• Build out our web architecture allowing new feature modules to be sent to production, while having
strategic foresight on long term product vision.
• Software development project management from transforming requirements into technical specifications,
design, code, and tested systems.
• Closely involved in development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post- launch support.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development and explore new technologies.
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
• Coordinate with co-developers and actively participate in code reviews , bug fixing code /architecture.
• Brainstorm and solve problems and put effort in constant improvement in technical front .
• Perform frequent peer reviews.
• Participate actively in demos / S&T.
• Share knowledge through collaboration, training, peer review, presentations, and articles.
• Track record of delivering in Scrum, Agile and other methodologies.
• Proficiency in establishing processes and tools to enable team productivity when developing websites
(version control, automatic build, code review).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and cognitive ability.
• Contribute towards a positive healthy fun and creativity driven culture.
Must Have:
• Strong aptitude towards problem solving with a hacker mindset.
• Should have infinite love towards Linux and respect open-source development.
• Should have sound knowledge of core PHP, MVC Frameworks Laravel preferred.
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.
• Should be excellent in SQL/NoSql database (Surprise us we are constantly pushing out DB architecture).
• Basic Knowledge of Frontend Technologies to easily communicate in terms of Front end Lingos.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Experience in building high secure components, encryption techniques.
• Experience in building event based and queue based Infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-tier system and service design and development for large scale systems.
• Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining
solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies.
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold kickass ideas.
• Experience with caching and scaling techniques.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure is must AWS/GCP/DO.
• Good to have experience with any tool such as Jenkins, Gitlab Devops building pipelines, CI/CD automation.
• Eager to learn new languages and experiment / explore new technologies.

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Key Skills:
- Programming Languages: C# or VB.NET
- Server-Side Technologies: ASP.NET / MVC
- Front-End Technologies: Html5, ES5/ES6/ JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Ajax, Web Sockets
- Database: SQL Server
Senior BackEnd Engineer
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building scalable applications, a deep understanding of back-end technologies, and experience with cloud infrastructure. As a Back End Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a scalable workflow management system. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build robust and efficient applications that meet the needs of our users. Your expertise in Scala, Python, AI Agents/APIs, and GCP will be crucial in ensuring our system is reliable, performant, and scalable.
Key Responsibilities:
Back-End Development:
- Build and maintain back-end services and APIs using Scala.
- Implement and optimize Orchestration workflow system involving database queries and operations.
- Build API integrations with Third Party APIs and services.
- Ensure robust and scalable server-side logic.
Cloud Integration:
- Deploy, manage, and monitor applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Utilize GCP services to enhance application performance and scalability.
- Implement cloud-based solutions for data storage, processing, and analytics.
Collaboration And Communication:
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to sharing team knowledge.
- Document development processes, coding standards, and project requirements.
Qualifications:
- Educational Background:
- Completed a masters/bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Scala programming language.
- Strong experience with React and ReactJS.
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its services.
- Knowledge of front-end development tools and best practices.
- Understanding of RESTful API design and implementation.
- Soft Skills:
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
- Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies and challenges.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with version control systems such as Git.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Understanding of workflow management systems and their requirements.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker.
Must have Skills
- Scala - 4 Years
- React.Js - 1 Years
- RESTful API - 4 Years
- Docker - 2 Years
- Python - 3 Years
- Artificial Intelligence - 2 Years
- Candidate Should have 5+ Years Of Experience in Core Java
- You will need strong development skills to work on and improve our Scala-based services, and be able to work together with senior teammates to create appropriate architectural design and ensure all aspects are appropriate to meet the business need.
- Excellent Functional Design and Functional Programming skills (more than 2 years of business experience in Scala and Java projects, respectively)
- Core skills in key supporting technologies and/or frameworks such as Play (AKKA) / Lagom
- Proven experience working in teams in the successful delivery of complex, performant and high quality products
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills
- Experience of SaaS (Software as a Service) environments
- Exposure to RESTful web APIs and a service oriented architecture
- Experience in Linux environments, Shell scripting etc
- Working with XML and JSON including parsing, asserting / matching and extracting
- Experience with Continuous Integration environments and build tools, including Terraform, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle and Ant
- Experience with messaging systems such as Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS and Rabbit MQ
- Experience working on Live platform SDKs such as Twilio, AWS Elemental
Responsibilities:
- Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
- Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
- Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performing database queries
- Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
- A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
- Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
- Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions
Key Responsibilities:
Experience with developing/implementing web applications built on PHP technologies.
Provide technical guidance and recommendations to other team members as required.
Development responsibilities include doing code review / bug analysis, analyzing development and impacts.
Provide effort planning estimates for application change requests and defect resolutions.
Run daily stand-up meetings as required and in concert with the program technical lead .
Assist in establishing and updating application release plans.
Manage and perform Web application deployments.
Perform root cause analysis for production issues and provide resolutions in a timely fashion .
Develop and maintain technical documentation Skills Requirement:
Minimum 1 years of experience with team leading
Minimum 2 to 3 year experience in laravel mysql
Excellent knowledge of REST services
Excellent knowledge of RDBMS concepts and database designing
Good Communication skills in Malayalam and English
Problem solving and decision making skills
Prior experience in handling a team.
Agile background is a plus.
Ready to adapt / learn a new programming language / tools / framework based on project requirements.
Able to provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers.
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
This is fully a remote role, but the employer needs to fly down to the office in Kolkata for 5–6 days every month. Plane tickets and accommodation will be reimbursed by the company.
Role Description
NowPurchase is looking to add an immensely talented Senior Backend Engineer 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.
- You need to lead the backend team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and is constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.
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 lead the team from 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
- 4+ years of demonstrated software engineering experience in an agile environment designing, architecting and implementing robust scalable systems preferably for modern SaaS application
- 1+ years of technical leadership experience
- 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**
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!*
* Write “clean”, well-designed code
* Produce detailed specifications
* Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
* Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
* Follow industry best practices
* Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
Requirements:
* Proven software development experience in PHP
* Understanding of Frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgnitor, Wordpress, Yii, etc
* Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX etc
* Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and of developing web services
* Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, Ebay etc)
* Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
* BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
JOB SUMMARY
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Job Title: |
Backend Web Application Developer (AWS Cloud) |
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Team/Department: |
Omnicom Media Group IT (OMG – IT) |
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Reporting: |
Manager – OMG IT |
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Location: |
Bangalore |
ABOUT THE ROLE
THE ROLE IN SUMMARY
Omnicom Media Group (OMG) has an immediate opening for a highly motivated and talented backend web application developer, specializing in AWS cloud technologies. In this position you will be joining an in-house development team whose primary responsibility is developing new features and functionality for multiple existing web applications and day to day troubleshooting and issue resolution. The ideal candidate will possess excellent critical thinking and troubleshooting skills and have proven experience using popular AWS services commonly used to build serverless web application architectures. Candidates are expected to have strong knowledge of AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB and Python programming. Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure as code frameworks, such as Serverless Framework, Terraform or CloudFormation, etc. is also required. Excellent English communication skills are a must as you will be a part of a team working alongside our primary development team in addition to several business analysis and project managers. 5+ years of prior backend and Cloud web application and software development experience required.
WHAT WILL YOU DO
KEY WORKING PRINCIPLES
- Passionate about modern web application architecture and programming. Hands on backend developer.
- Prior experience with modern RESTful API design and implementation. Microservices and single page web applications.
- Strong AWS knowledge, specifically serverless technologies (S3, API Gateway, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB) as they relate to web application development.
- Excellent knowledge of web application security fundamentals (identity management, authentication, authorization, SSO).
- Designed several application databases in SQL and at least one non-relational database system, preferably
- Familiarity with DevOps practices including continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code in preferably Serverless Framework.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- 5+ years professional software development experience.
- Bachler’s degree in computer science or related field.
MUST HAVE SKILLS
- Backend Web Application Development
- Python
- AWS Services Including, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, SES, DynamoDB, Serverless Framework
- AWS Identity and Access Management principles (IAM)
- SQL (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora or comparable)
- GIT, JIRA, Agile / Scrum
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS
- AWS Cognito








