Lead Software Engineer - App Crawling

A bilingual infrastructure engineer typically handles the design, implementation, and maintenance of IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, and storage systems. They are expected to have expertise in technologies like Linux, Windows, virtualization platforms, and scripting languages, along with strong communication skills in multiple languages. Responsibilities often include:

Monitoring and maintaining network and server operations.

Providing technical support for hardware and software systems.

Designing scalable and secure infrastructure solutions.

Collaborating with teams to ensure system reliability and efficiency.

Implementing disaster recovery and backup plans.

For bilingual roles, fluency in languages like English and Japanese is often required to facilitate communication across diverse teams and clients.

We are seeking an experienced PHP Architect to lead the architectural design and development of our web applications. This role is perfect for a strategic thinker who thrives on solving complex problems and has a profound understanding of PHP and its ecosystem. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create robust, high-performing, and scalable solutions that propel our business forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance web architectures using PHP and related technologies.
• Technical Strategy: Develop and drive the technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and emerging industry trends.
• Code Excellence: Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices. Conduct code reviews to maintain code quality and integrity.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers, UI/UX designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver cohesive and user-centric products.
• Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks and devise solutions to enhance application performance and user experience.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Security Compliance: Ensure applications adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of architectures, interfaces, and operational procedures.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in PHP development.
• At least 3 years in an architectural or lead developer role.

Technical Skills:

• Expertise in PHP and PHP frameworks such as Laravel or CodeIgniter.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming (OOP) and design patterns.
• Strong experience with MySQL or other relational databases; familiarity with NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and frameworks like React or Angular.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and SOA.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Solid grasp of security principles and web application security standards.

Soft Skills:

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the big picture and align architectural solutions with business objectives.
• Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical skills with a knack for tackling complex technical challenges.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead and inspire development teams.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to articulate complex concepts clearly.
• Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills with a focus on teamwork and knowledge sharing.

Why Join Us?

If you are passionate about building exceptional web applications and want to grow your career as a PHP Architect, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and become a part of our innovative and supportive team!

Responsibilities:

• Develop cloud-based Python Django software products
• Working closely with UX and Front-end Developers
• Participating in architectural, design, and product discussions
• Designing and creating RESTful APIs for internal and partner consumption
• Working in an agile environment with an excellent team of engineers

Skills:

• Highly proficient with Python 
• Hands-on experience with the Django framework
• Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e. PostgresSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• Strongly preferred exposure with Elasticsearch
• Knowledge of how to build and use RESTful APIs
• Strong knowledge of version control (i.e. git, svn, etc.)
• Experience deploying Python applications into production
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure knowledge is a plus

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the Software Team. Ensure consistent deliveries of planned features while ensuring code quality, testing standards, and processes are maintained.

• Work with the leadership team to cultivate and grow the Internal Software Team Culture at

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth

• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design.

• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.

• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.

• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at a large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.

• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

CANDIDATES MUST HAVE

• Experienced in designing and integrating RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of Python

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 3-5 years of experience building large-scale software applications and working with large software teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of Python and Backend Development

• Experience building Web/Mobile applications

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

• Unit and Integration testing experience

• Being knowledgeable about engineering processes and good practices

• Passionate about learning new tools. Ability to continuously learn and acquire knowledge.

• Able to adapt to changing complexity of tasks.

1. Writing reusable, testable, and efficient
2. Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant
3. Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side
4. Implementation of security and data
5. Integration of data storage solutions may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc. Experience administering innovation with methodologies such as design
6. Experience working on Agile Scrum and DevOps aligned delivery
7. Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as
8. Strong communication skills and great product
9. Proficient communication skills verbal and
10. Understanding of accessibility and security compliance depending on the specific
11. Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
12. Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable
13. Familiarity with event-driven programming in
14. Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific
15. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business
16. Strong unit test and debugging

1. Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology
2. Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper)
3. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one
4. Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process
5. Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology
6. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and
7. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or

Responsibilities Include

You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.

Requirements

• B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
• Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
• Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive adoption within the extended technology team
• Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
• Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
• Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
• Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
• A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
• Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.
• Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
• Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would be a big plus.

Company Introduction –

• Information Security & Data Analytics Series A funded company.
• Working in cutting edge technologies - Using AI for predictive intelligence and Facial Biometrics.
• Among Top 5 Cyber excellence companies globally (Holger Schulze awards)
• Bronze award for best startup of the year (Indian Express IT awards), only cyber Security Company in top 3.
• More than 100+ clients in India.

Job Description:-

Job Title: Python Developer

Key Requirements:-

• Mine data from structured and unstructured data sources.
• Extract data (text, images, and videos) from multiple documents in different formats.
• Extract information and intelligence from data.
• Extract data based on regular expressions.
• Collect data from structured RDBMS databases.
• Work closely with Project/Business/Research teams to provide mined data/intelligence for analysis.
• Should have strong exposure to core python skills like multiprocessing, multithreading, file handling, data structure like JSON, Data frames, and User Defined Data structure.
• Should have excellent knowledge of classes, file handling, memory manipulations.
• Strong Knowledge in Python.
• Strong exposure to frond end languages like CSS, JavaScript, Ajax etc.
• Should have exposure to requests, Frontera, scarpy-cluster, elastic-search, distributed computing tools like Kafka, Hbase, Redis, Zookeeper, restAPI.
• Should be familiar with *nix development environment.
• Knowledge of Django will be added advantage.
• Excellent knowledge on Web Crawling/Web scraping.
• Should have used scraping modules like Selenium, Scrapy, and Beautiful soup.
• Experience with text processing.
• Basics of databases. Good troubleshooting and debugging skills.

 
Education

   B.Tech, MCA, Computer Engineering