Remote senior back-end developer jobs

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

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