Software Development Engineer IV - (Biometrics)

Jumio; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Jumio is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to lead architecture and evolution of backend services that deploy and serve machine learning models in production. You will collaborate with ML Engineers, Platform, and Product teams to build scalable, reliable systems and drive technical direction across multiple teams.

You will design long-term architecture for biometrics and ML model serving, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives across core platform teams.

Qualifications

• Strong backend development expertise with Java; working knowledge of Python for ML workflows.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (DynamoDB, ECS/EC2, S3, SageMaker) and observability tools.
• Familiarity with Terraform or similar IaC tools; CI/CD and production monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and drive the long-term architecture of backend services for biometrics and ML model serving.
• Collaborate with platform and backend teams on architectural initiatives.
• Lead cross-team design efforts and mentor engineers to ensure best practices.
• Build and maintain scalable backend services for ML model deployment and serving.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of services in production.

Skills

Java

Python

Backend development

Mentoring

Architecture decisions

Observability & monitoring

CI/CD

Tools

AWS

ECS

EC2

SageMaker

S3

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

New Relic

Job description

Backend Engineer (Senior Level) - SDE IV

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of backend services that deploy and serve machine learning models in production. You'll work closely with ML Engineers, Platform, and Product teams to build scalable, reliable systems and drive technical direction across multiple teams.

What You’ll Do

• Design and drive the long-term architecture of backend services for biometrics and ML model serving.
• Collaborate with core platform and backend teams on organization-wide architectural initiatives.
• Partner with business and engineering teams to design and deliver cross-cutting platform capabilities.
• Lead architectural reviews, mentor engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
• Build and maintain backend services for deploying and serving ML models
• Monitor service reliability, performance, and scalability in production
• Deploy and operate services on AWS using ECS + Fargate, SageMaker, or EC2 + Kubernetes
• Support real-time and batch inference workflows
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

What We’re Looking For

• Strong expertise in backend development using Java and working knowledge of Python.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions.
• Working knowledge of Python, especially for ML-related workflows
• Hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., DynamoDB, ECS, EC2, Redis, S3, SageMaker)
• Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools, and experience with CI/CD and production monitoring
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.)
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, etc.)
• Understanding of how ML models are deployed and served in production
• Experience with Kubernetes

Nice to Have

• Experience with MLOps or ML platform engineering.
• Experience with asynchronous programming and event-driven systems.

Equal Opportunities:

Jumio is a collaboration of people with different ideas, strengths, interests and cultures. We welcome applications and colleagues from all backgrounds and of all statuses.