Python & Angular Developer (With NLP Experience)

What are the Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include writing and testing code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with third-party web services. 
• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Creates customized applications for smaller tasks to enhance website capability based on business needs
• Ensures web pages are functional across different browser types; conducts tests to verify user functionality
• Verifies compliance with accessibility standards
• Assists in resolving moderately complex production support problems

What are we looking for:

• 3+ Years of work experience as a Python Developer
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework: Django
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Elastic search, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka will give you an edge over others
• Good understanding of the operating system and networking concepts
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Graduation/Post Graduation in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering
• Decent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel, and management

• Strong development experience in Python in the environment of Unix/Linux/Ubuntu
• Strong practical knowledge of Python and its libraries.
• Current working experience with cloud deployment of AWS/Azure/GCP, Microservice architecture, and Docker in Python.
• Good knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Good Experience of Python with Django/ Scrapy/ Flask frameworks.
• Good Experience in Jupyter/ Docker/ Elastic Search, etc.

• Solid understanding of software development principles and best practices.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to drive large-scale projects with a deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration, and leadership.

• Expected to have migration experience from one version to the other, as this project is about migration to the latest version.
• Preferred if had an OpenEdx platform experience or any LMS platform. 

• Worked on Python, with knowledge of Scrapy framework & Beautiful Soup.
• Maintaining the running web crawlers full-stack application.
• Create more/better ways to crawl relevant information
• Builds and maintain new API integrations to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity
• Python Tech stack (Python library: Requests, Urllib, Beautifulsoup).
• Good communication skills.

Requirements:

• Expert in Python, with good knowledge in Django technology.
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Experience in Flask will be an add-on
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.
• Good communication skills.

We are hiring for a Software Engineer Team Lead - Backend, to join our education-focused fintech lending startup, GrayQuest. Our core product is a combination of a lending product, a rewards product and an insurance product to redefine the education fees payment across the country.

• Participate in all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Develop back-end components, services, and APIs. Support integration of user-facing elements, and collaborate closely with the design and front-end development team.
• Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of coding standards.
• Take complete ownership of projects and ensure timely deliveries
• Ability to debug, refine, review, and deploy code
• Work closely with the QA team to test, and document project features.
• Ability to interact with all stakeholders. Understand business requirements, and effectively convert them into technical specifications
• Mentor junior developers and participate in peer Review

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience as a Python Developer (3+ years)
• Strong knowledge of Python frameworks (Django Rest, Flask)
• Experience working on REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of SQL and JavaScript
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Working knowledge of React
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology
• Good understanding of task breakup, milestone definition, and work delegation.
• Past experience of working in a fintech/financial services domain or a consumer internet startup will be preferable but not required
• Work experience in early-stage startups (0 ->1) is a big plus
• Bachelors or equivalent degree from premier institutes is a plus
• Most importantly, the biggest skill we look for our prospective candidates is "Learnability" - how quickly can you learn. 

Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate:

1. Work with a young dynamic core team backed by marquee investors from the financial services space
2. Work on a product/business that has achieved product market fit and take it to scale
3. Equity compensation and competitive market salaries
4. Work environment that prioritizes talent, hustle and dedication
   
   

We will also ensure we give a preference to applicants who directly email us with their background/context and why they think they should be a strong candidate for this position at GrayQuest. Email us at work (at the rate) grayquest (dot) com and cc Sonal (at the rate)grayquest (dot) com

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