Backend Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior API Developer with expertise in Python to join our talented development team. The candidate should have over 8 years of hands-on experience in designing and developing APIs, with a strong emphasis on performance and scalability. Proficiency with Swagger/OpenAPI specifications is required. This role is pivotal to our mission of delivering top-tier solutions that power our core business functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• API Development: Design, develop, and maintain high-quality APIs using Python frameworks such as Django Rest Framework or FastAPI.
• Documentation with Swagger/OpenAPI: Employ Swagger/OpenAPI tools to produce clear and thorough API documentation.
• Integration: Implement and manage integrations between APIs and various internal and external services.
• Optimize Performance: Monitor and enhance the performance of APIs to ensure fast response times and low latency.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with other developers, product owners, and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver optimal solutions.
• Code Quality: Uphold best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment. Participate in peer code reviews.
• Debugging and Support: Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments.
• Continuous Learning: Stay informed about emerging technologies and methodologies in Python and API development.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Experience: At least 8 years of professional experience in API development with a focus on Python.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in Python programming language.
• Strong experience with API design, development, and RESTful services.
• Expertise with Swagger/OpenAPI specifications.
• Familiarity with Python frameworks like Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Experience with ORMs such as SQLAlchemy or Django ORM.
• Knowledge of version control systems, particularly Git.
• Experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a team and across departments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Compensation: Reflective of your experience and the value you bring.
• Growth Opportunities: Support for professional development, training, and certifications.
• Flexible Work Environment: Remote work options and flexible hours to promote work-life balance.

Who we are looking for

A candidate who can design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.

Key Role Requirements:

• Experience in Java-J2EE Development
• Hands-on experience in Struts (Core Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB) framework.
• Hands-on experience in Oracle SQL, Procedures
• Hands-on experience in Spring boot, Spring batch
• Should have worked on application servers like IBM WAS / Jboss / Web logic.
• Knowledge of basic Linux commands and BIRT reporting tool is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in SVN or any other version control is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in Build tool like ANT, Maven is an added advantage
• Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities.

Title: 

Node Js Developer

Ideal candidates will have 1-3 years of experience  in Node JS and AWS.

Responsibilities: 

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Node JS code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems, Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Triage and resolve complex + systemic issues reported on existing production systems
• Communicate effectively with  product owners, and development team members to facilitate understanding of deliverables, estimates, and prioritization
• Contribute to production deployments, including documentation of technical specifications and release notes
• Designs and develops quality software that conforms to department standards and code style
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code, create automated test cases following TDD/BDD best practices
• Maintain and enhance existing NodeJS codebase.
• Organize an agile development process that facilitates collaboration, provides transparency, empowers the project team, surfaces and resolves impediments,delivers high-quality software, focuses on delivering business value, and continuously looks to improve.
• Take on a championship role in on-time, high-quality delivery of products through the entire application lifecycle.

What will you work on?

• Architecting clever technical solutions
• Hands-on development using NodeJS and other Javascript frameworks
• Recommend technical frameworks and tech stacks
• Define REST, or GraphQL APIs, document APIs and develop the API handlers
• Design and develop with serverless and scalable systems
• Integrate with 3rd party systems
• Create architectural solution prototypes
• Lead the team, code reviews, and problem-solving

What Makes You A Great Fit?

• 1+ years of software experience with Node JS, Javascript frameworks related to webstack
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Experience with use of serverless functions from AWS
• Experience with architecture of technology systems having hands-on expertise in backend and cloud systems ( AWS, GCP)
• Expertise with NoSQL databases (Mongo, ElasticSearch, Redis) including design of schemas and development for these databases
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in Microservice architecture and development including REST-based APIs.
• Highly collaborative with an affinity for solving complex problems through dialogue with team members.
• Curious, always seeking the whys and hows in order to gain a deeper and more complete understanding of the business and technology.
• Comfortable with ambiguity can begin to explore and solve complex problems when the problem and solution are not well-defined.
• Ability to multitask, switching between various projects/tasks of different natures and complexity with ease
• Knowledge of git based workflows such as gitflow
• Experience with Python in addition to the core knowledge of Node JS is a plus
• Chatbot, Machine Learning, Data Science/Big Data experience will be a plus
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

Competencies & Behavior

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Implement design thinking for different strategieS
• Attention to detail and the ability to work to tight deadlines
• Strong experience in cloud server infrastructure
• Ability to work on complex applications, perform product analysis, development tasks of complex web
• Jumping on a call with clients to understand the requirement and profile them the right solution, helping formulate an effective solution and turning it into a working application
• Conducting website performance and unit tests
• Heavy involvement in the requirements gathering, development and operational stages of new projects
• Troubleshoot and debug related application defects with existing and new applications
• Work collaboratively with the team members and train them as and when required.

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

Responsibilities: 

• Design and code efficient, scalable systems that can accept feedback from multiple hundred thousand employees and generate insights 
• Design efficient and scalable event driven systems to process complex machine learning pipeline
• Experiment with data to come up with unique insights and that can benefit our clients
• Identify libraries and technologies worth experimentation
• Participate in brainstorming sessions to bring more value to our clients
• Investigate performance issues / scalability bottlenecks, existing queries and/or write new queries with performance optimization in mind
• Develop RESTful APIs that can be used by frontend to show insights
• Debug and fix production level bugs as and when they crop up
• Support ad hoc data analytics upon requests by clients, and believe us nothing creates a better DB understanding than handling ad hoc data requests 

Requirements: 

• 3+ years of experience in architecture and developing high performance web applications 
• Experience with systems ingesting/processing high amounts of data is a plus 
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database 
• Working knowledge of RESTful API paradigms  
• Experienced in microservices architecture  
• Solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Passion for products, empathy for users, and aspiration to make a big impact
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We are looking for a Staff Engineer who is an expert in Javascript (Node.js). We are looking for engineers who work like owners as you will be tasked with leading the development of one of our 5 major components of the Hatica platform. You will work with experienced engineers and on a modern cloud-native stack built using Javascript (React and Node) and Golang with an in-house real-time data analytics engine on Postgres and Elasticsearch among others.

Experience - 3 - 7 years
Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our backend microservices powering the core of our software platform
• Help your fellow DevOps and junior engineers working on our cloud infrastructure and other components of our product to ensure high code quality and robust architecture.
• Work with your team members to maintain high uptime and reliability of our core backend and APIs

Requirements and Qualifications

• BE/BTech in Computer Science or Engineering
• Minimum of 4 years of experience with backend development
• 3 years of experience with Node.js
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Understanding of GraphQL
• Ability to write and maintain high quality code
• Understanding of web coding patterns
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture
• Understanding of AWS and cloud-native technologies is highly preferred

Benefits

• Work with the best and brightest on a global cutting-edge SaaS product
• Performance oriented culture built on fairness and inclusivity
• Competitive Compensation
• Flexible work hours
• Fully remote team, work from anywhere

Job Type: Full-time

5 years of architecture, design and programming experience preferably in fast-paced dynamic environment

Strong application design and implementation skills, solid understanding of the entire development cycle.

Strong background in Java/J2EE based application

Strong background in Spring/Spring boot based application

Strong background in Microservices based application

Experience working with Apache and/or Tomcat

Experience in transforming requirements to software design

Strong Experience with developing Java SAAS web applications.

Working experience in Industry Standard protocols related API Security including OAuth

Demonstrate strong design and programming skills using JSON, Web Services, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL in Unix and Windows environments.

Strong background working with Linux/UNIX environments.

Strong Shell scripting experience.

Working knowledge with Oracle, DB2 or MongoDB databases.

 Passion to stay on top of the latest happenings in the tech world and an attitude to discuss and bring those into play.  Strong agile/scrum development experience

 Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams

 Excellent written and verbal communication skills