Backend Python Developer

•Hands on experience in Object oriented programming

•Hands on experience in Java, SpringBoot (min 2 years) or kafka or Cassandra or MongoDB

•Experience with developing/enhancing applications connecting to different Databases : Oracle/MySQL/Cassandra/MongoDB

•Strong knowledge of common Data structures and algorithms and when to use them.

•Experience in Xpath or XML or REST or JSON or protobuff

• Experience with software version control (such as git)

•Experience in working in an agile environment such as Scrum.

Preferable:

•Experience in public cloud PaaS (AWS, GCP, Azure)

•Real time stream data handling (Kafka, Kinesis

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

We’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building web services to join our engineering team to help architect, build and run our growing list of products. You should have prior experience being responsible for building sufficiently complex products/services and mentoring software engineers.

Responsibilities: 

• Lead a team of engineers working on our product roadmap. You are expected to contribute to feature development with hands-on development tasks
• Oversee software architecture, source control workflows, and CI/CD processes and perform code reviews to ensure exceptional code quality
• Improve the development experience and the quality of the codebase. You will define and uphold best practices and coding standards for the team
• Responsible for architecture and design decisions
• Own stability and performance of the service that you work on
• Work with the Engineering Manager to ship stable software on time
• Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your area of expertise

Requirements: 

• 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role designing and building complex backend systems
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Excellent knowledge of best practices and coding patterns
• Deep knowledge of backend programming languages like Python and web application frameworks like Django
• Solid experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Proficiency with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform or Azure
• Extensive experience with Linux/UNIX production environments
• Strong sense of quality in terms of both program architecture and code style
• Passion to dig into technically complex problems to troubleshoot and figure out a solution
• Desire to continuously improve and ship the best quality product
• Pragmatic approach to make sure technical decisions align with actual business needs. 
• Good understanding of the trade-offs when building for product value, reliability, or performance
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to discuss and explain your point of view clearly and effectively
• An engineering degree is a must(B.E. CS preferred)

100ms is building a Platform-as-a-Service for developers integrating video-conferencing experiences into their apps. Our SDKs enable developers to add gold standard audio-video quality conferencing with much faster shipping times.

We are a team uniquely placed to work on this problem. We have built world-record scale live video infrastructure powering billions of live video minutes in a day. We are a remote-first global team with engineers who've built video teams at Facebook and Hotstar.

100ms' Platform-as-a-Service will reduce shipping live conferencing application time to days instead of months, allowing companies to focus on their core business.

We are looking for a few young software engineers to join our team, explore new technologies and solve cutting-edge technological problems.

Responsiblities:

As a software engineer(backend), you will be responsible for design, development and scalability of our backend platform. 

You will:

• Design and development of backend services
• Scalability, Reliability and Security of the applications
• End to end ownership of the features and modules
• Articulate complex architecture problems, drive engineering excellence and collaborate with a cross-functional team
• Help scale our platform to support billions of minutes a day across thousands devices around the world
• Share technical practices, build development teams, and improve workflows
• Contribute to open source as we set the standards for video conferencing
• Mentorship of other team members

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in (Computer Science/Information Technology) or equivalent practical experience
• At least 1-4 years of experience as Software Engineer/Developer
• Experience in building scalable applications
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, threading
• Experience in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics
• Proficient in Go or Python or any other server side programming language
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms

Good to have:

• Experience with video conferencing, Sockets, WebRTC, and realtime communication
• Experience with Video Streaming, HLS, Dash.
• Prior experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes
• Ability to take on complex and ambiguous problems
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically
• Strong inclination to keep up-to-date with latest trends, learn new concepts, or contribute to open-source projects and would be eager to talk about ideas in internal or external forums

Why 100ms:

• You'll be part of a small team at a fast-growing engineering-first startup
• You'll work with engineers across the globe with experience in video at places like Facebook and Hotstar
• You can grow as an individual contributor or as a team leader - freedom to set your own goals
• You'll work on problems at the cutting-edge of real-time video communication technology at massive scale