
Back end Python Developer with AI and ML
at US based ecommerce platform which unites designers with cust


- Experience building and managing large scale data/analytics systems.
- Have a strong grasp of CS fundamentals and excellent problem solving abilities. Have a good
understanding of software design principles and architectural best practices.
- Be passionate about writing code and have experience coding in multiple languages, including at least
one scripting language, preferably Python.
- Be able to argue convincingly why feature X of language Y rocks/sucks, or why a certain design decision
is right/wrong, and so on.
- Be a self-starter—someone who thrives in fast paced environments with minimal ‘management’.
- Have exposure and working knowledge in AI environment with Machine learning experience
- Have experience working with multiple storage and indexing technologies such as MySQL, Redis,
MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic.
- Good knowledge (including internals) of messaging systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Use the command line like a pro. Be proficient in Git and other essential software development tools.
- Working knowledge of large-scale computational models such as MapReduce and Spark is a bonus.
- Exposure to one or more centralized logging, monitoring, and instrumentation tools, such as Kibana,
Graylog, StatsD, Datadog etc

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FirstFiling is a FinTech startup that is managed, operated, and driven by Chartered Accountants, Company secretaries, IT engineers, and Lawyers. We provide registration and financial compliance services to businesses and individuals across India.
Our aim is to simplify the lives of people by helping individuals and businesses with mandatory compliances, filings, and statutory requirements while promoting financial literacy among the masses.
Role: Backend Developer (2 openings)
Technology Profile-
The candidate must have experience in the following technologies (the more the better):
Backend:
Languages and Frameworks: PHP, NodeJS, Python, etc.
Database: MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Neo4j, etc.
Extra: OAuth, Firebase
Requirements:
- Ability to reuse components
- Proven experience in working with Git and Github
- Creating and consuming a RESTful API
- You must have clear concepts of client-server architecture
- Familiarity with MVC (Model-View-Controller) design patterns
- Working experience with NoSQL and relational databases
- Understanding of OOP concepts
Furthermore, the candidate must have built or published any web app or project through which they can demonstrate their experience and knowledge of the aforementioned technologies and requirements.


Good knowledge of Python frameworks such as Django, CherryPy, etc.
Good understanding of REST API
Experience with JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and CSS
Build back-end features in Python that are efficient.
Integrate front-end and back-end components into the application
Develop integrations with third party applications (mostly web-based).
Working Knowledge of SQL and databases.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering or other related fields.
Understand the needs of the client and Implement functional requirements accordingly.
Agile development methodology
Good communication (verbal and written)

- You will design and develop large scale distributed services.
- You will analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of the platform as a whole.
- You will act as the primary owner of one or more components while driving innovation in your area of ownership.
- You will proactively research & evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system.
- You will work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex development issues.
- You will work independently and handle dependencies with very minimal oversight.
- You will take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the back-end.
- You will help identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and work on design/architect improvements.
- You have 2+ years of experience in product software development.
- You have designed and scaled up the system.
- You have a strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
- You are an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
- You have strong command in any one or more of the following languages: Python.
- You understand the business impact of your decisions.

The B2B manufacturing industry has a lack of digitisation globally. NowPurchase is building layers of technology to help improve the productivity and profits of the manufacturer. For this we are building the OS (Operating System) that will seamlessly connect factory equipment such as furnaces and spectrometers to our software systems that provide real time optimisations.
The end-game is to use this interconnected system to do great production planning and autonomous procurement of their raw materials. The Heart of NowPurchase will be a marketplace consisting of these smart factories and raw material suppliers.
Here a video that explains our product journey:
https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21">https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21
This is fully a remote role, but the employer needs to fly down to the office in Kolkata for 5–6 days every month. Plane tickets and accommodation will be reimbursed by the company.
Role Description
NowPurchase is looking to add an immensely talented Senior Backend Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet the above vision.
- Expect to build a lot of services and APIs in the cloud and stand-alone IoT devices to serve both the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises.
- Expect designing algorithms that model the metallurgy of the manufacturing processes as well as using tools such as linear programming, machine learning etc.
- You need to lead the backend team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and is constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.
What are the expectations from this role?
- Deliver high quality modular code deployed to serve web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets. This would include algorithms for real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
- You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
- Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
- Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
- Collaborate on the end to end design and implementation of the platform, including data modeling, systems architecture, data security, access controls, architecture, user experience, deployment, automation, and monitoring.
- Maintain a high level of data integrity, quality and security checks.
- Develop data pipelines and RESTful services that are distributed, robust and highly performant.
- Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.
Qualifications and Experience
- 4+ years of demonstrated software engineering experience in an agile environment designing, architecting and implementing robust scalable systems preferably for modern SaaS application
- 1+ years of technical leadership experience
- Experience with modern server-side programming languages such as Python, Scala, Go. Experience with web frameworks such as Django Rest Framework, Flask.
- Experience with architecting asynchronous services with design patters leveraging PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery for storage and multi-tenant servers over AWS Elastic BeanStalk.
Compensation & Benefits
- **Cash Compensation:** As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
- **ESOPs:** 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
- **Medical Insurance:** Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
- **Generous leave structure and WFHs** including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
- **Complete Relocation Expenses:** We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.
**Possible Growth path**
Senior Backend End Engineer > Engineering Manager > VP of Engineering
**Tech Stack**
- React/Redux
- Python/Django/Celery
- Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
- PostgreSQL/Redis/S3
## **Hiring Process**
1. Screening of applicants & initial telephonic call with Manager -HR
2. F2F/Video Interview with Engineering Manager and Cofounder CTO
3. Take home written assessment
4. F2F/Video Interview with Cofounder CEO
5. Email communication on final feedback
The end to end process shall take less than 10 days. We pride ourselves on being transparent & moving fast.
*Candidates who accept an offer may join within 1 hour, 1 week or up to 45days of signing - though, we have a preference for as short a gap period between signing and joining since we're at the most exciting part of our journey - laying the foundation for the NowPurchase platform!*


Key Skills Required :
- Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development
- Solid understanding of Python concepts
- Strong experience in building web applications using Django
- Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask
- Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)
- Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
- Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL including querying
- Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git
- Working experience with Docker
- Basic working knowledge of ReactJs
- Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku
Responsibilities :
- Understanding requirement and congributing to engineering solutions at a conceptual stage to provide the best possible solution to the task/challenge
- Building high quality code using coding standards based on the SRS/Documentation
- Building component based, maintainable, scalable and reusable backend libraries/modules.
- Building & documenting scalable APIs on the Open Spec standard
- Unit testing development modules and APIs
- Conducting code reviews to ensure that the highest quality standard are maintained
- Securing backend applications and APIs using industry best practices
- Troubleshooting issues and fixing bugs raised by the QA team efficiently.
- Optimizing code
- Building and deploying the applications

Summary
We are looking for an efficient technocrat as Odoo Developer, who will be responsible for developing, customizing Odoo ERP business applications with other systems, and providing ongoing support and future enrichments of those solutions to support business processes and functions. You'll be required to apply your hands-on experience of Odoo Framework, programming knowledge, and expertise to all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle including Programming, Coding, Application Development, bug fixing, production support, version control system, object-oriented programming, Linux/Unix, UAT, Debugging, Tracing, and Logging, GIT, Cloud Services, Internet Technologies and leverage best technical solution by understanding business requirements from a techno-functional aspect, and partner continuously with Emipro's stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of Emipro's enterprise customers globally.
Job Responsibilities
- Application development using Odoo Framework & its components.
- Carrying out Odoo development activities for Customisations, Module Migration, Data Migration & Import, Generating BI Reports, Output Documents, Automation Test & Unit Test.
- Work in coordination with Technical Lead as needed to implement, test, support, and enhance ERP Business applications and it's features/solutions.
- Be part of Sprint meetings to discuss project development progress and also assist the ERP Technical Lead in preparing the Sprint report.
- Make sure to follow the prescribed coding and development best practices to give high-quality output as per the requirement.
- Adherence to the latest development methods like continuous deployment & integration.
- Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, algorithms, data-flow diagrams, layouts, user-flow diagrams, charts, code comments, and keeping code clean and optimized.
- Must possess a strong learning curve and should be willing to keep themselves abreast and continuously updating their job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques for personal upscaling and in turn meeting organizational needs as well.
- Developing technical documentation to guide future software development projects.
Required Skills
- 1-2 years of hands-on experience in developing applications of Odoo.
- Proficiency in Python and Odoo framework components - model, fields, modifiers, actions, views, menu, security, controllers.
- Should be aware of core Odoo modules such as Sales, Purchase, Delivery, Accounting.
- Should proactively look for ways to make the architecture, code, and operations better.
- Must be a self-starter & be able to work with minimum supervision.
- Hands-on experience in Linux/Unix development environments is expected.
- Hands-on knowledge of version control systems like GIT, Bitbucket, etc including branching and merging.
Nice to have
- Experience in writing SQL queries for PostgreSQL.
- Nice to have experience in Module migration, code
- Experienced with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Outstanding written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Sound knowledge of Internet technologies like SSH/SFTP/FTP, Linux/UNIX shell scripting (eg. bash)
- Understanding of Cloud services like SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) & IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service)


Programming Languages: Perl, java. Perl programming with strong OOPs knowledge.
UI: HTML, JS
System: Linux must have – good knowledge and shell scripting experience.
Prior experience in infrastructure automation, monitoring will definitely help.
Description:
The person in this role:
- Will be involved in developing new monitoring scripts, enhancement & defect fixes on existing monitors
- Have to be on-call to support any incoming production/P1 internal issues which need urgent attention (team members are on call for a week and we have a weekly rotation policy within the team)
Preferred skills:
- Perl
- Shell scripting
- Unix
- Jenkins

Responsibilities:
• Develop computer vision systems for enterprises to be used by hundreds of our
customers
• Enhance existing Computer vision systems to achieve high performance
• Prototype new algorithms rapidly, iterating to achieve high levels of performance
• Package these prototypes as robust models written in production level code to be
integrated into the product
• Work closely with the ML engineers to explore and enhance new product features
leading to new areas of business
Requirements:
Strong understanding of linear algebra, optimisation, probability, statistics
• Experience in the data science methodology from exploratory data analysis, feature
engineering, model selection, deployment of the model at scale and model evaluation
• Background in machine learning with experience in large scale training and
convolutional neural networks
• Deep understanding of evaluation metrics for different computer vision tasks
• Knowledge of common architectures for various computer vision tasks like object
detection, recognition, and semantic segmentation
• Experience with model quantization is a plus
• Experience with Python Web Framework (Django/Flask/FastAPI), Machine Learning
frameworks like Tensorflow/Keras/Pytorch
About theAsianparent : theAsianparent is a reproductive health-tech company that reaches out to 30 million mothers every month through our parenting website and app. Our vision is to improve the overall health of pregnant women, mothers and families in South East Asia by helping them navigate their most important moments with data-driven solutions and information in the form of content, community and physical products.
Headquartered in Singapore, theAsianparent has offices in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Nigeria. Our investors include Fosun, JD.com,Vertex Ventures and others.
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We are looking for a Backend Engineers with 4+ years of experience to join our team. This is unique opportunity for a driven and insightful Engineer to join the leading growth-stage start up in the most meaningful segment of the economy(parents) in the core market of Singapore. This is a role where careers are made, if you are upto the challenge, and keen to work with world-class teams.
Work Experience : 4 years & above
About the Role :
This role is based in our India Office, reporting to the Head of Development.
Experience: PHP Developer: 3 - 5 Years
Job Specifications:
- Required (Must Have) skills : Wordpress, Core PHP, OOPS Concept, MySQL, Github
- Desired (Good to have) skills : Linux Command, Basic HTML5 & CSS3, JS/Jquery Ajax, Third-party APIs
Requirements:
- Must be a self-starter & be able to work with minimum supervision
- Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications and enjoy designing a system for speed and scale.
- Should be able to create a website in HTML, Wordpress, WooCommerce and Laravel (Good to have)
- Highly Proficient with PHP, MySQL, JQuery, JavaScript, MVC Architecture, OOPs & XSLT
- Excellent knowledge of PHP frameworks and MVC design patterns
- Experience of creating database schema
- Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.
- Experience with testing and automation frameworks.
- Good knowledge and experience in AGILE and SCRUM methodologies.
- Working knowledge of AWS Services, Web Services/REST API etc.
- Understanding of SEO is plus
What can you expect :
- A fast-paced environment to learn and grow in your career with a market leader with ambitious growth plans.
- Opportunities to learn about and work in different areas of content creation and management and become a well-rounded digital media content professional.
- Dynamic and supportive work culture.
- A passionate team of people working tirelessly to help women across South East Asia and beyond.




