Senior Backend Engineer (Immediate joiners only)

We are looking for a passionate backend developer to join our technology team. As a Backend developer, you’ll work closely with our Product, Design and Business teams, to develop a state-of-the-art SaaS platform that empowers employers and vendors to provide great benefits to employees. If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, you are exactly who we seek.

Responsibilities:

• As a back-end software developer, you will develop components of our application on time and to specification created by the key member of a product or delivery team.
• You are expected to make balanced technical decisions (e.g., design trade-offs, prioritisation, etc.) as a member of the technology team.
• Maintain and improve the code quality and deployment pipelines.
• Participate in post-production activities with our customers (e.g., answer questions, explain functionality, extend APIs, etc.)
• Automate repetitive tasks at various functional levels to increase the efficiency of the team.
• Act as a member of Founder’s Office and work alongside the CTO to deliver products.

Requirements:

• 2-5 years of experience
• Strong abstract reasoning and problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to produce clean and efficient code and should have done a lot of programming/coding in Python language and Django framework.
• Good understanding of Postgres, Redis, K8s, Docker is a plus.
• Must be a part of a Product Startup.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.
• Must have experience in writing complex algorithms and readable code.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills allowing the person to work with cross-functional teams effectively

Why should you join us?

Because, above all, we are building a place where ambitious performers feel at home. We believe that a great product is built by a high-quality team that finds purpose and joy in their work. We put heavy emphasis on having fun at work.

Perks

1. Competitive Salary
2. Best ESOP policy
3. Gadgets of your choice
4. Books of your choice
5. Awesome Team

Programming.com is hiring for Python Developer

Experince 4+ yrs

Skills: Python, django

If intrested please share resume at preeti.bedi(at)programming.com

Must have exp in Django. [ Mandatory]

• The ability to problem-solve and critically think.
• High level of knowledge of Python and the Django framework.
• Familiarity with event driven programming as well as the MVC.
• Good understanding of SQL databases.
• Good understanding of REST APIs.

• Worked on Python, with knowledge of Scrapy framework & Beautiful Soup.
• Maintaining the running web crawlers full-stack application.
• Create more/better ways to crawl relevant information
• Builds and maintain new API integrations to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity
• Python Tech stack (Python library: Requests, Urllib, Beautifulsoup).
• Good communication skills.

• System engineering and implementation in Python and Golang.
• Working on performance issues using creative experiments and internally developed product features.
• Research, propose, and integrate relevant open-source projects based on product objectives.
• Write organized, efficient, and well documented Python/Golang code as an example for junior engineers.
• Participation in all levels of product definition, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Must include the ability to discuss abstract system architectures from ideas through implementation and
• creatively apply domain experience to solve technical challenges.
• Mentoring software engineers, fostering an environment of trust and accountability.

• A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. As an integral part of the development team, you will need the
• following skills to succeed.
• Strong Python skills to develop framework(s).
• Hands-on to design & develop re-usable framework components.
• Hands-On experience on developing framework, designing re-usable framework components.
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design driven
• development, Continuous Integration, building highly scalable applications, application security and functional programming.

• Knowledge of Cloud native would be an advantage.
• Understanding of Kubernetes from Architecture side and also understand the Standard API.
• Code contributed to CNCF or similar community will be plus.
•  Performance benchmarking of K8’s or any cloud will be added     advantage. 

• Deep understanding of technology and passionate about what you do.
• Background in designing high performant scalable software systems with strong focus to optimize
• hardware cost.
• Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic environment.
• Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on.
• Prior development of a large software project using service-oriented architecture operating with real time constraints.

• You will get a chance to work on cloud-native and hyper-scale products
• You will be working with industry leaders in cloud.
• You can expect a steep learning curve.
• You will get the experience of solving real time problems, eventually you become a problem solver.

• Competitive Salary
• Health Insurance
• Open Learning - 100% Reimbursement for online technical courses.
• Fast Growth - opportunities to grow quickly and surely
• Creative Freedom + Flat hierarchy
• Sponsorship to all those employees who represent company in events and meet ups.
• Flexible working hours
• 5 days week
• Hybrid Working model (Office and WFH)

• Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process as follows (subject to successful clearing of every round)
• Initial Resume screening call with our Recruiting team
• Next, candidates will be invited to solve coding exercises.
• Next, candidates will be invited for first technical interview
• Next, candidates will be invited for final technical interview
• Finally, candidates will be invited for Culture Plus interview with HR
• Candidates may be asked to interview with the Leadership team
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email
• As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a mix of telephonic and video call.

Must have 1+ Years of experience.

Location: Apart from the East Indian States it will be permanent work from home.

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.