AWS Solution Architect

Position: Senior Backend Developer (Python + FastAPI + GCP)

Engagement Type: Remote

Location: Remote

Position Overview:

Seeking a Senior Backend Developer with 6–8 years of experience to design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems using Python and FastAPI on Google Cloud Platform, ensuring high performance, reliability, and secure deployments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable, high-performance backend systems using Python (FastAPI) with clean architecture and modular design principles.

• Architect and implement microservices and RESTful APIs ensuring reliability, security, and optimal response times.

• Own end-to-end system design from schema definition to deployment with focus on high availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.

• Manage DevOps pipelines for CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure automation using Docker, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.

• Deploy, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage.

• Collaborate with frontend, AI, and data engineering teams to define robust API contracts and efficient data flows.

• Implement observability practices including logging, tracing, and alerting using Stackdriver, Prometheus, or Grafana.

• Conduct code reviews, system design sessions, and performance tuning for production-grade deployments.

Required Skills:

• Strong expertise in Python with a focus on FastAPI.

• Solid understanding of software architecture and design patterns.

• Experience with API design and authentication (OAuth2, JWT).

• Deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Compute Engine, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, and IAM policies.

• Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Cloud Build.

• Hands-on experience with databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Firestore and ORM frameworks such as SQLAlchemy or Tortoise ORM.

• Knowledge of system monitoring, alerting, and logging in distributed systems.

Preferred (Bonus) Skills:

• Experience with API Gateway, Redis, or Celery for async processing.

• Familiarity with message queues like Kafka or RabbitMQ.

• Exposure to event-driven architecture and cloud cost optimization strategies.

• Understanding of DevSecOps and cloud security best practices.

• Experience working with cross-functional product and data teams.

Position = Java Developer

We are looking forward to hire a committed Java Developer with experience in building high performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be part of our Engineering team that works on mission-critical applications. You will be managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.

You are required to:

Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.

Write well designed, testable & efficient code.

Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.

Prepare and produce releases of software components.

Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

Technical Skills required

Java, Springboot, Microservices, Data structures & Algorithms, MySQL, NoSQL, Mongodb and Hibernate.

OUR CURRENT STACK

Backend: Spring (JAVA), Laravel (PHP), MySQL, NoSQL, NGINX Plus.

Frontend: Angular 5+ Ngrx/store 5

Infrastructure: Google cloud platform (App engine, CloudSQL, BigQuery, PubSub, Firebase Hosting), Scrapy Cloud, Pusher.io (websockets), Getstream.io, Filestack, Postmark app, AS2 Gateway, Google Cloud Endpoints Framework, MongoDB, Algolia, Memcache

Tools: Gitlab, Postman app, JIRA. Wondering what your Responsibilities would be? Technical Skills required O

You are where our search ends, if you hold:

B. Tech/ M. Tech or corresponding degree

Experience in the same role of almost 1-6 years

Experience with connecting backend and frontend services.

Exposure to consuming data through different interfaces (Web API's/Socket/ REST/ RESTFUL/ JSON/ XML).

Proficiency in Data Structures and Algorithms.

Understanding of web markup, including HTML 5 CSS.

Understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks.

Ability to write clean, reusable and well documented code.

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Knowledge of API authentication techniques (Token, JWT, OAuth2) - desirable but not mandatory. (Experience with API Design will be a plus)

Fair spoken and written English Flexibility - Things change around here. FAST!

Other Inter-personal skills like self-motivation, persistency, patience and eagerness to learn and work independently.

• 2.5+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Experience in AWS.
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 2+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Full Stack Engineer (RUBY ON RAILS + REACT)

About Us

DirectShifts has set out to modernize healthcare recruiting. We're a team of physicians, entrepreneurs, and problem solvers who have come together to solve major pain points facing medical professionals today.

We've built a healthcare staffing technology platform that connects healthcare professionals directly with employers by using advanced technologies and digitizing the recruitment and staffing processes. Using an AI-based platform, DirectShifts matches the right clinicians to the right jobs at healthcare employers.

DirectShifts is headquartered in New York, NY and our team is spread across the US and India. Join us!

About What You’ll Be Doing

DirectShifts is growing rapidly and we are looking for a full-stack engineer to join our technical team, working out of India. We need incredibly tenacious engineers who are not only great engineers but who can bring unique value to our rapidly growing team.

If you are passionate about coding – and do it on a day-to-day basis, then this is the place for you.

We are big fans of focusing mainly on two things: 1) talking to users and 2) build products. 

You will be responsible for implementing ideas and mocks for our app (web and mobile) which is used daily by healthcare professionals, internal users, and healthcare employers - you will own the frontend development as well as the building blocks and the APIs that power the web app (and the mobile apps). You need to be comfortable dabbling with some basic infrastructure management on AWS.

About You

Ideal Qualifications

• Recent Hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and React.js
• 4+ years of work experience, primarily as a full-stack developer
• A strong foundation of Ruby on Rails
• Strong React, HTML, Javascript & CSS skills
• High ownership at all stages of product development - from conception to maintenance
• Adaptability - learn new technologies as and when needed
• Good communication skills to get your point across
• Bachelor in Computer Science
• Ability to work remotely

Bonus Skills

• Redux experience
• Experience with REST APIs
• Experience with cloud services (preferably AWS)

Specifically, You Will:

Work closely with the founders and senior management across various functions. You will have the opportunity to influence the trajectory of the products and of the company. This is a great opportunity to help healthcare systems & professionals become more efficient which directly helps them provide better care, improve outcomes and save more lives!

You will excel if you have

An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and the ability to iterate quickly by understanding what users want. 

More about DirectShifts

We have raised more than $45 million from some of the world’s leading investors including Serent Capital, YCombinator, and Soma Capital. We're on a mission to disrupt a massive industry and improve healthcare in the United States by ensuring every patient has easy access to the healthcare they need. At DirectShifts, everyone has a voice to create change and move the needle; no hierarchy, no bureaucracy, no politics, no BS...just real people working on solving real problems.

We enable humans & machines with internet connectivity at a price that they can afford.

The inspiration for Wifi Dabba came from the founders working together for the last decade in the mobile application industry and realising the biggest reason for user churn being access to cheap and affordable internet access. From having worked on ground onboarding users and facing poor connectivity issues all the time, we took it on ourselves to fix the internet access problem for the common citizen.

At Wifi Dabba (YC W17), we are building a low cost, scalable & distributed Wi-Fi infrastructure to connect next billion users online. We do this by deploying a grid of lasers (Free Space Optics) over the cities & town and bring cheap and fast internet for everyone. We enable anyone to buy 1 gig of data access at a time at a price they can afford. Sachetization of internet access is the foundation to rebuilding internet for all. We do this by leveraging crypto and blockchain to truly make internet infrastructure ownership distributed — our vision is to be connectivity layer for the Web3 world.

• You will get the chance to be an early team member at a fast-growth YC startup.
• You get to define the future of telecom infrastructure ownership and operations.
• We’re a tight-knit team where you'll learn a ton and have ownership.
• Opportunity to build for the next billion users.

• Strong engineering background preferably in Computer Science
• Experience architecting, developing, and testing full-stack code end-to-end
• Experience working with relational & NoSQL databases
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience working with MERN Stack, performing unit/feature testing, and managing REST APIs.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Knowledge of any one frontend framework/libraries like Angular/VueJs/ReactJS.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools like GIT, SVN.
• Experience in building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications.
• Experience in designing and developing responsive design websites with any frontend css frameworks like Bootstrap/Tailwind CSS.
• Build backend APIs and services that power new products that interact with Solana (or other) blockchains
• Build front-end Web3 interfaces that interact with your backend code
• Participate in design discussions with business users, web producers and engineering teams.
• Perform requirements analysis, high-level design, effort estimation for new business requirements and feature enhancements.
• Write clean, concise, and sustainable code.
• Team player who enjoys collaborative effort.

• Entrepreneurial mindset (we encourage all employees to be future founders and this can be a great stepping stone towards that)
• You’re passionate about crypto, Web3
• Customer-centric and passionate about working in a small & focused team
• Previous experience building/working in telecom software or infrastructure
• Previous experience building web3 project - DeFi / Blockchain infrastructure
• Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup

The primary responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
• Manage stakeholder planning and communications ensuring key outcomes
• Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineering and management talent
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization.
• Provide a strong understanding of native mobile developer platforms and bring broad thought leadership to the next generation mobile developer experience.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent products and programs from delivering on product and program objectives.
• Balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems; holds internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate.

REQUIRED

• 8+ years of industry experience with 2+ years of senior leadership experience.
• Solid track record of over-achieving engineering and platform delivery and scaling targets in high volume, innovative and fast-paced high-pressure environment; proven results in delivery on platform product.
• Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Python/Scala. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs with skilled knowledge on UI technologies like Angular 2+, React, D3.JS
• Working experience with Agile methodologies and durable team concepts.
• Knowledge in DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge in Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, Testing methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, Kafka
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.

• IIT/NIT Graduates Preferred
• B.E/B.Tech with 1-2 years of experience in Ruby on Rails
• Hands on experience with using libraries such as RSpec, Beanstalkd, Faye and   background processing.
• Good knowledge of at least one of the Javascript frameworks like EmberJS, AngularJS
• Have a background in functional composition of web pages using HTML / CSS, and  turning a wireframe design into a well-formatted, user-friendly responsive web page
• Follow best practices like test-driven development, continuous integration, Agile    methodology, refactoring and code standards
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools e.g. Git, Mercurial or SVN
• Good knowledge of schema less databases such as Elastic search, redis as well as  Relational Databases such as PostgreSQL
• Excellent problem solving skills and bringing in new, innovative ideas to the table to  make the platform more productive
• Hands-on experience on deployment and maintenance of server (knowledge about AWS  and performance monitoring tools like NewRelic / CloudWatch will be a great plus)
• Should be committed to the job and the growth opportunity in a startup
• Should enjoy working as part of a team
• Should be  proactive, self-driven, and able to thrive in a fast-moving startup environment 
• Should communicate fluently and effectively in English, internally and with external partners

Job Description :

• 3 or more years of experience of server side web systems engineering and middleware in a project services or product engineering organisation
• Hands-on development experience using JavaScript on the Server Side with Node.js and associated frameworks
• Published sites/systems that are now online
• Self motivation and ability to manage your own time to get the job done at the high international quality levels we expect
• An engineering Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• A solid understanding of networking, storage, operating/browser systems engineering as well as application/software systems performance optimisation and third party systems integration
• Hands on experience with Amazon Web Services
• Prior experience working within the Media, E-commerce, Telecommunications or similar large scale consumer facing industry