Backend Developer-Python (AWS Services &ETL)-Mumbai

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

•   At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Should Have experience leading a team.
•   Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
•   Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
•   Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
•   Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.

Opportunity

Here are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

•   Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product.
•   Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs.
•   Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product.

The TIFIN Group, started by Dr. Vinay Nair (IIT Madras alumnus and Governor’s Gold Medal awardee), is a fast-growing, capitalized US-based group of companies operating in the Fintech domain. It has multiple products in its portfolio today. We are a platform that combines expertise in finance, technology, entrepreneurship and investing to start and help build a portfolio of brands and companies in areas of investments, wealth management and asset management. our companies are cantered around the user and emphasize design innovation to build operating systems. We focus on simplifying and democratizing financial science to make it more holistic and integral to users-lives.

Role summary:
The candidate will play be critical role in enabling company's growth by developing highly scalable applications that provide practical solutions to clients in the financial services- domain.

• Design, build, test and maintain scalable and stable off the shelf application or custom-built technology solutions to meet business needs
• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business need and architectural improvements
• Review code for quality and implementation best practices. Promote coding, testing and deployment best practices through hands-on research and demonstration
• Write testable code that enables extremely high levels of code coverage
• Ability to review frameworks and design principles towards suitability in the project context
• Candidates who will demonstrate an ability to identify an opportunity, lay out a rational plan for pursuing that opportunity, and see it through completion

What we're looking for:

• Engineering graduate with 3-8 years of experience in software product development
• Proficient in Python, Django, Pandas, GitHub and AWS.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Strong Experience in designing REST APIs
• Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications
• Clear understanding of software design constructs and their implementation
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python and multi process architecture
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Good understanding of Test Driven Development
• Unit and Integration testing
• Preferred exposure to Finance domain
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Things you might find interesting:

• We value and encourage creative thinking & intellectual curiosity.
• You'll have a very clear understanding of how your work matters to the company.
• You'll find interesting new challenges every day on the forefront of Fintech space.
• You'll be given the responsibility to have a big impact on and opportunities for leadership within our business from early on.
• You'll be part of a passionate team with broad skills and interests.

Our Products :

• Magnifi: The world’s first semantic search engine that helps investors discover, compare, and buy investment products such as ETFs, mutual funds, and stocks.
• Positivly: An investment recommendation platform creating a stronger connection between investors and their investments by identifying the dominant personality traits of investors and the investments they care about the most.
• Paralel: A fintech platform that will redefine the relationship between asset managers and their back office.
• Louise: A digital platform that helps users navigate the world of giving while linking it to their investments and wealth management.
• Clout: An AI-powered, hyper-personalized content marketing platform to power sales in financial services.
• Farther: A wealth management platform based on an algorithmic approach to client acquisition.
• Totum: A product that enables a comprehensive understanding of risk to wealth management.
• Arbor: An application to save automatically, cancel your debts, and invest your savings to multiply your money.

About TIFIN group:

At all times, we are guided by our UltIMaTE values:

• Ult (Shared understanding through listening and speaking the truth) – We COMMUNICATE with radical candour, precision, and compassion to create a shared understanding.
• I (Innovate with creative solutions) – We believe that disruptive innovation begins with curiosity and CREATIVITY. We challenge the status quo and problem solve to find new answers.
• Ma (Make magic for our customers) – With deep EMPATHY for our clients, we create technology that transforms investor experiences.
• T (Teamwork for team win) – We believe in win together, learn together. We fly in formation. We cover each other’s backs. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude.
• E (Grow at the edge) – We are driven by PERSONAL GROWTH. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. We strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.

• Experience in Web and Mobile Applications
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
• Experience in Java, Python.
• Deep understanding of data structures and microservices.
• Knowledge of Node.js
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Familiarity with front-end technologies
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Interaction with multiple data sources
• Good understanding of SQL
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git .

• IMMEDIATE JOINEE.
• Work with other engineers to develop and test tools and applications used by team on daily basis
• Play a significant role in the ongoing evolution and refinement of current tools and applications
• Triage, troubleshoot, escalate and provide resolution to production issues.
• Reproduce, document and escalate product defects to the Engineering Team.
• Provide well-thought out and reliable direction, both in technical and non-technical terms, to help customers.
• Take ownership of customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution or escalation.
• Identify and escalate priority issues that need immediate attention.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams which requires strong presentation skills and attention to details
  
  
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent work experience. MS degree is preferred.
• 9+ years development experience in JAVA (using OO Design and Analysis, Design Patterns, etc.)
• High experience in Java 8 Required.
• 4+ years’ experience building highly scalable, distributed and reliable Restful Web Services using Spring, Jersey, etc.
• Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS.
• Knowledge on building Front end applications using JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.
• Experience with relational DBs like MySQL and NoSQL Database like MongoDB, Solr/Lucene will be a plus.
• Experience with Tomcat, Jax-RS, REST, JPA, IntelliJ, Groovy, Hibernate is must.
• Experience with build technologies like Gradle, Jenkins will be a plus.
• Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing frameworks.
• Experience working with version control like GIT.