
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

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- Collaborate with the front end team.
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- Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
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- Running/managing Linux servers on Cloud services (AWS/GCS/Azure)
- Optional skills:
- Front End Web development (ReactJS)
- Python data science tools (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy)
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- An understanding of agile product development
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YOUR PREFERRED BACKGROUND
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Pluses
1. Anything that will let us know more about who you are that you would like to share such as
Blogs, Twitter, Medium, GitHub etc.
- 3+ years of experience in the Development in JAVA technology.
- AWS or cloud Experience
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem-solving
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- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
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Apply if
- You want to be a team member rather than an employee - cultural fit is the most important thing. Start-up life is a roller coaster and we want to make sure no matter how the day has gone we can still go out (virtually) for a pint at the end of it
- You take ownership
- You’ve an eye for detail
- You’re a problem solver, and a perpetual learner
- You possess a positive and solution-oriented mindset
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- Candidate should have exposure to write scripts in Python/Node JS/MongoDB or any other tool
- Maria DB/MYSQL, Mongo DB, Github, Jira
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- Participate in preparing design and data modelling.
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- Apply best in industry standard techniques for data modeling to ensure performance, integrate and requirement.
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- Security Architecture / Cryptography is a plus.
- Any additional expertise with Python, containerization (Docker) and additional Cloud exposure also a huge plus.
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