Python Developer

Engineering Manager – Backend

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

Series D funded supply chain startup.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack

Technologies Used

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

Roles and Responsibilities

This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product

stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:

Business and product alignment and planning

• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
• Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
• Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. Product and system development

• Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
• Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
• Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
• Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

1. Project Management

• Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
• Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
• Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.

1. Maintenance

• Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
• Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
• Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

1. Team Management

• Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
• Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
• Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.

Product Overview

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors

include:

• Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
• Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
• Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
• Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

• Strong knowledge of Ruby on rails framework.
• Strong Knowledge of coding languages, like PERL, Python and Ruby.
• Good knowledge of Relation and NoSQL databases. like MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL etc.
• Knowledge of Microservices development and AWS concept will be an added advantage.
• Ready to adopt new technologies and implement them in project.

1. Experience in HTML, CSS and Bootstrap library is required.
2. Experience in Python Programming. Experience in Pandas and Numpy Libraries.
3. Experience with Django Framework & REST API.
4. Experience Flask, Microservices
5. Experience in FAST API would be added advantage.
6. Exposure in converting ML models to Microservices and exposing them as API
7.  GRPC development

Required Skills:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 3+ years experience in software development.
• Expertise in Python 3.7, Django 2.2+ and REST APIs
• Minimum 3+ years experience with AWS or related services.
• Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment
• Hands-on, self-starter, capable of working independently
• True love for technology and what you do
• Maniacal attention to detail
  
  

We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer who can help make our desktop app even more spectacular for the highest performing professionals globally. She / he should be versatile and should have a good base with Golang, NodeJs and Python

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The Team

We are a small, global and efficient team and speed is part of everything we build and do

We are backed by amazing investors from India and US who have cofounded startups which had massive exits and the investors are currently on boards of Unicorn startups.

The Founder has over 12 years of experience in technology, studied and worked in the US for 8 years, and has cofounded a startup before.

Expected Skills :- 

Primary expertise: Golang, NodeJs, Python 

• Our backend was written in Nodejs and some parts converted to Golang. We want to switch completely
• Knowing Golang well is important 
• You should know python / Django at a reasonable level
• Ability to work with GCP and AWS environments
  Worked with Amazon services like SNS, SQS and Google services like Firebase FCM
• Ability to execute rapidly

Ideal candidate must have :

- 2+ years of experience in writing code

- Ability to meet tight deadlines

- Can work independently and be a team contributor

- Must have good knowledge of Node, Python and Scripting languages

- Experience in one or more of RDBMS - PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle

- Experience with NoSQL and real-time DB - Firebase/Firestore or MongoDB

- Must be able to write concise and high-quality API

- Must be a quick learner, curious and ambitious