Tech Lead

Criteria

Mandatory

Strong Senior / Staff DevOps Engineer Profile

Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles with hands-on experience (clear scale signals like traffic, uptime, latency, infra size should be mentioned)

Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have worked in Staff / Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role OR demonstrated ownership of infra/platform across teams (not just execution role)

Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have B2B SaaS company experience with multi-tenant architecture OR multiple production stacks (multi-env / multi-client systems)

Mandatory (Tech Skills 1 - Cloud & Infra): AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS, networking), Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, Designing high availability, multi-region systems

Mandatory (Tech Skills 2 - Automation & IaC): Terraform (must-have), Helm / GitOps, Strong scripting (Python / Go / Bash)

Mandatory (Tech Skills 3 - CI/CD & Release): Scalable CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins), Zero/low downtime deployments

Mandatory (Tech Skills 4 - Reliability & Observability): SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), Alerting, on-call, incident management

Mandatory (Education): BTech in Computer Science or related fields

Mandatory (Company): Strong B2B SaaS product companies only

Who is an ideal fit for us?

We seek professionals who are analytical, demonstrate self-motivation, exhibit a proactive mindset, and possess a strong sense of responsibility and ownership in their work.

What will you get to work on?

As a member of the Implementation & Analytics team, you will:

● Design, develop, and optimize complex SQL queries to extract, transform, and analyze data

● Create advanced reports and dashboards using SQL, stored procedures, and other reporting tools

● Develop and maintain database structures, stored procedures, functions, and triggers

● Optimize database performance by tuning SQL queries, and indexing to handle large datasets efficiently

● Collaborate with business stakeholders and analysts to understand analytics requirements

● Automate data extraction, transformation, and reporting processes to improve efficiency

What do we expect from you?

For the SQL/Oracle Developer role, we are seeking candidates with the following skills and Expertise:

● Proficiency in SQL (Window functions, stored procedures) and MS Excel (advanced Excel skills)

● More than 3 plus years of relevant experience

● Java / Python experience is a plus but not mandatory

● Strong communication skills to interact with customers to understand their requirements

● Capable of working independently with minimal guidance, showcasing self-reliance and initiative

● Previous experience in automation projects is preferred

● Work From Office: Bangalore/Navi Mumbai/Pune/Client locations

Who are we

Davis Index is a leading market intelligence platform and publication that specializes in providing accurate and up-to-date price benchmarks for ferrous and non-ferrous scrap, as well as primary metals. Our dedicated team of reporters, analysts, and data specialists publishes and processes over 1,400 proprietary price indexes, metals futures prices, and other reference data. In addition, we offer market intelligence, news, and analysis through an industry-leading technology platform. With a global presence across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa, our team of over 50 professionals works tirelessly to deliver essential market insights to our valued clients.

What you will do

We are currently seeking experienced and talented reporters for our ferrous scrap, non-ferrous scrap, and steel markets to join our growing editorial team. The ideal candidates should have a minimum of 2-3 years of professional experience in a direct or transferable area of expertise. As a Reporter/Editor, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining our commitment to delivering accurate and comprehensive market intelligence to our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Writing and Reporting: Generate insightful and engaging content by reporting on the ferrous and non-ferrous markets, providing in-depth analysis, market reports, and commentary as assigned.
• Price Sourcing and Indexing: Contribute to the creation of proprietary price indexes, ensuring accurate and up-to-date pricing information. Write weekly or daily commentaries on pricing trends.
• Research and Analysis: Conduct in-depth research into market trends and dynamics, delivering market reports that provide valuable insights to our readers.
• Adherence to Best Practices: Follow the Davis Index style guide and adhere to industry best practices in reporting and price sourcing.
• Industry Involvement: Attend industry conferences and events, enhancing your understanding of market dynamics for more informed reporting. 

Qualifications:

Must-Haves:

• A Bachelor's degree or higher.
• Fluent understanding of market economics and proficiency in business reporting style.
• A minimum of 2-3 years of experience as a reporter or writer in a print or online publication, or a demonstrated ability to transfer professional knowledge and experience.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic, and deadline-oriented work environment.
• Proficiency in English and, ideally, additional languages relevant to the regions we serve.
• A deep curiosity about the metals markets.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams.
• Initiative, commitment to excellence, and a desire to grow professionally.

Good to Have: 

• Knowledge of the metals market.
• Experience writing financial and business reports.

What You Get:

• This position offers a great opportunity for independent, achievement-minded individuals looking to join a leading industry company. Davis Index provides competitive compensation, paid vacation days, and significant growth opportunities.

Role Summary

We’re seeking a highly skilled and self-motivated Senior Software Engineer who thrives in a startup environment. You will lead end-to-end development of key features, own architectural decisions, and ensure the smooth delivery of our product.

Mandatory Skill Sets/Expertise

• 5-6 years of experience in full-stack development, with a strong focus on the MERN / PERN stack (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) and AWS.

• Expertise in AWS cloud architecture and experience with serverless solutions (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway).

• Proficiency in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Github actions, or similar tools.

• Proven experience leading and guiding a development team, with strong mentoring skills.

• Ability to work independently and manage deliverables without oversight, while thriving in a startup mentality.

• Strong problem-solving abilities with a proactive approach to addressing technical challenges.

• Experience with databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other NoSQL solutions along with ORM tools like Sequalize & Mongoose ORM

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of Typescript for both frontend and backend development. • Experience with Docker and containerized applications.

• Familiarity with GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) tools or SaaS products.

• Experience with other AWS services like ECS, CloudFormation, or RDS.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of developers, driving best practices in coding and architecture.

• Take full ownership of modules, from design through deployment, and launch web apps singlehandedly if needed.

• Design, develop, and maintain web applications using the PERN / MERN stack (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) with a focus on scalability, security, and performance.

• Prepare high-level technical designs and architectural decisions, especially on AWS serverless architecture and microservices.

• Implement secure, reliable, and scalable solutions using AWS services • Design and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous integration and automated deployments.

• Optimize application performance through techniques like lazy loading, code splitting, and caching.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Management, to define features and user experience improvements.

• Ensure high code quality by adhering to SOLID principles, implementing comprehensive testing, and embedding observability into the application.

• Monitor and respond to application performance incidents, focusing on improving uptime and resilience.

• Proactively offer suggestions during retrospectives and work on enhancing team productivity metrics such as Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, and Mean-Time-to-Recovery

We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Java developer roles and responsibilities include managing Java application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.

Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.

Experience : 2+ years

Location : Mumbai (WFO only) Initial few months work from home

Notice Period : 0 to 30 days ( Immediate joiners are preferred)

Roles & Responsibilities :

(This role encompassing both API engineering using Java stack and web development

Experience in designing, developing, testing and successfully deploying critical and complex projects.)

• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

· Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Required Skill set :

· Java background with a minimum of 3+ years experience in Java technologies.

· Experience in designing and developing application backend using frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Jersey, JPA, Hibernate, SQL, Linux, JSON, XML, OAuth etc.

· Well & good if has Experience with frontend technologies

· Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database systems and writing SQL queries

· Strong experience building, designing, and consuming Restful web services.

· Exposure of Cloud Infrastructure - AWS and Alibaba Cloud

· Excellent understanding of ORM and Database concepts

· Experience with developing unit test code using JUNIT, Power Mock/EasyMock/Mockito etc.

· Experience with Git, Maven and CI/CD pipelines to deploy on Cloud applications

· Experience & knowledge on Micro services Architecture and API development using Java, spring, Spring Boot

· Experienced in roles conducting requirements gathering, writing user stories, creating application design and using design patterns

· Good knowledge on credentials/secrets management and data encryption techniques

· Good knowledge on coding standards, design patterns, unit testing.

· Good hands-on BitBucket/Github is preferred.

• Strong first principles
• Hustle! We're young, lean, and in our early days. You'd have to set up your own shop, work with design customers to find generalizable use cases, and build them out.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and ship new features
• At least 2-6 years of experience with primary exp in Python
• Must have skills - Flask / Django, RESTful Web Services, Database SQL / NoSQL
• The preferred Location is Bangalore but is also flexible with PAN India.
• Would require candidates from Tier 1 & 2 Companies or Tier 1 & 2 Colleges preferably.
• Proficient experience of back-end programming language - Python
• The preferred Location is Bangalore but is also flexible with PAN India.
• Would require candidates from Tier 1 & 2 Companies or Tier 1 & 2 Colleges preferably.

Requirements:

• Overall experience in the field of Information risk and security related initiatives/ projects.
• Experience in the areas of Infrastructure Security Audit, IT Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Assessment, Web Application Security, Network Security Review, Network Architecture Review, Mobile Application Security Testing, Configuration Review, Source Code Review, Wireless Pentest, Process Review etc.
• Ability to understand business concepts and integrate business risk elements into security operations.
• Experience in conducting VAPT.
• Experience with web application vulnerability scanning tools (e.g., IBM AppScan, HP Web inspect, Acunetix, NTO Spider, BurpSuite Pro).
• Strong ethics and understanding of ethics in business and information security.
• Should have exposure to Code review, Network VA/PT and App VA/PT work.
• Understanding and familiarity with common code review methods and standards.
• Experience with code scanning toolsets such as Fortify and Ounce.
• Understanding of HTTP and web programming.
• Knowledge of OWASP tools and methodologies, common security requirements within ASP.NET application, standard SDLC practices.
• Knowledge of Network Security technology in areas of Firewall, IPS, VPN, Gateway security solutions (proxy, web filtering).
• In-depth understanding on Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE)/ Cert advisory database.