Senior Backend Engineer (Immediate joiners only)

Roles & Responsibilities
• Writing and testing code, debugging programs and integrating applications with third-party
web services. To be successful in this role, you should have experience using server-side logic
and work well in a team.
• Ultimately, you'll build highly responsive web applications that align with our business needs.
• Write effective, scalable code Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and
overall performance Integrate user-facing elements into applications.
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical
solutions
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask,etc)
• Team spirit
• Good problem-solving skills

Requirements
• 1 to 5 years of experience as a Python Developer
• Hands on experience of Flask, Django or Gin or Revel or Sanic
• Knowledge of design/architectural patterns will be considered as a plus
• Experience working in an agile development environment with a strong focus on rapid
software development
• Experience in AWS or similar cloud technologies
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Proven ability to complete assigned task according to the outlined scope and timeline
• Experience with messaging frameworks such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMq
• Experience with Elastic Search
• Willingness to learn new and different technologies

An eCommerce growth platform using AI and machine learning to help establish and
grow online businesses across multiple channels and global markets. They use data-driven tools to optimize how products are advertised and listed across marketplaces – and handle all associated shipping, logistics, taxes, and compliance.
Their business model is built on aligned incentives with no initial costs. They only makes
money if and when customers’ products sell.

They are expanding their Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team
composed of owners. They are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence.
As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential.


What you will do?

 Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
 Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
 Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
 Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
 Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular
design.
 Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation
and monitoring
 Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have
quality in mind.
 Own the full release cycle from development to deployment.


What you will need?

 3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
 Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
 Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
 Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for
data retrieval and persistence.
 Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection,
design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
 Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing
skills.
 Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
 Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment.


Bonus if you have

 Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
 Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.

Primary Skills: Database Systems (SQL), Python Flask/Fast API/Django frameworks specifically
Requirements:

• Highly proficient in fundamentals of Python web development frameworks like Flask, Django and Fast API
• Demonstrated experience in developing APIs using Python frameworks
• Should have deep knowledge in PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server and other SQL based Databases

Job brief
We are looking for a Senior Python Developer to join our engineering team and help us develop and maintain various software products. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
Python Developer responsibilities include designing product, writing, and testing code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with web services.
Skills And Qualifications
• Expert in Python, with knowledge of multithreading and multitasking framework
• Expert in PySpark and Spark Framework
• Expert in Docker and Container Environment.
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Knowledge on MySql, Hive, Hadoop and NoSQL Databases
• Good Understanding of event-driven programming in Python
• Hands on experience on Kubernetes and container management using Kubernetes on Azure Cloud
• Hands on experience on Azure Cloud Load Balancer and VPC networking
• Good Understanding of Azure Cloud services
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments. eg. Single Sign On (SSO)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools as Git
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

Srijan Technologies Pvt Ltd. is a 14 years old enterprise web content management consulting and development company with expertise in building high-traffic websites and complex web applications. Over this period we have served over 200 clients across Asia, Europe, United States and Middle East. We are the only Acquia Enterprise partner in India. Job Description We are looking for a Data Engineer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. Responsibilities: ● Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code. ● Understand client’s business needs and develop a software solution with necessary validations ● Attend client calls, demonstrations to the client. ● Provide assistance, guidance and support to other developers when necessary. Review codes of peers. ● Maintain appropriate documentation with code. ● Undertake quality assurance and testing for functionalities developed. Communication Responsibilities: ● Deliver engaging, informative and well-organized presentations. ● Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion. Other Responsibilities: ● Disseminate technology best practices. ● Work with senior developers in adoption of new technologies within our Technology practice Requirements, Skills, Qualications: • Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack. • Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries • Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system • Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture • Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc . ● Good understanding of MySQL and relational databases. ● Experience with Cassandra or other “newSQL” databases is a plus. ● Experience with AWS - including Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito is a major plus. ● Expertise in JavaScript and mainstream JavaScript libraries such as JQuery and working knowledge of Ajax. ● Good understanding of web technologies and HTTP. Good Linux skills HTML and CSS skills commensurate with years of experience. ● Git knowledge/ version control knowledge and skills.

**Technology Vision**

The B2B manufacturing industry has a lack of digitisation globally. NowPurchase is building layers of technology to help improve the productivity and profits of the manufacturer. For this we are building the OS (Operating System) that will seamlessly connect factory equipment such as furnaces and spectrometers to our software systems that provide real time optimisations.

The end-game is to use this interconnected system to do great production planning and autonomous procurement of their raw materials. The Heart of NowPurchase will be a marketplace consisting of these smart factories and raw material suppliers.

Here a video that explains our product journey:

[https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21](https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21)

 **Role Description**

NowPurchase is looking to add an immensely talented Backend Developer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet the above vision.

- Expect to build a lot of services and APIs in the cloud and stand-alone IoT devices to serve both the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises.
- Expect designing algorithms that model the metallurgy of the manufacturing processes as well as using tools such as linear programming, machine learning etc.

 **What are the expectations from this role?**

- Deliver high quality modular code deployed to serve web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets. This would include algorithms for real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
- You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
- Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
- Own your Agile projects and responsible for software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
- Collaborate on the end to end design and implementation of the platform, including data modeling, systems architecture, data security, access controls, architecture, user experience, deployment, automation, and monitoring.
- Maintain a high level of data integrity, quality and security checks.
- Develop data pipelines and RESTful services that are distributed, robust and highly performant.
- Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.

 **Qualifications and Experience**

- 1+ years of demonstrated software engineering experience in an agile environment designing, architecting and implementing robust scalable systems preferably for modern SaaS application
- Experience with modern server-side programming languages such as Python, Scala, Go. Experience with web frameworks such as Django Rest Framework, Flask.
- Experience with architecting asynchronous services with design patters leveraging PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery for storage and multi-tenant servers over AWS Elastic BeanStalk.

 **Compensation & Benefits**

- **Cash Compensation:** As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
- **ESOPs:** 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
- **Medical Insurance:** Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
- **Generous leave structure and WFHs** including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
- **Complete Relocation Expenses:** We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.

 **Possible Growth path**

Backend Developer > Senior Backend End Engineer > Engineering Manager > VP of Engineering

## **Tech Stack**

- React/Redux
- Python/Django/Celery
- Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
- PostgreSQL/Redis/S3

 **Hiring Process**

1. Screening of applicants & initial telephonic call with Manager -HR
2. F2F/Video Interview with Engineering Manager and Cofounder CTO
3. Take home written assessment
4. F2F/Video Interview with Cofounder CEO
5. Email communication on final feedback

The end to end process shall take less than 10 days. We pride ourselves on being transparent & moving fast.

*Candidates who accept an offer may join within 1 hour, 1 week or up to 45days of signing - though, we have a preference for as short a gap period between signing and joining since we're at the most exciting part of our journey - laying the foundation for the NowPurchase platform!*

• Need to develop the new script using Perl  & Python
• Need to analyse the existing script and do new changes
• Need to interact with QA team, Deployment team
• Need to interact with in-house and external customers
• Need to interact with internal team members for integrated development
• Need to have good communication skills within the team members

 

Skills required:

 

• Need to have experience in developing projects using PERL and Python
• Familiarity in Unix/Linux development environments and tools including
• scripting and  process management
• Need to have experience in database(Mysql) concepts
• Need to have a experience in Elastic Search
• Have a knowledge in Git,Svn commands
• Need to have experience in implementing OOPS concepts
• Need to have a experience in XML functionality (read,create.,etc)
• Have a knowledge in creating a csv,xlsx files, json format
• Need to have a experience in PDF Functionality & FTP,SFTP Modules
• Need experience in unit testing
• Develop best practices to ensure coding efficiency and quality
• Experience in test driven development and Agile methodologies

 

Preference of Educational background:

• B.E

 

Preference of Professional background:

 

• Experience in handling  modules
• Experience in  PERL,Python,Mysql,Linux,Elastic search,Xml,PDF,FTP functionality