Position: Software Development Engineer - 2
Location: Bangalore/Remote
Role Overview
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer - 2 with 4-6 years of experience who is passionate about writing clean, scalable code and enjoys solving complex backend challenges. As part of the engineering team, you’ll work on designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, primarily in Python, with exposure to other backend technologies like Node.js and Go. You'll contribute to our microservices architecture, APIs, and cloud-native solutions, ensuring security and performance at scale.
Responsibilities
- Write, test, and maintain scalable and efficient backend code in Python (FastAPI or similar frameworks).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement APIs and microservices.
- Ensure code quality by writing and reviewing test cases, and conducting code reviews.
- Handle bug fixing and troubleshooting for backend systems as needed.
- Build and optimize backend systems to positively impact business outcomes.
- Design and implement cloud-native solutions with a focus on performance and security.
- Monitor system health and continuously improve performance and reliability.
- Contribute to process and code improvements, focusing on best practices.
Must-Have Technical Skills
- 4-6 years of experience working with Python (preferably FastAPI or other frameworks).
- Strong understanding of OOP principles and best coding practices.
- Experience in designing and releasing production APIs.
- Proficiency in RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architecture.
- Experience in cloud-native application development (SaaS).
- Knowledge of cloud services such as GCS, AWS, or Azure.
- Strong focus on security in design and coding practices.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with NoSQL DBs.
- Exposure to working in a cloud environment and familiarity with infrastructure management.
- Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills for collaborating with global teams.
About Us
Scrut Automation is an information security and compliance monitoring platform, aimed at helping small and medium cloud-native enterprises develop and maintain a robust security posture, and comply with various infosec standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and the like with ease. With the help of the Scrut platform, customers reduce their manual effort for security and compliance tasks by 70%, and build real-time visibility of their security posture.
Founded by IIT/ISB/McKinsey alumni, the founding team has over 15 years of combined Infosec experience. Scrut is built out of India for the world, with customers across India, APAC, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Scrut is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and Endiya Partners, along with prominent angels from the global SaaS community.
Why should this job excite you?
- Flat-hierarchy, performance-driven culture
- Rapid growth and learning opportunities
- Comprehensive medical insurance coverage
- A high-performing action-oriented team
- Competitive package, benefits and employee-friendly work culture
Note: Due to a high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your understanding.

About SCRUT Automation
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What is Scrut Automation?
Scrut Automation is an information security and compliance monitoring platform, aimed at helping small and medium cloud-native enterprises develop and maintain a robust security posture, and comply with various infosec standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and the like with ease. With the help of the Scrut platform, customers reduce their manual effort for security and compliance tasks by 70% and build real-time visibility of their security posture.
Founded by IIT/ISB/McKinsey alumni, the founding team has over 15 years of combined Infosec experience. Scrut is built out of India for the world, with customers across India, APAC, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Scrut is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and Endiya Partners, along with prominent angels from the global SaaS community.
Candid answers by the company
Scrut Automation helps early-stage and growth-stage startups which struggle to identify and manage risks to their security posture, jeopardizing their ability to either achieve or maintain compliance with their key frameworks.
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We are seeking a seasoned Backend Tech Lead with deep expertise in Golang and Python to lead our backend team. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience in backend technologies and 2–3 years of proven engineering mentoring experience, having successfully scaled systems and shipped B2C applications in collaboration with product teams.
Responsibilities
Technical & Product Delivery
● Oversee design and development of backend systems operating at 10K+ RPM scale.
● Guide the team in building transactional systems (payments, orders, etc.) and behavioral systems (analytics, personalization, engagement tracking).
● Partner with product managers to scope, prioritize, and release B2C product features and applications.
● Ensure architectural best practices, high-quality code standards, and robust testing practices.
● Own delivery of projects end-to-end with a focus on scalability, reliability, and business impact.
Operational Excellence
● Champion observability, monitoring, and reliability across backend services.
● Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and resilience.
● Streamline development workflows and engineering processes for speed and quality.
Requirements
● Experience:
7+ years of professional experience in backend technologies.
2-3 years as Tech lead and driving delivery.
● Technical Skills:
Strong hands-on expertise in Golang and Python.
Proven track record with high-scale systems (≥10K RPM).
Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms.
● Leadership Skills:
Demonstrated success in managing teams through 2–3 appraisal cycles.
Strong experience working with product managers to deliver consumer-facing applications.
● Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
Nice-to-Have
● Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
● Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
● Previous leadership experience in B2C product companies operating at scale.
What We Offer
● Opportunity to lead and shape a backend engineering team building at scale.
● A culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
● Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth opportunities.
Responsible for developing, enhancing, modifying, and maintaining chatbot applications in the Global Markets environment. The role involves designing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting conversational AI solutions, along with supporting activities aligned to the corporate systems architecture.
You will work closely with business partners to understand requirements, analyze data, and deliver optimal, market-ready conversational AI and automation solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain chatbot and virtual agent applications
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define and translate requirements into technical solutions
- Analyze large volumes of conversational data to improve chatbot accuracy and performance
- Develop automation workflows for data handling and refinement
- Train and optimize chatbots using historical chat logs and user-generated content
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture and best practices
- Document solutions, workflows, and technical designs clearly
Required Skills
- Hands-on experience in developing virtual agents (chatbots/voicebots) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Experience with one or more AI/NLP platforms such as:
- Dialogflow, Amazon Lex, Alexa, Rasa, LUIS, Kore.AI
- Microsoft Bot Framework, IBM Watson, Wit.ai, Salesforce Einstein, Converse.ai
- Strong programming knowledge in Python, JavaScript, or Node.js
- Experience training chatbots using historical conversations or large-scale text datasets
- Practical knowledge of:
- Formal syntax and semantics
- Corpus analysis
- Dialogue management
- Strong written communication skills
- Strong problem-solving ability and willingness to learn emerging technologies
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Understanding of conversational UI and voice-based processing (Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text)
- Experience building voice apps for Amazon Alexa or Google Home
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Agile methodologies
- Ability to design and implement end-to-end pipelines for AI-based conversational applications
- Experience in text mining, hypothesis generation, and historical data analysis
- Strong knowledge of regular expressions for data cleaning and preprocessing
- Understanding of API integrations, SSO, and token-based authentication
- Experience writing unit test cases as per project standards
- Knowledge of HTTP, REST APIs, sockets, and web services
- Ability to perform keyword and topic extraction from chat logs
- Experience training and tuning topic modeling algorithms such as LDA and NMF
- Understanding of classical Machine Learning algorithms and appropriate evaluation metrics
- Experience with NLP frameworks such as NLTK and spaCy
Good Experience & Understanding of CRM & ERP processes & Design
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in ERPNext Platform and Frappe Framework, Python, JavaScript and MySQL/MariaDB
- Strong knowledge of configuration and customisation of the ERPNext platform
Job Description
Duties & Responsibilities
Qualifications & Experience
BE / B-Tech degree and 2+ years of work experience, or ME / MS degree and 2+ years of work experience, in Computer Science.
Server Development. Frontend Development can be an advantage.Preferred Skills & Knowledge
- Strong programming skills in Python/Django
- Experience with Angular, JavaScript frameworks/libraries
- Hands on experience with MySQL, PostGreSQL or other RDBMS
- Experience with Web application security and Secure coding practices
- Strong Analytical thinking and problem solving ability
- Familiarity with software collaboration tools – GIT
- Ability to work with a distributed and diverse team of researchers and developers.
- Excellent English language communication skills, both written and verbal.
- High level of innovation and motivation
A Fintech start up company that bridges the gap between the digital payments
and the micro-retailing industry of the market. A nexus for the B2B sector providing multi-utility services via an Android app, enabling the micro-retailers across India to revolutionize their business and thus providing them with an opportunity to generate more revenue by offering multiple micropayment and digital services at their offline store. We intend to leverage the mode of smartphone technology in the rural and urban markets across India, thus empowering micro-retailers and creating a sustainable self-employment for this segment.
Overall Competencies:
1. Tech Depth/Breadth/Problem Solving.
2. Design & Architecture (Code/Design review).
3. Team Management.
Leadership Competency:
- Managing & mentoring a team.
- Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time.
- Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance).
- Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above Programming.
Tech Competency:
- Hands-on with Python/Django/Flask.
- Knowledge of PHP & Laravel is a plus.
- Experience with any JavaScript framework (Angular / React ).
- Prior experience in micro-services based architecture.
- Good understanding of SQL (MySQL, Postgres, or similar).
- Good understanding of one no-SQL (MongoDB / DynamoDB etc).
- Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance.
- Can reason about the complexity of algorithms (time and space).
- Basic CI/CD and DevOps.
- Experience in Docker & Kubernetes.
- Design, QA, and Infrastructure.
- Knowledge of design patterns and cloud scaling.
- AWS & GCP experience. AWS is mandatory.
- Understands BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing/Unit Testing
- Understands REST principles and Microservices
- Understands version control & branching strategies
- Understands application security fundamentals and potential security risks
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Dear Candidate,
I came across your candidature and want to discuss on a suitable role with us.Please find below JD and do reply with updated resume. Software Development Engineer – SDE 2. Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Gurgaon/Chennai/Pune As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward. Top Skills You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C# You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations. You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed. Roles & Responsibilities You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context. You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact. You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications. You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems. You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale. You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value. You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer. You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon. You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively. Skills & Experience Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field. Experience in software development and full product life-cycle. Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby. Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability. Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
RealPort is a digital brokerage platform that provides small institutional investors around the
globe with access to single-asset infrastructure investments, sponsored by highly reputable
asset managers. Low minimum investment tickets and reduced fees allow small investors to
build customized, diversified co-investment portfolios across multiple sectors and risk categories
like their larger counterparts. In-depth risk analysis provided by RealPort’s exclusive analysis
partner Scope offers greater control and improved transparency on individual and portfolio risk.
Asset managers benefit from global access to professional investors and an improved time-/
cost- efficient fundraising process through RealPort's all-on-one platform.
We are:
● innovative problem solvers
● transparent
● trustworthy
● pragmatic
● dependable
● diverse,
... and are looking for a talented and dedicated Senior Python Developer with experience
building complex applications to join our team to work on an innovative FinTech platform.
You will be working alongside our Product and Technology teams in our Mumbai office.
You have a good understanding of:
● Python 3
● node.js
● PostgreSQL
● API / REST
● Django 2x and Django Rest Framework
● Supervisor
● Jenkins
● AWS
● Linux (Ubuntu)
● boto3.
Ideally, you have:
● Min. 5-8 years of experience building web application engines
● University degree from a reputable university
● Excellent communication skills in English and knowledge of European languages
(German and/or French preferred) is an added bonus
● Experience in banking/financial API integrations
● Familiarity with blockchain (open zeppelin, ERC223, truffle, solidity, solidity-coverage,ganache-cli, mocha-js).
You job will consist of the following:
● Deliver smooth functionality of the application while working closely with the Front end team
● Build efficient back-end features in Python
● Help design and implement functional requirements
● Manage testing and bug fixes
● Ultimately, you’ll build highly responsive web applications that align with our business
needs.
Others consider you to be/have the following:
● Excellent at communicating with different people from different walks of life and
cultures/work and communicate across multiple time zones
● Excellent demeanor, manners, and communication skills
● Exceptional organizational skills with great attention to detail
● Open/transparent, but trustworthy and trusting
● Ability to work independently and handle high volumes of work
● Ability to work on complex and uncertain topics independently
● Solution-oriented
● Strong analytical skills
● Critical, but positive and constructive
● Efficient, dependable, and accountable
● Discreet
Benefits:
● Work on a ground-breaking product at the forefront of FinTech innovation on a global
basis
● Opportunity to work with open-minded, experienced, talented, cross-functional, and
cross-cultural teams along with an innovative network of partners who are some of the
biggest companies in the industry
● Opportunity to travel for work
● Learn from teams with 15+ years product development experience
● Competitive salary package
We are looking for a Sr. Backend Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be
part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle,
from conception to deployment.
As a Sr. Backend Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end
coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team
player with a knack for visual design and utility.
Responsibilities
Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
Design client-side and server-side architecture
Build the scalable applications using microservice architecture.
Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
Write effective APIs
Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
Create security and data protection settings
Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
Write technical documentation
Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
Requirements
Proven experience of 2+ years as Backend Developer or similar role
Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
Familiarity with common stacks, and excellent understanding of MVC architecture.
Good Knowledge of. Python and Django framework, having experience with Flask, FastAPI and
Falcon is a plus.
Experience with NoSQL, Elastic Search, Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ.
Experience with databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g.
Apache/Nginx) and UI/UX design
Knowledge of digital marketing tools
Familiarity with Google AdWords API, Google Analytics API, Facebook Ads API etc.
Familiarity of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML,
jQuery)
Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Great attention to detail
Organizational skills
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