Python Developer

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

With over 40 years of innovation, Quantum's end-to-end platform is uniquely equipped to orchestrate protect, and enrich data across its lifecycle, providing enhanced intelligence and actionable insights. Leading organizations in cloud services, entertainment, government, research, education, transportation, and enterprise IT trust Quantum to bring their data to life, because data makes life better, safer, and smarter. Quantum is listed on Nasdaq (QMCO) and the Russell 2000® Index. For more information visit www.quantum.com.

As a Software Engineer, you will collaborate with engineers and product managers on the development and maintenance of Quantum’s DXi-Series of disk-based backup appliance software. Quantum’s DXi series protects our customers data on premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.

You Are A Part Of:

DXi is a uniquely powerful solution within the Quantum portfolio, allowing customers to meet and exceed their backup needs with one of the fastest products on the market. You’ll work on a product that allows customers to reduce costs, maximize production, scale with ease, and positively impact the environment by reducing power and cooling requirements.

Job Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Write code primarily for Linux systems, with programming languages including Python, C, C++, and Perl.

• Design and build differentiating feature sets that continue to expand product capabilities, both on premises and in the cloud.

• Work with development, test, service, and support engineers to develop tactical solutions for customer issues.

• May design and develop automated test suites.

• May maintain lab equipment.

Required Skills and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field of study required.

• 5-10 years related industry experience required.

• 5+ years software development in C or C++ is required.

• 3-5 years’ experience working in a Linux environment is required.

• Experience in writing scripts: Perl, shell, bash, and/or other scripting tools is required.

• Experience with debugging tools such as GDB is required.

• Experience with source control and shared build environments is required.

• System engineering and implementation in Python and Golang.
• Working on performance issues using creative experiments and internally developed product features.
• Research, propose, and integrate relevant open-source projects based on product objectives.
• Write organized, efficient, and well documented Python/Golang code as an example for junior engineers.
• Participation in all levels of product definition, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Must include the ability to discuss abstract system architectures from ideas through implementation and
• creatively apply domain experience to solve technical challenges.
• Mentoring software engineers, fostering an environment of trust and accountability.

• A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. As an integral part of the development team, you will need the
• following skills to succeed.
• Strong Python skills to develop framework(s).
• Hands-on to design & develop re-usable framework components.
• Hands-On experience on developing framework, designing re-usable framework components.
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design driven
• development, Continuous Integration, building highly scalable applications, application security and functional programming.

• Knowledge of Cloud native would be an advantage.
• Understanding of Kubernetes from Architecture side and also understand the Standard API.
• Code contributed to CNCF or similar community will be plus.
•  Performance benchmarking of K8’s or any cloud will be added     advantage. 

• Deep understanding of technology and passionate about what you do.
• Background in designing high performant scalable software systems with strong focus to optimize
• hardware cost.
• Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic environment.
• Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on.
• Prior development of a large software project using service-oriented architecture operating with real time constraints.

• You will get a chance to work on cloud-native and hyper-scale products
• You will be working with industry leaders in cloud.
• You can expect a steep learning curve.
• You will get the experience of solving real time problems, eventually you become a problem solver.

• Competitive Salary
• Health Insurance
• Open Learning - 100% Reimbursement for online technical courses.
• Fast Growth - opportunities to grow quickly and surely
• Creative Freedom + Flat hierarchy
• Sponsorship to all those employees who represent company in events and meet ups.
• Flexible working hours
• 5 days week
• Hybrid Working model (Office and WFH)

• Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process as follows (subject to successful clearing of every round)
• Initial Resume screening call with our Recruiting team
• Next, candidates will be invited to solve coding exercises.
• Next, candidates will be invited for first technical interview
• Next, candidates will be invited for final technical interview
• Finally, candidates will be invited for Culture Plus interview with HR
• Candidates may be asked to interview with the Leadership team
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email
• As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a mix of telephonic and video call.

*Performs analysis of functional and business requirements

*Applies in-depth or broad technical knowledge to maintain data engineering functions performs solution design.

*Applies the company, open source, and 3rd party technologies to highly complex infrastructure and software solutions.

*Introduce new product features and enhance the platform

*Ability to translate business reporting requirements into a production report.

JOB SUMMARY

     THE ROLE IN SUMMARY

Omnicom Media Group (OMG) has an immediate opening for a highly motivated and talented backend web application developer, specializing in AWS cloud technologies. In this position you will be joining an in-house development team whose primary responsibility is developing new features and functionality for multiple existing web applications and day to day troubleshooting and issue resolution. The ideal candidate will possess excellent critical thinking and troubleshooting skills and have proven experience using popular AWS services commonly used to build serverless web application architectures. Candidates are expected to have strong knowledge of AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB and Python programming. Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure as code frameworks, such as Serverless Framework, Terraform or CloudFormation, etc. is also required. Excellent English communication skills are a must as you will be a part of a team working alongside our primary development team in addition to several business analysis and project managers. 5+ years of prior backend and Cloud web application and software development experience required.

KEY WORKING PRINCIPLES

• Passionate about modern web application architecture and programming. Hands on backend developer.
• Prior experience with modern RESTful API design and implementation. Microservices and single page web applications.
• Strong AWS knowledge, specifically serverless technologies (S3, API Gateway, Lambda, IAM, DynamoDB) as they relate to web application development.
• Excellent knowledge of web application security fundamentals (identity management, authentication, authorization, SSO).
• Designed several application databases in SQL and at least one non-relational database system, preferably
• Familiarity with DevOps practices including continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code in preferably Serverless Framework.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• 5+ years professional software development experience.
• Bachler’s degree in computer science or related field.

MUST HAVE SKILLS

• Backend Web Application Development
• Python
• AWS Services Including, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, SES, DynamoDB, Serverless Framework
• AWS Identity and Access Management principles (IAM)
• SQL (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora or comparable)
• GIT, JIRA, Agile / Scrum

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

• AWS Cognito