Backend Engineer

About CloudChef

CloudChef’s autonomous cooking platform replaces human skill and judgment in cooking with AI, sensors, and appliance actuators democratizing access to the world’s best foods.

We are able to replicate Michelin-star dishes more accurately than Michelin-star kitchens themselves while working with low-skilled, contextless labor.

CloudChef is a low-cost and easy-to-install upgrade on existing kitchens. Our actuators plug into any traditional cooking appliance with a knob, the sensors are cheap + readily available and our software does all the heavy lifting.

Restaurants are using CloudChef to open outlets faster, by not having to worry about their 2 biggest operational issues - skilled labor and consistency. We are also starting to see institutional caterers, meal kit companies and hotels using CloudChef to license and stream recipes from across the world.

Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSilM6XoWek

The Role

As a core software engineer, you will lead development for the Kitchen Operating System (Kitchen OS) - the central orchestration and scheduling software. It is responsible for converting a kitchen production plan into atomic tasks that are scheduled and managed at different appliances/areas in the kitchen.

The operating system monitors the kitchen appliances through digital twins, and schedules atomic tasks to ensure the kitchen production plan runs on time. To do this it constantly communicates with a host of IoT devices using a Python Multiprocessing system.

In addition, you will also contribute to the Kitchen Manager - a set of web interfaces that allows users to plan and manage cooking schedules and inventory by interfacing with our kitchen operating system.

In this role, you will -

• Own the development and deployment of all Kitchen OS features
• Own all technical decision-making (including architecture, frameworks, etc.) and programming for the Kitchen OS.
• Up-skill yourself and scale the engineering team for Kitchen OS
• Collaborate with the engineering team to deliver features for the Kitchen Manager.

About you -

• 3+ years as an engineer at a product/tech-driven company. Startup experience is ideal.
• Proficient in Python multiprocessing (preferred) OR any other frameworks for real-time computing applications
• Intermediately skilled in React, Node.js, MongoDB
• Experience building systems, both on-premise and on cloud infrastructure, that can support complex integrations
• Ability to move fast in response to new insights, while having competing priorities or deadlines
• Use high agency responsibly

Our tech stack -

• Kitchen Operating System - Python multiprocessing
• Kitchen Manager - React, Node.js
• Databases - MongoDB and GraphQL
• IoT communication - MQTT and C++
• ML - evolving stack
• Others - mobile Android

Compensation -

$30K - $38K per annum + ESOPs

Location -

Remote, Mumbai

The Team

CloudChef was founded by Nikhil, Atish, and Mohit - friends from IIT Bombay, to originally solve their own problem - living away from home, couldn’t eat from thier favorite restaurants or even home food.

We are backed by several marquee investors like Susan Wojcicki(CEO of YouTube), Claire Hughes Johnson(COO of Stripe), Rocketship.vc, Tom Colicchio, etc.

We have intentionally kept a small team. We believe that we can de-risk our business most effectively at this stage by being a small team of driven builders - who take ownership of large chunks of work.

The core team members of CloudChef are Nikhil, Mohit, Atish, Sikander, Georgi, Prateek, Chef TZac.

Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard.

For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements.

Job responsibilities

• You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns
• You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
• You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
• You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills

Job qualifications:

Technical Skills

• You have experience using one or more development languages (Java, Nodejs, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, etc.) with experience in Object-Oriented programming
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker

Professional Skills

• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
• Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives

Other things to know:

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

Position: Backend Developer

Organization: A Funded global healthcare platform connecting doctors, thereby enabling exchange of information on a quick and real time basis, founded in the year 2013.Currently there are 3 lakh doctors using this platform and everyday there are 400 new doctors joining it.

The platform promotes exchange of viewpoints, ideas, and information on various medical practices amongst healthcare professionals. This saves both time and money as solutions to several health issues can be accessed on a real time basis. There are 1.3 million registered doctors and 400+ daily publications on its platform and they operate across 16+countries.

Roles & Responsibilities

You’re Awesome At -

• Have strong experience in Python (FLASK framework).
• Have a Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns that can work at scale.
• Sound knowledge of NoSQL/SQL Databases (Mongo DB preferred).
• Strong experience with at-Cloud technology, preferably AWS or GCP, or Azure.
• Core experience in developing complex backend systems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passionate about application scalability, availability, reliability, and security.

Your Academic Qualifications -

BE/BTech in Computer Science preferred.

You’ll Be Improving & Responsible For –

• A team that is building products used by 300k + doctors every single day.
• Work on PetaByte Scale Streaming Systems - more than 500 million hours of video have been streamed.
• Lead high volume VOD streaming (think of systems as sophisticated as Netflix and Amazon prime).
• Challenge oneself on Security, Scalability, and Stability
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Reach out to the open-source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes

Your Experience Across the Years in the Roles You’ve Played -

2-4 Years of experience in Backend Development.

Designation: Technical Lead (ABL_SS_272)

Position description:

• Work with Product and Engineering leaders to drive and implement platform and product vision.
• Leverage deep and wide knowledge of technology stack to recommend appropriate architecture and design solutions, and provide technical leadership to a team of rock star Software Engineers.
• Translate the impact of design choices on non-functional attributes like scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Create large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed web applications with databases, and designing web services, APIs, data models, and schemas, using SQL or NoSQL.
• Experience with Cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Comfortable working with Windows and Linux environments.
• Work with different data storage solutions such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, ElasticSearch, SQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB.
• Experience delivering high-quality software following continuous delivery and using code quality tools (JIRA, GitHub, Jenkin, Hudson, Sonar, and Fortify, etc.).
• Drive adoption of best practices across the Software Engineering Lifecycle, including reviews, source control, build processes, continuous integration, and deployment.
• Develop and maintain cross-functional relationships and alignment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Application Development using Golang / C++.

Reporting Department: Application Development and Maintenance (1991)

Educational qualifications preferred Degree: Bachelors degree

Required Skills:

• Experience of building scalable architectures
• Hands-on experience with GoLang, Node Js, C++ or Java or any other Open Source technologies/ Cloud Servers
• Experience in developing software using a formal & structured development methodology
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with test-driven development & proper unit testing of code
• An iterative approach to development, using short development cycles & frequent builds
• Object-oriented programming/ Object Oriented Design (OOP/OOD)
• Ability to develop secure solutions & knowledge of industry best practices regarding information security & defensive development

Looking Data Enginner for our OWn organization-

Notice Period- 15-30 days
CTC- upto 15 lpa

Preferred Technical Expertise 

1. Expertise in Python programming.
2. Proficient in Pandas/Numpy Libraries. 
3. Experience with Django framework and API Development.
4. Proficient in writing complex queries using SQL
5. Hands on experience with Apache Airflow.
6. Experience with source code versioning tools such as GIT, Bitbucket etc.

 Good to have Skills:

1. Create and maintain Optimal Data Pipeline Architecture
2. Experienced in handling large structured data.
3. Demonstrated ability in solutions covering data ingestion, data cleansing, ETL, Data mart creation and exposing data for consumers.
4. Experience with any cloud platform (GCP is a plus)
5. Experience with JQuery, HTML, Javascript, CSS is a plus.

• The ideal candidate must have experience in enterprise application design, system performance and scalability
• 5+ year experience in web services, distributed systems, and highly available and scalable applications.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills in Java
• Very good knowledge of Core Java and J2EE and should have worked on high availability, low latency platforms.
• Ability to question status quo and identify bad design/code patterns which can impact performance and maintainability of the code.
• Excellent understanding of system design and design patterns.
• Previous experience with the Agile methodology.
• Experience in developing robust RESTful services is desirable.
• Have very good communication skills
• Have strong experience in the Spring framework.
• Good experience in SQL/Oracle
• BS degree in computer science or related fields. MS degree desired