

Backend Developer (Python)
Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (http://www.egregorelabs.com/">www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here
We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (http://www.romulus.co/">www.romulus.co) and Robana (http://www.robana.ai/">www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.
Ideal Background
- At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
- Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers
- Sound understanding of computer science principles
- Exposure to any of the following
- Financial services
- Natural Language Processing
- Robotic Process Automation
- Intelligent Document Processing
- Document Management and Repositories
Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
- Build POCs for client deployments
- Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
- Document your code, write test cases, etc.
Skills
- Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
- Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
- A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well
Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :
- Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
- Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
- Work Ethic- - We- ve grown up on Wall Street. We work hard, and have aggressive goals. We want our team-mates to be focused, goal-oriented and consistent high achievers.
- Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done, and getting things done right. We want outcome focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.
Work From Home
Package: 7-12 LPA

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Key Responsibilities:
· Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable software solutions
· Work extensively with AWS Serverless services such as Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB
· Implement and optimize Elasticsearch for search and analytics
· Build backend services using NodeJS and develop front-end applications using Angular
· Design and develop robust REST APIs with a solid understanding of web services
· Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in JavaScript and TypeScript
· Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve performance issues in complex systems
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, end-to-end software solutions
Required Skills & Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
· 8+ years of experience in software development
· Strong hands-on expertise in AWS Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) or .NET with SQL
· Experience with Elasticsearch for efficient data retrieval and indexing
· Proficiency in NodeJS, Angular, JavaScript, and TypeScript
· Solid understanding of REST APIs and web services
· Strong UI development skills with CSS
· Proven experience designing solutions for complex technical requirements
· Excellent debugging, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
Requirements
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field
- 5-8 years of relevant experience
- Proven track record of Team Leading/Mentoring a team successfully.
- Experience with web technologies and microservices architecture both frontend and backend.
- Java, Spring framework, hibernate
- MySQL, Mongo, Solr, Redis,
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
- Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.
- Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story
- Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services
- Exceptional design and architectural skills
- Experience of cloud providers/platforms like GCP and AWS
Roles & Responsibilities
- Develop new user-facing features.
- Work alongside the product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate, think through the complex architecture.
- Writing clean, reusable, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.
- Encourage innovation and efficiency improvements to ensure processes are productive.
- Ensure the training and mentoring of the team members.
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed.
- Research and apply new technologies, techniques, and best practices.
- Team mentorship and leadership.
Job Description:
We are seeking a talented and experienced Backend Developer with a strong proficiency in Node.js and expertise in database management. As a Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our software systems, ensuring their high performance and responsiveness.
Responsibilities:
· Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Node.js.
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define software requirements and specifications.
· Optimize and scale applications for maximum speed and scalability.
· Implement security and data protection measures.
· Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely manner.
· Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
· Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in backend development.
Requirements:
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
· Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in Node.js development.
· Proficiency with databases, preferably MongoDB or DynamoDB.
· Strong understanding of RESTful API design and development.
· Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
· Familiarity with cloud platforms in AWS is a plus.
· Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
· Strong communication and teamwork skills.
· Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks efficiently.
· Proven track record of delivering high-quality code on schedule.
Responsibilities
- Understand the high-level product roadmap for the squad and immediate features to be developed, contributing to high-level estimation and lay-out of the development sequences. Complete complex development tasks with minimal guidance
- Constantly and actively contribute to pushing code to production with the objective of becoming a main contributor. Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and deployment, that respects best practices and industry development standards
- Review Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams and technical documentation, ensuring its quality. Enable best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually thrive in improving the technology of the product/team.
- Drive the adoption of best practices & regular participation in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions
- Experiment with new and relevant technologies, and tools, and drive innovation & adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create.
- Implementation of long-term technology vision for your team. Responsible for the complete architecture of your product.
- Creating architecture & designs for new solutions around existing/new areas u Decide technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
- Be accountable for code quality with the assistance of a QA Analyst to conduct adequate testing.
- Review and contribute to technical documentation. Contribute actively to the design of the solution, challenging other members on technical decisions.
Skills
- Working with other TypeScript developers and software engineers to develop Front-end and back-end architecture that’s well-structured and flexible, along with the APIs to support it.
- Developing and implementing Back-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
- Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using Node concepts.
- Create data visualization tools, libraries, and reusable code for prospects.
- In-depth knowledge of TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and back-end languages.
- Knowledge of Backend service like AWS Services, Microservice, Serverless software.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
- Proficiency with TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and Back-end languages.
- 7+ years’ experience in Node JS, Typescript, NoSQL, RDBMS, AWS Services
- The ability to learn new technologies quickly
- The ability to communicate complex procedures to other colleagues.



- Must have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with Python/Node.JS/Typescript
- At least 2+ years as back-end software developer
- A deep understanding of the benefits of the Microservice and serverless paradigms
- Prepared technical documentation, and understand why it’s important
- Understanding of database principals: SQL and NoSQL
- Collaboration and communication skills (you’ll be working with clients and internal teams)
- An understanding of programming fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms)
- Familiarity and comfort with REST API, Postman
- The ability to work independently or within a team structure.
- A “lead by example” attitude, and motivation to deliver work you’re proud of

About us:-
Zupee is India's hottest Real Money Gaming Platform
With in 1 yr of start, we just had an initial team of around 30 people, these 30 were successful to bring 10 Million+ users and an overall consumer spend of 1.5 Billion USD on the platform, the journey which needed years to be covered was covered with in 1yr. As we speak today, Zupee has been profitable for almost an year now and has ended the year 2020 with a team size of 70+ and over all growth rate was mapped around 20X.
Our user base has significantly gone up and we have invested highly in technology and have got best in class tech stack, it's time to add the backend developers who can help us scale up the platform so that we can drive profitable growth and become the market leader in our space.
Backend Developer :- (3 - 12 yrs)
What You'll Need?
- Knowledge of languages (JavaScript, Python) and frameworks/systems (nodejs)
- Strong analytical skills and aptitude
- Understanding of data architecture, software design and best coding practices
- Understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts and technologies
- Ability to learn new languages and technologies
- Experience with databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
- Working knowledge of Linux

Type: Individual contributor with good hands on proficiency.
Must have
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Java, Ruby, Python
- Exposure to databases: any of PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Cassandra
- Any NoSQL database experience is a plus
- Exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure: EC2 or S3
- Proficiency with Git
- MUST: Using REST to make API calls.
Great to have:
- Experience working with one or more middleware, enterprise bus, queueing frameworks
- Any of Memcached/Redis, Apache Kafka / RabbitMQ / PubSub+ / AmazonMQ
Soft skills:
- Appreciation for clean and well documented code
What will you do at Tradyl:
(Examples for illustration only)
- Build a shipping service module that is called by our website to query shipping rates from India to a destination country. Configure this to so that an Ops person can update shipping costs as and when they change. Own deployment and monitoring of this service.
- Use Zapier to build a workflow to export a MixPanel report into a Google sheet every day.
- Change our supplier portal (built on bubble.io) to make an API call to our customer facing site, whenever a supplier modifies his profile.
- Write an alert mechanism that identifies catalogues with insufficient information and makes them non discoverable, which can run every day.
- Work with Business Team to design a workflow for product inwarding using Airtable. Write a small app within Airtable so that whenever a product is updated as “shipped” in airtable, it updates the customer facing website.
- Use an open source dashboarding framework to create a quick dashboard to track important business events.

Mandatory Skills :
Front end : Angular, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
Backend : Python
Framework : Django python web framework
Any experience of working with NLP, computer vision and deep learning will be additional plus point


- 3+ years of work experience as a Python Developer.
- Sound understanding and knowledge of Python and its ecosystem libraries like pandas and numpy. Also be able to write modular code and understand the python packaging system.
- Experience on web crawling, scraping (Scrapy,BeautifulSoup, Selenium) and web application development using Django/Flask Framework.
- Experience on Data-Science; exposure to Theanos, Tensorflow, Pytorch (preferable)
- Exposure to data mining, Pyspark (preferable)


