processing nearly 6 million transactions every month. By the end of this year, we will be growing this number to 10 million. The most defining aspects of our work related to — consistency, reliability,scalability and agility. We make use of a wide variety of technologies and process significantly large amounts of data on a daily basis.
We are looking for backend engineers who have an appetite to explore new technologies, while building applications that can scale well both in terms of execution speed and the size of data that is
processed.
You will:
• Work closely with the product management team to understand the scope of an application
• Expected to research for ideal technologies that can work ideally for given problem statements
• Have a good grasp of how to design and implement APIs in conformance to the protocols of REST and GraphQL.
• Need to have a good understanding of network principles related to latency, throughput,bandwidth, security — and how to monitor them.
• Take ownership of the correctness of your work both in terms of functional and usability aspects
• Apply the best practices of software development when it comes to SCM, managing issues and most importantly, documenting your work.
We are looking for someone who has:
• 1+ years of experience in building integration solutions with REST and GraphQL APIs,Databases, email, SMS, etc.
• Familiar with the concepts of distributed systems esp. Queues.
• A sound understanding of disparate persistence systems SQL and NoSQL storage systems.
• Worked with Python on a regular basis and is conversant with the dominant frameworks like
Django, Flask and those required to implement RESTful/GraphQL protocols.
• A strong understanding of data structures.
• The ability to communicate results clearly in a verbal and written manner
Nice to haves:
• Experience in a high growth technology company
• Conversant with the AWS platform and have a good understanding of working remotely on servers using SSH and CLI.
• Can install and operate infrastructure applications which can be used to monitor performance, alert and recover.
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BeyondScale is a technology company on a mission to democratise AI for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). We're building Sitara, an AI-powered ERP suite that is a suite of micro-apps designed specifically for the service sector. Imagine a pocket CRM, a pocket POS, and a suite of essential tools—all streamlined for simplicity and powered by intelligent automation.
The Opportunity:
We're looking for a passionate Python Developer to join our growing team and play a key role in shaping the future of AI-powered ERP. You'll be instrumental in building Sitara, a product poised to disrupt a massive market with high growth potential.
What You'll Do:
- Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code for our AI-powered ERP platform.
- Develop and integrate web APIs and interact with SQL databases (NoSQL experience a plus).
- Implement automation using object-oriented programming (OOP) principles, multiprocessing, and threading.
- Write clean, well-documented code and actively participate in testing and debugging.
- Leverage Git and modern development workflow practices to ensure a smooth development cycle.
- While not required, familiarity with generative AI concepts (LLMs, RAG) is a plus.
You're a Great Fit If You:
- Have 1+ years of relevant job experience working with Python
- Possess a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals.
- Are a team player with a collaborative spirit and a positive attitude.
- Enjoy learning new technologies and are eager to push boundaries.
- Have excellent communication skills, including the ability to effectively say no when needed.
- Taking ownership of building specific components of CARPL
- Working with the product team to prioritize tasks within these components
- Working with customers to redefine and modify the platform based on user input (optional).
You are the ideal candidate for this role if you :
- Provable proficiency in Go programming
- Have expert-level command over Python, Django, Flask, RDMS, NoSQL, Git Test, distributed systems.
-Experience with working in cloud environments, agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) would be an advantage.
- Are familiar with Docker, Kubernetes
- It would be awesome if you are also familiar with DICOM, DCM4CHEE, HL7
- Are familiar with Jira, Asana, and Slack
- Knowledge of Go templating, common frameworks, and tools
- Believe that the future of healthcare lies in the power of AI and analytics
- Thrive in a chaotic, fast-moving, and ambiguous work environment
● Managing and guiding a team of junior developers for timely delivery of product and
milestones
● Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
● Implementation of security and data protection
● Design and implementation of data storage solutions
● Design & Build: Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
mission-critical systems, and delivering high-availability and performance.
● Collaborate - Collaborating within your product streams and team to bring best
practices and leverage a world-class tech stack.
● Measurable Outcome - You will need to set quantifiable objectives that encapsulate
the quality attributes of a system. The fitness of the application is measured against
set marks.
● DevOps - You will need to set up every essential (tracking/alerting) to make sure the
infrastructure/software you built is working as expected.
● Design and development of our REST APIs
● Help maintain code quality, architecture, and automation
Required Knowledge and Skills
● 3 - 5 years of experience working in backend development technologies and DevOps
● Highly curious and ready to dive into complex technical challenges.
● Proficiency in development and scripting in Python, Django/Flask framework.
● Database design and management, including being up on the latest practices -
bonus points for MySQL and MongoDB
● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling
an application to support load changes
● Setup and administration of backups
● 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
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
● Server management and deployment for the relevant environment
● Appreciation for clean and well-documented code
● Hands-on experience with architecture and structural design patterns
● Expertise in designing, developing, deploying, and integrating RESTful APIs
● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical
requirements
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Personality
● Requires excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation.
● You should be a team player.
● You should be positive towards problem-solving, have a very structural thought
process to solve problems
● Interest to work in a high paced start-up environment with a large amount of learning.
● Good understanding of different frameworks, and be able to pick up new
technologies at ease.
● You should be agile enough to figure out a need for new technologies/frameworks
and learn new technology for better product performanc
We're looking for someone to join a team dedicated to building performant APIs and backend services that deal with large volumes of data for the company's flagship, global consumer product. Small, high-impact teams require conscious planning and decision-making when it comes to design, architecture, and product features. So, it's essential that you enjoy working in such an environment.
We're a team that cares about simplicity and being able to build reliable, deterministic systems and platforms. Hence, our choice of tooling is usually battle-tested reliable software with a robust test suite.
How we work
- You won't deal with the hustle culture. We're focused on building well-thought-out, stable and reliable software and we try our best to ensure everyone understands the big picture and the immediate goals.
- We work a solid 6-8 hour days and don't slave away 24/7.
- We're a remote engineering team. This makes effective communication extremely important. Our teams have benefitted greatly from good written communication. This includes everything from the product specification to the API spec. We spend a lot of time writing READMEs. As a result our engineers work with greater clarity and planning.
- We deploy several times a day and rely on a good test suite to ensure we're not making life hard for our colleagues.
- We don't expect anyone to know everything, but we are curious and learn along the way.
- We learn about the fitness space and what it means to really be fit and not just Instagram fit.
The Python Backend Engineer position may be a good fit for you if:
- You have 3 (or more) years of experience building and maintaining cloud applications.
- You have built APIs with Python, Flask, Django or FastAPI before.
- You have experience working with relational databases like PostgresSQL or MySQL and have spent time writing SQL queries for large datasets.
- Experience in writing Unit tests with pytest.
- You have worked with Docker, docker-compose.
- Familiarity with the AWS ECS stack.
We want you to care about
- Good object oriented design
- Performant APIs
- Analysing why queries are slow and how to go about improving them.
- Understanding DNS, Load balancing, Caching and Hashing.
- Customer data and privacy.
Our API Stack services use:
- Python 3.8+, Typescript
- FastAPI, Flask, HapiJs
- PostgresSQL, MySQL
- Redis
- Celery
- Pytest, Jest for unit testing.
- Gitlab CI/CD
- Amazon ECS container services
For this role we expect you to have 3+ years of experience in Backend development. You should have strong command
of Python, REST and Flask/Django along with some experience in GIT is nice to have. If you have knowledge about client
side languages like JS, ReactJS and experience in API design and development, it is a huge plus.
You should be knowledgeable about programming languages, operating systems, networks, databases and SQL,
algorithms, architecture, code design and design patterns
Intro
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team and drive the technology growth of our pay later platform. At Rely, we want passionate and talented individuals that want a challenge building the next generation payment products for Millennials across Asia. Together we will build the best products using amazing technology.
What will you do
- Design and implement business critical, high performance large scale services.
- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.
- Coordinate with cross functional teams (Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.
- Continuously improve code quality, product execution and customer delight.
- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.
- Building and managing automated build/test/deployment environments.
- Lead team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread goals across the team.
What will you need
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with python and a backend framework (ideally django)
- 1+ years Hands-on experience working with Javascript and JS frameworks (Angular, React)
- Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications large scale applications in any language or stack
- Experience working with high scale distributed systems.
- Practical knowledge of scalable software design.
- Good working knowledge of AWS
- Proficient with APIs, web protocols, OAuth, git.
- Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
- Well versed with Lean methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services.
- Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.
What would be a bonus
- Experience in production environments with large data sets
- Experience in scaling systems to millions of users.
- Work experience in a fast-growth startup
- Experience in DevOps tools but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience in Gunicorn and Nginx