Backend Developer

Job Title: Python Developer - Django (Full Time)

Location: Gurgaon, Onsite

Interview: Virtual Interview

Experience Required: 3+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled Python Developer with hands-on experience in building scalable backend systems. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python, Django, distributed task queues using Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, and experience working with event streaming platforms like Kafka.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python and Django.
• Implement and optimize task queues using Celery with Redis/RabbitMQ as brokers.
• Develop and integrate event-driven systems using Apache Kafka.
• Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Build RESTful APIs and integrate with external services.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and security of applications.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, DevOps, and product teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in production and staging environments.

Required Skills & Experience

• 2+ years of professional experience in Python backend development.
• Strong knowledge of Django Framework.
• Hands-on experience with Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.
• Good understanding of REST API design principles.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Familiarity with version control (Git) and Agile development.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Overview

adesso India specialises in optimization of core business processes for organizations. Our focus is on providing state-of-the-art solutions that streamline operations and elevate productivity to new heights.

Comprised of a team of industry experts and experienced technology professionals, we ensure that our software development and implementations are reliable, robust, and seamlessly integrated with the latest technologies. By leveraging our extensive knowledge and skills, we empower businesses to achieve their objectives efficiently and effectively.

Job Description

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Senior backend Developer specializing in FSE tools to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing user interfaces that enhance our customer experience. Your contributions will play a critical role in driving the success of our projects by creating dynamic, intuitive, and responsive web applications.

Responsibilities:

Develop, maintain, and enhance web applications using front end tools to create seamless, user-friendly experiences.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI designers, product managers, and backend developers, to deliver high-quality products.

Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code while adhering to best practices in frontend development.

Perform code reviews, optimize application performance, and debug issues for a smooth user experience.

Stay updated on the latest FSE features and web development trends to bring innovative ideas to the team.

Skills & Requirements

Java, Spring Framework / Spring Boot, APIs (e.g. REST, RESTful API), Unit testing (e.g JUnit, Mockito ), Build Tools (e.g. maven, gradle), CI/CD (e.g. Gitlab, GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps), DEV Tools (e.g. Git, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence), Quality Tools (e.g. SonarQube, SonarCloud, Findbugs, PMD, OWASP checker, …), Spring Ecosystem (e.g. Spring Data, Spring REST, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, …), Java Commons (e.g. Apache Commons), Other APIs (e.g. SOAP, GraphQL, WebSocket, Server-Sent-Events / SSE, gRPC), API Documentation (e.g. OpenAPI, Swagger, …), Integration testing / E2E testing (e.g. Selenium, Testcontainers, Cucumber), Containerisation (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes / K18n), Cloud experience (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).Java Enterprise / Java EE (e.g. EJB, CDI, JPA, JSF, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JMS), Other Java Frameworks (e.g. Quarkus), Messaging (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, …), NoSQL DB (e.g. MongoDB, Neo4j), Performance testing (e.g. Gatling), Single-Sign-On (e.g. OAuth2, Open ID Connect, JWT, SAML), Monitoring, Logging & Tracing in the frontend application, Experience with Linux operating systems, Shell-Scripting.

About Us:

We’re a startup based in Hyderabad. We focus on making speech, text & structured data actionable. We are building an exciting range of products, and have paying customers.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Java Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate

will have 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in Java development, with a strong understanding

of software  development principles and methodologies. The Java Developer will be

responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions that

meet our clients' needs.

  Responsibilities:

·      Designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance and scalable Java applications.

·      Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

·      Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.

·      Participating in code reviews and providing constructive feedback to peers.

·      Troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving technical issues in a timely manner.

·      Ensuring the performance, security, and scalability of applications.

·      Staying updated with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices.

·      Mentoring junior developers and assisting in their professional growth.

·      Develop Spring based server-side components of Enterprise applications.

·      Build self-dependent modules which can integrate with external applications.

·      Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

·      Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

What we will bring to the table:

·      Focused opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies

·      Exposure to key customers in India and abroad

·      Work closely with senior leadership that has already developed world class products

·      A learning environment

·      Challenging problems to solve

About Rocketlane

https://rocketlane.com/">Rocketlane is a SaaS startup founded in April 2020 by https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikrishnang/">Srikrishnan Ganesan, https://www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-girishankar/">Vignesh Girishankar, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepakbsub/">Deepak Balasubramanyam. Before Rocketlane, they built a successful in-app messaging startup that was acquired by Freshworks(NASDAQ: FRSH) in 2015.

Rocketlane launched in June 2021 and washttps://www.producthunt.com/posts/rocketlane"> #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt. It has a fast-growing, global customer base, including LinkSquares, AppCues, ContractPodAI, Chargebee, parcelLab, and many more.

Rapid early traction and customer love has catapulted Rocketlane to be recognized as a Leader in the G2 Category of Client Onboarding. Rocketlane has raised $21M in capital from global VCs such as 8VC, Nexus Venture Partners, Matrix Partners India, and super angels like Gokul Rajaram and Girish Mathrubootham.

Rocketlane offers a first-of-its-kind collaborative customer onboarding platform that enables businesses to onboard their customers better, faster, and smoother. It helps speed up revenue recognition and grow NRR for the vendor and enables faster time-to-value and a delightful customer onboarding experience.

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

At Rocketlane, we’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser focused on delivering a world class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with devops initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work-on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization. 

About you:

• 3 - 7 years of experience
• Expertise in the following areas
• Java
• HTTP Protocol
• You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks / products
• Spring
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Docker
• Message brokers
• GitHub
• These non-functional areas are familiar to you
• Performance 
• Debugging
• Log management

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

• Great opportunity: Rocketlane genuinely cares about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups. 
• Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out thehttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=rocketlane_meet_the_team"> MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn. 
• Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.
• Growth:  You could easily and quickly transition into other sales roles you might like.
• Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.
• Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more! 

About Wise

Wise is digital infrastructure for online education. Oversimplified as ‘Shopify for Tutors’ i.e., an easy to use tool for tutors to start teaching online. We have grown to 2mn users in 12 months and have much to do. We are backed by an incredible set of investors and individuals who have built product you already use. We have a small but rockstar team, cheap equity, smart money, opportunity to capture a huge market ($60bn) and a chance to make an impact while doing so.

What we need

We need you, if you are a senior software engineer with 4+ years of experience in building robust scalable systems. Work would involve building things quickly and adapting based on market feedback while ensuring the security and quality of the codebase. If you love coding and building things excites you, we would like to talk to you.

What you will need (Skills)

• Experience building microservices and distributed systems, RESTful APIs, user interfaces
• Knowledge and will of writing unit, integration tests is a must. TDD is a plus
• Preferably a polyglot: Strong command Ruby/Golang/Java/Python
• Some exposure to infra: Deployments, CI/CD setup, security. AWS exposure is good to have
• Strong database concepts. Experience with MongoDB is a plus

What you will do

• Feature analysis, hands on development, code reviews, deployment & rollouts
• Passionately maintain coding practices, quality & good design standards
• Design and develop highly scalable, available, secure and fault tolerant systems
• Actively contribute in assessing & improving/optimizing security & infrastructure

Great to have

• Sense of ownership
• Developers who can talk product and strategy
• Experience in building scalable consumer products
• Strong opinions, loosely held

Good to have

• Interest in mentorship
• Good written communication skills
• Bangalore love

Probably not ideal if

• If you have always been right about stuff in life
• No flexibility around working hours (this doesn’t mean we work long hours but if our systems get attacked in the middle of the night, we would need you to HODORR!)

Definitely get in touch if you

• Would have started the exact same company but willing to build it together with a great team
• Find our current product unbearably slow or inadequate
• Think this company isn’t going to work as it is right now

Must skills:

Hands- on in the following:

• Java 8/J2EE
• Spring boot
• Gradle/Maven
• REST API
• ORM- hibernate/ JPA
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing- Junit/ TestNG

Good to have:

Hands-on in the following:

• CI/CD pipeline deployment
• Messaging- ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ/MQ
• DB2
• Kafka
• NoSQL framework exposure

Preferred Skills: 

We want to really emphasize Spring Boot (2+ years although 1+ if candidate particularly strong) Using Redis as a caching technology with Spring Boot would be a strong plus 

Using Redisson (a particular java client library that can be easily configured with Spring Boot) would be a strong plus 

Knowledge of event based messaging systems (Amazon SNS, Amazon MQ, or Kafka (in AWS) Data Cleaning tools and techniques in CSV and Excel 

Strong Knowledge of Spring Boot Dependency Injection and Configuration 

Experience with APIs for popular e-commerce platforms (Magento, Shopify, Big Commerce, etc.) 

SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) Tools in the context of AWS. (Tools classified under DevOps) 

Experience with managing AWS EC2 VM instances and using AWS managed Services (like S3, MySQL, VPC/Networking, Lambda, etc) 

Performance Analysis Tools (Code Profiling) on Java VM and particularly Spring Boot 

Nice to Have: 

Experience with Cassandra or MongoDB with Spring Boot 

Horizontal Scaling with Spring Boot (considerations running multiple instances of Spring Boot instances) 

Experience with placing Spring Boot applications in Docker/Kubernetes container ecosystems (especially in AWS)