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Role & Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.
Key Responsibilities-
- Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
- Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
- Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
- Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong staff engineer profile
- Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
- Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
- Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
- Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
- Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
- Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
- Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
- Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
- Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
- Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges
Java Backend Developer (6–9 Years)
Mandatory Skills:
- Strong Core Java (Java 8/11/17)
- Spring Boot
- Microservices Architecture
- RESTful API Development
- Collections, Multithreading, Java 8 Streams
- SQL (Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL)
- JPA/Hibernate
- Git, Maven, Jenkins
- Unit Testing (JUnit/Mockito)
Good to Have:
- Kafka/Event-Driven Architecture
- Docker/Kubernetes
- Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop scalable backend microservices.
- Build secure REST APIs for enterprise applications.
- Write clean, optimized, production-quality code.
- Debug production issues and perform code reviews.
- Work in Agile teams and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.
Experience: 6–9 Years
Location: Bangalore / Mumbai / Chennai (Hybrid)

Mandatory Criteria :
- Candidate must have Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments.
- Candidate should have Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI).
- Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
- Candidate should have strong Backend experience.
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Backend Engineer with 4–7 years of experience, who has worked extensively on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI). Experience with multiple cloud providers is a strong plus. As a Senior Development Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling backend services and infrastructure on cloud-native platforms.
# Experience with Kubernetes is mandatory.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, reliable backend services and cloud-native applications.
- Build and manage RESTful APIs, microservices, and asynchronous data processing systems.
- Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes with best practices in availability, monitoring, and cost-efficiency.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and product teams in an agile environment.
- Ensure high code quality through testing, reviews, and documentation.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments (mandatory).
- Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI].
- Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes-native deployment workflows.
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working across multiple cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring).
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases or event-driven/message-based architectures.
- Experience with serverless services, managed data pipelines, or data lake platforms.

Roles:
- Design, develop, implement, and maintain java application phases, code, and software.
- Conduct software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging, as well as recommending changes to improve the established processes.
- Transform requirements into stipulations and identify production and non-production application issues
- Competence and comfort using multiple frameworks (e.g. Spark, Storm, Hadoop, Angular 2/4/5, Spring Boot)
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify errors and make adjustments in a testing environment.
You have 3 to 14 yrs of software engineering & product delivery experience with strong
background in datastructures & algorithms
• You’ve proven software development credentials having successfully built complex
products
• You are experienced with one or more general programming languages (e.g. Java, C/C++,
Go). Ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• You’ve proven software development credentials having successfully built complex
products
• You have a strong foundation in the fundamentals of computer science, with familiarity in
data structures, algorithms and a strong command of object-oriented principles.
• You have experience in one or more of the following areas: Server Backend, Distributed
and Parallel Systems, Full Stack Development (frontend and backend), Scalable Enterprise
Platforms and Applications, Application Security and Incident Management, Android,
iOS, and Machine Learning.
• You have a spark that separates you from the crowd and ability to think out of the box and
on your feet
• You possess multi-dimensional skills that make you a valuable co-worker in a fast,
changing and ambiguous environment
• You have the ability to learn other coding languages as needed real quick
• You are comfortable in working with a team that deals with ambiguity every day
Areas of responsibilities:
Involvement in the full software development life cycle within broadly defined parameters and providing
software solutions keeping into consideration the software quality needs
Design and defining the interaction between the different component pieces
Write efficient code based on brief given by team lead.
Fast prototyping of proof-of concept features / application based on brief.
Develop and maintain new features on Java stack
Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application
Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
Work closely with the peers and Leads to develop the best technical design and approach for new product
development
Build software solutions for complex problems.
Compliance with build/release and configuration management process
Responsibility to develop unit test cases for his/her project module.
Execution of appropriate quality plans ,project plans ,test strategies and processes for development
activities in concern with business and project management effort
Desired Profile:
GoodunderstandingofObjectOrientedProgrammingConcepts,hands-onknowledgeonJavastack
(Spring/Hibernate)
Development across multiple browsers/platforms on Website
Good Understanding of SQL/NoSQL data stores
Fair Understanding of Responsive High Level Designs
Work experience in product/start-up company is a plus
Familiarity to MVC, SOA, RESTFull web services
Work with other teams and manage time across multiple projects and tasks in a deadline driven, team
environment
Good to have knowledge of Javascript (AngularJS/ReactJS)/HTML/CSS/JQuery front-end code across a
broad array of Interactive web
Understand agile methodology and instill best practices into the process.
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 five 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
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.
CommerceIQ is a well funded fast growing enterprise SaaS platform that is helping brands grow and sell more on e-commerce channels through its machine learning technology. Are you excited about building distributed crawling engine at global scale that will crawl and parse 1000’s of websites with 10+ million crawls on a daily basis? Would you enjoy building something as ambitious as “Google/Facebook Ad platform” for Amazon (and other e-commerce retailers)? Does building a CI/CD and containerisation framework that will allow our products to be released and deployed every week across dozens of geographies and data centers seamlessly excite you? Do you find building machine learning models that will optimize billions of dollars in ad and promotions spend exhilarating? Do you find it super exciting to build a plug and play product UI platform where leaders of brands will spend hours daily (almost as much as an email inbox) to optimize their business? We can keep writing, but you will get the idea.
In our journey of building and scaling CommerceIQ, Engineers and data scientists in our team tackle these and many more problems daily. If you are as excited as we are after reading this, we would love to talk to you! 30+ global brands including Kellogg, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, MARS, Nestle, Logitech and many more trust our product to manage their growth on Amazon. If you are excited about building product that will write the script for how brands sell and grow on e-commerce channels please reach out to us.
Are you ready to power intelligent commerce? @CommerceIQ, you will :
• You will be responsible for developing, testing and releasing features within time and with high quality that will drive revenue and margin impact to top brands.
• You will be designing your own features keeping in mind the scale and high availability of the systems. • You will be working with the team and expected to perform code reviews, conduct design discussions and mentor other developers.
•You will be the owner of your feature and work directly with product teams to drive customer impact.
• You will be expected to participate in all phases of the software development cycle as part of a Scrum team.
Experience : 3+ Years in developing in designing and developing complex and scalable software modules..
Skillset : • The ideal candidate will be an experienced Java developer with exceptional software system design, problem solving, and object-oriented coding skills
• Experience with distributed transaction-processing systems or asynchronous messaging technology is required.
• Good understanding of system performance trade-offs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability.
• Obsessed about building quality software and owning end to end responsibility for the developed features.
• Understanding of enterprise information systems, service oriented architectures, and operational data stores is a plus
• BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or similar degree from a top tier institution
Job Description :
We are currently building a next generation consumer tech product at the intersection of AI ML through Mobile and Commerce. The product requires building proprietary frameworks using latest technologies.
We have an urgent requirement of a Backend Developer/ Fresher/ Intern, who would become core member of our Product Team, is a great problem solver, can learn quickly, and communicate clearly.
Must Have Skill Set :
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Efficient software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development
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Individual contributor with strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Should be able to work under tight deadlines and stretch as and when required
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Self starter with the ability to research solutions independently and solve problems Strong, object oriented design and coding skills, c++/Java on a Linux platform Preferably with internship experience of Product based companies Working on products with strong Knowledge of SpringBoot and REST API frameworks Strong knowledge of Data structures and Algorithms
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Hands on expertise in Database/Datastores - MongoDB, MYSQL, Elastic Search, Redis and Kafka will be a big plus
Key Responsibility :
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Tasks will include complete responsibility for application design, code development, testing, deployment and maintenance
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Develop code as part of an agile team to deliver new features enhancements Design and develop REST APIs
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Follow approved life cycle methodologies, create design documents, and perform program coding and testing Develop plans outlining steps and time tables for developing programs and communicate plans and status to management
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Work independently or with minimal supervision and utilize knowledge, experience and judgment to accomplish well defined goals
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You should be at ease with maintaining cloud instances on AWS and other cloud services
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You have experience in identifying, debugging and resolving complex production issues End to End ownership of various applications and microservices
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Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services that serve millions of users
What You Get :
1. You work with a team of passionate folks who love design and technology 2. Immense learning and growth opportunities in small, multi functional, tightly
knit teams
3. Flexible work timings; 5 days a week
4. Accelerated learning
5. Huge Responsibility early in your career which will come handy in future
6. Ownership and independence
Qualifications :
B.Tech/ MCA in Computer Science or equivalent
About QuHu
QuHu is an audio first content platform where users can create, share & distribute their content and the discovery happens via a feed based on interest graph. We aim to build an audio ecosystem with a global presence consisting of audio-based social networks and audio communities.
At QuHu, we want to cultivate a vibrant and growing online UGC audio community and interactive audio entertainment platform where users are encouraged to create, share, discover and enjoy audio, and experience immersive and diversified entertainment features through audio. QuHu envisions a global audio ecosystem – a place where everyone can be connected through voices and across cultures.
The two pillars around which QuHu is built are:
Users - for whom we want to solve the problem of discovery basis interest (algorithmically driven feed) and provide an impressive experience through audio- bites (short content), live audio, audio rooms & audio games.
Creators - for whom we want to make creation & editing a seamless process through a suite of 'creator tools' like sound mixing, trim, pitch shifter, voicemojis, voice filters, noise reduction, etc & help them monetise







