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
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- 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;
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- 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;
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- 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;
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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.
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- Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
- Industry: SAAS
- Function – Information Technology
- Experience Required: 5-8 years
- Working Days: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Job Location: Bangalore
- CTC Range: Best in Industry
Preferred Skills: AWS, NodeJS, RESTful APIs, NoSQL
Criteria
· Minimum 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise
· Experience building scalable systems from scratch
· Expert-level proficiency in Node.js
· Deep understanding of distributed systems
· Strong NoSQL design skills
· Hands-on AWS cloud experience
· Proven leadership and mentoring capability
· Preferred candidates from SAAS/Software/IT Services based startups or scaleup companies
Job Description
The Role:
What You’ll Build:
1. System Architecture & Design
● Architect highly scalable backend systems from the ground up
● Define technology choices: frameworks, databases, queues, caching layers
● Evaluate microservices vs monoliths based on product stage
● Design REST, GraphQL, and real-time WebSocket APIs
● Build event-driven systems for asynchronous processing
● Architect multi-tenant systems with strict data isolation
● Maintain architectural documentation and technical specs
2. Core Backend Services
● Build high-performance APIs for 3D content, XR experiences, analytics, and user interactions
● Create 3D asset processing pipelines for uploads, conversions, and optimization
● Develop distributed job workers for CPU/GPU-intensive tasks
● Build authentication/authorization systems (RBAC)
● Implement billing, subscription, and usage metering
● Build secure webhook systems and third-party integration APIs
● Create real-time collaboration features via WebSockets/SSE
3. Data Architecture & Databases
● Design scalable schemas for 3D metadata, XR sessions, and analytics
● Model complex product catalogs with variants and hierarchies
● Implement Redis-based caching strategies
● Build search and indexing systems (Elasticsearch/Algolia)
● Architect ETL pipelines and data warehouses
● Implement sharding, partitioning, and replication strategies
● Design backup, restore, and disaster recovery workflows
4. Scalability & Performance
● Build systems designed for 10x–100x traffic growth
● Implement load balancing, autoscaling, and distributed processing
● Optimize API response times and database performance
● Implement global CDN delivery for heavy 3D assets
● Build rate limiting, throttling, and backpressure mechanisms
● Optimize storage and retrieval of large 3D files
● Profile and improve CPU, memory, and network performance
5. Infrastructure & DevOps
● Architect AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache)
● Build CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and rollbacks
● Use IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation) for infra provisioning
● Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
● Use Docker + Kubernetes for container orchestration
● Implement security best practices for data, networks, and secrets
● Define disaster recovery and business continuity plans
6. Integration & APIs
● Build integrations with Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento
● Design webhook systems for real-time events
● Build SDKs, client libraries, and developer tools
● Integrate payment gateways (Stripe, Razorpay)
● Implement SSO and OAuth for enterprise customers
● Define API versioning and lifecycle/deprecation strategies
7. Data Processing & Analytics
● Build analytics pipelines for engagement, conversions, and XR performance
● Process high-volume event streams at scale
● Build data warehouses for BI and reporting
● Develop real-time dashboards and insights systems
● Implement analytics export pipelines and platform integrations
● Enable A/B testing and experimentation frameworks
● Build personalization and recommendation systems
Technical Stack:
1. Backend Languages & Frameworks
● Primary: Node.js (Express, NestJS), Python (FastAPI, Django)
● Secondary: Go, Java/Kotlin (Spring)
● APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC
2. Databases & Storage
● SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL
● NoSQL: MongoDB, DynamoDB
● Caching: Redis, Memcached
● Search: Elasticsearch, Algolia
● Storage/CDN: AWS S3, CloudFront
● Queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS
3. Cloud & Infrastructure:
● Cloud: AWS (primary), GCP/Azure (nice to have)
● Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS
● Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation
● CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI
● Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
4. Monitoring & Operations
● Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch
● Logging: ELK Stack, CloudWatch Logs
● Error Tracking: Sentry, Rollbar
● APM tools
5. Security & Auth
● Auth: JWT, OAuth 2.0, SAML
● Secrets: AWS Secrets Manager, Vault
● Security: Encryption (at rest/in transit), TLS/SSL, IAM
What We’re Looking For:
1. Must-Haves
● 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise
● Experience building scalable systems from scratch
● Expert-level proficiency in at least one backend stack (Node, Python, Go, Java)
● Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices
● Strong SQL/NoSQL design skills with performance optimization
● Hands-on AWS cloud experience
● Ability to write high-quality production code daily
● Experience building and scaling RESTful APIs
● Strong understanding of caching, sharding, horizontal scaling
● Solid security and best-practice implementation experience
● Proven leadership and mentoring capability
2. Highly Desirable
● Experience with large file processing (3D, video, images)
● Background in SaaS, multi-tenancy, or e-commerce
● Experience with real-time systems (WebSockets, streams)
● Knowledge of ML/AI infrastructure
● Experience with HA systems, DR planning
● Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, event-driven systems
● DevOps/infrastructure engineering background
● Experience with XR/AR/VR backend systems
● Open-source contributions or technical writing
● Prior senior technical leadership experience
Technical Challenges You’ll Solve:
● Designing large-scale 3D asset processing pipelines
● Serving XR content globally with ultra-low latency
● Scaling from thousands to millions of daily requests
● Efficiently handling CPU/GPU-heavy workloads
● Architecting multi-tenancy with complete data isolation
● Managing billions of analytics events at scale
● Building future-proof APIs with backward compatibility
Why company:
● Architectural Ownership: Build foundational systems from scratch
● Deep Technical Work: Solve distributed systems and scaling challenges
● Hands-On Impact: Design and code mission-critical infrastructure
● Diverse Problems: APIs, infra, data, ML, XR, asset processing
● Massive Scale Opportunity: Build systems for exponential growth
● Modern Stack and best practices
● Product Impact: Your architecture directly powers millions of users
● Leadership Opportunity: Shape engineering culture and direction
● Learning Environment: Stay at the forefront of backend engineering
● Backed by AWS, Microsoft, Google
Location & Work Culture:
● Location: Bengaluru
● Schedule: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)
● Culture: Builder mindset, strong ownership, technical excellence
● Team: Small, highly skilled backend and infra team
● Resources: AWS credits, latest tooling, learning budget
Able to build API'S
Should have production knowledge
Have deployed solutions in production.
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
Python Developer
6-8 Years
Mumbai
N.p only immediate or who is serving LwD is 1st week of july.
- Python knowledge: object-oriented programming: inheritance, abstract classes, dataclass, dependency injection, design patterns: comand-query, repository, adapter, hexagonal architecture, swagger/Open API, flask, connexion
- Experience on AWS services: lambda, ecs, sqs, s3, dynamodb, auroradb
- Experience with following libraries boto3, behave, pytest, moto, localstack, docker
- Basic knowledge about terraform, gitlab ci
- Experience with SQL DB
About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.
Founder & Team
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.
Background
- At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
- Should Have experience leading a team.
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
- Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.
Opportunity
Here are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product.
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs.
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product.
We are hiring for Backend Developer for Pune Kharadi.
Experience: Min 2+ Years with Python/Django.
Must have Skills:
- Excellent knowledge of Python/Django code structure.
- Good understanding of Design patterns and OOPS concepts.
- Good understanding of ORM.
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL.
- Better to have code optimization techniques.
- Implementing integrated technology-based solutions and identifying integration opportunities for a similar package of services.
- Excellent knowledge of Linux, Nginx.
- Excellent knowledge of celery, RabbitMQ
- Excellent Knowledge of Git.
Additional skills:
- Knowledge in Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
- Good to have some knowledge of Angular and some frontend technologies like Html, CSS, Java script.
- Should take responsibility and ownership of delivery.
Education & Qualifications:
- Must have a Graduate/Master’s degree in any vertical or global equivalent from a reputed university.
- Certification in Python/data science would be added advantage.
Urgently looking for our client company as Senior Backend Developer in Mumbai
Apply with updated CV
Designation-Sr Backend Developer
Exp-Min 2 Years
Sal-Nego
Location-Mumbai
Technical Skills
• 2+ years of hand on experience in a related field
• Proficiency in Python with hands-on experience in developing APIs with Flask or Django
• Comfortable with Linux development environment
• Familiarity with frontend platforms such as HTML/CSS would be a plus
• Experience with: MySQL, Postgres, AWS Services (Redshift, EC2 & S3)
The Backend Developer will be working alongside other Software Developers, Project Managers,
QA, Software Architects and DevOps in order to shape and implement the technology and product
deliverables that will drive forward the strategy of our venture
Key responsibilities include:
Working with the Team in building world class recommendation
Brain-storming and experimenting with new ideas for efficiently improving the service
Writing effective, low-latency and high-availability, and scalable Python codes.
Working with System Layered Services like Virtualization, Network Management and core
OS Technologies
Working on Creating Pipe-lines and Services necessary for Critical Real Time Systems
Required Competencies:
3+ years of experience with a track record of delivering quality results
Strong Knowledge in OOPS, Data Structures, Algorithms, Networking Concepts, OS
Concepts
Experience in successfully building Microservices, Server Services etc at scale
Experience in working with Cloud Technologies and possibly bare-metal hardware
Have knowledge on Virtualization, Kafka Streaming, Networking Protocols, Web Crawling,
Caching, Routing Algorithms etc
About Us:
• Rainbox a media-tech start-up, focusing on content aggregation, Search/Discovery &
recommendation.
• Our core Product is Oneplay, which provides universal search & discovery of contents across
multiple OTTs, Personalised Recommendations, Live TV Content Tracking & EPG and lots more,
becoming a single destination for all entertainment a user need.
• Oneplay’s newest project is the ‘Netflix of Gaming’: In past 5 years we have seen how OTT has
changed the overall media/entertainment industry, likewise the next entertainment viewership is
changing from watching live cricket to watching live game streamers. so looking at the market
trend our company is about to start cloud gaming.
We are looking to hire a Full-time, Remote (India) Backend engineer with a flair for writing full stack code to help create a SAAS product from the ground up in a niche industry.
This will be the v2.0 of an existing legacy platform with paying customers. This position is within the first few hires in the founding team of the revamped company.
We are on a mission to build a truly world class product and deliver at high speeds with high quality.
Read on and apply for the job if you are a doer, likes no BS, think you're competent enough to get things done, wants some quiet time every day, wants to make a difference, values work life balance and enjoy life outside work.
Experience -
At least 3 to 4 years building scalable SAAS applications in the cloud. It would be great to showcase anything progressive. Education from premier institutions, git contributions, tech blogs, volunteering, pet projects, etc.
Responsibilities -
- Architect, write, deploy and own the (SAAS) product from a technical standpoint working closely with other devs on the team
- Create and deliver the product end-to-end all the way to the user
- Write highly performant code and continuously measure performance and make the application better based on benchmarks
- Debug production issues and keep the application quality high always
- Assist with hiring more people when the team grows
- Pick up any appropriate work as in any early-stage company
General Skills Needed -
- Should be able to build and deploy multi-tenant SAAS applications end to end
- Need to have a technology-agnostic mindset. Should be able to easily pick up any new technology based on the use case.
- Should be an expert software craftsman/craftswoman. Must own the code and be proud of what you build.
- Write well thought out, well-tested code with extensive unit tests and integration tests so that the addition of future features is easy.
- Must know cloud deployment concepts and be comfortable creating and maintaining cost-effective cloud deployment strategies. AWS experience highly preferred.
- Must be able to design and architect simple, market-tested yet highly scalable solutions
- Must be able to quickly iterate and produce working software at a high speed. Must not be shy to scrap and rebuild when there is a need
- Must be appreciative of documentation and write well-documented code and technical documentation alongside
Technical Skills Needed -
- Expert level knowledge in Python and Django. We are a Python/Django/Javascript/ReactJs/AWS shop.
- Must have good knowledge/experience in creating cost-efficient and scalable cloud deployments (AWS preferred)
- Must have good knowledge of industry-standard design patterns and tools
- Must have a good understanding of various frameworks on authentication and authorization, billing and metrics
- Some experience in data analytics and reporting - creating reports based on the data collected and deliver to the frontend
- Expertise with Frameworks
- Django, or similar backend frameworks
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, any NoSQL or other database technology
Job Perks
Perks -
- Opportunity to build a SAAS product from the ground up. Lots of challenges to tackle on
- Work remotely from anywhere within India
- Emphasis on work-life balance and professional development
- Flexible work hours and a lot of autonomy
- Work with a very informal team collaborating over slack. No meaningless meetings. Focus on getting things done and not hours put in
- Opportunity to grow the team with the company
- Market salary and a yearly bonus outside the salary based on company + individual performance
- Generous PTO plan






