Python Developer

FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Responsibilities

• Develop interactive, user-friendly applications using the latest frameworks

• Deliver across the entire application life cycle in the stages of concept, design, build, deployment, test, and release to app stores and support.

• Collaborate with product owners and designers to translate product requirements and designs into reality

• Own and develop feature sets that involve responsive UIs and restful services to ensure a seamless user experience.

• Interact with the product, engineering, and business teams across geographies to leverage their expertise and contribute efficiently.

• Ensure that all components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.

• Continuously optimize and improve the application performance

• Proactively acquire knowledge of the latest industry trends and best practices in mobile technologies to implement them and educate the teams to increase the effectiveness of technology solutions.

Requirements

• B.Tech/ B.S. or M.Tech/ M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science, IT, or related field

• 2-6 years of experience

Mandatory Skills

• 2+ years of experience designing and building production-level web applications including:

• Programming knowledge in JavaScript, NodeJS

• Good knowledge in developing front-end software, with deep experience in one or more relevant

front-end frameworks (ReactJs, Angular, Vue etc.).

• Expertise in Web/mobile app development using React Native

• Experience in product development on mobile platforms using React Native

• Familiar in developing backend (JS/Node/C#).

• Basic understanding of RDBMS databases

• Working knowledge of design patterns, SOLID principles, and development best practices. Ability to

independently write code and unit test cases

• Mastery of standard frontend technologies like modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use React,

Redux, Webpack, NodeJS etc.), REST, and JSON.

Desirable Skills

• ES6/7, Node, package management /webpack/parcel.

• Exposure to data modeling with any of the database technologies.

• Full stack understanding of web/mobile/API/database development concepts and patterns.

• Experience in DevOps would be a plus.

• Experience in TypeScript would be a plus.

• Excitement about the latest trends in application design

As a Full Stack Developer, you will be working on the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end

• Participating in the full development life cycle, including implementing design, coding, testing, and production release
• creating modules and components in React and coupling them together into a functional app
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workaround
• Integrating multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Driving innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development

Desired Candidate Profile

Senior Full Stack Engineer - TalkingYak

Talking Yak is an Android-based English teaching system made specifically for native Hindi and Tamil speakers.

Our program includes over 400 intelligently-structured videos, thousands of exercises, over 10,000 vocabulary words and phrases, and a system that adapts itself to each learner. In a matter of months, we can elevate most learners to a 100% functional English capability.

We are one team at TalkingYak consisting of honest, moral & ethical individuals who are heard and valued! We hold ourselves accountable- delivering on expectations & celebrating each other for the great work we do!

We’re looking for a senior developer who has a lot of passion towards solving real world problems using technology. 

Below are some of the developer qualities we like a lot,

• Good team player
• Ability to write clean readable code
• Good logical and problem solving skills
• Clear communication skills
• Never give up attitude
• Passionate to learn and acquire new skills

Our current technology stack includes Android, Python, Flask, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch and AWS. While it is a bonus to have worked on the same set of above listed technologies, it is not a must until you have hands-on experience with similar technologies.

To give you an idea about what you will be working on after joining us, you will be

• Dockerizing different services and automating our AWS infrastructure provisioning steps
• Optimising our backend services to scale for a few hundreds of concurrent users
• Managing our backed service and adding new features to it
• Working on refactoring our current android codebase to a cleaner design
• Mentoring junior developers

While we feel a developer with 4 to 8 years of hands-on experience will be more suitable for this role, it shouldn't be a hard constraint if you have the required skills.

We would love to get in touch immediately and have a conversation, if you feel our interests align.

• 3+ years of extensive experience in developing the Single Page Application with Web responsive design for mobile and web using Angularjs or Nodejs / React JS, HTML 5, CSS 3 and Bootstrap.
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, yarn, etc.
• Node JS & software engineering experience
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript (ES6)
• Knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, RDS and Dynamo
• Understanding of non-relational databases such as CouchDB and MongoDB
• Working experience with MySQL