


jumpingMinds (jM) is a Mental Health Tech startup leveraging the power of community and technology to disrupt the growing global Mental Health & Wellness industry. It's a first-of-its-kind anonymous safe space designed to instantly make someone under stress feel better through personalized intelligent solutions.
We have consistently seen that ~70% of jM users feel better after just one conversation. We launched the product ~18 months ago, and have received an amazing response with over 700k+ community and better than Best In Class metrics across the board. And to top that, we have been awarded 10+ times, out of which we have been recognized by Google five times already!
jumpingMinds is seeking a skilled Backend Developer with a strong proficiency in Python and Django to join our development team. Your primary focus will be the development and maintenance of the jumpingMinds backend system, scalable to millions of devices. working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.
Requirements :
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject
- 3-4+ yrs experience as Backend, prior startup experience, should have led the team, python django expertise, AWS cloud stack knowledge are all must.
- Prior experience in Team Management
- Backend or Full-Stack experience in a work setting or classroom-setting.
- Work experience, open-source code, or coursework in any of the following languages: Python/Django, Golang, Ruby/Ruby on Rails
- Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
- Join our dynamic and innovative team to contribute to the development of cutting-edge web applications and make a meaningful impact in the industry.
Why should an employee join ?
We offer a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and opportunities for professional growth and advancement.

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Ideal Background
- At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
- Exposure to AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
- Sound understanding of computer science principles
- Exposure to any of the following
- Financial services
- Natural Language Processing
- Robotic Process Automation
- Intelligent Document Processing
- Document Management and Repositories
Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s 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
- Build POCs for client deployments
- Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
- Document your code, write test cases, etc.
Skills
- Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
- Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
- A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well
Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :
- Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
- Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
- Work Ethic- - We've grown up on Wall Street. We work hard and have aggressive goals. We want our teammates to be focused, goal-oriented, and consistent high achievers.
- Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done and getting things done right. We want outcome-focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.
Interested?
We are an early-stage company. Working here is not for the faint-hearted. An intense and unstructured work environment, lots of excitement, and a group of motivated colleagues are what we bring to the table. We ask you to bring your undivided attention, strong worth ethic & resourcefulness. We are Delhi-based and work 6 days a week. Currently, due to the pandemic, we are operating remotely since Feb 2020.
7+ years of experience with Design, development & architecture.
- Experience in software development with minimum 3 plus years of architecture experience.
- Experience in Core JAVA 8
- Experience in Java J2EE, Microservices
- Experience in Java - Spring, Java - SpringBoot, GCP , Hibernate,JDBC
- Experience in Multi-threading, Performance and Scaling is a plus
- Have used the RDBMS and NoSQL databases like MySQL/Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J Risk for production ready software’s
- Cloud Native application design experience is a plus
- CICD – Release Pipeline experience
- Experience in application of principles of Architecture Design
- Experience building large scale, high performance distributed systems
- Strong understanding of modern development techniques and processes such as Dev Ops /Cloud
- Promoter of Agile/Scrum, TDD and CI/CD best practices
- Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or Internet-related computer programs. (Code must be used in core version of applications available for sale commercially.)
- Interacts with Delivery managers and/or users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
- Participates in software design meetings and analyzes user needs to determine technical requirements.
- Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements.
- Writes code, completes programming and performs testing and debugging of applications using current programming languages and technologies.
- Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
- Trains and communicates with internal Client Training, Client Relationship and Sales teams on systems application.
- May be responsible for developing or executing project plans, budgets and schedules and for documenting work and results.
- May deliver informational and decision-seeking presentations to technical and business groups to internal and/or external audiences.


- Expert in Python, with knowledge of Python web framework Django
- Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
- Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Strong experience on Linux
- Solid database skills in a relational database (i. e. PostgresSQL)
- Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git)
- Experience on RESTful APIs
- Experience deploying on AWS is desirable
- Experience on Automation Builds using Jenkins and other popular frameworks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, influence and communication skills
- Experience in designing scalable micro-services is desirable
Requirements
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Overall 2-8 years of software development experience in building web-based and highly scalable applications
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Excellent understanding of core computer science concepts like algorithms, data structure, system design, OOP, etc.
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Deep knowledge and development expertise in Core Java and SpringBoot or other equivalent frameworks
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Strong experience in HTML5 and CSS3 and should have basic experience in JS technologies
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Good knowledge of database concepts, having SQL writing experience, and familiarity with at least one of the relational databases
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Worked in a CI/CD environment with Jenkins
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Experience working in an agile team with software engineering practices like automated testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, etc is a big plus.
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Ability to quickly learn and evaluate new technologies and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
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Strong oral and written communication.


The person will have the opportunity to design and build an **early stage, rapidly evolving platform from scratch** and carry out these primary responsibilities -
* Optimize components for maximum performance across multiple devices and browsers
* Write performant REST APIs for both internal and external consumption
* Build micro services and their deployment process
* Work with problems of scale, leveraging technologies that are distributed in nature.
* Perform code reviews
### Required qualifications and must have skills
* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
* Proven-deep-expertise with Python programming (2+ years of hands-on experience in Python and backend development)
* Building performant and scalable applications from scratch
* Experience in working with frameworks like Django, Flask, etc.
* Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
* Experience with any RDBMS and strong SQL knowledge
* Comfortable with Unix / Linux command line
* Object-oriented concepts & design patterns
* Sytem and database desinging skills
### Nice to have Skills
Knowledge of other programming languages beyond Python
Familiarity with managing infrastructure on AWS
Experience with working with/building data analytics pipleline
Familiarity with NoSQL databases
Good understanding of Docker and container platforms (Kubernetes)
Security-first architecture approach
Application benchmarking and optimization
### Interpersonal Attributes
You are driven by the impact your work creates
You can answer the why behind any technological choice you make
You can work independently as well as part of a team
You aren't afraid to roll up your sleeves: This role will evolve over time, and we'll want you to evolve with it!
We are looking for a talented and motivated engineer to join our fleet and help us solve real-world problems in this exciting field. Join us and share the dream of building the next generation online platform for the Auto industry.
What you'll do :
- Design and architect our core components
- End to end systems development
- Ownership of complete systems from development till production and maintenance
- Infrastructure management on AWS
Technologies you'll use :
- Microservices, AWS, Java, Spring-boot
- Nginx
- PostgreSQL, Redis
- ElasticSearch
- Gradle
- Kafka, RabbiMQ
- Any cool piece of technology that you can bring onboard.
What you are :
- You love technology and always open to learning new tools
- You are a self-starter
- You are proficient in Java, SQL
- You have good knowledge of Databases: RDBMS/Document
- You have worked with server technologies: Spring / Dropwizard / Tomcat/Spring Boot
- You have a good understanding of REST API design
- You believe in clean and maintainable code




