Python Backend Engineer at Alpha Coach · Remote only · 3 - 8 years · ₹12L - ₹15L / yr · Raised funding · Remote only · Posted 13 May 2022
We're looking for someone to join a team dedicated to building performant APIs and backend services that deal with large volumes of data for the company's flagship, global consumer product. Small, high-impact teams require conscious planning and decision-making when it comes to design, architecture, and product features. So, it's essential that you enjoy working in such an environment.
We're a team that cares about simplicity and being able to build reliable, deterministic systems and platforms. Hence, our choice of tooling is usually battle-tested reliable software with a robust test suite.
How we work
- You won't deal with the hustle culture. We're focused on building well-thought-out, stable and reliable software and we try our best to ensure everyone understands the big picture and the immediate goals.
- We work a solid 6-8 hour days and don't slave away 24/7.
- We're a remote engineering team. This makes effective communication extremely important. Our teams have benefitted greatly from good written communication. This includes everything from the product specification to the API spec. We spend a lot of time writing READMEs. As a result our engineers work with greater clarity and planning.
- We deploy several times a day and rely on a good test suite to ensure we're not making life hard for our colleagues.
- We don't expect anyone to know everything, but we are curious and learn along the way.
- We learn about the fitness space and what it means to really be fit and not just Instagram fit.
The Python Backend Engineer position may be a good fit for you if:
- You have 3 (or more) years of experience building and maintaining cloud applications.
- You have built APIs with Python, Flask, Django or FastAPI before.
- You have experience working with relational databases like PostgresSQL or MySQL and have spent time writing SQL queries for large datasets.
- Experience in writing Unit tests with pytest.
- You have worked with Docker, docker-compose.
- Familiarity with the AWS ECS stack.
We want you to care about
- Good object oriented design
- Performant APIs
- Analysing why queries are slow and how to go about improving them.
- Understanding DNS, Load balancing, Caching and Hashing.
- Customer data and privacy.
Our API Stack services use:
- Python 3.8+, Typescript
- FastAPI, Flask, HapiJs
- PostgresSQL, MySQL
- Redis
- Celery
- Pytest, Jest for unit testing.
- Gitlab CI/CD
- Amazon ECS container services

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Required Skills & Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional experience in backend development with Python.
- Strong hands-on experience with FastAPI (or Flask/Django with migration experience).
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming in Python.
- Working knowledge of version control systems (Git).
- Good problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
- should have a solid background in backend development, RESTful API design, and scalable application development.
Shift: Night Shift 6:30 pm to 3:30 AM IST
Developer Requirements/Expectations:
- Experience: 5+ Years
- Tech Stack: Core PHP, MySQL, Basic JavaScript, Oracle
- 3rd Party Integration: Payment Gateways (Apple Pay Wallet, Google Pay, Stripe)
- Tools: Trello, Slack, Github
- Soft Skills: Team Work, Excellent Client Communication.
Engagement Type: Full Time, Dedicated
- Work Hours: 8 Hours per day, 160 hours per month
- Shift: 10 AM-7 AM IST (Including Lunch hour)
- Work shifts need to be flexible to accommodate client calls in EST.
Screening Process:
Round 1: Technical
Round 2: Managerial
Location: Ahmedabad (Hybrid)
- Experience in API development using Java will be a plus.
- Excellent knowledge and experience in writing testable, scalable, flexible, robust and efficient web applications using JavaEE 6/7 technologies, specifically, Spring core, Spring Boot Spring Data, spring batch and JPA
- Experience in successfully deploying Java-based applications in production and understanding load-balancing, authentication, and fault tolerance through Tom Cat.
- Experience in database modeling (MySQL/NoSQL databases such as Mongo DB)
- Knowledge of integrating with Ant, Maven, GIT and Shell scripting.
- Strong backend experience to develop Data Layer using at least one of the ORM frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc.
- Strong RDBMS Skills and SQL skills. Experience in MySQL, Teradata and warehousing databases.
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Experience in Analytics frameworks and visualization products.
- Excellent knowledge and experience of Maven, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery with Jenkins.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks, especially Angular is a definite plus.
Java 8, J2EE , Spring Boot, Microservices, Apache Spark, DevOps, Advanced SQL, preferably with
expertise in Data engineering/Data analytics,
ELK(Elastic Search, Logstash , Kibana) stack, Teradata, any No SQL database, Hands on experience in
maintaining products on Cloud Technologies like PCF, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, etc, NodeJS,
Angular 2x, GitLab with CI/CD, Hands on experience in Unix server, Shell scripting, Large data
processing, Performance tuning, Experience in working in various Test Automation frameworks like
Selenium, Test NG, Python, Cucumber, Karma, Karate/ Jasmine, etc
Experience in using Eclipse, Spring tool suite, Project building tools - Maven, Gradle, etc, JIRA for ALM.
As an engineer, you will help with the implementation, and launch of many key product features. You will get an opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies (including Spring, AWS Elastic Search, Lambda, ECS, Redis, Spark, Kafka etc.) and apply new technologies for solving problems. You will have an influence on defining product features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will get to work with skilled and motivated engineers who are already contributing to building high-scale and high-available systems.
If you are looking for an opportunity to work on leading technologies and would like to build product technology that can cater millions of customers inclined towards providing them the best experience, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!
What You'll Do:
- Creating detailed design, working on development and performing code reviews.
- Implementing validation and support activities in line with architecture requirements
- Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks.
- Designing, building, and implementation of the product; participating in requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation and review of high and low level design, assigning and reviewing tasks for product implementation.
- Work closely with product managers, UX designers and end users and integrating software components into a fully functional system
- Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production.
- Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns.
- Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation.
- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
- Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent.
- Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.
The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/she should be able to commit and own the deliveries end-to-end.
What You'll Need:
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- 2-3+ years of Software Development experience with proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA
- Fluency with Java, and Spring is good.
- Experience in JEE applications and frameworks like struts, spring, mybatis, maven, gradle
- Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and CS fundamentals.
- Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and data modeling skills
- Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
- Ability to learn new domains and deliver output
- Hands on Experience with the core AWS services
- Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, GitLab, TeamCity, GoCD, etc.)
- Expertise in at least one of the following:
- Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology
- Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached
- Distributed column store databases like Snowflake, Cassandra, or HBase
- Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks
- Proficient with writing and reviewing Python and other object-oriented language(s) are a plus
- Experience building automations and CICD pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
- Experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.
- Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile: Scrum, Kanban
- Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams
Are you interested in creating outstanding, reliable and scalable software?
We at Lynkzo are creating a modern omni channel communication platform for companies to meet the changing requirements in the market.
We are looking for someone who:
- has hands-on experience with creating/working on scalable applications in Nodejs using various frameworks like Express, Hapi, Fastify, etc and can structure a fairly large codebase properly.
- has been working as a backend developer for 3+ years.
- has great experience working in both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- can extensively test the entirety of the application.
- can convert real-world business challenges into effective technical solutions.
- has experience working with an agile/scrum team.
- can work independently with limited supervision.
*Experience in AWS will be good to have.
We are looking for a highly capable Node.js developer to optimize our web-based application performance. You will be collaborating with our front-end application developers, designing back-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions.
To ensure success as a Node.js developer, you should possess extensive knowledge of Node.Js based services and experience in a similar role. An accomplished Node.js developer will be someone whose expertise results in the stable, fast, and secure exchange of data between servers and end-users.
Node.js Developer Responsibilities:
Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
Node.js Developer Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
Great organizational and time management skills.
Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours

Description
- PHP developer having good hands on experience in Laravel framework.
- Should be proficient in HTML5, CSS3 and JS.
- Experience in PHP framework HTML5, CSS3 and JS
- Should have good analytical and logical skills.
- Should possess good front end design skills.
- The candidate must have worked at least in 2 or more Laravel projects.
- Added Advantage: If the candidate has work experience in CodeIgniter or other PHP frameworks will be an added value.
Job Type: Full-time
Basic experience developing web applications using Cake PHP or other MVC framework
Strong PHP skills with any MVC Framework -Cake PHP / Laravel / Yii / Code ignitor, etc.
Strong MySQL, AJAX, jQuery, HTML & JavaScript skills
Experience integrating Payment Gateway and third-party PHP libraries is preferable
Work alongside a broader team with a focus on Design, UX, Optimization, Back End processes, DevOps Efficiency with the goal of delivering high-quality projects using the latest tech stack. A keen eye for detail, along with a passion to deliver quality, customer-focused solutions is absolutely essential.
Championing Web Development: You will be responsible for handling web development from ideation to production.
Collaboration with product manager and other developers, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing web products.
Desired Profile
Great skills in PHP MVC frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter, etc.
Extensive Experience in API integration and development is required.
Experience in jQuery and AJAX.
Working knowledge of web technologies including HTML, and CSS is required.
Basic understanding of version control systems like Git and SVN.
Experience working with AWS or any other Linux Cloud Servers is a huge plus.
Passionate about writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
Strong analytical and debugging skills and experience building consumer systems at scale.






