
DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds
Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogues (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.
Dukaan is currently powering over 5M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.
Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework and their design principles.
- Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.) .
- Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters and viewsets completely according to needs.
- Should have good experience in Class Based Views to write the backend API’s.
- Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modelling them to Django models.
- Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
- Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
- Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a code base that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
- Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
- Ability to write RAW sql queries and further database level coding will be a plus.
- Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
- Hands on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
- Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
- Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
- Experience with open source will be a plus.
- Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.
Responsibilities:
- Understand the ins and out of existing codebase and have a good grasp over it.
- Write clean, stable and scalable code.
- Write unit test cases for the APIs.
- Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
- Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for the business needs.

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Job Description:
As a Backend Developer, you will:
- Implement server-side logic to ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
- Integrate machine learning models for fraud detection, enhancing the security and reliability of our applications.
- Manage database operations, ensuring the integrity, security, and efficiency of data storage and retrieval.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain scalable, robust, and secure applications.
Responsibilities:
- Development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database.
- Ensuring high performance and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Integrating data storage solutions, including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
- Implementing security and data protection measures.
- Integrating machine learning models for advanced data processing and analysis.
Key Performance Indicators (KPI) For Role:
- Quality and efficiency of backend systems developed.
- Effectiveness in integrating and deploying machine learning models.
- Database performance and security measures.
- Positive feedback from team members and stakeholders.
- Adherence to coding standards and best practices in backend development.
Prior Experience Required:
- Minimum 3+ years of backend development experience.
- Proficient in Node.js or Python (especially Django and Flask frameworks), or/and Go.
- Strong database management skills with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in integrating and deploying machine learning models for real-world applications, specifically for fraud detection is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with RESTful API development and microservices architecture.
- Good understanding of asynchronous programming and its workarounds.
- Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and serverless architectures.
Location:
Hyderabad
Collaboration:
The role involves close collaboration with frontend developers, data scientists, and project managers to ensure the seamless integration of backend services with front-end applications and data analytics models.
Salary:
Competitive, based on experience and market standards.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Language Skills:
- Strong command of Business English, both verbal and written, is required.
Other Skills Required:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Ability to design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Knowledge of security compliance and integrated security protocols.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
Other Requirements:
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- A portfolio showcasing successful backend projects.


Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :
1. Proficiency in Python & Django
2. Solid understanding of Python concepts
3. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)
4. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
5. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar
6. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL
7. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask
8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git
9. Working experience with Docker
10. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.
Founder & Team
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.
Background
- At least 1+ years’ experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
- Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers
Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
- Build POCs for client deployments
- Document your code, write test cases, etc.
Skills
- Hands-on experience with Python (1+ years)
- Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms

Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (http://www.egregorelabs.com/" target="_blank">www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here
We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (http://www.romulus.co/" target="_blank">www.romulus.co) and Robana (http://www.robana.ai/" target="_blank">www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.
Ideal Background
- At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
- Exposure to AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
- Sound understanding of computer science principles
- Exposure to any of the following
- Financial services
- Natural Language Processing
- Robotic Process Automation
- Intelligent Document Processing
- Document Management and Repositories
Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
- Build POCs for client deployments
- Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
- Document your code, write test cases, etc.
Skills
- Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
- Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
- A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well
Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :
- Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
- Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
- Work Ethic- - We've grown up on Wall Street. We work hard and have aggressive goals. We want our teammates to be focused, goal-oriented, and consistent high achievers.
- Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done and getting things done right. We want outcome-focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.
Interested?
We are an early-stage company. Working here is not for the faint-hearted. An intense and unstructured work environment, lots of excitement, and a group of motivated colleagues are what we bring to the table. We ask you to bring your undivided attention, strong worth ethic & resourcefulness. We are Delhi-based and work 6 days a week. Currently, due to the pandemic, we are operating remotely since Feb 2020.


lives of API developers and consumers easier. If you love thinking big and delving deep and
enjoy envisioning truly elegant solutions, this role is definitely for you.
What you will be Doing
- You will abstract away complex data interactions with easy-to-use APIs that will power several
mobile and web applications.
- You will also own, scale, and maintain the computational and storage infrastructure for the
various micro-services and long-running jobs, designed and implemented by you and the team.
- We will look to you to make key decisions on the technology stack, architecture, networking,
and security. We love working with bleeding-edge technology, especially if it improves the
malleability, and simplicity of our deliverables.
What you need
- The ideal Backend Engineers are polyglots who are fluent in HTTP and core CS concepts such
as algorithms, data structures, and programming paradigms, and always pick the right tools for
the right job.
- They have a keen eye for common security vulnerabilities and how to act on them (example:
DDOS attacks, SQL Injection etc.).
- They understand what it takes to work in a startup environment and know when to trade
performance for simplicity.
- They fail fast, learn faster, and execute in time.
- Strong communication skills, get-things-done attitude, and empathy
- Strong sense of ownership, drive and obsessive attention to detail.
- Comfortable with iterative development practices and code reviews
- Previous experience as part of a product-oriented team is a plus
Technical Skillsets:
NodeJS + Javascript, GoLang, Typescript + Nodejs, Clojure/Haskell/F#/Scala
(languages/environments)
Koa, Express, Play (frameworks)
Asynchronous Programming Frameworks (Akka, Nodejs, Tornado)
MongoDB, postgres, Bigtable, Dynamo (databases)
Apache Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ (queues)
FunctionalProgramming, FRP (functional reactive)
microservices, multi-tenant, distributed-systems, distributed-computing, event-sourcing
Good to have Skillsets:
Clojure/Haskell/F#/Scala
Apache Kafka, NATS
FunctionalProgramming, FRP (functional reactive)
event-sourcing
Koa
Why you should consider this role seriously?
- We have an audacious vision of helping companies fight counterfeiting and managing their
supply chain more efficiently
- We have built a product and solved problems for some of the largest brands in the country and
tested platform at scale (With our tags present in over 50 Million products already). We have
plans to grow 10x in the next 1 year
- Ownership of key problems. Fast-paced environment
- We are a well-balanced team of experienced entrepreneurs and are backed by top investors
across India and the Silicon Valley (Venture Highway, Startup Buddy etc.)
- Competitive market salary
- Opportunity to work directly with the CEO, COO, CTO of the company
- A chance to interact with top-notch executives from multiple industries
- Open vacation policy (and we really mean it!)
- Open Pantry
- As a team, we love to travel :). An off-site every quarter
RESPONSIBILITIES
- New features developed independently with the ability to document the design after understanding and evaluating the requirements with necessary groundwork on required application components
- Hands-on coding to implement the design for feature completion
- Able to write unit tests that ensures bug free code
- Able to handle the multi-tenant and performance requirements of the new features and applications.
- Integrate the new features with existing modules, deliver ready to use code meeting necessary build requirements and CI/CD requirements.
- Work with other functional groups for product, technology, QA, tech support and deployment team.
QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications.
- BE/B.Tech Degree from a reputed institution with at least 7 years of relevant experience
- Hands-on experience with Core Java, J2EE with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
- Experience with JUnit, JMH like performance tuning test tools preferred
- REST API design and development experience. Usage of Swagger or other API spec tools would be preferred. Working knowledge on Spring Boot is a plus
- Hands-on experience with some of the following application components is a plus: Solr, Kafka, OpenTSDB, Elasticsearch, Janus graph or any graph DB.
- Experience with databases such as MongoDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL required.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI, Maven, Ant required
- Experience building applications using microservices architecture is highly preferred. Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker would be ideal
- Working knowledge on public clouds like AWS or Google cloud or Azure is a plus
- Experience building scalable systems
- Strong problem solving skills and ability and interest to solve complex problems
- Interest in machine learning (ML) data science is a plus


We're DeepR Analytics (www.deepranalytics.com), a company based out of Toronto, Canada, that develops algorithmic trading solutions and products primarily focused on merging innovative trading algorithms with recent advances in machine learning algorithms such as deep learning and reinforced learning to automate trading and reap profits. We are continuously looking for disciplined professional C++ Software Developers familiar with Python as well. The C++Software Developers will work on the design, implementation, and enhancement of trading algorithms.
Responsibilities:
- Developing low latency trading algorithms for US Equities market in close coordination with the trade-strategy team
- Developing and maintaining large-scale, high-performance, robust software for management of high velocity and real-time market data
- Developing applications and software components to be reused across multiple products
- Designing, developing, and optimization of algorithms for quality & performance-optimized software development
- Contribute to architecture and technical design and implementation
- Developing and reviewing software requirements, designs, and test plans
- Documentation of existing and developing products
Desirable Skills:
- Familiarity with Design Patterns
- Ability to read/understand Python
- Familiarity with understanding, refactoring, debugging large C++ code repositories
- Familiarity with Git, Visual Studio, JIRA
Requirements:
- A B.Tech in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or closely related field
- 3+ years of professional software development experience in C++
- Experience with large-scale, multi-threaded application development
- Experience designing APIs for consistency, simplicity, and extensibility
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented concept and design
- Ability to develop new approaches to complex problems
- Extensive experience with best practices in software development (code reviews, test automation/unit testing, version control)
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
- Familiar with working in both Linux and Windows environments.
- Willing to work in an afternoon shift (2:00 PM to 10:30 PM IST) Monday to Friday
Perks & Benefits:
- Cutting-edge work equipment.
- Two-way transportation
- Health Insurance for self & family
- Term Insurance for self
- Health and wellness benefits
Potential Benefits:
- Profit-Sharing Plan
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan

About the Company:
Progcap is a Fintech and AI company that pioneers alternative credit scoring for small businesses using proprietary data from non-traditional sources. We aim to fuel credit to 100 million under-banked SMEs in the emerging markets worldwide with an initial focus on India.
Progcap is Sequoia-backed Series A startup, comprising of top tier talent from finance, technology, data science and operations. The Company is the recipient of the World Bank's "SME Product Innovation of the year", 2018 award, Madrid.
What you will be doing:
- Lead and provide first level supervision to project teams and ensures successful delivery of tasks assigned to the team along with sharing of project updates & related communication with stakeholders.
- Writing and ensuring reusable, testable, and efficient code.
- Managing data across multiple databases and providing analysis to stakeholders.
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Implementation of security and data protection (permission classes and middleware.)
- Implementation of user authentication and authorization across multiple systems, servers, and environments.
What you bring:
- Should have minimum 4 years of experience in development using Python and 1 year in leading Python based projects.
- Strong experience in Application lifecycle management – development, testing and deployment.
- Strong understanding and experience with code version control tools (git, svn, etc.)
- Expert in Python with working experience on Django, AWS, Lambda, RDS, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Integration of data storage solutions redis, postgresql, mysql (big query, big table, pubsub, appengine).
- Strong in data structures and algorithms
- Preferably candidates with Financial/lending Applications development experience with any Fintech Co.



