Python/ Django developer

Join an innovative and groundbreaking cybersecurity startup focused on helping customers identify, mitigate, and protect against ever-evolving cyber threats. With the current geopolitical climate, organizations need to stay ahead of malicious threat actors as well as nation-state actors. Cybersecurity teams are getting overwhelmed, and they need intelligent systems to help them focus on addressing the biggest and current risks first.

We help organizations protect their assets and customer data by continuously evaluating the new threats and risks to their cloud environment. This will, in turn, help mitigate the high-priority threats quickly so that the engineers can spend more time innovating and providing value to their customers.

About the Engineering Team:

We have several decades of experience working in the security industry, having worked on some of the most cutting-edge security technology that helped protect millions of customers. We have built technologies from the ground up, partnered with the industry on innovation, and helped customers with some of the most stringent requirements. We leverage industry and academic experts and veterans for their unique insight. Security technology includes all facets of software engineering work from data analytics and visualization, AI/ML processing, highly distributed and available services with real-time monitoring, integration with various other services, including protocol-level work. You will be learning from some of the best engineering talent with multi-cloud expertise.

We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead the development and scaling of our backend systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in distributed systems, database management, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies. As a key technical leader, you will design, implement, and optimize critical backend services, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Develop Distributed Systems: Design and implement scalable, distributed systems using microservices architecture. Expertise in both synchronous (REST/gRPC) and asynchronous communication patterns (message queues, Kafka), with a strong emphasis on building resilient services that can handle large data and maintain high throughput. Craft cloud solutions tailored to specific needs, choosing appropriate AWS services and optimizing resource utilization to ensure performance and high availability.
• Database Architecture & Optimization: Lead efforts to design and manage databases with a focus on scaling, replication, query optimization, and managing large datasets.
• Performance & Reliability: Engage in continuous learning and innovation to improve customer satisfaction. Embrace accountability and respond promptly to service issues to maintain and enhance system health. Ensure the backend systems meet high standards for performance, reliability, and scalability, identifying and solving bottlenecks and architectural challenges by leveraging various observability tools (such as Prometheus and Grafana).
• Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, guiding architecture decisions, reviewing code, and helping to build a strong engineering culture. Stay abreast of the latest industry trends in cloud technology, adopting best practices to continuously improve our services and security measures.

Key Qualifications:

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with at least 5 years of experience in building distributed systems.
• Technical Expertise:
• Distributed Systems: Extensive experience with microservices architecture, working with both synchronous (REST, gRPC) and asynchronous patterns (SNS, SNQ). Strong understanding of service-to-service authentication and authorization, API rate limiting, and other critical aspects of scalable systems.
• Database: Expertise in database technologies with experience working with large datasets, optimizing queries, handling replication, and creating views for performance. Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Cassandra). Expertise in various database technologies and deep experience with creating data models that provide consistent data views to the customer while data is being morphed, handling data migrations, and ensuring data integrity and high availability.
• Kubernetes: In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, with experience deploying and managing services in Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS). Strong understanding of pods, services, networking, and scaling applications within Kubernetes environments.
• Golang: Proven experience using Golang as the primary programming language for backend development. Deep understanding of concurrency, performance optimization, and scalability in Golang applications.
• Cloud Technologies: Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS, EKS). Experience in designing and optimizing cloud-based architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Problem Solver: Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with a proven ability to design and optimize complex systems.
• Leadership: Experience in leading engineering teams, guiding architectural decisions, and mentoring junior engineers.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of GitHub-based CI/CD tools and best practices.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Cybersecurity experience.

• 3 - 5 years of progressive IT experience with a minimum of 1+ years in building Ruby on Rails Web applications and RESTful API endpoints
• Proficient with scripting languages, specifically Python and Bash
• Experience in Object Oriented Java Script.
• Must have Linux command line experience.
• Good experience in developing and integrating reliable REST web services.
• Possess good communication, organizational and creative thinking skills.
• Multi-tasking individual that likes to work both in a team environment and individually
• Excellent technical abilities, leadership, decision making, and adaptability to new technology
• Good knowledge of Agile processes and practice
• Team player

Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (http://www.egregorelabs.com/" target="_blank">www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here

We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (http://www.romulus.co/" target="_blank">www.romulus.co) and Robana (http://www.robana.ai/" target="_blank">www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.

Ideal Background

• At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Sound understanding of computer science principles
• Exposure to any of the following
  • Financial services
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Robotic Process Automation
  • Intelligent Document Processing
  • Document Management and Repositories

Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
• A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well

Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :

• Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
• Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
• Work Ethic- - We've grown up on Wall Street. We work hard and have aggressive goals. We want our teammates to be focused, goal-oriented, and consistent high achievers.
• Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done and getting things done right. We want outcome-focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.

Interested?
We are an early-stage company. Working here is not for the faint-hearted. An intense and unstructured work environment, lots of excitement, and a group of motivated colleagues are what we bring to the table. We ask you to bring your undivided attention, strong worth ethic & resourcefulness. We are Delhi-based and work 6 days a week. Currently, due to the pandemic, we are operating remotely since Feb 2020.

The 10BedICU team within eGovernments Foundation works as a small distributed start-up in the NGO space. We are a technology oriented team on the journey to make critical healthcare more accessible across the country. 

As a banckend dev in the team, you will be working on some of the most interesting challenges and collaborating with telented and highly skilled individuals across the industry. 

About Us

Wrky.ai provides the Intelligence and tools the businesses need to discover and nurture their talent potential. Evolved from a basic assessment to a much-advanced intelligence platform where we aim to help companies step up their talent game with data-driven insights. A Lean team of 5 people working toward making the shift happen, eagerly waiting for the 6th to join the rocket ship soon.

Selected Candidate day-to-day responsibilities include:

We are looking for a Django developer interested in building and performing web-based applications. You will be responsible for building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

Tech skills required but not limited to -

• Familiarity with Django/Django REST Framework

• Familiarity with OAuth and authentication systems

• Experience with popular RDBMS technologies (MySQL, Postgres, etc.)

• Experience with developing APIs

• AWS knowledge is highly preferred

Skill(s) required:- Python, Django, GitHub

Programming Languages: Perl, java. Perl programming with strong OOPs knowledge.

UI: HTML, JS
System: Linux must have – good knowledge and shell scripting experience.
Prior experience in infrastructure automation, monitoring will definitely help.


Description:

The person in this role:


- Will be involved in developing new monitoring scripts, enhancement & defect fixes on existing monitors

- Have to be on-call to support any incoming production/P1 internal issues which need urgent attention (team members are on call for a week and we have a weekly rotation policy within the team)
Preferred skills:

- Perl
- Shell scripting

- Unix

- Jenkins

• Building scalable web applications
• Integrating UI elements with server-side
• Handling Security and Data Protection
• Integrating front- end with SQL and NoSQL databases and ensuring its consistency
• Building reusable code and libraries
• Optimizing the code to improve its quality and efficiency

• 2+ yrs of Backend development experience
• You have excellent programming skills in python, ORM libraries and Django
• You have experience inbuilt tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Rundeck
• You have experience in cross-browser/cross-platform front-end development with HTML/CSS/Javascript in Angular or similar frameworks
• You are an expert in SQL (Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySql, or similar) and NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• You design, build and test RESTful web services.
• You have experience with Apache HTTP, NGINX, Tomcat or Jetty.