Software Engineer

Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices

Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)

Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D

Mandatory (Education) – Candidates from top engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges) are preferred

About Wokelo:

Wokelo is an LLM agentic platform for investment research and decision making. We automate complex research and analysis tasks traditionally performed by humans. Our platform is leveraged by leading Private Equity firms, Investment Banks, Corporate Strategy teams, Venture Capitalists, and Fortune 500 companies.

With our proprietary agentic technology and state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs), we deliver rich insights and high-fidelity analysis in minutes—transforming how financial decisions are made.

Headquartered in Seattle, we are a global team backed by renowned venture funds and industry leaders. As we rapidly expand across multiple segments, we are looking for passionate individuals to join us on this journey.

Requirements:

• 0-1 years of experience as a Software Developer.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficiency in Python with strong experience in Django Rest Framework.
• Hands-on experience with Django ORM.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of NLP, ML models, and related engineering practices (preferred).
• Familiarity with LLMs, RLHF, transformers, embeddings (a plus).
• Prior experience in building or scaling a SaaS platform (a plus).
• Strong attention to detail with experience integrating testing into development workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Python (Django Rest Framework).
• Work with Django ORM to build efficient database-driven applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement features that enhance the Wokelo platform.
• Contribute to NLP engineering and ML model development to power GenAI solutions (preferred but not mandatory).
• Ensure testing and code quality are embedded into the development process.
• Research and adopt emerging technologies, providing innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Support the transition of prototypes into production-ready features on our SaaS platform.
• Perform adhoc tasks as and when required/assigned by manager.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work on a first-of-its-kind Generative AI SaaS platform.
• A steep learning curve in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies in NLP, ML models, LLM Ops, and DevOps.
• Collaborative culture with global talent and visionary leadership.
• Full health coverage, flexible time-off, and remote work culture.

About Gobillion

Gobillion is a YCombinator backed IIM-NIT alumni co-founded social commerce startup headquartered in San Francisco, USA with offices in New Delhi, Bangalore and Guwahati. We are bringing e-commerce 2.0 to the next 400 million online customers across India, through a community and social driven approach. Our co-founding has diversified experience with prestigious organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe and SAP Labs.

Gobillion has been rapidly scaling and is backed by some of the world’s most prestigious investors from US, Europe, SE Asia and India including - YCombinator, Justin Mateen (Founder - Tinder), Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, Venture Souq, Goodwater Capital, LetsVenture, Vikalp Sahni (Co-Founder- Gobibibo) amongst others.

We have been selected for and globally validated by the world’s leading investors/accelerators including YCombinator, Founder Institute Silicon Valley, NASSCOM 10000 Startups - India and Assam Startup. We have been named as the Top 10 Global startup for YCombinator S21 by Alex Mitchell.

Summary of role: As a Developer, you will be working alongside our product team in the conceptualization, design and development of server side components. You will be doing the following on the job

• Write clean, manageable code and maintain proper documentation
• Create, test and deploy and maintain the applications on production servers
• Continuously discover, analyze, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
• Lead team in crafting solutions in different areas and ensure timely delivery
• Ensure secure architecture for Servers

Why Join Us?

• You will have a chance to be a leader and have the responsibility to scale Gobillon across India's most fast growing cities
• The opportunity to join one of India’s fastest growing companies at an early stage - We are giving our early team members to benefit from a strong ESOP pool and be part of our growth journey
• Joining an amazing team of Gobillion rockstars from colleges like IIMs, IITs, NITs etc. and from organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe, SAP Labs, Urban Company, Udaan, Amazon, Delivery, Ninjacart, Accenture etc.
• Wear the Gobillion badge with pride - We are looking for owners with a founder’s mindset - not just employees. If you are passionate about our mission about making e-commerce social for the next 400M customers in India and serve as culture carriers - we are the right place for you!

Key Responsibilities of this Role:

• Experience with DevOps and writing REST APIs & Micro services architecture
• Strong programming expertise in Node js, Nest Js
• Good understanding of Mongo databases and other NoSql Databases and SQL Database
• Solid hold on Data structures and Algorithm
• Good understanding of System Design
• Development expertise in AWS services like Lambda, SQS, SNS
• Good understanding of DevOps and Server security
• Exposure to Cloud Platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure or Google Cloud
• Unix command line experience
• Well-versed with Software Development Life Cycle
• Demonstrate the ability to be a self-starter and learn quickly
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Passion for learning and implementing new technologies
• Excellent understanding of software Architectures

Desired candidates must have 2-6 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus

1. Building REST API's & Services In Django Framework
2. Building reusable code and libraries for future use
3. Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
4. Implementation of security and data protection
5. Design and implementation of the database schema
6. Design and implementation of data storage solutions
7. Implementing CI/CD pipeline

• Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language Python
• Hands-on experience with Python Frameworks like Django
• Proficient knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes (Relational & NoSQL)
• Understanding of queueing systems like Redis/AWS SQS
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

• Experience in Docker
• HandsOn Knowledge with implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in managing applications on AWS
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling application to support load changes
• Product wide application-level thinking on API and data modeling

The Java/Backend Developer is responsible for the development and maintenance of Bytemark’s backend APIs. This person utilizes their knowledge of Java development & web technologies as an integral part of the software development team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain, and deliver highly scalable and reliable APIs
• Collaborate with development team and product owners to analyze, design, and implement user stories using an agile methodology.
• Write high-quality software code that complies with design specifications and meets development and support requirements.
• Develop unit tests and test changes using an agile methodology.
• Use a variety of tools to perform unit testing, automated builds, and source control.
• Participate as a member in Agile teams, and work with other team member to review user stories, estimate effort for user stories, and participate in sprint reviews.
• Maintaining current web and back-end features
• Learning new skills and technologies as company products and industry standards warrant

Required Skills:

• 2-6 years of experience building RESTful APIs
• 2+ year of hands-on Java experience using Play 1.x framework
• Knowledge of Spring or Grails frameworks is a plus
• Ability to write SQL.
• Understanding of OOP
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) using JUnit, Selenium or a similar technology
• Basic knowledge of Unix
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• 3-8 years of software development experience
• Undergraduate degree in the field of computer science or equivalent
• Able to handle multiple tasks in a fast paced environment