Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer / Principal Engineer at GroundtRuth · Remote, Gurugram · 2 - 9 years · ₹18L - ₹38L / yr · Profitable · Remote friendly · Posted 22 Aug 2022
Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer / Principal Engineer
at GroundtRuth
You will:
- Write excellent production code and tests and help others improve in code-reviews
- Analyze high-level requirements to design, document, estimate, and build systems
- Coordinate across teams to identify, resolve, mitigate and prevent technical issues
- Coach and mentor engineers within the team to develop their skills and abilities
- Continuously improve the team's practices in code-quality, reliability, performance, testing, automation, logging, monitoring, alerting, and build processes
You have:
For (Fullstack):
- 2 - 10 Years of experience
- Strong with DS & Algorithms
- Hands on Experience in the Programming languages: JavaScript (React or Angular), Python, SQL.
- Experience with AWS.
For (Geo Team):
- 4 - 10 years of experience
- Experience with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Map Reduce, Kafka, etc
- Experience using object-oriented languages (Java, Python)
- Experience in working with different AWS technologies.
- Experience in software design, architecture and development.
- Excellent competencies in data structures & algorithms.
For (Backend):
- 2 - 10 years of experience
- Hands on product development experience using Java/ C++/Python
- Experience with AWS,SQL,GIT
- Strong with Data structures and Algorithms
Additional nice to have skills/certifications:
For Java skill set:
Mockito, Grizzly, Netty, VertX, Jersey / JAX-RS, Swagger / Open API, Nginx, Protocol Buffers, Thrift, Aerospike, Redis, Kinesis, Sed, Awk, Perl
For Python skill set: Data Engineering experience, Athena, Lambda, EMR, Spark, Glue, Step Functions, Hadoop, Kinesis, Orc, Parquet, Perl, Awk, Redshift
For (Data Engineering):
- 2 - 10 years of experience
- Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python.
- Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, RDS, Redshift,S3,Athena, Glue
- Must be proficient in GIT, Jenkins, CICD (Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment)
- Experience in big data technologies like Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark, etc
- Experience with Amazon Web Services and Dockers

About GroundtRuth
About
GroundTruth is an advertising platform that turns real-world behavior into marketing that drives in-store visits and other real business results. We use observed real-world consumer behavior, including location and purchase data, to create targeted advertising campaigns across all screens, measure how consumers respond, and uncover unique insights to help optimize ongoing and future marketing efforts.
With this focus on media, measurement, and insights, we provide marketers with tools to deliver media campaigns that drive measurable impact, such as in-store visits, sales, and more.
We believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work in 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2025!
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About Orenda
Orenda is a fintech-enabled financial services company founded in 2017 and based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. We work as a corporate DSA and channel partner for leading banks and NBFCs, helping individuals, professionals, and MSMEs access suitable financial solutions across business loans, personal loans, home loans, loan against property, and professional loans.
At Orenda, we combine financial expertise, technology, and streamlined processes to simplify the lending journey. We are building our own lending-tech platform to improve operational efficiency, strengthen lender and partner integrations, and develop technology-driven solutions that support our evolving business needs.
About the role
We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer who enjoys building as much as designing. You'll shape how our systems are architected, write a good share of the code yourself, and lead a team of 3 to 5 engineers, including AI/ML engineers.
This is a hands-on leadership role, not a pure management or architecture position. Your time will be roughly split like this:
Share of time
Leading the team ~30%
Solution design ~30%
Hands-on coding ~30%
Deployment and infrastructure~10%
What you'll work on
Solution design and architecture
• Turning business needs into technical designs that are practical to build and easy to maintain
• Making architecture decisions across services, integrations and data flows
• Estimating, scoping and planning new features with business and product stakeholders
• Shaping the solution design for AI/ML use cases alongside the AI/ML engineers
Engineering and delivery
• Writing production code in Python and Node.js
• Rolling out new features across our internal and partner-facing platforms, including our CRM and partner portal
• Continuously improving existing systems for performance, reliability and code quality
• Reviewing code and setting engineering standards for the team
Infrastructure and cloud
• Maintaining and upgrading our infrastructure, including a planned move to a major cloud platform
• Owning deployments and production stability together with the team
• Working with event-driven and messaging systems (NATS today, Kafka planned)
Team leadership
• Leading and mentoring a team of 3 to 5 engineers
• Planning and prioritising work, unblocking the team, and making sure things ship
• Building a culture of ownership, clear documentation and quality
What we're looking for
• 5 to 8 years of software engineering experience, with hands-on coding in your recent roles
• Strong command of Python and Node.js
• Proven experience designing and building backend systems and microservices that run in production
• Hands-on experience deploying and running workloads on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL
• Experience with messaging or event streaming systems such as NATS, Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience leading or mentoring a small engineering team
• Comfort estimating effort, breaking down features and planning delivery
• Enough understanding of AI/ML systems to guide their solution design and integration
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Good to have
• Experience working at a fintech, lending or financial services company
• Hands-on experience with Kafka
• Experience leading an infrastructure upgrade or cloud migration
• Experience building or scaling CRM or partner-facing portal products
Why Join Us?
- Build a growing lending-tech platform: Play a key role in shaping the technology behind a growing financial services business.
- Own technical decisions: Contribute directly to architecture, engineering standards, and technology direction.
- Stay hands-on: Combine solution design and technical leadership with meaningful coding responsibilities.
- Work with emerging technologies: Collaborate with AI/ML engineers and contribute to evolving platform capabilities.
- Lead and grow a team: Mentor engineers and help build a strong engineering culture as the technology function scales.
- Make a measurable impact: Build systems that improve operational efficiency and support business growth.

Position Details
| **Experience** | 5–8 Years |
| **Work Location** | Mumbai Suburbs-Andheri |
| **Start Date** | Immediate |
| **CTC** | Open to Discussion |
## Job Description
The selected candidate will be responsible for leading backend development, managing cloud infrastructure and deployments, designing scalable system architectures, and mentoring the engineering team. The role requires strong technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and the ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
### 1. DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure
- Create and configure cloud instances on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Deploy applications and programs to cloud servers and DevOps environments.
- Ensure deployment stability, system uptime, and performance monitoring.
- Automate deployment pipelines and continuously improve CI/CD practices.
- Implement and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure deployment processes.
### 2. Architecture and Backend Development
- Design system architectures with a focus on performance, security, scalability, and reliability.
- Design, develop, and maintain clean, scalable, and optimized backend applications, preferably using Node.js.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across development, testing, and production environments.
- Translate business requirements into effective technical solutions and ensure timely delivery.
- Develop and maintain APIs, microservices, databases, and system integrations.
### 3. Team Leadership and Management
- Lead, mentor, and guide a team of backend developers and engineers.
- Drive Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and engineering best practices.
- Promote collaboration, accountability, and a high-performance engineering culture.
- Support team members in resolving technical challenges and improving their skills.
## 4.Skills and Qualifications Required
- B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Strong proficiency in backend development using Node.js, JavaScript, Python, or Java.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices and cloud deployment environments.
- Solid understanding of APIs, microservices, databases, and system integration.
- Experience in leading development teams within an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Working knowledge of Linux, Kafka, and Docker.
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud technologies, and deployment automation.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and leadership skills.
##5. Behavioural Competencies
- **Team Leadership:** Ability to manage, train, mentor, and guide team members.
- **Relationship Management:** Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.
- **Analytical Thinking and Innovation:** Strong analytical capabilities, with a focus on innovative problem-solving.
- **Business Acumen:** Ability to understand business use cases and translate them into practical technical solutions.
- **Customer Empathy:** Ability to understand customer needs and deliver solutions that enhance customer experience.
- **Communication:** Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Salary will be decided based on your skills and experience.
About the role
We are hiring a Principal Engineer to own the hardest technical problems in our product and see them through from first sketch to stable production. You will set technical direction, design systems that scale, and raise the engineering bar through your own work and the people around you. This is a hands-on leadership role: you write code, review designs, and ship.
What will you do?
You will own outcomes, not just tasks. Expect to spend your time on the following.
• Own projects end to end. Take an ambiguous problem, shape the requirements, design the solution, break down the work, deliver it to production, and stay accountable for how it runs afterwards.
• Lead system design. Author and review architecture for services, data pipelines and integrations, with clear trade-offs on scale, latency, cost, consistency and reliability.
• Write and review critical code. Build the hardest components yourself, and set standards for code quality, testing and maintainability through code and design reviews.
• Own deployment and operations. Design CI/CD, infrastructure and release strategies. Drive observability, on-call readiness, incident response and post-incident learning.
• Solve hard problems. Debug production issues across the stack, and find root causes in performance, concurrency, data and scaling problems.
• Mentor and multiply. Coach senior and junior engineers, grow future tech leads, and make the whole team faster and more confident.
• Partner across functions. Work with product, design, data and business teams to turn goals into technical plans, and to say no or reshape scope when needed.
• Shape technical strategy. Guide build-versus-buy decisions, manage tech debt, evaluate new technologies, and contribute to the engineering roadmap.
• Raise the bar. Help define engineering practices, hiring standards and culture, and take part in interviewing.
What are we looking for?
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Core engineering
• 10+ years of professional software engineering, with a track record of shipping and running production systems.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and complexity, operating systems, networking, databases and concurrency.
• Fluency in at least one major backend language (for example Python, Go, Java, or Node.js/ TypeScript) and the ability to pick up others quickly.
• Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL data stores: schema design, indexing, transactions, query tuning and replication.
System design and problem solving
• Proven ability to design distributed systems that are scalable, fault tolerant and cost aware, and to explain the trade-offs clearly.
• Experience with APIs, event-driven and asynchronous architectures, queues, caching and service-to-service communication.
• A structured approach to ambiguous problems: break them down, test assumptions, decide with incomplete data, and measure results.
• Strong debugging instincts, including performance profiling and production troubleshooting.
Delivery and operations
• Have led at least two significant projects from inception to production, including planning, milestones, risk management and launch.
• Hands-on experience with deployment: CI/CD pipelines, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), a major cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure), and infrastructure as code.
• Practical experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs and incident management.
• Habit of writing tests and automation, and of leaving systems more reliable than you found them.
Leadership and communication
• Experience leading engineers without formal authority, through influence, mentoring and clear technical writing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication: design docs, RFCs and concise updates to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ownership mindset, sound judgment on priorities, and comfort working in a fast-moving environment.
Nice to have
• Experience in fintech, lending or another regulated, data-heavy domain.
• Exposure to AI/ML or LLM-based systems in production: model serving, evaluation, retrieval, and cost and latency management.
• Deep experience with data engineering: streaming, batch pipelines, warehouses or search systems.
• Security and compliance awareness: authentication, encryption, audit trails, secure SDLC.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, high-throughput systems or zero downtime migrations.
• Open-source contributions, conference talks, or technical writing.
• Experience scaling an engineering team or helping set up hiring and onboarding practices.
About GeoIQ:
GeoIQ(a Lenskart subsidiary) is a location intelligence platform that provides comprehensive data and insights to help businesses make informed decisions about their retail operations and expansion. It offers a range of data points, including demographic information, commercial activity, and market performance indicators, to give users a detailed understanding of a specific location or market.
About the team:
Our agile team, consisting of 40+ members, is led by a founding team with extensive experience in data analytics, machine learning, and product development. Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with seasoned professionals in a dynamic and innovative work environment.
Responsibilities:
- We’re looking for a Backend Engineer who thrives on solving real-world problems and is eager to build scalable, high-performance systems. You should have:
- Keen interest and ability to learn and continuously adapt to the market and technology.
- At least 2–4 years of relevant backend development experience.
- Strong knowledge and experience in Python (Flask) and SQL (we use PostgreSQL and PostGIS).
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB, Airflow and Nginx.
- Practical experience with Cloud Services, including:
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Cloud Functions, Cloudbuild, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes is a bonus.
- Familiarity with GIS concepts is a plus.
- Strong background in designing and building REST APIs, with the ability to discuss architectural trade-offs and make sound technical decisions.
Why Explore a Career at GeoIQ:
- Be part of a team that is revolutionizing decision-making for businesses across India.
- Work in a dynamic and innovative environment with ample opportunities for professional growth and learning.
- Contribute to the growth and success of a leading hyperlocal location AI startup in India.
If you are passionate about creating intuitive and efficient front-end solutions and meet the requirements listed above, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team at GeoIQ!
Location: Bangalore
Department: Engineering
Reports to: SVP
Experience required: 6+ years
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Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.
We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.
Founders
- Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
- Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)
About Technology Team:
Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.
We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.
Our Tech Stacks:
We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.
Job Overview:
We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
- Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
- Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
- Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
- Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers
Job Requirements :
Professional Experience
- Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
- Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
- Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
- Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.
Technical Leadership & Management
- Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
- Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
- Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
- Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management
Backend & System Architecture Expertise
- Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
- Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
- Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.
Technical Competencies
- Strong system design and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of caching strategies, performance optimization, and scalability
- Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
- Familiarity with search and indexing technologies
- Understanding of security best practices in backend systems
Culture:
- Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
- Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
- No strict deadlines, focus on delivering quality work.
- Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
- Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.
Technology Stack: Next.js, Express.js, PostgresSQL, GCP
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About Medflix - empowering healthcare professionals for better care
Medflix (www.medflix.app/app) is a platform where healthcare professionals (doctors, medical students and more) stay updated through live talks, Q&As, support material and more. Through the platform we believe that these professionals can be empowered to deliver better care to patients (like our families) throughout the globe.
In its current (and evolving) form, it is a live learning and engagement platform seeing tremendous week-on-week growth through stellar speakers and a very active early community. The product is in the growth stages and you will be playing a key role in steering the tech to create a scalable and lovable product experience.
We are backed by startup, VC and PE veterans including Kunal Shah (CEO, Cred), Raghunandan G (Zolve, ex-TFS), Avnish Mehra (Everstone) and more.
Medflix is a platform by PlexusMD (www.plexusmd.com/app), a network trusted and loved (4.4 stars on Playstore and 4.4 on Appstore) by more than 3 lakh doctors in India and working closely with leading healthcare providers and companies like AIIMS, Jaslok, Hinduja, Apollo, HCG, Elsevier, Association of Physicians of India, Indian Association of Cardio-thoracic surgeons, Society of Nuclear Medicine, Govt of Gujarat (HFW Dept), Govt of Haryana (SIFHW), McKinsey and company, Takeda, Mankind and others.
About the Role
Tech stack (expertise in all is not required, experience in some will be sufficient):
- React / Next.js (required, at least 1 year of experience)
- Express.js (required, at least 1 year of experience)
- Familiarity with cloud services (gcp / azure / aws)
- PostgreSQL (or expertise in any relational database)
- Redis
- Docker/Kubernetes deployment (good to have)
For this role we are looking for engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset, an understanding of how startups operate and who like to get their hands dirty when unknown things come their way. You will work closely with the product team to prioritise and ship features with a predictable cadence.
As this role is full-stack, you need to have a good understanding of frontend design and be obsessed with responsiveness and pixel-perfect behaviour. On the backend side, an OCD for efficiency and optimisation is a required personality trait.
Demonstrated history of solving hard problems (frontend/backend or both) is a great-to- have.
Benefits and growth
While we ensure competitive compensation (plus ESOP options for deserving candidates), at Medflix, you will also have a strong say in how final solutions look. You will get the opportunity to learn to steer an accelerating rocket ship.
College credentials, background or years of experience are no bar for growth inside the company for enthusiasts who believe in our mission and demonstrate that passion to create a product that healthcare workers love.
Join our product development team at Planview as a Senior Software Engineer I and become a pivotal force on the Viz Core Team. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape and lead the development of data-processing pipelines and APIs that are at the heart of our software solutions. These solutions are designed to streamline and enhance the efficiency of software delivery, resonating deeply with software engineers who strive to build better and faster.
At Planview Viz, which is powered by the innovative “Flow Framework,” you will tackle complex data challenges and develop scalable solutions within an AWS cloud environment. Your efforts will be crucial in revolutionizing how businesses harness and interpret vast amounts of workflow data, transforming it into actionable insights that propel organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
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- Create and refine powerful data-processing architectures that integrate seamlessly with a diverse array of external tools, enhancing the way software is delivered across industries.
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- Lead and inspire a team of talented engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, meticulous attention to quality, and proactive problem-solving.
- Stay at the cutting edge of technology by updating and expanding your team’s knowledge of cloud architectures, data processing, and advanced analytics, ensuring that you and your team remain leaders in technological innovation.
- Make a direct impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of software delivery worldwide through innovation and leadership.
Qualifications (What you'll bring)
Who We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate is a seasoned professional in cloud software development with a strong foundation in data processing and scalable software systems. You thrive in collaborative environments and are passionate about advancing cloud technology and data architecture to new heights. You are a leader who enjoys mentoring, guiding, and inspiring others.
Preferred Qualifications
Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience with a modern programming language, with a focus on back-end systems and cloud-based technologies.
- Strong capability in architecting and designing robust, scalable software systems.
- Proficiency in AWS or another popular cloud platform.
Additional Qualifications
- Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark and Apache Kafka.
- Experience with Java (version 17), Scala, or other JVM programming languages.
- Experience with tools such as Amazon Redshift and MongoDB.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Travis CI, or similar platforms.
- Proficiency in test-driven development.
- Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Experience working on remote or distributed teams and projects.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer – 1 to join our engineering team. The role involves developing
and maintaining backend and/or full-stack product features using JavaScript / TypeScript and Node.js, building APIs
and integrations, working with databases and asynchronous workflows, debugging production issues, and contributing
to automated testing and engineering quality.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend and/or full-stack product features using JavaScript / TypeScript and
Node.js.
• Design and implement REST APIs and internal or external system integrations.
• Work with relational and/or NoSQL databases for data modelling, querying, validation, and persistence.
• Build user-facing interfaces using JavaScript / TypeScript frameworks where required.
• Implement automated unit, integration, and API tests and contribute to overall code quality.
• Work with asynchronous jobs, queues, webhooks, and third-party integrations where required.
• Investigate defects and production issues, identify root causes, and implement reliable fixes.
• Use logs, metrics, and debugging tools to identify and resolve application failures.
• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to clarify requirements, edge cases, and implementation
details.
• Use AI-assisted development tools effectively while understanding, reviewing, testing, and taking ownership of
generated code.
About the role
You'll take technical ownership of our Backend, Data & ML team and lead the backend development team. You'll design and scale our backend services, APIs and data systems, and bring data science and ML models into production. You'll also be the main technical link to the React Native and Next.js teams.
What you'll do
- Own backend architecture, API design, databases and data infrastructure.
- Design and build data pipelines and data models for analytics and ML.
- Lead the implementation, deployment and monitoring of ML models and data science algorithms in production.
- Work closely with the React Native and Next.js teams on API contracts, data flows and ML/DS integrations.
- Mentor the backend and data team, review code, and set engineering standards along with the TPM.
- Ensure system reliability, security, scalability and observability.
- Take part in the senior on-call rotation, including international paging.
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of backend development, with significant experience in data engineering.
- Strong expertise in Django, relational databases, and API design (REST/GraphQL).
- Hands-on experience building data pipelines.
- Some practical experience deploying ML models to production, including serving, versioning, monitoring and retraining (MLOps).
- Some understanding of common data science algorithms and ML techniques.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or Azure), containers and CI/CD.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
- Excellent communication skills. You should be able to explain backend and data decisions clearly to mobile and web teams.
Note: Full-stack experience is valuable but not mandatory. A strong backend and data specialist who works well with the frontend and mobile teams is a great fit.
Nice to have
- Python ML ecosystem experience (for example scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow or pandas).
- Experience with LLMs, recommendation systems or real-time data processing.
- Experience with unstructured data
- Familiarity with Next.js or React Native.
- Familiarity with US data protection requirements and compliance laws, such as FERPA or COPPA
Job Summary:
As a Software Development Engineer II in VoD Video Engineering team, you will design and build the core backend systems that power our Video-on-Demand platform — spanning content ingest, transcoding, adaptive bitrate packaging, and delivery at scale. You will own complex projects end-to-end, make meaningful architectural contributions, and play a hands-on role in raising the quality and reliability of our video processing infrastructure. This role is ideal for engineers who are passionate about distributed systems, media technology, and delivering exceptional streaming experiences to hundreds of millions of viewers.
About the Team:
VoD Video Engineering team is the backbone of our streaming platform — responsible for the entire lifecycle of on-demand video content, from ingest and transcoding through packaging, storage, and delivery. We own mission-critical systems that process thousands of hours of video daily, serving a global audience with reliability, low latency, and the highest quality of experience. Our team operates at the forefront of media technology, collaborating closely with CDN, playback, and content operations teams to continuously raise the bar on performance and scalability. If you're passionate about large-scale distributed systems and the technology behind modern video streaming, this is the team to be on.
Key responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for video ingest, transcoding job orchestration, ABR packaging, and content delivery workflows.
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex VoD backend features — from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and operational handoff.
- Write high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code; drive code review culture and champion engineering best practices within the team.
- Contribute to architectural decisions for the VoD platform, evaluating trade-offs across throughput, latency, cost, and reliability.
- Integrate VoD pipeline components with internal platform services including CMS, CDN origin, DRM/entitlement systems, and metadata APIs.
- Take ownership of production reliability: participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive preventive improvements.
- Optimize video processing workflows for cost efficiency, throughput, and time-to-publish — including transcoding profile tuning and pipeline parallelism.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, content operations, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions; help grow the overall capability of the team.
Skills and attributes for success:
- 3+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, with a strong track record building and operating distributed systems in production.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java with solid foundations in system design.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) — including compute, object storage (S3), managed queues (SQS/SNS), and serverless or containerized workloads.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems design: event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka), workflow orchestration, and idempotency patterns.
- Experience with storage systems, caching strategies (Redis, Memcached), and database query performance tuning.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Comfort with observability tooling — logging, metrics, and tracing — and a habit of building production-ready services from day one.
- Strong communication skills — able to clearly articulate technical approaches and trade-offs to peers, leads, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborative team player who takes pride in lifting up those around them through mentorship and knowledge sharing.
Preferred education and experience:
• Bachelors/Master’s in computer science or a related field with 3+ years of experience in backend development













