Backend Developer

Required Skills

•Web frameworks: Django, Flask
•JavaScript libraries: jQuery
•Web servers: Nginx, Apache, uWSGI
•Data stores/tools: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch
•Virtualization: AWS, VMWare, VirtualBox, Docker
•Web scraping and browser automation
•Selenium

Good to Have Skills

•ExperiencewithFrontendJavaScriptFrameworks
•Experience with third party and OAuth implementations.
•Understanding of cloud service platforms and web service infrastructure

Must Have Traits

•Self Starter
•Able to manage projects with minimal hand-holding
•Good verbal and written communication skills
•Enthusiastic, able to research and implement new technologies
•Ability to handle high-pressure situations

Experience Specifics

•Proven expertise in product development •GoodandPracticalUnderstandingofPython(2.7,3.3+)
•Hands on with Linux systems for deploying systems and applications

Esper is an inventive startup, and the industry’s first DevOps SaaS platform designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications and manage smart Android devices in production. We’re on a mission to let software teams ship without worrying about hardware. Our device infrastructure enables developer, mid-market orgs, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Backed by Madrona Ventures, Esper.io has rapidly-growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, and healthcare.

Esper is looking for a software engineer to transform the customer experience
for developers and engineering teams using the platform of services to deploy
and build out their device fleets. You and your team will own services that will
enable customers to develop and customize their development process, along
with easing their use of Continuous Integration techniques for their software. We
need a leader that is experienced in delivering scalable multi-region fault tolerant
systems, is passionate about the developer tools space, is excited to have
software developers as their customers, and is obsessed about creating
compelling customer experiences.

In this role you will contribute to a critical and highly-visible function within the
Esper business. You will be given the opportunity to autonomously deliver the
technical direction of the service, and the feature roadmap. You will work with
extraordinary talent and have the opportunity to hire and shape the team to best
execute on the product. If you’re excited to have a large impact on Esper and the
device industry, you’ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of
opportunities to learn and grow.

Key Responsibilities

Help drive business decisions with your technical input
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software
solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and
security.
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of
quality for all of the team deliverables
Write high quality distributed system software
Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.

Basic Qualifications

2 -4 years of professional software development experience
You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
You are comfortable with programming languages like Go, Python, Java
You’ve good understanding of databases system like Postgres. Extensive Knowledge about Postgres is a big plus.
You’ve have worked with Docker, Kubernetes and have fundamental understanding of distributed systems like Kafka, Elasticsearch

Preferred Qualifications

Experience taking a lead role developing complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers.
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operations
Demonstrated ability to mentor junior software engineers in all aspects of their engineering skill-sets.

What we think makes us special

Esper is a fast-growing, well-funded company where everyone matters and you can see your impact daily. We trust our teammates and offer intense ownership and therefore accountability. We’re inventing the future and building something special. The team really enjoys what we do and cares about your input. We don’t hire just to fill a spot, we want you to make a difference.

As you help us build this special company, Esper will take care of you. We offer flexible vacation, regular hack-days, competitive pay and benefits, and room for advancement. We hire capable veterans so we avoid the drama and trust in each other’s work. Our worldwide footprint mixes different cultures for a unique experience. We also like to have fun because we play just as hard as we work.

Programming Languages: Perl, Python, java. Perl programming with strong OOPs knowledge.

• UI: HTML, JS
• System: Linux must have – good knowledge and shell scripting experience.
• Prior experience in infrastructure automation, monitoring will definitely help.

Description:

The person in this role:

 

- Will be involved in developing new monitoring scripts, enhancement & defect fixes on existing monitors

 

- Have to be on-call to support any incoming production/P1 internal issues which need urgent attention (team members are on call for a week and we have a weekly rotation policy within the team)

Preferred skills:

Perl
- Shell scripting

- Unix

- Jenkins

Description • Must have development background and should have hands-on experience in Java, or Node.Js or Ruby or Python, angular.js as an application developer. • Must have experience with Continuous integration and deployment tools eg. Jenkins, Ansible, Github, Subversion, Nexus etc. • Good to have strong understanding & working experience on either of the Public Cloud like AWS, Azure or GCP. • Experience on AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB • Good hands on experience in setting up enterprise cloud security, networking configurations • Must have excellent understanding of typical multi-tier application architectures: web servers (Apache, nginx, IIS), caching, application servers, load balancing. • Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON. Documenting of Webservices using Swagger. • Must have worked on micro-services applications, containerization of applications. • Must be aware of version control of code, code coverage, automated code testing. • Exposure to log management and log analysis tools like Splunk. Roles and Responsibilities: • Helping with application migration to Public clouds like AWS, Azure or GCP. • The candidate will have to present AWS Cloud services offerings and solutions to clients • Application optimization on Cloud. • Containerize/ Dockeriseexisting applications & migration to Public Cloud. • Must be able to identify & implementapplication deployment automation; define continuous integration process as per best practices.

At Hotstar, we have over 100 million users on Play Store & capture close to a billion clickstream messages daily. The engineering team at Hotstar is at the centre of the action and is responsible for creating the unmatchable user experience. Our engineers solve real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our customers. As an engineer in the Personalisation team, you will build platforms and tools that deliver personalised recommendations to 150+ million users. You will work on building storage solutions and microservices that serve recommendations at a rate of few 100K requests per second. You will build tools that serve recommendations to our users in real-time. The pace of our growth is incredible. If you enjoy working on problems at scale and if you want to build our platform for the next 100 million, join us! Your key responsibilities • You will build robust, secure and scalable microservices to power the Personalisation engine at Hotstar • You will design and implement low latency caching and storage solutions • You will build stream processing pipelines to compute personalised recommendations for our users in real-time • You will continuously evaluate relevant technologies, influence and drive architecture and design discussions What to bring • BE/B.Tech/M.Tech/PhD in Computer Science or a related field. • Strong coding skills (Python or Java or Golang) • Experience building distributed domain-driven microservices • Strong understanding of database and storage fundamentals • Experience with AWS stack