Backend Developer

Job Description: Backend Developer 

Role Details

Position: Backend Developer

Location: Bangalore/Remote

About SCRUT Automation

Scrut Automation is an information security and compliance monitoring platform, aimed at helping small and medium cloud-native enterprises develop and maintain a robust security posture, and comply with various infosec standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and the like with ease. With the help of the Scrut platform, customers reduce their manual effort for security and compliance tasks by 70% and build real-time visibility of their security posture.

Founded by IIT/ISB/McKinsey alumni, the founding team has over 15 years of combined Infosec experience. Scrut is built out of India for the world, with customers across India, APAC, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Scrut is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, MassMutual Ventures and Endiya Partners, along with prominent angels from the global SaaS community.

About the Job:

The candidate would be expected to be a hands-on backend engineer who would primarily be contributing to writing scalable code in Python. He/she should be open to working on other backend technologies as per the need(namely Javascript(Nodejs) and Go). Apart from the incremental development work, on a need-per-basis, the candidate is expected to work on the bugs reported

Responsibilities

• Write clear and effective API documentation.
• Write codes to integrate applications being used by various stakeholders.
• Write and review test cases to QA and pass your own code.
• Write/review test cases for code and process coverage.
• Review code for both oneself and team members.
• Reviewing designs, code, and processes from a system security standpoint.
• Defining and building micro-services.
• Building systems with a positive business impact.
• Tracking module health, usage, behaviour tracking, measuring and improving code and processes.

Must have Technical Skills

• 1-3 Years of experience in FastAPI or other Python frameworks
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code, following best practices
• Familiarity and hands-on experience in OOPs concepts
• Must have a penchant for good API design.

Good to have Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience in NoSQL DBs, and Microservice architecture 
• Hands-on experience in event-driven architecture
• Hands-on experience in cloud-native application development(SaaS)
• Must be a stickler for good clear and secure coding.
• Must have built and released APIs in production.
• Experience in working with RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Must have designed thoughtful, extensible data models.
• Knowledge of identifying, defining, and building micro-services.
• Working knowledge of GCS, AWS, Azure, or any other cloud provider
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills.
• Communication skills, to speak to developers across the world.
• Focus on constant improvement of developer experience.
• The building or Working knowledge of CI/CD.

Why should this job excite you?

• Opportunity to make an early impact on one of the most promising, high-growth SaaS startups in India
• A high-performing action-oriented team 
• Immense exposure to the founders and the leadership
• Opportunity to shape the future of B2B SaaS Technology team with YOUR innovative ideas
• The competitive compensation package, benefits, and employee-friendly work culture

FactWise is a fully funded, early-stage startup building b2b SaaS for a global SMB client base. Our team has alumni from MIT, Stanford, GeorgiaTech, UCL, the IITs, VJTI, Amazon and McKinsey, and currently comprises frontend, backend, full stack developers, UI/UX engineers, product managers, data scientist, and Ops, HR, Marketing. We'd love to get to know you better!

As a member of the development group, you will be primarily responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the product:  

• Help define and create full stack architecture and deployment using React- Django-AWS in an agile environment with lots of ownership and active mentoring. 
• Work with the Product and Design teams to build new features to solve business problems and fill business needs 

• Participate in code reviews to create robust and maintainable code 
• Work in an agile environment where quick iterations and good feedback are a way of life 
• Interact with other stakeholders for requirement, design discussions and for adoption of new features 
• Communicate and coordinate with our support and professional services teams to solve customer issues. 
• Help scale our platform as we expand our product across various markets and verticals globally. 

 
As a young startup, we are hoping to be joined by self-starting, hardworking, passionate individuals who are committed to delivering their best, who can grow into future leaders of FactWise. 

Required Skills:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 3+ years experience in software development.
• Expertise in Python 3.7, Django 2.2+ and REST APIs
• Minimum 3+ years experience with AWS or related services.
• Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment
• Hands-on, self-starter, capable of working independently
• True love for technology and what you do
• Maniacal attention to detail
  
  

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
• Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
• You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.

• Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

Skills And Qualifications

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack)
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance (depending on the specific project)
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, Mercurial or SVN)
• (Make sure to mention other frameworks, libraries, or any other technology related to your development stack)
• (List education level or certification you require)