About us
Skit (previously known as http://vernacular.ai/" target="_blank">Vernacular.ai) is an AI-first SaaS voice automation company. Its suite of speech and language solutions enable enterprises to automate their contact centre operations. With over 10 million hours of training data, its product - Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant (VIVA) can currently respond in 16+ languages, covering over 160+ dialects and replicating human-like conversations.
Skit currently serves a variety of enterprise clients across diverse sectors such as BFSI, F&B, Hospitality, Consumer Electronics and Travel & Tourism, including prominent clients like Axis Bank, Hathway, Porter and Barbeque Nation. It has been featured as one of the top-notch start-ups in the Cisco Launchpad’s Cohort 6 and is a part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community. It has also been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia start-ups 2021 for its remarkable industry innovation.
We have an opening for a Software Engineer(Solution) role which you might be interested in.
Responsibilities of your role:
- You will be coordinating our enterprise account-specific teams called squads, consisting of members from engineering, machine-learning, and conversation-design teams.
There are five working groups in the organization, (i) Business (ii) Research (iii) Solutions (iv) Product, and (v) Operations, where you will be joining the Solutions working group.
- You will be collaborating with the sales team to design an appropriate solution to the customer's problems and help them showcase the value in the product.
- You will be collaborating with the operations team to ensure we are not compromising on our quality standards.
- You will also be co-working with the product working group to help them improve the overall platform and to prioritize the high-impact initiatives in the roadmap.
Work you will be doing:
- You will be building bespoke voicebots for enterprise clients using internal tools.
- You're expected to help build the Solutions stack whose goal it is to reduce the amount of effort put into building our voicebots.
- You will be involved in analyzing client calls where you're expected to use either data pipelines or SQL to get insights into caller behavior.
Technical Requirements
Mandatory Requirements:
- Professional experience of at least 1 year.
- Has experience with integrating or building HTTP APIs
- Has hands-on experience of working with Python
- Good communicator
Optional Requirements:
- Has experience working in any of Django Rest Framework, Redis, Celery
Technical Stack
Skit uses a microservices architecture where we employ both HTTP and GRPC to communicate between our services.
We don't expect you to have worked on all of it. We're looking for Python programmers who are ready to pick up the rest of the tech stack on the job.
Languages:
- Python
- Golang
Frameworks:
- Python:
- Django Rest Framework
- Celery
- Golang:
- Gorm
- GorillaMux
Tools/Orchestration/VCS:
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Argo Workflows
- Gitlab
- Github
- What information we collect during our application and recruitment process and why we collect it;
- How we use that information; and
- How to access and update that information.
This policy covers the information you share with Skit (Cyllid Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) during the application or recruitment process including:
- Your name, address, email address, telephone number and other contact information;
- Your resume or CV, cover letter, previous and/or relevant work experience or other experience, education, transcripts, or other information you provide to us in support of an application and/or the application and recruitment process;
- Information from interviews and phone-screenings you may have, if any;
- Details of the type of employment you are or may be looking for, current and/or desired salary and other terms relating to compensation and benefits packages, willingness to relocate, or other job preferences;
- Details of how you heard about the position you are applying for;
- Reference information and/or information received from background checks (where applicable), including information provided by third parties;
- Information about your educational and professional background from publicly available sources, including online, that we believe is relevant to your application or a potential future application (e.g. your LinkedIn profile); and/or
- Information related to any assessment you may take as part of the interview screening process.
Your information will be used by Skit for the purposes of carrying out its application and recruitment process which includes:
- Assessing your skills, qualifications and interests against our career opportunities;
- Verifying your information and carrying out reference checks and/or conducting background checks (where applicable) if you are offered a job;
- Communications with you about the recruitment process and/or your application(s), including, in appropriate cases, informing you of other potential career opportunities at Skit;
- Creating and/or submitting reports as required under any local laws and/or regulations, where applicable;
- Making improvements to Skit's application and/or recruitment process including improving diversity in recruitment practices;
- Proactively conducting research about your educational and professional background and skills and contacting you if we think you would be suitable for a role with us.
We collect and process some or all of the following types of information from you:
- Information that you provide when you apply for a role. This includes information provided through an online job site, via email, in person at interviews and/or by any other method.
- In particular, We process personal details such as name, email address, address, telephone number, date of birth, qualifications, experience, information relating to your employment history, skills experience that you provide to Us, as well as your video in case you conduct your interview using the Video Interview feature.
- If you contact Us, We may keep a record of that correspondence.
- A record of your progress through any hiring process that we may conduct.

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Our founders are IIT + IIM graduates, with strong tech and marketing experience. We have top finance and management experts on the Board of Directors.
What do we do :
We build powerful analytics in the US and Indian stock market space that are best in class. Organic growth in B2B and B2C products has already made the company profitable. We deliver 1 billion+ APIs every month to B2B customers, and have a B2C website and app.
Tech Stack :
- Python (Django / Flask / FastAPI)
- PostgreSQL / MySQL
- Redis / caching systems
- REST APIs
Job Responsibilities :
- Develop and maintain scalable, robust backend systems using Python frameworks.
- Work closely with product managers and other cross-functional teams to help define, scope, and deliver world-class products and high-quality features addressing key user needs.
- Translate requirements into system architecture and implement code while considering performance issues of dealing with billions of rows of data and serving millions of API requests every hour.
- Ability to take full ownership of the software development lifecycle from requirement to release.
- Writing and maintaining clear technical documentation enabling other engineers to step in and deliver efficiently.
- Embrace design and code reviews to deliver quality code.
- Play a key role in taking Trendlyne to the next level as a world-class engineering team.
- Develop and iterate on best practices for the development team, ensuring adherence through code reviews.
- As part of the core team, you will be working on cutting-edge technologies like AI products, online backtesting, data visualization, and machine learning.
- Proficient understanding of the performance of web and mobile applications.
Job Requirements :
- 1+ years of experience with Python and Django / Flask / FastAPI.
- Good knowledge of APIs, databases, and system performance.
- Strong understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL and Redis.
- Ownership mindset: you build it, ship it, and take responsibility for it in production.
- Strong communication skills: ability to articulate technical decisions clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bonus: Familiarity with JavaScript, HTML, or CSS is a plus but not required.
Job Title: Python Developer (Full-time)
Location: Gurgaon, Onsite
Working Days: 5 days
Experience Required: 5+ Years
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer with strong expertise in Python-based web frameworks such as Django, Flask, or Starlette. The ideal candidate should have experience in designing and building scalable APIs and services in a high-performance environment. This is a great opportunity to work on backend systems powering critical products at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Python
- Build and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices
- Architect and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions
- Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and QA teams to ensure smooth delivery
- Write clean, testable, and efficient code
- Troubleshoot and debug production systems
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in backend development using Python
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Django, Flask, or Starlette/FastAPI
- Proven experience in API development and integration
- Experience building scalable and high-performance systems
- Familiarity with async programming (especially for Starlette/FastAPI)
- Good understanding of database design (SQL/NoSQL)
- Knowledge of containerization tools like Docker is a plus
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
Hiring For SDE II - Python (Remote)
The Impact you will create:
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Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute
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Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients
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Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds
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Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data
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Use cloud based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability
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Work on complex analytics on terabytes of data like building Cohorts, Funnels, User path analysis, Recency Frequency & Monetary analysis at blazing speed
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You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
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As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
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You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
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Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.
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Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.
Primary Responsibilities
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End-to-end ownership of product development, from design, through implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
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Translating high-level requirements and end-user use cases into design proposals, decomposing complex features into smaller, short-term deliverable tasks
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Maintaining constant focus on scalability, performance and robustness of architecture
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Designing and implementing logging, monitoring and alerting systems for existing and new infrastructure
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Documenting API's and architecture design
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Mentor and guide juniors on their path to become solid developers
What we look for?
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4+ of industry experience in technical leadership roles
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Solid knowledge of Python, SQL, NoSQL, shell scripting and Linux operating environment
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End-to-end experience in design and development of highly scalable enterprise and cloud data products
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Ability to challenge and redefine existing architecture to create robust, scalable and reliable products
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Hands-on experience with design and troubleshooting of scalable web services, queue based systems, distributed databases and streaming services
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Experience with modern DevOps technologies such as kOps, Kubernetes and Docker, CI/CD, monitoring and autoscaling
Skills Required:
- Good experience with programming language Python
- Strong experience in Docker.
- Good knowledge with any of the Cloud Platform like Azure.
- Must be comfortable working in a Linux environment.
- Must have exposure into IOT domain and its protocols ((Zigbee & BLE ,LoRa,Modbus)
- Must be a good team player.
- Strong Communication Skills
Senior Python Developer (6 + Years Experience)
Core Skills:
- Strong Python experience and understanding of modern design patterns, abstractions, object oriented programming at scale.
- Strong understanding of event based/async architectures (Kafka, WebSockets)
- Database interactions
- Working understanding of infrastructure as code (terraform ) and how develop code that will be deployed by IAC.
- Working understanding of Kubernetes including containerization, deploying, debugging services running on k8s.
Preferred:
- Working GCP experience including GKE, GCE, Cloud functions/cloud run, IAM.
- Git required
- CICD and automation experience; stack includes Jenkins, Terraform, Argo, Harness.
Enterprise Minds, with core focus on engineering products, automation and intelligence, partners customers on the trajectory towards increasing outcomes, relevance, and growth.
Harnessing the power of Data and the forces that define AI, Machine Learning and Data Science, we believe in institutionalizing go-to-market models and not just explore possibilities.
We believe in a customer-centric ethic without and people-centric paradigm within. With a strong sense of community, ownership, and collaboration our people work in a spirit of co-creation, co-innovation, and co-development to engineer next-generation software products with the help of accelerators.
Through Communities we connect and attract talent that shares skills and expertise. Through Innovation Labs and global design studios we deliver creative solutions.
We create vertical isolated pods which has narrow but deep focus. We also create horizontal pods to collaborate and deliver sustainable outcomes.
We follow Agile methodologies to fail fast and deliver scalable and modular solutions. We are constantly self-asses and realign to work with each customer in the most impactful manner.
Pre-requisites for the Role
- Job ID-EMPY0120MS
- Primary skill: Python Developer, Django, Problem solving.
- Secondary skill: Rest, API
- Years of Experience: 4-7 Years
- Location: Remote
Budget- Open
NP- Immediate
PYTHON DEVELOPER
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code
- Design and implement software platform with Microservices Architecture, based on AWS Lambda and Event sourced data
- Integration of data storage solutions {may include databases, key-value stores, notification queues, etc.}
- Integration with various backend monitoring tools
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
- Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization
- Participate in early product demonstrations to customersExperience required:
- Bachelor's or Masters in Computer Science or a related discipline
- 2-6 years of relevant professional experience
- Delivery of quality results within aggressive timelines
- Knowledge of software development processesSkills Required:
- Experience with Python, along with other common libraries/framework such as Flask, Celery, Django etc.,
- Good understanding with usage of Lambda in Python.
- Good understanding in testing frameworks like PyTest.
- Ability to work with IDEs like Visual Studio Code.
- Basic understanding in developing private PIP packages.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
- Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful.
- A knack for writing clean, readable Python code.
- Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Ability to understand monitoring metrics, such as CPU, Memory, Disk Space, Network latency, and telemetry services.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Understanding the fundamentals of RDBMS databases.
- Ability to work with PostgreSQL is a plus.
- Ability to work with AWS services like Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, SNS etc., is a plus.
- Proficient understanding of Git.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Python developer with Django experience
- 6-8 yrs of total experience
- Strong communication is a MUST
Your responsibilities as a backend engineer will include:
- Back-end software development
- Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
- Working together with engineers and product teams
- Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
- Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
- Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team
What we are looking for:
- 2+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
- Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle.
- Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
- Experience with Databases.
- Experience with writing REST-APIs.
- Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
- Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
- Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
- A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
Bonus:
- Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Requests, sklearn, Selenium
- Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
- Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
- Good Humor
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Leadership Skill
- Technically hands on.
- Have previous experience of leading teams.
- Have experience with agile process, and ability to guide the team to follow the process.
- Comfortable in chaotic & high-energy, high-stakes start-up environment.
- Hates wasting time in unproductive meetings, and prefers getting quick consensus to move ship forward.
- Prefers delivering in production than spending time in meeting.
- Able to technically mentor team and guide them to high performance.
Technical Skills
- Loves solving technically hard problems.
- Have previous experience with Python(Django), MySQL.
- Have previous experience with one or more of AWS, RDS, SQS, EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache.
- NoSQL experience is good to have.
- Loves clean and structured code, and thrives to maintain it.
- Fast at coding, fast in learning and technically solid.
- Have previous experience in building, running and managing scalable and highly availability web services.
Look forward to
- Working with a world-class team.
- Fun & work at the same place with an amazing work culture and flexible timings.
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