Lead Backend Engineer

One Impression is India's largest and first of it's kind Full-Stack IMaaS (Influencer Marketing as a Service) Platform. We help brands manage high-impact influencer marketing campaigns. We are active in over 12 countries including India, the U. S. , Australia, the Middle East, etc, and have a network of over 6.5 Mil + influencers across Instagram & YouTube. Our creator network is one of the largest ranging from top celebrities to nano creators in 10+ languages.

Backed by some of the top investors in the country including founders of Livspace, MamaEarth, Vedantu, Wow Skin Sciences, OML, People Group etc. as well as celebrities like KL Rahul, Zakir Khan, Masoom Minawala, our ultimate vision is to capture 25% of the global media spend by becoming the world's de-facto influencer marketing platform.

We are strong believers that our people are the pillars of our success. It is our people who drive our incredible growth. If you are excited about solving complex world problems, we are looking for you!

Responsibilities:

• Enhance existing services and applications to increase availability, reliability, and scalability.
• Manage testing and bug fixes and work across the engineering team to build new features and services at scale.
• Prepare technical documentation & improve engineering tooling, process, and standards to enable faster, more consistent, reliable, and highly repeatable application delivery.
• Remain engaged with the latest technology trends and understand operational challenges to evolve application delivery processes and platform components continually.
• Support platform technology decisions based on performance metrics and operational SLAs.
• Work as part of a team developing applications and services using Agile development methods.
• Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience as a Backend Developer (Python/Django)
• Understanding of micro-service architecture and RESTful API integration patterns.
• Experience with implementing test frameworks for unit testing and building acceptance testing
• 4+ years experience in SQL RDBMS (MySQL, specifically)
• 2+ years experience in ElasticSearch.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Desire to work in a collaborative, fast-paced, start-up-like environment.
• Experience with distributed source control management (Git).
• Experience using Agile methodologies – previous experience working from a backlog, sprints, retrospectives, etc.
• Passionate about test-driven, clean code, automatically tested, and continuous deployment
• Curious to explore emerging technologies and learn new things
• Are well-versed in product/project management tools, such as JIRA, Trello, and Google Docs

• Proficient knowledge of Django and Django REST framework 
• Experience and good understanding of Redis
• Good knowledge and understanding of PostgreSQL or other relational databases 
• Proficient in NoSQL document databases especially MongoDB. 
• Understanding of threading and multiprocessing in Python, and multi-process architecture 
• Good-enough understanding of version control systems like Git or Mercurial 
• Strong unit-test and debugging skills 
• Knowledge of container technologies (specially Docker) and orchestration systems is a plus 
• Strong understanding of various Python Libraries, APIs, and toolkits
• Excellent understanding of MVC and OOP
• Rapid prototyping skills for getting product feedback 
• Experience with Agile and SCRUM methodology

Skills And Qualifications 

• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in back-end development with Node.js. ● Knowledge of Node.js frameworks 
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages 
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git ● Have worked in any of the cloud based platform AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes. 

BE / B-Tech degree and 2+ years of work experience, or ME / MS degree and 2+  years of work experience, in Computer Science.

• Strong programming skills in Python/Django
• Experience with Angular, JavaScript frameworks/libraries
• Hands on experience with MySQL, PostGreSQL or other RDBMS
• Experience with Web application security and Secure coding practices
• Strong Analytical thinking and problem solving ability
• Familiarity with software collaboration tools – GIT
• Ability to work with a distributed and diverse team of researchers and developers.
• Excellent English language communication skills, both written and verbal.
• High level of innovation and motivation

Job Responsibilities:

Support, maintain, and enhance existing and new product functionality for trading software in a real-time, multi-threaded, multi-tier server architecture environment to create high and low level design for concurrent high throughput, low latency software architecture.

• Provide software development plans that meet future needs of clients and markets
• Evolve the new software platform and architecture by introducing new components and integrating them with existing ones
• Perform memory, cpu and resource management
• Analyze stack traces, memory profiles and production incident reports from traders and support teams
• Propose fixes, and enhancements to existing trading systems
• Adhere to release and sprint planning with the Quality Assurance Group and Project Management
• Work on a team building new solutions based on requirements and features
• Attend and participate in daily scrum meetings

Required Skills:

•  JavaScript and Python
• Multi-threaded browser and server applications
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• REST

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Desired Skills and Experience

• Golang , Java , Python , Ruby