


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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- Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, shows enthusiasm and interest in work.
- Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, Web service.
- Should have work experience on following stacks/libraries: 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 Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable


💥 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
As an SDE - III/IV (Backend), you will solve real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our users. In this role, you will ensure that the solutions and processes that we create are of the highest quality. And in doing so, you will champion a seamless app experience for all our users.
If you are confident about solving hard, interesting and UNIQUE problems, and creating an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, then you might just be our next SDE - III (Backend).
What will you do
- Collaborate with teams to develop and support the smooth 24x7 operation of our service.
- Create prototypes and proofs-of-concept for iterative development.
- Stay updated with emerging tech cultures and implement them in production systems.
- Develop scalable, long-term strategies to aid the company’s 10X growth.
- Ensure content quality and consistency of the brand.
- Reduce technical debt with quality coding
What you will need
- BTech degree in computer science or related field.
- 4-10 years of relevant work experience.
- Strong knowledge of any of the databases like MySQL, NoSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL.
- Experience in Java and web technologies.
- Experience in scripting languages like Python, PHP, etc.
- Hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency.
- Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of software development life cycle


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Job Description
We are looking for a talented Software Engineers to join our agile development team. As an experienced member, you will participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle: scoping, design, coding, testing, implementation and support. You will help in the development of highly available, scalable, secure and flexible solutions for our ecommerce platform. In this role, you must be able to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult and complex problems. You take pride and ownership in your work as well as the overall contributions of the team. You must also have the ability to take a system-wide understanding, recognize use of system components and disparate technologies and be able to diagnose and debug components across an entire system. Your ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and verbal) is also key as is being a self-starter.
* Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related field
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* Experience with PostgreSQL or other Relational Databases
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* Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills
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- 100% Hands on role
- Make architecture decisions that contribute to maintainable systems
- Adapt to rapidly evolving requirements and changing priorities and drive the team accordingly
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Qualifications:
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a reputed University
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- React and/or Angular for front end
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It can be taking our own product and customizing as per the customer requirements or developing applications from the scratch.



