Big Data Lead

Job Title : Senior Python Developer – Product Engineering

Experience : 5 to 8 Years

Location : Pune, India (Hybrid – 3-4 days WFO, 1-2 days WFH)

Employment Type : Full-time

Commitment : Minimum 3 years (with end-of-term bonus)

Openings : 2 positions

• Junior : 3 to 5 Years
• Senior : 5 to 8 Years

Mandatory Skills : Python 3.x, REST APIs, multithreading, Celery, encryption (OpenSSL/cryptography.io), PostgreSQL/Redis, Docker/K8s, secure coding

Nice to Have : Experience with EFSS/DRM/DLP platforms, delta sync, file systems, LDAP/AD/SIEM integrations

🎯 Roles & Responsibilities :

• Design and develop backend services for DRM enforcement, file synchronization, and endpoint telemetry.
• Build scalable Python-based APIs interacting with file systems, agents, and enterprise infra.
• Implement encryption workflows, secure file handling, delta sync, and file versioning.
• Integrate with 3rd-party platforms: LDAP, AD, DLP, CASB, SIEM.
• Collaborate with DevOps to ensure high availability and performance of hybrid deployments.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and mentor junior developers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and continuously optimize performance.

✅ Required Skills :

• 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in Python 3.x development.
• Expertise in REST APIs, Celery, multithreading, and file I/O.
• Proficient in encryption libraries (OpenSSL, cryptography.io) and secure coding.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, and Linux internals.
• Strong command over Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Git workflows.
• Ability to write clean, testable, and scalable code in production environments.

➕ Preferred Skills :

• Background in DRM, EFSS, DLP, or enterprise security platforms.
• Familiarity with file diffing, watermarking, or agent-based tools.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (GDPR, DPDP, RBI-CSF) is a plus.

Job Title : Python Django Developer

Location : Gurgaon (On-site)

Work Mode : 6 Days a Week (Work from Office)

Experience Level : 3+ Years

About the Role :

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Python Django Developer to join our team in Gurgaon. This role requires a hands-on developer with expertise in building scalable web applications and APIs using Python and Django. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in relational databases, message brokers, and distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure web applications using Python and Django.
• Build and optimize back-end services, RESTful APIs, and integrations with third-party tools.
• Implement and maintain asynchronous task processing using Celery and RabbitMQ.
• Work with PostgreSQL to design and optimize database schemas and queries.
• Utilize Redis and Kafka for caching, data streaming, and other distributed system needs.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues across the application stack.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
• Ensure code quality through comprehensive testing, code reviews, and adherence to best practices.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Technical Expertise:

• Proficiency in Python and strong experience with Django framework.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL for database design and management.
• Familiarity with RabbitMQ, Celery, and Redis for asynchronous processing and caching.
• Experience with Kafka for building real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures.

Other Skills:

• Strong understanding of software development best practices and design patterns.
• Proficiency in writing efficient, reusable, and testable code.
• Good knowledge of Linux/Unix environments.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized deployments is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Good communication and teamwork abilities.
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in microservices architecture.
• Exposure to DevOps tools and practices.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies like React or Angular is a bonus.

What you will be doing

• Build and ship features in our Node.js (and now migrating to TypeScript) codebase that directly impact user experience and help move the top and bottom line of the business.
• Collaborate closely with our product, design and data team to build innovative features to deliver a world class product to our customers. At STAGE, product managers don’t “tell” what to build. In fact, we all collaborate on how to solve a problem for our customers and the business. Engineering plays a big part in it.
• Design scalable platforms that empower our product and marketing teams to rapidly experiment.
• Own the quality of our products by writing automated tests, reviewing code, making systems observable and resilient to failures.
• Drive code quality and pay down architectural debt by continuous analysis of our codebases and systems, and continuous refactoring.
• Architect our systems for faster iterations, releasability, scalability and high availability using practices like Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture and Observability.
• Set the engineering culture with the rest of the team by defining how we should work as a team, set standards for quality, and improve the speed of engineering execution.

The role could be ideal for you if you

• Experience of 4-6 years of working in backend engineering with at least 2 years of production experience in TypeScript, Express.js (or another popular framework like Nest.js) and MongoDB (or any popular database like MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Well versed with one or more architectures and design patterns such as MVC, Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture, etc.
• Experienced in writing automated tests (especially integration tests) and Continuous Integration. At STAGE, engineers own quality and hence, writing automated tests is crucial to the role.
• Experience with managing production infrastructure using technologies like public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.). Bonus: if you have experience in using Kubernetes.
• Experience in observability techniques like code instrumentation for metrics, tracing and logging.
• Care deeply about code quality, code reviews, software architecture (think about Object Oriented Programming, Clean Code, etc.), scalability and reliability. Bonus: if you have experience in this from your past roles.
• Understand the importance of shipping fast in a startup environment and constantly try to find ingenious ways to achieve the same.
• Collaborate well with everyone on the team. We communicate a lot and don’t hesitate to get quick feedback from other members on the team sooner than later.
• Can take ownership of goals and deliver them with high accountability.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking

Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Key Objectives/Responsibilities of this Role:

• Understand the UI needs, backend design and data design and create the backend code for the same
• Backend development in NodeJs 12 & above, ExpressJs, NestJs, RESTful web services, Docker, MongoDB, Azure AKS or Kubernetes
• Collaboration with other team members (Architect, UI, backend developers, DBA, Data analytics team) to work in coherence
• Working experience into Agile and scrum methodologies
• Manage SDEs and Interns to drive the deliverables

Mandatory Skillset & Tools: NodeJs 12 and above, ExpressJs, NestJs, Writing Unit Tests , Scheduler, Mongo DB, working knowledge in Kubernetes (AKS), GIT version control, Event driven design, Microservices, con-currency, RESTful web-services, Docker

Primary Skill: NodeJs 12 & above ExpressJs, NestJs, Microsoft development platform, Testing & Debugging skills, Postman, CI/CD pipeline, Docker, Docker hub, Writing UNIT tests

Secondary Skill: Load & performance testing, testing REST Web services, Basic shell commands, Linux, Good written, verbal and presentation skills, Soft spoken, Pro-active

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple teams
• Translate product’s strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development
• Analyze consumer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from an ROI
• Outline the product vision, product strategy, and product roadmap
• Assess current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate to-market plans
• Ensure that user story content and prioritization is aligned to the larger strategic objective
• Recommend the scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and appraising adjustments
• Provide information for management by preparing product sales forecasts and reports
• Meet regularly with key customer-facing teams to collect and analyze user feedback to shape new product ideas and user requirements.
• Help in the creation and maintenance of bona fide product documentation
• Work with development leads so that product requirements are understood and built accordingly
• Work within a software development methodology like AGILE
• Coordinate product releases with marketing, sales, and development teams
• Provide product training and technical expertise
• Work with the leadership team in planning the product roadmap.
• Be the product owner driving our strategic product and technology vision on the platform side of products 

Requirement:

• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Products Manager in a software company.
• Has deep knowledge of every stage of the product life-cycle -- introduction, growth, maturity, and decline -- and understands how it affects development adjustments.
• Critical thinker & problem solver
• Familiarity in the AGILE development framework will be preferable.
• Strong understanding of cutting-edge tools and technologies for frontend and backend development
• Data-oriented, have exceptional analytical skills
• Experience working with the development teams directly will be a plus
• Has the ability to set priorities and resolve issues and set realistic product development goals
• Should be able to communicate technical solutions to both internal and external audiences
• Understand industry flow and trends
• Has the ability to evaluate key metrics to optimize performance
• Demonstrated track record managing successful product development from feature definition to project deployment
• Work with product management analytics tools
• A people-friendly person with extraordinary organizational and leadership skills

Company Introduction (apna)

We are building a novel platform to create better economic opportunities for the blue/grey
workforce around the world. We are a very product focused and customer obsessed company. Delivering high quality products at lightning speed is our USP. If you are looking for challenging work and rapid merit based growth in your career, look no further and welcome aboard.

Checkout our product on Google Play store apna - Job Search App | Job Groups

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer responsible looking for engineering ownership of one/many products at apna. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end (Android + WebApp). A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.

Responsibilities
● Take ownership of end-to-end product development
● Be champion of Test Driven Development methodology
● Building reusable code and libraries for future use
● Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
● Implementation of security and data protection
● Technical Documentation around the owned product

Skills And Qualifications
● Expert level in OOPS concepts and REST API development
● Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Ruby, Go
● Knowledge around ElasticSearch, Celery, Redis is must
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
● Knowledge of GCP would be a plus

Perks
● Have autonomy to work from home. Only one rule: Get things Done!
● We promote and celebrate team members contributing at a variety of professional
conferences and events. Be a speaker, contribute to open sourcepublish academic
work, publish an online blog showing your expertise. we are here to encourage you!
● You join us in your current area of expertise and let us know about your personal
professional goals. Looking to start your company? Further studies at the best institutes?
Want to change career track? We make sure you reach there!
● Generous pool of ESOPs