Python Developer

About Streamlyn

Streamlyn is a regional leader in adtech, specializing in enhancing monetization for Publishers through innovative and compelling ad products. Our ad tech engagement solutions suite empowers Publishers to elevate their business and monetize their content effectively. With a vast network of premium publisher partners across Asia, Streamlyn reaches over 100 million consumers monthly.

Job Overview

As the Tech Lead, you will play a critical role in defining the future of our advanced ad tech platform. This position requires full technical ownership of a high-impact project, where you’ll architect and implement a scalable, high-performance system while guiding a dedicated team of developers to advance our product roadmap.

In this role, you’ll balance strategic technical oversight with hands-on involvement. You will combine strategic technical leadership with hands-on involvement to oversee the platform’s scalability, reliability, and technical evolution. Success will depend on a combination of ad tech expertise, strategic vision, and strong leadership as you drive innovation and foster a high-performance engineering culture.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Independent Project Leadership: Lead a dedicated project stream within our ad tech platform, from initial architecture and design through to delivery. Take full accountability for your project’s technical vision, resource planning, and execution, ensuring it meets performance and scalability requirements.
• Strategic Technical Ownership: Define and implement a technical roadmap that aligns with Streamlyn’s goals, focusing on scalability, resilience, and innovation. Ensure project components are optimized for real-time bidding, ad serving, and data processing requirements unique to ad tech.
• Performance & Scalability: Architect a platform capable of processing billions of requests daily with minimal latency. Utilize advanced load balancing, caching, and database technologies to achieve optimal performance and reliability.
• Team Building & Mentorship: Lead a specialized team of developers, fostering an environment of technical excellence and innovation. Set high standards for code quality, maintainability, and performance while mentoring team members and encouraging growth.
• Product Innovation & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product, operations, and sales teams to ensure the products and platform meet high standards and unique demands. Drive the development of cutting-edge features like custom ad units and contextual targeting to keep Streamlyn competitive.
• Ad Tech Expertise: Apply a deep understanding of ad tech—DSPs, SSPs, oRTB protocols, and header bidding frameworks—to ensure seamless integration and adherence to industry best practices.
• Team and Process Development: Drive agile methodologies and efficient development processes within your team to support responsive and high-quality delivery. Implement continuous improvement practices that optimize team productivity and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years in software development with hands-on ad tech experience, ideally in building ad servers, header bidding solutions, oRTB (Open Real-Time Bidding) integrations, and data pipelines.
• Technical Proficiency -
• Languages: Advanced knowledge in Java and Python.
• Databases: Strong experience with MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aerospike, and familiarity with other NoSQL technologies.
• Data Pipeline: Proven experience designing and implementing data pipelines for handling large-scale ad data in real-time, including ingestion, processing, and transformation.
• Infrastructure and Cloud: Proficiency with AWS Cloud services, including EMR, EKS, and Docker Containers. Experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, and MKS.
• Ad Tech Ecosystem Knowledge: Strong understanding of the ad tech landscape, including DSPs, SSPs, header bidding, programmatic advertising, and RTB protocols.
• Architectural Expertise: Advanced skills in designing distributed, microservices-based architectures and developing APIs for high-performance, low-latency applications. Advanced knowledge in load balancing, caching, and database technologies to enhance performance and scalability.
• System Monitoring & Optimization: Hands-on experience with monitoring and optimization tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar for system reliability.
• Data Engineering: Experience with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, data warehousing, and building data flows for analytical and reporting purposes.
• Agile and Project Management: Experience with Agile methodologies and the ability to prioritize and manage complex projects.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead a team, with experience in mentorship, team building, and technical coaching. Comfortable taking ownership and accountable for team deliverables.
• Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical issues and facilitate cross-functional team discussions.

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

• Python
• Flask

Requirements:

• Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, shows enthusiasm and interest in work.
• Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, Web service.
• Should have work experience on following stacks/libraries: Flask
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable.

The Risk team is responsible for overall risk framework and strategy for the organization. The team develops various risk models, arrives at various sector reports from a risk perspective and provides in depth analysis and recommendation around risk profiles of various clients.

In this role, the person is responsible for playing a leadership role in the Risk function to identify, assess, monitor and make timely and measured judgments on all current and potential future risks faced, in order to protect the organization’s interest, assets and reputation of the group along with growing shareholder value and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Manage risk for the retail and wholesale portfolio. Should have managed organization level Risk Policies, Credit Underwriting and Collection functions.
• Manage risk framework for the organization - including updating, establishing new risk management mechanisms, to identify, assess, monitor, measure and control a broad spectrum of risks. Ensure all policies and frameworks are kept updated and deployed to the optimum level.
• Develop continuous monitoring and improvement of the quality of the organization's credit and lending portfolio through credit policy direction and implementation.
• Possess a complete understanding the business. Evaluate, improve, and monitor the business, including assisting in reporting to the Board and Board Committees and providing leadership in the effectiveness of credit risk management controls, systems, and processes across the organization.
• Lead and mentor a team of analysts.

• Possess 7+ years of relevant experience in financial services industry in a risk role.
• Exposure to both wholesale and retail risk in a banking environment will be preferred. Some experience in a business / sales role within the banking / NBFC space will be an added advantage.
• Should have held a position of authority in terms of allocation and appropriating limits.
• Sector understanding in financial institution space and good knowledge of interpreting financial trends.
• High proficiency in Python and SQL/NoSQL.
• Experience with big data and cloud computing e.g., PySpark, data lake is a plus.
• Outstanding written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to speak at various levels of an organization (CXOs to analysts).
• Have demonstrated resilience – stayed with companies and taking businesses to scale, have preferably not ‘hopped jobs. Strong organizational skills and excellent follow-through.
• Present / articulate / position an idea compellingly and ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Takes personal ownership; Self-starter; Ability to drive projects with minimal guidance and focus on high impact work.
• Learns continuously; Seeks out knowledge, ideas and feedback.

• Deep understanding of Django and DRF
• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

Mentor To Go is an android and web based platform to help students improve their work readiness through self-learning sessions, personalised mentorship provided by mentor professionals from a range of careers, and work experience opportunities.

The technology platform implements  functionalities such as: screening surveys of mentors and mentees, training content for mentors, matching through an algorithm, and mentorship through the delivery of structured activities. 

The application technology architecture comprises of the following:

o   a Python Django web application with NGinx and Gunicorn

o   PostgreSQL database

o   A React Android and Web app

o   Rest APIs which interact between the Android app and the Django webserver

Our vision at Mentor To Go is to provide career mentorship to young people anywhere, anytime across the length and breadth of India.

We are looking for a backend software developer who is passionate about using web technologies to solve social problems and creating experiences that are elegant and effective. You will own the back end development of features of the Mentor To Go platform from conceptualisation through design and testing, working closely with other developers, the technical project manager, and the program operations team. You are user-centric, continuously demonstrate strategic & analytical abilities, and are laser focused on executing at speed. You must have the ability to succeed in a fast paced environment, where success is dependent on your ability to collaborate with cross-functional team members in a positive, productive, and transparent way.

Minimum requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferably  CS  or related discipline  
• 3+ years experience working in Unix/Linux environments building web and mobile applications
• Proficiency in developing and deploying cloud based Python/Postgresql applications preferably using frameworks such as Django
• Experience with design and development of moderately complex software projects
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with version control software such as Git

Desired  requirements 

• 5+ years of overall relevant work experience
• Experience building apps using React/React-Native
• Basic understanding of AWS cloud
• Ability to participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs

About Mentor Together

https://mentortogether.org/">Mentor Together is India’s first and largest youth mentoring  non-profit organization with a mission to facilitate empowering mentoring relationships and networks that help young people break the inequalities of opportunity and actualise their potential.

http://bit.ly/mentortogo">Mentor To Go is the world’s first mobile mentoring platform created by Mentor Together with the support of Cisco India, LinkedIn Social Impact, British Telecom and Sterlite Technologies.