
As an Associate Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to collaborate on the creation and maintenance of scalable, high-quality software as we grow. You'll work closely with the CTO and quickly gain skills and responsibilities as the team and the technical requirements grow.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop RESTful APIs leveraging Django classes, ORM and Postgres Database
- Develop solutions that meet business objectives while leveraging industry best practices
- Write high-quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
Technical Competencies
- Expertise with Python language
- Experience with Django: maintaining APIs
- Familiarity using Git, code repositories, branching and merging strategies
- Ability to break down complex concepts, tasks, or problems into more simple, understandable language and action plans
- Excellent communication skills, and attention to detail
- Good Documentation skills
Perks
- Work from home
- Flexible work schedule
- Flexible standup meetings
Interview Process
- Two technical rounds with Senior Developer and CTO
- Cultural Fit interview with Project Manager
Please do not apply if you don't have professional Django work experience.

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About Us
Binocs.co empowers institutional lenders with next-generation loan management software, streamlining the entire loan lifecycle and facilitating seamless interaction among stakeholders.
Team: Binocs.co is led by a passionate team with extensive experience in financial technology, lending, AI, and software development.
Investors: Our journey is backed by renowned investors who share our vision for transforming the loan management landscape: Beenext, Arkam Ventures, Accel, Saison Capital, Blume Ventures, Premji Invest, and Better Capital.
What we're looking for
We seek a motivated, talented, and intelligent individual who shares our vision of being a changemaker. We value individuals dissatisfied with the status quo, strive to make improvements, and envision making significant contributions. We look for those who embrace challenges and dedicate themselves to solutions. We seek individuals who push for data-driven decisions, are unconstrained by titles, and value collaboration. We are building a fast-paced team to shape various business and technology aspects.
Responsibilities
- Be a part of the initial team to define and set up a best-in-class digital platform for the Private Credit industry, and take full ownership of the components of the digital platform
- You will build robust and scalable web-based applications and need to think of platforms & reuse
- Driving and active contribution to High-Level Designs(HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
- Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Mentor team members in adopting effective coding practices. Conduct comprehensive code reviews, focusing on both functional and non-functional aspects.
- Ensure the security, performance, and reliability of backend systems through proper testing, monitoring, and optimization.
- Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and agile development processes to maintain code quality and project timelines.
- Simply, be an owner of the platform and do whatever it takes to get the required output for customers
- Be curious about product problems and have an open mind to dive into new domains eg: gen-AI.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest development trends, tools, and technologies.
Qualifications
- experience in backend development
- Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g.,Python, Golang, Node.js, Java) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
- Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc)
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
- Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
- Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
- Experience of cloud computing platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Knowledge of Test Driven Development
Good to have
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Knowledge of serverless computing and event-driven architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
- Understanding of DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
- Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in developer communities.
- Experience working LLMs and AI technologies


💥 What will you do?
As a Backend Engineer, you will
- Create and maintain server-side code
- Designing database schemas to support business requirements
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Write unit tests
- Stay up to date with current best practices
- Collaborate with front end engineers
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data, and Design teams to assist with web-application-related technical issues and support their requirements.
🙋 What are we looking for?
While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are
- 2+ years of relevant work experience as a Backend engineer using Python frameworks like Django, Flask, etc
- Experience with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Good understanding of OOP concepts
- Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Experience writing unit tests for the application is a plus
- Experience with building REST APIs
- Superior analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
Requirements:
- Energetic self-starter, with a desire to work in a startup environment.
- Proficient in advanced Java programming skills.
- Expert in Application development cloud/on premise end to end. Middle layer, DB layer.
- Nice to have understanding on MQ and DB
- Good hands on in Complex Event Processing systems.
- Solved scale and performance issues while dealing with huge sets of data. Pre compute or data aggregation frameworks to achieve good response time.
- Real world experience working with large datasets and NoSQL database technologies
- Experience of debugging applications running on Unix like systems (e.g. Ubuntu, CentOS)
- Experience developing RESTful APIs for complex data sets
- Knowledge of container based development & deployment (e.g. Dockers, rkt)
- Expertise in software security domain, a plus
Must Have: •At least 6+ years in web services development and solid understanding of web technologies in JAVA •Strong Expertise in building & deploying application on any of the major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) •Strong expertise with Docker/Kubernetes •Working knowledge of building Micro Services, RESTful web Services using any framework (Spring Boot, JaxRS, Jersey) •Strong Expertise of writing JUnits & How to configure it through maven •Good understanding of NoSQL databases and have worked upon any one of them (HBase, Cassandra, Big query, Mongo) •Good understanding of Message Queues and have worked upon any one of them (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub Sub) •Good understanding of Maven, Git •Good understanding of Jenkins, CI/CD architecture •Good understanding of Programming Algorithms and Data Structures •Experience with BDD & Cucumber
Good to Have: •Monitoring experience – Stackdriver or Prometheus or Azure equivalent •Operational readiness – SLI/SLO, DevOps experience •Service mesh – ex: Istio •Any OpenShift experience •Knowledge on Graph technology •Have worked upon any of the big data technologies •Have worked upon tools like white source, Veracode... •Knowledge of Python and Angular •Integration tests using BDD Framework (Cucumber) •Good understanding of Streaming technologies and processing engines (Dataflow, Flink, Spark) •Knowledge of VSTS |

1) Looking for a Senior Python Developer who will be responsible to understand, decode and maintain a pre-coded web application (Platform).
2) Primary focus will be on resolving real-time bugs on the live platform, testing, maintaining it fully functional, and making it live.
3) Work with the team to define, design, and deliver new features.
4) Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
5) Implementation of security and data protection.
6) Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient, reusable and testable code.
7) Should be able to participate in the requirements gathering and come up with efficient solutions.
8) Ensure platform is up-to-date with the latest technologies.
9) Should be a problem solver to contribute toward the success of the start-up.
10) Develop/Improve the core infrastructure and optimize the platform for high scalability.
11) Should be familiar with startup culture and be comfortable working with early-stage start-up.
Skills and Requirements: -
1) Expert in Python with complete knowledge of Python’s web framework ‘Django’ and related frameworks.
2) Good understanding of AWS and Azure platforms and able to make the platform optimize on the hosting, maintaining workload balancing on server.
3) Stronghold on Nginx, Redis and Celery.
4) A good experience in WebSocket to maintain In-Platform Chats.
5) Basic understanding of front-end technologies like Bootstrap, JavaScript,
JQuery, HTML5, CSS and AJAX while experience in Angular, Node JS, and React will be an added advantage.
6) Good hands-on experience in Creating REST APIs and API Integration with best coding practices.
7) Good knowledge of Relational and Non-Relational Databases.
8) Understanding of online payment gateways and integration knowledge.
9) Good understanding on Web Servers.
10) Experience working in an Agile development environment.
11) Data structure analysis and algorithm design, Solving complex performance problems and challenges.
12) Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like GIT and SVN.
13) Able to work with complex SQL queries and stored procedures.
14) Strong unit testing, integration testing and debugging skills.



Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Additional Job requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
- BS in computer science or related field.
- 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
- Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
- Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
- Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
- Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Responsibilities:
- Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
- Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
- Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performant database queries
- Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
- A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
- Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
- Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions

Ideal candidate must have :
- 2+ years of experience in writing code
- Ability to meet tight deadlines
- Can work independently and be a team contributor
- Must have good knowledge of Node, Python and Scripting languages
- Experience in one or more of RDBMS - PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle
- Experience with NoSQL and real-time DB - Firebase/Firestore or MongoDB
- Must be able to write concise and high-quality API
- Must be a quick learner, curious and ambitious



