Django developer

Key responsibilities:

The successful candidate will have extremely strong leadership skills and a deep understanding of technical best practices and principles and be able to inspire and develop team members to achieve their potential. You will have proven ability to create architectures and develop sound technical & operational roadmaps in support of the business’ strategy.

There are three key areas of responsibility for the role: 

- Hiring, leading, mentoring and managing the development squad working on project, features, support, and improvement to the platform. 

- Identify where improvements are required to improve processes and the platform

- Work closely with DevOps Manager, QA Manager and Lead Product Manager to ensure high quality delivery

REQUIRED:

Minimum 6+ years of building and managing teams – Leadership, mentoring and line management

Hands on experience with Java, Spring & Spring Boot, Maven, Hibernate, Oracle, AWS and knowledge of best practices

Deep experience of CI / CD (Jenkins, AWS pipeline) and version control

workflow (Git)

Thorough understanding of Code Quality, Automation, Mocking, TDD, BDD, SOLID principles, etc.

Good E-Commerce experience – understand 24*7*365 nature of the business

Good architectural experience

Very good agile experience including working with, and appreciation of

the other roles within an agile team – BA, Product Manager, Project Manager, QA

Education: BE/Btech/MCA

Shift: UK Shift – 11am-8pm

OPTIONAL:

Front-end experience – HTML, CSS including major frameworks like React

Understanding of other programming languages (Node, Python)

Understanding of data warehouse, big data and data science

Strong problem-solving skills

Ability to produce high-quality software

Experience in using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

Excellent and clear verbal and written communication skills

Experience in end-to-end delivery of projects

Ability to think logically and methodically

Team player 

Zolvit is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. As a key member of the team, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable backend systems that power our core platform. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems at scale and contribute to a product that will potentially power millions of businesses in India.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy robust and scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, and Java.
• Contribute to the evolution of our microservices architecture, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, frontend, and QA, to deliver high-quality products.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, promoting automation and continuous delivery.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of backend systems, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
• Champion a quality-driven development approach, including unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in backend development.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience in backend software engineering, building and scaling distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing microservices at scale.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes is a plus.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services is a plus
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• A proactive and collaborative approach to work.
• A passion for building high-quality software and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with AWS, Redis, Kafka.
• Exposure to building and deploying ML models in the cloud.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

• Experience with Django/Flask Framworks
• Worked on web app and mobile app
• Understanding of DevOps tools - Jekins/Kubernetes/Azure/AWS/Docker will be a plus

• Experience in open source technologies - Solr, Redis, Kafka
• Exposure to building & managing applications in Amazon Webservices (AWS)
• Experience in security, scalability & performance aspects of solution
• Critical Skills: 1. Java / J2EE, Spring, PostGreSQL 2. Nginx, Tomcat 3. Developing REST webservices