Full Stack Web Developer-PHP

Job Title : Software Development Engineer (Python, Django & FastAPI + React.js)

Experience : 2+ Years

Location : Nagpur / Remote (India)

Job Type : Full Time

Collaboration Hours : 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM IST

About the Role :

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in backend development with Python, Django, and FastAPI, as well as working knowledge of AWS.

While backend development is the primary focus, you should also be comfortable contributing to frontend development using JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.

Mandatory Skills : Python, Django, FastAPI, AWS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, REST APIs, SQL/NoSQL.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python (Django / FastAPI).
• Deploy, scale, and manage applications on AWS cloud services.
• Collaborate with frontend developers and contribute to React (JS/TS) development when required.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices.
• Ensure system performance, scalability, and security.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle : planning, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Requirements :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience in Django and FastAPI.
• Practical experience with AWS cloud services.
• Basic proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React for frontend development.
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and software design principles.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative workflows.
• Strong problem-solving ability and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.

Good to Have :

• Experience with Docker for containerization.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

• Work closely with product managers and engineers to design, implement, test and continually improve scalable frontend and backend services.
• Develop products using agile methods and tools.
• Develop commercial grade software that is user friendly and suitable for a global audience.
• Plan, create and execute (manual and automated) tests.
• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Staying up to date with current technologies and providing insights on cutting edge software approaches, architectures, and vendors.

• Fluency in any one of JavaScript, TypeScript or Python.
• Strong problem solving skills. 
• Should have built large scalable enterprise applications from scratch.
• Strong experience in architectural patterns, High level designs.
• Experience in Nosql and SQL DBs.
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What you’ll be doing

• Lead the development of our across all phases of software and web development including ideation, prototyping, design, production, and maintenance.
• Work closely with founders and internal/external stakeholders to build products, tools, and services from scratch and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Be actively involved in requirements gathering, customer interviews and the creation of robust product solutions.
• Brainstorm and lay the foundations of the technology and architectural roadmap as well as the development processes.
• Share your technical expertise to help the team make thoughtful and scalable design decisions and identify performance bottlenecks to troubleshoot quickly.
• Manage product development priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Hire and manage a small team of engineers (internal/outsourced).
• Ensure high-performant and responsive web applications and websites.

Skills & Qualities we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 4-7 years of experience as a full-stack developer (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers) at a fast-paced, preferably early / growth stage start-up.
• Proficient with frontend technologies - HTML, CSS, JavaScript & ReactJS/VueJS.
• Proficient with backend technologies - Java/NodeJs/Golang/Python/Ruby.
• Hands-on experience working with any cloud AWS/GCP/Azure/DigitalOcean.
• Knowledge of codebases and version control systems (Git).
• Well-versed with SQL database design & RDBMS concepts.
• Strong arithmetic reasoning, logical and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge of code quality maintenance and performance analysis.

Company Description

We are an SF-based stealth mode AI startup, building AI agents and automation tools for Marketing use-cases. We are ex-Big Tech, currently bootstrapped and working with a few design partners/early customers. We will be starting a fundraise in Q3 2024.

Role Description

This is a part-time remote role for a Founding Engineer (first engineering hire). This is an equity-only role, meaning compensation will be in the form of equity rather than a salary.

This role will be 30% applied research and 70% product engineering. The expectation is that you will be able to commit 15 hours per week for this role to begin with.

You will -

• Experiment with the latest AI technologies and research and put them into implementation.
• Have the freedom and responsibility to design and own projects from start to finish.
• Have opportunities to directly talk with customers and solve their problems!

About you

• Love to keep up with and dive into latest technologies in AI
• Move fast, ship quickly, has high urgency
• Energized about going from 0 to 1
• Enjoy high ownership and responsibility
• Familiar with no-code tools and frameworks
• Excited about working on AI-native user experiences

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or a related field (Also open to university students for the right candidate)
• Knowledge of gen-AI systems (LLMs, model training/fine-tuning, agent frameworks, evaluation frameworks, vector DBs, RAG, etc)
• Experience in building and scaling backend systems and infrastructure
• Strong generalist, skilled with Python, cloud infrastructure (AWS).

What we offer

• Technical Ownership: You will own high level (and lower level) technical decisions for an early-stage startup, with mentorship from seasoned Engineering leaders from Silicon Valley.
• Equity: As a key initial hire, you will receive significant founding equity and ownership in the company.
• Growth: You will have a natural on-ramp to come onboard as a full-time, salaried Founding Engineer after a fundraise event.

Description of Skills/abilities:

We are looking for a Python Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities:

1. Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
2. Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
3. Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
4. Implementation of security and data protection.
5. Integration of data storage solutions may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc. Experience administering innovation with methodologies such as design thinking.
6. Experience working on Agile Scrum and DevOps aligned delivery teams.
7. Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
8. Strong communication skills and great product sense.
9. Proficient communication skills verbal and written.
10. Understanding of accessibility and security compliance depending on the specific project.
11. Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
12. Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
13. Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python, using of Pycham.
14. Understanding of the differences between multiple deliveries platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
15. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
16. Strong unit test and debugging skills.

Skills:

1. Expert in Python, with knowledge in Python web framework such as Django, Flask depending on technology stack.
2. Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
3. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
4. Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
5. Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack.
6. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, Typescript, react, react hooks, HTML5, and CSS3.
7. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.

Skill Set:

1. 4+Years Full stack Python Developer - exposure to web frameworks like Django, Flask and Falcon.
2. Experience building APIs for a rapidly iterating product and restful APIs and development of services layer using Pythons Flask framework and should be proficient in writing unit test cases using Pytest package.
3. Database level programming using both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and No SQL (Mongo DB/Casandra) and designing the database level stored procedures and persistence logic.
4. HTML/CSS/JavaScript and JavaScript framework and knowledge on React JS is a plus.
5. Experience in developing Arduino libraries is an added advantage.
6. Experience working with two or more from the following: Web Application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems, and/or security software development

• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Troubleshooting application and code issues.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end developers.
• Finalizing back-end features and testing web applications.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks including Yii, Laravel, and CodeIgniter.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, CVS, and SVN.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Ability to project manage.
• Good problem-solving skills.

• Key Result Areas

1. End to end ownership in the consumer facing B2C tech team and deliver solutions to solve business problems.

1. Advanced Javascript, CSS, HTML 5, D/XHTML, XML, JSON, DOM Concepts

1. Must have worked on a SPA framework: ReactJS, Node JS, AngularJS or InfernoJS

1. Own the development methodology. Align with the executive team to improve the development process, prioritize projects and manage multiple work streams

1. Extensive Work with open-source technologies and built services architecture as this will prove to be an invaluable asset in building solutions.

1. Lead a team of Software Developers, Server Engineers and QA Engineers, establishing development practices and standards

1. Extensive skill on React JS, Node JS

1. Experience on various PHP frameworks like Cakephp, Laravel, CI etc would be plus

1. Work with scrum teams and product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
2. Jumping on a call with clients to understand the requirement and profile them the right solution, helping formulate an effective solution and turning it into a working application
3. Conducting website performance and unit tests
4. Heavy involvement in the requirements gathering, development and operational stages of new projects
5. Troubleshoot and debug related application defects with existing and new applications
6. Work collaboratively with the frontend team and other team members, train other members and get trained if required