Python Developer (Crawlers / APIs / Async Programming)

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About Us

Binocs.co empowers institutional lenders with next-generation loan management software, streamlining the entire loan lifecycle and facilitating seamless interaction among stakeholders.

Team: Binocs.co is led by a passionate team with extensive experience in financial technology, lending, AI, and software development.

Investors: Our journey is backed by renowned investors who share our vision for transforming the loan management landscape: Beenext, Arkam Ventures, Accel, Saison Capital, Blume Ventures, Premji Invest, and Better Capital.

What we're looking for

We seek a motivated, talented, and intelligent individual who shares our vision of being a changemaker. We value individuals dissatisfied with the status quo, strive to make improvements, and envision making significant contributions. We look for those who embrace challenges and dedicate themselves to solutions. We seek individuals who push for data-driven decisions, are unconstrained by titles, and value collaboration. We are building a fast-paced team to shape various business and technology aspects.

Responsibilities

• Be a part of the initial team to define and set up a best-in-class digital platform for the Private Credit industry, and take full ownership of the components of the digital platform
• You will build robust and scalable web-based applications and need to think of platforms & reuse
• Driving and active contribution to High-Level Designs(HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Mentor team members in adopting effective coding practices. Conduct comprehensive code reviews, focusing on both functional and non-functional aspects.
• Ensure the security, performance, and reliability of backend systems through proper testing, monitoring, and optimization.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and agile development processes to maintain code quality and project timelines.
• Simply, be an owner of the platform and do whatever it takes to get the required output for customers
• Be curious about product problems and have an open mind to dive into new domains eg: gen-AI.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest development trends, tools, and technologies.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in backend development, with a strong track record of successfully architecting and implementing scalable and high-performance backend systems.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g.,Python, Golang, Node.js, Java) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
• Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc)
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience of cloud computing platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development

Good to have

• Experience with microservices architecture
• Knowledge of serverless computing and event-driven architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
• Understanding of DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in developer communities.
• Experience working LLMs and AI technologies

Benefits

By joining Binocs, you’ll become part of a vibrant and dynamic team dedicated to disrupting the fintech space with cutting-edge solutions. We offer a stimulating work environment where innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Our competitive compensation package, inclusive of equity, is designed to reward your contributions to our success.

Required Skillset

• Experience in Core Java 1.8 and above, Data Structures, OOPS, Multithreading, Algorithms, Collections, System Design, Unix/Linux. • Possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns. • Should be able to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications. • Good development experience with RDBMS. • Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-volume server-side development. • Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux. • Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java. • Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills. • Should be able to express their design ideas and thoughts.

Job Brief-

• Understand product requirements and come up with solution approaches. • Build and enhance large scale domain centric applications. • Deploy high quality deliverables into production adhering to the security, compliance and SDLC guidelines.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

Work experience as a Python Developer

Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (experience in Flask preferred)

Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)

Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)

Team spirit

Good problem-solving skills

BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field

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

• Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
• You will design Scalable and Fault-Tolerant systems
• You will help Maintain critical and auxiliary systems (databases, cache ...)
• You will build Experiments that help validate hypotheses for the product

Experience:

2+yrs In your first 3 months, you will…

• Successfully onboard and create strong bonds with the current team
• Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
• Contribute to existing product features and experimentation

In your first 6 months, you will…

• Develop prototypes of new features or products using rapid iteration and experimentation as we explore new ideas
• Partner across the engineering team to ship features

In your first year, you will...

• Champion best-in-class engineering practices and systems for an emerging engineer team
• Help build a suite of features for the product

Our Ideal Hire:

• Learned best practices and has experienced the challenges and joys working at a startup
• Managed and maintained production code at increasing scales
• Feels strongly motivated by our mission
• Communicates complex problems and proposes solutions, in writing and in conversation

Expertise:

• Proficiency in any one language (ex: NodeJS / Go / Python)
• MySQL (design / indices / optimizing queries)
• Redis (types/ functionality/ use cases)

Hands-on experience:

• Handled scaling issue
• Good at debugging

Good to have:

• Kafka (or other stream-processing software)
• AWS

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Able to explain things in simple terms
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in the chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Willing to Mentor and humble to ask for collaboration
• Most important, Learn & Grow yourself!
• Hungry to grow anymore

We’re seeking an expert Full-Stack developer ( Expert in  HTML 5, PHP, Canvas & JQuery) to help us update our back-end admin. You will work from layouts in Adobe XD and Anima and work side by side with our development team in Manila and coordinate tasks and timelines to complete our  project.  Estimate full-time 3 month timeline- possibility may need you for ongoing freelance work after project completion.

We are looking to hire a temporary, freelance position for now. 


REQUIREMENTS

• At least 3 year(s) of working experience in eCommerce web development  is  required for this position

• Strong knowledge of current architectural approaches to web-based applications development

• Experience with Agile development projects

• Ability to effectively manage changing and multiple priorities

• Experience with PHP, CSS, HTML / HTML 5, Javascript coding

• MVC based PHP framework (Laravel)

• jQuery/AJAX/JSON or other Javascript frameworks (AngularJS, React Backbone, etc)

• HTML5 Responsive framework (Bootstrap, foundation, skeleton, etc)

Knowledge of Linux command-line

• Experience of using version control (Github, Subversion, BitBucket, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Anima)

• Knowledge and understanding of how to update modules using Angular or React 

• Knowledge and understanding of Databases (MySql/MSSQL)

• Knowledge and understanding of SEO tools application

• Experience with open-source software

• Enjoy mentoring team members; helping them to advance their technical skills

• Must be able to stay on top of advancing internet and computer technology and its effects to the business environment

• Be willing to work in a research capacity ñto find, test, and critically review open-source frameworks and technologies.

HOW TO APPLY

Make an intro answering the following questions:

1) Provide an example of a web application that you've built that uses HTML 5, Canvas or where multiple files can be uploaded simultaneously