Hiring for Senior Software Engineer - Django

The Sr. Analytics Engineer would provide technical expertise in needs identification, data modeling, data movement, and transformation mapping (source to target), automation and testing strategies, translating business needs into technical solutions with adherence to established data guidelines and approaches from a business unit or project perspective.

Understands and leverages best-fit technologies (e.g., traditional star schema structures, cloud, Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.) and approaches to address business and environmental challenges.

Provides data understanding and coordinates data-related activities with other data management groups such as master data management, data governance, and metadata management.

Actively participates with other consultants in problem-solving and approach development.

Responsibilities :

Provide a consultative approach with business users, asking questions to understand the business need and deriving the data flow, conceptual, logical, and physical data models based on those needs.

Perform data analysis to validate data models and to confirm the ability to meet business needs.

Assist with and support setting the data architecture direction, ensuring data architecture deliverables are developed, ensuring compliance to standards and guidelines, implementing the data architecture, and supporting technical developers at a project or business unit level.

Coordinate and consult with the Data Architect, project manager, client business staff, client technical staff and project developers in data architecture best practices and anything else that is data related at the project or business unit levels.

Work closely with Business Analysts and Solution Architects to design the data model satisfying the business needs and adhering to Enterprise Architecture.

Coordinate with Data Architects, Program Managers and participate in recurring meetings.

Help and mentor team members to understand the data model and subject areas.

Ensure that the team adheres to best practices and guidelines.

Requirements :

- Strong working knowledge of at least 3 years of Spark, Java/Scala/Pyspark, Kafka, Git, Unix / Linux, and ETL pipeline designing.

- Experience with Spark optimization/tuning/resource allocations

- Excellent understanding of IN memory distributed computing frameworks like Spark and its parameter tuning, writing optimized workflow sequences.

- Experience of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redshift, Bigquery, Cassandra, etc).

- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Data Lake/Blob storage, AWS S3, Google Cloud storage, etc.

- Have a deep understanding of the various stacks and components of the Big Data ecosystem.

- Hands-on experience with Python is a huge plus

• 6+ years of experience with expertise in Django CMS, Python, REST framework, AI framework
• MySQL Db usage, SQL queries
• Experience in using scraping tools.
• Microservices
• Docker and Kubernetes hands-on experience
• AWS Redis cache integration
• Deployment on AWS cloud, auto-scale
• Work will be rotational Shifts/ UK Shift
• Must be flexible to work on weekends/stretch for some hours

Simform is a fast-growing software services company mainly serving and having a presence in North America. Simform has built a solid work culture that is focused on learning, growth, and work-life balance. Simform is well-known for its very good work culture and loved by employees.

Please read more about the company and work culture here : https://www.simform.com/careers/

Job Description :

Summary : Major focus will be the development of server-side logic to ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests received from front-end. Deployment on the production server.

Responsibilities :

- Understanding the project requirement and coding the programs efficiently to meet the client's requirements to the closest proximity.

- Optimise output to run smoothly on multiple delivery platforms.

- Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

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

- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

- Integration of data storage and third-party library/package into the application.

- Create or integrate any such thing manually if not available on standard package list.

- Create the best fitted and scalable database schema for particular business logic.

- Should be hands-on in reading large volumes of data from the database, or over HTTP(S)/WebSockets.

- Ensure programs and applications are bug-free and run smoothly.

Skills And Qualifications :

- Familiarity with Python web stacks and In-depth knowledge of different frameworks (Django, Flask, etc.)

- Understanding different types of Object Relational Mappers.

- Ability to work on multiple API integrations, and write modular reusable code.

- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture

- Good knowledge of a server-side templating language.

- Basic understanding of front-end frameworks such as Angular, ReactJs, VueJs and technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

- Knowledge of user authentication and authorisation between multiple systems, servers, and environments

- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

- Familiarity with object event-driven programming in Python

- Strong unit test and debugging skills

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.

About the Company:

Progcap is a Fintech and AI company that pioneers alternative credit scoring for small businesses using proprietary data from non-traditional sources. We aim to fuel credit to 100 million under-banked SMEs in the emerging markets worldwide with an initial focus on India.

Progcap is Sequoia-backed Series A startup, comprising of top tier talent from finance, technology, data science and operations. The Company is the recipient of the World Bank's "SME Product Innovation of the year", 2018 award, Madrid.

What you will be doing:

• Lead and provide first level supervision to project teams and ensures successful delivery of tasks assigned to the team along with sharing of project updates & related communication with stakeholders.
• Writing and ensuring reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Managing data across multiple databases and providing analysis to stakeholders.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Implementation of security and data protection (permission classes and middleware.)
• Implementation of user authentication and authorization across multiple systems, servers, and environments.

What you bring:

• Should have minimum 4 years of experience in development using Python and 1 year in leading Python based projects.
• Strong experience in Application lifecycle management – development, testing and deployment.
• Strong understanding and experience with code version control tools (git, svn, etc.)
• Expert in Python with working experience on Django, AWS, Lambda, RDS, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Integration of data storage solutions redis, postgresql, mysql (big query, big table, pubsub, appengine).
• Strong in data structures and algorithms
• Preferably candidates with Financial/lending Applications development experience with any Fintech Co.