Backend SDE

Python Backend Developer (5+ years experience)

We are seeking an experienced Python Backend Developer with at least 5 years of hands-on experience in Python and Django development. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in MySQL and MongoDB databases, as well as knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks, and cloud technologies like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable, high-performance Python applications using the Django framework
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Optimize database queries and schema design for improved performance
• Integrate applications with various APIs and third-party services
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes
• Continuously learn and stay updated with the latest technologies and best practices

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
• 5+ years of professional experience in Python and Django development
• Proficient in MySQL and MongoDB databases, with the ability to write complex queries and optimize database performance
• Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, and at least one JavaScript framework (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is preferred
• Strong problem-solving and algorithmic skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Passion for continuous learning and innovation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in developing and deploying applications on cloud platforms
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes added advantages

Senior Java Backend Engineer

Experience: 6-8 Years 

Location: Pune / Bangalore

Type: Full-time

Tech Stack: Java, AWS, Spring boot, Postgres, NO/SQL 

About Digit88

Digit88 empowers digital transformation for innovative and high growth B2B and B2C SaaS companies as their trusted offshore software product engineering partner!

We are a lean mid-stage software company, with a team of 75+ fantastic technologists, backed by executives with deep understanding of and extensive experience in consumer and enterprise product development across large corporations and startups. We build highly efficient and effective engineering teams that solve real and complex problems for our partners.

With more than 50+ years of collective experience in areas ranging from B2B and B2C SaaS, web and mobile apps, e-commerce platforms and solutions, custom enterprise SaaS platforms and domains spread across Conversational AI, Chatbots, IoT, Health-tech, ESG/Energy Analytics, Data Engineering, the founding team thrives in a fast paced and challenging environment that allows us to showcase our best.

The Vision: To be the most trusted technology partner to innovative software product companies world-wide

The Opportunity

Digit88 is expanding the extended software product engineering team for its partner, a US-based Energy Analytics SaaS platform company. Our partner is building a suite of cloud-based business operation support platforms in the Utilities Rate Lifecycle space in the Energy sector/domain. This is a bleeding edge AI and Big Data platform that helps large energy utility companies in the US plan, manage, review and optimize their new product and rate design, billing, rate analysis, forecasting, and CRM. The candidate would be joining an existing team of product engineers in the US, China and Pune/India and help us establish an extended product engineering team at Digit88.

Job Profile

Digit88 is looking for a Sr Java Engineer with excellent hands-on experience in Java, AWS, and Springboot experience. You will be designing solutions around large enterprise and distributed systems. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and architects on a wide range of problems, bringing technical direction, architecture and design decisions, solving technical problems ultimately enabling the product team to build, develop and improve products that will revolutionize the energy industry.

To be successful in this role, you should possess

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 6-8 years hands-on experience with Java based technologies.
• Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems
• Practical experience with MySQL and/or NoSQL databases like Postgres, Cassandra
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues
• Experience in building high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
• Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, Splunk, Kibana 
• Prior experience in building solutions in AWS, using managed services.
• Experience with Kafka is a definite plus
• Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems, strong problem solving skills
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for presenting findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Possess strong organizational and time management skills, with attention to detail.
• Good understanding in CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant 
• Experience with Kubernetes

Roles and responsibilities

• Develop Java solutions on AWS with Springboot, microservices.
• Work closely with the US and India engineering teams to help build the Java/Spring based backend and REST APIs. 
• Technical excellence and ownership of critical modules; own the development of new modules and features 
• Troubleshoot live production server issues 
• Able to work as a part of a team, be able to contribute independently and drive the team to exceptional contributions with minimal team supervision
• Perform Unit Testing and Integration testing in a Continuous Deployment scenario 
• Follow Agile methodology, JIRA for work planning, issue management/tracking 
• Bring Technical direction, design considerations and decisions as part of solutioning

Good to have/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the utility or energy industries.
• Experience working with a start-up.

Additional Project/Soft Skills:

• Should be able to work independently with India & US based team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.
• Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.
• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.
• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.

Benefits/Culture @ Digit88:

• Comprehensive Insurance (Life, Health, Accident)
• Flexible Work Model
• Accelerated learning & non-linear growth
• Flat organization structure driven by ownership and accountability.
• Global Peers - Working with some of the best engineers/professionals globally from the likes of Apple, Amazon, IBM Research, Adobe and other innovative product companies
• Ability to make a global impact with your work, leading innovations in Conversational AI, Tele-Medicine, Healthcare and more.

You will work with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits to their credit. The learning will be immense just as will the challenges.

This is the right time to join us and partner in our growth!

Responsibilities:

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate scalable software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Design, develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Develop web applications implementing MVT architecture using Django web application frameworks
• Write effective APIs using industry standard design patterns
• Manage the complete software development process from conception to deployment
• Maintaining and upgrading the software following deployment
• Should be able to visualize a proposed system and be able to build it
• Development of applications leveraging Django/Flask based REST APIs

• Work with server-side technologies including databases and MVC/MVT patterns
• Maintain version control system such as GIT
• Should know all the phases of SDLC from requirement gathering to support and maintenance.

Requirements:

• 3-7 years provable experience as a Back End Developer
• Familiarity with common solution stacks 
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures and system design, for scale, performance and security
• Ability to develop back-end website applications
• Knowledge of middleware languages (Python – Flask/Django) and/or JavaScript framework like Node.js
• Familiarity with databases (RDBMS – MySQL/PostgreSQL, optionally NoSQL DBs like MongoDB), web servers (Apache) and UI/UX design
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field

• Manage and improve the engineering process continuously and make sure the team delivers the quality code with zero-waste.
• Should provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 5-8 top-notch engineers.
• Should do sprint planning and run daily stand-ups and deliver 100% hit rate.
• Maintain the legacy code base and reduce tech debt on a continuous basis.
• Able to handle multiple projects and deliver with stringent timelines without compromising the code quality.
• Work with the product team for roadmap planning and delivery as per the plan.
• Conduct sprint planning & sizing, engineering grooming, daily stand-ups, and deliver with zero spillovers.
• Prepare & publish sprint reports to the leadership team and provide visibility to stakeholders.
• Hire and mentor junior/ senior team and make them engineering champions.
• Mentor the engineering team with your technical skills to write scalable, generic, reusable code.
• Develop and Coach engineers on the team, share engineering pointers, conduct regular 1-1s with the team, and help them advance in their careers.

Requirements

• Having work experience in a Product organization with 7 -10 yrs also in leading a cross-functional engineering team that includes API Development and Backend & Middleware development.
• Should have experience in the continuous delivery process. Ship new features and improvising the code base continuously.
• Should have involved in setting up engineering process.
• Must have experience in microservices and distributed patterns.
• Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
• Must have prior experience in handling mid to large-size projects.
• Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
• Should have managed and lead the engineering team of Web App and Backend development teams.
• Must-Have Experience in Python programming & Postgressql/ Nosql (MongoDB as a data store.
• Must have experience in modern back-end tech stacks (Django, Postgress, NoSQL) and cloud design & deployment patterns.
• Must be conversant with AWS, Docker/Kubernetes
• Should be good with design patterns and integration patterns.
• Should have knowledge/ experience in concurrent programming & distributed locks.
• Requires solid understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.
• Should have handled multiple epics, themes, and experience of delivering high-quality projects on time.
• Should have managed end to end development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.

Your core responsibilities:

• Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
• Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
• Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
• Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
• Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
• Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
• Good in Database schema design.
• Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
• Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
• Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
• Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.

Whom you will be sharing your work day with? 

• We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

• At least 4 years of experience programming in Python.
• Develop application code and modules for business and technical requirements.
• Tune up design for maintainability, scalability and efficiency.
• Resolve and troubleshoot problems and complex issues.
• Perform unit tests and fix bugs.
• Integrate best qualitative practices in design and development aspects of programs.
• Ability to mentor subordinates.
• Excellent communication skills.