JOB SUMMARY
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Job Title: |
Backend Web Application Developer (AWS Cloud) |
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Team/Department: |
Omnicom Media Group IT (OMG – IT) |
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Reporting: |
Manager – OMG IT |
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Location: |
Bangalore |
ABOUT THE ROLE
THE ROLE IN SUMMARY
Omnicom Media Group (OMG) has an immediate opening for a highly motivated and talented backend web application developer, specializing in AWS cloud technologies. In this position you will be joining an in-house development team whose primary responsibility is developing new features and functionality for multiple existing web applications and day to day troubleshooting and issue resolution. The ideal candidate will possess excellent critical thinking and troubleshooting skills and have proven experience using popular AWS services commonly used to build serverless web application architectures. Candidates are expected to have strong knowledge of AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB and Python programming. Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure as code frameworks, such as Serverless Framework, Terraform or CloudFormation, etc. is also required. Excellent English communication skills are a must as you will be a part of a team working alongside our primary development team in addition to several business analysis and project managers. 5+ years of prior backend and Cloud web application and software development experience required.
WHAT WILL YOU DO
KEY WORKING PRINCIPLES
- Passionate about modern web application architecture and programming. Hands on backend developer.
- Prior experience with modern RESTful API design and implementation. Microservices and single page web applications.
- Strong AWS knowledge, specifically serverless technologies (S3, API Gateway, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB) as they relate to web application development.
- Excellent knowledge of web application security fundamentals (identity management, authentication, authorization, SSO).
- Designed several application databases in SQL and at least one non-relational database system, preferably
- Familiarity with DevOps practices including continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code in preferably Serverless Framework.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- 5+ years professional software development experience.
- Bachler’s degree in computer science or related field.
MUST HAVE SKILLS
- Backend Web Application Development
- Python
- AWS Services Including, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, SES, DynamoDB, Serverless Framework
- AWS Identity and Access Management principles (IAM)
- SQL (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora or comparable)
- GIT, JIRA, Agile / Scrum
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS
- AWS Cognito

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Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.
Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.
Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!
What will you do?
- Connect the dots between business goals and consumer problems through product development
- Solve the most challenging problem of scaling and business logic
- Design and develop services using test driven development with near 100% code coverage
- Develop and deploy services continuously using CI/CD on a daily basis
- Identify and own meaningful metrics for success and move them dramatically.
- Prepare and present management updates on key initiatives. Communicate clearly at all levels in the organization.
- Conduct multivariate experiments to constantly validate hypotheses and bash all the myths
You should apply, if you
- Display expertise: Have strong proficiency with Nodejs, My SQL, MongoDB and Caching and with code versioning tools, such as Git
- Can improvise: Understand the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Showcase all round knowledge: Understand accessibility, security compliance, user authentication, and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Can simplify: Can integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system. This also includes creating database schemas that represent and support business processes, and can implement unit tests
- Can figure out the basics: Understand fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Being a Part of the Clan!
At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!
It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️
Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.
1. Need to have an understanding of Elastic Search, Kafka, mongo DB, etc.
2. Should have experience of Jupter noobooks, data bricks
3. Java, Pythons
4. Senior level, 5-10 years of experience
5. It is important they have those skills so that they can take over current work. There are codes written in both Java as well as Python. (Java is legacy but that is the main search engine code). So it will be counter-productive if engineers hired have experience in both.
6. Excellent communication, analytical, research, grasping skills
What we are looking for
- At-least 3 years of experience of development on backend applications. Full stack experience is a cherry on the top!
- Experience / knowledge of designing robust systems, maintaining & scaling them
- Experience with usage of NoSQL databases like MongoDB & with SQL and RDBMS Systems
- Experience of creating applications with any of the popular frameworks in Python, Java, GoLang, Node
- Experience with JS frontend frameworks like React, Angular, Vue etc is a big plus
- Well versed with versioning systems like git
- Understanding of rest API implementation
Some of the responsibilties you will be taking up are following
- Working on creating performant and fault tolerant systems which are scalable
- Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable codebase
- Effectively work with product to gather requirements, gain deep understanding of use cases and business needs, and translate into design and implementation.
- Maintain code integrity and organization.
- Manage basic devops related to CI/CD
- Creating secure systems
- Lead other junior developers
- Define optimal and minimal architecture to achieve product requirements
Need Backend developer who has done projects in Golang, C
- discussing clients’ requirements and proposed solutions with a senior developer (for developers at mid-skill level and below)
- writing and testing code
- collaborating with other developers
- using development tools (see below)
Development tools are used by software developers to write and test code, often as a team. Common development tools include:
- integrated development environments (eg Eclipse, IntelliJ): for writing and editing code
- source control management (eg Git, SVN, Mercurial): to enable teams to work together to manage changes to source code
- issue management systems (eg Jira): for managing a list of issues or improvements
- test driven development: for writing code to test your code
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DataWeave provides Retailers and Brands with “Competitive Intelligence as a Service” that enables them to take
key decisions that impact their revenue. Powered by AI, we provide easily consumable and actionable
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help businesses develop data-driven strategies and make smarter decisions.
Products@DataWeave
We, the Products team at DataWeave, build data products that provide timely insights that are readily
consumable and actionable, at scale. Our underpinnings are: scale, impact, engagement, and visibility. We help
businesses take data driven decisions everyday. We also give them insights for long term strategy. We are
focussed on creating value for our customers and help them succeed.
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It's hard to tell what we love more, problems or solutions! Every day, we choose to address some of the hardest
data problems that there are. We are in the business of making sense of messy public data on the web. At
serious scale! Read more on Become a DataWeaver
What do we offer?
● Opportunity to work on some of the most compelling data products that we are building for online
retailers and brands.
● Ability to see the impact of your work and the value you are adding to our customers almost immediately.
● Opportunity to work on a variety of challenging problems and technologies to figure out what really
excites you.
● A culture of openness. Fun work environment. A flat hierarchy. Organization wide visibility. Flexible
working hours.
● Learning opportunities with courses, trainings, and tech conferences. Mentorship from seniors in the
team.
● Last but not the least, competitive salary packages and fast paced growth opportunities.
Role and Responsibilities
● Build a low latency serving layer that powers DataWeave's Dashboards, Reports, and Analytics
functionality
● Build robust RESTful APIs that serve data and insights to DataWeave and other products
● Design user interaction workflows on our products and integrating them with data APIs
● Help stabilize and scale our existing systems. Help design the next generation systems.
● Scale our back end data and analytics pipeline to handle increasingly large amounts of data.
● Work closely with the Head of Products and UX designers to understand the product vision and design
philosophy
● Lead/be a part of all major tech decisions. Bring in best practices. Mentor younger team members and
interns.
● Constantly think scale, think automation. Measure everything. Optimize proactively.
● Be a tech thought leader. Add passion and vibrance to the team. Push the envelope.
Skills and Requirements
● 4-7 years of experience building and scaling APIs and web applications.
● 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 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.
● Working knowledge of building websites and apps. Good understanding of integration complexities and
dependencies.
● Working knowledge linux server administration as well as the AWS ecosystem is desirable.
● It's a huge bonus if you have some personal projects (including open source contributions) that you work
on during your spare time. Show off some of your projects you have hosted on GitHub.








