Backend Team Lead

We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our passionate team. If you have a strong background in backend development, a track record of delivering scalable and reliable solutions, and are eager to contribute to complex projects, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop robust, high-performance backend solutions using Python and related technologies.
• Lead the architecture and design discussions for major backend components and services.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze software requirements.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical growth.
• Review code and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and technical issues.
• Participate in sprint planning, task estimation, and agile development processes.
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our backend systems.
• Drive the adoption of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong proficiency in Python and backend frameworks like Django and Flask.
• In-depth knowledge of database systems, both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, etc. ).
• Proven track record of designing and developing scalable and maintainable backend services.
• Experience with RESTful API design and best practices.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, design principles, and software development lifecycle.
• Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers is a strong plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards challenges.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker) is a plus.

Job Responsibilities:

● Design, test, and build scalable backend python services

● Closely collaborate with marketing and product teams to build innovative, robust, and easy-to-use features that serve.

● Developing high-quality code based on detailed designs that cater to the product requirements.

● Responsible for troubleshooting, testing, and maintaining the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

Required Skills:

● Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.

● Minimum 3+ years experience in software development.

● Expertise in Python 3.7, Django 2.2+, and REST APIs.

● Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment

● Hands-on, self-starter, capable of working independently

● True love for technology and what you do

● Maniacal attention to detail

What kind of work will you get?

We are looking for a Nodejs developer.

Examples of technical tasks:

Working on our backend SDK to implement APIs that will be consumed by the frontend widgets

Designing APIs for different auth recipes

Architecting auth flows

You will also be given non technical tasks like product brain storming, competitor analysis and writing documentation.

Note: Compensation is as per the applicant's geography

Requirements

Well versed in nodejs with 2+ years of professional experience

Familiar with and comfortable working with Web frameworks like FastAPI, Django and Flask

Familiar with HTTP networking in nodejs

Strong understanding of async and sync modes in nodejs

Bonus:

Contributed to open source, or have your own open source repo with a community and many github stars

Built an in-house authentication or authorization solution or worked with solutions such as Keycloak, Auth0, Ory, Okta etc

Certa (getcerta.com) is a Silicon Valley-based tech product start-up that is automating the vendor, supplier, and other stakeholder onboarding processes (think background checks, agreements, and the works) for companies across industries and geographies. With multiple Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 clients, at Certa's tech team, you will be working on stuff that is changing the way huge companies do business.

We recently raised Series A: https://www.businessinsider.com/certa-no-code-startup-raises-15-million-to-speed-procurement-2022-3" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/certa-no-code-startup-raises-15-million-to-speed-procurement-2022-3

The ideal candidate demonstrates the following:

• Ability to build modular features and implement systems/features based on requirements
• Own specific features/modules and handle their development from scratch
• Experience with Python
• Experience in building web applications and services using Django
• Experience in creating REST APIs using Django Rest Framework
• Proficiency in a relational database such as PostgreSQL
• Experience in handling asynchronous tasks using Celery
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• Strong testing and debugging skills
• Experience in building solutions using ElasticSearch is a big plus
• Exposure to a NoSQL database such as MongoDB is a plus
• Hands-on exposure to AWS is a plus
• Understanding of data security, encryption is a plus
• Critical thinking and objective reasoning based
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-changing environment
• Results-oriented, proactive and showing overall leadership quality

We are ideally looking for 2+ years of experience, in as much of the tech stack as possible. If you love startups or have experience working with startups, we would be match made in tech heaven.

Perks:

• Best-in-class compensation
• Performance-based ESOPs
• Fully-remote work
• Flexible schedules
• Engineering-first culture
• Continuous learning
• Massive opportunities for growth
• Paid vacation
• Yearly offsite
• Quarterly hacker house
• Workstation setup allowance
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Maternity leaves
• Latest Apple Workstation
• Rockstar team to work with (we mean it!)
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Ventura Securities is establishing its fintech team - a remote-first, work from anywhere team with highly talented individuals who come from diverse backgrounds and looking to solve real client problems at scale. Ventura has been in the stockbroking business for 20+ years and it is a robust and profitable franchise with 1000+ employees currently. We are looking for passionate techies with skills primarily around AWS and Python who are aspiring for a fast-track career.

Your Key Responsibilities: 

1. Build out of the Ventura cloud-based backend platform from scratch

2. Ownership and monitoring of our D2C backend

3. Robust documentation skills and desire to share information with others

4. Desire and ability to prototype ideas quickly, and be willing to experiment and learn

Basic Requirements:

·  Very strong python, lambda, sql, general aws

· Clean coding skills around Python or Go and SQL

· Demonstratable experience around writing testable code, working with git, doing peer-level code review, daily standups, and generally championing software excellence

· What you get: 

1. Chance to build out a next-gen fintech product from ground 0

2. Opportunity to influence the design of the product

3. Flexible and work anywhere environment running out of Slack

Flat org structure

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

•   At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Should Have experience leading a team.
•   Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
•   Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
•   Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
•   Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.

Opportunity

Here are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

•   Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product.
•   Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs.
•   Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement backend infrastructure and APIs.

• Write high quality code that is robust, readable and scales.

• Possess the drive to dive deep. thrive and progress even in ambiguous situations.

• Encourage and support knowledge sharing within teams and external groups.

• Troubleshoot & debug applications.

• Adopt problem solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause.

• Collaborate with the team to discuss and implement ideas.

• Build responsive, robust and optimised applications.

Requirements:

• Passionate about building backend systems.

• Desire to explore new ideas, open to other ideas as well.

• Love for writing clean, beautiful, readable and testable code.

• Experience in designing extensible DRY code.

• Our stack is based on Django, Python3 Celery, Angular and Postgres.

• We expect you to have a good understanding of Python. It's even better if you are familiar with some of Git. Django, Celery, Redis and Unix Shell.

JD - Senior Dev with more than 5 years relevant experience

1. Working experience on web development using Python/Django
2. Comfortable with using Django framework.
3. Understanding of web servers
4. Knowledge in PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other database queries
5. Experience in using Redis cache.
6. Understanding of web technologies
7. Experience in REST API development using Django.
8. Strong hold on Apache
9. Integration of data storage solutions
10. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
11. Understanding of JavaScript, and front-end JS frameworks like VueJS, React JS and Angular JS
12. Good communication skill
13. .net/.NET core will be an added advantage