Backend Developer Intern - Python/Django

Job Description: Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore

WHO WE ARE :

As part of TIFIN's technology division, you will play a critical role in enabling the company's growth by developing highly scalable applications that provide practical solutions to clients in the financial services- domain. You will design, build, test, and maintain scalable and stable-the-shelf applications or custom-built technology solutions to meet business needs.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

• Grow at the Edge: We embrace personal growth by stepping out of our comfort zones to discover our genius zones, driven by self-awareness and integrity. No excuses.
• Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth: Transparency, radical candor, and authenticity define our communication. We challenge ideas, but once decisions are made, we commit fully.
• I Win for Teamwin: We operate within our genius zones, taking ownership of our work and inspiring our team with energy and attitude to win together.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business needs and architectural improvements.
• Review code for quality and implementation of best practices.
• Promote coding, testing, and deployment best practices through hands-on research and demonstration.
• Write testable code that enables extremely high levels of code coverage.
• Ability to review frameworks and design principles toward suitability in the project context.
• Candidates who will demonstrate an ability to identify an opportunity lay out a rational plan for pursuing that opportunity, and see it through to completion.

Requirements:

• Engineering graduate with 3-5 years of experience in software product development.
• Proficient in Python, Django, Pandas, GitHub, and AWS.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Strong Experience in designing REST APIs.
• Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications.
• A clear understanding of software design constructs and their implementation.
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python and multi-process architecture.
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
• Good understanding of Test Driven Development.
• Unit and Integration testing.
• Preferred exposure to the Finance domain.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and ESOP.
• Medical insurance.
• Flexible PTO policy and company-paid holidays.
• Access to our Chief Mindfulness Officer for mindfulness events and 1:1 personal coaching.

Note on Location:

While we have team centers in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and this role is based out of Bangalore

TIFIN is an equal-opportunity workplace, and we value diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any discrimination.

Roles:

• Developing core infrastructure in Python, Django.
• Developing models and business logic (e. g. transactions, payments, diet plan, search, etc).
• Architecting servers and services that enable new product features.
• Building out newly enabled product features

• Minimum 4 years of industry or open-source experience.
• Proficient in at least one OO language: Python(preferred)/Golang/Java.
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].

Position: Backend Developer

Organization: A Funded global healthcare platform connecting doctors, thereby enabling exchange of information on a quick and real time basis, founded in the year 2013.Currently there are 3 lakh doctors using this platform and everyday there are 400 new doctors joining it.

The platform promotes exchange of viewpoints, ideas, and information on various medical practices amongst healthcare professionals. This saves both time and money as solutions to several health issues can be accessed on a real time basis. There are 1.3 million registered doctors and 400+ daily publications on its platform and they operate across 16+countries.

Roles & Responsibilities

You’re Awesome At -

• Have strong experience in Python (FLASK framework).
• Have a Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns that can work at scale.
• Sound knowledge of NoSQL/SQL Databases (Mongo DB preferred).
• Strong experience with at-Cloud technology, preferably AWS or GCP, or Azure.
• Core experience in developing complex backend systems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passionate about application scalability, availability, reliability, and security.

Your Academic Qualifications -

BE/BTech in Computer Science preferred.

You’ll Be Improving & Responsible For –

• A team that is building products used by 300k + doctors every single day.
• Work on PetaByte Scale Streaming Systems - more than 500 million hours of video have been streamed.
• Lead high volume VOD streaming (think of systems as sophisticated as Netflix and Amazon prime).
• Challenge oneself on Security, Scalability, and Stability
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Reach out to the open-source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes

Your Experience Across the Years in the Roles You’ve Played -

2-4 Years of experience in Backend Development.

Job Summary:

We want a techie at heart. Someone who is happy and curious to work on all aspects of software development.

Reporting directly to the CTO, you will be responsible for feature design, development, and continuously optimizing our tech stack.

• We are looking for an experienced software engineer with at least 5 years of experience in a startup or product environment. Ideally you have been involved in all aspects of software development from requirements gathering to design, development, deployment and post-release support. We are looking for all-round technical maturity. Our tech stack is Angular, Spring boot and Django/Python.

Key Skills

Java

SpringBoot

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Git

AWS

REST api design

Experience integrating with external APIs

Good applied understanding of Object Oriented Programming

Good database modeling and SQL knowledge.

/React is a big plus.

Responsibilities and Duties

Build out features across the stack : backend, API design and integration, database optimization , microservices, plugins, queues etc

Fix bugs and write automated tests

Maintain and upgrade our Tech Stack

Translate requirements to design and write/present articulate software design.

Job Description

We are looking for a Back-End Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your coworkers into the application. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Design and implementation of data storage solutions

Skills And Qualifications

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, Nodejs and CSS3
• Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors, such as LESS and SASS
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Good Understanding of Mysql database.
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Setup and administration of backups
• Outputting data in different formats

Key Skills:

1. One or more of Python/PHP/Ruby/NodeJS/Java

2. Sound object-oriented skills, including strong design patterns knowledge

2. REST APIs

3. MVC architecture

4. MySQL/PostgreSQL

5. Exp with at least 1 NoSQL databases MongoDB/Memcache/Redis/

6. Exp with search technologies Elasticsearch/Solr

7. Exp building messaging based asynchrounous systems RabbitMQ/Kafka/SQS/Celery will be added advantage

8. Exp with Django/Flask frameworks will be added advantage

9. Knowledge of software best practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) will be added adnavtage

Requirements:

1. Developing software solutions in conjunction with Relational theory, Rest APIs and NoSQL database technologies

2. Knowledge of cloud based technologies in AWS or Azure will be added advantage

3. Understanding of RDBMS technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL.

4. Hands-on with Version control systems (GIT, SVN) and Unix/Ubuntu.

5. Experience in requirement analysis, HLD, LLD, unit & integration testing.

6. Good hands on experience in debugging application issues

TL;DR

1) Top performer in the company

2) Has worked with product based startup company

3) Ambitious and hardworking