Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Avoma; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 3,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Transparent salary structure

15 days of PTO annually

Employee Stock Options Program

Job summary

A fast-growing tech startup is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to enhance its platform. This role demands expertise in Python and Django to develop scalable software that improves user experience. Applicants should have a solid background in RESTful API development and system design, alongside a proactive mindset in a collaborative team. The position offers competitive compensation and benefits, including a transparent salary structure and stock options.

Qualifications

• At least 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with a track record of delivering software with high business impact.
• Significant professional experience with Python and Django.
• Experience writing scalable, high-performance, and clean code.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the Avoma product in a secure, well-tested manner.
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders to maintain product quality.
• Own and work on the core data processing pipeline.

Skills

Python

Django

RESTful APIs

System design

Effective communication

Education

B.S./B.E. in Computer Science or relevant engineering field

Tools

AWS services

AI coding agents

Job description

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

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Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be directly responsible for the experience our clients have on the platform by designing, building, and maintaining the server-side of Avoma. This is an exciting opportunity for those who are curious, diligent, and want to learn and develop their professional skills within a fast‑growing start‑up. As an early member of the team, you will help create the building blocks for our development strategy and set up foundations and processes for future Software Engineers at Avoma.

The ideal candidate will be experienced in building the structure of a B2B SaaS application. We expect you to be a reliable professional, able to balance the needs of the product roadmap and the needs of the customers. Your overarching goal is to ensure an enjoyable experience for everyone using Avoma.

We strongly believe in the overall growth and continued development of each new hire. As a rapidly expanding business, there is a high degree of opportunity for progression, creativity, and ownership. In the last 12 months, we have seen growth across all metrics, and we are looking for strong software engineers to scale up our platform.

Tech Stack

We use the Django framework to build our backend platform and React.js for our frontend application.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the Avoma product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast‑paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high‑scale environment.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure performance of our backend services.
• Build RESTful APIs and features for UI application clients (including Web and Mobile).
• Deploy and integrate with machine learning models developed by the AI team.
• Own and work the core data processing pipeline and video processing pipeline.
• Third‑party integrations – Calendar, CRM systems, Video Conferencing.
• Search and analytics infrastructure.
• DevOps and security.

Requirements

• At least 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with a track record of delivering software with high business impact.
• Significant professional experience with Python, Django.
• Experience building RESTful APIs.
• Using coding AI agents like Cursor and different prompting techniques.
• System design knowledge using AWS services and other frameworks of Python/Django ecosystem.
• Experience writing scalable, high-performance, and clean code.
• B.S./B.E. in Computer Science or relevant engineering field.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a largely asynchronous work environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Positive and solution‑oriented mindset.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Knowledge of artificial intelligence technologies and tools.

Benefits

• What you get from Avoma (Benefits)
  • A transparent salary structure
  • Senior Salary Range: ₹2,800,000 – ₹3,800,000 Depending on Experience.
  • 15 days of PTO annually on top of company holidays.
  • Employee Stock Options Program.

About Avoma

• Avoma is an intelligent meeting assistant for teams looking to automate some of the common tasks required for customer‑focused meetings. We leverage NLP and machine learning to summarize meeting notes and extract key topics and action items discussed. All of this data automatically syncs back into their CRM. This helps to save end users time and focus on what matters most, their customer interactions.
• We are a venture‑funded early‑stage startup, have 1000+ paid customers, and are growing consistently month over month.