Backend Developer

Position: Lead Python Developer

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The Client company includes a team of experienced information services professionals who are passionate about growing and enhancing the value of information services businesses. They provide support with talent, technology, tools, infrastructure and expertise required to deliver across the Data ecosystem. Position Summary We are seeking a skilled and experienced Backend Developer with strong expertise in TypeScript, Python, and web scraping. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs that power our data-driven products. Your role will involve collaborating with cross functional teams, optimizing system performance, ensuring data integrity, and contributing to the design of efficient and secure architectures.

Job Responsibility

● Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Python and TypeScript.

● Develop and maintain web scraping solutions to extract, process, and manage large-scale data from multiple sources.

● Work with relational and non-relational

databases, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.

● Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices across services.

● Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices and coding standards.

● Collaborate with frontend engineers, data engineers, and DevOps teams to deliver robust solutions and troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications.

● Stay updated with backend development trends, tools, and frameworks to continuously improve processes.

● Utilize core crawling experience to design efficient strategies for scraping the data from different websites and applications.

● Collaborate with technology teams, data collection teams to build end to end technology-enabled ecosystems and partner in research projects to analyze the massive data inputs.

● Responsible for the design and development of web crawlers, able to independently solve various problems encountered in the actual development process.

● Stay updated with the latest web scraping techniques, tools, and industry trends to continuously improve the scraping processes.

Job Requirements

● 4+ years of professional experience in backend development with TypeScript and Python.

● Strong understanding of TypeScript-based server-side frameworks (e.g., Node.js, NestJS, Express) and Python frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django, Flask).

● Experience with tools and libraries for web scraping (e.g., Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Puppeteer)

● Hands-on experience with Temporal for creating and orchestrating workflows

● Proven hands-on experience in web scraping, including crawling, data extraction, deduplication, and handling dynamic websites.

● Proficient in implementing proxy solutions and handling bot-detection challenges (e.g., Cloudflare).

● Experience working with Docker, containerized deployments, and cloud environments (GCP or Azure).

● Proficiency with database systems such as MongoDB and Elastic Search.

● Hands-on experience with designing and maintaining scalable APIs.

● Knowledge of software testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end).

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).

● Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in agile environments.

● Great communication skills and ability to navigate in undirected situations.

Job Exposure:

● Opportunity to apply creative methods in acquiring and filtering the North American government, agencies data from various websites, sources

● In depth industry exposure on data harvesting techniques to build, scale the robust and sustainable model, using open-source applications ● Effectively collaboration with IT team to design the tailor-made solutions basis upon clients’ requirement

● Unique opportunity to research on various agencies, vendors, products as well as technology tools to compose a solution 

What you'll do:

·         Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development:  Angular, Node, TypeScript, JavaScript, Apache Cordova, RESTful APIs and more

·         Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible

·         Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible

·         Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Automate feature testing and contribute UI testing framework

·         Become a subject matter expert for our mobile applications

·         Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off

·         Mentor junior developers on the team

What we’re looking for:

·         Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.

·         A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.

·         A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.

·         Confidence, not ego. You have an ability to collaborate with others and see all sides of the coin to come to the best solution for everyone.

·         Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary

Basic Qualifications: 

·         Minimum B.S. / M.S. Computer Science or related discipline from accredited college or University

·         At least 6 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering web applications with Angular, Node, Typescript, IONIC and JavaScript

·         At least 2 years of experience building iOS-based applications utilizing hybrid technologies

·         At least 2 years of experience with AWS and/or Openshift

·         Experience integrating with native device API’s (iOS)

·         Experience with front-end and/or mobile-specific testing frameworks

·         Strong experience in object-oriented design and development

·         Knowledge of building and consuming RESTful APIs

·         Excellent sense of web design, passionate about creating and refining great mobile user experiences.

·         Ability to manage multiple tasks and consistently meet established timelines   

·         Strong collaboration skills

·         Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

·         Proficient with Apache Cordova framework

·         Built or maintained custom Cordova plugin

• Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS

·         Understanding of Apple certificate and profile management

·         Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers

·         Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, service oriented web applications from scratch for technology products for European market.
• Maintain these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards
• Participate with founding, business and product teams in discussions on how to build and launch new modules.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Start as an individual contributor but stay ready to build and mentor a small team of up to 5 engineers over the coming months and years.
• Contribute in hiring highly ambitious engineers as the team grows.
• Being among the first people on the engineering team, be a culture driver.

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using different MVC frameworks.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable applications using Node.js/MEAN stack.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with non relational databases like MongoDB.
• Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Exposure in building polyglot applications.
• Exposure for devops and related processes, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of components in scalable solutions i. e. database partitions, message brokers, background processing.
• Exposure to basic frontend technologies to speed up collaboration with the frontend team.

Roles/Responsibilities

• Own the coding/design of a sub-module
• Review the requirements and provide simple solutions  
• Design the sub-module working with the tech-lead
• Hands-on code the critical parts of the module
• Ensure coding standards, proper design patterns, writing test cases and project mgmt processes are followed
• Mentor the junior programmers
• Peer and junior programmers code review
• Work independently and proactively to deliver production-ready code with minimal guidance

Jobs Skills required

• Strong experience in developing either backend or front end systems
• Backend Exp: RoR, NodeJS, Java, Go, MySQL, Mongo
• Ability to work in a team structure and deliver projects
• Very strong analytical and problem solving skills in super changing environment
• Understanding of algorithms and data structures

Responsibilities:

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Own & build new modules/features end-to-end independently.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Thorough understanding of Node.js, JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds.
• Excellence in at least one framework like strongloop loopback, express.js, sail.js etc.
• Excellence in at least one Javascript framework like Angular, vue.js, Ember, React or Backbone.
• Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications.
• Diligence for coding standards.
• Must be good with git and git workflow.
• Experience of external integrations is a plus.
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCC, Azure.
• Expertise with linux based systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.
• Experience with testing and automation frameworks.
• Extensive understanding of RDBMS systems.
• Interpersonal Go-getter attitude and a passion for making killer web applications.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a high pressure environment.
• Ability to quickly understand complex problems and devise effective solutions.
• Knowledge of D3/NodeJS/AngularJS/lodash etc.
• Experience on Cloud as a platform or Infrastructure.
• Inclination to application design standards.