Python Developer

Job Title : Senior .NET Developer

Experience : 8+ Years

Location : Trivandrum / Kochi

Notice Period : Immediate

Working Hours : 12 PM – 9 PM IST (4-hour mandatory overlap with EST)

Job Summary :

We are hiring a Senior .NET Developer with strong hands-on experience in .NET Core (6/8+), C#, Azure Cloud Services, Azure DevOps, and SQL Server. This is a client-facing role for a US-based client, requiring excellent communication and coding skills, along with experience in cloud-based enterprise application development.

Mandatory Skills :

.NET Core 6/8+, C#, Entity Framework/Core, REST APIs, JavaScript, jQuery, MS SQL Server, Azure Cloud Services (Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Key Vault, SQL Azure), Azure DevOps (CI/CD), Unit Testing (XUnit/MSTest), Strong Communication Skills.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using .NET Core, C#, REST APIs, SQL Server
• Work with Azure Services: Functions, Durable Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Key Vault, Storage Queues, SQL Azure
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Perform troubleshooting, debugging, and performance tuning
• Ensure high-quality code through unit testing and technical documentation

Primary Skills (Must-Have) :

• .NET Core 6/8+, C#, Entity Framework / EF Core
• REST APIs, JavaScript, jQuery
• SQL Server: Stored Procedures, Views, Functions
• Azure Cloud (2+ years): Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Blob Storage, SQL Azure, Monitoring
• Unit Testing (XUnit, MSTest), CI/CD (Classic/YAML pipelines)
• Strong knowledge of design patterns, architecture, and microservices
• Excellent communication and leadership skills

Secondary Skills (Nice to Have) :

• AngularJS/ReactJS
• Azure APIM, ADF, Logic Apps
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Application support & operational monitoring

Certifications (Preferred) :

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
• Relevant Azure/.NET/Cloud certifications

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As an SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tying them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

Responsibilities:

1. Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
3. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
4. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
5. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
6. Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation
7. Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers

Requirements:

1. At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
2. Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
3. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
4. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
5. Passion for solving complex problems
6. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
7. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
8. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
9. Experience with team management
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience working with node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
2. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Junior Backend Engineer to join our team. The role involves developing and maintaining backend systems using Django and Python, while also managing on-premises hardware and deployments. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our software is reliably configured, deployed, and maintained in an on-prem environment.

Key Responsibilities

Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python (Django or Flask).

On-Prem Deployment: Install, configure, and manage software on on-premises hardware, including servers and networking equipment.

Database Management: Design database schemas, write efficient queries, and optimize data access layers (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).

API Integration: Implement and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party services.

Troubleshooting & Debugging: Diagnose and resolve application and infrastructure issues to ensure high availability.

Version Control & CI/CD: Use Git for version control and contribute to continuous integration and delivery pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).

Security & Compliance: Work with the team to ensure software and infrastructure meet security and compliance requirements.

Documentation: Maintain clear, comprehensive documentation for your code, configurations, and on-prem deployment processes.

Skills:

• Expertise in Python 3 on AWS serverless
• Experience in AWS serverless stack Appsync, Lambda, Cognito, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, SQS, S3, Code commit & Code Deploy.
• Proficient in modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies.
• Experience in a database technology, preferably No-SQL such as AWS DynamoDB.
• Build human-centric UX with us using technologies like React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and CSS-in-JS.
• Experience building data processing pipelines (SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, or similar)
• Deep technical hands-on experience developing in REST/JSON or SOAP/XML, combined with strong knowledge of concepts such as CORs (Cross Origins Resources), headers, security, JSON and http concept.
• Experience with Github and advanced Github features (good to have).
• Must have worked as a part of Agile Teams and DevOps practices such as continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins), code repository, creating CI/CD pipelines is required.

• Highly proficient in JavaScript and Typescript, PassportJs, Sequelize.
• Working knowledge of Node.js frameworks such as ExpressJs, SailsJs, VueJs and  ElectronJs.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jade, EJS, Mustache etc.
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors such as Stylus, Less,Sass etc.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Sound knowledge of Testing frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jasmine, Cucumber etc.
• Experience of writing unit, integration and E2E tests.
• Experience of working with SQL databases.
• Experience of integrating third party APIs.
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Good Communication Skills.

• Proficient with Laravel & Codeignitor Framework 
• Have good database structures and algorithm platform
• Knowledge about OPP, MVC, RESTful
• Knowledge about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, ActiveJS, NodeJS, JQuery is an advantage
• Have experiences using GIT
• Use fluently one of relation database administration: Oracle, MySQL