Python Backend Engineer

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

• At least 1+ years’ experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers

 

Opportunity

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

 

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (1+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms

 

About Card91
Card91 is simplifying business payments by providing a plug and play issuance infrastructure
to businesses for domestic and cross-border payments. Our full stack platform enables
businesses to gain control and visibility into their payment flows, controlling the entire payment
lifecycle from onboarding, to issuance, to transaction and data reconciliation. The platform
aims to provide holistic solutions around payment issuance and distribution management. Our
deep focus in payments will help us in bringing new issuance formats as well as technologies
to businesses.
The company has been founded by seasoned technology entrepreneurs who have founded
successful companies like Myntra, Mastiff Technologies earlier. Headquartered in Bangalore,
with presence in Mumbai and NCR, Card91 aims to disrupt the payment infrastructure space
in the issuer-processor segment.
Position: Java Developers
We are building our core team which will be responsible for a highly scalable, always available
microservices based backend for payment processing. The developer will be involved with the
design, implementation, and execution from day one and build a robust, secure, and scalable
payment processing engine.
Roles & Responsibilities
● Individual Contributors talking full ownership of the micro services
● Design and Implement the micro services from scratch
● Be creative and always try to evaluate new strategies to execute faster
● Team player and always eager to teach new team members about the code, structure
and design
● Not afraid of bringing new designs (even languages) which will make the system
execute faster
Experience and Qualifications
● Having 2 - 5 years of experience
● Degree from a premier institute like IIT/NIT/BITS is desirable
● A strong expertise in Java/Spring/Spring Boot/Hibernate/Java
● Experience in developing highly scalable and reliable web applications, including
integration with internal and external systems.

● Experience building web services in REST with technologies like Spring Boot, Spring-
WS, spring MVC or JAX-RS

● Should be able to write test cases (unit and functional) to cover most of the code
● Experience in databases like MySQL and NoSQL db like Cassandra, etc.
● Experience with Cloud computing AWS & Microservices architecture
● Exposure to front end technologies like VueJS, ReactJS etc is an advantage
● Knowledge on Redis, ELK stack or Temporal BPM is a big plus
● Docker & Kubernetes experience is a big plus
● Previous experience of Fintech company is an added advantage

What’s on offer
● Vibrant, fun and rewarding culture that nurtures and promotes excellence
● Opportunities to learn and interact with payment industry leaders
● Competitive remuneration, group health insurance & PF
● Other office perks of being part of an early-stage Start-up
● Location: HSR Layout, Bangalore

Job Description:  

As a L3 analyst, you will play a key role within the Application Management team, leading services for its customer(s). This service has responsibility for the smooth daily operational running of the Client platform both in the cloud and on-premises. The Client application is business critical and centrally manages data for trading, settlement, risk, client and regulatory reporting systems. As a L3 analyst, you will be responsible for supporting complex infrastructure and application issues raised by L1/L2 support teams, and business analysts. You would also be working on client requests for enhancements, fixes, maintaining custom code, and following the best practices such as Agile, DevOps, etc.

 

The role is a technical role requiring a good technical knowledge of SQL/PLSQ, Core Java along with good debugging skill while supporting client implementations. You should have basic understanding on Unix system and commands. The ability to troubleshoot issues, assist users and help write specifications is essential. This position also works with product management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments.

 

• Accountability and primary responsibility/duties:
• A typical day would look like as follows: -
  • 40% support issues.
  • 40% configuration/development work.
  • 20% continuous improvement, automation, CICD, so on.
• Activities would range across the lifecycle from discovery to post-implementation support.
• Understanding client’s requirement, replicate the problem and providing the solution
• Understanding and developing new requirements coming in from BAs (Business Analysts) and customers.
• Update the existing functionality based on client needs.
• Develop changes that cater to enhancing the product and/or fixing production issues
• Prepare product releases of software components. (Java/SQL-PLSQL)
• Contribute in all phases of the development cycle. (development/Deployment/Testing, peer review)
• Create technical document for all changes made.

 

Required Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong basics and working experience in following technologies: -
  • Core Java.
  • SQL / PLSQL coding.
  • Object Oriented Programming concepts and data structures.
• Working knowledge on Unix platform
• Working knowledge on XSLT and XML handling
• Basic understanding App & web server working knowledge (JBOSS, WebLogic and WebSphere) and debugging skills.
• Advantageous to have:
  • Working understanding on CICD, Dev-ops technologies.
  • Queuing technologies including Kafka, MQ, Solace.
  • Scripting including Python, Unix, java.
• Hands on knowledge of Dev ops processes and tools Good interpersonal and communication skills.
  
  

We are looking for “Backend Developer " for Goregaon (Mumbai)/ Lucknow location.

Experience: 3 - 5 Years

Notice Period: up to 30 days

Location:Goregaon (Mumbai)/ Lucknow

Job description:

Should have 3+ years of experience in Python and Django/Django REST Framework

Candidate need to perform the role of the Python/Django Developer who has to build high-quality, innovative, and fully performing software that complies with coding standards and technical design.

Design and develop secure and scalable code with unit tests, and documentation.

Strong understanding of engineering best practices, requirement gathering and analysis.

Excellent detail-oriented, problem-solving skills and the ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts, principles and solutions.

 

Technologies:

Django, Python

Nginx, Gunicorn, MySQL/Oracle

Shell Commands, SSH, SSL Certificate, HTTP/HTTPS

 

Skills Required:

 

• Expert in Python, with expert-level knowledge of Django REST Framework
• Strong understanding of ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Strong knowledge of building RESTful APIs using Python (Django Rest Framework)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Github
• Experience working in Linux and shell scripting
• Experience with developing user authentication and authorization solutions and knowledge of security compliance is a plus
• Good to have knowledge about front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Must have good communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision

Please provide the following details:

• Current Location:
• Present CTC
• Expected CTC
• Notice Period

As a software engineer, you will be the part of a team that focuses on building software applications that scale well. You will play a significant role in shaping our software architecture that provides measurable customer value. You understand both technology and business to know the right trade-offs to make. You will be a technical mentor for your team members. You will work closely with your peers, managers, product, design, and operations teams to create solutions that meet business requirements. You will drive engineering and operational excellence across Scatter. You will collaborate with other engineers to surface common pain points, develop solutions and evangelize best practices.

Qualifications:

2-3 years of professional software engineering experience building customer-facing web and/or mobile applications Strong coding skills using Python, Django, is mandatory. Knowledge on Html, Css, React Js, Jquery, Bootstrap or equivalent programming language is added advantage Graduated from Tier 1 or Tier 2 engineering colleges Excellent knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or a related discipline Experience working in an agile environment Self-quick learner and passionate problem solver Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, with an enthusiastic attitude to support and resolve customer problems Good oral and written communication skills Above all, an insatiable desire and ability to learn

Nice to have skills:

Experience with large-scale SaaS applications Experience building web and mobile applications Experience designing services on top of cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, etc Prior experience in building product from 0-1

Benefits

Ownership and autonomy to drive customer and culture initiatives Opportunity to get mentored and mentor junior engineers Remote work

At PayPal, we believe that now is the time to democratize financial services so that moving and managing money is a right for all citizens, not just the affluent. We are driven by this purpose, and we uphold our cultural values of collaboration, innovation, wellness and inclusion as our guide for making decisions and conducting business every day. It is our duty and privilege to be customer champions and put those we serve at the center of everything we do. We are one team that respects and values diversity of thought for everyone, everywhere, and we actively seek to create an energizing workplace that brings out the best in all of us. If you are ready to shape the future of money, join the team at PayPal. We are proud to work here. You will be too. Core Platform and Infrastructure (CPI) team is the technology engine that powers PayPal’s business. We deliver a seamlessly scalable, exceptionally efficient, highly reliable infrastructure and services platform in a hybrid cloud environment. Thousands of PayPal developers build and run hundreds of applications processing billions of calls daily with high availability and reliability on our Java middleware framework products. As a team, we are active in the open source community, are proud of our systems knowledge, technology breadth, and intellectual curiosity. We are driven to empower PayPal developers in the best way possible. o As part of Developer Experience organization, our mission is to reduce the cycle time of software delivery and enabling development teams to quickly take their code changes to production with highest quality which can only be done with a world class testing platform. o You will be working with a team of strong engineers who enable the rest of development community to quickly and reliably test their code changes. o You will be building the next generation test platform that enables rich data insights into identifying the gaps in testing and introduce, influence the culture of great test practices and engineering disciplines within the organization. o You will be focused on solving the hardest, most interesting challenges of reducing the testing cycle time and building tools that can intelligently triage failures. o You will build framework that enables the rest of the development community effectively contribute with utilities that can enhance the quality at PayPal. o You will use your knowledge of testing and testability to influence better software design, promote proper engineering practice, bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility, and other advanced quality concepts across products. o You will be building frameworks, tools and solutions for the rest of PayPal developer community. o Work directly with Architecture, Product Managers, Program Managers and stakeholders from clients that integrates with the frameworks and tools o Skills needed: o 10+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing scalable web services and platforms. o Experience in providing technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams. o Strong experience in Java, Python and scripting. o Knowledge in DevOps lifecycle is a must. o Working experience in building platform solutions is a plus. o Knowledge in GoLang a huge plus o Knowledge and experience in cloud technologies a huge plus o Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences. o BS in computer science or equivalent

Introduction Give is India’s largest and most trusted giving platform, and our mission is to promote effective and efficient giving, so that our poor have a chance. With contributions of over 300 crores made to our 200+ vetted and trusted nonprofits, our giving community of 1M+ donors has impacted lives of 4M+ people across 23 states in India. We are an extremely rare workplace that brings a fast-paced, high-growth startup work culture together with a compassion-driven high-impact work environment. Give Platform We are building one of the world’s best tech platforms for online giving, where we provide opportunities for people to donate to any cause, non-profit or geography that they care about, in the most simple, personalised and effective manner. We hope to scale our impact on the lives of millions of underprivileged people every year, by democratizing philanthropy, through our workplace giving, subscription giving and crowdfunding products. Give Tech Stack Details: https://stackshare.io/giveindia Role At Give, we are looking for top-talent for our engineering team - software engineers who want to solve really complex problems, continually learn, and most importantly, make a real impact in the lives of others. We have open positions for senior engineers, who can take end-to-end ownership of full development lifecycle, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance. At Give, you will… work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate. think through complex architecture to build robust and scalable platforms. build well-abstracted modules and services. provide design reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability follow scrum methodology to iterate and deploy fast mentor other team members and colleagues Apply if you have experience in… designing and using REST services which can scale horizontally using NodeJS and Express NoSQL databases (data model design), PostgreSQL or similar Python or other major OO language like Java, Ruby Identity Management and Security (SSL protocols, data encryption, user authentication, authorization services) Good to have… A Github account, Stack Overflow account or equivalent that demonstrates your ability to work on complicated projects or some other way to validate your expertise. Working Knowledge of AWS and shell scripting is a huge plus.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to implement functional software solutions. The goal will be to develop high-quality software/s that is aligned with user needs and business goals.Requirements :- Knowledge on OOD (Object-oriented design) / OOP (Object-oriented programming)- Good knowledge of relational databases (Mysql), version control tools and developing web services- Sound knowledge of HTML 5, CSS, AJAX, Smarty and Javascript/jQuery.- Exposure to Web 2.0 technologies, web standards, and browser compatibility.- Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas- Ability to write and consume web services and REST services.- Knowledge of and experience applying design patterns and implementing industry best practices required.- Knowledge on PHP Unit and Git is a plus.Key Responsibilities :- Code, debug and unit test systems per requirements and technical design.- Design database tables for features, understand relationships and perform optimizations.- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.

- Backend & Frontend Development - Payment Gateway & RESTful API integrations - eCommerce & Other dynamic Features Must Haves: - Excellent PHP CODEIGNITER and MYSQLi skills - HTML, CSS, Strong Javascript skills - Comfortable working with APIs - Exceptional attention to detail and strong troubleshooting skills Nice to have: - Node.js, Angular - Familiarity with AWS / google Cloud - Experience creating APIs The ideal candidate is looking for a challenge, self-motivated and excited to be part of a new team developing our future architecture/stack.