Backend Developer

We are a dynamic and innovative technology company dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower businesses and individuals. As we continue to grow and expand our offerings, we are seeking a coding fanatic, who is interested in working on and learning new technologies. 

Position - Backend developer 

Job type - Freelance or on contract 

Location - Remote 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Plan,create and test REST APIs for back-end services such as authentication and authorization.
• Deploy and maintain backend systems on the cloud.
• Research and develop solutions for real life business problems.
• Creating and maintaining our apps' essential business logic, providing correct data processing and flawless user experiences.
• Database design, implementation, and management, including schema design, query optimisation and data integrity.
• Participating in code reviews, providing constructive input, and ensuring that code quality standards are met.
• Keep abreast of industry developments and best practices to bring new solutions to our initiatives.

Required skills and experience - 

Must have skills : -

• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• 3 + years of experience in backend development.
• Proficient in Python,Mongodb,postgres/sql,Django and Flask
• Knowledge on nginx.
• C++/C +Cython for creating python modules
• Knowledge on Redis
• Familiarity with using AI provider apis and prompt engineering
• Experience in working with linux based instances on the cloud.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.

Good to have skills :- 

• Experience in node.js and Java 
• AWS and Google cloud knowledge.

About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, providing affordable solar solutions to the 1.8 billion people without reliable access to electricity. By combining product design, fintech, and field operations, Sun King has connected over 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding more than 200,000 new homes each month. Through ‘pay-as-you-go’ financing, customers make small payments to eventually own their solar systems, saving money and reducing reliance on harmful energy sources like kerosene.

Sun King employs 2,800 staff across 12 countries, with expertise in product design, data science, logistics, customer service, and more. The company is expanding its product range to include clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment solutions, all while supporting a diverse workforce — with women making up 44% of the team.

About the role

The Senior Software Developer - Backend will work as part of the Digitization and Automation team to support Sun King design, develop, and implement intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automations, curiosity towards advancement in products, and strong coding skills for our in-house software development team.

What you will be expected to do:

• Design and build applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents.
• Design and develop coherent and physical data models to meet application requirements. 
• Identify and correct bottlenecks/bugs according to operational requirements.
• Focus on scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs.
• Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development.
• Take complete ownership of projects (end to end) and their development cycle.
• Mentoring and guiding team members.
• Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Integrate existing tools and business systems (in-house tools or business tools like ticketing software and communication tools) with external services.
• Coordinate with Product Manager, development team, & business analysts.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• A minimum of 4 years of experience.
• Deep knowledge of OOPS concepts and programming skills in Core Java, Spring Framework.
• Experience in web service development and integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML).
• Should be very strong in problem solving, data structures, and algorithms.
• Strong experience in SQL.
• Experience in the AWS suite (Ec2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway).
• Experience in scripting languages like Python.
• Experience in Microservice Architecture.
• Prior managing/mentoring experience.
• Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, and deployment. 

Good to have:

• Knowledge on messaging systems RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Container-based application deployment (Docker or equivalent)
• Willing to learn new technologies and implement them in products.

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly reliable, scalable and performant infrastructure for media heavy workflows.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.
• Take the accountability of the overall health of the infrastructure you build.
• Platformize components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly.
• Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.

Requirements

• 4 to 10 years of industry experience in software engineering with at least 4 years in Video, Audio & Image processing and streaming technologies.
• Deep expertise with various codecs, compute efficiency, streaming protocols and network topologies for media heavy workflows.
• Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, libraries and systems.
• Experience with abstracting requirements into frameworks.
• Hungry to learn, share knowledge, and enjoy mentoring others.
• Data driven, having customer empathy, striving to build best of class, performant services.

In this role, you will be responsible for building world-class technology products and platforms that are at the forefront of the technology revolution in the Indian healthcare ecosystem. You are someone who insists on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance.

Looking for technical lead in .Net who are having good experience in .net Domain with cloud platform along with data structure and algorithms.

looking only for immediate joiners in Hyderabad region.

Experience: 5+ Years

An  Architect  is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.  

• Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
• Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
• Responsibilities:
• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities 
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
• Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
• Requirements:

Ideal candidate should have

• 7+ years of system implementation experience 
• Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
• Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
• Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
• Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
• Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
• Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Good experience with Devops

• Design of the overall architecture of the web application.
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
• Learn and use core AWS technologies to design and then build available and scalable backend web services and customer-facing APIs.
• Troubleshoot and debug support issues and code blues autonomously.
• Assure quality of the solutions being developed within the team.
• Maintain technical mastery of the products being developed.
•  Person with a track record of delivering innovative solutions in the field of algorithm development.

• Strong knowledge of PHP frameworks such as Laravel Symfony etc. depending on your technology stack.
• Experience in working with MySQL database and analyzing the efficiency of queries.
• Worked with real time web applications and event driven architectures like Node.js or jQuery.
• Full-cycle PHP code development experience including debugging and performance analysis.
• Building scalable and performance oriented services with caching techniques and systems like Memcached, redis.
• Experience with NoSQL and distributed database like MongoDB, Cassandra or Redis.
• Comfortable with search engines like Solr or ElasticSearch.
• Working understanding of NGINX and Apache web servers.
• Working knowledge of RESTful paradigms and to build API for our front services and mobile applications.
• Passion for products, empathy for users, and aspiration to make big impact.
• Strong database design and query writing skills with a commitment to performance and efficiency.
• Solid engineering principles and clear understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills, and data structures.
• Experience in agile methodologies like Scrum.
• Good understanding of branching, build, deployment, continuous integration methodologies.