
Senior Backend Engineer
at A US based eCommerce growth platform well funded startup.

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.

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Location: Hyderabad
Work Mode: Hybrid (2 days WFO)
Experience Required: 4.5+ years
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred
Employment Type: Full-Time
Mandatory Requirements:
- 4.5+ years of experience in Java Development
- Hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment
- Must be available to join immediately
- Must be willing to work in Hybrid mode from Hyderabad
Technical Skill Requirements:
- Strong hands-on experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices
- Solid understanding of OOP concepts, Multithreading, and REST APIs
- Practical knowledge and experience working with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, SNS, etc.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools and version control systems (Git)
- Good knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based backend applications
- Implement and integrate AWS services to ensure scalability and reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including QA, DevOps, and Front-end developers
- Optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues in a timely manner
- Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and team discussions
- Ensure best practices in code quality, security, and documentation
- Handle deployments and production support if needed

Requirements
- 3+ years work experience with production-grade python. Contribution to open source repos is preferred
- Experience writing concurrent and distributed programs, AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, Spark is preferred.
- Experience with one relational & 1 non-relational DB is preferred
- Prior work in the ML domain will be a big boost
What You’ll Do
- Help realize the product vision: Production-ready machine learning models with monitoring within moments, not months.
- Help companies deploy their machine learning models at scale across a wide range of use-cases and sectors.
- Build integrations with other platforms to make it easy for our customers to use our product without changing their workflow.
- Write maintainable, scalable performant python code
- Building gRPC, rest API servers
- Working with Thrift, Protobufs, etc.



- Working knowledge of XML, JAVA, REST, SOAP etc
- Basic knowledge of SQL, including the ability to author ad-hoc database queries.
- Is comfortable writing code in Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Java and enjoys learning new languages and technologies.
- Has experience integrating APIs (major plus)
- Experienced integrating RESTful APIs into web applications (a plus)
- Is experienced with Github or the likes.
- Should have worked on Payment Gateway Applications.
- Has a technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics (MBA is an asset)
- Technical Product/Software certifications an asset
- Has 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar client-facing role
- Has previous experience in a traditional software engineering or Implementation role.
- Has strong analytical and debugging skills.
- Experienced with Salesforce is a plus
- Solution-driven, able to grasp new concepts quickly and efficiently, able to work alone or in a team, able to work with no supervision and under pressure
- Excels in a collaborative and cross-functional environment.
- Demonstrates professional communication skills on technical and business-related subjects
- Experience working with payment gateways a major plus including ecommerce and Retail Experience with continuous integration and test-driven development methodologies a plus
- Excellent time management, organization, and planning skills are essential
- Flexibility to travel as required to meet with clients
- Ability to comprehend and translate complex technical issues and apply to business solutions
- Demonstrate ability to articulate complex technical terms or processes into business language
- Ability to synthesize technical information and apply to business solutions
- Able to set priorities, influence others, and manage customer and partner expectations
- Demonstrated success in customer and partner relationship management
- You are motivated, think outside of the box, and understand the purpose of process and procedures


Job Description:
- 3 - 4 years of hands-on Python programming & libraries like PyData, Pandas
- Exposure to Mongo DB
- Experience in writing Unit Test cases
- Expertise in writing medium/advanced SQL Database queries
- Strong Verbal/Written communication skills
- Ability to work with onsite counterpart teams


Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python services &components
Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and security
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
Help maintain code quality, organization
Understanding of established software development life cycles
Ability to prioritize and multi-task in order to meet deadlines
Resolves technical issues through debugging, research and investigation
Collaborate across various teams and with external clients
Contribute innovative designs and ideas for improving our company products and services
Required Skills Sets
Atleast 4+ years of experience in Design and Development with Python.
Experience in Flask / Django
Familiar with version control (Git)
Understanding of SQL
Strong Unit Testing practice
Understanding of design patterns, Microservices Architecture
Understanding of Scrum Agile methodology
Experience in data engineering & Docker is a plus.
Candidate Profile:
4+ Years of relevant experience with Python and its Principles.
Graduate in Computer Science or any related discipline (like BS / B.E. / B-Tech in Electronics,
Electrical, IT)

Nest is a gamified investment platform for the next-generation and young millennials of the world, to invest, play and earn returns more than a regular savings bank account. The world of gaming is merging with finance to offer a more immersive user experience and help users learn how to manage their money. We’re creating a new breed of asset managers and fin-fluencers with Nest.
We are seeking a dedicated Golang developer to join our growing company.
You will collaborate with other technical staff to deliver and maintain a fully-functional mobile application. We hope you can put your passion for software engineering to work for creating highly immersive user applications.
Your duties will include maintaining code repositories via GitHub and internal server storage modules.
Responsibilities
Below are some of the responsibilities a Golang developer is expected to undertake in their position:
- Implement AWS containers to support Go implementation and successful repository maintenance
- Utilize Kubernetes to ensure successful application development, deployment, and scaling
- Implement Docker for smaller-scale applications that require simpler deployments
- Employ Linux Terminal command structures to allow easy back-end operations for less-expert technical staff
- Structure our user interface with React and ensure REST API access is available for enterprise-grade finance customers on-demand
- Collaborate with other technical staff to ensure consistent and smooth DevOps workflows
- Choose and implement other JavaScript libraries that will optimize performance without sacrificing security and base functionality
- Manage multiple projects within reasonable design specifications and budget restrictions
- QA design for errors
- Implement feedback and changes whenever possible
- Create visualizations that convey accurate messaging for the project.
Job Qualifications and Skill Sets
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or a related field, such as programming. Other critical skills required are:
- Provable proficiency in Go programming
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Minimum of two years’ experience working in programming or information technology
- Attention to detail and Knowledge in Java is recommended
- Portfolio of work with examples that showcase technical skill
- Strong analytical skills
- Time management and organizational skills
- Knowledge of Go templating, common frameworks, and tools
- Experience working with a team
What you’ll receive
- A compensation competitive to premier firms
- Incredible learning and exposure to every aspect of a funded financial startup as an early member, working directly with the founders.
- Recognition and experience of working on a platform with an exponential user growth curve.
- A fun and receptive work culture which promises to never get mundane!
- If you love party, it is on us!



THE POSITION:
- 3+ years of relevant experience in designing & implementing scalable, resilient backend microservices
- Expert at any backend programming language (Python/GoLang preferrable) and has exposure to API design and scalable architecture
- Hands-on experience on a couple of RDBMS/NoSQL/In-memory DBs
- Great database modelling skills
- Ability to choose the right algorithm, data-structure, and design pattern for the given problem statement
- Knowledge of any cloud based platform like AWS or GCP and scaling on the go
- Understanding of various application security principles and experience with building applications secure by design
QUALIFICATION:
- We don't care about which college you are from, if you have the power to convert coffee into code, we got you.
- 3+ years of overall experience
- Understanding about AWS - EC2, S3, RDS etc
- Extensive experience building and refactoring Java applications
- Good work experience with Message Que - Ka a, Rabbit MQ, etc
- Understanding and experience building high-performance, scalable algorithms.
- Understanding of Agile or Kanban / Lean so ware development methodologies- Experience using modern build
tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Github, etc. a plus - Be hands-on, willing to dig in and crank out code.
- Be a learner, able to explore new areas, learn new things, and quickly apply them to solve new problems.
- Be a spark, bring energy, passion and creativity to work every day.
Good to have
- No-sql experience ( dynamo , mongo , Cassandra etc. )
- Datadog or similar monitoring tool
- Docker exposure
- Exp- 3+ yrs
- Must be very good in Java- 2.5+ yrs
- At least 1 yr of working experience in any one DB of Neo4j, Cassandra, Elastic Search
- Should have good devops working knowledge - Knowledge of AWS, Ansibleetc is a necessity
- Experience in TDD/BDD is required
- Minimum 1 yr working experience in Samza& Kafka.
- Knowledge of Azure is added advantage
- Understanding of AKKA and Play framework



