bluCognition
Website:
blucognition.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/blucognition
Seniority: Associate
Industries: Information Technology & Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Financial Services
Job details:
About bluCognition
bluCognition is an AI-powered commercial credit intelligence company serving lenders and financial institutions. Our platform combines commercial credit data contributed by 150+ lenders with AI-driven analytics, banking data and fraud detection to help our clients make faster, better credit decisions. Our product suite includes bluSense, which converts bank statements into standardized, categorized transaction data with real-time financial insights, and FraudLens, which detects document tampering and first-party fraud. Alongside our data products, we run a managed services business supporting underwriting, fraud review, and KYC/KYB and sanctions screening operations for our clients, with teams across North America, Asia and Europe.
About Role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer/Lead who is equally strong across the backend and frontend and can take complete responsibility for delivering tasks and resolving key challenges. You'll design and develop systems and solutions end-to-end — scalable REST APIs with Python and Django/DRF, responsive interfaces in React, and reliable async/event-driven services with Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, and WebSockets. This is a hands on role that also carries team lead responsibilities: guiding a small team, driving R&D on complex problems, and working closely with product managers and other stakeholders to keep deliverables on track.
Key Responsibilities
- Take complete ownership of assigned tasks — from understanding and analyzing requirements to design, development, delivery, and resolving key technical challenges.
- Design and develop systems and solutions across the full stack, applying strong system design and data structures & algorithms (DSA) fundamentals.
- Build and maintain backend services and REST APIs using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework (DRF).
- Develop responsive, performant frontend applications in JavaScript and React.
- Design and implement asynchronous and event-driven workflows using Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, and WebSockets.
- Plan work based on priorities, guide the team, and support them in resolving roadblocks.
- Work as a team lead — delegate effectively, retain ownership of outcomes, and mentor engineers without micromanaging.
- Work closely with product managers and cross-functional teams (QA, DevOps, business stakeholders) to keep deliverables on track.
- Contribute to code reviews and drive improvements in the development process.
- Support the team in brainstorming, resolving production issues, root cause analysis, and fixing performance bottlenecks.
- Drive R&D — stay updated with new tools, frameworks, and innovations, suggest alternate approaches, and help the team overcome growth-related roadblocks.
- Contribute to team activities, including hiring and the interview process.
- Identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities (e.g., XSS, SQL injection, session hijacking) and follow secure coding practices.
Required Skills & Experience
- 4–7 years of professional software development experience building production web applications.
- Strong backend expertise in Python and Django / Django REST Framework (DRF).
- Solid frontend experience with JavaScript and React.
- Proficiency with MySQL — relational data modeling, complex queries, and optimization.
- Hands-on experience with Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, and WebSockets for asynchronous and real-time processing. (Must-have)
- Good knowledge of system design and strong data structures & algorithms (DSA) fundamentals.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a research-and-development (R&D) mindset for tackling complex, ambiguous challenges.
- Comfortable picking up new challenges and quickly learning new tech stacks, tools, and programming languages as needed.
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Sound understanding of web security fundamentals and how to defend against common vulnerabilities.
- Proficiency with Git-based workflows (GitHub) and collaborative development.
- Team lead experience — able to guide a small team and work independently in a remote setup.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and search technologies (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch).
- Experience with FastAPI, or with GenAI/LLM integrations (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Gemini, Llama).
- Familiarity with third-party integrations — payment gateways, identity providers (Okta, PingFederate), or document intelligence services.
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
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