Member of Technical Staff-3 (Python)

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

•   At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Should Have experience leading a team.
•   Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
•   Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
•   Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
•   Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.

Opportunity

Here are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

•   Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product.
•   Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs.
•   Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product.

• Defining new merchandising or reporting functionality
• Adding more advanced search capabilities
• Improving scoring/recommendation models
• eCommerce platform integrations/API implementations
• Load testing/scaling features as we continuously grow
• Something new. There are always interesting new challenges that come our way. Here are a couple of things we’ve worked on recently:
  • Managing background jobs with competing performance goals like quick turnaround while staying within platform API limits
  • Embedding and dynamically changing products in an email even after sending it
  • Managing and coordinating multi data-center processes

• 1-3 years of experience in Ruby On Rails (or a similar MVC framework like Express or Django). You are comfortable with Routes, Migrations, Models, Callbacks, Validations, and so on.
• Ability to design clean, scalable data structures for new features.
• A good understanding of design patterns so that complex processes are written in a maintainable way.
• Knowledge of managing source code with Git.
• Comfortable in a Linux OS.
• Good communication skills, and ability to clearly plan and describe features before building.

• Challenging, exciting work, at scale
  You get to understand the challenges our customers face first-hand, and collaboratively design and build amazing solutions that will be used by millions of shoppers through billions of API requests. There’s always something new and exciting to build.
• Have a direct impact
  Seven engineers currently build, refine, and scale the entire product. Working in a small team means you will have a say in the way the product is built, and your performance will have a direct impact on the company’s outcome.
• Culture
  Tagalys is a place for you to be yourself, enjoy your work, and achieve your potential. We love the energy that comes from working with smart people in a simple and welcoming environment. We design our workflow to make sure you are also able to focus on everything else in life that is important: family, friends, and health.
• Benefits
  You get great pay, coupled with flexible hours, a hybrid work model, and comprehensive insurance for your and your dependents. For the people contributing significantly, we also offer ESOPs so there is an opportunity to build wealth as you help the company grow.

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.

Excellent programming skills in C/C++ and Python
Need experience on cloud/Virtualization experience.
Strong working experience in developing application on Linux 
Experience of working with multi-threading, IPC and socket programming is must.
Familiarity with OS concepts like memory management, scheduling etc. is desirable.
Familiarity with TCP/IP protocol stack is desirable
Knowledge of Linux networking stack including conceptual understanding of IPsec, iptables, conntrack, bridging, policy based routing etc. is desirable
Familiarity with container technology
Aware of Agile Methodologies, CI/CD methods
Experienced with all phases of project in development, testing and deployment and management of enterprise solutions.
Excellent verbal written communication skills.
Self-motivation and the ability to work under aggressive timeline is must.
Strong problem-solving skills and very good time management skills

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc. 

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred. 
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

• 2+ years experience in application development

• experience with Python and Javascript is required. 

• good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts

• experience in using and understanding code from Open Source

• Strong command of NoSQL and ability to design schemas.

• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as React Native, React.js, or Javascript

• Experience with cloud infrastructure tools in AWS and Google Cloud

• experience with implementing best software engineering practices like version control with git, code reviews, writing unit-tests, writing readable code

• inclination towards researching new technologies and adapt them to solve challenges we face.

• Address all tech challenges and continue with tech innovation in order to improve business operations

• Experience with Live video stream a plus.

• Experience with AI preferred.

Minimum 5-7years of professional experience building web-applications
Strong experience in backend development
Strong experience in AI/Machine Learning development, Data Analysis/Processing
Experience in creating robust and secure REST APIs
Hands-on exposure to RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB etc.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, Node/JavaScript
Solid familiarity working with cloud and related technologies, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud environments
Ability to do very quick research in unknown technologies
Startup mindset, comfort with chaos and multi-tasking ability
Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms
An eye for writing performance optimum code in any tool set