
Sr. Software Engineer (Back End) – Team Lead

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead the Software Team. Ensure consistent deliveries of planned features while ensuring code quality, testing standards, and processes are maintained.
• Work with the leadership team to cultivate and grow the Internal Software Team Culture at
• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at a large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
CANDIDATES MUST HAVE
• Experienced in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of Python
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
• 3-5 years of experience building large-scale software applications and working with large software teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of Python and Backend Development
• Experience building Web/Mobile applications
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Unit and Integration testing experience
• Being knowledgeable about engineering processes and good practices
• Passionate about learning new tools. Ability to continuously learn and acquire knowledge.
• Able to adapt to changing complexity of tasks.

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In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing enterprise-grade applications. As a member of the team, you will be expected to take ownership of individual platform components.
Key responsibilities include:
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Developing back-end web app applications.
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Creating servers and databases for functionality.
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Test and debug various applications
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Review and refactor code
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Designing and developing APIs.
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Strong understanding of relational databases
Basic Technical Qualifications
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2+ years experience in building out enterprise-grade applications
Must have strong hands-on development experience in the following:
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.net framework (c#)
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.net core
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Exposing and consuming JSON-based RESTful services
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MongoDB, SQL
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Oops Concepts
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Troubleshooting abilities
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Experience with unit testing
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Familiarity with Agile methodologies
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Experience in the end-to-end release of highly reliable applications including development
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and testing
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science/Software Engineering (or related fields).
Soft Skills
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Strong work ethic and dedication
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An aptitude and interest in both technology and business
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must.
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Highly motivated and interested in following up on detailed business or technical issues
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and understanding the functional and technical impact of any change
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Willingness to take initiative and work independently

Requirements
- 3+ years work experience with production-grade python. Contribution to open source repos is preferred
- Experience writing concurrent and distributed programs, AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, Spark is preferred.
- Experience with one relational & 1 non-relational DB is preferred
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- Help realize the product vision: Production-ready machine learning models with monitoring within moments, not months.
- Help companies deploy their machine learning models at scale across a wide range of use-cases and sectors.
- Build integrations with other platforms to make it easy for our customers to use our product without changing their workflow.
- Write maintainable, scalable performant python code
- Building gRPC, rest API servers
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We seek a talented and experienced professional to serve as the Head of Engineering and a Senior Backend Developer with expertise in Go (Golang). In this dual role, you will lead our engineering team and contribute hands-on to developing our B2B SaaS platform, which aims to revolutionize blue-collar worker training in India. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, set engineering standards, and ensure the successful execution of our technology initiatives.
As Head of Engineering:
- Oversee the recruitment, mentoring, and performance management of engineering team members.
- Define and maintain engineering best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies.
- Manage project timelines, resources, and budgets
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
- Drive technical decisions and architecture discussions to ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.
As Senior Backend Developer (Go):
- Design the architecture and implement high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services in Go.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while ensuring the security and integrity of the platform.
- Optimize and fine-tune the backend components for maximum speed and scalability.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with frontend and external systems.
- Implement asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture for handling concurrent requests efficiently.
- Work on data modelling and integration with databases for data storage and retrieval.
- Write unit tests and perform code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure robustness.
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· Must have experience in Java web-based application development
· Hands on development experience on Java/J2EE, Springboot, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, REST Services
· Experience on HTML, JavaScript, JQuery
· Hands on experience on database-writing queries/procedures
· Experience on SVN,GIT,
· Knowledge of Server configuration
· Knowledge of cloud preferably AWS


Stealth Fintech startup looking for Software Engineer with 2+ year of experience.
We are looking to hire few engineers for this position ASAP.
Well funded !
Permanent Remote Position !
Competitive Salary !
You will be a part of the founding engeering team. We are working cutting edge technology stack such as Cassandra, Terraform, Kubernetes, Redis, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Graphana, GoLang, AWS.
You will get the opportunity to work on a massive scale project, crawling 100+ Million pages per day, and very complex problems which will help you grow as an engineer.
Requirements:
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- Experience with programming languages like Java, C#, Go, Python, PHP
- Understanding of concepts like HTTP, Sessions / Cookies, IP rotation
- Expereince with AWS or Google Cloud
- Familiar with multithreading architecture


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:
- 4+ 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 (Relational and Non-Relational). Ex: Cassandra, MongoDB, Postgresql
- 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 Sklearn, NLTK, tensorflow, HuggingFace Transformers
- Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
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- We are looking to add a Software Engineer to contribute to the development, upgradation and management of our back end services for our website / PWA / app / chatbot / internal tools.
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What are we looking for in the candidate?
- Must have qualities: logical & independent thinker; problem solver; result oriented; takes ownership; ability to work indepenently with end-to-end output delivery; ability to structure the code (to avoid rework in future)
- Experience in writing production quality code in NodeJS, Python, Java, or Ruby on Rails
- Hands on experience in design web application using ExpressJS, Koa, Django
- Experience in designing and developing REST API. Familiarity with GraphQL is a plus.
- Proficient in dealing with SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL MongoDB, Elasticsearch.
- Experience with in-memory databases like Redis or MemCache; webserver like Apache, Nginx.
- Experience in stress testing and unit testing and familiarity with testing platforms is a plus
- Proven experience in implementing user authentication and authorization in distributed systems.
- Capability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Experience in designing and developing scalable system.
- Working experience with one of the cloud services like GCP, AWS , Digital Ocean, Azure, etc.
- Knowledge of low-code / no-code tools to expedite production is a plus
- Engineering degree; Computer Science preferably + minimum 2 years of work experience as a Back End Engineer (NOTE: Please do not apply if you do not meet this criteria)
- Clear communication, strong inter-personal skills
What can you expect to gain from the role?
- Experience of a lifetime by disrupting the antiquated tech of Real Estate
- Steep learning curve with opportunity to
- Opportunity to generate immense wealth for yourselves from the equity allocation
- A good cash salary
- Standard perks (health insurance, medical benefits etc.)
Hiring Process
- CV screening
- Coding Test
- Technical Interview

We are hiring for a Software Engineer Team Lead - Backend, to join our education-focused fintech lending startup, GrayQuest. Our core product is a combination of a lending product, a rewards product and an insurance product to redefine the education fees payment across the country.
You will be joining a young and vibrant team of developers who are pushing the boundaries of consumer financing through technology.
Key Responsibilities :
- Participate in all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Develop back-end components, services, and APIs. Support integration of user-facing elements, and collaborate closely with the design and front-end development team.
- Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of coding standards.
- Take complete ownership of projects and ensure timely deliveries
- Ability to debug, refine, review, and deploy code
- Work closely with the QA team to test, and document project features.
- Ability to interact with all stakeholders. Understand business requirements, and effectively convert them into technical specifications
- Mentor junior developers and participate in peer Review
Requirements:
- Demonstrable experience as a Python Developer (3+ years)
- Strong knowledge of Python frameworks (Django Rest, Flask)
- Experience working on REST APIs
- Strong knowledge of SQL and JavaScript
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Working knowledge of React
- Familiarity with Agile development methodology
- Good understanding of task breakup, milestone definition, and work delegation.
- Past experience of working in a fintech/financial services domain or a consumer internet startup will be preferable but not required
- Work experience in early-stage startups (0 ->1) is a big plus
- Bachelors or equivalent degree from premier institutes is a plus
- Most importantly, the biggest skill we look for our prospective candidates is "Learnability" - how quickly can you learn.
Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate:
- Work with a young dynamic core team backed by marquee investors from the financial services space
- Work on a product/business that has achieved product market fit and take it to scale
- Equity compensation and competitive market salaries
- Work environment that prioritizes talent, hustle and dedication
We will also ensure we give a preference to applicants who directly email us with their background/context and why they think they should be a strong candidate for this position at GrayQuest. Email us at work (at the rate) grayquest (dot) com and cc Sonal (at the rate)grayquest (dot) com
Main Duties
Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
Write well designed, testable, efficient code
Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
Prepare and produce releases of software components
Role & Relationships
We consider ourselves a team & you will be a valuable part of it. You could be reporting to a Senior member or directly to our Founder, CEO
Educational Qualifications
We don’t discriminate. As long as you have the required skill set & the right attitude
Experience
Upto seven years of experience, preferably working on Java.
Skills
Good
Strong understanding of Core Java , Servlet, JSP
Knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), NoSQL
Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON, Spring
Good team player
Even better
Familiarity with the software development lifecycle
Strong Full stack developer development background with frontend and backend web applications
Competencies
An aptitude to solve problems & learn something new
Highly self-motivated
Analytical frame of mind
Ability to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment
Location
Currently in Pune
Remuneration
Once we meet, we shall make an offer depending on how good a fit you are & the experience you already have
About us
Aikon Labs Pvt Ltd is a start-up focused on Realizing Ideas. One such idea is iEngage.io, our Intelligent Engagement Platform. We leverage Augmented Intelligence, a combination of machine-driven insights & human understanding, to serve a timely response to every interaction from the people you care about.

