Technical Architect

About the company

The client is a US-based cybersecurity startup prevents, detects, and responds to software supply chain attacks by analyzing behavior across the full software development lifecycle for both developers and AI coding agents. They are building a vertical AI agent for supply chain security across three pillars: securing AI agents on developer machines, OSS package security, and CI/CD security, covering the entire agentic pipeline from dev environment to cloud.

About the Job

We are seeking backend engineers to build and maintain the CI/CD security platform's backend systems and components (GitHub Actions). This high-impact role involves setting best practices and owning engineering processes, with contributions used by thousands of developers globally. Our primary languages are Golang and Node.js.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience, strong engineering fundamentals (cyber security background not mandatory), AI-native mindset, comfortable with a hands-on zero-to-one environment. We use Golang as our primary language.
• Must-haves: Golang backend programming; AWS/Azure/GCP background; scalable/fault-tolerant system design.
• For all engineering positions, prior early-stage startup experience is a must-have requirement.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.Expertise in building scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
• Strong collaborative and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated, creative thinker with a drive for continuous improvement.
• Experience in a startup or high-impact, outcome-driven environment.

Location

India remote. Candidates should be able to overlap a few hours with Pacific Time (PT) when working on urgent customer issues as required.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable software solutions.
• Architect and implement CI/CD components (GitHub Actions).
• Deliver features incrementally in quick iterations.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following industry best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex software issues promptly.

Why Join Us

• The company is at the forefront of supply chain security research and product development. They were the first to detect several major supply chain attacks in 2025 and 2026 such as the axios npm compromise, tj-actions, etc
• Their research and findings are regularly cited by major publications such as Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Hacker News, and Dark Reading. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the primary cybersecurity agency for the US federal government, has published several cybersecurity advisories citing our work
• In addition to having several enterprise customers, we have been adopted by more than 15,000 open-source projects, including projects from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Datadog, and others.
• Engineers joining now get to work on hard, high-impact problems at the intersection of security, AI, and open source, with meaningful equity upside at an early stage.

This Is NOT a Typical Java Role If your experience is mostly CRUD APIs, controller wiring, or shallow service layers — this role is not for you. We are looking for a top tier backend engineer who thrives on: 

* Designing complex algorithms 

* Building high-performance, memory-efficient systems 

* Owning deep backend logic that actually moves the needle 

You will work close to the core engine of the product, not the edges.

What You’ll Be Trusted With 

* Architect and build backend systems that must perform under load 

* Design and implement custom algorithms for real-world, non-trivial problems 

* Solve performance bottlenecks involving CPU, memory, I/O, and concurrency 

* Build backend services where latency, throughput, and correctness matter 

* Own document & PDF processing pipelines end-to-end:     

-Composition     

-Rendering     

-Optimization     

- High-volume generation 

* Make hard technical decisions and stand by them

Non-Negotiable Skills 

* Exceptional Java expertise (Core Java, Spring Boot, Java 8+) 

* Strong command over:     

• Data structures & algorithms 
• Multithreading & concurrency models     
• JVM internals & memory management 

* Proven experience building custom algorithms (this will be evaluated) 

* Deep backend engineering experience with Spring / Spring Boot 

* Strong understanding of:     

• API design principles     
• Fault tolerance & resilience     
•  Performance tuning & profiling 

* Ability to reason about time complexity, space complexity, and trade-offs 

* Strong database fundamentals (query optimization, indexing, transactions) 

* Experience with message brokers (ActiveMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ) 

* Exposure to Kubernetes-based deployments or large-scale microservices 

Interview Focus (Be Prepared) 

* Algorithm design & problem solving 

* Deep Java fundamentals 

* System design discussions (backend-heavy) 

* Performance tuning scenarios 

* Real-world debugging and optimization challenges

·    What you’ll be doing:

  Architecting and delivering mid to large scale Enterprise Applications on Microsoft Platform.

·      Recommending and participating in activities related to the design, development and maintenance of the Enterprise Application Architecture.

Delivering projects on time with quality.

·      Provide technical leadership regarding technology or project to customers and team members

·      Shares best practices, lessons learned and constantly updates the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.

·      Participate in technical forums and discussion within the team and with clients.

·      Guides and mentors’ team in terms of technical solutioning.

What you’ll bring to the team:

·      You have 15+ years of experience in Strong design & coding experience in Dot net framework using design patterns & OOPs concepts.

·      You have practical knowledge & good understanding of cross technology and functional domains, programming concepts and logical approach for problem solving.

You hold rich experience on web development technologies including ASP.NET, MVC5, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, AJAX, XML and CSS.

·      You have experience in web application Architecture and Development with hands on expertise in delivering solutions, customizing C#, ASP.Net applications using development tools like Visual Studio 2010/2012.

Responsibilities :

- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it {such as NestJS, Express, StrongLoop, etc.}

- Experience in Database, Postgres Preferred.
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Integration of data storage solutions 
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript

• 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:

• 2+ 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.
• 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 Requests, sklearn, Selenium
• Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
• Good Humor

• Expertise in building web applications and APIs.
• Strong knowledge in PHP core and web framework Laravel
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, AJAX.
• Familiar with MYSQL query language
• Knowledge of frontend backend integration
• Knowledge in Linux based OS like Ubuntu is an added advantage
• writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Willingness to own a responsibility
• Ability to work in a team as well as an individual
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain deadlines
• Good to have worked on end to end in projects