Backend Developer

About Shopflo

At Shopflo, we're trying to change the way consumers experience brands and businesses. Our first product was a cart and checkout platform for e-commerce, that allowed marketers to personalise discounts, rewards, and payments. We are currently also working on a new product that takes it a notch higher by unlocking enterprise-grade personalization for all consumer tech businesses.

Team & Company

Shopflo was founded by three co-founders:

• Ankit Bansal (ex-IIT Kharagpur, Oracle, Gupshup)
• Ishan Rakshit (ex-IIT Bombay, Parthenon, Elevation Capital)
• Priy Ranjan (ex-IIT Madras, McKinsey, Elevation Capital)

We’re a fast-growing team of ~50 people, based in HSR Layout, Bengaluru. We raised a $3.8M seed round from Tiger Global, TQ Ventures.

 What you will do

• Design and develop microservice that can work in a large-scale multi-tenant environment.
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Working with a cross-discipline team of Design, Product, Data Science and Analytics team.
• Deploy and maintain the application in a secured AWS environment.
• Take ownership from the ideation phase to deployment and maintenance.
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring world-class programmers in the team.

You should apply if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in server-side development
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Node or Golang
• Hands-on experience in API development and frameworks such as Spring, Node, or Django.
• Good Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in test-driven development. (writing unit test and API test).
• Understanding of basic cloud computing concepts and experience in using any of the major cloud service providers(AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Ability to build and deploy the application in a containerized environment.
• Understanding of application logging and monitoring systems like Prometheus or Kibana.
• B. E/B. Tech/M. E. /M. Tech/M. S. from a reputed university with a good academic record.
• Curiosity to explore cutting-edge technologies and bake them into the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end-to-end ownership.

Sizzle is an exciting new startup that’s changing the world of gaming.  At Sizzle, we’re building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube streams. We’re looking for a superstar Python expert to help develop and deploy our AI pipeline. The main task will be deploying models and algorithms developed by our AI team, and keeping the daily production pipeline running. Our pipeline is centered around several microservices, all written in Python, that coordinate their actions through a database. We’re looking for developers with deep experience in Python including profiling and improving the performance of production code, multiprocessing / multithreading, and managing a pipeline that is constantly running. AI/ML experience is a plus, but not necessary. AWS / docker / CI/CD practices are also a plus. If you are a gamer or streamer, or enjoy watching video games and streams, that is also definitely a plus :-)

You will be responsible for:

• Building Python scripts to deploy our AI components into pipeline and production
• Developing logic to ensure multiple different AI components work together seamlessly through a microservices architecture
• Managing our daily pipeline on both on-premise servers and AWS
• Working closely with the AI engineering, backend and frontend teams

You should have the following qualities:

• Deep expertise in Python including:
• Multiprocessing / multithreaded applications
• Class-based inheritance and modules
• DB integration including pymongo and sqlalchemy (we have MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases on our backend)
• Understanding Python performance bottlenecks, and how to profile and improve the performance of production code including:
• Optimal multithreading / multiprocessing strategies
• Memory bottlenecks and other bottlenecks encountered with large datasets and use of numpy / opencv / image processing
• Experience in creating soft real-time processing tasks is a plus
• Expertise in Docker-based virtualization including:
• Creating & maintaining custom Docker images
• Deployment of Docker images on cloud and on-premise services
• Experience with maintaining cloud applications in AWS environments
• Experience in deploying machine learning algorithms into production (e.g. PyTorch, tensorflow, opencv, etc) is a plus
• Experience with image processing in python is a plus (e.g. openCV, Pillow, etc)
• Experience with running Nvidia GPU / CUDA-based tasks is a plus (Nvidia Triton, MLFlow)
• Knowledge of video file formats (mp4, mov, avi, etc.), encoding, compression, and using ffmpeg to perform common video processing tasks is a plus.
• Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
• Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online

Seniority: We are looking for a mid to senior level engineer

Salary: Will be commensurate with experience. 

Who Should Apply:

If you have the right experience, regardless of your seniority, please apply.

Work Experience:  4 years to 8 years

About Sizzle

Sizzle is building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube videos. Sizzle works with thousands of gaming streamers to automatically create highlights and social content for them. Sizzle is available at www.sizzle.gg. 

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• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

Responsibilities

• You will be part of a growing high functional team, responsible for delivering various frontend products to the end-users. Simplifying complex workflow and make it easy for the end-users.
• The team designs and develops various products from - financial apps targeted to invoice users, data-heavy app oriented to operational and support teams, a productivity app for sales teams,
• SDK that will be integrated into third-party apps, etc.
• You will work with business, product, and backend teams to work on new features and products.
• You are expected to drive the products to maximize its business impact and customer delight.
• You are expected to stay on top of tech innovations in the Web development space, experiment them and make suitable suggestions to enhance tech stack. Research and propose software programs that are compatible with future technologies.

• Design and implement Single Page Applications (SPAs) using modern JavaScript frameworks
• Integrating data from various back-end services
• Develop a simple-to-use user interface for a complex product, apply new technologies, best design practices and usability patterns
• Contribute to end-to-end system architecture, working with/as cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with UX teams, product managers and other technical teams to create optimized and delightful user experiences
• Apply expertise of HTML5, bootstrap/foundation CSS frameworks
• Analyze the performance of layers in the frontend, backend and engineer designs/code to solve them
• Work with the product team to build flow and detail out the requirements
• Conversant with development for desktop and mobile browsers and hybrid apps.

• Proven working experience in web programming
• Top-notch programming skills and in-depth knowledge of modern HTML/CSS
• Solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices
• Working with respectable size Single Page Application (SPA) project
• Expert in MVC like design patterns, modern JavaScript frameworks
• Hands-on experience with network diagnostics, network analytics tools
• Solid CS, OOP/OOD, design patterns
• Good grasp on usability and interaction design
• Track record in large-scale system software development
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques

• An​y framework - ReactJS (Must Have), AngularJS, Backbone, Ember, VueJS
• DOM and Virtual DOM understanding
• API Integration. Understanding of session management. 

• Experience with server-side processing such as templating, packaging and delivery
• Some end-to-end system design experience, sensitive to ​ security
• Experience working with webviews on Android and iOS
• Exposure to React Native
• Demonstrated visual design and layout skills
• Design and development of backend REST endpoint applications

Node JS Developer
JD:

• In depth knowledge of Node.js (with framework, probably Sails.js or at least Express.js)

• Thorough understanding of relational databases such as MySQL or similar technologies.

• Complete knowledge on MongoDB database.

• Excellent coding skill in Node.js, JavaScript

• AWS Hosting.

• Knowledge working closely with git.

• Experience with the Express.js framework.

• Proficiency in Linux environment.

• Agile/Scrum development cycle understanding.

• Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team.