Python Developer

About ProjectDiscovery

ProjectDiscovery is an open-source powered cyber security company with a mission to democratize security. With one of the largest open-source security communities in the world, we host contributions from security researchers and engineers to our 20+ open-source projects, including tools like Nuclei and httpx, which have earned us over 100k GitHub stars and millions of downloads.

We’re a passionate, globally distributed team of ~35, driven by the shared mission of revolutionizing the application security landscape. Backed by $25M in funding, we’re looking for talented individuals to join us in Jaipur office.

Learn more at:

🌐 ProjectDiscovery.io

📂 ProjectDiscovery GitHub

About the Role

We are looking for a software engineer to join our core platform team. The Platform team is a small group of experienced engineers managing ProjectDiscovery infrastructure, improving developer velocity, and ensuring the security, reliability, and scalability of our software. We are highly engaged in shaping the engineering culture at ProjectDiscovery, and operate as “the execution arm” working closely with founders and our CTO.

• Own codebase health, iteration velocity, and developer experience for all of ProjectDiscovery engineering.
• Build and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications.
• Work across the stack, from crafting intuitive front-end interfaces to building robust backend systems.
• Design and implement secure, maintainable APIs for seamless integration of tools and platforms.

What We’re Looking For:

• Expert with JavaScript (Next.js, React) and backend technologies like Node.js and Go.
• Experience with cloud services (Vercel, AWS, GCP) and modern DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and database systems like PostgreSQL, Elastic or MongoDB.
• Self-motivated and passionate about solving complex problems at scale.
• Operating and optimizing CI/CD systems to improve developer velocity

Why Join Us?

• Competitive compensation package and stock options.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and technical skills.
• Learn with intense innovation and software shipping cycles. We ship multiple times a week and push major releases a couple of times a month.

Our Interview Process

We value efficiency and technical excellence in our hiring process:

1. Application Review: Your application is reviewed by a technical team member.
2. Initial Screening: A short call to understand your background, goals, and fit.

• Technical Rounds:Coding Assessment: Solve challenges using our tech stack.
• Create PR: Develop or enhance a feature related to one of our open-source tools.

1. Final Round: Showcase your work, share your vision, and discuss how you can contribute to ProjectDiscovery at our office in Jaipur.

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Job Purpose

We work in the latest technology, and our foundations are data structures, algorithms, solid logical reasoning, and mathematics. We are looking for very strong engineers who love coding, optimizing, and ensuring their code is the most efficient.

You will be involved with hardcore development. If you are an assembler of code or packages from different places to build something, you may not find our team to be the right fit.

You must be someone who can build anything from the ground up. Programming language should not be any barrier for you, as you should be able to pick up any programming language or underlying technology within a week.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Core development. Ready to participate in the designing, brainstorming, and development process. You must give sleepless nights to meet deadlines whenever required.

Desired Candidate Profile

Essential Skills 

• Reliable, Accountable, and Trustworthy
• Ability to understand software requirements based on a wireframe/program specification
• Familiarity with GoLang / PHP / Python / Java / C / C++ / Linux Shell and Scripting / HTML / CSS / JS / Node.js is a plus
• Effective communication skills to ensure smooth coordination of tasks with the Team Leader.
• Knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL, and PL/SQL is a plus
• Familiarity with ML, TensorFlow, and Keras is a plus
• Knowledge of web servers such as Apache, NGNIX, and the HTTP protocol is a plus.
• Knowledge of multi-process, threads, memory, and filesystem on Linux is desirable.
• Must Solve The Following

To consider you for the current opening, please make sure to understand the following question and solve it. A simple program in any programing language would do. If you cannot solve this, please do not apply.

Write a function foo(x) where foo(foo(x)) = -x (assume x to be an integer, and foo(x) has to be always real), any programming language would do. Before submitting the answers, please verify that the output of foo(foo(10)) should be -10 and foo(foo(-10)) should be 10.

Job Responsibilities

·        Responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to, the following.

·        Development experience 3-6 years

·        Experience working with Azure cloud-hosted web applications and technologies.

·        Design and develop back-end microservices and REST APIs for connected devices, web applications, and mobile applications.

·        Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, and understand trends and opportunities that ensure we are using the best techniques and tools.

• Meeting with the software development team to define the scope and scale of software projects.
• Designing software system architecture.
• Completing data structures and design patterns.
• Designing and implementing scalable web services, applications, and APIs.
• Developing and maintaining internal software tools.
• Writing low-level and high-level code.
• Troubleshooting and bug fixing.
• Identifying bottlenecks and improving software efficiency.
• Collaborating with the design team on developing micro-services.
• Writing technical documents.
• Be an active professional in continuous learning resulting in enhancement in organizational objectives.
• Provide technical support to all internal teams and customers as it relates to the product.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or computer science.
• Previous experience as a full stack engineer and IoT Products.
• Advanced knowledge of front-end languages including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, React.
• Proficient in back-end languages including Nodejs and basic knowledge of Java, C#.
• Experience with cloud computing APIs and Cloud Providers such as Azure or AWS.

·        Working knowledge of database systems (Cassandra, CosmosDB, Redis, PostgreSQL)

·        Messaging systems (RabbitMQ, MQTT, Kafka)

·        Cloud-based distributed application scaling & data processing in the cloud

·        Agile / Scrum methodology

• Advanced troubleshooting skills.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks.
• Good communication skills.

High-level project management skills.

• FULL-STACK PHP/MySQL development in CODEIGNITOR FRAMEWORK (LARAVEL, ZEND, CAKE, SYMPHONY frameworks acceptable) using AGILE METHODOLOGY
• Cross-functioning with our product development team wherein you’ll tackle complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use UIs and API interfaces
• Follow the coding guideline standards to ensure a bug free code as per industry norms
• Complete unit testing of the code before sending it for review
• Participate in the complete agile software delivery cycle, including development, testing, troubleshooting etc.
• Participate in process improvement program to improve the overall quality of the delivery process.
• This role offers good exposure in E-COMMERCE SEGMENT with HIGHLY SCALABLE design solutions
• Min of 3 years of relevant experience in PHP/MySQL using CODEIGNITOR framework development is a must (exposure to LARAVEL, ZEND, CAKE, SYMPHONY framework is acceptable)

• Proven knowledge of PHP/MySQL stack using CODEIGNITOR (preferable) framework for FULL-STACK development
• Responsive Front End Designs with adaptability to various screen sizes
• Scalable Back-End design architecture with DBMS and Caching
• Familiarity with REST web services and RESTful APIs. Knowledge of SOAP would be an added advantage
• UI design principles, patterns, and best practices, preferably MVC, MVVM, MVP
• Good knowledge of MySQL, JS/JQuery for database management
• Proficiency in code versioning tools/Source Code Repositories like GIT, SVN
• Experience with offline storage, threading (AJAX), and performance tuning
• Agile/Scrum methodology using JIRA or any agile tool
• Knowledge of the open-source PHP ecosystem, OOPs and the libraries
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with continuous integration

• Self-learner with passion for learning new technologies along with a creative problem-solving approach
• Strong communication skills (verbal & written)
• Should be adaptable to new ideas and have an out of box thinking approach
• Effective interpersonal communication skills in a highly collaborative team environment

• 2-5 years of relevant experience
• B.E/ B. Tech/ M. Tech in Computer Science/ Electronics Communication/ IT engineering
• M.Sc. (Computer Science or IT)/ MCA from a reputable institute
• Good communication in written and spoken English