Oddo Funtional Consultant

Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :

1. Proficiency in Python  & Django

2. Solid understanding of Python concepts

3. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)

4. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas

5. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar

6. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL

7. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask

8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git

9. Working experience with Docker

10. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

 

Solution Oriented Mindset

• Assist project in all technical aspects of tooling and DevOps
• Proactively lead tools new versions release cycle and documentation
• Proactively identify risks related to application /deliverables and propose a mitigation plan
• Provide custom solutions as per customer requirements

 

Autonomy & Problem Solving Mindset

• Work in complete autonomy to deliver project deliverables, for advanced technical deliverables, with required level of quality
• Must have troubleshooting skills

 

Agile Mindset

• Contribute to improvement of internal process, tooling, and quality process
• Design, build and collect technical materials as part of project executions in a spirit of reusability for future engagements and maintain knowledge on best practices, tools, and reusable components for CAST analysis

Looking for Python developers with 2+ years of experience.

Primary Skills: Database Systems (SQL), Python Flask/Fast API/Django frameworks specifically
Requirements:

• Highly proficient in fundamentals of Python web development frameworks like Flask, Django and Fast API
• Demonstrated experience in developing APIs using Python frameworks
• Should have deep knowledge in PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server and other SQL based Databases

Job Responsibilities

• Should have experience in Software Product Development at an enterprise level.  .
• Analyze requirements and come up with possible solutions to solve the problem, evaluating and capturing necessary tradeoffs
• Build and improve newest services and ensure that they are well tested and released quickly and often to our customers
•  Debugging capabilities and identify the root cause of the problem and fix them.
•  Influencing the architecture of an application. 
•  Design and implement cloud based high-performance, highly available services to cover customers’ high demands and big data volumes 
•  Maintain rapid deployment pipelines and observability of the services to support operations/troubleshooting. 
•  Think about security of the whole technical stack and processes to ensure customers’ data is safe 
•  Take care of all aspects of the product: from implementation, through testing, to operations.

Job Requirements

• Proficiency in Python programming
• Mandate experience working as a Python Developer with Django.
• Should have good experience in Flask, numpy and pandas
• Should have good experience in REST API development with Django.
• Have In-depth understanding of Object Oriented Programming ( OOPs ) concepts.
• Are Able to create Database Schemes that represent and support business processes.
• Should have good understanding of Agile frameworks such as Git, Jenkins etc.
• Must have experience working on MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript & jQuery.
• Must have experience with Web Servers e.g. Nginx, Apache.
• Good to have AI/ML/Data science certification.
• Must be a fast learner and comfortable teaching yourself new skills and can thrive in a complex and fast-paced environment.
• Positive attitude and excellent communication as well as written skills

Responsibilities: 

• Design and code efficient, scalable systems that can accept feedback from multiple hundred thousand employees and generate insights 
• Design efficient and scalable event driven systems to process complex machine learning pipeline
• Experiment with data to come up with unique insights and that can benefit our clients
• Identify libraries and technologies worth experimentation
• Participate in brainstorming sessions to bring more value to our clients
• Investigate performance issues / scalability bottlenecks, existing queries and/or write new queries with performance optimization in mind
• Develop RESTful APIs that can be used by frontend to show insights
• Debug and fix production level bugs as and when they crop up
• Support ad hoc data analytics upon requests by clients, and believe us nothing creates a better DB understanding than handling ad hoc data requests 

Requirements: 

• 3+ years of experience in architecture and developing high performance web applications 
• Experience with systems ingesting/processing high amounts of data is a plus 
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database 
• Working knowledge of RESTful API paradigms  
• Experienced in microservices architecture  
• Solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Passion for products, empathy for users, and aspiration to make a big impact
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**Technology Vision**

The B2B manufacturing industry has a lack of digitisation globally. NowPurchase is building layers of technology to help improve the productivity and profits of the manufacturer. For this we are building the OS (Operating System) that will seamlessly connect factory equipment such as furnaces and spectrometers to our software systems that provide real time optimisations.

The end-game is to use this interconnected system to do great production planning and autonomous procurement of their raw materials. The Heart of NowPurchase will be a marketplace consisting of these smart factories and raw material suppliers.

Here a video that explains our product journey:

[https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21](https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21)

 **Role Description**

NowPurchase is looking to add an immensely talented Backend Developer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet the above vision.

- Expect to build a lot of services and APIs in the cloud and stand-alone IoT devices to serve both the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises.
- Expect designing algorithms that model the metallurgy of the manufacturing processes as well as using tools such as linear programming, machine learning etc.

 **What are the expectations from this role?**

- Deliver high quality modular code deployed to serve web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets. This would include algorithms for real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
- You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
- Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
- Own your Agile projects and responsible for software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
- Collaborate on the end to end design and implementation of the platform, including data modeling, systems architecture, data security, access controls, architecture, user experience, deployment, automation, and monitoring.
- Maintain a high level of data integrity, quality and security checks.
- Develop data pipelines and RESTful services that are distributed, robust and highly performant.
- Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.

 **Qualifications and Experience**

- 1+ years of demonstrated software engineering experience in an agile environment designing, architecting and implementing robust scalable systems preferably for modern SaaS application
- Experience with modern server-side programming languages such as Python, Scala, Go. Experience with web frameworks such as Django Rest Framework, Flask.
- Experience with architecting asynchronous services with design patters leveraging PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery for storage and multi-tenant servers over AWS Elastic BeanStalk.

 **Compensation & Benefits**

- **Cash Compensation:** As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
- **ESOPs:** 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
- **Medical Insurance:** Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
- **Generous leave structure and WFHs** including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
- **Complete Relocation Expenses:** We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.

 **Possible Growth path**

Backend Developer > Senior Backend End Engineer > Engineering Manager > VP of Engineering

## **Tech Stack**

- React/Redux
- Python/Django/Celery
- Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
- PostgreSQL/Redis/S3

 **Hiring Process**

1. Screening of applicants & initial telephonic call with Manager -HR
2. F2F/Video Interview with Engineering Manager and Cofounder CTO
3. Take home written assessment
4. F2F/Video Interview with Cofounder CEO
5. Email communication on final feedback

The end to end process shall take less than 10 days. We pride ourselves on being transparent & moving fast.

*Candidates who accept an offer may join within 1 hour, 1 week or up to 45days of signing - though, we have a preference for as short a gap period between signing and joining since we're at the most exciting part of our journey - laying the foundation for the NowPurchase platform!*

This person MUST have:
- B.E Computer Science or equivalent
- 3 years experience with the Django framework
- Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL)
- Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
- React.js knowledge would be an added bonus
- Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite,
MongoDB, MySQL.
- Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
- A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
- Strong communication skills.

Experience:
- Min 3 year experience
- Startup experience is a must.
Location:
- Remote developer
Timings:
- 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. Typically
clients are in California PST Timezone.
Position:
- Full time/Direct

Other Benefits
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12
PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other
incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here
because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.

Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and extend core platform services and APIs to enable new
products and features to be built.
• Provide technical contribute to the core team that powers our backend services for
millions of concurrent users.
• Build and own the core systems that form the architecture of our backend services
from api gateways, service observability and inter-service communications to higher
level business components like identity, therapeutic engine, and analytics systems
just to name a few.
• Drive the qualitative aspects of the backend services, like performance, scalability,
observability, reliability and security and so on.

Our mission is to make e-commerce easy and accessible for everyone. We believe that all businesses should have the equal playing field in terms of resources to build and grow their online business. With our eCommerce tools and comprehensive platform, business owners can better understand, analyze and grow their business. Starting a business and making products is hard enough; selling products and growing the business shouldn’t be.

We’re a small team looking for passionate, execution-focused, self-starters to help us build the next generation eCommerce platform and equal the playing field for all. Our success depends on building teams who can challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we don’t just accept differences – we celebrate them. If that sounds exciting to you, let’s talk!

We are expanding our Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team composed of owners. We are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential.

What you will do?

 Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.

 Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.

 Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.

 Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.

 Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular design.

 Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation and monitoring

 Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have quality in mind.

 Own the full release cycle from development to deployment.

What you will need?

 3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.

 Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.

 Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.

 Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.

 Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.

 Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing skills.

 Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.

 Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast-paced, ambiguous work environment.

Bonus if you have

 Experience working in the eCommerce domain.

 Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.

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