Backend Developer

As a Python Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and scaling data pipelines, developing prompts for large language models (LLMs), and deploying them as efficient, scalable APIs. You will collaborate closely with data scientists, product managers, and other engineers to ensure seamless integration of data solutions and LLM functionalities. This role requires expertise in Python, API design, data engineering tools, and a strong understanding of LLMs and their applications.

Technical Lead - .NET

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver technical systems
• Maintain adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
• Participate in the development and review of documents to comply with SDLC methodologies [e.g., Engineering Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), estimation, Solution Design Document (SDD) and Software Architecture Documents (SAD)]
• Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining the project during the transition to production where necessary
• Adhere to Application Engineering methodologies, standards, code reviews
• Provide feedback regarding application engineering methodologies, standards, and leading practices when appropriate
• Identify potential points of contention for missed activities and notify project leadership of situation and remediation plan
• Minimize technical exposure and risk on projects
• Provide technical guidance to development team members
• Technical deliverables (i.e., code and documentation) on projects assigned
• Translate detailed Requirements and Design and Solution Architecture deliverables into detailed design specifications
• Maintain effective and consistent communication within the team, with peers, the leadership team, and the peers in other IT groups
• Proactively raise issues to Technical and Group Leads when necessary
• Produce high-quality application engineering deliverables in accordance with the project timeline
• Build and unit test a project to detailed design specifications
• Provide thought leadership and technical guidance to engineering staff
• Review of code completed
• Review performance of developers
• Proactively anticipate project issues before they occur; define the problem; identify possible causes; work with the team to identify solutions; select and implement the most appropriate solution
• Apply judgment in implementing Application Engineering methodologies, processes, and practices to specific requirements of projects/programs which may include product design engineering, information security, code maintainability and reliability

Requirements:

Must Have:

• Bachelor’s OR master’s degree in a technical field and/or equivalent work experience
• At least 3 years acting a senior architecture / technical lead role in a comparable organization
• Significant experience of deploying large, enterprise-wide implementations to significant user volumes
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience leading a team of developers - defining work breakdown structures/tasks, assigning the teamwork items, monitoring, and ensuring quality and adherence to standards etc.
• At least 8 years of relevant hands-on work experience building, integrating, and delivering enterprise-wide web and windows applications using Microsoft and other technologies for large organizations on complex projects
• 8+ years of ASP.Net MVC, ASP.Net experience
• 8+ years of experience of working with applications that have a SQL Server backend
• 5+ years of experience with Object-Relational Mappers such as Entity Framework, ADO.NET, Dapper
• Expert level knowledge of .NET Web API is required. .NET Core knowledge is preferred, but Web API experience with legacy .NET is ok
• 5+ years of experience with GIT
• 3+ years of experience of Azure Devops
• In-depth knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) principles, and familiarity with many design patterns for Software applications.
• Demonstrated expertise in application design and construction, work breakdown structure of items, design and code reviews, unit test and build activities, deployment and performance related activities, documentation, support, and training/mentoring
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

Nice to have:

• Ideally experience working with SSRS, SSIS
• Experience with MongoDB or another document database would be a plus
• Knowledge and experience with working on N-Tier applications.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships
• Experience working on projects following Agile methodologies would be ideal
• Experience working with Azure or other cloud providers would be ideal
• Ability to work within diverse, global, virtual teams.
• Proven ability to thrive under pressure
• Some experience with design and prototyping tools and diagramming is desired

Experience:

The candidate should have about 2+ years of experience with design and development in Java/Scala. Experience in algorithm, data-structure, database and distributed System is mandatory.

Required Skills:

Mandatory: -

1. Core Java or Scala
2. Experience in Big Data, Spark
3. Extensive experience in developing spark job. Should possess good Oops knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
4. Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complexity of spark job.
5. Working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
6. Hands on experience in Spark, creating RDD, applying operation - transformation-action

Good To have: -

1. Python
2. Spark streaming
3. Py Spark
4. Azure/AWS Cloud Knowledge of Data Storage and Compute side

Responsibilities & ownership

• Lead, build, deliver and ensure customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product.
• Work on distributed systems for data processing with efficient protocols and communication, locking and consensus, schedulers, resource management, low latency access to distributed storage, auto scaling, and self healing.
• Understand and reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in a multithreaded and distributed environment.
• Lead the team to solve complex and unknown problems 
• Solve technical problems and customer issues with technical expertise
• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like  GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Mentor other team members for high quality and design 
• Collaborate with Product Management to deliver on customer requirements and innovation
• Collaborate with Support and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Java/C++ with 3alm+ years of experience developing production-level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models, and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
• 5+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
• Hands-on experience  in query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, code generation, networking, and storage systems
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Ability to solve ambiguous, unexplored, and cross-team problems effectively
• Hands on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform 
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) 
• Understanding of distributed file systems such as  S3, ADLS, or HDFS
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Ability to work individually and collaboratively with other team members
• Ability to scope and plan solution for  big problems and mentors others on the same
• Interested and motivated to be part of a fast-moving startup with a fun and accomplished team

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

You should primarily be a backend developer or full stack developer, very good at code reviews and code optimization. Our products depend on processing large amounts of data and having fast response times is absolutely essential.

You will have the opportunity to

• Take responsibility of building systems for scale
• Manage our backend systems and database optimizations
• Assist in key decisions and design architecture that drives development across products
• Define processes and help with efficient functioning of the team
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the products are scalable, maintainable and secure

What we expect from you:

• We work on Ruby on Rails but you can have 2+ years of experience as backend developer in any language
• Have a solid grasp of OOP, databases and automated testing methodologies.
• Know how to manage sprint and ensure tasks are completed within the timeline
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Strong understanding of SQL databases
• Proficient knowledge of various authentication methods like JWT, OAuth etc..
• Perform peer code reviews and Code audit - Analyze existing code and remediate performance issues within existing applications

Having seen over 10x growth in 2021 alone, we are expanding our scope of products to cater to the fast growing creator economy and help creators monetize in ways beyond influencer marketing. We are also looking at tremendous growth in the next few years, standing at the verge of building something huge!

Come join our team of developers if a fast learning environment in a high growth industry excites you.

About Winkl

Please check out our product before applying to this position -
* Website - https://winkl.co
* Team - https://winkl.co/about
* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.winkl.app&;amp;hl=en
* iOS App - https://www.winkl.co/app

Winkl is a technology company that is changing how influencer marketing is done. From a manual process earlier to an automated and data-driven process with Winkl. More on this here.

Leveraging data & technology helps Winkl scale influencer marketing to a level that wasn't possible earlier. This has helped Winkl power influencer campaigns for top brands in India like Flipkart, Amazon etc.

Culture & Expectations

* At Winkl, no one tells you what to do. We don't micromanage. We don't spoon feed. As long as you're willing to learn new things, are proactive, initiate activities on your own, make mistakes and learn from them, take responsibility, stick to your word of getting things done, we think you'd be a great fit at Winkl.
* On a day to day basis, you'll get to be an important part of a high growth startup as it scales.
* You'll receive all possible support from your team at Winkl to help you succeed. 
* Being highly accountable is a non-negotiable requirement