Compensation: ₹15 – 20 LPA + meaningful equity in API.market / Noveum.ai
Reporting to: Founder/CEO
🚀 About Noveum.ai & API.market
Noveum.ai (formerly MagicAPI) is a profitable, fast-growing startup building infrastructure for the next wave of AI applications. Our platform is used by over 4,000 customers from over 60+ countries. We have built over 40+ Image & video models that we sell on API.market/enterprise.
Our two flagship products:
- API.market – a global marketplace for AI models & APIs.
- Noveum.ai – an automated model-evaluation platform that lets teams benchmark cost, latency, and accuracy before going to production.
We run lean (single-digit headcount) and ship features at the pace most teams can only pitch.
👥 Leadership
- Shashank Agarwal – Founder & CEO (ex-AWS SageMaker, 10 + yrs building large-scale ML infra)
- Additi Upadhyay – Co-Founder & CPO (8 + yrs driving product & growth)
You’ll work directly with us—no layers, no silos, maximum impact.
🖥️ Tech Stack
- Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
- Backend: Node.js, PostgreSQL + Prisma, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
- Clouds: AWS, GCP, Azure, OVHCloud, Replicate, RunPod
🌟 What You’ll Do
- Own end-to-end engineering for API.market: from feature design to production rollout.
- Keep our marketplace blazing fast and >99.9 % available—identify / fix performance bottlenecks before users notice.
- Design APIs and micro-services that scale to 10M+ monthly requests.
- Automate CI/CD, observability, and cost-optimization workflows across five clouds.
- Pair with the CPO to turn customer feedback into delightful product experiences.
- Mentor junior engineers; establish coding standards and best practices.
- Continuously challenge “good enough” with data-driven proposals for improvement.
✅ Must-Haves
- 5 + yrs professional software engineering experience (at least 3 yrs with React/Next.js).
- Strong CS fundamentals—algorithms, data structures, networking, distributed systems.
- Production experience with relational DBs (PostgreSQL preferred) and one or more caches/queues (Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Hands-on Kubernetes (Helm, autoscaling, monitoring).
- Comfortable writing clean, typed JavaScript/TypeScript and idiomatic Node.js.
- Proven ability to debug complex, distributed systems under real-world load.
- Excellent written & spoken English; able to thrive in async remote culture.
✨ Nice-to-Haves
- Deployed or fine-tuned an AI/ML model in production (Torch, TensorFlow, HF, etc.).
- Prior startup or early-stage ownership experience.
- Contributions to OSS (especially React, Next.js, infra, or ML tooling).
- Exposure to FAANG-scale engineering practices—yet hungry for the speed of startups.
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Grafana/Loki, Elastic APM, Datadog).
🎁 What We Offer
- Real ownership – equity that grows with the company you help build.
- Remote-first – work from anywhere within ±5 hours of IST; we default to async.
- High impact – your code will be used by thousands of developers within days.
- Blameless culture – we learn from incidents and share knowledge openly.
- Hardware stipend – set up the rig you need.
- Learning budget – books, courses, conferences on us.
- Transparent metrics – revenue, burn, roadmap are shared company-wide.
🔎 Hiring Process
- Online Assessment (2 hrs) – Complete a comprehensive coding test with algorithmic problems and programming MCQs to showcase your technical expertise.
- Technical Interview (60 min) – Live coding session over Zoom/Google Meet to discuss problem-solving approaches and code implementation.
- System Design Round (90 min) – Deep dive into architecture, scalability, and best practices through real-world system design challenges.
- Culture Fit (45 min) – Connect with the team to ensure mutual alignment on values, work style, and company vision.
- Offer – Final discussions on compensation, benefits, and start date.
Total turnaround: 2-3 weeks.
📬 How to Apply
We reply to every application—even if it’s a “not yet.”
If building the backbone of global AI commerce sounds thrilling, let’s talk.