Software Development Engineer I/II - Back End

The Opportunity

The Springboard engineering team is looking for software engineers with strong backend technical expertise. In this role, you would be responsible for building exciting features aimed at improving our student experience and expanding our student base, using latest technologies like GenAI, as relevant. You would also contribute to making our platform more robust, flexible and scalable. This is a great opportunity to create a meaningful impact as well as grow in your career.

We are looking for engineers with different levels of experience and expertise. Depending on your proficiency levels, you will join our team as a Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer or Lead Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features for the Springboard platform, which enriches the learning experience of thousands through human guided learning at scale
• Own quality and reliability of the product by getting hands on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues and so on
• Contribute to the platform architecture through redesign of complex features based on evolving business needs
• Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools
• Provide technical mentoring to team members

You

• You have experience in backend technologies for web based applications with strong understanding of domain driven design, SOLID design principles, database.
• You have hands-on experience in,
• Coding and debugging complex systems, with frontend integration.
• Code review, responsible for production deployments 
• Building scalable and fault-tolerant applications
• Re-architecting / re-designing complex systems / features (i.e. managing technical debt)
• Defining best practices for backend systems.
• You have excellent problem solving skills and are comfortable handling ambiguity.
• You are able to analyze various alternatives and reach optimal decisions. 
• You are willing to challenge the status quo, express your opinion and drive change.
• You are able to plan reasonably complex pieces of work and can handle changing priorities, unknowns and challenges with support. You want to contribute to the platform roadmap, aligning with the organization priorities and goals.
• You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner. You are able to communicate with various stakeholders to understand their requirements.
• You are a proponent of quality - building best practices, introducing new processes and improvements to make the team more efficient.

Non-negotiables

Must have

• Expertise in software design and architecture
• Experience in web application development, building scalable and fault-tolerant applications
• Ability to handle ambiguity and take good decisions

Good to have

• Experience with Python/Django/GCP
• Experience working with any Learning Management System (LMS), such as Canvas
• Experience working with GenAI ecosystem, including usage of AI tools such as code completion
• Experience with refactoring (redesigning complex systems / features,  breaking monolith into services)
• Working knowledge on CI/CD pipelines and applications deployed on Kubernetes
• Delivery skills, specifically planning open ended projects
• Mentoring skills

Expectations

• Able to independently own end to end delivery of medium sized projects. This includes being able to:
• Communicate effectively with business stakeholders to clarify requirements
• Work with open ended problems and come up with efficient solutions
• Plan and estimate tasks of medium size and complexity
• Communicate plans, deviations and blockers in a timely manner to all project stakeholders
• Able to design and develop high quality software, increasing the overall standard of excellence in the team

If you're an experienced back-end developer with experience using serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, DynamoDB) and microservices, this could be the ideal job for you!

You'll be at a senior position, developing & maintaining microservices, business logic, and optimization/maintenance of the global database(s) to ensure a high performance & responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Language:

Node.js/Tyepscript

Resposibilities:

Building stable, testable, and reusable code libraries for future use.

Write & maintain REST APIs for front-end consumption.

Managing deployments, code pushes (CI/CD pipelines).

Ongoing optimization of backend applications for maximum speed and scalability.

Implementation of security and data protection.

Design and implementation of data storage solutions.

Ideal Candidate:

At least 3-4+ years of server-side programming experience.

Solid experience working with NoSQL databases & microservices architecture.

Solid experience with version control (we use Github).

Decent experience with serverless architecture, code deployment and cloud platforms like AWS.

GOOD TO HAVE: Any experience working with fintech projects.

Position: Senior Backend Developer (NodeJS)

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Bengaluru

CodeCraft Technologies multi-award-winning creative engineering company offering design and technology solutions on mobile, web and cloud platforms.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-driven Backend Engineer to join our team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Develop high-quality software design and architecture

● Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle.

● Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code

● Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting

● Review and debug code

● Perform validation and verification testing

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to fix and improve products

● Document development phases and monitor systems

● Ensure software is up-to-date with the latest technologies

Desired Profile:

● NodeJS [Typescript]

● MongoDB [NoSQL DB]

● MySQL, PostgreSQL

● AWS - S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Watch, ECR, ECS, Fargate, SQS / SNS

● Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker

● Good Understanding of Serverless Architecture

● Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer

● Extensive experience in software development, scripting and project management

● Experience using system monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic) and automated testing frameworks

● Familiarity with various operating systems (Linux, Mac OS, Windows)

● Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude

● Ability to work independently

Good to Have:

● Actively contribute to relevant open-source projects, demonstrating a commitment to community collaboration and continuous learning.

● Share knowledge and insights gained from open-source contributions with the development team

● AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification

● AWS DevOps Professional Certification

● Multi-Cloud/ hybrid cloud experience

● Experience in building CI/CD pipelines using AWS services

Job Description:-

Design, develop IoT/Cloud-based Typescript/ JavaScript/ Node.JS applications using

Amazon Cloud Computing Services.

Work closely with onsite, offshore, and cross functional teams, Product Management, UI/UX developers, Web and Mobile developers, SQA teams to effectively use technologies to build and deliver high quality and on-time delivery of IoT applications

Bug and issue resolution

Proactively Identify risks and failure modes early in the development lifecycle and develop.

POCs to mitigate the risks early in the program.

Assertive communication and team skills

Primary Skills:

Hands on experience (3+ years) in AWS cloud native environment with work experience in

AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB

3+ years’ experience in working with NodeJS, Python, Unit Testing and Git

3+ years in work experience with document, relational or timeseries databases

2+ years in work experience with typescript.

1+ years in IaaS framework like Serverless or CDK with CloudFormation knowledge

Introduction: 

Tyroo’s Vidtech.ai is one of the largest independent marketing automation clouds built for the video first world. We build software and platforms that allow our partners to derive maximum yields on their marketing spends on various video-first social platforms. We work on problems that involve building high availability, low latency solutions which require computing optimal decisions using various self-created modules as well as pre-available modules popular in the ML and Big Data world.

We are looking for a backend developer who has at least 1 year of professional experience in building systems on either Python or Node.js and is able to become an anchor/pillar for the team. The role will require you to architect and develop systems/features needed for our marketing automation products. Strong leadership and mentoring skills are also necessary so that the individual can train, educate and manage junior resources.

Key Requirements:

• Must be able to tackle complex business problems by breaking them down into sets of simpler problems and architect solutions for the same
• Must exhibit thought leadership and should be committed to mentoring and team building
• Must have excellent communication skills as the individual needs to collaborate with the Business and Product team
• Must be proactive towards changing software development landscape and keep upskilling
• Must be able to contribute in setting up best practices and effective design patterns in the complete development lifecycle.

Technical Requirements:

• Must have 3+ years of experience in developing scalable systems on Python/Node.js with a strong grasp of microservices and serverless architectural patterns
• Must have prior experience with databases like MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis
• Must be exposed to cloud platforms like AWS or GCP and containerization using Dockers
• Must have worked with RESTful APIs and WebSockets
• Must have a deep understanding of HTTP, web browsers and token-based authentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT)
• Must be experienced on Version Control Tools (Git) and Package Managers (npm, yarn, pip)
• Must adhere to coding standards and have the habit of doing unit testing along with regular and rigorous code reviews
• Should know about microservices orchestration using Kubernetes, web servers like Nginx/Apache and queuing systems like Kafka/Kinesis

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

The candidate for the role will be responsible for enabling single view for the data from multiple sources. 

• Work on creating data pipelines to graph database from data lake
• Design graph database
• Write Graph Database queries for front end team to use for visualization
• Enable machine learning algorithms on graph databases
• Guide and enable junior team members

B.Tech with 2-7 years of experience

Must Have

Hands-on exposure to Graph Databases like Neo4J, Janus etc..

1. Hands-on exposure to programming and scripting language like Python and PySpark
2. Knowledge of working on cloud platforms like GCP, AWS etc.
3. Knowledge of Graph Query languages like CQL, Gremlin etc.
4. Knowledge and experience of Machine Learning 

Good to Have

• Knowledge of working on Hadoop environment

• Knowledge of graph algorithms

• Ability to work on tight deadlines