
Senior Backend Developer
at Fast-growing startup that serving retail industry


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Role : Python Django Developer (Immediate Joiner)
Location : Gurugram, India (Onsite)
Experience : 4+ Years
Working Days : 6 Days WFO (Monday to Saturday)
Job Summary :
We are looking for an experienced Python Developer with strong expertise in Django to join our team. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of hands-on experience in building robust, scalable, and efficient web applications.
Proficiency in RabbitMQ, Redis, Celery, and PostgreSQL is essential for managing background tasks, caching, and database performance.
Mandatory Skills : Python, Django, RabbitMQ, Redis, Celery, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, Docker.
Key Responsibilities :
- Develop, maintain, and enhance Django-based web applications and RESTful APIs.
- Design and implement message broker systems using RabbitMQ for asynchronous communication.
- Integrate Redis for caching and session management to improve application performance.
- Utilize Celery for managing distributed task queues and background processing.
- Work with PostgreSQL for schema design, optimization, and query tuning.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end developers and DevOps engineers.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code aligned with industry best practices.
- Debug and troubleshoot issues across the application stack.
- Participate in system architecture discussions, code reviews, and agile ceremonies.
- Ensure performance, scalability, and security of applications.
Technical Skills Required :
- Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python and Django.
- Proficiency with RabbitMQ for message brokering.
- Experience with Redis for caching and session storage.
- Practical knowledge of Celery for asynchronous task processing.
- Strong command over PostgreSQL including complex queries and optimization techniques.
- Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts.
Preferred Skills :
- Exposure to CI/CD tools and processes.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Understanding of Django ORM performance tuning.
- Basic knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).



Key Responsibilities
We are looking for a full stack developer who shall be responsible for implementation of software related projects of the firm. This will involve:
– Understanding existing services of the Company, the requirements of the project and be able to build the back-end coding structure along with front end dashboard, UI / UX for the full project. The person should be capable of building flexible coding to incorporate various user requirements, carry out user acceptance testing, fix bugs within agreed timelines.
– Dashboard Development: Swiftly conceptualizing, designing, and developing visually engaging and functional dashboards tailored to meet the firm's specific requirements within stringent timelines.
– Collaborative Approach: Work closely with stakeholders’ other team members, to understand dashboard requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
– API Integration: Explore and integrate dashboard APIs where applicable to enhance functionalities or enable custom integrations for a more comprehensive dashboard experience.
Key Skills Required
– Front-end Technologies: Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and expertise in UX/UI principles to enhance dashboard user interfaces and ensure responsiveness.
– Backend Development: Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Python, Ruby, Node.js, etc.) and understanding of backend frameworks to facilitate data integration and backend functionalities for dashboards.
– Strong SQL Skills: Ability to efficiently extract, manipulate, and analyze data using SQL queries from various databases to integrate into the dashboards.
– Dashboard Development Experience: Prior experience in rapid dashboard development, including designing, developing, and deploying dashboards within accelerated timelines.
– Being able to work independently, understand industry landscape and come up with innovative solutions to tackle various issues.

Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain REST APIs
- Proficient in Python or any other programming language
- Experience in writing Unit/Integration tests.
- Experience with Distributed Version Control System.
- Elasticsearch or Solr experience.
- NOSQL experience- Cassandra, MongoDB.
- Experience in Message brokers - Rabbitmq.
- Experience with AWS Infrastructure, Lambda, Docker/Containers
Desired to have:
- Should be pragmatic and realize when a solution is over-engineered as well as knowing when to spend time on creating the right abstraction that allows us to move faster in the long run.
- Passion for your work and striving to do things “the right way”.
- Familiarity with Agile/Lean process.
- Willingness to work in a Startup environment.
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and a solid understanding of the full product development life cycle.
- Excellent knowledge of mobile user experience, information architecture and trends
We are seeking extremely smart & independent senior developers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers. You will:
Responsibilities:
- Lead design and development of products working closely with business team.
- Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers.
- Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance.
- Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.
- Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.
Requirements:
- 4+ years' experience in software product development and delivery.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
- Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities.
- All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
- Able to take ownership of working with at least one of mobile or web app teams for complete integration with backend.
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
- Proficiency in Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
- Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred).
- NoSql is a plus.
- Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
- Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work.
- Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
- Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.
Java, Java8, Springboot, Microservices, core java, j2ee, JAVA, Springboot
backend, core java, java8, micro services
- Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
- Providing technical oversight to the team, involved in design and code review.
- You would also be spending most of the time in development activities in varied technologies and should have a passion to write code.
- Should be able to create good technical documents.
- Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
- Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems - Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
- Prepare the technical design of complex technology components as well as suggest the pros and cons of using a certain technology stack or component or design pattern versus another, to the clients.
- Team Management.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Qualifications: BTECH/MTECH/MCA/MSc.
- Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of multithreading, concurrency patterns, and collections in Java.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns.
- Hands on experience with JMS, JPA, Spring (MVC, Boot & Cloud preferred) & Hibernate.
- Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful. Experience with Presentation Layer (JSP/Servlets), JS Frameworks (Angular, jQuery, react, etc.).
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes and experience with both external and embedded databases. Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Ant, Maven, and Gradle; continuous integration.
- Knowledge in xml based mappings, SAML, rest clients, CAS authentication and Jetty.
- Knowledge of Apache Camel and Kafka and Drools Rule Engine is preferred.
¡ Solid Design and Architecture skills. Experience in the designing, development, and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications with multiple tiers. |
¡ Ensure agile test-driven development for robustness, usability, reliability, security and performance. |
¡ Expert in Core JAVA and Spring Boot and other Spring libraries, Eureka, Hystrix etc. |
¡ Experience creating architecture or developing web services to integrate applications with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra |
¡ Solid understanding of OOPS, algorithms and data structures. |
¡ Experience on Kafka / Scala / Storm / Elastic Search and Web Services like RESTful / SOAP. |
¡ Extensive experience with version control systems (Git is preferred) and issue tracking systems (JIRA is preferred) |

Job Description
We are looking for a ROR developer. If you're a creative problem solver who is eager to develop amazing products and hungry for a new adventure, a word class workplace is waiting for you.
- Production experience in Ruby.
- A completed technical degree in Computer Science or any related fields.
- 3+ years of professional product development experience.
- Being comfortable with microservices architectures, API-based
- You are a pragmatic programmer who understands what is needed to get things done.
- Problem solving and collaborative mindset.
- Experience working with DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
- Experience with AWS (RDS, DDB, Lambda, CW, EC2, SQS, SNS, Cognito, Kinesis).
- Experience with performance improvements (Caching Techniques, SQL Query Optimization, Performance monitoring and profiling.
- Deep understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns, troubleshooting methods and best practices.
- Takes end to end ownership of the development and operation of complete features.
About Increasingly
Increasingly is an award-winning, fast-growing retail technology company focused specifically on the automation of cross-selling for online retailers.
Our clients include large global corporations like Samsung, Motorola & Canon to several small to medium size retailers across the globe. Our AI-based algorithms help a customer buying a TV on Samsung to find the matching sound bar & purchase both together.
Increasingly is headquartered in London with offices in Lisbon & Bangalore. We work with clients in over 30 countries & 20 languages.
We are looking to rapidly expand our technology & product development operations in India. And we need smart, ambitious people like you who enjoy a fun yet challenging work environment.
We believe strongly that diversity & inclusion are the foundations for a lasting, incredible culture. We also believe that it’s important to get the balance right between work & life.
The job and its impact
- You possess an appetite for problem-solving and critical thinking
- Back-end development is an inherently collaborative task. It can be made very difficult if there isn’t clear and concise communication within a dev team. You are a great communicator and a great developer
- You are always looking for new ways to be a better developer. You put an effort into learning and exploring the world of back-end development in your own time
- The back-end development sphere is as changeable and unpredictable as any in tech. You are someone who achieves comfort in You are aware of the tools and new technologies that are being introduced.
- You possess good technical communication skills: Can effectively communicate project needs with both front and back-end teammates
- High emotional intelligence: Self-aware and attuned to their peers’needs
- Be the best back-end developer by sheer discipline, motivation, and effort
What essential skills you need
- 2-3.5 years’ experience in back end Java/J2EE application development with clear understanding of Microservices
- Experience in developing internet web applications using Java/J2EE technologies
- Experience in different modules of Spring framework like Dependency Injection (IoC), Spring MVC, Spring ORM along with JPA
- Experience in Java Version 0+. Good experience with JMS, Spring & Hibernate
- Experience in identifying database solutions for a given problem, preferably MySQL (good to have)
- Develop well-structured, maintainable code, delivered on time, with automated tests. We are an XP/Agile development team
- Hands on experience in using Application/Web servers like JBoss and Tomcat servers. Worked on databases like Oracle & MYSQL
- Experience with e-commerce, retail, analytics, advertising, or media would be an
What are the benefits
- You'll get to work in one of the hottest & fastest growing retail technologies in Europe right now
- You'll get paid a competitive salary & be working directly with a super experienced team of people
- You'll get a great place to come to work every day. Varied, complex, challenging & with a great culture that you can shape & change
Increasingly in the press & our awards
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- Experience in Web and Mobile Applications
- Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
- Experience in Java, Python.
- Deep understanding of data structures and microservices.
- Knowledge of Node.js
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Familiarity with front-end technologies
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Interaction with multiple data sources
- Good understanding of SQL
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git .

