Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.
The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.
Our business includes Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, Japan, US, and expanding rapidly.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our dynamic software development team. In this role, you will contribute to key backend projects, collaborate across teams, and play a vital part in delivering robust, scalable, and high-performance software solutions. As a senior engineer, you will work independently, make impactful technical decisions, and help shape the backend architecture while collaborating with a passionate, high-performing team.
You will work hands-on with products primarily built in Python, with opportunities to contribute to Golang. These technologies are at the core of our development stack, and your focus will be on building, scaling, and maintaining distributed services. Distributed systems are integral to our architecture, providing a chance to gain hands-on experience with maintaining and optimizing them in a fast-paced environment.
As a Senior Engineer, you are expected to:
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code while following best practices.
Architect solutions, address complex problems, and deliver well-thought-out technical designs.
Take ownership of assigned modules and features, delivering them with minimal supervision.
Contribute to code reviews and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
We highly value open source contributions and encourage you to check out our work on GitHub at Appknox GitHub. While no prior experience in security is required, our experienced security professionals are available to support you in understanding the domain.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, drive impactful solutions, and grow within a collaborative environment that values autonomy, innovation, and technical excellence.
Responsibilities:
Contribute to backend development for a cutting-edge product in the Security domain, with focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Implement software components and features based on high-level architectural guidance using Django and Django REST Framework (DRF).
Collaborate with senior engineers to translate functional and technical requirements into robust backend implementations.
Write clean, modular, and testable code following industry best practices and team standards.
Participate in design discussions and code reviews to maintain code quality and continuously learn from peers.
Work closely with frontend, QA, and security teams to deliver well-integrated, end-to-end solutions.
Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in existing systems, ensuring stability and efficiency.
Contribute to the creation of technical documentation for components and modules you build or maintain.
Follow defined verification plans and contribute to improving test coverage and automation.
Participate in sprint planning, estimations, and agile ceremonies to support timely and effective project delivery.
Proactively seek feedback and continuously improve your technical skills and understanding of system architecture.
Support team success by collaborating effectively, sharing knowledge, and guiding junior team members when needed.
Requirements:
Solid hands-on experience with Django and Django REST Framework 3-4 years
Good understanding of relational databases, SQL, and working with ORMs such as Django ORM.
Ability to contribute to design discussions and implement well-structured, maintainable backend systems.
Exposure to writing unit and integration tests; familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems
Proficiency in debugging, performance optimization, and addressing scalability concerns under guidance.
Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices.
Able to collaborate effectively within a team and take ownership of moderately complex modules.
Good communication skills, with the ability to document and explain solutions to peers.
Familiarity with cloud platforms and microservices architecture is a plus.
Self-driven with a growth mindset and willingness to learn from peers and feedback.
Work Expectations:
Within 1 month-
Attend KT sessions conducted by the engineering and product teams to gain a deep understanding of the product, its architecture, and workflows.
Learn about the team's development processes, tools, and key challenges.
Work closely with the product team to understand product requirements and contribute to the design and development of features.
Dive deep into the existing backend architecture, including database structures, APIs, and integration points, to fully understand the technical landscape
Begin addressing minor technical challenges and bugs, while understanding the underlying architecture and tech stack.
Begin to participate in creating action plans for new features, ensuring that design and implementation are aligned with product goals.
Within 3 months-
Achieve full autonomy in working on the codebase, demonstrating the ability to independently deliver high-quality features from design to deployment.
Take complete ownership of critical modules, ensuring they are optimized for performance and maintainability.
Act as a technical resource for the team, offering support and guidance to peers on complex issues.
Collaborate with DevOps to optimize deployment pipelines, debug production issues, and improve backend infrastructure.
Lead discussions for technical solutions and provide recommendations for architectural improvements.
Contribute to the design of new features by translating functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
Prepare regular updates on assigned tasks and communicate effectively with the engineering manager and other stakeholders.
Within 6 months-
Be fully independent in their development tasks, contributing to key features and solving critical challenges.
Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of technical modules.
Actively participate in code reviews and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business requirements.
Establish themselves as a reliable and proactive team member, contributing to the team’s growth and success.
Personality traits we really admire:
Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
Proactive mindset.
Highly motivated and coming up with ideas and perspective to help us move towards our goals faster.
Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.
Round 4 Interview - Engineering Team & Technical Founder (CTO)
Round 5 Interview - HR
Compensation
Best in industry
We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.
Please be aware that all your customers are Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.
Why Join Us:
Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.
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About Appknox
Founded :
2014
Type :
Product
Size :
20-100
Stage :
Profitable
About
Appknox, a leading mobile app security solution HQ in Singapore & Bangalore was founded by Harshit Agarwal and Subho Halder.
Since its inception, Appknox has become one of the go-to security solutions with the most powerful plug-and-play security platform, enabling security researchers, developers, and enterprises to build safe and secure mobile ecosystems using a system-plus human approach.
Appknox offers VA+PT solutions ( Vulnerability Assessment + Penetration Testing ) that provide end-to-end mobile application security and testing strategies to Fortune 500, SMB and Large Enterprises Globally helping businesses and mobile developers make their mobile apps more secure, thus not only enhancing protection for their customers but also for their own brand.
During the course of 9 years, Appknox has scaled up to work with some major brands in India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, Japan, and the US and has also successfully enabled some of the top government agencies with its On-Premise deployments & compliance testing. Appknox helps 500+ Enterprises which includes 20+ Fortune 1000 and ministries/regulators across 10+ countries and some of the top banks across 20+ countries.
A champion of Value SaaS, with its customer and security-first approach Appknox has won many awards and recognitions from G2, and Gartner and is one of the top mobile app security vendors in its 2021 Application security Hype Cycle report.
Our forward-leaning, pioneering spirit is backed by SeedPlus, JFDI Asia, Microsoft Ventures, and Cisco Launchpad and a legacy of expertise that began at the dawn of 2014.
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Node.js
Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field.
Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures,
algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
Preferred Qualification:
Experience building complex applications on distributed systems that have been successfully deployed for a large customer base.
Experience with Agile Scrum, having served as a Scrum Master and delivered results.
Application of advanced coding techniques, such as dependency injection.
Proven experience with: writing design documents, leading code reviews,
applying SCM, managing builds and managing releases.
Knowledge of important design patterns
Applying unit testing / TDD to reduce testing cycles and production support
Looking for PHP Developer responsible for managing back end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application.
Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Responsibilities :
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
- Integration of data storage solutions
Skills And Qualifications :
- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks especially Laravel
- Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
- Understanding of MVC design patterns
- Understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML 5, and CSS 3
- Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance
- Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• 15+ years of product development experience for large-scale secure systems with high volume and high-performance requirements. • Experience in the financial domain preferred. • Hands-on developer in Core Java with an excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms and design patterns. • Experience with frameworks like Spring, Restful Webservices, Queuing systems, Angular, and Python is highly desired. • Deep understanding of several cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google etc. • Hands-on experience developing CI/CD pipelines for continuous development and integration. • Deep knowledge and experience of Java/J2EE and servers like Tomcat.
SponsifyMe Technologies(EasyLeadz) is looking for a CakePHP/PHP Developer.
- Helping senior developer build bank end and front end services and products.
- You will also be responsible for integrating third party API's into the application. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
- Knowledge of python and mongodb will be an added advantage.
The role is hybrid i.e both in office and work from home for rest of the days.
We have a product EasyLeadz used by over 80000 businesses worldwide, software subscription.
We are expanding our team to grow it further.
Desired Candidate Profile
A minimum of 1 year of experience working in PHP. Ideally MongoDB and Restful API too.
Perks and Benefits
- Market standard salary
- Work from home till covid restrictions are in place, hybrid work environment later on.
- No pressure, only Monday to Friday work
- Working with a fast growing company that already serves 95,000+ customers globally including Microsoft, Amazon.
- Working directly with the founder & CTO of the company.
Designing and coding application that are often high-volume and low-latency Writing well-designed, efficient, and testable code. Delivering high availability and performance. Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.
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Qualifications: 1. Minimum of 5 years of software development experience preferably developing e-commerce applications 2. Bachelor’s and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field of study
Preferred Qualifications: 1. Fluent in Java or any other object oriented programming languages 2. Knowledge of Design patterns and design principles 3. Experienced in delivering REST style web services 4. Significant experiences in asynchronous and multi-threaded programming 5. Strong CS fundamentals with good hold on DS and Algo.
Good to have: 1. Knowledge of Spring 2. Experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
About the Company:
Perfios (www.perfios.com) is a leading product technology company in the FinTech space enabling Financial Institutions in realtime decisioning, analysis and credit underwriting. Perfios helps in banks statement analysis (APIs and portal), e-verification, financial analysis, Fraud check, Form 26AS, ITR, PAN, Aadhar, Personal Finance Management APIs etc. Perfios enables businesses to aggregate structured and unstructured data, curate, analyse and help in decision-making. Perfios' product offerings help companies build vertical applications across various domains using our modules. In over nine years, Perfios has acquired 110+ large clients across various domains of Banks, NBFCs, Digital Lending platforms, Mutual Fund Companies, Insurance companies, Human Resources etc both in India and abroad. Perfios is an ISO certified company.
Located @ Koramangala, Bangalore, Perfios has a highly advanced Engineering Product design center lead by experienced Technocrats working on cloud-based SAAS products to support client engagements in all aspects of product development, delivery and customer success. The Company is slated for high growth this year and is planning a 3-fold increase in its current employee strength of 70
Log on to www.perfios.com for more details on the company and its products.
A vacancy now exists for a highly motivated and resourceful Lead Software Engineer for the DevOps team to continuous build, release and automated monitoring infrastructure for Linux based products. If you have the required skill and would like to explore opportunities with us, please send your detailed resume immediately
The ideal candidate is someone who despises doing a lot of busy manual work and prefers to develop automation for anything that he/she feels can and should be automated. The ideal candidate is also someone who is very comfortable interacting and working with pretty much everyone in the product team as the person will be supporting a growing number of product and test software engineers.
As a member of this team, you will:
• Develop and maintain code used to manage and provide metrics for build-related results
• Automate build and release engineering tasks using tools such as ant, maven and ansible
• Manage source repositories and branches using Git.
• Manage build and development tools including Jenkins and Jenkins plugins.
• Design, set up and enforce standards, conventions, processes and procedures for development as well as build and release engineering-related activities.
• Manage and control branching for all types of development.
• Troubleshoot build/unit test and build infrastructure issues.
• Drive releases and hot fixes through various SDLC milestones to shipping.
• Ensure high availability and robustness of build farm and its applications through
backup/restore procedures, auto-recovery, and failover.
• Manage deployment of build to various internal test system, staging and production environment
• Manage and maintain docker environments
• Manage the build and deployment of mobile native apps
• Manage the build and deployment of HTML5 framework based products
• You will help automate and streamline our operations and processes maintaining tools for application build, configuration, release, deployment, monitoring and operations.
• You will troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test and production environments which
• includes resolving application performance issues.
• You will provide software and/or infrastructure recommendations based on production application performance monitoring.
• You will actively monitor the production environment on 12x7 basis
• Monitoring system, application logs
• Monitor application exception and route to respective product team and follow-up on hot fixes
• In addition, as a DevOps Engineer you will conduct research and will maintain an understanding of industry trends on existing and emerging technologies to advise how to gain the best value from the technologies we use.
Qualifications & Requirements
• With 8-10 Years of professional experience
• At least 4-6 years’ experience in hands-on production monitoring and management
• Experience with one or more of the following interpreted programming/scripting languages: Bash, Python, Perl
• Extensive experience and deep knowledge of Unix OS
• Good knowledge of automation tool Ansible.
• Experience in managing AWS environments and good knowledge of virtualization
• Experience with release management process
• Appreciation for the Prod Ops culture and values
• Must have excellent skills in problem analysis and troubleshooting complex technical issues
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• BE in Computer Science
• Good to Have
o Experience in building mobile native application
o support/troubleshooting/operations of Mysql database
o Experience in security monitoring and various security tools and techniques
o Experience with metrics, monitoring and alerting tools such as Nagios, CloudWatch etc.,
o Experience in support/troubleshooting/operations of Apache, Tomcat and JVM
o Managing the deployment of builds to play store
o Experience in building flex and HTML5 application
o At least one certification in a cloud platform.
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