Software Engineer

Position: Lead Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Experience: 10+ Years

Budget: 1.7 LPM

Employment Type: [Contract]

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 10+ years of proven backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Expertise in SQL (Postgres) and database optimization.
• Hands-on experience with OpenAI APIs.
• Strong command of FastAPI and microservices architecture.
• Solid knowledge of debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Agentic Systems or ability to quickly adopt them.
• Exposure to modern CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

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.

• BS in CS or EE or equivalent
• Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments
• Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Solid programming skills; preferred experience in Java, and/or Python
• Experience with modern web frameworks, advanced algorithms/data intelligence, public
• cloud platforms and streaming data pipelines
• Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, and delivery
• 5+ years’ experience preferred

• 3+ years of Experience in software Design and development and familiar with technologies - Java, Java-J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Ajax, REST API, Micro services etc.
• Working knowledge of JVM internals
• Working knowledge of any database (MySQL or HSQLDB)
• Working knowledge of No-SQL database (Mongo or Dynamo DB)
• Working experience with messaging (JMS/RabbitMQ)
• R & D on new advanced cloud-based technologies in a test-driven agile development.
• Knowledge in designing and architecting systems with high scalability and performance requirements.
• Ability to understand infrastructure for performance evaluation and reporting of cloud-based services, namely AWS
• knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch etc.
• Certification on AWS Fundamendals
• Excellent communication skills
• ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• skilled in interfacing with internal and external technical resources
• Good in debugging problems and mentoring teams on technical front

About Wise

Wise is digital infrastructure for online education. Oversimplified as ‘Shopify for Tutors’ i.e., an easy to use tool for tutors to start teaching online. We have grown to 2mn users in 12 months and have much to do. We are backed by an incredible set of investors and individuals who have built product you already use. We have a small but rockstar team, cheap equity, smart money, opportunity to capture a huge market ($60bn) and a chance to make an impact while doing so.

What we need

We need you, if you are a senior software engineer with 4+ years of experience in building robust scalable systems. Work would involve building things quickly and adapting based on market feedback while ensuring the security and quality of the codebase. If you love coding and building things excites you, we would like to talk to you.

What you will need (Skills)

• Experience building microservices and distributed systems, RESTful APIs, user interfaces
• Knowledge and will of writing unit, integration tests is a must. TDD is a plus
• Preferably a polyglot: Strong command Ruby/Golang/Java/Python
• Some exposure to infra: Deployments, CI/CD setup, security. AWS exposure is good to have
• Strong database concepts. Experience with MongoDB is a plus

What you will do

• Feature analysis, hands on development, code reviews, deployment & rollouts
• Passionately maintain coding practices, quality & good design standards
• Design and develop highly scalable, available, secure and fault tolerant systems
• Actively contribute in assessing & improving/optimizing security & infrastructure

Great to have

• Sense of ownership
• Developers who can talk product and strategy
• Experience in building scalable consumer products
• Strong opinions, loosely held

Good to have

• Interest in mentorship
• Good written communication skills
• Bangalore love

Probably not ideal if

• If you have always been right about stuff in life
• No flexibility around working hours (this doesn’t mean we work long hours but if our systems get attacked in the middle of the night, we would need you to HODORR!)

Definitely get in touch if you

• Would have started the exact same company but willing to build it together with a great team
• Find our current product unbearably slow or inadequate
• Think this company isn’t going to work as it is right now

Qualifications & Responsibilities 

• Strong hands-on experience with Java; full-stack development
• Designs, codes, tests, debug, and documents software, and enhance existing components to ensure that software meets business needs
• Deploy and maintain Applications/Systems
• Work with other software engineers for one or more Agile scrum teams assigned to work on the project · Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and should be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues, and plans to technology leadership
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enhance team velocity · Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
• Estimate engineering work effort for the engineering team and effectively identify and prioritize the high impact tasks
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Drive a quality mindset within the team

Skills: 

• 2+ years of full Software Development Life Cycle experience
• 2+ years of experience working as a full-stack java developer
• 1+ years of web development with AngularJS
• Experience or familiarity with technologies such as WSDL, REST and/or SOAP web services, XML, JBoss, Adobe CQ5 DAM, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Hibernate, Spring.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work as a Web Developer to create front end & backend of websites
• Play a key role in the design lifecycle, from brief through to design and release/implementation
• Should have good knowledge of HTML, CSS, REACT JS, NODE JS, POSTGRES, GIT, REST API.
• A good understanding of servers, hosting, domains, DNS
• Ensure all designs work across all browsers and on all devices
• Help to design elements of mobile apps
• Ensure all designs are produced to deliver a great user experience

Key Skills/Experience:

• A minimum of one year of experience in designing and developing websites and web apps
• Good working experience in React JS, Redux, JavaScript ES6, NodeJS, AJAX, HTML, CSS, etc
• Knowledge about REST API
• Who has worked on libraries such as Bootstrap, Material is.
• Experience with Unit testing, Git, GitHub, and other DevOps and CI/CD tool
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates a range of work and techniques
• A passion for strong web design that delivers a great user experience
• A good understanding of the latest web design trends