Technical Lead

Role & Responsibilities

work with peers in Product, QA, and other Engineering departments;

coach and mentor team members;

cautiously drive adoption of new technologies and processes;

preserve our engineering values of quality, scalability, and maintainability;

“see around corners” — identify blind spots and prioritize work across teams;

work with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery; and

own the overall architecture and systems engineering for your products.

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have 8+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience

Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have 3+ years of experience as Engineering Manager / Team Lead role, with ownership of technical direction, delivery, and people management

Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have hands-on Backend development experience using Python or Java, with frameworks such as FastAPI / Django / Spring / Express (Node.js)

Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have Frontend development exposure using ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have experience designing and building APIs, services, and integrations, including system design, PR reviews, and architectural decision-making.

Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have experience leading engineers end-to-end – mentoring, code reviews, execution planning, and improving team productivity/quality

Mandatory (Company) - Must be from Product Companies / Startups (early to growth stage), B2B SaaS + Fintech industry is highly preferred

Mandatory (Note) - This role will be 80% team management and 20% IC (hands on coding required)

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.

Profile - Software developer

Experience- 2 to 4 years

Skills- ASP.NET, C#, Entity Framework, SQL Server, LINQ, SSRS, Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Job Location - Navi Mumbai

CTC - Based on your valuable experience

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1. Developing innovative solutions.

2. Learning the code base and improving your coding skills.

3. Assisting the development manager with all aspects of software design and

coding.

4. Writing and maintaining error-free code.

5. Monitoring the technical performance of Internal systems.

6. Troubleshooting and debugging code.

7. Working closely with developers to improve the product's functionality.

8. Developer's end testing.

9. Should be able to adapt fast-paced work environment

Role Objective:

The objective of the developer is to design and develop solutions while being responsible for the coding standards, security and compliance requirements. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Business Understanding
• Understands the business requirements clearly to a level that enables in making micro decisions. Involves in designing, developing, testing software solutions 
• Arch/Design Documentation
• Clear documentation of the workflows, maintains clean code and support in solution architecture/design documentations 
• Dev Testing & Solution
• Engages in identifying & troubleshooting various website issues and coding problems; Evaluates and implements new tools based on the requirement and ensures the high performance of all systems developed; Involves in performing the code review and refactor to ensure the code quality based on the best practices and code conventions. 
• Understanding Coding Standards, Compliance & Info-security, Non-functional Requirement
• Identifies security requirements of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and discovers the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/libraries used in the application and remediating vulnerabilities; Maintains updated knowledge of the development industry, advancements in technology, and its implementation. 
• Stakeholder Management
• Collaborates with members to consistently improve the functionality and client centric solutions; Collaborate with the peers and team members to create an intuitively easy to use solution for our end users; Assists the DevOps team to manage the environment and releases; Provides training and support to junior developers. 

Requirements

• Frameworks & Libraries:
• Dot net Core
• Entity Framework
• Backend languages: C#
• Database Concepts & Applications:
• Entity framework, ADO.Net, Dapper
• Should be familiar with any of the relational databases like Postgres, SQLServer, Oracle etc., or non relational databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.,
• Should be familiar with concepts: Normalization, Indexing, Joins
• Unit Testing: Should be familiar with NUnit
• Log frameworks: Should be familiar with any one of the logging libraries like Nlog or Log4Net
• Authorization & Authentication:
• Token Based Auth
• JWT with refresh token
• Claims & Identity
• SSO
• Basic Authentication
• OAuth
• Build Tools: dot net cli build commands
• Version Control: Experience in using GIT
• Other Development tools:
• Swagger Editor
• Postman/Flutter
• VSCode
• Application performance management: Nice to have basic knowledge in any of the APM Tools like AppDynamics, DataDog, NewRelic, Dynatrace, etc.,
• Vulnerability tests: Nice to have basic knowledge on security principles like OWASP Top Te etc.,
• Cloud Services: Nice to have experience in any one of the cloud services like GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.,
• CI/CD understanding: Basic understanding of pipelines and deployments
• Others:
• Common application/ web security and OWASP vulnerabilities
• Encryption algorithms to protect sensitive information
• PII, PCI, HIPPA, and GDPR compliance and how to implement
• Finding the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/ libraries
• Understanding security breaches of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and its implementation
• Behavioral Competencies:
• Accountability
• Adaptive to change
• Business communication
• Customer Focus
• Learning Agility
• Planning & organizing
• Problem solving

Oddr is looking for an experienced senior backend engineer to help us build scalable multi-tenanted enterprise Cloud applications. The ideal candidate should be able to bring new ideas to the table and design and develop distributed microservices with a strong emphasis on security, resiliency, scalability, performance, and quality. As a senior engineer, the candidate should be able and willing to mentor and guide fellow team members on best practices like code styling, efficiency, and testability as the team scales and grows. The candidate should demonstrate leadership qualities, be a self-motivated team player, and take pride in what they deliver.

The candidate should be interested in a long-term stable career to grow with our company. The candidate will need to work late night hours because of the geographic distribution of the team.

Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in .NET Core and C#
• Strong understanding of Cloud development concepts, including CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with successful end-to-end delivery of web applications in the Cloud. Azure knowledge is a strong plus.
• Experience with API-driven development and developing RESTful APIs
• Experience with database design and writing complex SQL
• Familiarity with Reactive Programming concepts
• Ability to write clean, well-structured code with adequate test coverage, proper abstraction, and reusability
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, manage priorities, and take responsibility for delivering to time and quality requirements
• Good understanding and experience with Agile development methodologies
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Minimum qualifications required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from a reputable institute. Master's preferred.
• 5 years of experience. 7 years preferred.