Backend Developer

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, test, and build scalable backend python services
• Closely collaborate with marketing and product teams to build innovative, robust and easy-to-use features that serve.
• Developing high quality code based on detailed designs that cater to the product requirements.
• Responsible for troubleshooting, testing and maintaining the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimisation and functionality

 

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.
• 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

What kind of work will you get?

We are looking for a Python developer.

Examples of technical tasks:

Working on our backend SDK to implement APIs that will be consumed by the frontend widgets

Designing APIs for different auth recipes

Architecting auth flows

You will also be given non technical tasks like product brain storming, competitor analysis and writing documentation.

Note: Compensation is as per the applicant's geography

Requirements

Well versed in Python with 2+ years of professional experience

Familiar with and comfortable working with Web frameworks like FastAPI, Django and Flask

Familiar with HTTP networking in Python

Strong understanding of async and sync modes in Python

Bonus:

Contributed to open source, or have your own open source repo with a community and many github stars

Built an in-house authentication or authorization solution or worked with solutions such as Keycloak, Auth0, Ory, Okta etc

A Bengaluru and San Francisco-based global neobank that aims to make financial systems and transactions across borders seamless. The startup has already grabbed $15 million in seed funding through Lightspeed and Accele VCs.

• Backend development along with team management
• Hands on experience in product development 
• Preferred candidates from Fintech and Banking sectors
• Exp in Python / Java slong with databases like MySQL, NoSQL, etc
• Knowledge of Agile methodology

The firm :

It’s an amazing time to be joining SalaryBox as we continue to transform attendance and payroll for over 60 million MSME’s in India.

We launched the app in Jan 2021, and now have more than 1 million downloads of the app. We support more than 200k businesses and operate at scale.

Backed by Y-Combinator, SalaryBox is India’s leading attendance and payroll app. Considered to be the engine of economies around the world, the MSME segment in India alone has ~63 million units, and employs ~100 million people. The sector accounts for 27% of GDP and is crucial to the functioning of the economy.

We are on a mission to make work easier for these business owners, managers, and employees so that they can focus on the things they do best.

Today, SalaryBox is a fun bunch of analytical and ambitious folks building the first-of-its-kind technologies for the MSME ecosystem. We are here to enhance the employee experience of over 10 million end consumers in the next twelve months. Our mission is big, so we act with urgency in everything we do. We find creative ways to test ideas and learn today so that we focus on the right things tomorrow.

And we are just getting started!
Website: https://www.salarybox.in/" target="_blank">https://www.salarybox.in/ 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/salaryboxapp" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/salaryboxapp

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with at least 3 years experience. You will be an integral part of building the back-end architecture and developing core systems.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop our core systems from scratch.
• Deploy and maintain the product on AWS.
• Guide the team in making strategic technical decisions.
• Find and address performance issues.
• Help build the engineering team & subsequently mentor junior developers.

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience as a backend engineer.
• Expert in Python and Django.
• Experience with databases (Postgres, Redis etc. ).
• Good understanding of platforms (Docker, AWS).
• Basic understanding of Dev Ops.
• Previous experience architecting and developing back-end systems and an understanding of scalable micro service architecture.
• Hands-on attitude and ability to drive solutions to completion.

CANDIDATES MUST HAVE
• Experienced in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of Python
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

SKILLS
• 3-5 years of experience building large-scale software applications and working with large
software teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of Python and Backend Development
• Experience building Web/Mobile applications
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Unit and Integration testing experience
• Being knowledgeable about engineering processes and good practices
• Passionate about learning new tools. Ability to continuously learn and acquire
knowledge.
• Able to adapt to changing complexity of tasks.

Technology: Python
Experience: 5+Yrs
Salary: Good hike on last drawn salary
Location: Indore
Working hours: 8 hours/day
Working days: 5 days/ week

Skills

As per 5 yrs below is the tech stack that he should know around django:

·         Django forms

·         Django Rest APIs

·         Schedulers/Cron Jobs

·         Customising middlewares

·         Customising permission classes

·         Management commands

·         Fixtures

·         Multiple Environment handling

·         Multiple database integration

·         SQL and NoSQL database integration experience

·         Use of loggers or any logging mechanism

·         Signals

·         Push notifications over IOS/Android devices

·         Email notifications

·         Websockets

·         Unit testing

·         Caching

·         Payment gateway integration

AWS & Deployment Skills:

·         Deployment of Django over EC2 using Nginx or Apache2

·         Configuring the Django to run the services like websockets, celery

·         Using and configuring the RDS

·         Should know how to use S3 buckets

aws-lambda

 

Responsibilities:

• Crawl the internet/intranet for issues people are facing and convert them in to stuctured data that would be consumed downstream.
• Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to deployment.
• Comply with coding standards and technical design.
• Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing, and maintainability of the code.
• Integrate the developed functionality and/or component into a fully functional system.
• Ensure unit and integration level verification plans are in place and adheres to the great quality of code at all times.
• Actively participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live system.
• Verify user feedback in making the system more stable and easy.
• Work closely with analysts, designers, and other peer developers.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
• Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
• A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.
• 6+ years of experience working on the server-side.
• Exposure to API designing, scalable architecture, and thorough understanding of systems.
• Great database modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of Databases, both relational (such as PostgreSQL) and in-memory database (such as Redis).
• Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
• Experience with open-source projects.
• Experience in designing interactive applications.

Responsibilities Include

You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.

 

Requirements

• B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
• Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
• Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive adoption within the extended technology team
• Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
• Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
• Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
• Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
• A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
• Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.
• Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
• Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would be a big plus.