Django Developer

About us:

Optimo Capital is a newly established NBFC founded by Prashant Pitti, who is also a co-founder of EaseMyTrip (a billion-dollar listed startup that grew profitably without any funding).

Our mission is to serve the underserved MSME businesses in India with their credit needs. With less than 15% of MSMEs having access to formal credit, we aim to bridge this credit gap by employing a phygital model (physical branches + digital decision-making).

As a technology and data-first company, tech and data enthusiasts play a crucial role in building the infrastructure at Optimo, and help the company thrive.

What we offer:

Join our dynamic startup team as a Full Stack Developer and play a crucial role in web application & API developments, customer journeys, tech integrations, building robust credit risk and underwriting decision engines, cloud infrastructure, and more.

This is an exceptional opportunity to learn, grow, and make a significant impact in a fast-paced startup environment. We believe that the freedom and accountability to make decisions in technology, software, system architecture, and other design aspects bring out the best in you and help us build the best for the company.

This environment will not only offer you a steep learning curve but also allow you to experience the direct impact of your technological contributions. In addition, we offer industry-standard compensation.

What we look for:

We are looking for individuals with strong proficiency in Python, React, and Django. Any experience in a startup, front-end/back-end development, tech-integrations, or open-source contributions will be highly valued.

We focus not only on your skills but also on your attitude and your hunger to learn, grow, lead, and thrive—both as an individual and as part of a team. We encourage taking on challenges, learning new technologies, understanding, building, and implementing them within a short period of time. Your willingness to put in the extra effort to build the best systems will be highly appreciated.

Skills:

Excellent proficiency with the ability to write clean, robust, production-level code. Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining web apps and rule engines is required. At least one year of experience as a developer in any engineering / software-based role is required.

1 Frontend Development

• JavaScript: Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including ES6+ features
• React: Experience building complex user interfaces using React and its ecosystem (e.g., Redux, Context API)
• HTML/CSS: Solid understanding of HTML5 and CSS3 for creating responsive and accessible web pages

2 Backend Development

• Python: Proficiency in Python for server-side development
• Django: Working knowledge in Django, Django Rest Framework
• Flask (or FastAPI): Experience building RESTful APIs using Flask or FastAPI is a plus

3 REST APIs: A strong understanding of APIs is required, along with prior experience in API development or integration. Writing REST APIs from scratch is highly desirable.

4 Databases: A basic understanding of both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB) databases is required. Basic knowledge of database management, optimization, and query design is expected.

5 Git: Proficiency in Git is essential, with experience in branching, merging, pull requests, and conflict resolution. Experience in collaborative projects using Git is highly valued.

6 AI & LLMs: A keen eye on recent developments in AI (GenAI), with the ability to leverage AI-driven solutions in full-stack development. Strong desire to explore how AI and LLMs can accelerate the creation of innovative products, enhancing speed, efficiency, and overall productivity.

7 Good to have: 

• Basic understanding of data pipelines/ETLs, dashboarding, and AWS is beneficial but not required.
• Experience in building WhatsApp chat/flow journeys, Working with maps, and creating data layers (e.g., Google Maps API, Mapbox) is highly valued. (not mandatory)

What you'll be working on:

1. Design and build systems focused on creating straight-through processes for lending (specifically property loans), from customer onboarding to disbursement, with an emphasis on accurate and efficient credit and risk assessment.
2. Take projects from ideation to production, including web applications, rule engines, third-party API integrations, and other technology developments.
3. Take initiative and ownership of engineering projects, ensuring a seamless user experience.
4. Manage and coordinate the cloud infrastructure and application setup, including source code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, servers, and deployments.

Other Requirements:

1. Availability for full-time work in Bangalore. Advantage for immediate joiners.
2. Strong passion for technology and problem-solving.
3. Ability to translate requirements into intuitive interfaces is highly appreciated 
4. At least 1 year of industry experience in a technical role specifically as a developer is a must.
5. Self-motivated and capable of working both independently and collaboratively.

If you are ready to embark on an exciting journey of growth, learning, and innovation, apply now to join our pioneering team in Bangalore.

Candidates with less than 6 years of experience in Development are kindly requested not to apply.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Engineer to lead our small but talented dev team and take ownership of our architecture and infrastructure. This role is a blend of hands-on technical leadership and strategic planning, critical to our product’s growth and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead and manage the technology  along with a small and driven development team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Architecture Ownership: Design, review, and evolve the architecture for scalable and robust microservices and micro-products.
• Infrastructure Management: Oversee AWS and GCP environments, ensuring secure, cost-effective, and efficient operations.
• AI Integration: Collaborate with AI specialists to integrate fine-tuned models into our ecosystem seamlessly.
• DevOps Excellence: Establish CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting systems to support rapid development and reliable deployments.
• Code Quality: Set and enforce high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with product and business teams to align technical decisions with company goals.
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Requirements

• Experience: 6+ years in software development with strong backend and frontend expertise (Python, React preferred).
• Architecture Skills: Proven experience designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems.
• Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS and GCP services, cost optimization, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• DevOps Knowledge: Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and related tools.
• Leadership: Experience leading and mentoring small teams, driving projects to completion.
• AI Familiarity: Understanding of AI/ML model integration in production systems is a plus.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
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What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape the future of accessibility technology.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Competitive compensation and equity options.
• Remote work flexibility.
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Join us in making the web more inclusive and accessible!

Our Tech Stack: React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS

https://www.onedigitaltrust.com/">OneDigitalTrust, Inc. is a B2B2C software startup disrupting the traditional estate planning & wellness industry to serve all adult Americans, but especially those that usually cannot afford the traditional methods to protect themselves and their loved ones. 

We are currently recruiting a Sr. Full Stack Engineer to add to our team.

We are looking for a self-motivated, goal-driven individual to help advance their experience and learn from a collaborative environment and help take our company to the next level.

Our platform is an enterprise white-label configurable platform with comprehensive capabilities that sells itself. Our biggest goals are to continue to enhance the capabilities of the platform to meet the needs of the users.

The following would be your responsibilities:

• Assuming full-stack technical delivery of the Company’s SaaS platform under the direction of the CTO; supporting the architecture and development of the product platform;

• Supporting the policies, and procedures of Company’s platform security to adhere to industry­ standards and as may be requested in case of security audit requests;

• Helping in the creating/management of the Development, Testing (QA) and Production architecture, standards processes and procedures for the product/platform;

• Helping improve the technical team's processes as per our retrospective learnings and best practices;

• Estimating bug/feature implementation tasks to help with sprint/release planning

• Experience with creating, and maintaining third-party integration partner's technical relationships and APIs integration; including handling issues, version changes, and impacts to the platform;

• Delivering and Maintaining our continuously enhanced ODT product platform;

• Helping ensure the regular release, enhancement, maintenance and operation of the ODT DEV/TEST/PROD infrastructure and environment and uptime;
• Providing key inputs into the definition of the platform’s evolution from both a requirements and technical implementation and maintenance perspective; and

• Supporting Company business development and marketing activities to promote the sale and after-sale support to prospects and customers.

The following describes the type of person we are seeking:

Experience: 

• Strong TDD mindset for automated testing, and experience with lean/agile development methodologies in a startup environment

• Experience with maintenance of CI/CD based software delivery

• Ability to get up to speed quickly on the existing code base

• Having an architectural mindset and identify where maintain and enhance systems, but also know when we can refactor components

• Have a structured / process-oriented way of thinking and are able to build new features and models that will last through significant business scaling

• Can understand business needs and ability to maintain high-value product to optimize for the best user experience.

• Bonus points for heavy test automation experience and front-end/UI experience with Storybook

What We Offer:

Competitive salary

Startup culture with a strong team-centric environment. We work hard and have fun.

Independence to work autonomously. We care about results. The opportunity to learn & master the art of agile software delivery and automated testing. We invest heavily in the development of our team members.

We are hiring Full Stack Developers who are passionate, self-driven and capable of working in both frontend and backend technologies. They will work closely with our product team in building features and applications to directly benefit the product's growth.

We have a ton of interesting problems to solve. You will be surrounded by hard-working and smart developers who share the same goals as yours.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the complete software development process from conception to deployment
• Developing and managing well-functioning databases and applications.
• Modifying and testing changes to previously developed program
• Working effectively in collaboration with other teams /partners in Scaled Agile Framework and other support functions when required with a continuous focus on improving applications.
• Ensuring quality delivery of the code to UAT and production environments with complete ownership.
• Working towards improving code quality standardization.
• Maintaining and upgrading the software following deployment
• Managing the end-to-end life cycle for the production of software and applications
• Overseeing and guiding the analyzing, writing, building, and deployment of software
• Overseeing the automated testing and providing feedback to management during the development process
• Being creative in using tools and third-party services to deliver the code faster

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in Python in the backend
• Experience in web frameworks like Django
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS and Javascript front-end frameworks such as React, Vue or such
• Experience with Postgres, SQLite
• Experience with Version Control Systems like Git 
• Sound knowledge of Software engineering best practices
• Sound knowledge in RestFul API Design
• Good knowledge of database concepts
• Good understanding of incorporating ML models in Python applications
• Strong communication skills
• Experience in maintaining production servers
• Experience with AWS / Digital Ocean / Heroku

About the platform: We are solving an interesting problem and changing the way healthcare businesses in the US communicate with their patients.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics or related discipline is NOT MANDATORY. Skills and passion to build products that people love are mandatory. :)
• Minimum 3 years of working experience.
• Firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Full-stack experience working with backend programming languages as we believe engineers can do anything and everything and so everyone at Emitrr works full-stack.
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (such as Express, StrongLoop, etc depending on your technology stack)
• Good understanding of React.js and its core principles with experience with working on popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Experience in building performant mobile apps in iOS or Android on react native is a plus

Job responsibility:

• Hire and mentor a team of high-calibre front-end and Backend engineers
• Design and develop new user-facing full-stack applications.
• Building reusable components and front-end, backend libraries for future use
• Optimizing pages for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Optimize Backend to high scale.

Skills and Experiences:

• 6+ years of experience in software development with minimum 1 year as a tech lead.
• Experience in NodeJS, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS.
• Deep understanding of at least one of React JS / Vue JS and its core principles
• Deep understanding of NodeJS.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as babel, webpack, npm
• Familiarity with at least one code versioning tools such as Git, SVN etc.
• Good understanding of quality JavaScript code (Object oriented and commonly used design patterns)
• Capable of debugging complex issues in JavaScript
• Experience in building complex single page applications with front end and backend.
• Experience with production full stack environment debugging and DevOps experience.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Hands on coding experience.

Good to have:

• Advanced knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive web development.
• Experience with writing unit test cases with JS frameworks.
• Experience with high scalable applications.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭?

You will be part of the founding team at LDU and will be responsible for the end-to-end technology of the company including:

- Formulate long-term technology & product strategy along with implementation roadmap, while envisioning the tech-stack required to scale the business 100X

- Architecting and engineering solutions across the entire technology stack including front-end, back-end, infrastructure, architecture, server-side engineering, UI, etc. in line with the company's strategy.

- Plan and collaborate with the other teams including marketing/ growth, customer success/ sales, design, operations, etc. to implement new product features, growth hacks/ initiatives identified through user interviews/ insights, etc in a timely manner.

- Build processes/mechanisms to track the KPIs across product/ technology and ensure religious execution of the targets

- Build and lead the technology team including the engineering team, product team, Quality Assurance, etc.

- Awesome work-culture (flexible work timings; no need to wear formals; awesome snacks to name a few)

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫?

We are looking to onboard a Senior Software Engineer, who has a founder's mindset including the following traits:

- Experience of full stack development across web & mobile based technologies and should have scaled a business 

- Ability to build scalable products/ platforms, fully redundant fault-tolerant infrastructure while working on modern technologies.

- Stronghold in both front-end & back-end development/ algorithms with experience of building agile, highly scalable, data-driven platforms from scratch

- Ability to be hands-on with coding across big data, mobile apps, AI & ML, analytics, DevOps, business intelligent solutions, etc. apart from strategically guiding/ mentoring the team

- Ability to manage end-to-end delivery of large-scale initiatives from concept, scope, planning, estimation, project management, and deployment.

- Stronghold in executing stuff on the ground and hustle around to “Get things done”

- Ability to think and see the big picture while focusing on short term goals and deliverables

- Leadership qualities to hire and build a kick-ass technology/ product team going forward

- Experience as a founder/ being part of founding team is huge plus but not mandatory

- Experience in the Fashion/ Apparel industry is a plus but not mandatory

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐋𝐃𝐔:

- LDU is has been selected as one of the top 17 startups (amongst 1200+ startups in South-East Asia) by Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the top VCs in the world. We are building India’s version of Stitch Fix – Personalized clothing (your size, your style) at Scale. We personalize the user experience by building a Designer layer for the user through technology. Also, we leverage technology to aggregate the highly unorganized and broken supply side of tailor-units/ boutiques/ small manufacturers etc.

- LDU is a pre-series A start-up and has closed two rounds of funding. We are backed by India's top VC and angels.

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- Full time role.

- Location: Gurgaon

- CTC : INR 24 Lacs (with hansome Esops/ Equity)

- Experience: Preferably 2-5 years