Python Developer - Scripting

Requirements

• Senior SD4 engineer/Principal Engineer/ Architect who has led or been part of platform teams inside a large/mid tech company
• Deep expertise working with any of the programming languages to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.Python experience is a bonus - but not required
• Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general and ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion
• Experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Load Balancing
• Experience in building a platform team on AWS for Product based companies/start-ups

What You’ll Do

• Build the core technology platform, including Automated provisioning of infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring of services
• Build a central services directory within an organization that shows the cost and health of all services and makes the management of microservices extremely easy
• This involves working with core infrastructure and understanding them in great detail - like Kubernetes, ServiceMesh, Service security
• Mentor/coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, service oriented web applications from scratch for technology products for European market.
• Maintain these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards
• Participate with founding, business and product teams in discussions on how to build and launch new modules.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Start as an individual contributor but stay ready to build and mentor a small team of up to 5 engineers over the coming months and years.
• Contribute in hiring highly ambitious engineers as the team grows.
• Being among the first people on the engineering team, be a culture driver.

 

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using different MVC frameworks.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable applications using Node.js/MEAN stack.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with non relational databases like MongoDB.
• Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Exposure in building polyglot applications.
• Exposure for devops and related processes, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of components in scalable solutions i. e. database partitions, message brokers, background processing.
• Exposure to basic frontend technologies to speed up collaboration with the frontend team.

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.

GeoSpoc is looking for passionate backend developers who would like to solve complex business problems using location-aware data and cutting-edge tools and technologies such as microservices and cloud platforms such as AWS.

 

• A passionate developer with solid understanding of software basics  
• Always willing to learn and explore upcoming technologies
• Pro-active, reliable and result oriented
• Someone who can continuously perform in a fast-paced environment

 

• 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

 

• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)

 

• Writing and testing code, debugging programs and integrating applications with third-party web services
• Work closely with small teams of designers, frontend developers, GIS experts as well as business stakeholders
• Own the development lifecycle of backend systems from design to deployment
• Go above and beyond to deliver great quality software solutions on time

inai is building the future of payments
inai is Segment for payments. We make the lives of digital/online merchants easier
by enabling them to manage their payments’ stack in a low-touch / no-code
fashion. Merchants can now future proof their payment stack and break out of the
consistent trade-off between a great checkout experience and the flexibility
required to maintain the same.
inai was founded by serial entrepreneurs who have decades of experience in
finance and tech. inai has been backed by marquee investors including Kunal
Shah, Razorpay, the first investors in Square/Twitter, and other stellar investors.

Background
Back-end engineers will build the core of inai’s platform which comprises of 3
broad teams:
• Front-end: handle the checkout experience for our merchants and the
dashboard their product teams would be using daily
• Integrations: that handle our integrations with various payment processors,
wallets, BNPLs, analytics providers, fraud and risk providers and accounting
software.
• Platform: The glue that holds it all together. APIs will be the norm, databases
your core, scalability, reliability, and system design your everyday concern.
You will
• Develop APIs to integrate with 3rd party systems — primarily in the payments
domain
• Work closely with our front end and integrations engineering teams and also
with our colleagues across the globe.
• Take ownership for the modules you develop and key technology decisions,
and customer issues.
• Contribute towards documentation (internal and customer-facing), code
reviews, tooling, and processes.
You will have
• 2 to 8 years experience as a full stack engineer. Atleast 1+ years in handling
payments recently.
• Experience in working with 3rd party APIs. You should be able to peruse 3rd
party API documentation and retro-fit the APIs with the platform team.
• Experience writing APIs in Python, relational databases
• Can communicate and interact with a larger team
• Experience in working with multiple payment gateways or integrating them

• Experience with handling payment tokens.
Good-to-have
• Experience with OpenAPI, JSON API specs
Benefits
• Health insurance for you and your loved ones - on us.
• Work-life balance: Our success will not come at the expense of your work-life
balance
• Grow with us: Working in the intersection of fintech and SaaS, you will have
all the opportunities to grow in this thriving sector.
• Work from Home: We will help set up your home in your residence in India.
Inai will continue to operate remotely till the situation returns back to normal.

Experience : 1-3 years

Location : Andheri east, Mumbai

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 days

Responsibilities :

- Create algorithms from scratch.

- Create products and backend API's as described by the business team.

- Back-test and create a hypothesis as desired by the research team.

- Code the backend of logics for consumption by the UI team.

- Deploy websockets, Django, rest API's & dynamic TCP, UDP based data flow.

- Deployment and maintenance of codes with version control.

You will be proficient in Kubernetes and the docker ecosystem. You know at least one or two languages, preferably Go or Python and have good experience working with Kubernetes APIs. You have worked with SDNs and hybrid networks spanning local and cloud resources. You have worked on automation with Chef / Puppet / Ansible and have dabbled with tools like Consul, Etcd, Terraform. You have significant exposure to multiple clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure and are very conversant with the UIs and the CLI as well. Knowledge of micro-services architecture, serverless paradigms are highly desired.

About Us:Paysense is Nexus and Jungle funded startup focussed on improving the financial lives of the indian consumer. In an exclusive partnership with India Infoline (IIFL ~$600 mn networth), we are reinventing credit and access to it for the next billion Indian consumers. Traditional banks and lending institutions in India are serving less than 5% of all credit requirements. Primary sources of data on consumer spend and credit behaviour either do not exist, or, are fundamentally broken. We saw this as a challenging opportunity to build out large scale credit system from scratch. Our team comprises of engineers, data scientists and product leaders from Stanford, IIT and UCLA; and we are looking for mission driven team mates who are ambitious, work hard, are super smart and yet humble. If this sounds like you, we’d love to have a chat.About the job:- Backend development at Paysense means writing web systems that receive and process millions of requests per minute. - You will write code that stores and analyzes large scale data in milliseconds: architect and develop data processing and warehouse systems- Develop internal and external platform that powers next generation of credit lending systems- Design tech to build graph/network connecting users- Write systems that are integrated with all leading banks, bureaus and financial institutions.About you:- 2+ years of experience with one of the following is must: Python/Java/nodeJS.- Strong experience with Postgres or another SQL RDBMS.- Working knowledge of AWS or other cloud service.- Experience working in finance domain is a plus.- Experience with Python, Django, or data science toolkits (pandas, scikit, sparkML) is a plus.- Strong CS fundamentals - algorithms, database and systems design.- Degree in CS/Maths from tier-1 engineering institutes.

PRIMARY SKILLS REQUIRED • Atleast 4 years of programming experience • Must have hands on experience in Ruby/Ruby on Rails and a knack for writing clean, readable and performant code. • Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Programming Concepts, Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns.. • Experience in B2C applications, building APIs, running and maintaining background jobs and full-stack performance tuning.. • Excellent experience with datasources like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis etc.. • Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful. • Strong working knowledge of Linux. • Knowledge of AWS & Elastic Search will be helpful. • Experience with Agile and software development using versioning software (eg.GIT).