Django Developer

Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices

Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)

Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D

Mandatory (Education) – Candidates from Tier - 1 engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, are highly preferred)

Job title - Python developer

Exp – 4 to 6 years

Location – Pune/Mum/B’lore

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Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Python Developer
• Strong knowledge of core Python and Pyspark concepts
• Experience with web frameworks such as Django or Flask
• Good exposure to any cloud platform (GCP Preferred)
• CI/CD exposure required
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and how to build them
• Experience working with databases like Oracle DB and MySQL
• Ability to write efficient SQL queries and optimize database performance
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong SQL programing (stored procedure, functions)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skill

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes using pyspark
• Work closely with data scientists and analysts to provide them with clean, structured data.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval for performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather data requirements.
• Ensure data quality and integrity through data validation and cleansing processes.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data-related issues to ensure data pipeline reliability.
• Stay up to date with industry best practices and emerging technologies in data engineering.

• Drive development and delivery of top notch technology solutions to clients efficiently.
• Lead development of implementation plan, logic and modules to embed in client solutions and client discussion ready documents /presentations.
• Lead in designing, implementing, maintaining and updating applications that are often high-volume and low-latency, required for mission critical systems.
• Lead in refining and improving system stability by continuously refactoring and measuring performance.
• Drive development of actionable, clean, maintainable, testable, reusable, extensible codes, including standardization and automation of processes.
• Provide technical and functional guidance to team members through expert knowledge and hands-on support.
• Manage projects, resource utilization, time schedules and deliveries to clients.
• Proactively drive discussions with stakeholders to understand their business requirements, business context and guide team to provide robust actional solutions.
• Effectively engage with stakeholders – create and nurture and deepen relationships. 
• Ensure positive & creative work-environment, culture of collaborations, speak-up, high level of energy & enthusiasm, curiosity to learn and continuous improvement.
• Inspire, engage, motivate and provide constructive feedback to team members to develop their technical & soft skills and fully support their development aspirations.
• Drive researching and conceptualizing solution approaches, new techniques or solution frameworks and author high quality discussion papers.

Qualifications, Skills and Experiences

• BE / BTech / ME / M Tech in engineering or MCA or similar relevant field.
• 2 to 17 years (Junior, Intermediate, Senior Role & we have multiple openings)of relevant hands-on experience and excellent knowledge of Java, Python, SQL, Relational Databases, DB schema or ORM technologies.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of building applications, platforms and services in Java, Python and MS SQL or at least two of them.
• 5 + years of experience of managing projects, team and stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience of agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment and make quality decisions in moderately to high ambiguous work environment.
• Previous work experience in financial services, especially, capital markets is preferred.

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.

About Our Client

It is a last-mile tech-logistics solution provider for intra-state deliveries based in Bangalore. It offers reliable, affordable, and professional services, structured to serve enterprises.

Our Client aggregates light commercial vehicles for urban logistics and has onboarded 55,000+ truckers on its platform across 14 cities. Our Client works across industry sectors like organized retail, FMCG and e-commerce, distribution and 3PL companies. Some of its clients include Amazon, Flipkart, Bisleri, Vishal Mega Mart, Future Supply Chain, Coca-Cola, Delhivery, and Udaan.

The company offers customized logistics solutions for clients, along with other value-added services such as screened drivers, audited and GPS-enabled vehicles, point-to-point billing, status updates, 24x7 service, and greater efficiency, all at transparent and economical pricing.

Our Client, as a brand, is known as one of the market leaders in the enterprise segment, and first movers to identify and empathize with the underserved urban trucker community, playing a huge role in making them a part of the mainstream economy. This series-B funded tech-logistics company aims to disrupt the primitive $35bn+ urban-logistics industry by leveraging technology and help enterprises to reach consumers faster.

Our Client is India's largest enterprise urban-logistics provider in India, with 55,000+ Light Commercial Vehicles on its platform.

Why Our Client?

1) Young Startup growing and well funded.

What will I do?

- Designing user flows and converting them into logical entities in the code.

- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

- Designing Database schemas.

- Building reusable code and libraries for future use

- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability

- Implementation of security and data protection

- Design and implementation of data storage solutions

What skills should I have?

- 3+ years of experience in Backend Development.
- Language: NodeJs
- Additional knowledge of Python will be a plus
- Understanding of microservices architecture.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes

- Data migration, transformation, and scripting

- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

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.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development and unit testing of web applications including back-end (microservices), maintenance & level 3 support of the same
• Assist Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Tech Lead in project planning (provide estimates, risk analysis, requirements analysis, technical options)
• Software Architecture
• Involvement in full life cycle of projects (including requirement analysis and system design, development and support if required)
• Support and work collaboratively with teams across areas of design, development, quality assurance and operations
• Commit your knowledge and experience into team success
• A small amount of travel (when needed) to work with other offices
• Attend meetings to discuss and demonstrate solutions at both technical and business level

 REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                                                                                                           

• 5+ years web application development experience
• 3+ years developing with Python
• 3+ years developing with C# and .NET Framework 4.x
• Experience with ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebAPI 2, LINQ, and WCF
• Dependency Injection and other common ASP.NET MVC design patterns
• Experience with API design and development using REST
• Experience with performance optimization
• Experience integrating security best practices into the SDLC
• Experience with object-oriented programming (OOP) and OOP patterns
• Experience with Git
• 1+ years of Agile development experience
• Experience manipulating and working with data in a variety of forms: csv, xml, json, structured and unstructured                                                                                                
• Experience with SQL database schema design and querying. Microsoft SQL Server and PostGreSQL are used and preferred.

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                                           

• Knowledge of JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, or BitBucket is a plus.
• Experience with a JavaScript MVVM library such as Web Components, knockout.js, Angular, React, etc. is a plus (Web Components and knockout.js are used and preferred)
• Experience with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/ and AJAX is a plus
• SPA (Single Page Application) design and implementation is a plus
• Experience with any ORM such as Entity Framework or NHibernate is a plus (NHibernate is preferred)
• Experience with TypeScript is a plus
• Experience with MS Build is a plus
• Experience with CI/CD is a plus
• Experience with Object Mapping Frameworks (AutoMapper, etc) is a plus
• Understanding of OOD, DDD and TDD is a plus
• AWS-based development is a plus
• Knowledge of Flask is a plus.

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Clever personality
• Strong spirit skills set: conflict resistant, self -motivated, result-oriented, responsible, honest, “open”, courageous

Job Description-

Backend Developer- Senior

Experience - 3-6 years

Location: Pune/Kota

Minimum Qualifications:

- BE/B.Tech or ME/M.Tech in Computer Science.

- Must have “Can Do Attitude” towards work

- Must have work exp of 3-6 years

- Must have programming exp of 1-2 years in any of Python/Golang/Java languages

- Must have worked in product based company

- Ready to work in a startup and adaptable to a dynamic environment

- Ready to accept ad-hoc requirements and track them till they get implemented

- Ready to learn new technologies like Andriod, Angular, etc.

- Good at HTTP basics, OOPs concepts, data structures, algorithms, networking and

security aspects

- Ability to write clean code and maintain it

- Good at SQL/No-SQL databases

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in any good product based startup

- Experience in working with the team and managing a small team of 2-5 associates

- Experience in being a mentor for co-developers

- Experience in design/developing scalable systems.

- Experience in public cloud platforms services/APIs of AWS, Google Cloud, etc.

- Experience in data engineering

- Experience in SOA/Microservice architecture development

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop scalable services and APIs in Python/Golang

- Always maintain the services secure

- Should optimize APIs for mobile data and apps

- Use off-the-shelf and state-of-the-art services for faster development of product

- Guide team members with designs

- Take the end to end ownership of features and resolve customer issues on priority

- Mentor/guide/monitor junior developer

- Expertise Android/Angular to the required extent and guide app developers while

designing APIs

Opportunities in the role:

- LearnAngular, Python, Node.js, Golang, ELK stack, MEAN/MERN

- Work on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

- Work on databases like RDS, MongoDB, Big Table & DynamoDB, Redis, Aerospike

- Experience with SQL/ NoSQL Databases (RDS, DynamoDB, Google Datastore, Redis)

- Experience with ELK stack.

- Fast prototyping of proof-of concept features/application based on a brief

- Work on data engineering