Backend Developer

About FloBiz

Website : https : //flobiz.in/

FloBiz is India's first neobusiness platform, revolutionizing the way Small and

Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) operate in India. Our mission is to digitize 65 million

MSMEs in the country, and we are well on our way to achieving this goal. Our flagship

product, myBillBook, has already empowered over 10 million businesses across 2000+

towns with its billing, accounting, inventory management, and payment collection

solutions. With over $25 billion in annual transactions, we are proud to be a rapidly

growing tech startup serving the needs of SMBs in India.

Our Flagship product : MyBillBook

myBillBook is India's leading GST billing & accounting software with mobile, web app & native desktop offerings and runs on Android as well as iOS. myBillBook has been designed to aid SMB owners to conduct their operations from anywhere and anytime and provides a secure platform for business owners to record transactions & track business performance on the go. It is an ideal software for GST registered businesses where invoicing is one of the core business activities. Also, businesses looking to digitise their operations to understand their financial position better can use this software. It helps them create bills (GST & non-GST), record purchases & expenses, manage inventory and track payables/receivables directly from their mobile phones or computers. Also, the app generates 25 critical business reports that help business owners make effective business decisions. myBillBook is currently available in English, Hindi, Gujarati & Tamil.

Currently, the app has been downloaded by over 6.5M SMBs across the country with over 10x growth in user base in the last 12 months alone. Even with such pace of adoption of the product, myBillBook continues to be the highest rated application in its category on Google Play Store.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, maintain and optimise complex, scalable and distributed systems capable of handling large-scale datasets and high-throughput workloads.

• Optimise performance, reliability and availability across the whole system.

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in multiple programming languages as needed.

• Contribute to architectural decisions and help improve engineering best practices.

• Work with a builder mindset, contribute and collaborate across cross-functional teams, to unblock and accelerate delivery. No role silos.

• Actively mentor juniors through code reviews, design discussions and pairing.

• Leverage LLM-assisted tools (Claude, Cursor, LLM-powered code review and testing) to accelerate development velocity and improve code quality.

• Build and evolve the platform to be LLM-ready - design APIs, data pipelines and system interfaces that enable seamless LLM integration and automation.

Required Qualifications :

• 3-5 years of experience in back-end software development focusing on large-scale distributed systems.

• BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

• Strong software development skills in one or more languages such as Java / Ruby on Rails / Python.

• Working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB) with ability to design effective schema and perform various optimisations for large-scale data.

• Deep understanding of system design principles and best practices for building scalable and resilient systems with microservices.

• Excellent problem-solving with experience in incident management, monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.

• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, or similar).

• Experience in building intelligent AI agents and systems powered by Large Language Models.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Google Cloud Platform.

• Deep understanding of software development best practices, patterns and code reviews.

• Effective communication skills to coordinate with cross-functional teams during large-scale projects.

Perks @ Benefits :

• Competitive salary with performance-linked rewards and recognitions.

• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependants. Well love you and take care of you, our promise

• Flobiz Academy : Helps you in terms of Learning and enhancing your skills

• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones and Performances throughout the year.

• A cool work-from-home setup that makes you feel right at home. An environment so comfortable that you won't miss your home.

Location : Remote (WFH) 5 days working

Apply Link - https://tally.so/r/wv0lEA

Key Responsibilities:

1. Software Development:

• Design, implement, and optimise clean, scalable, and reliable code across [backend/frontend/full-stack] systems.
• Contribute to the development of micro services, APIs, or UI components as per the project requirements.

1. System Architecture:

• Collaborate and design and enhance system architecture.
• Analyse and identify opportunities for performance improvements and scalability.

1. Code Reviews and Mentorship:

• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
• Mentor and support junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

1. Agile Collaboration:

• Work within an Agile/Scrum framework, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Carbon Science, Designer, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.

1. Problem-Solving:

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex issues in production and development environments.
• Contribute to incident management and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.

1. Continuous Improvement:

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Propose and implement improvements to existing codebases, tools, and development processes.

Qualifications:

Must-Have:

• Experience: 2–5 years of professional software development experience in [specify languages/tools, e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.].
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Technical Skills:
• Strong proficiency in [programming languages/frameworks/tools].
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of version control tools (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with containerisation (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

Description:

For over 10 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose-built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global data centers to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 3,900 companies and have detected 100 Million threats/day. 

We work in a fast-paced, dynamic and make it happen culture. Our people are some of the brightest and passionate in the industry that thrives on being the first to solve problems.  We are always looking to hire highly passionate, collaborative and humble people that want to make a difference.

About the role :

This is a senior staff backend engineer role in the engineering team that designs, implements and maintains our state of the art product IllusionBLACK. The team is responsible for designing and implementing secure, highly performant and maintainable product.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and maintain high performance, fault tolerant and scalable cloud hosted service using NodeJS
• End to end responsibility to continuously create and monitor the services you build
• Help design reusable and clean API's for our frontend React app
• Guide team members with handling complex issues
• You will also be responsible for database schema design and development of migration scripts
• Experiment with new technologies and ideas and help shape our stack and processes

Requirement:

• 10+ years professional SW development experience
• All our production applications are built with either Typescript or Python. You must have a strong understanding of NodeJS express apps written in Typescript and ES6
• Must have good experience with Python
• Solid experience with databases is a must. We use and love Postgres here at Smokescreen
• You should be able to design a complex database SQL schema normalized to 3NF on the back of a napkin at 3am in the morning
• Deep understanding and working knowledge of Redis cache
• Experience with Solr or Elasticsearch is a must. We use Solr for our event analytics exclusively
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP is a plus. We have a large distributed application running on AWS
• Experience with Docker/Swarm is a plus
• Experience in some stream processing platforms like Kafka/Redis stream is a plus

• 3 - 6 Years of Experience in Golang Development
• Understands requirements well and comes up with an efficient design
• Develops complex, well-backed and bug-free products.
• Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Become a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications, and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design, and code

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Solid experience in Golang is a must.
• Solid understanding of Apache Products.
• Should have experience in cloud computing (AWS is desired).
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebases
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into the codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces the right tech/ tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices,
• Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• Experience in product-driven organization

We are seeking a lead Python Developer to lead the backend efforts and, in the process design, develop, and deploy its customer centric applications.

The person will have the opportunity to design and build an early stage, rapidly evolving platform from scratch and carry out these primary responsibilities -

Optimize components for maximum performance across multiple devices and browsers

Write performant REST APIs for both internal and external consumption

Build micro services and their deployment process

Work with problems of scale, leveraging technologies that are distributed in nature.

Perform code reviews

Required qualifications and must have skills

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Proven-deep-expertise with Python programming (4+ years of hands-on experience in Python and backend development)

Building performant and scalable applications from scratch

Experience in working with frameworks like Django, Flask, etc.

Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.

Experience with any RDBMS and strong SQL knowledge

Comfortable with Unix / Linux command line

Object-oriented concepts & design patterns

Sytem and database desinging skills

Nice to have Skills

Knowledge of other programming languages beyond Python

Familiarity with managing infrastructure on AWS/GCloud

Experience with working with/building data analytics pipleline

Familiarity with NoSQL databases

Good understanding of Docker and container platforms like Mesos and Kubernetes

Security-first architecture approach

Application benchmarking and optimization

Interpersonal Attributes

You are driven by the impact your work creates

You can answer the why behind any technological choice you make

You can work independently as well as part of a team