Software Engineer

Role: Lead Software Engineer (Backend)

Salary: INR 28 to INR 40L per annum

Performance Bonus: Up to 10% of the base salary can be added

Location: Hulimavu, Bangalore, India

Experience: 6-10 years

About AbleCredit:

AbleCredit has built a foundational AI platform to help BFSI enterprises reduce OPEX by up to 70% by powering workflows for onboarding, claims, credit, and collections. Our GenAI model achieves over 95% accuracy in understanding Indian dialects and excels in financial analysis.

The company was founded in June 2023 by Utkarsh Apoorva (IIT Delhi, built Reshamandi, Guitarstreet, Edulabs); Harshad Saykhedkar (IITB, ex-AI Lead at Slack); and Ashwini Prabhu (IIML, co-founder of Mythiksha, ex-Product Head at Reshamandi, HandyTrain).

What Work You’ll Do

• Build best-in-class AI systems -  that enterprises can trust, where reliability and explainability are not optional.
• Operate in founder mode — build, patch, or fork, whatever it takes to ship today, not next week.
• Work at the frontier of AI x Systems — making AI models behave predictably to solve real, enterprise-grade problems.
• Own end-to-end feature delivery — from requirement scoping to design, development, testing, deployment, and post-release optimization.
• Design and implement complex, distributed systems that support large-scale workflows and integrations for enterprise clients.
• Operate with full technical ownership — make architectural decisions, review code, and mentor junior engineers to maintain quality and velocity.
• Build scalable, event-driven services leveraging AWS Lambda, SQS/SNS, and modern asynchronous patterns.
• Work with cross-functional teams to design robust notification systems, third-party integrations, and data pipelines that meet enterprise reliability and security standards.

The Skills You Have..

• Strong background as an Individual Contributor — capable of owning systems from concept to production without heavy oversight.
• Expertise in system design, scalability, and fault-tolerant architecture.
• Proficiency in Node.js (bonus) or another backend language such as Go, Java, or Python.
• Deep understanding of SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB) systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services — Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS, and event-based systems.
• Experience in designing and scaling notification systems and third-party API integrations.
• Proficiency in event-driven architectures and multi-threading/concurrency models.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, security practices, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring tools.
• Strong debugging, performance tuning, and code review skills.

What You Should Have Done in the Past

• Delivered multiple complex backend systems or microservices from scratch in a production environment.
• Led system design discussions and guided teams on performance, reliability, and scalability trade-offs.
• Mentored SDE-1 and SDE-2 engineers, enabling them to deliver features independently.
• Owned incident response and root cause analysis for production systems.
• (Bonus) Built or contributed to serverless systems using AWS Lambda, with clear metrics on uptime, throughput, and cost-efficiency.

Highlights:

• PTO & Holidays
• Opportunity to work with a core Gen AI startup.
• Flexible hours and an extremely positive work environment

Job Description:-

Design, develop IoT/Cloud-based Typescript/ JavaScript/ Node.JS applications using

Amazon Cloud Computing Services.

Work closely with onsite, offshore, and cross functional teams, Product Management, UI/UX developers, Web and Mobile developers, SQA teams to effectively use technologies to build and deliver high quality and on-time delivery of IoT applications

Bug and issue resolution

Proactively Identify risks and failure modes early in the development lifecycle and develop.

POCs to mitigate the risks early in the program.

Assertive communication and team skills

Primary Skills:

Hands on experience (3+ years) in AWS cloud native environment with work experience in

AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB

3+ years’ experience in working with NodeJS, Python, Unit Testing and Git

3+ years in work experience with document, relational or timeseries databases

2+ years in work experience with typescript.

1+ years in IaaS framework like Serverless or CDK with CloudFormation knowledge

Key Responsibilities: 

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS. 
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture. 
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible. 
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability. 
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required: 

• At least 2 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds. 
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases. 
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j. 
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs. 
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks. 
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks. 
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications. 
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git. 
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms. 
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences. 
• Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.

Looking for enthusiastic tech driven individuals who can architect a web application, push pixels, design a web API, design a UI and optimize the backend for scalability. Should be thrilled to deep dive into the field of Location Intelligence. 

Hiring for the role of  Backend Developer for our Development team. Apply if you are keen to explore how data-tech is changing the decision intelligence landscape.

Sociometrik is a geospatial data intelligence start-up based out of New Delhi, India - founded in 2019 with the mission of redefining data-backed executive decision making. We measure and quantify physical earth, built structures and human activity using multi-channel data sources like satellite imagery, smartphone mobility, web records and administrative data to power alternative data-based decision support systems for our clients.

• Write effective, scalable and reusable code
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions
• Collaborate with Product Owner to identify optimal ways to implement new features & product enhancements.
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions.
• Create UI mock-ups and transform them into quality product features consistent with the Product Owner’s vision.

• Minimum 3 years of work experience as a backend developer
• Minimum 3 years experience in Node.js
• Must have Experience working in a Typescript codebase
• Experience with Leaflet.JS, Google Maps API, or Geospatial projects are a "Nice to Have"
• Exposure to deck.gl is “Good to Have”.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery
• Must have Experience collaborating in a team environment

• An analytical bent of mind
• Good time management skills
• Curiosity for learning
• Creative vision
• Team spirit and good problem-solving skills

Hiring Process

Below is our hiring process for this position. We will reach out or send a rejection notice to most candidates within 1-5 business days of applying. Sociometrik promises to value your time and professionalism in every step of the process.

• Quick Screening 
• Interview with Technical Lead

• Final Interview with Leadership

• Java, J2EE
• Microservices
• Spring Boot
• JPA, REST API, JSON, JWT, OAuth, Spring Security, Swagger
• Oracle / MySQL / Postgres DB
• Angular / React / React Native
• JIRA, Bitbucket

Must-Have -

• Excellent knowledge of Core Java and Spring
• Strong experience in REST API and web services
• Experience in Oracle / Mysql / Postgres DB
• Should be efficient with Java J2EE and related technologies
• Should have very good communication skills and analytical skills.
• Should have good knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies.
• Good knowledge of current / emerging technologies and trends
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. High levels of initiative and creativity
• Good communication skills with all stakeholders, good team player with ability to mentor juniors

Good to Have:

• Knowledge in Banking Domain
• Full-stack developers with knowledge and understanding of Javascript and associated technologies like React, Angular, HTML5, CSS will have an advantage.