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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Responsibilities :
- Backend development with Node.js, MongoDb and Typescript.
- Developing and testing flexible, scalable applications.
- Collaborate with Front end developers to produce optimum output.
- Think out of the box, discuss and implement your own ideas over the phase.
Required skills :
- Strong knowledge in creating RESTFUL APIs(web service)
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools: Git.
- Good knowledge of Docker & Shell scripting
- Basic knowledge in web fundamentals: HTML, CSS
- Experience in DevOps is an added advantage.
Senior backend developers
Minimum 5 years of experience
Backend skills: MongoDB, Node.js
Remote work available
(We prefer individual developers over agencies or IT providers)
Node JS Developer
Job Description:
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Node JS Developer
Job Description:
- 1 year development experience in NodeJs(v4 and above)
- Knowledge in Unit testing frameworks like Mocha
- Experience in working with any NodeJs web framework(Express or Hapi)
- Development experience using any persistent store (NoSql or Relational)
- Formal Deliverables
- Design and development of new and enhance existing applications using Node.JS
- Collaborate with internal and external team members to ensure projects get delivered as planned
- Develop Backend services using HapiJs
- Develop background workers based on cron or rabbitmq messages
- Support existing and new features via bug fixes, prod support or monitoring scripts
- Knowledge in Unit testing frameworks like Mocha
- Experience in working with any NodeJs web framework(Express or Hapi)
- Development experience using any persistent store (NoSql or Relational)
- Formal Deliverables
- Design and development of new and enhance existing applications using Node.JS
- Collaborate with internal and external team members to ensure projects get delivered as planned
- Develop Backend services using HapiJs
- Develop background workers based on cron or rabbitmq messages
- Support existing and new features via bug fixes, prod support or monitoring scripts
Java/J2EE with strong SpringBoot
Very good knowledge of using annotations with SpringBoot
Very good knowledge of using java functional programming concepts in
SpringBoot
Should have database knowledge
Knowledge of Spring Cloud would be a plus.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Hands-on experience in Core Java, J2EE, Jasper, Spring, Spring Boot,
Spring Security.
Hands-on experience in Front-end technologies like JavaScript
Understanding of HTML5, CSS3, BootStrap, Material UI, and CSS preprocessors including Sass and LESS.
Understanding of basic prototype design and UI /UX design.
Exposure to working with datastores - SQL or NoSQL.
Good understanding of coding standards & best practices.
Good communication skills
- Manage and improve the engineering process continuously and make sure the team delivers the quality code with zero-waste.
- Should provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 5-8 top-notch engineers.
- Should do sprint planning and run daily stand-ups and deliver 100% hit rate.
- Maintain the legacy code base and reduce tech debt on a continuous basis.
- Able to handle multiple projects and deliver with stringent timelines without compromising the code quality.
- Work with the product team for roadmap planning and delivery as per the plan.
- Conduct sprint planning & sizing, engineering grooming, daily stand-ups, and deliver with zero spillovers.
- Prepare & publish sprint reports to the leadership team and provide visibility to stakeholders.
- Hire and mentor junior/ senior team and make them engineering champions.
- Mentor the engineering team with your technical skills to write scalable, generic, reusable code.
- Develop and Coach engineers on the team, share engineering pointers, conduct regular 1-1s with the team, and help them advance in their careers.
Requirements
- Having work experience in a Product organization with 7 -10 yrs also in leading a cross-functional engineering team that includes API Development and Backend & Middleware development.
- Should have experience in the continuous delivery process. Ship new features and improvising the code base continuously.
- Should have involved in setting up engineering process.
- Must have experience in microservices and distributed patterns.
- Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
- Must have prior experience in handling mid to large-size projects.
- Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
- Should have managed and lead the engineering team of Web App and Backend development teams.
- Must-Have Experience in Python programming & Postgressql/ Nosql (MongoDB as a data store.
- Must have experience in modern back-end tech stacks (Django, Postgress, NoSQL) and cloud design & deployment patterns.
- Must be conversant with AWS, Docker/Kubernetes
- Should be good with design patterns and integration patterns.
- Should have knowledge/ experience in concurrent programming & distributed locks.
- Requires solid understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.
- Should have handled multiple epics, themes, and experience of delivering high-quality projects on time.
- Should have managed end to end development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Type: Individual contributor with good hands on proficiency.
Must have
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Java, Ruby, Python
- Exposure to databases: any of PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Cassandra
- Any NoSQL database experience is a plus
- Exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure: EC2 or S3
- Proficiency with Git
- MUST: Using REST to make API calls.
Great to have:
- Experience working with one or more middleware, enterprise bus, queueing frameworks
- Any of Memcached/Redis, Apache Kafka / RabbitMQ / PubSub+ / AmazonMQ
Soft skills:
- Appreciation for clean and well documented code
What will you do at Tradyl:
(Examples for illustration only)
- Build a shipping service module that is called by our website to query shipping rates from India to a destination country. Configure this to so that an Ops person can update shipping costs as and when they change. Own deployment and monitoring of this service.
- Use Zapier to build a workflow to export a MixPanel report into a Google sheet every day.
- Change our supplier portal (built on bubble.io) to make an API call to our customer facing site, whenever a supplier modifies his profile.
- Write an alert mechanism that identifies catalogues with insufficient information and makes them non discoverable, which can run every day.
- Work with Business Team to design a workflow for product inwarding using Airtable. Write a small app within Airtable so that whenever a product is updated as “shipped” in airtable, it updates the customer facing website.
- Use an open source dashboarding framework to create a quick dashboard to track important business events.
Basic Skills/Qualifications
• Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering (BE/MCA/BCA)
• 5-9 years of strong software design and development experience and building and administering large-scale distributed applications
• Strong communication skills
• Agility and quick learner
• Understanding of the Software development lifecycle
• Good Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
• Should have a high level of energy working as an individual Contributor and as a part of Team.
• Ability to think out of the box and questioning everything
Technical Skills (Hands On)
• Apply Server-side software development expertise, to design, develop and implement horizontally scalable components with the ability to handle large transaction and query volumes with following experience :
• Backend - NodeJS, Server-Side Events (SSE)
• Programming languages - Typescript, JavaScript
• API – REST, GraphQL
• Databases – MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Additional useful programming languages – Java, Scala
• CI/CD experience with:
• Git/TFS, Containers, Ansible
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Real-time or near real-time data pipelines
• BPMN 2.0 (Camunda)
• Knowledge of Design Thinking
• Experience working in short agile release cycles
• Enterprise grade development best-practices for end-to-end interoperability and integration
• Design with operational requirements, and support challenges in perspective