
We are looking for a full-time remote Senior Backend Developer who has worked with big data and stream processing, to solve big technical challenges at scale that will reshape the healthcare industry for generations. You will get the opportunity to be involved in the big data engineering, novel machine learning pipelines and highly scalable backend development. The successful candidates will be working in a team of highly skilled and experienced developers, data scientists and CTO.
Job Requirements
1) Writing well tested, readable code using Python that is capable of processing large volumes of data
2) Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS are essential
3) The ability to work to project deadlines efficiently and with minimum guidance
4) A positive attitude and love working within a global distributed team
Skills
1) Highly proficient working with Python
2)Comfort working with large data sets and high velocity data streams
3) Experienced with microservices and backend services
4) Good relational and NoSQL database working knowledge
5) An interest in healthcare and medical sectors
6) Technical degree with minimum of 2 plus years- backend data heavy development or data engineering experience in Python
7) Desirable ETL/ELT
8) Desirable Apache Spark and big data pipelines, and stream data processing (e.g. Kafka, Flink, Kinesis, Event Hub)

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About the Position:
The Professional Services Consultant (Developer/Team Lead) will be a technical leader accountable for gathering customer requirements, delivering best practice, and executing customer implementation projects while driving new revenue through identifying new opportunities and user adoption. The position also requires providing technical guidance and sharing best practices with the team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and execute the technical implementation of projects to ensure successful customer deployment and adoption of Egnyte solutions
- Act as liaison between customers and internal teams such as Engineering, Product Management and Technical Support to solve technical problems and propose new feature development
- Engage multiple constituents at the customer organization – Business users and IT
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects with strict deadlines
- Communicate professionally and succinctly and follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
- Reports to Professional Services Director
Qualifications:
- Strong software programming skills that cover four or more of the following areas:
- Experience with various Integrated Development environments (IDE)
- Experience with software repositories
- Programming experience (Python, Javascript, SQL, Bash, PowerShell preferred)
- Full stack web development and app integrations
- Desktop App Development
- Strong application development skills
- Use of SDK platform tools for API integration
- Prior experience developing and implementing Enterprise software or supporting Enterprise applications in technical capacity for a SaaS environment
- Strong experience in Customer Facing Implementation roles
- Excellent customer engagement, presentation, and communication skills
- Attention to detail and adapt to process in a quick changing environment
- Fluency of spoken and written command of English. Any other language is a plus.
- Experience with Governance and Life Sciences industry preferred
- Engagement with pre-sales activities, scoping requirements, Proof of Concept (POC) and product demos.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline preferred
- 8+ years of relevant technical function experience

Kognitos is a cutting-edge automation platform that combines the power of Generative AI and Natural
Language Processing (NLP) to provide a conversational and intuitive experience for business users. As a
fully serverless, SaaS automation platform, Kognitos enables users to build, manage, and execute
automations in natural language, with the ability to process and understand domain-specific language.
Kognitos provides a detailed auditable view of its runs, allowing users to gain insights into why an action
happened or what might have gone wrong in case of an exceptional situation. Additionally, Kognitos's
conversational exception handling, powered by Generative AI, allows for quick and easy resolution of
unexpected system errors or business exceptions.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain the backend infrastructure for our applications using Python and AWS Serverless
technologies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable and robust systems, including
microservices and cloud-based architectures.
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the backend systems through monitoring and
optimization.
- Create and maintain database schema and queries to support the application features.
- Write unit and integration tests for the backend code and ensure code quality through code reviews.
- Continuously improve the software development process by incorporating best practices and modern
software development methodologies, such as Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD.
- Investigate and troubleshoot production issues and provide timely solutions to minimize downtime and
ensure smooth operations.
- Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the development of technical solutions and best
practices.
- Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in software development and recommend
improvements to the technology stack to increase efficiency and scalability.
- Work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a focus on delivering high-quality software that
meets customer needs.
Required Experience/Skills:
- B.S. or higher degree in Computer Science/Engineering or similar field or equivalent work experience
- 4-20 years of industry experience (or equivalent)
- Proficient in Python programming language
- Experience with modern software development practices and methodologies, including Agile, DevOps,
and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-based architectures.
- Strong understanding of software design patterns, algorithms, data structures, and database technologies.
- A natural problem solver, with the ability to identify problems and lead the development of a solution.

Job Description
- Managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
- Development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end 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.
Expected experience with
- Should have worked on the Django REST framework.
- Familiarity with some Pandas, Numpy, text parsing/mining and 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
- Worked on Amazon cloud solutions
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
- 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
- Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tool
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Should know about HDL and LLD.
- Should know about making python packages
- Should have worked on microservice-based Architecture
Responsibilities
- Plan, develop and implement large-scale projects from conception to completion.
- Interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives.
- Translate clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
- Understand and evaluate complex data models.
- Design, develop and implement new integration.
- Execute system development and maintenance activities.
- Develop solutions to improvise performance and scalability of systems.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
Minimum Requirements
- 3-5 years of relevant experience, working in Java related technologies.
- A Good Engineering or Masters degree from a reputed university
- Should have strong technical skills with a good grasp of OO concepts and design patterns
- Good knowledge of SQL database ( MySQL, Oracle, etc )
- Good understanding of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, etc.
- Good understanding of spring boot and microservices.
- Exposure to AWS services - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.
Good to have
- Knowledge of No-SQL DBs like mongo, dynamoDB, etc.
- Knowledge of message brokers/queuing services like SQL, rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.


What will you be doing
- Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
- Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases
- Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
- Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications on AWS
- Give back to the open-source community through contributions to code and blog posts
- This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements
About you
- Relevant Experience: Minimum 6+ Years
- You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
- Hands-on experience in Python. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good at any other language with experience in building web/app-based tech products
- Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Django, Flask, Falcon, web2py, Twisted, Tornado
- Working knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
- You've worked with core AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
- You can dabble in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- You love doing things efficiently.The works you will have a disproportionate impact on the business. We believe in systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves
- You might not have experience with all the tools that we use but you can learn those given the guidance and resources



- 5-7+ years of commercial Java development experience
- Experience with well known Open Source frameworks/libraries, like Spring Boot
- Work experience with Docker
- Microservice experience
- Experience with AWS like ECS, Lambda, SQS, RDS, Kinesis streams
- Familiar with iterative development
- Upper-intermediate level of English
- Solid understanding of communication and network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP).
- At ease with Unix/Linux
- Excellent analytical and debugging skills
- Familiar with both SQL and noSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, Memcached, Redis)
- Practical experience with scaling applications to big user numbers is a plus
- Experience with other programming languages is a plus.

- 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 :
- Knows best practices for front- end development
- Strong knowledge of Javascript APIs.
- Must have experience in building web applications in Python/Django
- Able to handle multiple databases in Django.
- Knows how to do multiple environments (production/ staging)setup in Django.
- Knows how to set up/deploy Django apps in AWS.
- Knowledge of MongoDB, postgresql mysql
- Familiar with Docker/Docker- compose








