Django Developer

JOB TITLE/HEADLINE: Backend Developer - Python/Django

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full time, permanent.

REPORTING TO: CTO

LOCATION: Mumbai

ABOUT THE ROLE:

WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU:

- Expert in Python, with knowledge of Python web framework - Django 
- Familiarity with backend automated testing tools and frameworks
- Experience with backend/API development
- Architect, develop and maintain backend libraries/codebase, database & server.
- Evaluate competitive and innovative products and design approaches to identify best practices and encourage innovation.
- Understanding the requirement of a client, document the scope and chart out a plan of implementing the scope
- Work with the design team to give inputs related to the wire-frames and then the design along with incorporating Client Feedback
- Explore the difference between B2B and B2C projects before implementing the code
- Work in teams of 2-3 on various projects as per the requirement using git as version control
- Having good knowledge of APIs creation and database architecture
- Good Grasp in respective technology (Django)
- Documenting the process and main functions along the developing process
- Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance for one of the fastest-growing companies in India.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE:

- 2-5 years of experience required
- Strong hand on Django-Python
- Excellent knowledge of using the Git version control system and deployment via Git.
- You have creative visualisation, critical thinking, deductive & pragmatic reasoning and can think out-of-the-box
- Ability to quickly adapt & independently work in a fast-paced Agile environment with minimum supervision.
- A self-starter with demonstrated ability to take the initiative, who can proactively identify issues/opportunities and recommend action.

YOU WILL LOVE WORKING WITH FATAKPAY BECAUSE:

• We value balance. We are committed to providing an environment where you can balance great work with a great life.
• We’ll invest in your career. Our company’s increasing, and we’ll allow you to do the same. You’ll have access to several professional development opportunities so that you can keep up with the company’s evolving needs.
• We offer competitive compensation packages. We deeply value the talent our team brings to the table and believe that fair and equitable total compensation packages are part of our commitment to everyone who works here.
• Multicultural workplace. A multicultural and diverse team of colleagues from different states.
• An opportunity to wear many hats
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and frequent experimentation
• The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry
• A chance to build and lead a highly talented and driven team

OTHER PERKS & BENEFITS:

• Progressive and flexible work hours that match your personality and lifestyle.
• Compensation could include stock options for significant upside.
• Health benefits
• Cool gadgets and swags
• Attractive wellness programs
• Competitive performance bonus
• Paid sick leave
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Career development training.

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Fatakpay Digital Private Ltd (Fatakpay) is a digital-only lending platform that provides virtual credit cards. The solution offers a 100% digital and paperless quick, transparent and secure way to transact in multilingual format with a ‘scan now, pay later’ facility and easy repayment options.

We're a company that strongly believes in teamwork, design, creativity and tech. We love to build the best possible Financial Tech products that make the world a better place.

It was founded by a team of four IIT- B, Erasmus University alum, and 70+ years of combined experience in Tech and Finance.

Role: SDE 2

Notice: 15 days

Location: Bangalore

Get to know the team:

Join our team and help us build the world’s fastest and most reliable emergency response system using cutting edge technology.

Because every second counts in an emergency, we are building systems and flows with 4 9s of reliability to ensure that our technology is always there when people need it the most. We are looking for distributed systems experts who can help us perfect the architecture behind our key design principles: scalability, reliability, programmability, and resiliency. Our system features a powerful dispatch engine that connects emergency service providers with patients in real-time.

Get to know the role:

We are looking for an experienced coder with expertise in deep distributed systems and event-driven systems and experience working with streaming platforms. They should have a strong focus on scalability and reliability, and a deep understanding of collaboration and documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain scalable, reliable and efficient backend system
• Write high quality, well documented and maintainable code.
• Seek and incorporate feedback from code and design reviews to improve code quality and design effectiveness.
• Translate business or technical requirements into effective design documents such as ERDs and RFCs to address clearly defined problems.
• Develops tests to verify code functionality and stability; establishes monitoring and alerting systems to ensure code reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality software products.

Desired skill set:

• At least 7 years of experience in backend development.
• Strong proficiency in one or more of the following NodeJS, Java, or Go.
• Solid understanding of distributed and event-driven systems.
• Production level experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL and NoSQL databases.
• Strong emphasis on reliability and observability.
• Experience of cloud native architecture specification.

Come and be a part of a project that has the potential to make a real difference in people's lives.

Regards,

Mayur

Talent Acquisition

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the Software Team. Ensure consistent deliveries of planned features while ensuring code quality, testing standards, and processes are maintained.

• Work with the leadership team to cultivate and grow the Internal Software Team Culture at

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth

• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design.

• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.

• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.

• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at a large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.

• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

CANDIDATES MUST HAVE

• Experienced in designing and integrating RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of Python

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 3-5 years of experience building large-scale software applications and working with large software teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of Python and Backend Development

• Experience building Web/Mobile applications

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

• Unit and Integration testing experience

• Being knowledgeable about engineering processes and good practices

• Passionate about learning new tools. Ability to continuously learn and acquire knowledge.

• Able to adapt to changing complexity of tasks.

2.       Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS.

3.       Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.

4.       Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python / Ruby / Java / PHP/ .Net.

5.       Good Understand with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.

What will I be doing? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Leading parts of the product from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product’s execution.
Working with our Sales and frontend team to build products with the goal of delighting and increasing the success of our users.
Architecting, building, testing, and releasing product-facing features.
Contributing to our side projects and free tools for the education industry.

What do I need? 🤓

1-2 years of industry experience in a software engineering role, preferably building a SaaS product. You can demonstrate significant impact that your work has had on the product and/or the team.
Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, PHP, Python, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)
Deep knowledge of SQL Databases
Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch as well as on AWS primitives
Willingness to learn and use new technologies
Extremely data-driven
Ability to debug complex systems

Brownie points 🍰

Using a framework (for example, Laravel, Code Igniter, Django)
Understanding of containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) along with ability to deploy to AWS ECS (or similar tools)

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.

Perks 😍

Flexible vacation
Take a tutorial, on us
Monthly remote meals

Tech stack 🔨

PHP
Laravel
NodeJS
VueJS
Ionic Angular
Digital Ocean
AWS
MySQL

Why Classcard? 🚀

We are still in the early stages of our journey. You will be working closely with our users, acting on both their feedback and what our data says. Things you build here will have tremendous impact on both our business and Classcard as a company.
What happens after I apply? 🤔

1. Quick phone call with a member of our engineering team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Classcard.

2. Video interview:

   Technical discussion with a senior engineer
   Pairing on an interesting problem
   Meet the founders

Affinsys is a Cognitive CX platform that combines Human & AI realms to help businesses with  customer experience management, hyper-personalization & operations automation. With laser sharp focus on Customer Experience automation for financial services, we use Deep learning, NLP, computer vision, big data, recommendation system & speech analytics fused with our domain knowledge of working with 100's of banks across 50 countries to help financial institutions shift : from legacy to latest channels (Embedded Financial services), from transactions to goal based journeys (Personalized customer experience), from reactive service provider to proactive advisor (Robo/AI based advisory), from silos to ecosystem (Open banking).