Staff / Principal Engineer - BackEnd (Java)

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong background in building distributed, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years in microservices or distributed architecture, and deep expertise in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, and async I/O patterns.

The candidate will own backend services end-to-end — from architecture and design to implementation, optimization, and production support — while working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical systems.

Key Responsibilities

1. Backend Architecture & Development

• Architect, design, and implement backend services using Python (preferably FastAPI) with clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Develop microservice components, service communication layers, and distributed workflows.
• Build APIs and backend modules optimized for performance, fault tolerance, and low latency.

2. Distributed Systems & Scalability

• Design and maintain distributed systems capable of handling high throughput and large-scale operations.
• Implement inter-service communication patterns (REST, event-driven, message queues, pub/sub).
• Ensure system resiliency through redundancy, graceful degradation, and autoscaling strategies.

3. Asynchronous & Event-Driven Architecture

• Build async workflows, background tasks, and pipeline services leveraging asyncio or async frameworks.
• Develop event-driven components including producers, consumers, and event processors.
• Optimize I/O-heavy operations to maximize concurrency and throughput.

4. Data Storage, Pipelines & Caching

• Design relational schemas, write optimized SQL queries, and work with PostgreSQL performance tuning (indexes, partitions, query planning).
• Implement caching strategies, rate limiting, distributed locks, and session storage using Redis.
• Build data validation pipelines and compliance-driven data flows ensuring data correctness and auditability.

5. Security, Reliability & Observability

• Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure API practices.
• Build monitoring, alerting, metrics, and tracing systems using modern observability tools.
• Diagnose production issues, identify bottlenecks, and drive long-term fixes and improvements.

6. Code Quality & Technical Leadership

• Conduct detailed code reviews and ensure engineering best practices across the team.
• Participate in technical roadmap planning, architectural discussions, and system design decisions.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; drive a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years building microservices or distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in Python and frameworks like FastAPI (or Flask/Django with async exposure).
• Deep understanding of async I/O, concurrency models, and asynchronous programming in Python.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL (schema design, advanced queries, optimization).
• Hands-on experience with Redis for caching, queues, session management, and distributed patterns.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, message processing, or streaming systems.
• Solid understanding of system design, scalability principles, and API lifecycle management.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and cloud environments.

• Strong proficiency in Java programming language.
• Experience with Java frameworks like Spring and Spring Boot.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
• Experience with databases and data storage technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL).
• Knowledge of software development best practices, including testing and code quality.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 

Profile- Java Developer

Experience– 4 to 7 Years

Skills Required - Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Microservices, Design Patter, JUnit, Mockito

Roles & Responsibilities -

• Experience in Java, J2EE, and Java 8 Features
• Experience in Java frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate.
• Experience in Microservices Architecture.
• Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.
• Sound knowledge of Oops programming
• Basic knowledge of any cloud and CI/CD Tools

Our Mission

To make video as accessible to machines as text and voice are today.

At lookup, we believe the world's most valuable asset is trapped. Video is everywhere, but it's unsearchable—a black box of insight that no one can open or atleast open affordably. We’re changing that. We're building the search engine for the visual world, so anyone can find or do anything with video just by asking.

Text is queryable. Voice is transcribed. Video, the largest and richest data source of all, is still a black box. A computer can't understand it, and so its value remains trapped.

Our mission at lookup is to fix this.

About the Role

We are looking for founding Backend Engineers to build a highly performant, reliable, and scalable API platform that makes enterprise video knowledge readily available for video search, summarization, and natural‑language Q&A. You will partner closely with our ML team working on vision‑language models to productionize research and deliver fast, trustworthy APIs for customers.

Examples of technical challenges you will work on include: distributed video storage, a unified application framework and data model for indexing large video libraries, low‑latency clip retrieval, vector search at scale, and end‑to‑end build, test, deploy, and observability in cloud environments.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build robust backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC) for vector search, video summarization, and video Q&A.
• Own API performance and reliability, including low‑latency retrieval, pagination, rate limiting, and backwards‑compatible versioning.
• Design schemas and tune queries in Postgres, and integrate with unstructured storage.
• Implement observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Set error budgets and SLOs.
• Write clear design docs and ship high‑quality, well‑tested code.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate and productionize VLMs and retrieval pipelines.
• Take ownership of architecture from inception to production launch.

Who You Are:

• 3+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• Proven experience building and scaling polished WebSocket, gRPC, and REST APIs.
• Exposure to distributed systems and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Hands‑on experience with AWS.
• Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., Cassandra), including schema design, query optimization, and scaling.
• Familiarity with our stack is a plus, but not mandatory: Python (FastAPI), Celery, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Weaviate, React.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective fixes.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced startup environment.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on work with LLM agents, vector embeddings, or RAG applications.
• Building video streaming pipelines and storage systems at scale (FFmpeg, RTSP, WebRTC).
• Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS) and responsive UI design.

Location & Culture

• Full-time, in-office role in Bangalore (we’re building fast and hands-on).
• Must be comfortable with a high-paced environment and collaboration across PST time zones for our US customers and investors.
• Expect startup speed — daily founder syncs, rapid design-to-prototype cycles, and a culture of deep ownership.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Work on the frontier of video understanding and real-world AI — products that can redefine trust and automation.
• Build core APIs that make video queryable and power real customer use.
• Own systems end to end: performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Work closely with founders and collaborate in person in Bangalore.
• Competitive salary with meaningful early equity.

About the role:

We are seeking a highly motivated Principal Engineer with expertise in building scalable, extensible customer payment solutions, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, collaborating with other team members across teams to innovate current/new products; Identify, communicate and implement best practices for the engineering team. Our engineering process is fully agile and has a really fast release cycle - which keeps our environment very energetic and fun.

What you will do:

• Architect, design and lead the development of key software infrastructure, systems, tools and processes, ensuring high scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with the product and other stakeholders across the company to solidify/ negotiate requirements and feasibility.
• Identify, influence and participate in making technical decisions that have a positive impact on engineering and business as a whole.
• Problem-solving that involves complex interactions, constraints imposed by systems, processes, people and physical goods.
• Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, collaborate with other team members across functions to innovate/improve current/new products by suggesting improvements to the software system.
• Identify, communicate and implement best practices for the engineering team.
• You will advocate for good, clean, well documented and performing code; follow standards and best practices.
• As a Principal Engineer, you will be additionally responsible for planning and timelines of all projects in your domain

We would love for you to have:

• Education: Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science
• Experience: 7-10 yrs recent hands-on experience of working on scalable systems and a diverse set of products/systems.
• Experience with Java stack. Hands-on experience with development and troubleshooting of services.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and Hadoop stack.
• Experience in System Design of complex Supply-Chain e-commerce systems, Algorithm design and their optimization is a huge plus.
• Strong working knowledge of any REST-based framework, OOPS, Design Patterns
• Expert level experience in building fault-tolerant and scalable platforms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written (technical) communication and able to work across teams like Business, Product, Engineering, Analytics, App Engineering seamlessly.
• Ability to deliver great results in an agile development
• Exposure to open-source libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, design, develop, review, debug, document, and deliver (especially in a multi-location organization).
• Ability and experience in the evaluation and integration of third-party systems and libraries and independent completion of POC. Prior experience in integrating with 3rd party Payment solution (like Stripe) is a plus.
• Passion for performance benchmarking and debugging

Role & Responsibilities :

- Individuals are responsible for all traditional development activities analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation.

- Add new features to existing Windows and Web-based applications in Visual Studio 2019. Interacting with internal team.

- Transform business and design needs into innovative products.

- Drive all projects to completion within deadlines.

- Perform thorough testing to find issues ahead of time.

- Engineering software needs more precise analysis & coding skillset.

- Enhance skillset by working with fortune 500 clients.

- Interacting with internal team.

Qualifications :

- B.E in computer science or related fields.

- Excellent programming & communication skills Strong problem solving, judgmental, and decision-making skills.

- Ability to work at the tactical and strategic levels of IT initiatives.

- Impressive hands-on experience in Java, database(Oracle), OOPS, Java Swing, Javafx

- Self-Motivated, flexible & Innovative.

Radisys Corporation, a global leader in open telecom solutions, enables service providers to drive disruption with new open architecture business models. Our innovative technology solutions leverage open reference architectures and standards, combined with open software and hardware, to power business transformation for the telecom industry. Our services organization delivers systems integration expertise necessary to solve complex deployment challenges for communications and content providers.

Job Overview :

We are looking for a Lead Engineer - Java with a strong background in Java development and hands-on experience with J2EE, Springboot, Kubernetes, Microservices, NoSQL, and SQL. As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing high-quality software solutions and ensuring the successful delivery of projects. role with 7 to 10 years of experience, based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. This position is a full-time role with excellent growth opportunities.

Qualifications and Skills :

- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

- Strong knowledge of Core Java, J2EE, and Springboot frameworks

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and microservices architecture

- Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases

- Proficient in troubleshooting and debugging complex system issues

- Experience in Enterprise Applications

- Excellent communication and leadership skills

- Ability to work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Work closely with product management and cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliverables

- Design scalable and high-performance applications using Java, J2EE, and Springboot

- Develop and maintain microservices using Kubernetes and containerization

- Design and implement data models using NoSQL and SQL databases

- Ensure the quality and performance of software through code reviews and testing

- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and resolve technical issues

- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy services to improve the availability, ease of use/management, and visibility of 6sense systems
• Architecting, building, and scaling out our services and infrastructure
• Learning and adopting technologies that may aide in solving our challenges
• Own our systems like our Hadoop and Presto clusters, front/back-end services, build configurations, infrastructure components, deployment of services into our infrastructure, and everything in between
• Write/review/debug production code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug live production problems
• Contributing back to open-source projects if we need to add or patch functionality
• Support the overall Software Engineering team to resolve any issues they encounter

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years in a Software Engineering role or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of experience with Linux/Unix system administration and networking fundamentals
• Strong skills in reading code as well as writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code
• Good knowledge of Python and Java
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable services and/or service-oriented architecture
• Experience with high-availability

Bonus Requirements:

• Experience with modern configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and idempotency
• Exposure to modern build systems such as Bazel, Buck, or Pants
• Knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem (e.g. Hadoop, Hive, Presto) including deployment, scaling,
• and maintenance
• Knowledge of standard security practices
• 1+ years of experience working with Kubernetes, Docker
• Good knowledge of Javascript