Who are we?
Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India
The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!
As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will
● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance
Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036
Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning
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• An engaging, open, genuine personality that naturally encourages interaction with individuals at all levels
• Strong value system and sense of ethics • Absolute dedication to premium quality
• Want to build strong core product team capable of developing solutions for complex, industry-first problems.
• Build balance of experience, knowledge, and new learnings
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HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.
We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.
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We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team to help build and maintain our growing list of products. You should have prior experience being responsible for building sufficiently complex features by yourself.
Responsibilities:
- Implement product features by writing clean, robust, reusable code with tests
- Conduct peer reviews to keep the codebase a great environment to work on
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver high-quality features
- Bring new ideas and best practices to improve the team and the codebase
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional work experience
- Proficiency in backend programming languages like Python
- Experience working with web application frameworks like Django
- Experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
- Proficiency in writing highly performant and scalable code
- Experience in building REST APIs and a good understanding of best practices around building APIs
- Good communication skills with an ability to articulate your views
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Solid understanding of Data structures and Algorithms.
- Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Golang/Python)
- Must have basic understanding of AWS (EC2, Lambda, Boto, CI/CD), Celery, RabbitMq and similar task queue management tools/libraries.
- Experience with web technologies Python, Linux, Apache, Solr, Memcache, Redis, grpc
- Experience with high performance services catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus
- Strong understanding of Python and Django.
- Good knowledge of various Python Libraries, APIs, and tool kits.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
- Understanding of databases and MySQL
Responsibilities :
- Comply with coding standards and technical design.
- Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing, and maintainability of the code.
- Active participation in troubleshooting and debugging.
- Preparing technical documentation of code.
● Designing, code reviews, POCs on latest cutting-edge technologies building,
deploying highly scalable and robust cloud based intelligent solutions.
● Architect & Design, code high performance and scalable solutions that meet the needs of millions of customers.
● Implement cutting-edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data.
● Working on the REST framework
● Working on session-based and token-based authentication, Working on Celery
● Handling the payment gateway
● Work with Multi-threading, Data Structures, Algorithm, Design Patterns and develop robust high-performance and scalable applications.
● Writing scalable code using Python programming language.
● Developing back-end components.
The Back-end Developer primarily participates in designing and implementing new services as well as participates in customer delivery. It will be possible to influence your work profile based on your interests.
While not mandatory, a generic understanding of user interfaces and being able to position oneself as an end-user is highly desirable. We appreciate also prior knowledge of the Image Processing domain.
We are looking for well-rounded people who care about their craft and understand software development. While we value a formal degree in computer science we do not require one - a candidate with a strong background, open mind and ability to learn would be an ideal addition to our team.
That being said, here is what we think the ideal team member would be:
Responsibilities:
- Develop and Integrate Django backend and API's with frontend framework.
- Working closely with UX and Front-end Developers
- Participating in architectural, design and product development
- Designing and creating RESTful APIs for internal and partner consumption
- Working in an agile environment with an excellent team of engineers.
- Experienced with the Django REST framework
- Good experience of Python coding skills
- Hands on experience on designing and structuring of database most likely ORM (i.e MongoDB)
- Knowledge of how to build and use with RESTful APIs
- Strong knowledge of version control (i.e. git, etc.)
- Experience deploying Python applications into production.
- Working experience on Apache services.
- Knowledge of cloud services is a plus.
Qualification: Engineering from CSE/IT
Basic Qualifications
- Solid knowledge of algorithms/data structures is a must
- Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
- Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
- Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
- Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
- Experience implementing unit tests
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
- Experience with microservice architectures
- Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
- Experience working in Agile Scrum
- Experience working on a globally distributed team
Backend - Software Development Engineer-III
Responsibilities:-
- Research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable platforms
- Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
- Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices
- Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
- Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
- Working with a cross-discipline team of Design, Product, Data Science and Analytics team.
- Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team.
Requirements:-
- Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript
- Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express
- Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design
- Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL(Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
- Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
- Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
- Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
- Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S.
- Curiosity to explore the cutting edge technologies and bake them in the products.
- Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.
- 5+ years of experience in back end development preferably in microservice environment.
Work Ex 3 - 6 yrs
Qualifications Graduation (BE / B Tech / BCA/MCA/BSC) with specialisation in Computer Science is Preferred or B.E / B Tech
Notice Period - Immediate or max 20 days or candidates with BUY OUT OPTION
Targetted Sector / Industry - IT, Ecommerce / Product startups, Edu Tech companies
Location : Kurla Mumbai, willing to relocate (if your not from Mumbai)
Should have a high performance Laptop + Internet Connection(Currently to start working remotely)
About the Company uFaber is a well-funded EduTech startup, founded by serial entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay. Technology has changed almost every aspect of our life but the way we learn is still the same. We know that we have chosen a very complex and difficult problem to solve but if problem is not challenging, what's the fun! We are building a team of super smart and high IQ people
Skills Required :
1) Hands on experience in python - django / flask / django restful API frameworks
- Having worked as an individual contributor - developing the project / product end to end from scratch
- Having worked as a backed/fullstack developer
- Having worked on high user base products / apps(min 10 - 20k) users
- Having solved or worked on production issues after the product release
- Having lead a team of 2-4 developers(DESIRED, not mandatory)
2) Good understanding of HTML / CSS | SCSS / Javascript / jQuery, responsive web design using bootstrap
3) Basic understanding of MVC, JavaScript development (Angular is a big bonus)
4) Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
5) Management of hosting environment, including database administration (preferebly relational databases MySQL, Postgres, etc)
6) Strong theoritical and practical knowledge of the work - the fundamentals must be clear.
7) Smart, confident and good communication skills.
What you are suppose to do :
1. Plan and execute the long term development roadmap.
2. Code high quality web and mobile apps in django and angular.
Max CTC - 15 Lacs fixed
Work Ex 3 - 6 yrs
Qualifications Graduation (BE / B Tech / BCA/MCA/BSC) with specialisation in Computer Science is Preferred or B.E / B Tech
Notice Period - Immediate or max 20 days or candidates with BUY OUT OPTION
Targetted Sector / Industry - IT, Ecommerce / Product startups, Edu Tech companies
Location : Mumbai, willing to relocate