Backend Developer

Overall 4+ years of IT experience

Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience in Python and backend development with exposure to cloud technologies

Key Skills & Responsibilities:

Python Proficiency:

Strong hands-on experience in Python with knowledge of frameworks like Django or Flask.

Ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.

Cloud Exposure:

Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Hands-on experience with basic services like virtual machines, serverless functions (e.g., AWS Lambda), or storage solutions.

Backend Development:

Proficiency in developing and consuming RESTful APIs.

Knowledge of additional communication protocols (e.g., GraphQL, WebSockets) is a plus.

Database Management:

Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Basic knowledge of NoSQL databases like MongoDB or DynamoDB.

System Design & Problem-Solving:

Ability to understand and implement scalable backend solutions.

Basic exposure to distributed systems or event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) is a bonus.

Collaboration & Communication:

Good communication skills to work effectively in a team.

Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Security & Best Practices:

Awareness of secure coding practices and API security (e.g., OAuth, JWT).

Good-to-Have Skills:

Basic understanding of full-stack development, including front-end technologies (React, Angular, Vue.js).

Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.

Knowledge of caching strategies using Redis or Memcached.

We're looking for team players with natural product intuition who can help us build solutions

for our world-class Learning & Assessment platform (edulastic.com).

As a Backend Developer you will be responsible for the server-side of our web applications

and you will work closely with our engineers to ensure the system consistency and improving

user experience.

Role and Responsibilities

• As an experienced backend developer, your primary focus will be the development of all

server-side systems

• A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. You will test, secure

and deploy your code

• Knowledge of Node.js is a must along with a server-sideframework
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Experience and proficiency integrating with RESTAPIs
• Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures,

and algorithms

• Experience in working with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Should be willing to work in a very fluid startup environment and take complete ownership of

the assigned responsibility

Skills Required:

• At least 2 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS should be well versed

with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.

• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL

Database.

• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience developing and deploying REST

APIs.

• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.

Responsibilities: 

• Develop backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Bonus:

• Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events
• Know how to use test driven development as a design tool
• Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation
• Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects
• Know how to refactor large codebases safely
• Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools

Intro

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team and drive the technology growth of our pay later platform. At Rely, we want passionate and talented individuals that want a challenge building the next generation payment products for Millennials across Asia. Together we will build the best products using amazing technology.

What will you do

• Design and implement business critical, high performance large scale services.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution and customer delight.
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.
• Building and managing automated build/test/deployment environments.
• Lead team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread goals across the team.
  
  

What will you need

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with python and a backend framework (ideally django)
• 1+ years Hands-on experience working with Javascript and JS frameworks (Angular, React)
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications large scale applications in any language or stack
• Experience working with high scale distributed systems.
• Practical knowledge of scalable software design.
• Good working knowledge of AWS
• Proficient with APIs, web protocols, OAuth, git.
• Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Well versed with Lean methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services.
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.

What would be a bonus

• Experience in production environments with large data sets
• Experience in scaling systems to millions of users.
• Work experience in a fast-growth startup
• Experience in DevOps tools but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience in Gunicorn and Nginx