Python Lead

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers. 

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

Responsibilities for Jr. Node JS Developer: 3+yrs

· Should have relevant object-oriented application-building experience in a professional environment.

· Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

· Implementation of security and data protection.

· Thorough understanding of relational databases such as MySQL or similar technologies.

· Excellent coding skills in Node.js, and JavaScript.

· Knowledge of working closely with code versioning tools like git.

· Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team.

Required Skills:

· Strong proficiency with JavaScript.

· strong hold on Node.js and frameworks.

· Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.

· Good understanding of server-side templating languages.

· Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors.

· Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.

· Understanding accessibility and security compliance.

· User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

· Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

· Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

· Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.

· Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.

• Must have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with Python/Node.JS/Typescript
• At least 2+ years as back-end software developer
• A deep understanding of the benefits of the Microservice and serverless paradigms
• Prepared technical documentation, and understand why it’s important
• Understanding of database principals: SQL and NoSQL
• Collaboration and communication skills (you’ll be working with clients and internal teams)
• An understanding of programming fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms)
• Familiarity and comfort with REST API, Postman
• The ability to work independently or within a team structure.
• A “lead by example” attitude, and motivation to deliver work you’re proud of

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds

Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogs (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5M e-commerce stores built by Indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

Requirements:

1. Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework, and their design principles.
2. Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.).
3. Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters, and view set completely according to needs.
4. Should have good experience in Class-Based Views to write the backend API.
5. Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modeling them to Django models.
6. Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
7. Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
8. Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a codebase that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
9. Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
10. The ability to write RAW SQL queries and further database-level coding will be a plus.
11. Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading, and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
12. Hands-on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
13. Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
14. Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
15. Experience with open source will be a plus.
16. Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the ins and out of the existing codebase and have a good grasp of it.
2. Write clean, stable, and scalable code.
3. Write unit test cases for the APIs.
4. Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
5. Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for business needs.

• Spend most of your time developing brand new software in Python
• Build out a secure data replication infrastructure to replicate transactional data across a hierarchical system
• Build out APIs for supporting a fleet of 20k devices
• Build out a configurable data analytics and reporting framework
• Build out real time dashboards for getting a high level and deep dive view of the overall system
• Be responsible for independently designing and building out modules of the overall system
• Work with a team of smart peers and take ownership of the resulting system
• Push yourselves, create impact, learn and grow as an engineer