Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) – Credit Cards Platform

Experience required - 5+ years

Job Location - Hyderabad & Ahmedabad

What you'll do:

· Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, RESTful APIs and related backend frameworks

· Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible

· Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible

· Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Write unit test and improve test coverage.

· Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off

· Mentor junior developers on the team

What we’re looking for:

· Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.

· A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.

· A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.

· Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary

· Demonstrable passion for technology (e.g., personal projects, open-source involvement)

· Enthusiastic embrace of DevOps culture and collaborative software engineering

· Ability and desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced, and agile team environment

· Enthusiasm for cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure

· Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience with Apache Cordova framework

· Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS, Android

· Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers

· Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques

We are seeking an IT/System Administrator to manage and maintain our web servers, monitor system performance, and ensure uptime for our E-lock GPS web platform. This individual will play a key role in server monitoring, troubleshooting, and managing basic backend operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Monitor and maintain servers, ensuring uptime, performance, and security.

Perform basic troubleshooting for server-related issues (e.g., service restarts, log analysis).

Manage server logs, backups, and storage usage.

Implement basic security measures, including access control and firewall monitoring.

Collaborate with developers and report any critical server issues or bugs.

Manage GitHub for tracking system updates and version control.

Skills Required:

Basic Linux/Ubuntu server administration (preferred) or Windows Server.

Familiarity with SSH, server logs, and cloud services (AWS, DigitalOcean, or similar).

Experience with Git/GitHub for managing repositories.

Basic knowledge of system security, firewalls, and network protocols.

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (preferred).

1-3 years of experience in IT/System Administration or similar roles.

NOTE: We’re inviting applications for a 6-month internship in IT and System Administration at Mondiale Technologies, a company at the forefront of smart logistics and IoT-based tracking solutions

Eligibility: Diploma in Electronics / BCA / B.Sc. IT / MCA / B.Tech (Final year students or recent graduates)

Internship Highlights:

• Hands-on experience in system monitoring, basic troubleshooting, and hardware/software setup
• Exposure to managing IT infrastructure for field-deployed IoT tracking devices
• Opportunity to support internal users and technical teams
• Real-world learning in a fast-paced, tech-enabled logistics environment

Stipend: YES

✅ Pre-placement offer for high-performing candidates

Candidates who successfully complete the internship and demonstrate strong performance will be offered a regular full-time role within the company.

About us

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview

As an SDE 2 Back-end Engineer at Astra, you will play a crucial role in the development of a new vulnerability scanner from scratch. You will be architecting & engineering a scalable technical solution from the ground-up.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals, collaborating to deliver innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in vulnerability scanning. The role requires deep collaboration with the founders, product, engineering & security teams.

Join our team and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge SaaS security platform, where high-quality engineering and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will be joining our Vulnerability Scanner team which builds a security engine to identify vulnerabilities in technical infrastructure.
• You will be the technical product owner of the scanner, which would involve managing a lean team of backend engineers to ensure smooth implementation of the technical product roadmap.
• Research about security vulnerabilities, CVEs, and zero-days affecting cloud/web/API infrastructure.
• Work in an agile environment of engineers to architect, design, develop and build our microservice infrastructure.
• You will research, design, code, troubleshoot and support (on-call). What you create is also what you own.
• Writing secure, high quality, modular, testable & well documented code for features outlined in every sprint.
• Design and implement APIs in support of other services with a highly scalable, flexible, and secure backend using GoLang
• Hands-on experience with creating production-ready code & optimizing it by identifying and correcting bottlenecks.
• Driving strict code review standards among the team.
• Ensuring timely delivery of the features/products
• Working with product managers to ensure product delivery status is transparent & the end product always looks like how it was imagined
• Work closely with Security & Product teams in writing vulnerability detection rules, APIs etc.

Required Qualifications & Skills: 

• Strong 2-4 years relevant development experience in GoLang
• Experience in building a technical product from idea to production.
• Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems in Golang
• Expertise in Goroutines and Channels to write efficient code utilizing multi-core CPU optimally
• Must have hands-on experience with managing AWS/Google Cloud infrastructure
• Hands on experience in creating low latency high throughput REST APIs
• Write test suites and maintain code coverage above 80%
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
• Good to have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems.
• Understanding of cloud/web security concepts would be an added advantage

What We Offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally
• Experience with security side of things
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru)
• Open and supportive culture 

• 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Experience in AWS.
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
• 2.5+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Experience in AWS.
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Job description:

• Develop, implement, and maintain Java application phases, code, and software
• Work as part of a software development team
• Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code per specifications and test to ensure designs are in compliance with the specifications
• Analyze user requirements to determine how to translate into Java
• Debug and resolve technical issues
• Develop documentation to track

Technical Skill (Must have)

• Java, JSP-Servlets, Spring MVC, Sprint REST, Spring Boot
• Hibernate, Unit testing framework i.e., JUnit
• SQL, Database i.e MySQL, Oracle
• Cloud computing platform understanding i.e., AWS
• Project Management tools like Jira, Mantis
• Source-Code Control System (GIT, SVN)
• Web services
• Agile Methodology
• Web/Application Servers i.e., Tomcat
  
  

Employee perks & benefits:

• 5 days a week work culture 
• Health insurance (for employees and family) 
• Performance awards and rewards 
• Flexible work hours

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 2-5 years hands-on experience with Java based open source tech stack
• Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems
• Practical experience with MySQL and /or NoSQL databases like Couchbase, DynamoDB, Cassandra
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues (JMS, RabbitMQ)
• Practical hands-on experience in JavaScript UI preferred
• Experience in building high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
• Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, or Splunk
• Prior experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant
• Prior experience in transformation to cloud platforms is preferred
• Experience with Kafka is a definite plus
• Experience with building analytics pipeline and analytics DB is a plus
• Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems, strong problem solving skills

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field. Relevant experience of at least 3 years in lieu of above if from a different stream of education.

• Well-versed in and 3+ hands-on demonstrable experience with: ▪ Stream & Batch Big Data Pipeline Processing using Apache Spark and/or Apache Flink.
  ▪ Distributed Cloud Native Computing including Server less Functions
  ▪ Relational, Object Store, Document, Graph, etc. Database Design & Implementation
  ▪ Micro services Architecture, API Modeling, Design, & Programming

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in Apache Spark using Scala and/or Java.

• Ability to write executable code for Services using Spark RDD, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, Spark MLLib, etc. with deep technical understanding of Spark Processing Framework.

• In-depth knowledge of standard programming languages such as Scala and/or Java.

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more libraries & frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Akka, Apache Storm, Apache Nifi, Zookeeper, Hadoop ecosystem (i.e., HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Oozie & Hive), etc.; extra points if you can demonstrate your knowledge with working examples.

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more Relational and NoSQL datastores such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Neo4J, etc.

• Practical knowledge of distributed systems involving partitioning, bucketing, CAP theorem, replication, horizontal scaling, etc.

• Passion for distilling large volumes of data, analyze performance, scalability, and capacity performance issues in Big Data Platforms.

• Ability to clearly distinguish system and Spark Job performances and perform spark performance tuning and resource optimization.

• Perform benchmarking/stress tests and document the best practices for different applications.

• Proactively work with tenants on improving the overall performance and ensure the system is resilient, and scalable.

• Good understanding of Virtualization & Containerization; must demonstrate experience in technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, OpenShift, Anthos, Oracle VirtualBox, Vagrant, etc.

• Well-versed with demonstrable working experience with API Management, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Identity & Access Management, Data Protection & Encryption.

  Hands-on experience with demonstrable working experience with DevOps tools and platforms viz., Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Code Quality & Security Plugins, Maven, Artifactory, Terraform, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Spinnaker, etc.

• Well-versed in AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud; must demonstrate experience in at least FIVE (5) services offered under AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud in any categories: Compute or Storage, Database, Networking & Content Delivery, Management & Governance, Analytics, Security, Identity, & Compliance (or) equivalent demonstrable Cloud Platform experience.

• Good understanding of Storage, Networks and Storage Networking basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud environment.

• Good understanding of Network, Data, and Application Security basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud as well as Business Applications / API services environment.

• Utilize established development tools, guidelines and conventions including but not limited to ASP.NET, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and C#/VB.NET
• Prepare and maintain code for various .Net applications and resolve any defects in systems.
• Prepare test-based applications for various .Net applications
• Enhance existing systems by analyzing business objectives, preparing an action plan and identifying areas for modification and improvement

• Manage defect tracking system and resolve all issues and prepare update for systems
• Investigate and develop skills in new technologies
• Create technical specifications and test plans
• Monitor everyday activities of system and provide require support

• Required experience in .Net Core 2.2 and above, Web API, EF, AWS or Azure Cloud
• Familiarity with the ASP.NET framework, SQL Server and design/architectural patterns (e.g. Model-View-Controller (MVC))
• Knowledge of at least one of the .NET languages (e.g. C#, Visual Basic .NET) and HTML5/CSS3
• Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)
• Snaplogic (both ground and cloud plex ) or Biztalk ( basic administration , simple xlt translations, and Api management ) or any other similar tool
• Update to .net 50 and Microsoft CORE 30 general coding practices
• Visual Studio use for C#
• Shared library through Nugget
• Unit Test / Test driven methods (use of Xunit and MOCK )
• Concepts of “;” service threading, caching, injection, NTier and entity 
• GIT repository (Gitflow branching strategies )
• Azure DevOps pull requests, commitments and Task usage
• SQL artifact writing (sprocs, tables, triggers , indexes, FKs ,and PKs)
• SQL understanding of relational database models

• Should have good problem-solving abilities
• Should be able to troubleshoot issues and determine the cause of a plan’s success or failure
• Should keep up to date with changes in the market and technology that would affect
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Comfortable to work as per client requirements/time zones
• Should possess strong team handling experience