Technical Lead

About us:

Optimo Capital is a newly established NBFC founded by Prashant Pitti, who is also a co-founder of EaseMyTrip (a billion-dollar listed startup that grew profitably without any funding).

Our mission is to serve the underserved MSME businesses in India with their credit needs. With less than 15% of MSMEs having access to formal credit, we aim to bridge this credit gap by employing a phygital model (physical branches + digital decision-making).

As a technology and data-first company, tech and data enthusiasts play a crucial role in building the infrastructure at Optimo, and help the company thrive.

What we offer:

Join our dynamic startup team as a Full Stack Developer and play a crucial role in web application & API developments, customer journeys, tech integrations, building robust credit risk and underwriting decision engines, cloud infrastructure, and more.

This is an exceptional opportunity to learn, grow, and make a significant impact in a fast-paced startup environment. We believe that the freedom and accountability to make decisions in technology, software, system architecture, and other design aspects bring out the best in you and help us build the best for the company.

This environment will not only offer you a steep learning curve but also allow you to experience the direct impact of your technological contributions. In addition, we offer industry-standard compensation.

What we look for:

We are looking for individuals with strong proficiency in Python, React, and Django. Any experience in a startup, front-end/back-end development, tech-integrations, or open-source contributions will be highly valued.

We focus not only on your skills but also on your attitude and your hunger to learn, grow, lead, and thrive—both as an individual and as part of a team. We encourage taking on challenges, learning new technologies, understanding, building, and implementing them within a short period of time. Your willingness to put in the extra effort to build the best systems will be highly appreciated.

Skills:

Excellent proficiency with the ability to write clean, robust, production-level code. Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining web apps and rule engines is required. At least one year of experience as a developer in any engineering / software-based role is required.

1 Frontend Development

• JavaScript: Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including ES6+ features
• React: Experience building complex user interfaces using React and its ecosystem (e.g., Redux, Context API)
• HTML/CSS: Solid understanding of HTML5 and CSS3 for creating responsive and accessible web pages

2 Backend Development

• Python: Proficiency in Python for server-side development
• Django: Working knowledge in Django, Django Rest Framework
• Flask (or FastAPI): Experience building RESTful APIs using Flask or FastAPI is a plus

3 REST APIs: A strong understanding of APIs is required, along with prior experience in API development or integration. Writing REST APIs from scratch is highly desirable.

4 Databases: A basic understanding of both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB) databases is required. Basic knowledge of database management, optimization, and query design is expected.

5 Git: Proficiency in Git is essential, with experience in branching, merging, pull requests, and conflict resolution. Experience in collaborative projects using Git is highly valued.

6 AI & LLMs: A keen eye on recent developments in AI (GenAI), with the ability to leverage AI-driven solutions in full-stack development. Strong desire to explore how AI and LLMs can accelerate the creation of innovative products, enhancing speed, efficiency, and overall productivity.

7 Good to have: 

• Basic understanding of data pipelines/ETLs, dashboarding, and AWS is beneficial but not required.
• Experience in building WhatsApp chat/flow journeys, Working with maps, and creating data layers (e.g., Google Maps API, Mapbox) is highly valued. (not mandatory)

What you'll be working on:

1. Design and build systems focused on creating straight-through processes for lending (specifically property loans), from customer onboarding to disbursement, with an emphasis on accurate and efficient credit and risk assessment.
2. Take projects from ideation to production, including web applications, rule engines, third-party API integrations, and other technology developments.
3. Take initiative and ownership of engineering projects, ensuring a seamless user experience.
4. Manage and coordinate the cloud infrastructure and application setup, including source code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, servers, and deployments.

Other Requirements:

1. Availability for full-time work in Bangalore. Advantage for immediate joiners.
2. Strong passion for technology and problem-solving.
3. Ability to translate requirements into intuitive interfaces is highly appreciated 
4. At least 1 year of industry experience in a technical role specifically as a developer is a must.
5. Self-motivated and capable of working both independently and collaboratively.

If you are ready to embark on an exciting journey of growth, learning, and innovation, apply now to join our pioneering team in Bangalore.

Job Description

As part of our role at a leading global insurance company, we are responsible for developing and managing an application to onboard and oversee the company's sales partners, including agents and brokers. This application provides users with a tailored, independent solution, including a required multi-dimensional validity date concept for administering all organizational and contractual sales force data to deliver structured information to many data consumers.

To reinforce our dynamic development team, we are seeking a skilled Full-stack Developer. In this role, you will collaborate with international cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain the application, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.

Write clean, efficient, and reusable code.

Implement new features and functionality based on business requirements.

Participate in system and application architecture discussions.

Create technical designs and specifications for new features or enhancements.

Write and execute unit tests to ensure code quality.

Debug and resolve technical issues and software defects.

Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices.

Identify and fix vulnerabilities to ensure application integrity.

Work with frontend developers to ensure seamless integration of user-facing elements.

Collaborate with DevOps teams for deployment and scaling.

Design and implement workflow automation using Camunda BPM, integrating it with backend services and ensuring efficient process execution.

Optimize and maintain business process models and workflow orchestration using Camunda.

Troubleshoot and enhance Camunda BPMN workflows, DMN decision tables, and process automation configurations.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Proven experience as a skilled Full-stack Developer. Experience in the insurance domain is appreciated.

Strong experience with Spring Boot 3, Java 17 or newer, and Maven.

Experience with PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Sonar, Dynatrace, Kubernetes, Mockito, IntelliJ IDEA, and GitHub repository.

Hands-on experience with Camunda BPM (v7 or v8), including BPMN workflows, DMN decision tables, and REST API integration.

Experience with Angular TS and/or AWS, Kafka is a plus.

Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

Strong communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively in a team environment.

Skills & Requirements

Camunda, Spring Boot 3, Java 17 Or Newer, Maven, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Sonar, Dynatrace, Kubernetes, Mockito, IntelliJ IDEA, GitHub Repository, Camunda BPM, BPMN Workflows, DMN Decision Tables, REST API Integration, Angular TS, AWS, Kafka, Problem-Solving, Debugging, Communication, Collaboration.

We are looking for a Java Developer with minimum 3 to 8 years of experience.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development life cycle, from concept and design to testing.
• Contribute to all phases of the development life cycle
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs comply with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

• 2 to 4 years experience in MERN stack
• Good problem-solving technique
• Knowledge of AWS ecosystem is a plus
• Experience in FinTech is a big plus

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and build efficient, scalable systems that are used by millions of people,
• Own what you build as you create, test, and refine what’s under the hood of our pages and services,
• Investigate production issues pertaining to customer features to determine root cause and implement solutions,
• Investigate existing queries and write new queries with performance optimization in mind,
• Build well-designed software in a way that is generic, reusable, and easily extensible, as well as solves the business needs and requirements,
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and software engineers to ensure design vision is maintained, the final markup is standards compliant, and UI deliverables are completed on time,
• Work with the real-time feedback from our users (external and internal) to make the products better,
• Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug. Repeat!

Requirements:

• 1-2 years of experience,
• Proficiency in web scripting programming with PHP,
• Experience with MySQL Databases,
• Top-notch programming skills in JavaScript and a strong understanding of web fundamentals,
• Design, build and maintain high performance, scalable and secure code,
• Experience with cloud services like AWS is plus,
• Experience with MVC architecture is a plus,
• Knowledge / experience in building an API,
• Solid understanding of the foundations of security and best practices,
• Good grasp of data structures and algorithms,
• Excellent problem-solving skills,
• Take ownership of the backend services, ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness, as well as maintaining code quality, organisation and testing/deployment,
• Passionate about technology and willing to develop expertise in an emerging field,
• Strong organisational and communication skills, team player.

Perquisites & Benefits:

• A competitive salary,
• Opportunity to be part of a diverse working environment, valuable social sector work experience,
• Fun, casual, relaxed, and flexible work environment.

Purpose of the Role

To design and implement the Peak AI System - a new system of intelligence that allows companies to quickly harness the power of AI.

The Opportunity 

Peak is a Decision Intelligence company - we are on a mission to help organisations use AI to make great commercial decisions, all the time. Just as importantly, we are also focused on building an amazing company - one where we truly value our people & culture, and strive to make an amazing and diverse place to work. Our recent Best Companies award & 3 star accreditation for being one of the top companies to work for is a testament to this.

We have ambitious plans over the coming years; to launch and lead a new category of technology (Decision Intelligence), expand our operations and create the best working culture possible. This is a great time to join Peak and the Engineering team, as we start the next stage of our global growth.

The Role

Based in Jaipur or Pune, you will be working in a collaborative team on cutting edge technologies in a supportive and dynamic environment. Ultimately you are responsible for building the CODI and on-boarding new clients - this involves:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Peak delivers, and how these link to Peak’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Peak processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or support them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Required Skills and Experience

We are building a team of world class engineers in Jaipur / Pune, essentially we are looking for bright, talented engineers looking to work at the cutting edge of practical AI.

• Acquired strong proven professional programming experience.
• Strong command of Algorithms, Data structures, Design patterns, and Product Architectural Design.
• Good understanding of DevOps, Cloud technologies, CI/CD, Serverless and Docker, preferable AWS 
• Proven track record and expert in one of the field - DevOps/Frontend/Backend
• Excellent coding and debugging skills in any language with command on any one programming paradigm, preferred Javascript/Python/Go
• Experience with at least one of the Database systems - RDBMS and NoSQL
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using AGILE or SCRUM techniques to build quality software.
• Advantage: experience in React js, AWS, Nodejs, Golang, Apache Spark, ETL tool, data integration system, certification in AWS, worked in a Product company and involved in making it from scratch, Good communication skills, open-source contributions, proven competitive coding pro

As well as doing great work we have created an award-winning, fun and exciting workplace that people love to be, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and are:

• Open - Always up for new ideas and able to take and give feedback in a positive way.
• Driven - sets high goals, doesn’t give up, and make sacrifices to ensure that their job gets done on time and meets/exceeds expectations.
• Curious - Aware of new technologies and uses them to make new improvements in the Engineering ecosystem.
• Smart - Innovative and thinks out of the box, in difficult situations finds a way to succeed no matter what 
• Responsible - takes ownership of tasks given and has a strong work ethic.

About Peak

In an age when becoming AI and data-driven is one of the most important things businesses must do, it can also be one of the most challenging. That’s where Peak comes in; our CODI system sits at the heart of our client’s businesses, enabling the rapid unification, modelling and - most importantly - use of data - helping decision makers make great commercial decisions, powered by AI. All supported by our world-class data science team.

Founded in 2014, Peak has grown rapidly, in line with the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies, winning numerous awards and attracted significant funding to support the company’s ongoing investment in machine learning and AI technologies. All to further our mission to become the world’s leading AI System business.

Headquartered in Manchester, Peak also has offices in London, Edinburgh, Jaipur and Brisbane. Our clients include some of the world's leading retailers, manufacturers and well-known brands alongside highly innovative and tech-savvy businesses. Peak is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, and holds Machine Learning Competency and Retail Competency status.

We are looking for Technology Lead who possesses a passion for pushing technologies to the limits and will work with our team to help build Snapwiz's next-generation platform. If you are a person who loves to face technical challenges, innovates consistently and is never satisfied with status-quo then this is the role for you.

Job Location: IBC Knowledge Park, Dairy Circle, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore

Role:

• Design and build advanced applications from scratch keeping scalability and performance in mind

• A good handle on both client and server architecture

• Should be a quick learner and willing to go the extra mile in delivering the projects.

• Should be able to work with juniors; help and guide them as needed.

• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

• Comfortable in owning large scale products and continuously re-evaluating and innovating.

• A practical risk-taker, innovator and always curious.

Requirements:

• BE/ME/BTech/MTech degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

• 4 to 10 years overall experience

• Strong knowledge of Agile development (Scrum)

• Proven working experience in server-side technologies like Java, Hibernate, Spring.

• Strong knowledge of any database technology like MySql and MongoDB

• Awareness of client-side technologies like JS and Jquery.

• Knowledge of algorithm and database queries

• Knowledge of the general tech landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.

Snapwiz was founded in 2010 by entrepreneurs who wanted to improve education and accelerate learning using technology and data analytics. Today Snapwiz platforms create personalized learning paths and build mastery of key skills and concepts. From kindergarten to college and beyond, our products help engage students and empower educators.

Snapwiz offers three platforms for different markets:

-Edulastic: personalized formative assessments for K-12 students, teachers, and school districts.
- Learning Spaces: digital courseware platform for higher education publishers including interactive textbooks, course communication, and adaptive practice and assessments.
- Glider: assessment and career development app that effectively matches technical professionals with jobs based on skills and competency.

More than 400,000 educators and 10 million students use our education platforms, and Glider helps top companies like Facebook, AT&T and Nutanix recruit and hire proven technical talent

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