Python Backend Developer (Python +AWS)

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Software Engineer with over 3 years of experience in designing and developing web-based applications using Node.js.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain web-based applications using Node.js.
• Build scalable, high-performance RESTful APIs using Express.js or Restify frameworks.
• Develop and maintain robust SQL database systems, leveraging Sequelize ORM.
• Ensure responsiveness of applications across various devices and platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams during the product development lifecycle, including prototyping, hardening, and testing phases.
• Work with real-time communication technologies and ensure seamless integration.
• Learn and adapt to alternative technologies as needed to meet project requirements.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in web application development using Node.js.
• Proficiency with frameworks such as Express.js or Restify.
• Strong expertise in SQL databases and experience with Sequelize ORM.
• In-depth understanding of JavaScript, browser technologies, and real-time communication.
• Hands-on experience in developing responsive web applications.
• Experience with React Native (a plus).
• Proficiency in Java.
• Familiarity with product development lifecycle, including prototyping, testing, and deployment.

Additional Skills & Experience

• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Cassandra.
• Knowledge of internationalization (i18n) and latest UI/UX design trends.
• Familiarity with JavaScript libraries/frameworks like ReactJS or VueJS.
• Experience integrating payment gateways for various countries.
• Strong communication skills and ability to facilitate group discussions effectively.
• Eagerness to contribute to product functionality and user experience designs.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Job Details:

As a Software engineer you will be able to challenge the idea of “impossible”, producing results that are elegant, simple and don’t require a team of experts to decode. You are driven by innovation, fresh ideas and new ways to produce high quality solutions. 

Job Description:

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Cloud developer responsible for the development and maintenance of cloud applications deployed in AWS environment. Your primary focus will be the development of such applications and their integration with other services. A commitment to open mind, problem solving, ability to learn, and creating quality products is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of services
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Innovative thinking of finding solutions to needs
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, automatization and documentation
• Use Agile Scrum Methodology for software development
• Develop unit tests for all new code
• Provide code reviews for all new code and participate to code reviews of other people
• Diagnose and resolve complex level issues of application
• Participate in interactions with all levels of personnel with different teams
• Design and build services on top of AWS

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Python
• Strong knowledge of Web Services (Rest or SOAP APIs)
• Strong knowledge of React JS or any other JavaScript
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Knowledge of Java and Spring Boot is good to have
• Knowledge of AWS is good to have
• Knowledge of TypeScript is good to have
• Knowledge of Linux is good to have
• Knowledge of HTML and CSS is good to have
• Knowledge of AWS CloudFormation is good to have
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch is good to have
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Any authorized Java, AWS, Linux, or Python certifications will be value added
• Min 2 years of work experience in relevant technologies
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills

The Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Technology Lead (Python or Node), who adopts a hands-on approach and loves to build scalable, distributed and large web / mobile products. You would be responsible for designing the architecture, reviewing the code, building the technology and deploying web/mobile applications.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product development from scratch.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Architect scalable software solutions and mentor a team of high performing developers.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, SCRUM ceremonies, and troubleshoot to ensure uptime for live systems etc.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field from a premier college.  
• Prior 4+ years of experience in back-end development (Python/ Golang) in a start-up or a dynamic work environment.
• Good exposure in writing and optimizing SQL for high-performance systems.
• Understanding of asyncio and eventloop/ uvloop concepts. Knowledge of frameworks such as Quart/ Fastapi/ Starlette is preferred.
• Knowledge of AWS; Caching technologies like Redis, Memcache; ELK; mySQL Databases, etc.
• Strong understanding of System Design, Microservice Architecture, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Message queues, and in-memory data stores etc.
• Customer oriented, responsive to changes, and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

• 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Experience in AWS.
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
• 2.5+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Experience in AWS.
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

About the Role

Initiate and drive technical decisions on a multi-functional, Agile team alongside product management, product design, and engineering

Work closely with product to translate abstract business and product requirements into crisp technical specifications along with a delivery roadmap

Resolve blockers and help the team stay productive

Perform code and design reviews

Take part in building the team and iterating on hiring processes

Must have Requirements for the Role

8+ years of experience in a highly technical role at hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company and 2+ years of experience leading a team

Production level experience with Node.js or Go mandatory.

Experience building highly available and performant applications in any major programming language (e.g. Node.js, Go, Javascript)

In-depth knowledge and experience working with major cloud platform (e.g. AWS (must have experience))

Experience leading product teams

You are a good communicator who can explain technical concepts to product managers, designers, support and other engineers

Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team environment and with geographically distributed teamsIn-depth knowledge of database and web security

How We Define Success:

Ensure the projects are delivered within reasonable timelines that meet the acceptance criteria set by the stakeholders

Ensure technical debt is being measured and tackled

Ensure the non-functional requirements are being taken into account while delivering features: performance, security and testing

Nice To Have, but Not Required:

Good understanding of GCP, AzureWorked in a early-stage startup environmentGood understanding of micro services

We are seeking extremely smart programmers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop products by working closely with business team.
• Gain experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components.
• Build performant, scalable, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
• Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience in software product development and delivery.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem solving abilities.
• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
• Expert at Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
• Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred). NoSql is a plus.
• Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
• Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work.
• Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
• Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.

We are looking for a Python Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

• Writing reusable, testable and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
• Implementation of security and data protection.
• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)

Skills And Qualifications:

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack).
• 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.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance (depending on the specific project).
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers and environments.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python.
• Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Strong unit test and debugging skills.