Senior Technical Lead / Architect

About koolio.ai

Website: www.koolio.ai

koolio Inc. is a cutting-edge Silicon Valley startup dedicated to transforming how stories are told through audio. Our mission is to democratize audio content creation by empowering individuals and businesses to effortlessly produce high-quality, professional-grade content. Leveraging AI and intuitive web-based tools, koolio.ai enables creators to craft, edit, and distribute audio content—from storytelling to educational materials, brand marketing, and beyond—easily. We are passionate about helping people and organizations share their voices, fostering creativity, collaboration, and engaging storytelling for a wide range of use cases.

About the Full-Time Position

We are seeking a Junior Backend Engineer (Fresher) to join our team on a full-time, hybrid basis. This role is ideal for motivated recent graduates eager to gain hands-on experience in backend development. Working closely with senior engineers, you’ll play a vital role in enhancing koolio.ai’s backend infrastructure, focusing on building, maintaining, and optimizing server-side applications and APIs. This is a unique opportunity to grow within an innovative environment that values creativity and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in developing and maintaining backend services and APIs, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance
• Collaborate with the frontend and QA teams to ensure seamless integration of backend systems with user-facing features
• Help troubleshoot and resolve backend issues, working alongside senior developers to enhance system reliability
• Participate in code reviews, learning best practices and contributing to maintaining high code quality standards
• Support in monitoring and improving backend performance metrics
• Document processes, code, and system architecture under guidance to ensure comprehensive, up-to-date technical resources

Requirements and Skills:

• Education: Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Work Experience: No prior work experience required; internships or academic projects related to backend development are a plus
• Technical Skills:
• Basic understanding of backend systems and APIs
• Working experience in Python
• Familiarity with basic version control systems like Git
• Knowledge of databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB) and basic proficiency in SQL
• Understanding of cloud platforms or services like Google Cloud is an advantage
• Soft Skills:
• Eagerness to learn and apply new technologies in a fast-paced environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail and a proactive mindset
• Ability to communicate effectively and work in a collaborative, remote team
• Other Skills: 
• Familiarity with basic DevOps practices or interest in learning is beneficial

Compensation and Benefits:

• Total Yearly Compensation: ₹4.5-6 LPA based on skills and experience
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive health coverage provided by the company

Why Join Us?

• Be a part of a passionate and visionary team at the forefront of audio content creation
• Work on an exciting, evolving product that is reshaping the way audio content is created and consumed
• Thrive in a fast-moving, self-learning startup environment that values innovation, adaptability, and continuous improvement
• Enjoy the flexibility of a full-time hybrid position with opportunities to grow professionally and expand your skills
• Collaborate with talented professionals from around the world, contributing to a product that has a real-world impact

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with the core team to understand their needs and ensure that our products are meeting the needs of the market.
• Designing database structure that are easy to maintain, improves data consistency and are cost effective in terms of disk storage space
• Identify, prioritise and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• A 5+ years of experience in developing desktop and mobile web applications
• Strong knowledge of core PHP with experience of working with MVC framework such as CodeIgniter & Laravel
• Experience with object-oriented PHP programming
• Experience with third party API integration
• Experience in managing AWS services
• Previous experience creating scalable applications
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)

Job Description

As part of our role at a leading global insurance company, we are responsible for developing and managing an application to onboard and oversee the company's sales partners, including agents and brokers. This application provides users with a tailored, independent solution, including a required multi-dimensional validity date concept for administering all organizational and contractual sales force data to deliver structured information to many data consumers.

To reinforce our dynamic development team, we are seeking a skilled Backend or Full-stack Developer. In this role, you will collaborate with international cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain the application, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.

Write clean, efficient, and reusable code.

Implement new features and functionality based on business requirements.

Participate in system and application architecture discussions.

Create technical designs and specifications for new features or enhancements.

Write and execute unit tests to ensure code quality.

Debug and resolve technical issues and software defects.

Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices.

Identify and fix vulnerabilities to ensure application integrity.

Work with frontend developers to ensure seamless integration of user-facing elements.

Collaborate with DevOps teams for deployment and scaling.

Design and implement workflow automation using Camunda BPM, integrating it with backend services and ensuring efficient process execution.

Optimize and maintain business process models and workflow orchestration using Camunda.

Troubleshoot and enhance Camunda BPMN workflows, DMN decision tables, and process automation configurations.

Requirements

 Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Proven experience as a skilled Backend or Full-stack Developer. Experience in the insurance domain is appreciated.

Strong experience with Spring Boot 3, Java 17 or newer, and Maven.

Experience with PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Sonar, Dynatrace, Kubernetes, Mockito, IntelliJ IDEA, and GitHub repository.

Hands-on experience with Camunda BPM (v7 or v8), including BPMN workflows, DMN decision tables, and REST API integration.

Experience with Angular TS and/or AWS, Kafka is a plus.

Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

Strong communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively in a team environment.

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Python ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Job Description:

We are seeking a talented and experienced Backend Developer with a strong proficiency in Node.js and expertise in database management. As a Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our software systems, ensuring their high performance and responsiveness.

Responsibilities:

·      Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Node.js.

·      Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define software requirements and specifications.

·      Optimize and scale applications for maximum speed and scalability.

·      Implement security and data protection measures.

·      Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely manner.

·      Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

·      Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in backend development.

Requirements:

·      Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

·      Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in Node.js development.

·      Proficiency with databases, preferably MongoDB or DynamoDB.

·      Strong understanding of RESTful API design and development.

·      Experience with version control systems, such as Git.

·      Familiarity with cloud platforms in AWS is a plus.

·      Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

·      Strong communication and teamwork skills.

·      Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks efficiently.

·      Proven track record of delivering high-quality code on schedule.

We are looking for Senior PHP Developers (Laravel+ CI) 

Experience - 2-6 years 

Location - Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (Work from Office)

5 Days working 

Required Skills: 

• Should have good communication skill
• Must have worked on CI
• Must have worked on API security, API, Webhooks, Sockets, on caching of API and optimize communication between 3rd party(Optional)
• Must have done 3rd party API integration with inbound and outbound communication.
• Should be capable enough to do documentation of API
• Knowledge about REST and SOAP API and GDPR compliances can be optional.
• Must worked on caching of API and optimize communication between 3rd party
• Experience in Laravel and MySQL would be added advantage
• Should have Worked on MVC,HMVC(Optional) and PHP architecture