
About the role
Checking quality is one of the most important tasks at Anakin. Our clients are pricing their products based on our data, and minor errors on our end can lead to our client's losses of millions of dollars. You would work with multiple tools and with people across various departments to ensure the accuracy of the data being crawled. You would setup manual and automated processes and make sure they run to ensure the highest possible data quality.
You are the engineer other engineers can count on. You embrace every problem with enthusiasm. You remove hurdles, are a self-starter, team player. You have the hunger to venture into unknown areas and make the system work.
Your Responsibilities would be to:
- Understand customer web scraping and data requirements; translate these into test approaches that include exploratory manual/visual testing and any additional automated tests deemed appropriate
- Take ownership of the end-to-end QA process in newly-started projects
- Draw conclusions about data quality by producing basic descriptive statistics, summaries, and visualisations
- Proactively suggest and take ownership of improvements to QA processes and methodologies by employing other technologies and tools, including but not limited to: browser add-ons, Excel add-ons, UI-based test automation tools etc.
- Ensure that project requirements are testable; work with project managers and/or clients to clarify ambiguities before QA begins
- Drive innovation and advanced validation and analytics techniques to ensure data quality for Anakin's customers
- Optimize data quality codebases and systems to monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
- Configure and optimize the automated and manual testing and deployment systems used to check the quality of billions of data points of over 1000+ crawlers across the company
- Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
- Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience as a backend or a full-stack software engineer
- Web scraping experience with Python or Node.js
- 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
- Should have managed a team of software engineers
- Should be paranoid about data quality
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
- Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
- Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
- Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbal
Additional Requirements:
- Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
- Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
- Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
- Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

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Position Overview:
We are looking for a talented and self-motivated Back-end Developer to join our development team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code that enhances workflow organization and automates various internal processes within the organization. The role involves continuous improvement of our software solutions to save man-hours and ensure overall organizational efficiency. Key tasks include development, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and maintenance of both new and existing programs.
Key responsibilities:
1) Software Development: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code/flows that automate internal processes and improve workflow efficiency.
2) Testing and Maintenance: Perform testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and daily maintenance of created or integrated programs.
3) Adherence to Standards: Follow preferred development methodologies and adhere to organizational development standards.
4) Team work: To work closely with other team members to ensure the successful implementation of projects. Maintain clear and concise documentation of code, APIs, and software components to aid in knowledge sharing and future development.
5) Stay Current: Keep up to date with the latest developments in the Python, RPA ecosystem and engage in best practices of software engineering.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Perform UI tests to optimize performance
- Work individually and closely with other members of the team during code sprints to deliver a complete end-to-end solution.
- Articulate project status to other team members and management.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products.
- Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution.
Qualifications
- Sharp analytical abilities, proven design skills, excellent communication skills experience handling the independent execution with minimal guidance, prior hands on experience or understanding on working with Django and python.
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1 years experience with Django.
- Must be from Tier 1 University.
Providing technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle—from concept
development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support. Interacts
with a set of clients (client senior developers and architects) to create technology
specifications from business requirements for one of the modules within the project.
Prepares the technical design of the more complex technology components within the
module (one or more of client/web presentation tier, server tier, data access and data
model, integration component, package function customization).
Assists the architect in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology stack
or component or design pattern versus another to the clients and project team and
drives selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture.
Drives the performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring for a module.
Contributes to designing and implementing the build, releases process as well as system
configuration and deployment characteristics of the application.
Required Tech Stack
2+ years of strong development skills in Java with JDK 1. 8 & above version &
Microservices with Spring boot/ Spring.
Should have strong acumen in Data Structures, Algorithms, problem-solving and Logical/
Analytical skills.
Thorough understanding of OOPS concepts, Design principles and implementation of
different type of Design patterns.
Sound understanding of concepts like Exceptional handling, Serialization/Deserialization
and Immutability concepts, etc.
Good fundamental knowledge in Enums, Collections, Annotations, Generics, Auto
boxing, etc. Experience with Multithreading, Concurrent Package and Concurrent APIs Basic
understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections
concepts.
Experience in RDBMS or NO SQL databases and writing SQL queries (Joins, group by,
aggregate functions, etc.)
Experience with at-least one NoSQL (Any of Cassandra/Couch base/Hadoop), Hands-on
experience with JMS
Hands-on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming webservices
Hands-on experience with Spring.
Hands-on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
Experience of writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Powermock frameworks.
Should have practical experience with Maven/Gradle and knowledge of version control
systems like Git/SVN etc.
Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver
on projects.
Sound understanding/experience in software development process, test-driven
development

- 4+ years of experience with Node.js
- Expertise in Typescript, AWS, Firebase, MongoDB, and Express
You will be bringing:
- Hands-on experience in writing applications using Node.js (including Socket.io and Express or similar)
- Excellent knowledge of a few of the available databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
- Proficiency in application deployment on Linux or Ubuntu environments
- Proficiency in JavaScript languages like React and/or Angular, along with a comprehensive experience in open-source frameworks
- Experience in server-client architecture project(s)
- Ability to prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
- An open, growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.
Top Skills
• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++.
• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
Roles & Responsibilities
• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.
Skills & Experience
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
Required Skills:
- Expert in Python and Django framework
- Expert in developing backend applications with RESTful APIs Using Django Rest Framework
- Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, ReactJS , HTML5, and CSS3
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Proficient understanding of GitHub
- Strong programming basics, with a clear understanding of Object-Oriented and Functional programming.
- Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver on projects.
Responsibilities:
- Your primary responsibility as a senior backend engineer will be to architect and develop a scalable and robust micro-services backend with strong Java, Spring(Boot), SQL, AWS/GCP.
- Experience being part of a software development team in an Agile/Lean/Continuous Delivery environment
- Be a key performer in a high-performance product engineering team
Qualifications:
- 2 to 4 years of overall IT experience. Most of this experience in Java (Core Java, Spring boot, Java collections, Java Multithreading)
- Should have experience designing database schemas - SQL and NoSQL.
- Exposure to frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Play would be a plus
- Experience with microservices architecture would be beneficial.
- Working knowledge of any public cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Broad understanding and experience of real-time analytics, NoSQL data stores, data modeling and data management, analytical tools, languages, or libraries
- Knowledge of container tech like Docker, Kubernetes would be a plus.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
development of which at least 1 year should be team management experience.
You should be knowledgeable about programming languages - specifically Java,
Python, operating systems, networks, databases and SQL, algorithms, advanced
architecture, code design, system design, design patterns, project and people
management.
An aptitude for product thinking is preferred. You should also hands-on experience on
mobile app development. Knowledge of Python is a plus.
➢ Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
➢ Strong proficiency with JavaScript (ECMAScript 5, 6)
➢ Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (SailsJS, Express)
➢ Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
➢ Familiarity with front-end technologies
➢ User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
➢ Interaction with multiple data sources
➢ Good understanding of SQL syntax
➢ Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
➢ Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
➢ Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
➢ Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git .
➢ Knowledge in the field of IOT is good to have.








