Software Engineer Consultant

About Ritually

Ritually is building the definitive process discovery platform for back office work. Our product fuses underutilized system telemetry with computer vision to help large enterprise and scaling mid-market companies deeply understand and reimagine their highest value and most repetitive processes for a world where humans and agents work together. We're based in New York and Denver.

We believe deeply in trust (of our customers and each other), craft, customer obsession, and speed.

You'll be joining an AI-native, fast-moving, and repeat founding team. Ritually's founders previously built and exited a startup (Involvio) to Cisco. The company is funded and working with design partners.

The Role

This is a founding full-stack role. You'll be building our application with the founding team from 0-1 You'll own features and infra end to end and across technologies. You'll also own how we build: ensuring our AI development workflow is fast, dependable and secure.

What You'll Do

• Build features end to end, across our desktop client, web app, and the backend services that tie them together.
• Go deep in our cross-platform Electron desktop client the native OS integration that powers on-device capture, and the on-device privacy and redaction that runs before data leaves the machine.
• Move fluidly across technologies and layers, picking up whatever a problem needs rather than staying in one corner of the stack.
• Own the infrastructure and deployment path CI/CD, releases, and the cloud services everything runs on so shipping stays routine and reliable.
• Own how we build: keep our AI development workflow fast, dependable, and secure and establish the conventions, tooling, and guardrails that let a small team build like a much larger one.
• Own observability and on-call basics logging, error tracking, and alerting so we catch issues before our customers do.
• Help set technical direction and keep the codebase legible as we scale the engineering team.

What We're Looking For

• 1-4 years building software across the stack frontend, backend, and the glue between them (internships and meaningful side projects count).
• Comfort working across multiple languages and technologies, and a genuine willingness to learn whatever a problem requires.
• Solid fundamentals in shipping production software version control, testing, debugging, and deployment.
• Experience with, or strong interest in, owning infrastructure and devops: CI/CD, cloud services, and reliability.
• Genuine excitement about AI-native development you've used AI coding agents and want to push how far they can go.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to own problems end to end in a small team.

Nice to Have

• Experience building desktop applications (Electron or native).
• Experience building internal tooling or automation that made a team measurably faster.
• Experience building applications for on-premise deployment.
• Familiarity with managed backend platforms and AI agent tooling.
• Any prior early-stage startup experience.
• Degree in computer science or a related field.

Strong Software Engineer fullstack profile using NodeJS / Python and React

Mandatory (Experience) - Must have 6+ YOE in Software Development using Python OR NodeJS (For backend) & React (For frontend)

Mandatory (Core Skills 1): Must have strong experience in working on Typescript

Mandatory (Core Skills 2): Must have experience in message based systems like Kafka, RabbitMq, Redis

Mandatory (Core Skills 3): Databases - PostgreSQL & NoSQL databases like MongoDB

Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies Only

Mandatory (Education) - B.Tech or Dual degree (Btech and Mtech or Integrated Msc/MS) from Tier 1 Engineering Institutes. Candidates from other institutions will not be considered unless they come from top-tier product companies

 Senior Technical Consultant (Polyglot)

Experience- 5-9 Years

This is a Backend-heavy Polyglot developer role - 80% Backend 20% Frontend

Backend 

1. 1st Primary Language - Java or Python or Go Or ROR or Rust 
2. 2nd Primary Language - one of the above or Node

The candidate should be experienced in atleast 2 backend tech stacks.

Frontend 

1. React or Angular 
2. HTML, CSS

The interview process would be quite complex and require depth of experience. The candidate should be hands-on in backend and frontend development (80-20)

The candidate should have experience with Unit testing, CI/CD, devops etc.

Good Communication skills is a must have.

Job Requirements:

Intermediate Linux Knowledge

• Experience with shell scripting
• Familiarity with Linux commands such as grep, awk, sed
• Required

Advanced Python Scripting Knowledge

• Strong expertise in Python
• Required

Ruby

• Nice to have

Basic Knowledge of Network Protocols

• Understanding of TCP/UDP, Multicast/Unicast
• Required

Packet Captures

• Experience with tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, tshark
• Nice to have

High-Performance Messaging Libraries

• Familiarity with tools like Tibco, 29West, LBM, Aeron
• Nice to have

Strong Senior Full Stack Engineer profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 4+ years of hands-on full stack engineering experience (avoid frontend-heavy only profiles, backend heavy will work)

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend engineering experience using Python, including designing and owning APIs, services, and data models in production environments

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have strong frontend development experience using React (or equivalent), including component architecture, state management, and building production-grade user interfaces

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have end-to-end ownership experience, building and shipping features across the full stack (UI + API + database) without clear handoff boundaries

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong web fundamentals, including understanding of browser rendering, performance optimization, and accessibility best practices

Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must be able to demonstrate solving complex problems on both frontend and backend, clearly articulating trade-offs, decisions, and outcomes

Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have solid experience with databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, query optimization, and handling performance bottlenecks

Mandatory (Company) - Must have worked in product-based companies, (preferred early-stage startups with Seed to Series C/D with fast-paced shipping culture)

Mandatory (Education) - Strong CS fundamentals required (CS degree or equivalent). Candidates from Tier-1 institutes (IITs, BITS, IIITs) are preferred but not mandatory

Key Responsibilities: 34249 

• Feature Development: Design, develop, and maintain new features and enhancements across the stack.
• Front-End: Build intuitive, responsive UIs using Angular or React.
• Back-End: Develop scalable APIs and services using Python (preferred), Java/Spring, or Node.js.
• Cloud Deployment: Deploy and manage applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — familiarity with services like App Engine, Cloud Functions, Kubernetes is expected.
• Performance Tuning: Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks.
• Code Quality: Participate in code reviews and maintain high standards through unit testing and automation.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Collaborate on deployment pipelines using Tekton, Terraform, and other DevOps tools.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, and fellow Engineers in an agile environment.

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong development expertise in Python (preferred), Angular, and GCP
• Understanding of DevOps practices
• Experience with SDLC, agile methodologies, and unit testing

Good to Have (Nice-to-Haves):

• Hands-on experience with:
• Tekton, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines
• Large Language Models (LLMs) integration
• AWS/Azure (in addition to GCP)
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Familiarity with API design and microservices architecture

Educational Qualification:

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

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We are looking for top-notch, motivated engineers to come join our growing team at IK. 

Who you are

• You have 2 - 7 years experience. 
• You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team. 
• You have a github profile that you want to show off. 
• You love coding and look forward to taking on complex, abstract features. 
• You don't care about front end, backend kinda titles. You like working anywhere in the "stack". 
• You are looking to grow fast with a company that's on a rapid growth path.

What will excite us

• Previous startup experience or experience being part of early teams.
• Experience with the Django & Python universe. 
• Experience with both Relational and NoSQL DBs. 
• Competitive Programming experience. 
• A keen desire to problem solve, brainstorm and debate during the interview. 

What will excite you

• Complete ownership
• Experiment, fail and learn.
• High pedigree, high caliber team. 
• Contribute to every area of our business. Have a real impact with your work. 
• Top of the line compensation.

Our interview process is designed to help you show the best version of yourself. Once your candidature is finalized, we'll send you a short video explaining the interview process.

Look forward to speaking with you soon!