Back End Developer

Software Development Engineer

📍 Bangalore (On-site) · Reporting to the CTO · 2–7 years experience

We're hiring a Software Development Engineer to build the systems that keep real-world operations running - from customer-facing products to the internal tools field teams rely on every morning. If you want your code to matter to people standing in a warehouse or walking a route, not just to a dashboard, read on.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and ship across the stack: backend services, APIs, mobile and web field apps, and operational dashboards
• Build the systems that run daily operations: deployment, attendance, check-in/check-out, work verification, and issue resolution
• Make products work where the network doesn't — offline-first and vernacular-first experiences built for field-heavy, low-connectivity conditions
• Own features end to end, from design discussions to deployment to on-call
• Work shoulder to shoulder with Product, Ops, and field users to solve what's actually happening on the ground
• Contribute to the data pipelines and analytics that power planning, forecasting, and unit economics

What we're looking for

• 2–7 years building and shipping production software
• Comfortable across the stack, or deep in one area and eager to stretch
• A strong ownership mindset — you ship, you debug production issues at odd hours, and you care whether it actually works for the user
• Pragmatic with trade-offs, able to balance speed against quality without losing either
• Bonus: experience building for low-bandwidth, offline-first, next-billion-user contexts

Must have :

• Strong Experience in Python development
• Familiarity with Data Structures and Algorithms
• Experience in developing Enterprise scale applications
• Exposure to NLP
• Exposure / awareness of AI, ML
• Exposure to Windows Azure is an added advantage
• God understanding of project architecture and software development processes such as Agile and Scrum

Responsibilities :

• Partner with Business Stakeholders to translate business objectives into clearly defined analytical Projects
• Own the end-end process, from recognizing the problem to implementing the solution
• Understand customer’s requirements and design the optimum solution using Icertis’ AI applications
• Configure, Extend, and optimize Icertis AI app through Python scripts, NLP NER Analysis and other mechanisms
• Take full ownership of project / product features to implement, provide bug fixes and write tests and tooling for those features to ensure they work well at cloud scale.
• Plan and identify solutions and risks in assigned work
• You are expected to be hands on and write code on day to day basis and also mentor other team members

Primary Skills: Database Systems (SQL), Python Flask/Fast API/Django frameworks specifically
Requirements:

• Highly proficient in fundamentals of Python web development frameworks like Flask, Django and Fast API
• Demonstrated experience in developing APIs using Python frameworks
• Should have deep knowledge in PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server and other SQL based Databases

What You'll Do


You will be part of our data platform & data engineering team. As part of this agile team, you will work in our cloud native environment and perform following activities to support core product development and client specific projects:

• You will develop the core engineering frameworks for an advanced self-service data analytics product.
• You will work with multiple types of data storage technologies such as relational, blobs, key-value stores, document databases and streaming data sources.
• You will work with latest technologies for data federation with MPP (Massive Parallel Processing) capabilities
• Your work will entail backend architecture to enable data modeling, data queries and API development for both back-end and front-end data interfaces.
• You will support client specific data processing needs using SQL and Python/Pyspark
• You will integrate our product with other data products through Django APIs
• You will partner with other team members in understanding the functional / non-functional business requirements, and translate them into software development tasks
• You will follow the software development best practices in ensuring that the code architecture and quality of code written by you is of high standard, as expected from an enterprise software
• You will be a proactive contributor to team and project discussions

Who you are


• Strong education track record - Bachelors or an advanced degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline from Indian Institute of Technology or equivalent premium institute.
• 2-3 years of experience in data queries, data processing and data modeling
• Excellent ANSI SQL skills to handle complex queries
• Excellent Python and Django programming skills.
• Strong knowledge and experience in modern and distributed data stack components such as the Spark, Hive, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure) and native cloud technologies for data storage and data processing
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Blobs, MongoDB etc.
• Familiarity with ML models is highly preferred
• Experience with Big Data processing and performance optimization
• Should know how to write modular, optimized and documented code.
• Should have good knowledge around error handling.
• Experience in version control systems such as GIT
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Self-starter, continuous learner.

Good to have some exposure to

• Start-up experience is highly preferred
• Exposure to any Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau, Dundas, Power BI etc.
• Agile software development methodologies.
• Working in multi-functional, multi-location teams

What You'll Love About Us – Do ask us about these!

• Be an integral part of the founding team. You will work directly with the founder
• Work Life Balance. You can't do a good job if your job is all you do!
• Prepare for the Future. Academy – we are all learners; we are all teachers!
• Diversity & Inclusion. HeForShe!
• Internal Mobility. Grow with us!
• Business knowledge of multiple sectors

Hands -on experience with the following technologies is needed:

1. Good Knowledge of Python & Django Framework.
2. Experience in Git or any Version control systems.
3. Experience in SQL Databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
4. Knowledge of NoSQL Databases like Mongodb.
5. Worked on Django based live projects.
6. To implement microservices using Django rest framework.
7. Handling various technical aspects like coding of modules using the given design specifications
8. Debugging and fixing the defects as well as analyzing its root cause.
9. Deployment(AWS) and monitoring of the live project.
10. Mentoring junior developers.

Knowledge/Experience of AWS will be a big plus

Preferred Qualifications: 
B-Tech-IT/B-Tech -CSE/BCA or any degree in the relevant field

Required Experience: 
3 – 6 Years

Experience: 9 to 16 Yrs

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 days

Job Description:

- The Lead Engineer is responsible for deriving the technical architecture, detailed design, implementation, Performance, and Scalability of the developed system.

- The individual should be capable of single-handedly understanding the requirement, liaison with the product owner and external teams; produce the technical output required.

- Strong Leadership skills to contradict, produce a new design to current trends is required.

- Should be an avid technology enthusiast with strong views on technical architecture.

Technical Skills:

1) Strong Python and Mongo DB is mandatory

2) Web Application Architecture - One Large Project Experience of Development & Maintenance

3) Knowledge in one or more frameworks like WSGI(uwsgi), Django, Flask, Web Application development

4) Exposure to Databases like MongoDB, BigQuery, Elastic Search, Redis, etc.,

5) Knowledge of Code Quality Process and Discipline (Git, Jenkins, etc)