Python Developer - Backend

Job Description

We are looking for a passionate Search Specialist Backend Engineer to join our team. This role will focus on improving and optimizing our search capabilities to enhance user experience, scalability, and relevancy.

Location - Bangalore

Designation - Senior Software engineer - Search Specialist

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and maintain the search application, ensuring performance, and scalability.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement search features and improvements.

● Ensure search results are relevant by employing techniques like ranking, personalization, and recommendation.

● Work on complex problems related to search algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.

● Implement logging, metrics, and monitoring for search services.

● Optimize search by tuning the underlying algorithms, experimenting with new techniques, and leveraging tools like Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.

● Maintain and improve existing search functionalities while ensuring backward compatibility.

● Stay updated with the latest advancements in search technology and industry best practices.

Basic Qualifications:

● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

● Experience with search engines like Elasticsearch, Solr, or similar technologies.

● Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.

● Proficiency in Python and Django.

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs and backend services.

● Preferred Qualifications:

● Experience with natural language processing (NLP) or machine learning as applied to search.

● Knowledge of various search relevance techniques and ranking algorithms.

● Experience in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). ● Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

● Strong analytical and debugging skills. Personal Attributes:

● Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.

● A keen interest in improving user experience through search.

● Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work in a fast-paced environment

Required Skills:

• 4+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relational 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:

• 4+ 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- 4 years’ experience in solution integration/delivering, and interfacing with customers.
  
• Hands-on experience in SQL and PL/SQL.
• Experience of working in agile teams in implementing large scale digital solutions.
• Good in programming & analytical skills
• Experience in dynamic programming language Python with Django
• Good understanding on enterprise integration, API development, and scalability
• Experience in Software Tools like: Git, Visual Studio code, Jenkins
• Solid experience in System Integration cycles, e.g., code review, source control, code
• quality
• automation scanning, bug scrub, feature testing and product release.
• Able to handle oncall support for bugs caused from delivery
• We are looking for people to co-work with us at our base location (Chennai)
• Ability to co-work with internal teams to optimise and fine tune the integration process
• and move towards a low-code integration framework

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

OnScreen is looking for a full-time hands-on Software Developer responsible for bringing status disrupting products in the market.

As a Software Developer, you will be responsible for the design and coding of scalable and high performant web applications working on technologies including Microsoft .Net 4.0, Win 32, C#/C++,  and Azure. You will be a part of an Agile development team and would have full access to the complete development life cycle including opportunity to shape requirements and application design. We are looking for relevant experience of around 5-7 years.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Microsoft .Net desktoptechnologies including C#
• Strong application design experiencealong with writing Unit Tests.
• Strong data structure concepts
• Demonstrated experience in working on Enterprise-level
• Good communication skills,collaborative attitude, and mentoring mind-set.
• Desirable - Azure SQL, REST API, Azure deployment, Entity framework.

OnScreen was started to chart a better path for Enterprises facing countless barriers to adoption and efficiency. Our Founders, Directors, and Investors have extensive experience dealing with these problems and are passionate about building and providing a solution that alleviates these chronic pain points. To know more about OnScreen, please visit https://www.onscreen.us/