Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer Overview Develops and leads software engineering projects and creates the development and delivery of enhanced software solutions. Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. Responsible for assuring the daily activities of the team meet the functional requirements and also follow coding best practices and non functional requirements. Role • Highly Motivated Technical Leader to Champion Software Development Projects and that can deliver results. • Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. • Responsible for assuring the daily activities of the team meet the required service levels. • Successfully develop and lead major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications. • Develop innovative solutions that meet specific business needs. • Partner with scrum masters / project managers to lead day to day software development efforts. • Assist in day to day software development efforts including programming. • Create proof of concept applications • Collaborate with business and technical partners • Assist in the evaluation of 3rd parties and 3rd party products. • Ensure adherence to established quality control practices. • Create and maintain technology road-maps.
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At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences. Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry. Rockstar is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Online Services team, who is passionate about games and will serve both as an individual contributor and as a leader for a skilled and diverse group of developers. This is a full-time, in-office position based in Rockstar’s large game development studio in Bangalore, India. WHAT WE DO The Rockstar Games Online Services Team is a development group, passionate about growing and maintaining the technology platform that powers Rockstar’s online titles and our ability to deliver outstanding player experiences. We build connected experiences that are found across our game franchises. We architect and maintain high-impact features to support the development of the Rockstar community and websites. We build services and tools that support our consumer-facing experiences and our internal business needs. RESPONSIBILITIES Lead a team of software engineers in maintaining and upgrading React and .NET systems. Define key results, set team objectives, provide technical expertise and mentorship. Conduct performance evaluations and regular check-ins to ensure team members are on track and aligned with goals. Develop and communicate technical roadmaps to leadership. Collaborate with Product Management and Production teams to scope and prioritize projects. Integrate systems with multi-functional teams. REQUIREMENTS 8+ years of professional software development experience at an enterprise level organization, with 3+ years of experience leading an engineering team of 4+. Efficiently facilitate communication with teams in various locations worldwide. Experience working in
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Staff Software Engineer - External Observability Platform Location: Bellevue, WA (Hybrid: 3 days/week in-office) Team: Infrastructure & Observability Platform Engineering About the Role Snowflake’s Data Cloud processes exabytes of data across multi-cloud global environments every day. Delivering seamless reliability and real-time visibility to thousands of global enterprise customers requires an Observability Platform built on hyper-scalable backend distributed systems. We are seeking a Staff / Lead Software Engineer to architect, design, and scale our External Observability Platform . In this role, you will lead the technical strategy for customer-facing telemetry, system metrics, audit logs, distributed tracing, and actionable operational insights. You will build high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure capable of ingesting, processing, and serving petabytes of telemetry data with strict SLA guarantees. You will join a team of world-class engineers in our Bellevue, WA office. To be successful, you must be deeply technical, capable of leading complex cross-functional architecture initiatives, and skilled at mentoring senior engineers while holding your own with the brightest technical minds in the industry. Key Responsibilities Architect & Scale Distributed Infr
DataHub is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises, including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility. The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance, enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos. About the job DataHub is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises, including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides an in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility. The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance, enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos. In this role, you will Build core capabilities for our SaaS Platform across multiple clouds Drive development of functional enhancements for Data Discovery, Observability & Governance for both OSS and SaaS offering Lead efforts around non functional aspects like performance, scalability, reliability Lead and mentor junior engineers Work closely with PM, Customers and OSS community Requirements Over 8+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems, preferably in cloud-first or SaaS environments. Solve complex tech
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . Responsibilities: Design and develop control‑plane and system services for a firewall platform, operating above the networking dataplane (OSI Layer 3+). Build and maintain management interfaces and APIs , including configuration frameworks, CLI, secure access (SSH), logging, and diagnostics. Implement security services such as authentication (SAML), guest access, SSL/TLS handling, and certificate lifecycle management . Develop embedded services for content filtering , including URL categorization, reputation, and rating systems, along with SNMP/telemetry support. Lead efforts in licensing systems , vulnerability remediation, and secure architecture in collaboration with cross‑functional teams. Requirements: 8+ years of experience in C/C++ systems development for embedded platforms, security appliances, or network operating systems. Strong hands‑on expertise with configuration frameworks, service APIs, CLI development, logging systems, and secure remote access (SSH) . Solid understanding of L3–L7 networking and security concepts , including SSL/TLS, au
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . About the Role SonicWall is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep IPv6 expertise to lead the design, implementation, and hardening of IPv6 capabilities across the Sonicwall firewall firmware stack. As a Principal Engineer, you will be the technical authority for IPv6 feature parity, protocol correctness, and interoperability across SonicWall Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) platforms. This role is ideal for engineers with hands-on experience delivering IPv6 in high-performance router, switch, or carrier-grade networking products who are looking to apply that expertise in the embedded network security domain. Responsibilities Lead IPv6 Architecture & Feature Delivery — Own end-to-end design and implementation of IPv6 features across the Sonicwall frewall networking stack, including IPv6 routing, interface addressing, DHCPv6, NDP, MLDv2, and IPv6 Policy-Based Routing (PBR). Drive IPv6 Feature Parity — Identify and close gaps between IPv4 and IPv6 feature sets across subsystems — including VPN Tunnel Interfaces, IPsec/IKEv2, SSL-VPN, Syslog, SNMP, and NAT64 — ensuring consistent dual-stack and
Location: Mumbai, India (Andheri East) Description: We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers to lead the design and delivery of robust, scalable, and production-grade data systems across a high-growth, multi-venture environment. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who thrives in hands-on build mode, and who can scale technical delivery without losing speed, quality, or ownership. If this is interesting, we would love to hear from you! About Blenheim Chalcot Blenheim Chalcot India is part of Blenheim Chalcot a global venture builder headquartered in London. With over 26 years of innovation, we've been at the forefront of creating some of the most groundbreaking GenAI-enabled companies. Our ventures lead the charge in digital disruption across a spectrum of industries, from FinTech to EdTech, GovTech to Media, and beyond. Our global presence spans the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia, with a portfolio that employs over 3,000 individuals, manages assets exceeding £1.8 billion, and boasts total portfolio sales of over £500 million. The role We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers to build scalable products, tools, and systems across our portfolio companies. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in hands-on engineering, writes maintainable code, and is deeply motivated by solving real-world problems with technology. You’ll work closely with product and engineering colleagues in both Mumbai and London, driving delivery within a specific business. If you're passionate about engineering craft, product-led development, and delivering systems that scale, we’d love to hear from you. Behaviours that we look for Solve problems rigorously , not reactively - breaking them down into tractable elements and considering multiple paths to resolution. Write clean, defensive code with clear structure and minimal complexity. Think about testing and observability early , automating meaningful tests and implementing relevant metri
SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams. SmartBear is trusted by developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear’s open source tools are downloaded more than 100 million times a month and have earned over 30,000 GitHub stars from the developer community. With its best-loved brands, including Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at www.smartbear.com , or follow us on LinkedIn , X , and Reddit . At SmartBear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission. Principal Software Engineer - Java Zephyr Enterprise Lead and implement complex change, challenging business problems and build highly scalable applications Provide technical leadership guidance across the team and broader engineering organization. Serve as the primary subject matter expert, driving technical excellence and informed decision-making. Product intro Zephyr Enterprise is undergoing a transformation to better align our products to the end users’ requirements while maintaining our market leading position and stron
OUR MISSION At Redwood, we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes. ABOUT US Redwood Software is the leading orchestration platform for the autonomous enterprise, driving business transformation at the lowest total cost of ownership. Redwood empowers organizations to intelligently automate and orchestrate mission-critical business and IT processes across complex ERP, hybrid cloud, data and emerging agentic AI systems. Through its SaaS-first automation fabric—with AI embedded across the automation lifecycle—Redwood accelerates the path to autonomous operations. Backed by 30 years of experience and trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 50, Redwood helps organizations unlock human potential to focus on innovation, growth and what’s next. CORE VALUES One Team. One Redwood Make Your Own Weather Obsess over Customer Success Work the Problem Be Curious Own the Outcome Respect Each Other YOUR IMPACT We are looking for a Software Engineer, Platform & Integrations . Working closely with senior and lead engineers, you will design, develop, and maintain high-quality features that power enterprise data exchange for more than 1,000 customers worldwide. This is an incredible opportunity to deepen your expertise in cloud-native architectures, enterprise security, and modern DevOps practices in a fast-growing product environment. Feature Development & Design: Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code using Java and Spring Boot to deliver scalable backend services and microservices. Platform Reliability: Contribute to enhancing the monitoring, logging, and observability of our core platform to ensure high availability and performance. Security & Compliance: Implement secure coding practices to safeguard data exchange and maintain compliance across our cloud infrastructure. Collaborative Execution: Work within an agile team, collaborating closely with QA, Product, and fellow engineers to deliver high-qual
Description: Graviton is a privately funded quantitative trading firm striving for excellence in financial markets research. We are seeking a Software Engineer for our team in Gurgaon. Our Core Technology team has some of the best programmers in India working on cutting edge technologies to build a super fast and robust trading infrastructure handling millions of dollars worth of trading transactions every day. Requirements Contribute to all layers of backend systems including databases, APIs and applications Design, build and maintain applications for business requirements Architect scalable and reliable applications Write clean and modular code, following good coding standards and practices Troubleshoot and debug applications Be involved in the entire application lifecycle Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of front-end developers, engineers and system administrators Devise innovative solutions to address new and complicated challenges Build reusable code and libraries for future use Take lead on projects, as needed Work in a high paced competitive environment Qualifications The ideal candidate will have: Engineering degree in Computer Science (preferred) or any other discipline from a Tier 1 college. 3 to 4 years of relevant experience in designing and improving information systems Proficiency in Python programming Extensive experience working with relational databases and handling large datasets Good Understanding of object oriented and asynchronous programming Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS Knowledge of Linux systems and bash scripting Good communication and interpersonal skills Willingness to continuously learn and improve Ability to work in fast paced environment under pressure and manage multiple high priority projects Good to have: Experience in Financial services space/domain Experience in and understanding of system design decisions Experience in leading small teams or projects Benefits: Our open and casua
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POSITION SUMMARY The Full Stack Developer is skilled in PHP, Angular, and MariaDB/MySQL to build scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications. Key Responsibilities · Develop and maintain backend services using modern PHP and MariaDB/MySQL. · Build RESTful APIs and integrate them with Angular applications. · Develop responsive UI components using Angular, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS/SCSS. · Modernize legacy AngularJS components to Angular. · Implement authentication/authorization (OAuth, SAML, JWT, MFA) and follow OWASP security practices. · Work with Docker, Git/GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines. · Monitor and optimize frontend and backend performance (Sentry, CloudWatch). · Participate in Agile/Scrum processes and conduct code reviews. SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Frontend & UI Orchestration · Cross-Framework Mastery: Develop and optimize complex UIs in Angular (v16+) or React , ensuring seamless state management and responsive design. · T3 Stack Architecture: Lead the development of next-gen features using Next.js , Tailwind CSS , and tRPC for end-to-end type safety. · Modern Tooling: Utilize Vite, Turborepo, and modern CSS patterns to maintain a high-velocity developer experience. 2. Full-Stack & Backend Engineering · Type-Safe APIs: Build and consume GraphQL and REST APIs. Leverage tRPC to eliminate the need for manual API documentation between the frontend and backend. · Polyglot Data Management: * Architect relational schemas and optimize complex queries in PostgreSQL . o Manage unstructured security telemetry and real-time logs in MongoDB . · ORM & Migrations: Use Prisma or Drizzle to manage database interactions with 100% type coverage. 3. AI Integration & Innovation · LLM Implementation: Integrate AI m
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POSITION SUMMARY We are looking for a Full Stack Developer skilled in PHP, Angular, and MariaDB/MySQL to build scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications. Key Responsibilities · Develop and maintain backend services using modern PHP and MariaDB/MySQL. · Build RESTful APIs and integrate them with Angular applications. · Develop responsive UI components using Angular, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS/SCSS. · Modernize legacy AngularJS components to Angular. · Implement authentication/authorization (OAuth, SAML, JWT, MFA) and follow OWASP security practices. · Work with Docker, Git/GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines. · Monitor and optimize frontend and backend performance (Sentry, CloudWatch). · Participate in Agile/Scrum processes and conduct code reviews. SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Frontend & UI Orchestration · Cross-Framework Mastery: Develop and optimize complex UIs in Angular (v16+) or React , ensuring seamless state management and responsive design. · T3 Stack Architecture: Lead the development of next-gen features using Next.js , Tailwind CSS , and tRPC for end-to-end type safety. · Modern Tooling: Utilize Vite, Turborepo, and modern CSS patterns to maintain a high-velocity developer experience. 2. Full-Stack & Backend Engineering · Type-Safe APIs: Build and consume GraphQL and REST APIs. Leverage tRPC to eliminate the need for manual API documentation between the frontend and backend. · Polyglot Data Management: * Architect relational schemas and optimize complex queries in PostgreSQL . o Manage unstructured security telemetry and real-time logs in MongoDB . · ORM & Migrations: Use Prisma or Drizzle to manage database interactions with 100% type coverage. 3. AI Integration & Innovation · LLM Implementation: Integr
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and evolution of a large-scale malware analysis and cybersecurity platform. This role will own the end-to-end technical architecture across Python-based analysis pipelines, message-driven job orchestration systems, Windows VM sandbox environments, and web-based interfaces. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in software engineering, malware analysis, and distributed systems, with a proven ability to take ownership of complex legacy platforms and drive modernization initiatives. You will lead the design and implementation of advanced detection capabilities, including behavioral analysis, malware sandboxing, machine learning-based classification, and support for new file types, while ensuring platform scalability, reliability, and performance. This position requires strong hands-on development skills in Python with Linux-based production environments, messaging architectures such as RabbitMQ, virtualization technologies, and cloud-native deployment practices. As the technical leader for the platform,
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. Jumio Values: IDEAL: Integrity, Diversity, Empowerment, Accountability, Leading Innovation Equal Opportunities :
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . As a Software Dev Senior Engineer , you will own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our Cloud-based services. You will define and enforce reliability standards, drive the adoption of SRE practices across engineering teams, and build the systems and tooling that keep our production infrastructure healthy. We follow a DevOps model: Development and Operations teams are integrated, and the SRE function acts as the reliability layer — setting Service Level Objectives, managing error budgets, and continuously reducing toil through engineering. Key Responsibilities: Define, publish, and continuously refine Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs ) for all critical services, partnering with product and engineering leadership. Own the error budget framework: track consumption, enforce error budget policies, and drive reliability investments when budgets are at risk. Lead the design and implementation of comprehensive observability platforms — metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing — to ensure full visibility into pro
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