Python Developer

The key aspects of this role include:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using Python.

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business need and architectural improvements.

• Act as a subject matter expert for Application Software developers and Engineers.

• Handle server-side code for a production platform and contribute to new features

To be the right fit, you'll need:

• More than 4+ years of experience as a software developer in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django, Flask, etc.

• Good understanding of common design patterns and architecture principles to design reliable and Scalable applications

• Strong communication skills

• Knowledge of databases line NoSQL or MongoDB

• Good to have AWS and Docker or Web services

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS

What we want to accomplish and why we need you?

Jio Haptik is an AI leader having pioneered AI-powered innovation since 2013. Reliance Jio Digital Services acquired Haptik in April 2019. Haptik currently leads India’s AI market having become the first to process 15 billion+ two-way conversations across 10+ channels and in 135 languages. Haptik is also a Category Leader across platforms including Gartner, G2, Opus Research & more. Recently Haptik won the award for “Tech Startup of the Year” in the AI category at Entrepreneur India Awards 2023, and gold medal for “Best Chat & Conversational Bot” at Martequity Awards 2023. Haptik has a headcount of 200+ employees with offices in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore.

What will you do everyday?

As a backend engineer you will be responsible for building the Haptik platform which is used by people across the globe. You will be responsible for developing, architecting and scaling the systems that support all the functions of the Haptik platform. While you know how to work hard, you also know how to have fun at work and make friends with your colleagues. 

Ok, you're sold, but what are we looking for in the perfect candidate?

Develop and maintain expertise in backend systems and API development, ensuring seamless integrations and scalable solutions, including:

• Strong expertise in backend systems, including design principles and adherence to good coding practices.
• Proven ability to enhance or develop complex tools at scale with a thorough understanding of system architecture.
• Capability to work cross-functionally with all teams, ensuring seamless implementation of APIs and solutioning for various tools.
• Skilled in high-level task estimation, scoping, and breaking down complex projects into actionable tasks.
• Proficiency in modeling and optimizing database architecture for enhanced performance and scalability.
• Experience collaborating with product teams to build innovative Proof of Concepts (POCs).
• Ability to respond to data requests and generate reports to support data-driven decision-making.
• Active participation in code reviews, automated testing, and quality assurance processes.
• Experience working in a scrum-based agile development environment.
• Commitment to staying updated with technology standards, emerging trends, and software development best practices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to facilitate collaboration and clarity.

Requirements*:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in developing scalable products and applications.
• Must Have Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or related field.
• Proficiency in Python and expertise in at least one backend framework, with a preference for Django.
• Hands-on experience designing normalized database schemas for large-scale applications using technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch.
• Practical knowledge of in-memory data stores like Redis or Memcached.
• Familiarity with working in agile environments and exposure to tools like Jira is highly desirable.
• Proficiency in using version control systems like Git.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in team settings.
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and commitment to delivering results.
• Additional knowledge of RabbitMQ, AWS/Azure services, Docker, MQTT, Lambda functions, Cron jobs, Kibana, and Logstash is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of web servers like Nginx/Apache is considered a valuable asset.
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* Requirements is such a strong word. We don’t necessarily expect to find a candidate that has done everything listed, but you should be able to make a credible case that you’ve done most of it and are ready for the challenge of adding some new things to your resume. 

Tell me more about Haptik

• On a roll: Announced major strategic partnership with Jio. 
• Great team: You will be working with great leaders who have been listed in Business World 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT 35 Under 35 Innovators. 
• Great culture: The freedom to think and innovate is something that defines the culture of Haptik. Every person is approachable. While we are working hard, it is also important to take breaks to not get too worked up. 
• Huge market: Disrupting a massive, growing chatbot market. The global market is projected to attain a valuation of US $0.94 bn by the end of 2024 progressing from US $0.11 bn earned in 2015. 
• Great customers: Businesses across industries - Samsung, HDFCLife, Times of India are some that have relied on Haptik's Conversational AI solutions to engage, acquire, service and understand customers. 
• Impact: A fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its people to make a huge impact. 

Working hard for things that we don't care about is stress, but working hard for something we love is called passion! At Haptik we passionately solve problems in order to be able to move faster and don't shy away from breaking things! 

Requirements:

• Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, and shows enthusiasm and interest in work.

• Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, and Web service.

• Should have work experience on the 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.

About The Team

We are striving to create the best productivity tools which will help small businesses to go online and scale their growth consistently with the bleeding edge of technology. Our backend team is looking for a solid Rockstar engineer who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems. You will work closely with our product team to build new and compelling experiences for our customers!

We place special emphasis on the continuous growth of each team member - and we do this with regular 1-1s and open communication. As Software Engineer - Backend, you will be part of self-starters who thrive on teamwork and constructive feedback.

About The Role

As a Software Engineer - Backend, you will solve real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our users. In this role, you will ensure that the solutions and processes that we create are of the highest quality. And in doing so, you will champion a seamless app experience for all our users. You will also collaborate with your fellow engineers to create scalable solutions that are pertinent to Product IO's overall growth.

If you are confident about solving hard, interesting and UNIQUE problems, and creating an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, then you might just be our next Software Engineer - Backend

What You'll Do:

• Lead, build, test, and release mobile application features using cross-platform tools.
• Collaborate with the front-end team to expose weaknesses and problems
• Build out our APIs and tools using Python & Firebase libraries on the backend.
• Experience with NodeJS and deployment in Serverless
• Experience with NoSql(MongoDB) and SQL(PostregSQL)
• Work closely with Product, Design, Platform, and other cross-functional groups to drive product vision.
• Previous experience helping shape API structures and building REST APIs.
• Understanding of accessibility and server compliance (GCP)

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years professional software development experience, preferably mobile apps with a cloud backend. Example projects in (Python, Firebase)
• 6 months experience in Google Cloud Platform
• Excellent communication skills are a must, and experience with estimating and managing project tasks is important, too
• Highly driven, naturally curious, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points:

• 1+ years of experience in developing Firebase apps.
• Experience in developing or designing APIs and web applications.
• Deployment in Cloud Environment.
• Familiarity with Flutter.

Why join us:

• 👫 A fast-moving, fun, growth-oriented company made up of skillful team players
• 💬 Transparent, open, and collaborative work environment
• 🌟 An opportunity to work closely with a proven executive team, board, and serial entrepreneurs

About us:-

Zupee is India's hottest Real Money Gaming Platform

With in 1 yr of start, we just had an initial team of around 30 people, these 30 were successful to bring 10 Million+ users and an overall consumer spend of 1.5 Billion USD on the platform, the journey which needed years to be covered was covered with in 1yr. As we speak today, Zupee has been profitable for almost an year now and has ended the year 2020 with a team size of 70+ and over all growth rate was mapped around 20X.

Our user base has significantly gone up and we have invested highly in technology and have got best in class tech stack, it's time to add the backend developers who can help us scale up the platform so that we can drive profitable growth and become the market leader in our space.

Backend Developer :- (3 - 12 yrs)

What You'll Need?

• Knowledge of languages (JavaScript, Python) and frameworks/systems (nodejs)
• Strong analytical skills and aptitude
• Understanding of data architecture, software design and best coding practices
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts and technologies
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies
• Experience with databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Working knowledge of Linux

We're looking for exprienced Python developers with over 2+ years of production experience and strong expertise in building web applications and APIs using Python, Django and DRF. We are looking for cadidates who are go-getters and are leaning towards leadership positions. Candidates must have a proven history of building, scaling, optimising and securing Python based backends and APIs using a microservice architecture.

Bonus Skills : Experience with ReactJs, Node.js, FastAPI

We would prefer candidates who can join immediately or are currently serving their notice period. Jumpers please excuse, your application will be ignored

Key Skills Required

1. Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development
2. Solid understanding of Python concepts
3. Strong experience in building web applications using Django
4. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask
5. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)
6. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
7. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL including querying
8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git
9. Working experience with Docker
10. Basic working knowledge of ReactJs
11. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

Responsibilities

1. Understanding requirement and congributing to engineering solutions at a conceptual stage to provide the best possible solution to the task/challenge
2. Building high quality code using coding standards based on the SRS/Documentation
3. Building component based, maintainable, scalable and reusable backend libraries/modules.
4. Building & documenting scalable APIs on the Open Spec standard
5. Unit testing development modules and APIs
6. Conducting code reviews to ensure that the highest quality standard are maintained
7. Securing backend applications and APIs using industry best practices
8. Troubleshooting issues and fixing bugs raised by the QA team efficiently.
9. Optimizing code
10. Building and deploying the applications

• Employment type

  Full-time

Why join the navy when you can be the pirate?

Get onboard this ship & let's make KYC and onboarding easier than ever!

We want to ensure that our tech is successfully consumed by end users easily.

We are looking forward to work with you.

We would love to have you for the following reasons :

• Strong hold in python based backends such as Flask & Django
• Knowledge of backend principles, patterns, and best practices
• Aware of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available.
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Must have written Unit, Integration and UI Test Cases
• Understanding of Cloud hosting (AWS,Azure) principles and interface guidelines
• Experience in working with distrubuted data using REST APIs, JSON and other technologies
• Potential interns with experience in containers will hold an advantage.
• Experience in Kafka & ELK will be an advantage.
• Experience of 1-2 years.