Software Engineer - 1 (Backend)

Join Us in Revolutionizing the Construction Industry 

Parspec is transforming how $5 trillion in building construction products are sold annually around the world by digitizing and organizing the industry’s product data. By making this data more accessible and useful, our digital platform enables designers and builders to quickly identify the right products for their projects and helps the supply chain to generate new leads and close deals faster. These benefits are enabled by proprietary AI and workflow automation technology.

Founded in 2021, Parspec has raised over $11M in seed financing from leading deep tech and construction industry investors to achieve its ambitious mission, including Innovation Endeavors (founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt). We invite you to be at the forefront of innovation for one of the oldest and largest industries in the world!

LEADERSHIP

Parspec is helmed by technologists and construction supply chain veterans with a common passion to digitally transform our industry:

Forest Flager (Co-Founder & CEO) - Former Director of Software at Katerra and Stanford University faculty member; Stanford BS, PhD. MIT MEng. Harvard MDes.

Pratyush Havelia (Co-Founder & CTO) - Construction-tech engineering leader for 8+ years; Stanford MS & MEng, IIT-R B.Tech.

ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP

Sharique Arshi (Lead Software Architect) - 10+ years of experience in the software engineering industry while wearing different hats; IIT-G B.Tech.

Saurabh Khemka (AI Lead) - 8+ years of industrial experience in large scale model building and deployment, PhD in Neuroscience - Switzerland, IIT-R B. Tech.

Abhijit Mitra (Lead Frontend Engineer) - Spent 8+ years building highly scalable web applications, monorepo, micro-frontend architecture; ex-Tekion; Gauhati University B.Tech.

Anjali Sinha (Product Manager) - a seasoned product leader with 7+ years of experience in project & product management, operations strategy, and analytics; National University of Singapore - M.Tech

Sameer Kulkarni - (HR and Operations Lead) 7+ years of experience across a number of HR and Operations roles including learning and development, organizational development and project management; SPPU - Masters in Industrial and Organizational Psychology

ROLE SUMMARY

As an early member of the engineering team, you will play a key role in developing the core software and also maintaining & upholding the culture of brilliance in our tightly-knit organization.

You will:

- Develop and maintain data pipelines that are at the core of empowering the product's discovery and AI search capabilities.

- Participate in the transformation of our product into a robust, distributed, and scalable web application that is on par with the best tech products available in the market today.

- Develop high-quality software across all applications of the product.

- Indulge in the full product design, development, and deployment cycle by working closely with the business, product, and engineering teams.

This is an exceptional opportunity to bring an entire industry to the forefront of the digital age, and we are excited to work together with like-minded and ambitious team members like you to realize this potential. It is preferred if the applicant(s) are located in Bengaluru and can report regularly to the office. 

WHO YOU ARE

You have at least 1 year of experience as a Software Engineer and are eager to contribute to innovative projects. You're looking for a challenging opportunity to develop and scale cutting-edge products while growing your skills in a dynamic environment.

You agree with the following:

- You have an entrepreneurial spirit and are excited by the opportunity to shape the development of a young business.

- You are passionate about making an impact in your field of interest.

- You are detail-oriented and meticulous, but also understand the importance of rapid iteration in an agile development environment.

- You are knowledgeable about how digitization & automation have impacted other industries and are excited to find new applications for technology in the construction industry.

- You are not afraid to get your hands dirty and believe that no task is beneath you when it comes to delivering a world-class product.

- You love to learn and are especially good at picking up new concepts quickly.

- You are self-driven and take pride in your work.

- You are willing to occasionally make yourself available outside regular IST working hours to accommodate collaboration with a globally distributed team.

WHAT DOES YOUR ARSENAL LOOK LIKE

Required

- Software development experience with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills as well as a demonstrated passion for technology.

- Experience working with cross-functional teams working towards end-to-end web-app deployment, including concept to code transformation, integration with existing services, infrastructure design, development of testing modules, integration with customer feedback, and support.

- Knowledge of Python or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA.

- Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and data modeling skills.

- Ability to write test cases and scenarios based on specifications.

- Experience leading an initiative from concept to operation, navigating all stages and roadblocks on the way.

Preferred But Optional

- Experience in working with applications hosted on AWS and GCP.

- Experience with DevOps tools like Docker, Ansible, and CI/CD solutions.

- Experience with web app, server, and DB security best practices.

- Experience with the following tools/frameworks / concepts: Django DRF, Web servers and WSGIs (Nginx / Gunicorn, other configurations), web scraping (Scrapy, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, etc.), Elastic Search, OCR (Tesseract or other competing tools), PDF processing (PyPDF2, Apache PDFBox, others), TensorFlow, PyTorch, OpenCV, scikit-learn, similar libraries.

- Experience with distributed architectures and microservices.

- Experience working with geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT 

As an integral part of building Parspec from the ground up, you will share in our success. We offer: 

- Highly competitive salary and benefits that include, among other things - insurance coverage for you and your immediate family, free health teleconsultations, learning and upskilling budgets

- Company equity

- Flexible hours

- Hybrid work setup

- Unlimited PTO

- Opportunity to grow with a rapidly scaling company addressing a large market ripe for digital transformation

THE PARSPEC ETHOS

At Parspec, we lead from every seat. Our team members are self-starters that embrace ambiguity, think big, and bring their own uncompromising standards of excellence. We embrace diversity with a belief that different backgrounds, ideas, and skillsets result in better outcomes. Parspec does not discriminate in employment based on race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, disability, religious or political affiliation, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Parspec encourages people of all backgrounds to apply, including people of color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQIA, people with disabilities, veterans and those with diverse life experiences.