Member of Technical Staff

About us

Lobb is the new way to match logistics Demand & Supply

India's Largest Intelligence Augmentation for Long haul

The Indian logistics industry has over 10 million long-haul trucks, most of them owned by small truck owners struggling to find the right loads on time. We aim to empower them through our proprietary Truck Discovery Model, by creating a unique network of the fleet, routes, and nodes aligned to demand-supply and move-to-machine-based matching engine.

We are building a world-class team to solve for the next billion micro-entrepreneurs.

About the role:

We are looking for a Python Backend Developer - Serverless/Microservices, with a strong background in Python.

Skillset required:

• 2+ years of experience designing and building apps in Python
• Experience with Python web frameworks like Django, Flask, or FastAPI will be an added advantage
• Experience with common development tools such as Pylint, Black Python code formatter, etc.
• Strong proficiency in Python, including Object-Oriented & Functional Concepts
• You have a sound understanding of data structures and algorithms and Systems Design.
• You understand CS fundamentals
• You know the difference between a good Python code and a bad Python code
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• You love building things and have built some applications in the past (Optional)
• You are analytical and are curious about technology.
• When you don't know, you ask questions or look for answers on the internet.
• You are not afraid to express your opinion.
• You are fanatical about the quality of your work; you finish what you start.
• You have strong English comprehension and communication skills; you can articulate your ideas clearly. (Non-Negotiable)
• Must be willing to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Must have a good sense of user experience
• You’re kind, curious, and tenacious

Optionally:



• Experience as a team leader/mentor. We plan to grow our engineering team.
• Knowledge of Web Servers and Linux.

Final note:

For the right candidate, compensation will include a competitive salary, a flexible working space across multiple locations in Bangalore.

Partnering with us will also give you a chance to be amongst the start-up ecosystem and also interact and network with peers across multiple start-up verticals.

Our backend stack includes AWS Lambda, API Gateway. We have built an automated testing and deployment pipeline around GitHub and Code pipeline. For storage, we primarily use DynamoDB/Postgres, S3.

Whether or not you’re already familiar with these or the dozen of other services we use, together we’ll make sure you develop a working knowledge of them and eventually deep/sound expertise.

Lobb gives you an opportunity to work with a passionate team complimenting us with your expertise and skillsets.

If this is you, please apply.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Job Description:-

Designation : Python Developer

Location : Indore | Onsite

Experience : 3-8 years

Skills : Python, Django, Flask, Numpy, Panda,  RESTful APIs.

Python Developer Responsibilities:- 

1. Coordinating with development teams to determine application requirements.

2. Writing scalable code using Python programming language.

3. Testing and debugging applications.

4. Developing back-end components.

5. Integrating user-facing elements using server-side logic.

6. Assessing and prioritizing client feature requests.

7. Integrating data storage solutions.

8. Coordinating with front-end developers.

9. Reprogramming existing databases to improve functionality.

10. Developing digital tools to monitor online traffic.

Python Developer Requirements:-

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.

2. At Least 3+ years of experience as a Python developer.

3. Expert knowledge of Python and related frameworks including Django and Flask.

4. A deep understanding and multi-process architecture and the threading limitations of Python.

5. Familiarity with server-side templating languages including Jinja 2 and Mako.

6. Ability to integrate multiple data sources into a single system.

7. Familiarity with testing tools.

8. Ability to collaborate on projects and work independently when required.

Skills - Python, Django, Flask, Numpy, Panda,  RESTful APIs.

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

You should primarily be a backend developer or full stack developer, very good at code reviews and code optimization. Our products depend on processing large amounts of data and having fast response times is absolutely essential.

You will have the opportunity to

• Take responsibility of building systems for scale
• Manage our backend systems and database optimizations
• Assist in key decisions and design architecture that drives development across products
• Define processes and help with efficient functioning of the team
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the products are scalable, maintainable and secure

What we expect from you:

• We work on Ruby on Rails but you can have 2+ years of experience as backend developer in any language
• Have a solid grasp of OOP, databases and automated testing methodologies.
• Know how to manage sprint and ensure tasks are completed within the timeline
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Strong understanding of SQL databases
• Proficient knowledge of various authentication methods like JWT, OAuth etc..
• Perform peer code reviews and Code audit - Analyze existing code and remediate performance issues within existing applications

Having seen over 10x growth in 2021 alone, we are expanding our scope of products to cater to the fast growing creator economy and help creators monetize in ways beyond influencer marketing. We are also looking at tremendous growth in the next few years, standing at the verge of building something huge!

Come join our team of developers if a fast learning environment in a high growth industry excites you.

About Winkl

Please check out our product before applying to this position -
* Website - https://winkl.co
* Team - https://winkl.co/about
* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.winkl.app&;amp;hl=en
* iOS App - https://www.winkl.co/app

Winkl is a technology company that is changing how influencer marketing is done. From a manual process earlier to an automated and data-driven process with Winkl. More on this here.

Leveraging data & technology helps Winkl scale influencer marketing to a level that wasn't possible earlier. This has helped Winkl power influencer campaigns for top brands in India like Flipkart, Amazon etc.

Culture & Expectations

* At Winkl, no one tells you what to do. We don't micromanage. We don't spoon feed. As long as you're willing to learn new things, are proactive, initiate activities on your own, make mistakes and learn from them, take responsibility, stick to your word of getting things done, we think you'd be a great fit at Winkl.
* On a day to day basis, you'll get to be an important part of a high growth startup as it scales.
* You'll receive all possible support from your team at Winkl to help you succeed. 
* Being highly accountable is a non-negotiable requirement

Scope:

• Responsible for overseeing the daily operations of technical development and maintenance as well as participating as an active member of the team.
• To provide technical support for the web scrapping application
• Customer & Stakeholder communication & Reporting
• To build, modify and manage Java or Python code along with Apache Nutch
• Contribute towards web crawler product development

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and assign the development and maintenance related work assigned from customer’s end to the team on regular basis.
• Regular Code / Script Reviews, Development of Java code & Python Scripts for web scraping
• Be the point of contact when it comes to technical escalations and communicate to customer or to internal team
• Analyze, Design and Develop web crawler product using JAVA spring boot and Apache storm
• Record and track team SLAs and workflows
• Should able to assist the team members in troubleshooting or understanding the technical issues
• Monitor team performance and report on metrics
• Create/Modify web page templates
• Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues on the scripts running in production environment
• Provide email or chat support to customer of assigned activities
• Understanding on SVN or other source code management and ticketing system
• Experience in Netbeans/Eclipse/PyCharm/IntelliJ IDE
• Ensure all issues are properly logged

Required Skills:

• Must have hands-on experience in Core Java 1.8, Java Spring boot, Mysql, XPath, Linux
• Experience in troubleshooting Java /Python based applications
• Should be good in Regex and Xpath
• Good in communication, both oral and written
• Strong analytical skills to investigate and resolve customer support tickets
• Motivation to learn new skills and technologies
• Previous experience in managing teams

Preferred Skills:

• Apache Nutch, Storm, Solr, Elastic Search, Scrapy, Python, Groovy scripts, RESTful APIs
• Handled HTML/XML data format

Academic Eligibility of any below:

• Computer based Degree (BCA / MCA ./B.E./B.Tech/ M.Tech.)

Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Test cases should be upto the mark
• Performance tuning knowledge is a must. Experience is an added advantage.
• In Backend – fundamentals of all languages is a must• Good hands-on software development experience with proven working experience
in Python development
• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such
as Django, Flask)
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process
architecture
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and
CSS3
• Understanding of memory model/GC from performance point of view.