
- Write clean, well- designed code
- Produce detailed specifications
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Follow industry best practices
- Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary.
Requirements :
- Knows best practices for front- end development
- Strong knowledge of Javascript APIs.
- Must have experience in building web applications in Python/Django
- Able to handle multiple databases in Django.
- Knows how to do multiple environments (production/ staging)setup in Django.
- Knows how to set up/deploy Django apps in AWS.
- Knowledge of MongoDB, postgresql mysql
- Familiar with Docker/Docker- compose

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FactWise is a fully funded, early-stage startup building b2b SaaS for a global SMB client base. Our team has alumni from MIT, Stanford, GeorgiaTech, UCL, the IITs, VJTI, Amazon and McKinsey, and currently comprises frontend, backend, full stack developers, UI/UX engineers, product managers, data scientist, and Ops, HR, Marketing. We'd love to get to know you better!
As a member of the development group, you will be primarily responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the product:
- Help define and create full stack architecture and deployment using React- Django-AWS in an agile environment with lots of ownership and active mentoring.
- Work with the Product and Design teams to build new features to solve business problems and fill business needs
- Participate in code reviews to create robust and maintainable code
- Work in an agile environment where quick iterations and good feedback are a way of life
- Interact with other stakeholders for requirement, design discussions and for adoption of new features
- Communicate and coordinate with our support and professional services teams to solve customer issues.
- Help scale our platform as we expand our product across various markets and verticals globally.
As a young startup, we are hoping to be joined by self-starting, hardworking, passionate individuals who are committed to delivering their best, who can grow into future leaders of FactWise.


Job Summary
- Expand the product to suit the needs of all kinds of travellers. From family travellers to hardcore backpackers and from free independent travellers to those who need a more guided approach to planning their trip.
- Launch across more countries. This means adding support for more geographies, things to do, weather, currencies and payments, transport and accommodation.
- Scale it up to serve millions of users a year, from across the globe. We are seeing decent growth, but it is time to up the game.
Responsibilities and Duties
How you'll add value:
- Own the architecture and design decisions that go into shaping our backend microservices
- Build and ship robust features.
- Work with web and mobile engineers to design and build APIs to power the traveler and influencer applications.
- Help us scale out to multiple geographies and serve millions of travelers
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- An innate desire to grow. Both personally and with respect to the value you add to other people's lives.
- 4+ years industry experience working with golang/Django
- Sound understanding of CS fundamentals. We don't expect you to remember every algorithm by heart. But if you know how to find the most appropriate one for any given problem, let's talk.
- Personal projects that show an aptitude for technical excellence and product sense.
- Interest in contributing to open source projects
- Bonus points if you have an interest in the philosophy behind technologies. - You are intrigued by why did people develop certain technologies the way they did.
Benefits
- Work with a bunch of amazing people on a challenging problem.
- 1 backpacking trip each year to travel outside India. We don't allow you to travel, we WANT you to travel.
- Stock.
- We don't mind work from home/cafe/some random city in the world as long as your work and your team is not disrupted.
- We don't have a leave policy (there is a guideline for legal reasons) but you are free to take as much personal time as you need as long as you get your job done.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: ₹2,000,000.00 to ₹3,000,000.00 /year


We're looking for someone to join a team dedicated to building performant APIs and backend services that deal with large volumes of data for the company's flagship, global consumer product. Small, high-impact teams require conscious planning and decision-making when it comes to design, architecture, and product features. So, it's essential that you enjoy working in such an environment.
We're a team that cares about simplicity and being able to build reliable, deterministic systems and platforms. Hence, our choice of tooling is usually battle-tested reliable software with a robust test suite.
How we work
- You won't deal with the hustle culture. We're focused on building well-thought-out, stable and reliable software and we try our best to ensure everyone understands the big picture and the immediate goals.
- We work a solid 6-8 hour days and don't slave away 24/7.
- We're a remote engineering team. This makes effective communication extremely important. Our teams have benefitted greatly from good written communication. This includes everything from the product specification to the API spec. We spend a lot of time writing READMEs. As a result our engineers work with greater clarity and planning.
- We deploy several times a day and rely on a good test suite to ensure we're not making life hard for our colleagues.
- We don't expect anyone to know everything, but we are curious and learn along the way.
- We learn about the fitness space and what it means to really be fit and not just Instagram fit.
The Python Backend Engineer position may be a good fit for you if:
- You have 3 (or more) years of experience building and maintaining cloud applications.
- You have built APIs with Python, Flask, Django or FastAPI before.
- You have experience working with relational databases like PostgresSQL or MySQL and have spent time writing SQL queries for large datasets.
- Experience in writing Unit tests with pytest.
- You have worked with Docker, docker-compose.
- Familiarity with the AWS ECS stack.
We want you to care about
- Good object oriented design
- Performant APIs
- Analysing why queries are slow and how to go about improving them.
- Understanding DNS, Load balancing, Caching and Hashing.
- Customer data and privacy.
Our API Stack services use:
- Python 3.8+, Typescript
- FastAPI, Flask, HapiJs
- PostgresSQL, MySQL
- Redis
- Celery
- Pytest, Jest for unit testing.
- Gitlab CI/CD
- Amazon ECS container services
We are a fintech start-up founded by IIMA alumni with 20+ years- experience in finance industry. We have a robust
technology platform and an operations team. We offer wealth management, financial services and insurance
products to small and medium enterprises on technology platform.
• Work as part of a team developing web API and database.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Effectively use tools and ingenuity to identify and fix defects before they become a problem
• Collaborate with team members to define, design, and ship new features
• Ensure top-notch performance, quality, and responsiveness of web API
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code in Ruby on Rails
• Contribute in all phases of the development life-cycle
• Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
• Be an evangelist for Rails and software engineering best practices
• Continually look for opportunities to improve our platform, process, and business
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies
• Work in an agile environment with quick iterations
What we are looking for?
• 2+ years of overall web development experience
• 2+ years experience in developing scalable and robust web applications using Ruby on Rails
• Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Continuous Integration, Capistrano)
• Highly proficient in the data structure, algorithms, design patterns, and databases
• Ability to collaborate with other developers and handle the entire software development cycle
• Passion to write beautiful and scalable code
• A disciplined approach to development, documentation, and code structure
• Experience building internal and external APIs and RESTful web services
• Experience in delivering products and services in a high growth, startup environment


Proficient with full development stack (MySQL, Redis, Memcached, MVC frameworks, jQuery, Server Administration, CSS, HTML, etc) and understanding of OOP design, AJAX, jQuery, and MySQL
Understands how to build an optimized web app and has experience with caching and other scaling techniques
The desire and energy to work long hours so that we can continuously improve our website at the quickest pace possible
Passionate about working in a startup and creating a great product
Must love to program, must be willing to learn, and must be creative. If you are the type of person who finds learning a new technology or language an exhilarating experience, you will love it here.
Must be able to show us projects and or websites that you have created. Bonus points if you’ve created these projects/websites outside of your work (we love seeing proof of how much you love technology and coding).
Education - relevant degree in Engineering preferable






