Python Developer

Our Company: Incepted in 2015 and incubated inside InMobi, India’s one of the hottest tech startups, we are a comprehensive skill proficiency measurement platform that helps organizations make critical people decisions better with the help of deep learning, predictive data analytics, AI, and automation. DoSelect has helped organizations like InMobi, Edge Verve, Hexaware, Sapient, Dream11, Globaledge etc. to increase their time and cost efficiency substantially in hiring and employee learning & development. Large learning organizations like Upgrad, Simplilearn, IIHT, Aptech, Manipal Pro Learn and others rely on our platform for completing their students learning journey. Our Team: We are a bunch of crazy hackers who like to take up an unsolved problem and solve it using a variety of technologies Your Opportunity: You'd be responsible for building the core applications that power the DoSelect platform. You'd be designing internal and public facing REST APIs for various components of the platform. This will be an opportunity for you to work across multiple technologies and domains. You should have: 2-6 years of experience building web applications and RESTful APIs Experience in designing scalable micro-services required Sound knowledge of Python and Django, familiarity with Linux and git Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work Familiarity with HTML / CSS and templating systems, Redis, RabbitMQ, NGINX preferred Bonus - Preliminary knowledge of any one of these languages - Golang / JavaScript / Lua Responsibilities Our ideal Candidate: You are a problem solver and have a drive for results. You enjoy working in a fast paced/ unstructured ecosystem. You are accountable and enjoy working with minimal supervision.

It is an eCommerce growth platform using AI and machine learning to help establish and grow online businesses across multiple channels and global markets. We use data-driven tools to optimize how products are advertised and listed across marketplaces – and handles all associated shipping, logistics, taxes, and compliance. Their business model is built on aligned incentives with no initial costs. They only makes money if and when customers’ products sell.
Our mission is to make e-commerce easy and accessible for everyone. We believe that all businesses should have the equal playing field in terms of resources to build and grow their online business. With our eCommerce tools and comprehensive platform, business owners can better understand, analyze and grow their business. Starting a business and making products is hard enough; selling products and growing the business shouldn’t be.

We’re a small team looking for passionate, execution-focused, self-starters to help us build the next generation eCommerce platform and equal the playing field for all. Our success depends on building teams who can challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we don’t just accept differences – we celebrate them. If that sounds exciting to you, let’s talk!
We are expanding our Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team composed of owners. We are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential
What you will do?
 Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
 Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
 Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
 Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
 Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular design.
 Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation and monitoring
 Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have quality in mind.
 Own the full release cycle from development to deployment
What you will need?
 3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
 Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
 Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
 Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.
 Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
 Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing skills.
 Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
 Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment
Bonus if you have
 Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
 Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding requirements from the product manager and translating to technical specifications
• DB schema development
• API development (structuring REST endpoints + real-time endpoints like socket.io integration)
• Integrating 3rd party services for payments, email, whatsapp, and other such services
• Optimizing our current architecture & processes for scale (we expect usage to go up)
• Guiding junior developers on best coding practices

 

Requirements:

• Experience in at least one Python-based Web Framework like Flask or Django
• Experience in SQL databases & API design
• Experience with Docker
• Hands on experience in full lifecycle development and deployment of a platform/system
• Being a self-starter with the ability to thrive in ambiguous and high pressure scenarios working towards a common goal with other teams

UrbanPiper offers an integration layer that powers the operational efficiency of 1000’s of restaurants across India for selling online through their own white-labelled platform or any of the leading food aggregator platforms — Swiggy, Zomato, Dunzo, Amazon etc. At present, we are
processing nearly 6 million transactions every month. By the end of this year, we will be growing this number to 10 million. The most defining aspects of our work related to — consistency, reliability,scalability and agility. We make use of a wide variety of technologies and process significantly large amounts of data on a daily basis.
We are looking for backend engineers who have an appetite to explore new technologies, while building applications that can scale well both in terms of execution speed and the size of data that is
processed.

You will:
• Work closely with the product management team to understand the scope of an application
• Expected to research for ideal technologies that can work ideally for given problem statements
• Have a good grasp of how to design and implement APIs in conformance to the protocols of REST and GraphQL.
• Need to have a good understanding of network principles related to latency, throughput,bandwidth, security — and how to monitor them.
• Take ownership of the correctness of your work both in terms of functional and usability aspects
• Apply the best practices of software development when it comes to SCM, managing issues and most importantly, documenting your work.

We are looking for someone who has:
• 1+ years of experience in building integration solutions with REST and GraphQL APIs,Databases, email, SMS, etc.
• Familiar with the concepts of distributed systems esp. Queues.
• A sound understanding of disparate persistence systems SQL and NoSQL storage systems.
• Worked with Python on a regular basis and is conversant with the dominant frameworks like
Django, Flask and those required to implement RESTful/GraphQL protocols.
• A strong understanding of data structures.
• The ability to communicate results clearly in a verbal and written manner

Nice to haves:
• Experience in a high growth technology company
• Conversant with the AWS platform and have a good understanding of working remotely on servers using SSH and CLI.
• Can install and operate infrastructure applications which can be used to monitor performance, alert and recover.

WHAT SKILLS SHOULD I HAVE ?
For this role we expect you to have 3+ years of experience in Backend development. You should have strong command
of Python, REST and Flask/Django along with some experience in GIT is nice to have. If you have knowledge about client
side languages like JS, ReactJS and experience in API design and development, it is a huge plus.
You should be knowledgeable about programming languages, operating systems, networks, databases and SQL,
algorithms, architecture, code design and design patterns

Candidate Profile: The ideal candidate will be passionate about this role which involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product, and he/she will also believe that automation is key to operating large-scale systems. He/She should have created and led an application development from scratch. Should have good scaling experience of DB. Education: BE/B.Tech. from reputed College Technical skills required: • 5+ years’ experience as a backend web developer in Python • Software design skills in product development • Strong understanding of the 3 key areas of web application architecture server backend, frontend presentation (HTML, CSS) and interactive web (JavaScript and jQuery) • Proficiency in a modern open-source NoSQL database, preferably Cassandra • Proficient in HTTP protocol, REST APIs, JSON • Ability to do database design and modeling • Experience with Flask (Must have) Django (Good to have) • Experience with Gunicorn, Celery, RabbitMQ • Experience in AWS

You will be required to build various applications, rest APIs and implement requirements as per projects. Required to use proper software development processes, source version controls and use of dev-ops work-flows with best practices. Identify and suggest various opportunities to improve efficiency and functionality. Understanding Security flaw and writing highly secure REST API(s). Understanding of Relational and Non relational Databases. Should adapt changes based on project requirements. 3rd Party integration & Logging Modules. Write reusable and testable code. Writing unit tests for developing robust and scalable APIs. please call HR for the further query 858-590/4789 submit your application via link for the faster response via ATS nerdgeeklab.com/application.php