

• You will work on a disruptive product that’s still in its early stages
• Lead development of features within your technical focus area (backend)
• Design and develop secure, clean, clear, scalable, and well-documented
codebase
• Translate objectives into step by step, evaluate, and then refactor into a
scalable and extensible design
• Exercise high end-to-end ownership and initiative of their tasks
• Design, develop, ship, and maintain medium or high complexity features
with little guidance from a more experienced engineer
• Research on new technologies and tools to improve products
• Mentoring other engineers, defining our technical culture, and helping to
build a fast-growing team.
Qualifications
• 2-4 years of experience of building backend services
• Familiar with REST and event driven constructs
• Well-versed in one of the following languages: Java, Go-lang, or Python
• Data modelling experience in Relational and NoSQL databases
• Proficiency in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns, and software best practices
• Well-versed in standard web frameworks such as Spring Boot / Django
• A supportive and highly collaborative attitude to work with cross-
functional teams on a daily basis
• A passion for learning new stacks and taking on new challenges
• Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the
scope of the product

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- Experience in Python
- Experience in any Framework like Django, and Flask.
- Primary and Secondary skills - Python, OOPs and Data Structure
- Good understanding of Rest Api
- Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Division/ Department: Technology
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Work Location: Noida
Desired Work Experience: 4+ years
Weekly Off: Saturday & Sunday
About Aakash Technology Innovation Lab
Are you passionate about transforming the field of education as we know it?
The way education is imparted has been disrupted massively due to forces such as ed-tech digital revolution, the advancement in artificial intelligence technology and the pandemic. Given the rapid pace of transformation, the vision of the Technology Innovation Lab at Aakash is to make the education of the future a reality. The Technology Innovation Lab aims to leverage state-of-the-art technologies to develop industry-defining bleeding-edge solutions for a student-first world-class hybrid learning experience. This involves -
- Reimagining and conceptualizing how education will be imparted in the future in the omni-channel and immersive learning environment
- Building data platforms such as Power BI dashboards to facilitate students, parents, teachers and the business
- Creating applications to support the futuristic tech-enabled smart classrooms
- Conceptualizing and developing mobile and web applications for seamless customer experience
- Developing Internet of Things (IoT) driven integrations into applications to build futuristic learning experience
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to identity interventions to boost student performance
If this excites you, we might have the perfect opportunity for you in the world’s most valued ed-tech company!
About Aakash - AESL
Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL), commonly known as Aakash, is one of the most leading educational services institution providing comprehensive test preparatory services for students preparing for medical and engineering entrance examinations, school/board exams and competitive and scholarship exams such as NTSE, KVPY, and Olympiads.
AESL also partnered with Blackstone, a global investment management firm.
With more than 32 years of operational experience in the test preparatory coaching industry, the company has a pan India network of 220+ Aakash centres with an annual student base 2,50,000+ students and an employee count of more than 4700.
Purpose of the Role
Develop software solutions that enable the students, parents and teachers to have superior learning and teaching experiences, both inside and outside the classroom.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop state-of-the-art high performance and low latency software applications for mission critical systems
- Contribute in all the phases of the software development lifecycle
- Craft a well-designed, testable, efficient code
- Perform object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
- Effectively and seamlessly manage communication with all stakeholders.
- Manage and provide live support to the developed applications
Qualification/ Experience
Must-Have Preferred
Education B.E / B.Tech Information Technology / Computer Science/ Information Science
- Experience 4+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot Frameworks
- Experience with test-driven development
- Experience with relational databases (MySql, Oracle, Postgres) or NoSql Databases (Cassandra, MongoDb, CouchDb) .
- Agile programming (Sprint, Scrum) experience
- Skills Understands version control branching strategies
- Understands different major language paradigms (object oriented /functional /reactive)
- Understanding and some experience in programming with AWS SDK
- Knowledge of Kafka and Redis
Competencies
Behavioral Competencies Level Functional Competencies Level
1 Team Player Written and Verbal Communication
2
What We Offer
As a technology professional in Aakash Technology Innovation Lab we offer you an opportunity to -
- Become a pioneer of the education of the future by reimagining and building innovative solutions for the ed-tech industry leading hybrid learning experience
- Be a force of technological disruption as a part of a passionate and high growth team on an exciting endeavor to transform the education industry
- Belong to an upbeat, flexible and relaxed work culture with a specific focus on collaboration
- Craft an excellent career at Aakash through a broad realm of career tracks and opportunities
- Excel in your chosen stream and become a renowned technologist in the ed-tech industry with heavy investment from the business into your learning, exposure and growth
- Have a highly competitive compensation and benefits package
- Collaborating with the product team to understand the requirement
- Managing Design and development of the product
- Ensuring code quality, security and extensibility
- Following the agile development cycles
- Conducting performance tests and optimization of the code based on the results.
- Debugging and troubleshooting of technical issues
- Helping the support team to resolve external user issues
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- B.Tech /B.E.; M.Tech; MCA
- Strong at OOPS, Java/ J2EE, JAX-RS, JDBC, RESTful Web Services, Data Structures, Queues, Multi-Threading etc.
- MySQL and Mongo database knowledge
- Basic understanding of AWS Cloud
- Must have worked on highly scalable and available systems
- Good at adapting and understanding architecture and overall design of the system
- Exposure to design patterns is a plus
- Must have exposure to agile development
- Experience of creating and maintaining system documentation such as architecture, design, deployment plan etc.
- The candidate must have excellent technical skills and must be willing to learn
- new technologies on the go.
- Good at communication
- Good Exposure to Kafka and Redis

What You'll Do
You will be part of our data platform & data engineering team. As part of this agile team, you will work in our cloud native environment and perform following activities to support core product development and client specific projects:
- You will develop the core engineering frameworks for an advanced self-service data analytics product.
- You will work with multiple types of data storage technologies such as relational, blobs, key-value stores, document databases and streaming data sources.
- You will work with latest technologies for data federation with MPP (Massive Parallel Processing) capabilities
- Your work will entail backend architecture to enable data modeling, data queries and API development for both back-end and front-end data interfaces.
- You will support client specific data processing needs using SQL and Python/Pyspark
- You will integrate our product with other data products through Django APIs
- You will partner with other team members in understanding the functional / non-functional business requirements, and translate them into software development tasks
- You will follow the software development best practices in ensuring that the code architecture and quality of code written by you is of high standard, as expected from an enterprise software
- You will be a proactive contributor to team and project discussions
Who you are
- Strong education track record - Bachelors or an advanced degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline from Indian Institute of Technology or equivalent premium institute.
- 2-3 years of experience in data queries, data processing and data modeling
- Excellent ANSI SQL skills to handle complex queries
- Excellent Python and Django programming skills.
- Strong knowledge and experience in modern and distributed data stack components such as the Spark, Hive, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker etc.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure) and native cloud technologies for data storage and data processing
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Blobs, MongoDB etc.
- Familiarity with ML models is highly preferred
- Experience with Big Data processing and performance optimization
- Should know how to write modular, optimized and documented code.
- Should have good knowledge around error handling.
- Experience in version control systems such as GIT
- Strong problem solving and communication skills.
- Self-starter, continuous learner.
Good to have some exposure to
- Start-up experience is highly preferred
- Exposure to any Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau, Dundas, Power BI etc.
- Agile software development methodologies.
- Working in multi-functional, multi-location teams
What You'll Love About Us – Do ask us about these!
- Be an integral part of the founding team. You will work directly with the founder
- Work Life Balance. You can't do a good job if your job is all you do!
- Prepare for the Future. Academy – we are all learners; we are all teachers!
- Diversity & Inclusion. HeForShe!
- Internal Mobility. Grow with us!
- Business knowledge of multiple sectors

Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, REST services, PostgreSQL
Experience with Elastic Search or any NoSQL DB is preferable

● Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance efficient
applications.
● Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side
logic.
● Implementation of security and data protection
● Integration of data storage solutions
**Backend Developer Requirements:**
● Expert in Python, with knowledge of Django Web Framework.
● Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
● Working knowledge of MySQL.
● Fair understanding of building RESTful APIs.
● Bonus points for Celery, RabbitMQ.
● Worked with Django application deployment on AWS.
● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
● Understanding of accessibility and security compliance.
● Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers,
and environments.
● Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python.
● Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
● Strong unit test and debugging skills.
● Proficient understanding of Git.


