Role: Lead Software Engineer (Backend)
Salary: INR 28 to INR 40L per annum
Performance Bonus: Up to 10% of the base salary can be added
Location: Hulimavu, Bangalore, India
Experience: 6-10 years
About AbleCredit
AbleCredit has built a foundational AI platform to help BFSI enterprises reduce OPEX by up to 70% by powering workflows for onboarding, claims, credit, and collections. Our GenAI model achieves over 95% accuracy in understanding Indian dialects and excels in financial analysis.
The company was founded in June 2023 by Utkarsh Apoorva (IIT Delhi, built Reshamandi, Guitarstreet, Edulabs); Harshad Saykhedkar (IITB, ex-AI Lead at Slack); and Ashwini Prabhu (IIML, co-founder of Mythiksha, ex-Product Head at Reshamandi, HandyTrain).
What Work You'll Do
- Build best-in-class AI systems - that enterprises can trust, where reliability and explainability are not optional.
- Operate in founder mode build, patch, or fork, whatever it takes to ship today, not next week.
- Work at the frontier of AI x Systems making AI models behave predictably to solve real, enterprise-grade problems.
- Own end-to-end feature delivery from requirement scoping to design, development, testing, deployment, and post-release optimization.
- Design and implement complex, distributed systems that support large-scale workflows and integrations for enterprise clients.
- Operate with full technical ownership make architectural decisions, review code, and mentor junior engineers to maintain quality and velocity.
- Build scalable, event-driven services leveraging AWS Lambda, SQS/SNS, and modern asynchronous patterns.
- Work with cross-functional teams to design robust notification systems, third-party integrations, and data pipelines that meet enterprise reliability and security standards.
The Skills You Have..
- Strong background as an Individual Contributor capable of owning systems from concept to production without heavy oversight.
- Expertise in system design, scalability, and fault-tolerant architecture.
- Proficiency in Node.js (bonus) or another backend language such as Go, Java, or Python.
- Deep understanding of SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB) systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS, and event-based systems.
- Experience in designing and scaling notification systems and third-party API integrations.
- Proficiency in event-driven architectures and multi-threading/concurrency models.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, security practices, and performance optimization.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring tools.
- Strong debugging, performance tuning, and code review skills.
What You Should Have Done in the Past
- Delivered multiple complex backend systems or microservices from scratch in a production environment.
- Led system design discussions and guided teams on performance, reliability, and scalability trade-offs.
- Mentored SDE-1 and SDE-2 engineers, enabling them to deliver features independently.
- Owned incident response and root cause analysis for production systems.
- (Bonus) Built or contributed to serverless systems using AWS Lambda, with clear metrics on uptime, throughput, and cost-efficiency.
Highlights
- PTO & Holidays
- Opportunity to work with a core Gen AI startup.
- Flexible hours and an extremely positive work environment
Skills:- Javascript, NodeJS (Node.js), Python, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DevOps
