Lead Backend Engineer

Role Overview:

Challenge convention and work on cutting edge technology that is transforming the way our customers manage their physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments seeks highly talented people to join our growing team, where your contributions will impact the development and delivery of our product roadmap. Our award-winning Virtana Platform provides the only real-time, system-wide, enterprise scale solution for providing visibility into performance, health and utilization metrics, translating into improved performance and availability while lowering the total cost of the infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications.

We are seeking an individual with knowledge in Systems Management and/or Systems Monitoring Software and/or Performance Management Software and Solutions with insight into integrated infrastructure platforms like Cisco UCS, infrastructure providers like Nutanix, VMware, EMC & NetApp and public cloud platforms like Google Cloud and AWS to expand the depth and breadth of Virtana Products.

Work Location: Pune/ Chennai

Job Type: Hybrid

Role Responsibilities:

• The engineer will be primarily responsible for design and development of software solutions for the Virtana Platform
• Partner and work closely with team leads, architects and engineering managers to design and implement new integrations and solutions for the Virtana Platform.
• Communicate effectively with people having differing levels of technical knowledge.
• Work closely with Quality Assurance and DevOps teams assisting with functional and system testing design and deployment
• Provide customers with complex application support, problem diagnosis and problem resolution

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in a Web Application centric Client Server Application development environment focused on Systems Management, Systems Monitoring and Performance Management Software.
• Able to understand and comprehend integrated infrastructure platforms and experience working with one or more data collection technologies like SNMP, REST, OTEL, WMI, WBEM.
• Minimum of 4 years of development experience with one of these high level languages like Python, Java, GO is required.
• Bachelor's (B.E, B.Tech) or Master's degree (M.E, M.Tech. MCA) in computer science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
•  2 years of development experience in public cloud environment using Kubernetes etc (Google Cloud and/or AWS)

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior experience with other virtualization platforms like OpenShift is a plus
• Prior experience as a contributor to engineering and integration efforts with strong attention to detail and exposure to Open-Source software is a plus
• Demonstrated ability as a strong technical engineer who can design and code with strong communication skills
• Firsthand development experience with the development of Systems, Network and performance Management Software and/or Solutions is a plus
• Ability to use a variety of debugging tools, simulators and test harnesses is a plus

About Virtana:

Virtana delivers the industry's only broadest and deepest Observability Platform that allows organizations to monitor infrastructure, de-risk cloud migrations, and reduce cloud costs by 25% or more.

Over 200 Global 2000 enterprise customers, such as AstraZeneca, Dell, Salesforce, Geico, Costco, Nasdaq, and Boeing, have valued Virtana's software solutions for over a decade.

Our modular platform for hybrid IT digital operations includes Infrastructure Performance Monitoring and Management (IPM), Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), Cloud Cost Management (Fin Ops), and Workload Placement Readiness Solutions. Virtana is simplifying the complexity of hybrid IT environments with a single cloud-agnostic platform across all the categories listed above. The $30BIT Operations Management (ITOM) Software market is ripe for disruption, and Virtana is uniquely positioned for success.

Profile: Senior PHP Developer

Experience- 10+Years

Mode: Remote

Required Skills:

• PHP (10+ years) & Symfony framework (5+ years)
• Team leadership experience (3+ years)
• OOP, design patterns, RESTful APIs
• Database optimization (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Git, CI/CD, testing frameworks
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Lead PHP/Symfony development
• Mentor team members
• Ensure code quality through reviews
• Collaborate with stakeholders
• Manage sprint cycles
• Optimize application performance

We are a tech venture which provides Product Engineering, QA Automation, Infrastructure, Data, and Market Research services.

Technical Proficiency : 
Must have : 

• Strong development experience in Python in the environment of Unix/Linux/Ubuntu

• Strong practical knowledge of Python and its libraries.

• Current working experience with cloud deployment of AWS/Azure/GCP, Microservice architecture, and Docker in Python.

• Good knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices

• Good Experience of Python with Django/ Scrapy/ Flask frameworks.

• Good Experience in Jupyter/ Docker/ Elastic Search, etc.

• Solid understanding of software development principles and best practices.

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Proven ability to drive large-scale projects with a deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration, and leadership.
  
  Good to have : 

• Expected to have migration experience from one version to the other, as this project is about migration to the latest version.

• Preferred if had an OpenEdx platform experience or any LMS platform. 

   

Job description for Python/Backend Developer

We are actively looking for backend software engineers who are passionate about building cutting-edge systems that work on the latest tech stack (Python, Django) but also help save lives. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and lead the development of several AI-enabled products and solutions within the company that are geared to help accelerate the development of new cures and to reduce the inefficiencies in how healthcare information is managed. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable APIs using Python/Django.
• Integrate third-party APIs like Facebook page API, Google Business API, and all other social APIs (10+)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Develop and maintain authentication mechanisms, including OAuth, JWT, and SSO integration with third-party providers.
• Optimize and maintain existing APIs for performance and scalability.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience:
• 2+ years of experience in Python development.
• Proven experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Advanced proficiency in Python programming.
• Strong experience with databases (e.g., MySQL, Elasticsearch).
• Hands-on experience with SSO protocols and implementation (e.g., OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect).
• Experience integrating SSO with third-party providers.
• Proficiency in using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for secure data exchange

• Technical Skills:
• Proficiency in Python and Python frameworks (Django, Flask).
• Solid understanding of web technologies (HTTP, SSL/TLS, JSON, XML).
• Familiarity with API documentation tools (e.g., Swagger, Postman).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Expertise in authentication and authorization methods.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Experience in writing unit tests for code to ensure reliability and maintainability

• New features developed independently with the ability to document the design after understanding and evaluating the requirements with necessary groundwork on required application components
• Hands-on coding to implement the design for feature completion
• Able to write unit tests that ensures bug free code
• Able to handle the multi-tenant and performance requirements of the new features and applications.
• Integrate the new features with existing modules, deliver ready to use code meeting necessary build requirements and CI/CD requirements.
• Work with other functional groups for product, technology, QA, tech support and deployment team.

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The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications.

• BE/B.Tech Degree from a reputed institution with at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Hands-on experience with Core Java, J2EE with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
• Experience with JUnit, JMH like performance tuning test tools preferred
• REST API design and development experience. Usage of Swagger or other API spec tools would be preferred. Working knowledge on Spring Boot is a plus
• Hands-on experience with some of the following application components is a plus: Solr, Kafka, OpenTSDB, Elasticsearch, Janus graph or any graph DB.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL required.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI, Maven, Ant required
• Experience building applications using microservices architecture is highly preferred. Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker would be ideal
• Working knowledge on public clouds like AWS or Google cloud or Azure is a plus
• Experience building scalable systems
• Strong problem solving skills and ability and interest to solve complex problems
• Interest in machine learning (ML) data science is a plus