Backend Developer

Job Description: Python Engineer

Role Summary

We are looking for a talented Python Engineer to design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend applications and automation solutions. The ideal candidate should have strong programming skills, familiarity with modern development practices, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Python Development & Automation

• Design, develop, and maintain Python scripts, tools, and automation frameworks.
• Build automation for operational tasks such as deployment, monitoring, system checks, and maintenance.
• Write clean, modular, and well-documented Python code following best practices.
• Develop APIs, CLI tools, or microservices when required.

Linux Systems Engineering

• Manage, configure, and troubleshoot Linux environments (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu).
• Perform system performance tuning, log analysis, and root-cause diagnostics.
• Work with system services, processes, networking, file systems, and security controls.
• Implement shell scripting (bash) alongside Python for system-level automation.

CI/CD & Infrastructure Support

• Support integration of Python automation into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Participate in build and release processes for infrastructure components.
• Ensure automation aligns with established infrastructure standards and governance.
• Use Bash scripting together with Python to improve automation efficiency.

Cloud & DevOps Collaboration (if applicable)

• Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers on automation for AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Integrate Python tools with configuration management tools such as Chef or Ansible, or with Terraform modules.
• Contribute to containerization efforts (Docker, Kubernetes) leveraging Python automation.

Experience: 5+ Years

• Experience in Core Java, Spring Boot

• Experience in microservices and angular

• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale systems for global organization. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.

• Should be able to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.

• Good development experience with RDBMS in SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle or DB2

• Good knowledge of multi-threading

• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux

• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java

• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.

• Should be able to express their design ideas and thoughts

• Develop and maintain server-side logic using Node.js, JavaScript, and Python.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, designers, and product managers to create scalable and responsive web applications.
• Design and implement APIs and web services to facilitate seamless integration with other systems.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and reliability.
• Identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and implement effective solutions.
• Ensure the security and data protection of the backend systems.
• Write efficient and reusable code, following industry best practices and coding standards.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to drive continuous improvement.
• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.

Who are we and what do we do?

The Dice platform, one of the most advanced SaaS fintech organizations, helps businesses convert their spending from many fragmented applications, prepaid cards, offline reimbursement/invoice management, procurement, and payment systems to a single spend platform. There will be no more cash, cards, refunds, or offline invoicing since our entire goal is to provide businesses more knowledge and control over how they spend their money, resulting in significant cost savings and profitability. We are a hyper growth startup collaborating with premium Indian enterprises, startups, and industry leaders across disciplines.

Perks in store for you when you join the team:

• You'll be surrounded by passionate team members.
• Your work will have a visible impact.
• You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements and skills:

• Hands-on Software Development experience.
• 2-4 years of relevant experience in Java development.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms.
• Object-Oriented Analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Profound insight of Java and Java EE (Multithreading, Reactive Programming, etc)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and ORM technologies (MySQL, EBean)
• Excellent knowledge in RESTful API development, event-based processing.
• Experience with test-driven development.
• Knowledge of GIT, Linux, Docker, Redis

Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining Java applications that are often high-volume and low-latency, required for mission-critical systems
• Delivering high availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well-designed, efficient, and testable code
• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging
• Managing Java and Java EE application development
• Ensuring designs comply with specifications
• Preparing and producing releases of software components
• Transforming requirements into stipulations
• Support continuous improvement
• Investigating alternatives and technologies

Location:

Pune

Backend Developer - Node.JS - AirFi

AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.

AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!

Your key responsibilities

• Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.
• Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.
• You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.
• Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimisations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.

What we look for

• Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features
• You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders
• You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
• You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues.
• You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills
• Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.
• Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis

Must have technical skills

• MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 7+ years
• Experience NodeJS, MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB - 7+ years
• Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 5+ years

You get bonus point for

• Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)
• Experience in AngularJS, React, etc - 2+ years
• Linux skills (we run on embedded Linux)
• Expertise HTML5, CSS,
• Experience on Cloudant, AWS, GCP etc.

• Experience on eCommerce or payments related domains

We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We provide a great platform to take up multiple roles based on individual interests or skills and collaborate with different global teams. We boast of a professional, fun work environment with a flat hierarchy and super supportive people to work with. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!

Some of our benefits that our employees cherish:

• Flexible work timings, remote working and work from home options
• Liberal employee policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping the work culture non toxic
• A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves
• We provide Skill enhancement sponsorships
• Celebratory team events, regular team virtual GupShups and fun engagement activities including the annual team (destination) meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
• Meal coupons and random gift vouchers
• Career longevity perks and so on!

When we're in office some of the things that make AirFi an interesting place to work are - healthy breakfast, snacks and a fully loaded pantry (read: health alert!); we try to keep AirFi as a fun place to work at and have interesting team activities on Fridays with occasional beers. 

You get the opportunity to work and socialise with our global team when they visit or when you visit our customer offices/hangers. Last but not the least, in case you are an aviation geek - the opportunity to be on test flights and learn how the aviation industry works!

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/airfi">LinkedIn
• https://www.facebook.com/AirFi.aero">Facebook
• https://twitter.com/airfi_aero">Twitter
• http://airfi.aero/">Website

Personality fit 

Looking to hire a Backend developer, who wakes up every day with the zeal of learning something new - a mind that is always curious. Not only this, he should be proud to have a good experience on algorithms and understand his technology at the atomic level.

Preliminary requirements for the role

1. Should understand the architecture of Node Js language, and must have had at least 1 year of solid experience in writing robust code in this language.
2. Should be well versed with basic algorithms on ( array, Linked list, stack, queue)- Yes, we do ask questions associated with time and space complexity for the above-mentioned algorithms
3. Thorough understanding of MySQL, in that, creating all types of joins ( inner, outer, left, and right) on multiple tables, views, and triggers are a piece of cake for you.
4. Further, you should have a decent understanding of database designs so that you can make quick decisions about normalization, inclusion/exclusion of foreign keys, etc
5. Should have a decent understanding of code repository tool such as GitHub
6. Should be well versed with the basics of AWS ( understanding of cloud architecture would be a plus)
7. Should be aware of the commonly used encryption techniques such as JWT, API encryption, Token management, etc
8. Exposure to working in E-commerce related applications as well as in a startup environment would be an add on. 

1.      3+ years of experience in web development

2.      Minimum 2+ years’ experience in Node JS

3.      databases-MongoDB

Good to have

• Kubernetes & Dockers and experience with Cloud service APIs (e.g., GCP) are desirable.
• Github CI/CD experience
• Experience in the  Real Estate will be a plus

• Web development using PHP & experience in coding on MVC architecture of Laravel
• REST API knowledge is a must with oAuth security
• Understanding of mobile apps with REST API integration, firebase & google analytics is important
• Need to have knowledge of querying MySQL & NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Experience with Node Js for our notification system

• Understanding of cloud services like Google cloud & AWS ec2 instance is a bonus for the profile