Backend Developer

Responsibilities

 Be a part of IOT Product portfolio and execute towards Digital Transformational initiatives.
Prepare design documents in collaboration with product managers and engineering squads
in development of use cases for new features.
 Hands on product lead developer expertise in designing solutions running on hybrid cloud
environments.
 Work as a Software Lead in application development using Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL and
other latest technologies running on AWS environments.
 Drive Engineering activities in Microservices and Cloud based Architecture by leveraging
DevOps efficiencies and adopting new technology stack in AWS.
 Drive communication and consistently report accurate product status for stakeholders
 Able to lead a team of engineers, help them with technical issues. (80% self-work and 20%
influencing scrum engineers).
 Balance time on development projects including Technical Design, Code Reviews, Mentoring,
and training. Able to break down requirements and build traceability in design and
implementation details.
 Work with developers to define unit & automated tests and closely monitor development
milestones. Collaborate with scrum team to identify functional, system and end to end
integration of products leading to deployment.
 Understand end to end flow in product development and able to prepare design documents
and present to Engineering and Product Leadership team.
 Full stack product development experience.

Skills Required :
 Bachelor’s/Master’s degree equivalent with strong knowledge methodology and tools.
 8+ years working Experience in designing data, keyword driven or hybrid strategies; Ability
to troubleshoot and think out of the box
 Experience in CICD pipeline configuration, creation, and maintenance – from build to deploy
to integration.

 Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive design documents covering
functional and non-functional requirements.
 Hands-on experience in large enterprise development in a multi-cloud environment.
 Strong expertise over Java, Python language, Databases, experience in web Frameworks like
Django required for backend development.
 Experience of working in AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS, Security, ILM and AWS Services).
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for Container Management and Orchestration by
setting CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins / Ansible.
 Experience with API (REST/SOAP). Experienced in PowerBI, RDBMS, DB Architecture design
and good control over SQL queries.
 Experience with any NoSQL Database, Caching and Messaging is a plus. Experience with
Messaging Tool and Caching Frameworks
 Strong Understanding of fundamental concepts: Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPs
concepts, Design patterns and Architectures. Experience with Agile programming techniques
such as test-driven development. Design applications to optimize for performance and
usability.

Looking to hire for a contractual role.
Period: 6 months+
JD:
● 4-7 years of experience building and scaling APIs and web applications.
● Experience building and managing large scale data/analytics systems.
● Have a strong grasp of CS fundamentals and excellent problem solving abilities. Have a good
understanding of software design principles and architectural best practices.
● Be passionate about writing code and have experience coding in multiple languages, including at least
one scripting language, preferably Python.
● Be able to argue convincingly why feature X of language Y rocks/sucks, or why a certain design decision
is right/wrong, and so on.
● Be a self-starter—someone who thrives in fast paced environments with minimal ‘management’.
● Have experience working with multiple storage and indexing technologies such as MySQL, Redis,
MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic.
● Good knowledge (including internals) of messaging systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
● Use the command line like a pro. Be proficient in Git and other essential software development tools.
● Working knowledge of large-scale computational models such as MapReduce and Spark is a bonus.
● Exposure to one or more centralized logging, monitoring, and instrumentation tools, such as Kibana,
Graylog, StatsD, Datadog etc.

● Working knowledge of building websites and apps. Good understanding of integration complexities and
dependencies.
● Working knowledge linux server administration as well as the AWS ecosystem is desirable.
● It's a huge bonus if you have some personal projects (including open source contributions) that you work
on during your spare time. Show off some of your projects you have hosted on GitHub.

Your Responsibilities:

• Own the backend stack – Python based, that powers our product

• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Backend Developers(Node.js), Front-end developers, DevOps to design and implement new features
• Build and maintain several Backend Jobs and REST’ful Services which will be used internally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
• Deploy and monitor the Jobs and endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X data processing load)
• Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.

 

Skills that you bring Along:

• A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Python and related frameworks – particularly Flask.
• Extensive experience in designing and scheduling backend Python jobs
• Hands on working in different file formats like Json, Parquet, csv etc. coming from Data Science side.
• Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
• Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
• Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
• Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
• Good experience with design patterns
• Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
• Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
• Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
• Good experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
• Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Ideally experience in parallel data processing and building end-to-end Data Pipelines using tools such as Airflow/Prefect and Spark/Dask
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner

Products@DataWeave: We, the Products team at DataWeave, build data products that provide timely insights that are readily consumable and actionable, at scale. Our underpinnings are: scale, impact, engagement, and visibility. We help businesses take data driven decisions everyday. We also give them insights for long term strategy. We are focused on creating value for our customers and help them succeed. How we work It's hard to tell what we love more, problems or solutions! Every day, we choose to address some of the hardest data problems that there are. We are in the business of making sense of messy public data on the web. At serious scale! Read more on Become a DataWeaver What do we offer? - Opportunity to work on some of the most compelling data products that we are building for online retailers and brands. - Ability to see the impact of your work and the value you are adding to our customers almost immediately. - Opportunity to work on a variety of challenging problems and technologies to figure out what really excites you. - A culture of openness. Fun work environment. A flat hierarchy. Organization wide visibility. Flexible working hours. - Learning opportunities with courses, trainings, and tech conferences. Mentorship from seniors in the team. - Last but not the least, competitive salary packages and fast paced growth opportunities. Roles and Responsibilities: ● Build a low latency serving layer that powers DataWeave's Dashboards, Reports, and Analytics functionality ● Build robust RESTful APIs that serve data and insights to DataWeave and other products ● Design user interaction workflows on our products and integrating them with data APIs ● Help stabilize and scale our existing systems. Help design the next generation systems. ● Scale our back end data and analytics pipeline to handle increasingly large amounts of data. ● Work closely with the Head of Products and UX designers to understand the product vision and design philosophy ● Lead/be a part of all major tech decisions. Bring in best practices. Mentor younger team members and interns. ● Constantly think scale, think automation. Measure everything. Optimize proactively. ● Be a tech thought leader. Add passion and vibrancy to the team. Push the envelope. Skills and Requirements: ● 5-7 years of experience building and scaling APIs and web applications. ● Experience building and managing large scale data/analytics systems. ● Have a strong grasp of CS fundamentals and excellent problem solving abilities. Have a good understanding of software design principles and architectural best practices. ● Be passionate about writing code and have experience coding in multiple languages, including at least one scripting language, preferably Python. ● Be able to argue convincingly why feature X of language Y rocks/sucks, or why a certain design decision is right/wrong, and so on. ● Be a self-starter—someone who thrives in fast paced environments with minimal ‘management’. ● Have experience working with multiple storage and indexing technologies such as MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic. ● Good knowledge (including internals) of messaging systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ. ● Use the command line like a pro. Be proficient in Git and other essential software development tools. ● Working knowledge of large-scale computational models such as MapReduce and Spark is a bonus. ● Exposure to one or more centralized logging, monitoring, and instrumentation tools, such as Kibana, Graylog, StatsD, Datadog etc. ● Working knowledge of building websites and apps. Good understanding of integration complexities and dependencies. ● Working knowledge linux server administration as well as the AWS ecosystem is desirable. ● It's a huge bonus if you have some personal projects (including open source contributions) that you work on during your spare time. Show off some of your projects you have hosted on GitHub.

Candidate should have Following TDD methodology and writing unit tests 3+ years of development using Python Work closely with and incorporate feedback from product, designers, and other key stakeholders in the company. Develop a project through its entire lifecycle. Quickly learn new technologies and adapt to a fast-paced development environment Familiarity with Object Oriented Programming is highly preferred Familiarity with SOAP, REST, XML-RPC, and JSON integration standards preferred Excellent communication skills both written and verbal Skills : HTML, Python, Django,