
Senior Software Engineer
The Company strives to provide a great service and to deliver excellent user experiences that improve the value of our customers.
We are seeking a new developer to join our development team. We work on a variety of projects using various exciting technologies such as Ruby on Rails, AWS, and JS frameworks such as Node and React to build outstanding webapps and provide business support to meet our customer's needs.
The ideal candidate will be someone who loves to learn and is willing to look for new and innovative solutions to problems and challenges for our customers. They may or may not have a wealth of experience but, the willingness to learn, try new things, and can think problems through and analyze available options is more meaningful, we can guide you the rest. You will have opportunities to combine your technical ability, critical thinking, and design experience.
Cool things to have:
- Ability to communicate clearly. Programming isn't just about writing code, it's about being able to communicate ideas with your team, customers, and the machine
- Keen desire to We are constantly aspiring to improve our work and ourselves, by constantly learning we can do this.
- Self-motivated. Even if a decision turns out to be wrong, this is better than being Trying and learning from failures is hugely valuable.
- Knowing when to ask for Try for as long as you can but if you get stuck, ask for help. Your teammates are here to support you and your development.
- Critical Be able to base decisions on the information available, not just blindly accepting solutions without investigation.
Technical Requirements:
- Strong programming experience. We primarily write in Ruby, so experience here is a
- Knowledge of Object-Oriented design patterns as well as Test-Driven
- Be familiar with Rails, Sinatra, etc, and how these can be used to implement RESTful
- Knowledge of RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL and SQL to run queries against
Nice to have skills
- Knowledge of any AWS systems such as EC2, Lambda, RDS,
- Knowledge of API design patterns, REST, RPC, and can explain the advantages and disadvantages.
- Knowledge of DevOps skills such as Terraform, CI/CD,

About Digital Convergence Technologies INC
About
DCT Inc. is a provider of digital content workflow and delivery solutions for businesses looking to engage with their audience and achieve their strategic objectives. We offer the most comprehensive and cost-effective set of solutions for both content and advertising elements, enabling our clients to expand their market share, reduce costs, and facilitate new business creation. Our integrated and scalable solutions are designed to help our clients stay agile and adapt to the rapidly changing marketplace, positioning them for growth and success.
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Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
- Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family
- Job Description
We are looking for a talented Platform Engineer with a strong background in Python programming and AWS services to join our growing team.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of our cloud management platform
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features and functionality.
- Provide technical support and guidance to internal and external stakeholders.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.
Requirements:
- A total of 2-4 years of professional experience in developing applications/platforms using Python programming
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, SOLID principles and RDBMS.
- Demonstrated experience in utilizing AWS services, including Lambda, RDS, and DynamoDB.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts, infrastructure, and architectural best practices.
- Experience in using source control systems, such as Git.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex systems.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to work effectively with team members and stakeholders.
- A constant hunger for learning and staying up-to-date with the latest industry advancements.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Nice to have:
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate or other relevant AWS certifications.
- Experience with the AWS Boto3 SDK for Python.
- Experience with other cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, etc.).
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
1. As a founding backend engineer, design, build and evolve the backend architecture
of our product to support customer-facing and internal features to serve 1000s of
customers and millions of data requests per hour
2. You will engage in technical decisions from choosing the optimal database design to
best-practice infrastructure decisions
3. You will proactively incorporate best practices for security, analytics, and monitoring
4. You will contribute to DevOps by building procedures for deployment,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
5. You will work directly with the CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have 4+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying production-level
large-scale web applications
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS and other programming languages
(Ruby, Go, Python)
3. You have worked previously on PostgreSQL, SQL, and Message Queue 4. Practical
knowledge and experience in deploying and managing big data applications on a cloud
platform like AWS or Google Cloud.
5. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility.
6. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
7. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects
Role
As one of the senior members of the backend development team you will be
responsible for architecting and setting the standards for building our core
backend/microservices. Also, you will be responsible for shaping up the entire system for scale
and collaborating extensively with the frontend and design teams to create the best consumer
experiences.
Responsibilities
● Develop microservices that will be used by the frontend through API endpoints.
● Translate business requirements into high quality code.
● Ensure that the code is deployed in a secure and scalable fashion.
● Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.
● Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.
● Enhance Analytics and overall backend architecture for better performance.
Requirements
● 4+ years of backend/full-stack development experience
● 1+ years of experience on NodeJS
● 1+ years experience in building APIs in a microservice architecture
● Has experience managing other developers, recruiting and training.
● Experience in PHP is a plus
● Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront
● Has experience in code reviewing/being the gatekeeper for an entire project
● Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system
● Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins
● Good knowledge of working with Git
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
Roles and Responsibilities :
- Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices and scalable cloud-native apps.
- Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
- Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve the quality and productivity of deliverables
- Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
- Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with the cross-functional team along with the client's team
- Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
- Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
- Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
- Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member
Primary Skills
- Expert in Python with experience on Django.
- Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic.
- Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
- Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python.
- Experience with python packages like Numpy, pandas, flask, Pyspark, pymongo, os, logging, re, pyyaml.
- Experience with swagger io module to expose API
- Strong unit test and debugging skills.
- At least 2 years of experience in RESTful API/HTTP/JSON`
- Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git.
- Good understanding of Linux OS.
Secondary Skills:
- AWS Kinesis
- Web Sockets
- RAbbitMQ
- AWS Cloud formation
Job requirements
- A strong engineer with excellent Ruby experience working with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with Node.js
- Experience with SQL/nosql databases(Postgresql, cassandra, MongoDB)
- Experience with REST services and API design
- Experience with building the system for scale
- Experience with version control systems (bitbucket, git etc.)
- Experience working with AWS
- Experience with docker/microservices will be an added advantage
- Knowledge of unit & integration testing
- Knowledge of agile development process, jira
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and Data structures
- Basic understanding of the HTTP protocol
- Demonstrated experience working on application development projects and test-driven development. Experience in writing high quality code
- Knowledge of blockchain technology, smart contracts and cryptocurrency will be an added advantage
- Experience in fintech domain will be another added advantage
- Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
- Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.
- 3+ years of experience with Ruby On Rails.
- Strong Project & Time Management Skills, along with the ability to apply these skills while working independently, or as part of a team.






