Python backend developer
at Hiring for one of the product based organization
- Work with stakeholders and fellow developers.
- Design and implement Python code using the Django framework.
- Identify and fix bottlenecks that may arise from inefficient code.
- Identify and fix software bugs.
- Create a wide variety of unit tests to verify the functionality of software.
- Manage the security of the platform.
- Write detailed documentation around the code.
- Knowledge of front end languages.
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Job Title: Backend Developer - Fintech
Responsibilities:
- Architect and Develop: Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and efficient RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications and actionable plans.
- Debug and Resolve: Identify and fix backend issues and bugs, ensuring a seamless user experience for financial applications.
- Optimize Systems: Continuously enhance backend systems for performance, scalability, and resource efficiency.
- Code Quality: Uphold high standards of code quality, organization, and implement automated testing processes to meet industry standards.
- Stay Updated: Keep abreast of fintech industry trends, technological advancements, and regulatory updates to continually improve backend architecture.
Requirements:
- Experience: 5+ years of proven experience in backend development with a strong skill set in Python and Django.
- API Development: Extensive experience in developing secure and compliant RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework.
- Database Proficiency: In-depth knowledge of MySQL for database design, optimization, and maintenance; experience with MongoDB is a plus.
- DevOps: Proficiency in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and containerization.
- Cloud Services: Exposure to cloud services (AWS, GCP) with an emphasis on security and regulatory compliance.
- Software Principles: Solid understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices in the fintech domain.
- Agile Environment: Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
- Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with keen attention to detail.
- Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team-oriented fintech environment.
- Version Control: Proficiency with Git for version control and collaborative development.
Preferred Skills:
- Asynchronous Processing: Familiarity with asynchronous task processing using Celery or similar technologies, especially in financial transaction processing.
- AWS Expertise: Strong knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, with a focus on security and compliance.
- GCP Expertise : VPC, Virtual Machines, SQL, IP whitelisting
- Caching Mechanisms: Experience with caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis) for optimizing real-time data access and processing.
- Continuous Learning: Eagerness to learn and adapt, staying updated with emerging technologies and methodologies in backend development and the fintech industry.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our passionate team. If you have a strong background in backend development, a track record of delivering scalable and reliable solutions, and are eager to contribute to complex projects, we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop robust, high-performance backend solutions using Python and related technologies.
- Lead the architecture and design discussions for major backend components and services.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze software requirements.
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical growth.
- Review code and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and technical issues.
- Participate in sprint planning, task estimation, and agile development processes.
- Keep up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our backend systems.
- Drive the adoption of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in backend development.
- Strong proficiency in Python and backend frameworks like Django and Flask.
- In-depth knowledge of database systems, both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, etc. ).
- Proven track record of designing and developing scalable and maintainable backend services.
- Experience with RESTful API design and best practices.
- Solid understanding of software architecture, design principles, and software development lifecycle.
- Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers is a strong plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards challenges.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker) is a plus.
A Fintech start up company that bridges the gap between the digital payments
and the micro-retailing industry of the market. A nexus for the B2B sector providing multi-utility services via an Android app, enabling the micro-retailers across India to revolutionize their business and thus providing them with an opportunity to generate more revenue by offering multiple micropayment and digital services at their offline store. We intend to leverage the mode of smartphone technology in the rural and urban markets across India, thus empowering micro-retailers and creating a sustainable self-employment for this segment.
Overall Competencies:
1. Tech Depth/Breadth/Problem Solving.
2. Design & Architecture (Code/Design review).
3. Team Management.
Leadership Competency:
- Managing & mentoring a team.
- Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time.
- Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance).
- Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above Programming.
Tech Competency:
- Hands-on with Python/Django/Flask.
- Knowledge of PHP & Laravel is a plus.
- Experience with any JavaScript framework (Angular / React ).
- Prior experience in micro-services based architecture.
- Good understanding of SQL (MySQL, Postgres, or similar).
- Good understanding of one no-SQL (MongoDB / DynamoDB etc).
- Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance.
- Can reason about the complexity of algorithms (time and space).
- Basic CI/CD and DevOps.
- Experience in Docker & Kubernetes.
- Design, QA, and Infrastructure.
- Knowledge of design patterns and cloud scaling.
- AWS & GCP experience. AWS is mandatory.
- Understands BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing/Unit Testing
- Understands REST principles and Microservices
- Understands version control & branching strategies
- Understands application security fundamentals and potential security risks
Education: Bachelors in Computer Science|
- B.Tech/B.E(Computer Science/Information Technology) and 4+ years of software development experience
- Strong experience in Python
- Strong problem-solving skills, Computer science fundamentals, Data structures, and Algorithms
- Knowledge of Databases such as SQL and Nosql
About us
At Lucidity, we are a year and a half old company and we work on helping large enterprises manage their cloud storage platform.
Our founders bring with them more than a decade of experience working with top tech Gaints in the world, building and selling large tech products from zero to one. We are seeing a lot of early traction and expanding aggresively.
We are a B2B product based startup building the next generation of storage orchestration system for cloud. We are hiring agressively across multiple roles and looking for passionate engineers to join a very young and energetic team at Lucidity.
What you'll do
Technology is at the heart of our organization. As part of the tech team you will
- Understand product requirements and brainstorm ways to address them.
- Build features from scratch and have complete ownership for it.
- Deliver efficient, reliable, scalable code with high automated test coverage.
- Contribute to team decisions in the overall architecture and practices of the company.
What you'll need
Must haves
- At least 1 year experience in a product based company.
- Experience working with distributed environments.
- Comfortable with at least one Object Oriented Programming language.
- Hands on with AWS or at least one other public cloud.
Good to have
- Experience handling highly scalable systems.
- Experience with at least one among C++, Java.
- Experience with docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Linux file systems.
Additional
- B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Deeply technical with a track record of successful delivery.
Why us
We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic and passionate people who thrive in a high growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do.
Responsibilities:
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Design and implement backend infrastructure and APIs.
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Write high quality code that is robust, readable and scales.
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Possess the drive to dive deep. thrive and progress even in ambiguous situations.
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Encourage and support knowledge sharing within teams and external groups.
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Troubleshoot & debug applications.
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Adopt problem solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause.
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Collaborate with the team to discuss and implement ideas.
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Build responsive, robust and optimised applications.
Requirements:
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Passionate about building backend systems.
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Desire to explore new ideas, open to other ideas as well.
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Love for writing clean, beautiful, readable and testable code.
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Experience in designing extensible DRY code.
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Our stack is based on Django, Python3 Celery, Angular and Postgres.
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We expect you to have a good understanding of Python. It's even better if you are familiar with some of Git. Django, Celery, Redis and Unix Shell.
Job Description: (Mandate Skills)
- Exceptional architecture and design skills using Object Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Hands on Java Engineer, with experience building consumer facing or enterprise applications using Java stack
- Ability to manage small teams (2-4 members) using agile development process
Do You Know? (Skills good to have)
- Exposure to building service oriented distributed systems
- In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real time streaming or offline
- In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
- In real time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop based tools.
- In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.
➢ Design and develop core server side components for our consumer facing site
as well as for fulfillment and inventory logistics
➢ Prototype new ideas
Experience / Skills Required:
➢ B.Tech or advanced degree in Computer Science with 8-12 years of progressive industry
experience
➢ Strong experience with Python development and Django framework or NodeJS required
➢ Strong experience with JavaScript , HTML, CSS, AJAX and JSON
➢ Strong experience with building reusable server components
➢ Strong experience with WebServices, XML, REST interfaces
➢ Strong experience with object oriented programming
➢ Strong experience with backend performance optimization and algorithms
➢ Strong experience with SQL, RDBMS, data modeling and MySQL, Oracle or other RDBMS
➢ Strong leadership / technology mentoring skills a must. Ability to do code and design reviews is a
key part of this role.
➢ Experience with Microservices / Distributed event based architectures desired.
➢ Deep experience with Linux based development and deployment architectures.
➢ Experience with database query tuning.
➢ Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS is a great plus
➢ Experience with frameworks such as Angular / React JS is a great plus
➢ Awareness of and experience with reactive programming is a plus
➢ Experience with Ecommerce/Consumer facing applications serving a large volume of users is a
great plus.
➢ Exposure to technologies like Kafka, Redis, Spark, Kinesis, Solr, ElasticSearch etc is a plus.
➢ Experience with NoSQL or BigData is a great plus
➢ Hands on Full Stack experience desired.
➢ Must be adept at experimenting with new technologies
➢ Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem
solving skills
➢ Must be able to work independently and enjoy working at a fast paced start-up environmen