Senior Backend Developer (Python)

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- At least 7 years of experience in back-end development, specifically with Node.js.

- Strong understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript would be a plus.

- Experience with asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL.

- Proficient in working with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).

- Knowledge of version control systems, particularly Git.

- Experience with cloud services (e.g., Azure Cloud) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker).

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers. 

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

3+ years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS. Should be well versed with its asynchronous nature, event loop, promises, and callbacks.

Node expressProficient in Node.js and working knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML, CSS, and frameworks ( React.js)

Experience in Node JS MVC framework and Rest API frameworks like Express.

Experience developing desktops.

Experience in Mongo DB.

Familiarity with using AWS components.

Postman for documenting/testing APIs.

Designation: Python/Django Developer (Backend)

Department: Software Engineering Team

Location: Whitefield (Bangalore)

Qualification: Any Computer (Graduate or Post Graduate)

Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience in building functional and efficient server-side applications using Python/Django with 2+ years of relevant experience in working with RDBMS.

Responsibilities:

1. Help design and implement functional requirements
2. Build efficient back-end features in Python
3. Integrate front-end components into applications
4. Manage testing and bug fixes
5. Prepare technical documentation
6. Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design into the code
7. Coach junior team members
8. Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements

Skills Required:

1. Experience with Python frameworks (e.g. Django, Flask, FastAPI)
2. Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technologies
3. Excellent understanding of REST API Development and HTTP Methods
4. Understanding of databases and SQL
5. Good experience in working with RDBMS
6. Good understanding of computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms, memory management, performance.
7. Knowledge of web stack - javascript, html, web frameworks like React.js is a plus
8. Good understanding of Good Troubleshooting experience and exposure
9. Ability to work with Jr engineers, mentor, guide and help them
10. Enjoys coding and problem solving
11. Good communication skills. Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely
12. Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

Salary: Upto 21LPA (Negotiable)

IMMEDIATE JOINING PREFERRED!

About Client : Our client is an American company that develops, manufactures and sells solar micro-inverters, energy generation monitoring software and battery energy storage products

The Back-End engineer will develop, maintain, architect & expand cloud microservices. Codebase uses Java, Spring Boot, Mongo, REST APIs, MySQL. Applications are dockerized and hosted in AWS using plethora of AWS services.

Key Responsibilities and Outcomes

• Programming in Java + Spring Boot
• REST API with JSON, XML etc. for data transfer
• Multiple database proficiency including SQL and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB)
• Ability to develop both internal facing and external facing APIs using JWT and OAuth2.0
• Familiar with HA/DR, scalability, performance, code optimizations
• Experience with working with highly performance and throughput systems
• Ability to define, track and deliver items to ones own schedule
• Good organizational skills and the ability to work on more than one project at a time
• Exceptional attention to detail and good communication skills

Minimum Qualifications

• B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science from top tier college and >70% marks
• 70% or 7 CGPA throughout in education.
• Top 100 Engineering colleges only (NIRF ranking)
• Stability in job.
• Experience with SQL + NoSQL (Preferably MongoDB)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, JIRA, Confluence, GIT, Bitbucket
• Ability to work independently and as part of a project team
• Strong organizational skills, proactive, and accountable.
• Excellent critical thinking and analytical problem-solving skills
• Ability to establish priorities and proceed with objectives without supervision
• Ability to communicate effectively and accurately
• Clear concise written project status update throughout the project lifecycle
• Highly skilled at facilitating and documenting requirements

Simform is a fast-growing software services company mainly serving and having a presence in North America. Simform has built a solid work culture that is focused on learning, growth, and work-life balance. Simform is well-known for its very good work culture and loved by employees.

Please read more about the company and work culture here : https://www.simform.com/careers/

Job Description :

Summary : Major focus will be the development of server-side logic to ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests received from front-end. Deployment on the production server.

Responsibilities :

- Understanding the project requirement and coding the programs efficiently to meet the client's requirements to the closest proximity.

- Optimise output to run smoothly on multiple delivery platforms.

- Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

- Integration of user interface elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

- Integration of data storage and third-party library/package into the application.

- Create or integrate any such thing manually if not available on standard package list.

- Create the best fitted and scalable database schema for particular business logic.

- Should be hands-on in reading large volumes of data from the database, or over HTTP(S)/WebSockets.

- Ensure programs and applications are bug-free and run smoothly.

Skills And Qualifications :

- Familiarity with Python web stacks and In-depth knowledge of different frameworks (Django, Flask, etc.)

- Understanding different types of Object Relational Mappers.

- Ability to work on multiple API integrations, and write modular reusable code.

- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture

- Good knowledge of a server-side templating language.

- Basic understanding of front-end frameworks such as Angular, ReactJs, VueJs and technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

- Knowledge of user authentication and authorisation between multiple systems, servers, and environments

- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

- Familiarity with object event-driven programming in Python

- Strong unit test and debugging skills

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.

Experience: 5+ Years

An  Architect  is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.  

• Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
• Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
• Responsibilities:
• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities 
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
• Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
• Requirements:

Ideal candidate should have

• 7+ years of system implementation experience 
• Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
• Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
• Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
• Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
• Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
• Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Good experience with Devops