IPU Dev Support Engineer

Senior Backend Developer - JD
If you love to work in a fast-paced startup environment and desire to solve some very
challenging problems using technology, we want to hear from you.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic individual to work as a Senior Software
Developer. You will be involved in working on multiple products for the scaling and growth
stage of the lifecycle.
We work closely with the real world,. If you are interested to grow and learn in your career
and at the same time work on products for the 1Bn user market, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

● Managing and guiding a team of junior developers for timely delivery of product and
milestones
● Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
● Implementation of security and data protection
● Design and implementation of data storage solutions
● Design & Build: Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
mission-critical systems, and delivering high-availability and performance.
● Collaborate - Collaborating within your product streams and team to bring best
practices and leverage a world-class tech stack.
● Measurable Outcome - You will need to set quantifiable objectives that encapsulate
the quality attributes of a system. The fitness of the application is measured against
set marks.
● DevOps - You will need to set up every essential (tracking/alerting) to make sure the
infrastructure/software you built is working as expected.
● Design and development of our REST APIs
● Help maintain code quality, architecture, and automation

Required Knowledge and Skills

● 3 - 5 years of experience working in backend development technologies and DevOps
● Highly curious and ready to dive into complex technical challenges.
● Proficiency in development and scripting in Python, Django/Flask framework.
● Database design and management, including being up on the latest practices -
bonus points for MySQL and MongoDB
● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling
an application to support load changes
● Setup and administration of backups
● Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs
desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
● Server management and deployment for the relevant environment
● Appreciation for clean and well-documented code
● Hands-on experience with architecture and structural design patterns
● Expertise in designing, developing, deploying, and integrating RESTful APIs
● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical
requirements
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Personality

● Requires excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation.
● You should be a team player.
● You should be positive towards problem-solving, have a very structural thought
process to solve problems
● Interest to work in a high paced start-up environment with a large amount of learning.
● Good understanding of different frameworks, and be able to pick up new
technologies at ease.
● You should be agile enough to figure out a need for new technologies/frameworks
and learn new technology for better product performance

We’re looking for a someone with experience in managing agile development teams.

You will be responsible for:

1) Defining the technical specifications and architecture along with overall technical product infrastructure.

2) Provide creative and unique solutions to accommodate for the versatility and customizations during product development.

3)The role would expect you to code and/or conduct code reviews so experience in Django or similar languages would be useful.

4) Managing a team of engineers and developers; ensuring quality is met at every process of the development and deployment phases.

5) Recruitment and building a team of a good mix of talent would be necessary.

6) Managing AWS servers to track/monitor/optimize resource utilization and upgrade servers when necessary.

7) Extensive engineering expertise in the areas of tooling, specifications, product maintenance, budgeting and software products.

8) Ability to understand and collaborate on complete product lifecycle from concept to execution.

9) Implementation of new technologies to optimize product quality and usage.


Current Tech Stack:
The application is currently a fully responsive Web Application built on Django and Django REST API Framework along with AngularJS. It's a fully functional API hosted on AWS servers.

Objectives of this Role:

- Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure

- Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers

- Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes

- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

- Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and 'fixes'

- Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities :

- Deploy updates and fixes

- Provide Level 2 technical support

- Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience

- Develop software to integrate with internal back end systems

- Perform root cause analysis for production errors

- Investigate and resolve technical issues

- Develop scripts to automate visualization

- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Skills and Qualifications :

- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field

- Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role

- Proficient with git and git workflows

- Good knowledge of Python

- Working knowledge of databases such as Mysql,Postgres and SQL

- Problem solving attitude

- Collaborative team spirit

- Detail knowledge of Linux systems (Ubuntu)

- Proficient in AWS console and should have handled the infrastructure of any product (Including dev and prod environments)

Mandatory hands on experience in the following :

- Python based application deployment and maintenance

- NGINX web server

- AWS modules EC2, VPC, EBS, S3

- IAM setup

- Database configurations MySQL, PostgreSQL

- Linux flavoured OS

- Instance/Disaster management

Required:

- Strong background in, and at least 3+ years of working in tooling or QA automation

- Thorough understanding of SDLC, specifically automated QA processes in agile development environments

- Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies

- Proficient with bug tracking and test management toolsets to support development processes

- Strong working knowledge of testing fundamentals such as TDD & BDD

- Proficient working with relational databases such as MySQL & PostreSQL

- Some knowledge of Unix/Linux

Desired Skills:

- Building test infrastructures using containerization technologies such as Docker and working within continuous

delivery / continuous release pipeline processes

- Testing enterprise applications deployed to cloud environments such as Google Cloud Platform

- Experience mentoring QA staff and end users on quality objectives and testing processes

- Understanding of coding enterprise applications within Java, PHP, and other languages

- Understanding of NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB or DynamoDB

- Degree level qualifications in a technical related subject

- Proactive 'self-starter' attitude

- Lifelong learner - thrives from developing and sharing knowledge

What you will do:

• Interacting with clients, solving problems and making sure the deadlines are met
• Proactively assessing, clarifying and validating client needs on an ongoing basis
• Leading and participating in implementation of new initiatives and ideas
• Preparing regular reports of progress and forecasts to internal and external stakeholders
• Coordinating with all the departments within the company like Creative, Business Development, Accounts, Operations, etc
• Coordinating with vendors, agencies etc. for timely delivery

 

Desired Candidate Profile

What you need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA is an added advantage
• 1-2 years of experience from Edutech / Education Industry in a similar role
• Microsoft excel knowledge is must (vlook up, pivot table, data representation)
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Strong business acumen, ethics and high integrity
• High comfort level in using online software platforms
• Ability to multi-task
• A positive attitude and ability to work well within a team    

Someone who can spearhead the design mandate for collaterals starting with the brand book and then across social media, brochure, WhatsApp shares, workshop/FQ slides, blog, email, ads, certificates. This person will sync with website design to be able to provide similar language and tone on all other touch points of the user journey. You would be expected to perform the following role (although one must strongly bear in mind that this would evolve as the organization grows)
• Edit videos, add music, subtitles, and create thumbnails
• Create transitions, titles, graphics, and other supporting materials for the video
• Create graphics on Canva/Photoshop for Instagram & FB posting
• Conceptualize and present ideas as per the brief
• Contribute to the conceptualization of projects, and come up with ideas, and contribute to         the scripting process      
• Edit content in collaboration with the content team

Development tasks: - Writing bash scripts - Working with Docker in command line - Configuring various web applications (via browser, DB, config files) - Working with Git "Please share with us some Bash code that reflects your proficiency with shell scripting. The more code you share, the better. The minimum is 10 lines."

Looking for long term employees, who can work on a win-win basis.

Engineer need to work in capacity of a DevOps, responsible of maintaining cloud deployment up and running. Should have hands on experience on various Devops Tools and Monitoring Framework. He should be able to put together open source tools and framework to solve Operational Issues. Should be able to test and debug live issues on various components/services deployed on cloud. Engineer should be able to automate scripts, write tools in python to monitor & test various services and their communication. Should be able to manually test functionality for various components & automate functional, load and performance scenarios and relay feedback to engineering. He should be able to identify functionality gaps and should relay them to engineering as enhancements Candidate should be able to support customer deployment during late hours.