Backend Developer

Company Profile
XpressBees– a logistics company started in 2015 – is amongst the fastest growing companies of its
sector. While we started off rather humbly in the space of ecommerce B2C logistics, the last 5 years
have seen us steadily progress towards expanding our presence. Our vision to evolve into a strong full-
service logistics organization reflects itself in our new lines of business like 3PL, B2B Xpress and cross
border operations.
Our strong domain expertise and constant focus on meaningful innovation have helped us rapidly evolve
as the most trusted logistics partner of India. We have progressively carved our way towards best-in-
class technology platforms, an extensive network reach, and a seamless last mile management system.
While on this aggressive growth path, we seek to become the one-stop-shop for end-to-end logistics
solutions. Our big focus areas for the very near future include strengthening our presence as service
providers of choice and leveraging the power of technology to improve efficiencies for our clients.
Job Description 
XB is looking for driven & talented engineers to build highly scalable, reliable and performant cloud-
based platforms to drive the logistics business. You will have opportunities to make a big impact at XB
on the software solutions being built for Logistics businesses. We build a variety of technology products
that span multiple businesses. 
The challenges that SDEs at XB solve are big (handle 50 Lakh shipments per day!) and influence the E-
Commerce business in India in coming years. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about
creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the fast pace
of the company. The challenges span areas like highly scalable and reliable orchestration
platforms, Client Integration API frameworks, Billing Solutions, Workforce Engagement. Further you may
solve complex optimization problems like Vehicle routing, Allocation, Network Optimization etc. 
Roles & Responsibilities 

 You will be responsible for working with cross functional teams to deep dive into the
business and technology problems related to our portfolio of products, understanding the
gaps that exist in our current tools, and work within our team and with partner teams to
design best in class solutions.  
 You will have the opportunity to influence, invent, and design system architecture
across multiple product and technology spaces. 
 You will lead and mentor other talented engineers. You will be responsible for building
the best customer experience, keeping latency, security, and usability in mind. 
 You will interact with Product Managers and Designers and convert their vision into
a technical solution.  
 You will own portions of software deliverables including major critical path code from
your designs while finding opportunities to grow and mentor the team around you. 
 You will collaborate with other engineering leads and guide the team on software
development best practices and set examples by using them in solutions that you build.  
 You will own the end-to-end design of major deliverables, working closely with a team
of SDEs and Front-End Engineers to execute them. This is a high visibility and fast-paced
environment where you will make a direct impact on the customer experience and the
bottom line of the company. 

 
 You should have a commanding understanding of object-oriented design, data
structures and algorithms which you use to mentor a team of engineers. You should have
experience with agile methodologies, experience building scalable services and robust user
interfaces. We make extensive use of AWS Services (API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, etc.) and
prior experience is a plus. Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (like angular,
react, backbone, and node.js) would be a plus. 

Qualifications 

 Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for
scalability, performance, and reliability. 
 Development experience defining, developing and maintaining web service API's 
 Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural
vision and software quality. 
 Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior
management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs,
and product strategy. 
 Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been
successfully delivered to customers. 
 Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full
software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control
management, build processes, testing, and operations. 
 Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems 
 Deep understanding of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms and
complexity analysis. 
 Experience building large-scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered,
distributed environment. 
 Design and architecture expertise as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and
design patterns (OOA/OOD). 
 Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

The company is a US based startup founded in 2018 to build an edge data platform for the
autonomous world.Rich data in large volumes is getting collected at the edge (outside a datacenter) in use cases like autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, satellite imagery, smart retail, smart agriculture etc.These datasets are characterized by being unstructured
(images/videos), large size (Petabytes per month), distributed (across edge, on-prem and
cloud) and form the input for training AI models to get to higher degrees of automation.
Akridata is engaged with building products that solve these unique challenges and be at the forefront of this edge data revolution.
The company is backed by prominent VCs and has it’s entire software engineering team
based out of India and provides ample opportunities for from-scratch design and
development.

Role:

This role is an individual contributor role with key responsibilities in developing web server
backends for Akridata management plane software that provides a ‘single pane of glass’ for users to manage assets, specify and monitor large volume data pipelines at scale involving 10s of petabytes of data.

This role involves:

1. Working with tech leads and the rest of the team on the feature design activities and
picking appropriate tools and techniques for implementation.
2. Be a hands-on developer able to independently make correct implement choices, follow
sound development practices to ensure an enterprise grade application.
3. Guide and mentor junior team members.

What we are looking for:

1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science with strong CS fundamentals and
problem solving.
2. 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development with 3+ years on web
backend development.
3. A good understanding of backend application interactions with relational databases like
MySQL, Postgres etc
4. Knowledge of web server development frameworks preferably on Python.
5. Enthusiastic to work in a dynamic, fast paced startup environment.

Good to have:

1. Hands-on experience with designing database schema and implementing and debugging SQL queries for optimal performance for large datasets
2. Experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
3. Experience with working on a product from early stages of it’s development typically in a
startup environment.

We are looking for a backend developer to join our team who shares our passion for making the
lives of API developers and consumers easier. If you love thinking big and delving deep and
enjoy envisioning truly elegant solutions, this role is definitely for you.
What you will be Doing
- You will abstract away complex data interactions with easy-to-use APIs that will power several
mobile and web applications.
- You will also own, scale, and maintain the computational and storage infrastructure for the
various micro-services and long-running jobs, designed and implemented by you and the team.
- We will look to you to make key decisions on the technology stack, architecture, networking,
and security. We love working with bleeding-edge technology, especially if it improves the
malleability, and simplicity of our deliverables.
What you need
- The ideal Backend Engineers are polyglots who are fluent in HTTP and core CS concepts such
as algorithms, data structures, and programming paradigms, and always pick the right tools for
the right job.
- They have a keen eye for common security vulnerabilities and how to act on them (example:
DDOS attacks, SQL Injection etc.).
- They understand what it takes to work in a startup environment and know when to trade
performance for simplicity.
- They fail fast, learn faster, and execute in time.
- Strong communication skills, get-things-done attitude, and empathy
- Strong sense of ownership, drive and obsessive attention to detail.
- Comfortable with iterative development practices and code reviews
- Previous experience as part of a product-oriented team is a plus
Technical Skillsets:
NodeJS + Javascript, GoLang, Typescript + Nodejs, Clojure/Haskell/F#/Scala
(languages/environments)
Koa, Express, Play (frameworks)
Asynchronous Programming Frameworks (Akka, Nodejs, Tornado)
MongoDB, postgres, Bigtable, Dynamo (databases)
Apache Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ (queues)
FunctionalProgramming, FRP (functional reactive)
microservices, multi-tenant, distributed-systems, distributed-computing, event-sourcing
Good to have Skillsets:
Clojure/Haskell/F#/Scala
Apache Kafka, NATS
FunctionalProgramming, FRP (functional reactive)
event-sourcing
Koa
Why you should consider this role seriously?
- We have an audacious vision of helping companies fight counterfeiting and managing their
supply chain more efficiently
- We have built a product and solved problems for some of the largest brands in the country and
tested platform at scale (With our tags present in over 50 Million products already). We have
plans to grow 10x in the next 1 year
- Ownership of key problems. Fast-paced environment
- We are a well-balanced team of experienced entrepreneurs and are backed by top investors
across India and the Silicon Valley (Venture Highway, Startup Buddy etc.)
- Competitive market salary
- Opportunity to work directly with the CEO, COO, CTO of the company
- A chance to interact with top-notch executives from multiple industries
- Open vacation policy (and we really mean it!)
- Open Pantry
- As a team, we love to travel :). An off-site every quarter

 

 

What you need to have:

We are looking for developers who are passionate about Python and know what are the benefits of python well.

 

Responsibilities:

• Design & implement new software modules based on the product requirements
• Debug existing software components, fix issues, and avoid regressions
• Be proactive, take ownership, and be accountable
• Familiar with Test Drive Development.
• Participate in software architecture, design discussions, and code reviews

 

Technologies we’re hiring for:

• Developed HTTP based REST APIs and implemented Authentication, Caching
• Worked with relational and NoSQL databases and aware of concepts like ORM, Migrations
• Languages & Frameworks: Python Django/Flask
• Database: Postgres/ Mongo
• Must have worked in a Unix/Linux based environment
• Advanced middleware like RabbitMQ, Celery Beat is definitely a plus.

 

Minimum 3+ year hands-on experience in Python needed

Job Description
Responsibilities:
• 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 plan are in place and adheres to
great quality of code at all time.
• Active participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live
system.
• Verify user feedback in making system more stable and easy.
• Work closely with analysts, designers and other peer developers.
• Preparing technical training documents for onboarding new engineers.
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.
• 3+ years of experience working on the server side.
Additional Requirements For Experienced Candidates:
• 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 inmemory
database (such as Redis).
• Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
• Competent with developing web apps in popular MVC frameworks (Django, RoR,
etc,).
• Experience with open-source projects.
• Experience in designing interactive applications.

We are looking for a lead developer who will be responsible for driving the technology vision of the company, build the core engineering team and develop a product that is loved by the customer. The suitable candidate will have the opportunity to be the potential CTO of the company with equity offering on the table.

You write beautiful Python code (and might follow PEP8 coding style standards). You have extensively worked on Linux (Ubuntu or other flavours). Good understanding of RESTful services and API Comfortable with Web frameworks, such as Flask or Django. Fluent with Git Good understanding of NoSQL document databases (preferably MongoDB) You are a proactive self-starter, and capable of making independent decisions. You have a passion for innovation and working in a start-up environment. Good to have: Other programming languages like Java, Scala, R, Clojure etc. (You have a flair for quickly picking up any language.) Good object oriented design skills and knowledge of design patterns. Knowledge of key-value stores, caching, search, messaging queues (ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Memcached, Redis, etc.). Knowledge of Javascript (preferably AngularJS). Experience or enthusiastic in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning is a huge plus. Good written and verbal communication skills.