Python/Django Backend Developer

Job description

Opportunity

We are looking for a young and enthusiastic personality who loves coding. Who is passionate and ready to tackle some of the most difficult problems in the laundry industry. We believe that user-centric design ultimately leads to the best products, so we listen closely to our users, both external and internal. As an engineer on our close-knit, cross-functional team, you'll be an active voice in shaping our product. 

You will play a role in product planning, drive the implementation and release of major features, and be a champion of best practices for writing well-tested, well-organized code.

Tech Stack

Our tech stack is http://asp.net/">ASP.NET, MVC, Webform, WebAPI, MSSQL Server, JQuery, Javascript, Angular 2 and microservices architecture. Our platform is hosted on Google Cloud. 

Responsibilities

• Work with internal business teams and management to define requirements and develop technical specifications.
• You will be creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Developing and integrating RESTful API services.
• Convert legacy code to new tech stack single-page web applications.
• You will be working with payment gateway, barcodes, QR codes, biometrics, integrating different hardware (printer, scanner, cash register, POS terminal, laundry and drycleaning machines, conveyor belt etc), map routing and distance algorithms.

What you can expect in the next 12 months

Within 1 month

• You should have acquired a good knowledge of the domain, product and process that we follow.
• Setup the dev environment and push your first small piece of code to production.
• You will start attending daily stand up.
• Dive into technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by your peers.
• Have a one-one chat with every member of the Quick Dry Cleaning team so you get to know everyone well and understand each other.

Within 3 months

• You'll start developing your first module all by yourself. (With some guidance)
• Write your first set of unit test cases and work with the quality engineer to set up functional testing workflows.
• Conduct your first review of a peer's code.
• Participate in several release planning sessions to get a deep understanding of the new features we're working on.
• Participate in your first production release cycle.
• Start providing support for bugs, issues, small improvements on production.
• Take over one tool (JIRA, Build Deployment, CI/CD, Git or any other)

Within 6 months

• You'll launch your first two or three modules to production.
• Take architectural and infrastructure decisions that will impact the entire product.
• Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new services.

Within 12 months

• You'll launch at least 3 to 4 core modules to production and completely own scaling for some more.
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth.
• Mentor Ship - Should do code reviews for juniors, spend time and show a willingness to teach juniors, and share expertise with new team members.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, sales and customer success leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.
• You will start owning an important workflow/ section of the product. 

Required Candidate profile

What an ideal candidate looks like

• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, databases, networking, and distributed systems.
• 3-4 years of experience with product development (.ASP.Net, C#.Net, WCF, MVC, SQL Server development applications, version control, CI/CD pipelines).
• Should have a strong online presence on different forums like stack overflow etc, Github etc.
• Excellent verbal and written skills. The ability to explain sophisticated architectures to engineers, product managers, and support & operation executives. You should also be able to write a proposal for your idea/solutions and take feedback from the team.
• Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.

Personality traits we really admire 

• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Pays great attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
• Gives equal importance to planning, coding, code reviews, documentation, and testing.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follows release cycles and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Role Software Developer

Industry Type IT Services & Consulting

Functional Area IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance

Employment Type 

Role Category Programming & Design

Responsibilities:

• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support

• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.

• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions

• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable

• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions

• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage

• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.

• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Requirements:

• Experience: 3+ years

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science

• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms

• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications

• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus

• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms

• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python

• Language: GO or Python

• Strong expertise in DS and Algo

• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.

• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.

• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code

• Both HLD and LLD

We are a Fintech Start up targeting to capture $ 900 BN consumer payment &lending opportunity. We are building platform of the future in which the offline / online merchants would be able to expand their consumer base. We also empower merchants to collect payment digitally and help build their identity through our offerings.

Consumers would be able to make their purchase decisions and would get the options to convert their purchases in to easy EMIs

• Developing front end website architecture
• Designing user interactions on web pages
• Developing back end website applications
• Creating servers and databases for functionality
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product
• Designing and developing APIs
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

• Java 8 and above
• Experiencein databases Mongodb, MySQL, SQL Oracle etc.
• Working knowledge in IOC Container / Spring boot& ORM, Spring Security, AOP JMS.
• Experience in Microservices, Eureka, Zuul, Ribbon would be an added advantage.
• Experience with build tools like Ant, Gradle or Maven and troubleshoot build issues.
• Should have exposure to GIT, Jira etc..
• Develops resealable frameworks/components and POCs based on Product Architecture RoadMap.
• Uses best practices during web services implementations and works with the REST
• Strong analytic problem-solving skills.
• Proactive work ethic.

We are hiring for a Software Engineer Team Lead - Backend, to join our education-focused fintech lending startup, GrayQuest. Our core product is a combination of a lending product, a rewards product and an insurance product to redefine the education fees payment across the country.

• Participate in all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Develop back-end components, services, and APIs. Support integration of user-facing elements, and collaborate closely with the design and front-end development team.
• Write elegant, effective, and scalable code while maintaining the highest level of coding standards.
• Take complete ownership of projects and ensure timely deliveries
• Ability to debug, refine, review, and deploy code
• Work closely with the QA team to test, and document project features.
• Ability to interact with all stakeholders. Understand business requirements, and effectively convert them into technical specifications
• Mentor junior developers and participate in peer Review

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience as a Python Developer (3+ years)
• Strong knowledge of Python frameworks (Django Rest, Flask)
• Experience working on REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of SQL and JavaScript
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Working knowledge of React
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology
• Good understanding of task breakup, milestone definition, and work delegation.
• Past experience of working in a fintech/financial services domain or a consumer internet startup will be preferable but not required
• Work experience in early-stage startups (0 ->1) is a big plus
• Bachelors or equivalent degree from premier institutes is a plus
• Most importantly, the biggest skill we look for our prospective candidates is "Learnability" - how quickly can you learn. 

Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate:

1. Work with a young dynamic core team backed by marquee investors from the financial services space
2. Work on a product/business that has achieved product market fit and take it to scale
3. Equity compensation and competitive market salaries
4. Work environment that prioritizes talent, hustle and dedication
   
   

We will also ensure we give a preference to applicants who directly email us with their background/context and why they think they should be a strong candidate for this position at GrayQuest. Email us at work (at the rate) grayquest (dot) com and cc Sonal (at the rate)grayquest (dot) com

• Experience in at least one of the frameworks   YII / Codeigniter
• Experience in Laravel(Mandatory)
• Good experience in JS, JQuery, AJAX, Angular JS
• Good experience in Html, CSS, Responsive Design.
• Ability to write and consume web services and REST services.
• Knowledge on Developing APIs for Mobile Applications
• Should have excellent communication skill and technical skill
• Extensive OOD (Object-oriented design) / OOP (Object-oriented programming) experience.
• Good knowledge of relational databases (MySQL), version control tools and of developing web services
• Should have good understanding skill and ability to work independently or within a team and lead a team.
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas.
• Knowledge of and experience applying design patterns andimplementing industry best practices required.

Good to Have Skills:

• Knowledge on Server Maintenance
• Knowledge on Amazon AWS

• If you fit the above criteria, send your latest resume along with following information duly filled to us immed at appleinformatics(at)yahoo.com   

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