Python Developer

About SmartQ

A leading B2B Food-Tech company built on 4 pillars-great people, great food, great experience, and greater good. Solving complex business problems with our heart and analyzing possible solutions with our mind lie in our DNA. We are on the perpetual route of serving our clients wholeheartedly. Armed with the stability of an MNC and the agility of a start-up, we have spread across 17 countries, having collaborated and executed successfully with 600 clients. We have grown from strength to strength with a blend of exuberant youth and exceptional experience. Bengaluru, being our headquarters, is known as the innovation hub and we have grown up to be the global leader in the institutional food tech space. We were recently acquired by the world's largest foodservice company – Compass group which has an annual turnover of 20 billion USD.  

In this role, you will:

1. Collaborate with Product & Design Teams Work closely with the Product team to ensure that we are building a scalable, bug-free platform. You will actively participate in product and design discussions, offering valuable insights from a backend perspective to align technology with business goals.

2. Drive Adoption of New Technologies

You will lead brainstorming sessions and define a clear direction for the backend team to incorporate the latest technologies into day-to-day development,continuously optimizing for performance, scalability, and efficiency.

3. RESTful API Design & Development:You will ensure that the APIs you design and develop are well-structured, following best practices, and are suitable for consumption by frontend teams across multiple platforms. A key part of your role is making sure these APIs are scalable and maintainable.

4. Third-Party Integration Support:As we sometimes partner with third-party providers to expedite our market entry,you’ll work closely with these partners to integrate their solutions into our system.This involves participating in calls, finding the best integration methods, and providing ongoing support.

5. AI and Prompt Engineering:With AI becoming more integral to backend development, you’ll leverage AI to speed up development processes and maintain best practices. Familiarity with prompt engineering and AI-driven problem-solving is a significant plus in our team.

Must-Have Requirements:

• Strong expertise in Python, microservices, backend development and scalable architectures.
• Proficiency in designing and building REST APIs.
• Experience with unit testing in any testing framework and maintaining 100% code coverage.
• Experience in working with NoSQL DB.
• Strong understanding of any Cloud platforms such as - GCP/AWS/Azure.
• Profound knowledge in Serverless design pattern .
• Familiarity with Django or Webapp2 or Flask or similar web app frameworks.
• Experience in writing unit test using any testing framework.
• Experience collaborating with product and design teams.
• Familiarity with integrating third-party solutions.

Good-to-Have Requirements:

• Educational background includes a degree (B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech) in ComputerScience, Engineering, or a related field.  
• 4+ years’ experience as a backend/cloud developer.
• Good understanding of google cloud platform.
• Knowledge of AI and how to leverage it for day-to-day tasks in backend development.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering to enhance productivity.
• Prior experience working with global or regional teams.
• Experience with agile methodologies and working within cross-functional teams.

Certa (getcerta.com) is a Silicon Valley-based tech product start-up that is automating the vendor, supplier, and other stakeholder onboarding processes (think background checks, agreements, and the works) for companies across industries and geographies. With multiple Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 clients, at Certa's tech team, you will be working on stuff that is changing the way huge companies do business.

We recently raised Series A: https://www.businessinsider.com/certa-no-code-startup-raises-15-million-to-speed-procurement-2022-3" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/certa-no-code-startup-raises-15-million-to-speed-procurement-2022-3

The ideal candidate demonstrates the following:

• Ability to build modular features and implement systems/features based on requirements
• Own specific features/modules and handle their development from scratch
• Experience with Python
• Experience in building web applications and services using Django
• Experience in creating REST APIs using Django Rest Framework
• Proficiency in a relational database such as PostgreSQL
• Experience in handling asynchronous tasks using Celery
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• Strong testing and debugging skills
• Experience in building solutions using ElasticSearch is a big plus
• Exposure to a NoSQL database such as MongoDB is a plus
• Hands-on exposure to AWS is a plus
• Understanding of data security, encryption is a plus
• Critical thinking and objective reasoning based
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-changing environment
• Results-oriented, proactive and showing overall leadership quality

We are ideally looking for 2+ years of experience, in as much of the tech stack as possible. If you love startups or have experience working with startups, we would be match made in tech heaven.

Perks:

• Best-in-class compensation
• Performance-based ESOPs
• Fully-remote work
• Flexible schedules
• Engineering-first culture
• Continuous learning
• Massive opportunities for growth
• Paid vacation
• Yearly offsite
• Quarterly hacker house
• Workstation setup allowance
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Maternity leaves
• Latest Apple Workstation
• Rockstar team to work with (we mean it!)
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• Python knowledge: object-oriented programming: inheritance, abstract classes, dataclass, dependency injection, design patterns: comand-query, repository, adapter, hexagonal architecture, swagger/Open API, flask, connexion
• Experience on AWS services: lambda, ecs, sqs, s3, dynamodb, auroradb
• Experience with following libraries boto3, behave, pytest, moto, localstack, docker
• Basic knowledge about terraform, gitlab ci
• Experience with SQL DB

Responsibilities:

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code in Python.
• Designing and implementing software features and capabilities.
• Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks and bugs in existing code.
• Collaborating with other developers, stakeholders, and users to define, design, and ship new features.
• Building and maintaining software documentation.
• Ensuring code is maintainable and maintain appropriate versioning practices.
• Continuously discovering, evaluating, and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Requirements:

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Python development.
• Strong knowledge of Python programming language and related frameworks (such as Django, Flask etc.)
• libraries is important.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies, version control systems and experience with system administration.
• Database management and good understanding of software design principles is desired.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

JOB DESCRIPTION 

DYT - Do Your Thng, is an app, where all social media users can share brands they love with their followers and earn money while doing so! We believe everyone is an influencer. Our aim is to democratise social media and allow people to be rewarded for the content they post. How does DYT help you? It accelerates your career through collaboration opportunities with top brands and gives you access to a community full of experts in the influencer space. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Expert in Python with knowledge of Python best practices (PEP8) 
• Strong knowledge of python web frameworks such as Django, Flask • Strong knowledge of building RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework • Good Understanding of Django ORM Libraries 
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system • Strong experience on Linux 
• Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e. PostgresSQL,MYSql) • Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes • Strong unit test and debugging skills 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git) 
• Experience deploying on AWS is desirable 
• Experience with Docker,Test Drive Development will be a plus 
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, influence and communication skills • Experience in designing scalable micro-services is desirable 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• 0-1 years of experience as a backend developer 
• At least one product build and published 
• SKILLS Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle 
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code 
• Work well under pressure and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality • Work with distributed development teams 

Brief Overview:

Through your work at Vauld, you will have the opportunity to change money for the 21st century. We’re a leading cryptocurrency platform and are passionate about increasing economic freedom around the world. 

We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer who has hands-on experience working with and leading Product teams and has solved for and built complex backend solutions. You'll be involved with bringing features and products from idea to completion and mentoring an incredibly talented group of peers.

If you are looking for a challenging work environment where you can grow and deepen your technical skills as a backend engineer and architect, we’d love to chat with you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with CXO’s, product managers, devops, and frontend engineers to collaboratively own the backend-end layer for Vauld’s application.
• Architect and build highly scalable, secure features keeping the long term vision of the product.

Requirements:

• You have 7 years or more of backend development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance applications.
• Worked with and built high performance products using Node Js/GoLang/ Python and have seen the product evolution cycle from PoC to Production 
• You have a deep understanding of design principles and can rightly judge/implement solutions to complex problems
• You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a particular language/framework.
• You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.
• You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production environment, and finally monitoring.

Preferred:

• Previous work experience in product-based startups
• Experience building for products that have scaled and have seen the product evolution
• Understands the cryptocurrency landscape

Working at Vauld:

You will join a fun and intellectually stimulating work environment. If you’re excited by the idea of making a real impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on being disruptive and ambitious, a career with Vauld is perfect for you.

Job Description:

Candidate must have 2 to 5-years of experience in various phase of development of a python-based application or API development.

Requirements:

Must Have:  Strong expertise in PYTHON and its built-in data structures, developing API using flask or fastapi, data wrangling using standard python frameworks like pandas, NumPy etc., integration of various applications (third party or inhouse) with python.

Good to Have: Deployment using Nginx, GUnicorn, IIS, docker and Kubernetes etc. Good understanding of optimization solutions like differential evolution. Hands on experience with python packages like Scipy.  Tkinter to make python-based applications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Understanding/gathering the requirements from stakeholder, formulating the problem, and leveraging AI/ML to solve the business problems.
• Integration of third party or in house application with python solution.
• Working on Deployment and optimization of various engineering problems using Numerical/Constraint optimization frameworks such as Differential Evolution and deploy a web-based API using Flask and Nginx/IIS.
• Unit testing of various python modules developed and testing of the API.

We are seeking a lead Python Developer to lead the backend efforts and, in the process design, develop, and deploy its customer centric applications.

The person will have the opportunity to design and build an early stage, rapidly evolving platform from scratch and carry out these primary responsibilities -

Optimize components for maximum performance across multiple devices and browsers

Write performant REST APIs for both internal and external consumption

Build micro services and their deployment process

Work with problems of scale, leveraging technologies that are distributed in nature.

Perform code reviews

Required qualifications and must have skills

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Proven-deep-expertise with Python programming (4+ years of hands-on experience in Python and backend development)

Building performant and scalable applications from scratch

Experience in working with frameworks like Django, Flask, etc.

Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.

Experience with any RDBMS and strong SQL knowledge

Comfortable with Unix / Linux command line

Object-oriented concepts & design patterns

Sytem and database desinging skills

Nice to have Skills

Knowledge of other programming languages beyond Python

Familiarity with managing infrastructure on AWS/GCloud

Experience with working with/building data analytics pipleline

Familiarity with NoSQL databases

Good understanding of Docker and container platforms like Mesos and Kubernetes

Security-first architecture approach

Application benchmarking and optimization

Interpersonal Attributes

You are driven by the impact your work creates

You can answer the why behind any technological choice you make

You can work independently as well as part of a team