing frameworks and TDD
Knowledge of Azure cloud and DevOps pipeline nice to have
Analyze, plan and estimate requirements as well as identify risks involved and provide
solutions
Understanding of design principles behind scalable and testable applications
Continuous improvement and innovative mind-set.
Ability to take a lead role and take ownership of complex data integration deliveries.
A degree in Computer Science and/or a business related degree; or equivalent work experience.
- Working in high paced competitive stock trading environment with core web app development, scripting, data interpretation and manipulation skills
- Designing, creating and maintaining our in-house software for business requirements
- Work on innovative ideas to improve the user experience of our internal systems and applications which are used by the trading teams
- Improve on existing tools to make trade monitoring systems robust and more reliable
Ideal candidate should have:
- Engineering degree in Computer Science (preferred) or any other discipline
- Experience on Python web app development (Preferably Django)
- Ability to work as a full stack developer
- Experience in Shell/Perl or Python scripting
- Prior experience of Linux or Unix based operating systems
- Ability to create automation scripts
- Experience/Knowledge of financial industry
- Ability to work in fast paced environment under pressure and manage multiple high priority projects
- Willingness to learn and work on new technologies
- Excellent communication skills
Read more about us here: [https://angel.co/company/fireflies](https://angel.co/company/fireflies) and here: [https://yourstory.com/2019/10/funding-startup-fireflies-enterprise-assistant-canaan-partners](https://yourstory.com/2019/10/funding-startup-fireflies-enterprise-assistant-canaan-partners)
We value your skills and abilities more than your resume.
Here's what we look for :
- You have raw intellectual horsepower and ability to learn quickly
- You have a strong background in computer science / math
- You contribute to open source (share your GitHub- More than 1000 commits in past year)
- You have experience working on apps that have supported 10,000+ concurrent users
- You understand sound architecture principals
- You can design and build scalable infrastructure
- You should be a great communicator and culture maintainer:
- We value over-communication and candid feedback and want to build a no-bs, results driven culture
Values that are important to us :
- You're data driven and customer focused
- You value fast & incremental engineering cycles
- You maintain design excellence and minimise complexity
- You measure your results & automate when possible
- You get 10% better at something every week
- You have an internal compass and take accountability & initiative
You'll be working with :
- Node.js, MongoDB
- Redis, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch
- AWS, Docker, Terraform
- React, Keras, Tensorflow
About us :
- Fireflies.ai is an AI that joins meetings and takes notes automatically. [Product demo](https://app.fireflies.ai/view/ogM9zmKij2). We integrate with the leading platforms: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack, Salesforce, & more https://fireflies.ai/integrations)).
- We are a US-based, AI company that is building a 100% remote team. Today we have over 40 employees in 5 countries around the world. Our engineering team is 20+ senior engineers. We were [featured on Forbes for Gartner's top 25 enterprise software startups to watch in 2020](https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2020/07/05/gartners-top-25-enterprise-software-startups-to-watch-in-2020/). We skyrocketed from a few thousand users to almost 100,000 users in 2020.
[Fireflies.ai](http://fireflies.ai) has raised $5 million from top-tier investors including Canaan and angels from Slack, Dropbox, Amazon and Salesforce.
- You'll be working with Sam Udotong, CTO @ Fireflies.ai. Sam graduated from MIT in 2016 where he studied computer science and aerospace engineering. He and his co-founder Krish were [featured as the cover of Entrepreneur magazine in Sept 2020]
- He's been a [speaker at the MIT AI Conference 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywhY2DCIZqU) alongside industry leaders like Richard Socher and Sal Khan. He's guest lectured at Stanford for their intro to AI class. Sam is scrappy & committed - he and Krish bootstrapped the company for 3 years, eating Soylent and Domino's pizza almost every day. [Being Scrappy as an Entrepreneur (Product Demo)](https://app.fireflies.ai/view/vWQjdABHqU). He rejected Harvard Business School to build Fireflies. Sam's goal is to build a multi-regional, boundary-less engineering team that has A+ productivity & communication such that when you go to sleep, you can hand off work and when you wake up, work has already moved forward. If we do these first principles well, we can theoretically build the best engineering organisation in the world.
- We want to transform how people communicate and work. Come work with us if you share the below values and want to work on hard engineering challenges that will actually make a difference in the lives of people.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly value diversity at our company, because our team will be stronger with different perspectives and experiences. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.








