Backend Developer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our passionate team. If you have a strong background in backend development, a track record of delivering scalable and reliable solutions, and are eager to contribute to complex projects, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop robust, high-performance backend solutions using Python and related technologies.
• Lead the architecture and design discussions for major backend components and services.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze software requirements.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical growth.
• Review code and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and technical issues.
• Participate in sprint planning, task estimation, and agile development processes.
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our backend systems.
• Drive the adoption of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong proficiency in Python and backend frameworks like Django and Flask.
• In-depth knowledge of database systems, both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, etc. ).
• Proven track record of designing and developing scalable and maintainable backend services.
• Experience with RESTful API design and best practices.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, design principles, and software development lifecycle.
• Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers is a strong plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards challenges.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker) is a plus.

• Strong experience in Core Java, Multi-Threading, data structures (List/Map/Set) and unit testing with (Junit, Mockito)
• Strong experience with Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring Data), ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate) and RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgres)
• Strong experience in applying Object-Oriented design principles and Design Patterns
• Good knowledge of Multi-Tier architecture, Micro Services architecture and Service Oriented Architecture 
• Exposure to AWS Cloud, NoSQL Database (Mongo, Cassandra), Message Broker (Active
• MQ/RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka) and Big Data Technologies (Hadoop/Hive/Spark)
• Additionally, must possess capability to review code, produce technical specification document
• and knowledge of code quality tools (PMD/FindBugs/Sonar)

Desired Candidate :

• Experience in Node.JS working with large scale backend applications
• Expertise in any Relational or NoSQL databases and any of caching databases
• Experience in integrating with RESTful/GraphQL APIs and Microservice APIs
• Good problem solving and debugging skill
• Good knowledge of engineering excellence: Unit Testing/TDD, Code quality,
• Documentation, CI&CD
• Exposure on event-driven, asynchronous I/O
• Experience in Linux development and AWS ecosystem tools
• Experience in non-functional requirements (Scalability, Performance optimisation, Security)

What you can achieve :

• Empowering Entrepreneurial Spirit: Whatever your role is, we'll encourage you to reinvent and reinvigorate; achieving the best for CaratLane and you.
• Celebrating Your Contribution: We recognize and reward everyone who approaches their job with true passion, and drives performance.
• The Best of Tanishq and CaratLane: Work with a disruptive, new-age omni-channel brand, while being a part of India's most trustworthy organisation - the Tata Group.

You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.

Your core responsibilities:

• Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
• Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
• Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
• Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
• Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
• Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
• Good in Database schema design.
• Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
• Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
• Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
• Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.

Whom you will be sharing your work day with? 

• We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

About NetElixir: 

NetElixir is a global digital marketing firm headquartered in Princeton, NJ. With a common goal of helping our customers and challenging ourselves to think differently, we face challenges and tackle them together as a team. We are a close-knit group of imaginative and friendly industry experts who bring our unique passions and personalities together to find creative solutions that drive results.

With offices in the US and India, NetElixir works persistently gathering, evaluating, computing, and formulating raw data and turning it into actionable insights for our customers. We work consistently to develop new technology that will improve and facilitate digital marketing efforts across the globe.

Role: Python Developer

Experience: 3 -5 Years

Company Website: http://www.netelixir.com/">www.netelixir.com 

Job Description:

Your responsibilities will include understanding the needs, gathering and prioritizing requirements, and working with our software development teams to design, develop and deliver new features.

• 3-5 years of experience in building web applications and product development using Python
  ● Experience in Python Backend development, microservice API development using Flask and/or Django
  ● Experience in SQL and No SQL databases
  ● Experience in AWS cloud services
  ● Working knowledge in Unit testing with pytest, Git (versioning, branching, etc..), CI-CD
  ● Collaboration with technical teams and product stakeholders to ensure design and
  implementation is aligned with business requirements
  ● Perform design and code reviews to ensure products meet our quality standards
  ● Assist in the education and development of junior team members to ensure progression and
  improvement.
  ● Good hands-on experience in debugging application issues
  ● Work experience in developing and deploying AI/ML models (additional advantage)
  ● Exposure to Digital Marketing Domain (additional advantage)

We are looking for a high-performing Developer to build our ecommerce platform and API framework powered by Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Candidates for this role will be passionate about well-written code, testing, and excel at coming up with simple approaches to complex problems.

Our work culture is overachiever, very amiable, and at the same time always charged with excitement. We encourage our team members to take responsibility and grow into future leaders in the industry.

Job Responsibilities:

• Understand project requirements, writing bug-free clean code and ensure that the solution works per the agreed architecture, SLAs, KPIs and business model
• Integrate Django backend with third party API
• 100% Hands-on role
• Adapt to rapidly evolving requirements and changing priorities and drive the team accordingly
• Reverse engineer for debugging errors in code and ensure quality control in the process.
• Continually drive products towards a meaningful balance between user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility
• Operate in a hyper-collaborative way and follow these guiding principles: Value common sense and simplicity over complexity.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science from a reputed University
• 3 to 5 years of experience working in Django and Python.
• React and/or Angular for front end
• Proficiency in MongoDB and MySql
• Technical Skills: JIRA, Gitlab, Rest API, GCP or AWS
• Experience in performance profiling, tuning, and optimization, caching mechanisms with Enterprise level applicants
• Experience in writing unit testing and test case automation.
• Ability to operate in an Agile environment with a start-up mentality and unstructured environment, Energy, drive and passion to work, and operate in a digital world.