Remote Software Instructor (Python + CoreCSE)

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
• Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or

  • leadership

• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members
• Taking lead on projects, as

 

 

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

 

Required Skills

•Web frameworks: Django, Flask
•JavaScript libraries: jQuery
•Web servers: Nginx, Apache, uWSGI
•Data stores/tools: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch
•Virtualization: AWS, VMWare, VirtualBox, Docker
•Web scraping and browser automation
•Selenium

Good to Have Skills

•ExperiencewithFrontendJavaScriptFrameworks
•Experience with third party and OAuth implementations.
•Understanding of cloud service platforms and web service infrastructure

Must Have Traits

•Self Starter
•Able to manage projects with minimal hand-holding
•Good verbal and written communication skills
•Enthusiastic, able to research and implement new technologies
•Ability to handle high-pressure situations

Experience Specifics

•Proven expertise in product development •GoodandPracticalUnderstandingofPython(2.7,3.3+)
•Hands on with Linux systems for deploying systems and applications

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Excellent problem-solving & analytical skills & OO principles
• Solid understanding of the data structure & algorithms.
• Expert knowledge with any one of the Javascript Framework such as Node Js.
• Any additional experience with Java or python, GoLang would be nice to have.
• Experience working with SQL database like MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Experience working with NoSQL databases like mongoDB, couchbase would be nice to have
• Working experience with cache like redis, mem cached or elasticache would be nice to have
• Working experience with Message Queues would be a great advantage.
• Experience with deployment & AWS would be nice to have
• Ability to do in depth analysis or problem statement or use case & Build robust & scalable architecture
• Logging & monitoring of the production system in real time
• Lead a team of 2-4 team members & make sure team practices defined coding practices across the project. 

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, service oriented web applications from scratch for technology products for European market.
• Maintain these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards
• Participate with founding, business and product teams in discussions on how to build and launch new modules.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Start as an individual contributor but stay ready to build and mentor a small team of up to 5 engineers over the coming months and years.
• Contribute in hiring highly ambitious engineers as the team grows.
• Being among the first people on the engineering team, be a culture driver.

 

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using different MVC frameworks.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable applications using Node.js/MEAN stack.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with non relational databases like MongoDB.
• Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Exposure in building polyglot applications.
• Exposure for devops and related processes, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of components in scalable solutions i. e. database partitions, message brokers, background processing.
• Exposure to basic frontend technologies to speed up collaboration with the frontend team.

Mentor To Go is an android and web based platform to help students improve their work readiness through self-learning sessions, personalised mentorship provided by mentor professionals from a range of careers, and work experience opportunities.

The technology platform implements  functionalities such as: screening surveys of mentors and mentees, training content for mentors, matching through an algorithm, and mentorship through the delivery of structured activities. 

The application technology architecture comprises of the following:

o   a Python Django web application with NGinx and Gunicorn

o   PostgreSQL database

o   A React Android and Web app

o   Rest APIs which interact between the Android app and the Django webserver

Our vision at Mentor To Go is to provide career mentorship to young people anywhere, anytime across the length and breadth of India.

We are looking for a backend software developer who is passionate about using web technologies to solve social problems and creating experiences that are elegant and effective. You will own the back end development of features of the Mentor To Go platform from conceptualisation through design and testing, working closely with other developers, the technical project manager, and the program operations team. You are user-centric, continuously demonstrate strategic & analytical abilities, and are laser focused on executing at speed. You must have the ability to succeed in a fast paced environment, where success is dependent on your ability to collaborate with cross-functional team members in a positive, productive, and transparent way.

Minimum requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferably  CS  or related discipline  
• 3+ years experience working in Unix/Linux environments building web and mobile applications
• Proficiency in developing and deploying cloud based Python/Postgresql applications preferably using frameworks such as Django
• Experience with design and development of moderately complex software projects
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with version control software such as Git

Desired  requirements 

• 5+ years of overall relevant work experience
• Experience building apps using React/React-Native
• Basic understanding of AWS cloud
• Ability to participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs

About Mentor Together

https://mentortogether.org/">Mentor Together is India’s first and largest youth mentoring  non-profit organization with a mission to facilitate empowering mentoring relationships and networks that help young people break the inequalities of opportunity and actualise their potential.

http://bit.ly/mentortogo">Mentor To Go is the world’s first mobile mentoring platform created by Mentor Together with the support of Cisco India, LinkedIn Social Impact, British Telecom and Sterlite Technologies.

Paytm is looking for hands-on technologists, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web 3.0 products at Paytm.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Incumbent will be architecting our futuristic mobile & web 3.0 products and choose the best technologies, components and subsystems on different server side tech.
• Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.
• Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.
• Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems and building products spanning across multiple teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.
• Estimates efforts, identify risks, devises and meets project schedules.
• Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and cross-team.
• Mentor / coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to them. 

Skills required

• MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.
• Strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products.
• Should have experience leading small teams.
• Hands-on experience in Advance Java and frameworks, Multithreading, collections and MySQL/NoSQL, golang, etc.
• Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.
• Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development.
• Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github, Google Developer Groups (GDGs).
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.

We would be hiring this resource as Blockchain tech stack champion to work on with us on our major projects. Hired candidate will be given international exposure and trainings to boost his/her depth on the blockchain technologies.

Responsibilities: Betterment: a tireless pursuit to drive results. Boldness: take risks and act decisively. Deep Honesty: invite and offer candid feedback in order to learn, change, and grow. Solidarity: recognize that we are part of something bigger than ourselves and are committed to our mission. Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructures. Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing. Setup monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to better understand real time health of your products. Break-down complex problems into solvable pieces of work for other Engineers. Depending on your specialization, projects/initiatives may include: Security, scaling distributed systems, working on our core services related to user management, building out new verticals, guiding new engagement features, scaling traffic/imports/exports, managing APIs. Requirements: 4+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role. Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g. Java, MySql, AWS, Docker). Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment. Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis. SaaS /Internet company background: web-based, hosted on AWS. Experience in an Agile and Scrum environment.