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Job responsibilities

  • Follow standardized software engineering processes to design, develop, test, etc.
  • Possess deep knowledge of your preferred codebase, product area, and/or systems
  • Produce quality code with good test coverage & use modern abstractions/frameworks
  • Complete medium/large scale projects, using analytical & problem-solving skills
  • Mentor & motivate junior software engineers & interns to bring forth innovative solutions
  • Collaborate with the team’s tech lead/manager & provide suggestions for future projects

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Proficiency in technologies like React.js, Node.js, Python, JS, React Native, PHP, etc.
  • Skilled at computational problem solving, designing, coding, debugging, etc.

Preferred skills

  • Skilled in complex code bases, large systems, & version control systems like Git
  • Updated on emerging technologies & able to design roadmaps to enhance current systems
  • Experience with multi-platform support (Windows, iOS, Linux, Android, Mac)
  • Excellent command over algorithms, data structures, and space-time complexity
  • A profound sense of ownership & accountability for end-to-end project lifecycle
  • Fluency in English to collaborate with engineering managers
  • The ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) with a 4 hour overlap with U.S. time zones
  • Find effective solutions to problems without hand-holding & micromanagement

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How to become a senior software engineer ?

Software engineering is an ongoing process of analyzing the user’s requirements and then designing, building, and testing software applications that meet those requirements. Depending on the sector, firm, or department, a senior software engineer may require a variety of specific talents. The talents of a senior developer are formed like a T. What does this imply? This is the top, horizontal section of the T, indicating that the developer has a foundational understanding of a variety of topics. However, they have in-depth knowledge and abilities in one or more areas, which make up the vertical half of the T. Senior developers are well-versed in the tools and strategies available for solving certain difficulties.

What is the scope in software engineering?

There's no better time than now to get started in software engineering. Across the globe, this field is exploding. Advanced degree holders have a wide range of professional opportunities. Software engineering jobs were once largely confined to big IT firms. However, as more organisations rely on computer-driven processes, software engineers will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and innovating these infrastructures. Career opportunities are expanding across a wide range of industries and geographies.
With the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, the topic of whether software developers will be required in the future is becoming increasingly common. Certainly, the amount of mundane work that will be delegated to machines will rise. Innovative solutions and research in new realms of software engineering are still possible. As a result, several studies predict that in the coming decade, the need for developers of speech recognition technologies, artificial intelligence, enhancing software, and blockchain technology will increase.

What are the roles and responsibilities of a senior software engineer?

Senior software engineering jobs are given to experienced people who can take the lead in software development projects. A senior software engineer has a computer science or a website development background. A Bachelor's degree in the related field is essential, and web development expertise is always beneficial. A senior software engineer's job includes leading and supervising a team of software engineers developing and designing a website or other software programs. Working knowledge of web development languages such as CSS, HTML, and JavaScript is required. Senior software engineers should be able to manage projects independently and work alone if necessary while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and other members.

Here is the list of responsibilities of a senior software engineer. It represents some typical tasks they are likely to perform –

  • Incorporating scripts with SVN after developing the scripts to automate building and labeling code.
  • Developing UNIX scripts and enhancing the existing UNIX scripts for cross cap integration systems in order to achieve better performance and results.
  • Use technologies like ASP.NET to manage authentication forms
  • Configuring and managing security systems along with networking components.
  • Be well-versed with the design and development of the presentation layer for web applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
  • Moving the custom share packages into private git repositories and creating modular code to use among similar front-end projects.
  • Design UI pages by using JSP along with CSS and HTML as styling elements to develop the interface of testing tools.
  • Establish the latest security models by using database roles and tune SQL for maximum performance.

How to become a senior software engineer?

A senior software engineer is a professional with 4-10 years of relevant software engineering experience. It is not only about the experience an engineer has but it's also about how many things they got to learn by contributing in actual software development projects. Here is a brief breakdown of the steps professionally taken on the way to become a senior software engineer.
Junior software engineer – Usually, a junior software engineer has 0 to 3 years of experience and writes simple scripts with an understanding of application lifecycles, databases and services. They are not well acquainted with every part of building complex applications.
Mid/regular software engineer – They possess 2 to 4 years of experience and have contributed to various software development projects. This is the point where the developer is competent for all the stages of the development lifecycle – from analysis and design to development, implementation, documentation and testing.
Senior software engineer – They have 4 to 10+ years of experience and are capable of writing complex applications. They have a deep understanding of the entire application lifecycle, databases and services. They are comfortable in working for any area of the application.

Here are the methods and skills you will need to master to become a successful senior software engineer.

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Skills required to become a senior software engineer

Before junior developers start advancing their career, they need to have their fundamental skills in place. There is not one template for what a senior software engineer should know. There are many different skill sets required to be a good senior software engineer. We have listed some of those =

1. Coding skills

One cannot be a senior software engineer without the knowledge of programming, it is a prerequisite of the job. With the existence of so many programming languages, you might be worried whether you can learn them all. It is essential that you should be familiar with different programming languages and operating systems but you should choose only one to master. The most common programming language is JavaScript and the other popular languages are Kotlin, Python, TypeScript and Go. Another important consideration is to know how to code for mobile. Sharpen the mobile skills and you will future proof your career options.

2. Testing skills

Deploying broken or untested code is the biggest bug in production. Hence, testing is one of the greatest skills you can possess. It enables you to test and debug your own code. There are around 10 methods of testing products and by simply mastering 3 of them will have a huge impact on your employability and reputation. It requires you to think logically as even the tiniest of errors can lead to the biggest of the problems. You must structure your thinking and follow the process step by step and unpick what is done to find the real problem.

3. Communication skills

As a senior software engineer, you should be able to clearly express your ideas and make others spot how to improve for an enhanced result. Your job is far beyond just writing the code and to achieve better results, you must work as a part of the team and clearly communicate with your colleagues. If you have a challenging bug ahead of you, you can also ask for help from your team to solve the problem in interesting and new ways.

4. Organizational skills

For a senior software engineer, the skill of planning is very essential. You must understand the requirement and scope of the project and then prioritise the important tasks, define deadlines along with maintaining a high level of performance to release a high-quality product on time. To add further, attention to the details is also very important when it comes to fixing the bugs to identify the smallest of glitches.

5. Documentation

In a software engineer job, the code must be concise and clean along with documenting the work with your new API. There are many ways in which you can improve your documentation skills and its easier when you are using software like Jira for ticket tracking or creating program flow diagrams. You can also learn the best practices from experienced senior software engineers in your team.

6. Software development principles

Senior software engineers need to be comprehensive in the skillset. You should know the design patterns which give a base structure to handle different behaviours that meet the business requirements. Also, it is important for a senior software engineer to be up to date with the latest frameworks to know if there is a better solution around.

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How to get remote senior software engineer jobs?

The senior software engineers are responsible for building, developing, launching and maintaining applications, systems and platforms. They are skilled enough to make the impossible possible which is a highly attractive trait. Provided we live in a modern world, our lives revolve around smart devices and technology, the senior software engineers are welcomed with open arms in the IT industry.
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Turing's commitments are long-term and full-time. As one project draws to a close, our team gets to work identifying the next one for you in a matter of weeks.

Work from the comfort of your home

Turing allows you to work according to your convenience. We have flexible working hours and you can work for top U.S. firms from the comfort of your home.

Great compensation

Working with top U.S. corporations, Turing developers make more than the standard market pay in most nations.

How much does Turing pay their senior software engineers?

At Turing, every senior software engineer is allowed to set their rate. However, Turing will recommend a salary at which we know we can find a fruitful and long-term opportunity for you. Our recommendations are based on our assessment of market conditions and the demand that we see from our customers.

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Turing is an AGI infrastructure company specializing in post-training large language models (LLMs) to enhance advanced reasoning, problem-solving, and cognitive tasks. Founded in 2018, Turing leverages the expertise of its globally distributed technical, business, and research experts to help Fortune 500 companies deploy customized AI solutions that transform operations and accelerate growth. As a leader in the AGI ecosystem, Turing partners with top AI labs and enterprises to deliver cutting-edge innovations in generative AI, making it a critical player in shaping the future of artificial intelligence.

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We, at Turing, hire remote developers for over 100 skills like React/Node, Python, Angular, Swift, React Native, Android, Java, Rails, Golang, PHP, Vue, among several others. We also hire engineers based on tech roles and seniority.

Communication is crucial for success while working with American clients. We prefer candidates with a B1 level of English i.e. those who have the necessary fluency to communicate without effort with our clients and native speakers.

Currently, we have openings only for the developers because of the volume of job demands from our clients. But in the future, we might expand to other roles too. Do check out our careers page periodically to see if we could offer a position that suits your skills and experience.

Our unique differentiation lies in the combination of our core business model and values. To advance AGI, Turing offers temporary contract opportunities. Most AI Consultant contracts last up to 3 months, with the possibility of monthly extensions—subject to your interest, availability, and client demand—up to a maximum of 10 continuous months. For our Turing Intelligence business, we provide full-time, long-term project engagements.

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Staff Software Engineer, AI


About the Client

Founded by engineers from  Stanford, Cisco Meraki, and Samsara, we are one of the fastest-growing Video AI companies in the U.S., transforming standard cameras into powerful AI tools that elevate safety, security, and operations for businesses nationwide. In just four years, we have processed more than 1  billion hours of video, and today ingest more daily new videos than  YouTube. Our industry-leading Video AI agents are changing physical operations and defining what video AI can accomplish for physical  operations. We are challenging and disrupting the $30 billion video surveillance market with a plug-and-play camera agnostic solution that is expanding use-cases beyond traditional security. Our approach has fueled fast adoption across 17 industries, powering nearly 1000  businesses and over 70,000 camera feeds. Our exceptionally talented team has created a high growth trajectory that has attracted almost $100 million in investment from top venture firms, including  Redpoint, Scale Venture Partners, Bessemer, StepStone and Qualcomm.



About the Role

We are looking for like-minded builders. We are an extremely passionate and ambitious team building a company designed to outlast our lifetime. No  matter the role or level, we’re looking for more teammates who share the same  high-performance mindset:

  • Relentless Drive: You have extreme ambition and something to prove. Challenges fuels you. Building isn’t just what you do; it’s who you are.
  • Builder’s Mentality: You  thrive on creating new solutions, not maintaining the status quo. If  you've founded a company, been employee number 1 - 20, or have run a  venture for over two years, we’re especially excited to meet you!
  • High Hustle, High Humility: You combine high IQ with high EQ, a low ego, and an unyielding work ethic that pushes you to be among the best at what you do.

Our cultural pillars guide how we operate. We:

  • Spend Strategically. We maximize resources and minimize waste.
  • Push for Progress. We make decisions, move fast, and celebrate action.
  • Obsess Over Customers: We remove friction and add value to create delight.
  • Trust Our Team: Respect, trust and collaboration are non-negotiable.
  • Act Like Owners: We say what we’ll do, and we do what we say, taking pride and responsibility in our work.
  • Never Stop Having Fun: We’re creating something epic, and we’re having fun doing it.


Who you are

  • You are self-motivated and accountable. You  excel with ownership and autonomy, producing high quality outcomes with  minimal direction and oversight. You have strong intuition on what's  most important to work on, and can focus on the most critical items.
  • You are a balanced visionary. You  contribute to strategy with an ability to see the big picture, while  also appreciating details with a drive to make meaningful, hands-on  contributions.
  • You are a humble expert. You  bring strong expertise and nuanced perspectives on the latest AI  technology, while staying open to new ideas and new ways of doing  things. You focus on getting it right in a team setting, rather than  being right.
  • You strive for the next level. You’re ready to stretch your impact and influence and are ready to take on larger scale challenges and/or act as a mentor.
  • You bring rich AI experience. You  have a strong background in AI, ideally with video processing  experience, however, experienced practitioners in AI can adapt as  necessary. You understand classic deep learning techniques, from YOLO to  transformer models to linear classifiers. Yet, you also have experience  with the latest AI foundation models, from embeddings to LLMs and  prompt engineering.
  • You are a creative thinker and problem solver. You  naturally think outside the box to solve new sets of customer problems,  even with few resources. You have a keen eye and technical frameworks  for setting an AI technical direction based on customer context.
  • You bring high-scale technical excellence. You  deeply understand software design, architecture, big-data processing  pipelines, and best practices on systems design + scalability, code  quality, and data/model design. You appreciate the finer details, such  as edge model optimizations, vector indexes and how they work, or how to  design a maintainable data schema. You’ve designed and led complex  systems, shaped multi-team architectures, and created frameworks that  prevent defects and improve validation across products.
  • You’re a debugging and operational excellence expert. You adopt observability tools, tackle unfamiliar codebases, and develop  resources like runbooks to prevent issues. You have an eye for  impending technical issues or optimization opportunities, and  architectural improvements that could be made to increase overall  engineering productivity.
  • You’re a technical leader. You  understand the skill and personal strengths of team members,  effectively mentoring them and placing engineers into the projects that  make them and the company successful
  • You bring 6+ years in software engineering, with significant expertise in AI plus a strong track record in high-quality system delivery.


Responsiilities

You’ll  play a critical role in advancing our capabilities, using your AI  expertise to drive innovative solutions for businesses with physical  environments—from manufacturing plants to car dealerships. Leading the  design and integration of AI-driven features, you’ll elevate both new  and existing products, focusing on scalable, real-world applications  that improve safety, operations, and efficiency. Working closely with  cross-functional teams, you’ll apply cutting-edge AI techniques to  transform video data into actionable insights that empower our clients.  By setting standards in AI reliability and performance, you’ll ensure  Spot AI’s product suite consistently delivers high-impact outcomes.



What excites you:

  • Working  on and thinking about the latest models across multiple domains, such  as Dinov2, CLIP, GPT4o/Gemini. Applying these models to real world  physical problems to enhance safety, operations, and efficiency.
  • Working  with a datastream of over 200k datapoints and embeddings a second,  wrangling this into actionable insights with fast and accurate queries.
  • Helping  to democratize and educate about the latest foundational models to  customers and team members, helping them share your vision of what AI  can do for the world.
  • Working with a global, several thousand  node distributed hybrid edge-cloud, processing millions of hours of  video a day.A place that gives you the room to learn from failure while  driving excellence.
  • Advancing our AI’s product capabilities  by applying cutting-edge AI techniques, helping transform video data  into powerful, real-world solutions for our clients.
  • Designing  and implementing AI-driven features across new and existing products,  with a focus on scalability and tangible value for diverse industries.
  • Diving  into complex challenges in video intelligence, using your expertise to  bring actionable insights to businesses in physical environments.
  • Collaborating  closely with cross-functional teams to build tools and frameworks that  set a new standard for AI performance and reliability in our industry.
  • Mentoring and guiding other engineers to foster collaboration and innovation that increase project impact.
  • A culture where hard work that drives great outcomes is expected, celebrated, and rewarded.
  • A place where you can make industry-wide impact and contribute to one of the most exciting technologies of our time

Offer Details

  • Full-time contractor (no benefits)
  • Remote only, full-time dedication (40 hours/week)
  • 6 hours of overlap with Pacific Timezone
  • Competitive compensation package.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and career development.
  • Dynamic and inclusive work environment focused on innovation and teamwork
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Senior Java Engineer – Snowflake Integration

Job Title: Senior Java Engineer – Snowflake Integration

Experience: 6–10 Years
Location: Gurugram
Work Mode: Hybrid (3 Days Work From Office)

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Java Engineer with strong experience in Java 17+, backend system development, and Snowflake integration, to build and maintain enterprise-grade data and transaction systems in the BFSI domain. The role involves working on high-scale, secure, and compliant platforms handling critical financial data.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Java 17+
  • Integrate Java applications with Snowflake Data Cloud for analytics and reporting use cases
  • Build and optimize data pipelines between transactional systems and Snowflake
  • Design and consume RESTful APIs for internal and external integrations
  • Ensure data security, governance, and compliance as per BFSI standards
  • Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Collaborate with data engineering, DevOps, and product teams
  • Participate in architecture discussions and technical design reviews
  • Support production systems and perform root cause analysis when required

Mandatory Technical Skills

Core Java & Backend

  • Strong hands-on experience with Java 17 or higher
  • Deep understanding of OOP, multithreading, concurrency, and JVM internals
  • Experience with Spring / Spring Boot
  • Strong experience building RESTful microservices
  • Experience with Hibernate / JPA

Snowflake & Data Integration

  • Hands-on experience integrating applications with Snowflake
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Snowflake architecture and data storage concepts
    • Virtual warehouses, databases, schemas
  • Experience using Snowflake connectors (JDBC/ODBC) from Java
  • Knowledge of data ingestion and transformation patterns
  • Understanding of SQL optimization in Snowflake

Databases

  • Strong experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL / Oracle / MySQL)
  • Advanced SQL skills and performance tuning
  • Experience handling large datasets and analytical queries

Cloud, DevOps & Tools

  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)
  • Familiarity with Docker and containerized deployments
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Working knowledge of Linux environments
  • Experience with version control systems (Git)

BFSI Domain Experience (Mandatory)

  • Proven experience working in Banking, Financial Services, or Insurance
  • Understanding of:
    • Transaction processing systems
    • Data privacy and regulatory compliance
    • Security standards (encryption, access control, auditing)
  • Experience working on high-availability, mission-critical systems

Soft Skills

  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Ownership mindset and attention to detail

Good to Have

  • Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka / MQ)
  • Exposure to data warehousing or analytics platforms
  • Experience with Agile / Scrum environments
  • Knowledge of financial reporting or risk systems

Ideal Candidate Profile

  • 6–10 years of backend development experience
  • Strong Java 17+ expertise with enterprise application exposure
  • Hands-on Snowflake integration experience
  • Solid BFSI domain background
  • Willingness to work 3 days from Gurugram office
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Core JavaSpring BootOOP+ 2
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