
SDE2 / SDE 3 - Python
at India’s largest omnichannel platform and multi-platform
What will you be doing
- Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
- Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases
- Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
- Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well as operate large-scale applications on AWS
- Give back to the open-source community through contributions to code and blog posts
- This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements
About you
- Relevant Experience: Minimum 6+ Years
- You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
- Hands-on experience in Python. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good at any other language with experience in building web/app-based tech products
- Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Django, Flask, Falcon, web2py, Twisted, Tornado
- Working knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
- You've worked with core AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
- You can dabble in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- You love doing things efficiently.The works you will have a disproportionate impact on the business. We believe in systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves
- You might not have experience with all the tools that we use but you can learn those given the guidance and resources

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Must Have - PHP, API, Mysql, Sql
Skills And Qualifications
Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks
Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
Understanding of API'S
Familiarity with SQL/MYSQL databases and their declarative query languages
Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)
Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
About Merito :-
Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done. The company is founded by a team consisting of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.
About Our Client :-
Our client is headquartered in California and Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform for creators & knowledge professionals (coaches, instructors, experts, artists etc.) to launch, manage and grow their business online. Founded by IIT/ IIM/ BITS/ Yale/ BCG Alumni and 3X Entrepreneurs, they are well funded and backed by top Indian VC firms along with start-up veterans like Kunal Shah (CRED). The company is founded by alumni from top IITs, IIMs, BITS, Yale including ex-entrepreneurs and from firms such as BCG, Hike, Dunzo and P&G.
Since the launch of its first version in December 2020 they have grown 25X. Creators have earned more than $1 Million since launch through the platform.
We have just closed our series A (yet to announce) and are looking to build out our leadership team across functions.
Job Description :-
We are looking for Sr. Backend Developers who have the passion to solve complex problems at scale and who will be able to drive the technical architecture and product development
Your responsibilities :-
- Own and drive product development and engineering management in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Understand business processes and functional requirements and map them to tangible software products using apt, efficient and quality technical solutions.
- Build and lead the technical team with focus on infusing culture resulting in energetic & positive outcomes.
- Review and influence new evolving design, architecture, standards and methods with stability, maintainability and scalability in mind.
- Constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve the product and processes built for resolving issues proactively and deliver better value to the customers.
Required Skills :-
- A completed Bachelor`s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 3+ years professional experience in software development
- Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language; Python would be preferred with knowledge of Django
- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
- Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Git or other distributed version control system
- Experience in early-stage startup environment and inherent hustle factor would be an advantage
Skills
Pyhton,Postgres,Redis
Regards
Team Merito
• Hands on RDBMS experience with Oracle/ PostgreSQL/ MySQL/SQL
Server including transaction management, SQL programming, data
modelling, etc.
• Must have proven track record of logical data modeling and physical
data modeling
• Experienced in using ORM frameworks like Hibernate, etc.
• Basic understanding of NoSQL systems like Redis (Key-Value store),
MongoDB (Document store), Elasticsearch (Search / Document store)
• Design, Development & Deployment of Microservices using Spring
Boot or any other framework.
• Understanding of building EDA-based (Event Driven Architecture)
systems.
• Basic understanding of any public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Ability to design & architect a system that exhibits basic
characteristics like modularity, configurability / extensibility, scalability
& availability.
• Maven / Gradle
• Experience in using & configuring Jenkins.
• Experience in using & configuring SonarQube.
Essential Requirements
• Hands-on with Java Platform (1.5 & above) having proficiency in OOPs
concepts, Collections,
• Generics, Streams, Multi-threading (Executor Framework), Functional
Programming.
• Design & Development of REST Web Services (Spring MVC / REST /
Jersey / Apache CXF, etc.)
• Hands-on experience using Spring framework (4.x & above)
• Core / Beans
• MVC / REST
• Security
• Spring Data / JPA
• Spring Test / JUnit
• JMS
● Proven work experience as a Back-end developer.
● In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment).
● Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
● Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
● Ability to decide when to use relational vs NoSQL databases and must be experienced with at least one of
the relational databases (MySQL) as well as experience with ElasticSearch will be good to have
● Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful
● Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC
● Experience in CI/CD and Cloud technologies
● Expertise in developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using MicroServices, with
demonstrable production-scale experience
● Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS) - Not mandatory
● Participation in coding competitions such as hackathon, hackerrank will be added advantage.
Skills:
Strong knowledge of MYSQL/PostGreSQL; Knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, Couch DB is preferred.
Expertise in application development, databases, version control, and deployment. Skill - Node.js,
Experience of AWS or GCP - especially services such as Lambda or google app engine
Solid grasp of Service-oriented architecture. Web Services implementation on a medium to large scale
Solid understanding of scaling mobile app services. Having worked the backend of an Android app is preferred
Culture:
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Happy to deal with, and contribute to, an environment of daily builds Has worked in small teams, is versatile. Work within short timelines and be receptive to business needs. Can work closely with Digital, Product, Operations teams.
Desirable Social Attributes:
Has contributed to one or more Open Source projects through own initiative. Has provided a high quality answer to a question posted on StackOverflow.
Role:
As a Software Developer who would work independently, the candidate is expected actively acquire problems and deliver solutions as well as guide the team technically. Such a problem solver would obviously be a self starter with a high level of curiosity rather than a programming language specialist.
He/she would be required to produce software of the highest quality through self-discipline, clear and engaged communication, and attention to detail. The role would include custom web application development on (most typically on Node.js and PHP/Python), databases (most typically MySql and MongoDb), version control (github), testing (necessarily through test scripts written before code is written), daily builds and eventual deployment onto AWS or GCP.
Attributes of the ideal candidate:
Highly productive software developer with the proven aptitude to understand and apply technology
Determination to succeed despite obstacles and challenges, and a positive attitude favoring achievement of goals over open-ended investigation
Always learning, evolving, and sharing what you know
Inspired by complex, varied problems and rapid change
Open-minded, flexible, and curious about new and better ideas
document, build, and deploy RESTful JSON APIs with continuous uptime and minimal latency.
Roles and Responsibilities:
-Building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
Expert level understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
Expert level understanding of Javascript concepts on callbacks and closures
Experience with Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, and Firebase Realtime database
Experience with AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Lambda,
API Gateway, SQS, etc
Understanding of patterns and techniques for building scalable back-end
infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization
schemes.
Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with
millisecond response times
Experience working in a collaborative team environment
Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
Willingness to learn and pick up new technology along with patience to mentor.
NOTE- Candidates only from PRODUCT BASED companies will be preferred. Location is Mumbai and its Work from Office.
Educational - BE/BT
Languages : Core PHP, HTML, JavaScript, JQueryDatabase : MySql.
Job Location : Mumbai
Responsibilities :
- Strong knowledge of Core PHP and web architecture
- Understanding of PHP design patterns
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance of Web applications
- Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes and optimisation of SQL queries
- Proficient with MongoDB databases and its query languages
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Demonstrated experience in Development, unit test application modules based on specified design using PHP, AngularJS, NodeJS, HMTL5, CSS, J2EE/DB2 technologies using Agile Methods
Experience with Databases and having good knowledge of database











