Python Developer

Sal: Upto 30LPA+ESOPs

Location: Bangalore and Mumbai

Hybrid work mode

EXP: 3-6y

Roles & Responsibilities

Cashflo, true to its name, is on a mission to unlock $100+ billion of trapped working capital in

the economy by creating India’s largest marketplace for invoice discounting to solve the

day-to-day cashflow problems faced by businesses. Founded by ex-BCG and ISB / IIM

alumni, and backed by General Catalysts and Elevation Capital, Cashflo helps democratize

access to credit in a fair and transparent manner.

Awarded Supply Chain Finance solution of the year in 2019, Cashflo creates a win-win

ecosystem for Buyers, suppliers and financiers through its unique platform model. Cashflo

shares its parentage with HCS Ltd., a 25 year old, highly reputed financial services company

has raised over Rs. 15,000 Crores in the market till date, for over 200 corporate clients.

Our leadership team consists of ex-BCG, ISB / IIM alumni with a team of industry veterans

serving as the advisory board. We bring to the table deep insights in the SME lending space,

based on 100+ years of combined experience in Financial Services. We are a team of

passionate problem solvers and big thinkers and are looking for like-minded people to join

our team.

We are looking for someone who loves a challenge, is ambitious, super tenacious and

persistent. S/he is a self-starter, thrives in a dynamic, small start-up environment, has a

knack for understanding customer needs, and loves to get sh*t done! If you check these

boxes - we want to talk to you!

The opportunity:

-Solve a complex $300+ billion problem at the cutting edge of Fintech innovation, and make

a tangible difference to the small business landscape in India

-Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new

challenges on a daily basis

-Be part of the early founding team and be directly responsible for driving the company's

success

Key Responsibilities

-As an early team member, you will get a chance to set the foundations of our engineering

culture. You will help articulate our engineering principles and help set the long-term

roadmap.

-Making decisions on the evolution of Cashflo's technical architecture

-Building new features end to end, from talking to customers to writing code

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have

● 3+ years of full-time software engineering experience

● Experience building scalable backend platforms (you've owned & built features from start

to

finish before)

● Thorough knowledge of SDLC

● Extensive knowledge of any of Python, Go, NodeJS

● Expertise on any RDBMS or NoSQL databases

● Understanding of messaging systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka and protocols

● Understands CI/CD pipelines

● Exposure to cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure

● Seen extensive scale and understands the evolutionary technical challenges

About You

-Product-minded. You have a sense for great user experience and feel for when something

is off. You love understanding customer pain points and solving for them.

-Get a lot done. You enjoy all aspects of building a product and are comfortable moving

across the stack when necessary. You problem solve independently and enjoy figuring stuff

out.

-High conviction. When you commit to something, you're in all the way. You're opinionated,

but you know when to disagree and commit. Mediocrity is the worst of all possible outcomes.

What’s in it for you

● Gain exposure to the Fintech space - one of the largest and fastest growing markets in

India

and globally

● Shape India’s B2B Payments landscape through cutting edge technology innovation

● Be directly responsible for driving company’s success

● Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment that throws new

challenges on a daily basis

● Fast track your career with trainings, mentoring, growth opportunities on both IC and

management track

● Work-life balance and fun team events

Job Description:

Position: Python Technical Architect

Major Responsibilities:

●           Develop and customize solutions, including workflows, Workviews, and application integrations.

●           Integrate with other enterprise applications and systems.

●           Perform system upgrades and migrations to ensure optimal performance.

●           Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to applications and workflows using Diagnostic console.

●           Ensure data integrity and security within the system.

●           Maintain documentation for system configurations, workflows, and processes.

●           Stay updated on best practices, new features and industry trends.

●           Hands-on in Waterfall & Agile Scrum methodology.

●           Working on software issues and specifications and performing Design/Code Review(s).

●           Engaging in the assignment of work to the development team resources, ensuring effective transition of knowledge, design assumptions and development expectations.

●           Ability to mentor developers and lead cross-functional technical teams.

●           Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications for effective workflow/Workview design.

●           Assist in the training of end-users and provide support as needed

●           Contributing to the organizational values by actively working with agile development teams, methodologies, and toolsets.

●           Driving concise, structured, and effective communication with peers and clients.

Key Capabilities and Competencies Knowledge

●           Proven experience as a Software Architect or Technical Project Manager with architectural responsibilities.

●           Strong proficiency in Python and relevant frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI).

●           Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps practices.

●           Expertise in Azure cloud ecosystem and architecture design patterns.

●           Familiarity with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and logging.

●           Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices architecture and asynchronous processing.

●           Deep understanding of insurance domain processes such as claims management, policy administration etc.

●           Experience in database design and data modelling with SQL(MySQL) and NoSQL(Azure Cosmos DB).

●           Knowledge of security best practices including data encryption, API security and compliance standards.

●           Knowledge of SAST and DAST security tools is a plus.

●           Strong documentation skill for articulating architecture decisions and technical concepts to stakeholders.

●           Experience with system integration using middleware or web services.

●           Server Load Balancing, Planning, configuration, maintenance and administration of the Server Systems.

●           Experience with developing reusable assets such as prototypes, solution designs, documentation and other materials that contribute to department efficiency.

●           Highly cognizant of the DevOps approach like ensuring basic security measures.

●           Technical writing skills, strong networking, and communication style with the ability to formulate professional emails, presentations, and documents.

●           Passion for technology trends in the insurance industry and emerging technology space.

Qualification and Experience

●           Recognized with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent.

●           Work experience - Overall experience 10-12 years

●           Recognizable domain knowledge and awareness of basic insurance and regulatory frameworks.

●           Previous experience working in the insurance industry (AINS Certification is a plus).

·      4+ years of experience as a Python Developer.

·      Good Understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Solid principles.

·      Good Understanding in Programming and analytical skills.

·      Should have hands on experience in AWS Cloud Service like S3, Lambda functions Knowledge. (Must Have)

·      Should have experience Working with large datasets (Must Have)

·      Proficient in using NumPy, Pandas. (Must Have)

·      Should have hands on experience on Mysql (Must Have)

·      Should have experience in debugging Python applications (Must have)

·      Knowledge of working on Flask.

·      Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM).

·      Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

·      Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN

·      Strong at problem-solving and logical abilities

·      Sound knowledge of Front-end technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript 

·      Strong commitment and desire to learn and grow.

• Back-end software development
• Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
• Working together with engineers and product teams
• Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
• Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
• Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team

What we are looking for:

• 4+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle.
• Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
• Experience with Databases (Relational and Non-Relational). Ex: Cassandra, MongoDB, Postgresql
• Experience with writing REST-APIs.
• Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
• Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
• Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
• A positive attitude, and a growth mindset

Bonus:

• Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Sklearn, NLTK, tensorflow, HuggingFace Transformers
• Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
• Good with Humor and Team player

• You will design and develop large scale distributed services.
• You will analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of the platform as a whole.
• You will act as the primary owner of one or more components while driving innovation in your area of ownership.
• You will proactively research & evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system.
• You will work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex development issues.
• You will work independently and handle dependencies with very minimal oversight.
• You will take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the back-end.
• You will help identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and work on design/architect improvements.

• You have 2+ years of experience in product software development.
• You have designed and scaled up the system.
• You have a strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
• You are an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
• You have strong command in any one or more of the following languages: Python.
• You understand the business impact of your decisions.

• Deep understanding of Django and DRF
• 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

Roles and Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge set to fetch data from multiple online sources, cleanse it and build APIs on top of it
• Develop a deep understanding of our vast data sources on the web and know exactly how, when, and which data to scrap, parse and store
• We're looking for people who will naturally take ownership of data products and who can bring a project all the way from a fast prototype to production.
• Integrating and maintaining Python services
• Developing robust microservices and applications

Desired Candidate Profile

• Strong relevant experience of at least 2-3 years.
• Strong coding experience in Python3.
• Should have good experience with Django and NodeJs.
• Proficient on modelling applications on both RDBMS and NOSQL databases
• Should have experience in web scraping
• Good understanding and hands-on with scheduling and managing tasks with cron
• Should have experience with microservice architecture
• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
• Should have experience in shell scripting, GIT and docker
• Writing unit tests for 100% code coverage.