Nishchay Jain

Senior Software Engineer (Full-time) / Backend Platform Lead & Engineering Operations at Criteria Corp.

Handle

@nishchay

Role

Senior Software Engineer (Full-time) / Backend Platform Lead & Engineering Operations

Company

Criteria Corp.

Location

Bengaluru

Languages

English, Hindi

Open to

NA

About

I build scalable full-stack applications and distributed systems across FinTech, Enterprise SaaS, and HiringTech. I work with React, Next.js, Node.js, AWS, GCP, Generative AI, LLM APIs, and RAG systems to develop AI-enabled products and lead complex engineering workstreams.

Experience

• Senior Software Engineer (Full-time) / Backend Platform Lead & Engineering Operations at Criteria Corp.
  Apr 2024 to now - Remote
  Designed a scalable AI-powered scoring pipeline using LLM-based models within a distributed microservices architecture. Architected a scalable integrations marketplace supporting 60+ ATS and HR platforms and built a production-grade Salesforce CRM integration.
• SDE 2 / Program & Module Lead at Signzy Technologies
  Nov 2022 to Apr 2024 - Bengaluru, India
  Architected a scalable microservices-based Video KYC platform used by leading Indian banks and NBFCs, supporting thousands of daily verifications with liveness detection, face matching, geo-location validation, encrypted recordings with audit trails, and verification service integrations. Designed a real-time MIS reporting and observability system capturing 50+ operational event scenarios.
• Software Engineer / Technical Assessment Lead at EPAM Systems
  Nov 2020 to Nov 2022 - Hyderabad, India
  Designed and optimized a scalable backend reporting engine capable of processing 1000+ record datasets, reducing report generation latency from 2 minutes to 4 seconds. Architected and delivered a unified application platform by consolidating six legacy enterprise systems.

Education

• Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre
  B.Tech, Information Technology
  2016 to 2020
  Jaipur, Raj. CGPA: 8.41/10

Skills

• Distributed Systems
• System Design
• Microservices
• Event-Driven Architecture
• AI/LLMs
• RAG
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• React
• Next.js
• Node.js
• AWS

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