Backend Developer

A bilingual infrastructure engineer typically handles the design, implementation, and maintenance of IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, and storage systems. They are expected to have expertise in technologies like Linux, Windows, virtualization platforms, and scripting languages, along with strong communication skills in multiple languages. Responsibilities often include:

Monitoring and maintaining network and server operations.

Providing technical support for hardware and software systems.

Designing scalable and secure infrastructure solutions.

Collaborating with teams to ensure system reliability and efficiency.

Implementing disaster recovery and backup plans.

For bilingual roles, fluency in languages like English and Japanese is often required to facilitate communication across diverse teams and clients.

Job Title: Backend Developer - Fintech

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Develop: Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and efficient RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications and actionable plans.
• Debug and Resolve: Identify and fix backend issues and bugs, ensuring a seamless user experience for financial applications.
• Optimize Systems: Continuously enhance backend systems for performance, scalability, and resource efficiency.
• Code Quality: Uphold high standards of code quality, organization, and implement automated testing processes to meet industry standards.
• Stay Updated: Keep abreast of fintech industry trends, technological advancements, and regulatory updates to continually improve backend architecture.

Requirements:

• Experience: 5+ years of proven experience in backend development with a strong skill set in Python and Django.
• API Development: Extensive experience in developing secure and compliant RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework.
• Database Proficiency: In-depth knowledge of MySQL for database design, optimization, and maintenance; experience with MongoDB is a plus.
• DevOps: Proficiency in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and containerization.
• Cloud Services: Exposure to cloud services (AWS, GCP) with an emphasis on security and regulatory compliance.
• Software Principles: Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices in the fintech domain.
• Agile Environment: Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with keen attention to detail.
• Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team-oriented fintech environment.
• Version Control: Proficiency with Git for version control and collaborative development.

Preferred Skills:

• Asynchronous Processing: Familiarity with asynchronous task processing using Celery or similar technologies, especially in financial transaction processing.
• AWS Expertise: Strong knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, with a focus on security and compliance.
• GCP Expertise : VPC, Virtual Machines, SQL, IP whitelisting
• Caching Mechanisms: Experience with caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis) for optimizing real-time data access and processing.
• Continuous Learning: Eagerness to learn and adapt, staying updated with emerging technologies and methodologies in backend development and the fintech industry.

Job Description:

Candidate must have 2 to 5-years of experience in various phase of development of a python-based application or API development.

Requirements:

Must Have:  Strong expertise in PYTHON and its built-in data structures, developing API using flask or fastapi, data wrangling using standard python frameworks like pandas, NumPy etc., integration of various applications (third party or inhouse) with python.

Good to Have: Deployment using Nginx, GUnicorn, IIS, docker and Kubernetes etc. Good understanding of optimization solutions like differential evolution. Hands on experience with python packages like Scipy.  Tkinter to make python-based applications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Understanding/gathering the requirements from stakeholder, formulating the problem, and leveraging AI/ML to solve the business problems.
• Integration of third party or in house application with python solution.
• Working on Deployment and optimization of various engineering problems using Numerical/Constraint optimization frameworks such as Differential Evolution and deploy a web-based API using Flask and Nginx/IIS.
• Unit testing of various python modules developed and testing of the API.

Our client is a rapid growth stage Edtech start-up focused on solving the teacher shortage crisis in the US education system using technology by bringing teachers to the classrooms and giving them access to the right tools to teach students in a highly engaging manner.

They have a development center in Mumbai and they are looking to scale up the teams in Pune and Bangalore as well.

What does the role entail:

● Lead User Stories and guide senior/software engineers in the development process

● Understand architecture principles, design patterns and implement them from architectural artifacts.

● Provide effort estimation of assigned work and be able to complete as per the estimations and timelines

● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code including unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements, design solutions, and implement new features

● Participate in design and code reviews

● Ability to resolve performance issues

● Mentor junior software engineers and help them grow their technical skills

Must Have Skills:

● B.E/B.Tech in computer science

● 8-11 years of experience

● Hands-on experience following skills

MS Technologies: NET CORE 5+, C#

Backend : MSSQL /MySQL/Postgres 

● Good understanding of Cloud technologies like Azure/AWS.

● Good understanding of Design Principles, Design patterns and Microservices Architecture.

● Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills

● Worked in an Agile software development environment

Must understand full stack development frameworks including knowledge of building scalable APIs, interfaces, software components, schema design, availability, and latency preferably in a cloud environment.

● Worked in a fast-paced environment preferably in a tech driven startup

● Understanding of different types of architectures.

Responsibilities

• You will be part of a growing high functional team, responsible for delivering various frontend products to the end-users. Simplifying complex workflow and make it easy for the end-users.
• The team designs and develops various products from - financial apps targeted to invoice users, data-heavy app oriented to operational and support teams, a productivity app for sales teams,
• SDK that will be integrated into third-party apps, etc.
• You will work with business, product, and backend teams to work on new features and products.
• You are expected to drive the products to maximize its business impact and customer delight.
• You are expected to stay on top of tech innovations in the Web development space, experiment them and make suitable suggestions to enhance tech stack. Research and propose software programs that are compatible with future technologies.

• Design and implement Single Page Applications (SPAs) using modern JavaScript frameworks
• Integrating data from various back-end services
• Develop a simple-to-use user interface for a complex product, apply new technologies, best design practices and usability patterns
• Contribute to end-to-end system architecture, working with/as cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with UX teams, product managers and other technical teams to create optimized and delightful user experiences
• Apply expertise of HTML5, bootstrap/foundation CSS frameworks
• Analyze the performance of layers in the frontend, backend and engineer designs/code to solve them
• Work with the product team to build flow and detail out the requirements
• Conversant with development for desktop and mobile browsers and hybrid apps.

• Proven working experience in web programming
• Top-notch programming skills and in-depth knowledge of modern HTML/CSS
• Solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices
• Working with respectable size Single Page Application (SPA) project
• Expert in MVC like design patterns, modern JavaScript frameworks
• Hands-on experience with network diagnostics, network analytics tools
• Solid CS, OOP/OOD, design patterns
• Good grasp on usability and interaction design
• Track record in large-scale system software development
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques

• An​y framework - ReactJS (Must Have), AngularJS, Backbone, Ember, VueJS
• DOM and Virtual DOM understanding
• API Integration. Understanding of session management. 

• Experience with server-side processing such as templating, packaging and delivery
• Some end-to-end system design experience, sensitive to ​ security
• Experience working with webviews on Android and iOS
• Exposure to React Native
• Demonstrated visual design and layout skills
• Design and development of backend REST endpoint applications