Backend Engineer

Sr. Software Developer ( 4years – 5years)

Required:

1. Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails (4-5)years, software designing and architecture.
2. Experience in microservice architecture (2-3)years
3. Experience in Elastic Search/Redis/Sidekiq
4. Experience in writing Rspec Test cases
5. Experience in cloud services such as AWS
6. Experience in Postgres/Mysql, Database Modelling
7. Excellent problem solving capabilities

Good To have:

1. Experience in design pattern
2. Experience in managing teams

Also need 3 mid-level (2-3 yrs) ROR Developers for this project.

About Our Client

 

It is a last-mile tech-logistics solution provider for intra-state deliveries based in Bangalore. It offers reliable, affordable, and professional services, structured to serve enterprises.

Our Client aggregates light commercial vehicles for urban logistics and has onboarded 55,000+ truckers on its platform across 14 cities. Our Client works across industry sectors like organized retail, FMCG and e-commerce, distribution and 3PL companies. Some of its clients include Amazon, Flipkart, Bisleri, Vishal Mega Mart, Future Supply Chain, Coca-Cola, Delhivery, and Udaan.

The company offers customized logistics solutions for clients, along with other value-added services such as screened drivers, audited and GPS-enabled vehicles, point-to-point billing, status updates, 24x7 service, and greater efficiency, all at transparent and economical pricing.

Our Client, as a brand, is known as one of the market leaders in the enterprise segment, and first movers to identify and empathize with the underserved urban trucker community, playing a huge role in making them a part of the mainstream economy. This series-B funded tech-logistics company aims to disrupt the primitive $35bn+ urban-logistics industry by leveraging technology and help enterprises to reach consumers faster.

Our Client is India's largest enterprise urban-logistics provider in India, with 55,000+ Light Commercial Vehicles on its platform.

 

Why Our Client?

1) Young Startup growing and well funded.

 

What will I do?

- Designing user flows and converting them into logical entities in the code.

- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

- Designing Database schemas.

- Building reusable code and libraries for future use

- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability

- Implementation of security and data protection

- Design and implementation of data storage solutions

 

What skills should I have?

 

- 3+ years of experience in Backend Development.
- Language: NodeJs
- Additional knowledge of Python will be a plus
- Understanding of microservices architecture.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes

- Data migration, transformation, and scripting

- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

 

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds

Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogues (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

Requirements:

1. Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework and their design principles.
2. Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.) .
3. Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters and viewsets completely according to needs.
4. Should have good experience in Class Based Views to write the backend API’s.
5. Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modelling them to Django models.
6. Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
7. Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
8. Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a code base that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
9. Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
10. Ability to write RAW sql queries and further database level coding will be a plus.
11. Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
12. Hands on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
13. Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
14. Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
15. Experience with open source will be a plus.
16. Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the ins and out of existing codebase and have a good grasp over it.
2. Write clean, stable and scalable code.
3. Write unit test cases for the APIs.
4. Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
5. Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for the business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Setup and integrate various APIs
• Dealing with scripts written in different languages (PHP, Node.js, Python, PhantomJS, Ruby)
• Must be an R & D specialist
• Keep up-to-date with advanced concepts
• Adaptable to learn new technologies
• Knowledge on Linux and its commands
• Fast in debugging the code
• Should be a quick learner
• Good at communication

Requirements

• Minimum 3 Years of experience in PHP7
• 1 Year experience in Node.js/Python
• Good work experience in PHP7 
• Strong knowledge in OOPS.
• Proven knowledge on REST and SOAP API integrations 
• Experience in composer installations
• Strong in Javascript and Node.js concepts.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB and MySql
• Knowledge of versioning tools (SVN/GIT)
• Having knowledge on Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Platform is an added advantage
• Having knowledge of elastic search is an added advantage
• Good to have knowledge on p threads

Skills and Responsibilities:
We are looking for an experienced individual to join our engineering teams as a python developer.
You would be responsible for developing solutions as per business requirements. Working closely with a global team of developers and product managers and develop the solution according to the business requirements.

Required/ Must have:
• Be passionate about programming
• Understand requirements, validate assumptions, and design and develop solutions independently for users
• Ability to learn new python skills to deliver solutions
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Identify and suggest various opportunities to improve efficiency and functionality.
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
• Review existing python solutions for quality and provide feedback
• Agile methodology experience with able to translate user stories and features into python code
• Knowledge of Pandas and experience of automating Microsoft excel and preferably other office apps
• Be flexible to learn and undertake other responsibilities as required by the team

Preferable/Good to have:
• Good knowledge in writing QA test cases and performing QA is preferable
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions
• Write and implement software solutions that integrate different systems.
• Work experience with libraries: Win32, Openpyxl, Pypdf, Pandas, Selenium
• Hands on experience with Git repository
• SQL experience is preferred
• Good Interpersonal Skills & Ability to work Independently

Design and develop components of the platform
● Constant benchmarking for capacity and performance
● Documenting feature capability in detail
● Supporting marketing initiatives on the product / differentiators
● Test scenarios for faults / bugs
● On-call (only emergency - L4) support to customer issues
● Building best practices for customer scenarios

Who we are looking for
● Understand the larger picture and work for customer success
● Passionate to solve problems
● Understand the product life cycle

As a Python Django Lead Engineer on our team you will:  Use existing design patterns and framework to iteratively write and review maintainable code.  Help flesh out scalable application architectures.  Proactively improve product quality through peer code review.  Identify and challenge established organizational limitations, and offer solutions.  Explore efficiency and effectiveness, and suggest improvements to process revisions.  Assist in growing a catalog of unit and functional tests for both new and existing solutions.  Mentoring junior developers as and when required.  Enjoying your work, your team, and your quality of life You should bring:  At least 8+ years of experience in various Python frameworks  At least 6+ years of experience in writing Python using the Django and Django Rest framework  At least 2+ years of experience in J2EE, Spring boot, etc  Proficiency in the tenants of Rest Web services using the JSON API standard  Proficiency in deploying applications to cloud based platform as a service using heroku, aws, google cloud and integration with 3rd party webservices  Several years of client-side focused, web application development experience.  Deep knowledge of the web application development ecosystem.  Understanding of application stacks, and DevOps workflows.  Excellent communication skills at all levels, from team members to senior management.  Having experience in Machine learning, Data science and micro services area would be preferred  Working knowledge of command-line utilities, build tools, version control and branching strategies.  A commitment to quality, and a desire to improve.  An excellent understanding of browser-based technology and specifications.  A strong drive to solve problems of all types.  An intense dislike of waste and activities that add no value to team growth or productivity.  An entrepreneurial spirit, and comfort with uncertainty and ambiguity.  A firm belief in exchanging constructive and respectful feedback.  Enthusiasm and a desire to be part of an excellent team.

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