Lead Software Engineer

Enterprise Minds, with core focus on engineering products, automation and intelligence, partners customers on the trajectory towards increasing outcomes, relevance, and growth. 

Harnessing the power of Data and the forces that define AI, Machine Learning and Data Science, we believe in institutionalizing go-to-market models and not just explore possibilities. 

We believe in a customer-centric ethic without and people-centric paradigm within. With a strong sense of community, ownership, and collaboration our people work in a spirit of co-creation, co-innovation, and co-development to engineer next-generation software products with the help of accelerators. 

Through Communities we connect and attract talent that shares skills and expertise. Through Innovation Labs and global design studios we deliver creative solutions. 
We create vertical isolated pods which has narrow but deep focus. We also create horizontal pods to collaborate and deliver sustainable outcomes. 

We follow Agile methodologies to fail fast and deliver scalable and modular solutions. We are constantly self-asses and realign to work with each customer in the most impactful manner. 

Pre-requisites for the Role 

1. Job ID-EMPY0120MS 

1. Primary skill: Python Developer, Django, Problem solving. 

1. Secondary skill: Rest, API 

1. Years of Experience: 4-7 Years  

1. Location: Remote 

Budget- Open  

NP- Immediate 

PYTHON DEVELOPER 

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code 
• Design and implement software platform with Microservices Architecture, based on AWS Lambda and Event sourced data 
• Integration of data storage solutions {may include databases, key-value stores, notification queues, etc.} 

• Integration with various backend monitoring tools 
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems 
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization 
• Participate in early product demonstrations to customersExperience required: 
• Bachelor's or Masters in Computer Science or a related discipline 

• 2-6 years of relevant professional experience 
• Delivery of quality results within aggressive timelines 
• Knowledge of software development processesSkills Required: 
• Experience with Python, along with other common libraries/framework such as Flask, Celery, Django etc., 
• Good understanding with usage of Lambda in Python. 

• Good understanding in testing frameworks like PyTest. 
• Ability to work with IDEs like Visual Studio Code. 
• Basic understanding in developing private PIP packages. 
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming. 
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful. 

• A knack for writing clean, readable Python code. 
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system. 
• Ability to understand monitoring metrics, such as CPU, Memory, Disk Space, Network latency, and telemetry services. 
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application. 
• Understanding the fundamentals of RDBMS databases. 

• Ability to work with PostgreSQL is a plus. 
• Ability to work with AWS services like Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, SNS etc., is a plus. 
• Proficient understanding of Git. 
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment. 
• Effective verbal and written communication skills. 

What you need to have:

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

Job Description: (Mandate Skills)

• Exceptional architecture and design skills using Object Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Hands on Java Engineer, with experience building consumer facing or enterprise applications using Java stack
• Ability to manage small teams (2-4 members) using agile development process

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

• Exposure to building service oriented distributed systems
• In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real time streaming or offline
• In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
• In real time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop based tools.
• In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.

• The Architect/ Lead Backend Engineer will handle the digital experience from inception to go-live model.
• The role holder is expected to create a vision and roadmap for the digital experience to provide best in class customer experience for each of the product solutions handled.  The role holder will play a critical role in leading the innovation and growth of our front end web and mobile platforms.
• Must be from Good Companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic
• Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise in either one of Java or Groovy or Go.
• 3+ years of experience building microservices.
• Strong experience in architecting and building distributed systems, scalability, and availability
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure
• Good understanding of RxJava or Actors framework
• Proficient with RDBMS
• Strong knowledge on data stores, database design, data modelling and SQL queries
• Extensive experience building and owning large- scale distributed backend systems
• Experience working with three or more of : Unix/Linux environments, Distributed and parallel systems, Workflow automation, CI/CD Platform development, Cloud platforms development e.g. AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/Container platforms based development 

1. Full Stack developer (.Net): (experience 3 to 6 years) 

• Experience in designing multithreaded/concurrent/distributed systems.
• Experience in .Net framework and C# programming is required (3+ years).
• Experience in working on scalable non-blocking server side frameworks like Spring stack(2+ years)
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases, Message brokers. ex: Postgres/MySQL, MongoDB/DynamoDB/Redis/Neo4j, Kafka (2 +years)
• Experience in Front end language and frameworks. JavaScript, must be an expert in one of the front end frameworks (ex: React) (2+)
• Understand cloud technologies and should have deployed applications or products in popular cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, MS Azure, etc (2+ years).

Optional:

• Experience with BigData is a big plus
• Knowledge of functional programming principles is a plus.
• Experience in HTML5 and CSS3