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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Job Description
We are looking for a passionate Search Specialist Backend Engineer to join our team. This role will focus on improving and optimizing our search capabilities to enhance user experience, scalability, and relevancy.
Location - Bangalore
Designation - Senior Software engineer - Search Specialist
Responsibilities:
● Design, develop, and maintain the search application, ensuring performance, and scalability.
● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement search features and improvements.
● Ensure search results are relevant by employing techniques like ranking, personalization, and recommendation.
● Work on complex problems related to search algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
● Implement logging, metrics, and monitoring for search services.
● Optimize search by tuning the underlying algorithms, experimenting with new techniques, and leveraging tools like Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.
● Maintain and improve existing search functionalities while ensuring backward compatibility.
● Stay updated with the latest advancements in search technology and industry best practices.
Basic Qualifications:
● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
● Experience with search engines like Elasticsearch, Solr, or similar technologies.
● Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
● Proficiency in Python and Django.
● Familiarity with RESTful APIs and backend services.
● Preferred Qualifications:
● Experience with natural language processing (NLP) or machine learning as applied to search.
● Knowledge of various search relevance techniques and ranking algorithms.
● Experience in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). ● Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
● Strong analytical and debugging skills. Personal Attributes:
● Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.
● A keen interest in improving user experience through search.
● Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
5 years in software development (Minimum 3 years)
Strong expertise in Ruby on Rails (3-5 years)
Knowledge of Python is a plus
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#Skills:
Proficiency in scalable app techniques: caching, APM, microservices architecture
Ability to write high-quality code independently
Experience mentoring junior engineers (0-2 years of experience)
What We Offer:
An opportunity to work with a dynamic team
A challenging environment where your skills will be put to the test
A chance to make a real impact by guiding and mentoring others
Ready to make your mark? If you're based out of or willing to relocate to Gurgaon and have the experience we're looking for, apply now!
Description
6sense is a Predictive Intelligence Engine that is reimagining how B2B companies do sales and marketing. It works with big data at scale, advanced machine learning and predictive modelling to find buyers and predict what they will purchase, when and how much.
6sense helps B2B marketing and sales organisations fully understand the complex ABM buyer journey. By combining intent signals from every channel with the industry’s most advanced AI predictive capabilities, it is finally possible to predict account demand and optimize demand generation in an ABM world. Equipped with the power of AI and the 6sense Demand Platform™, marketing and sales professionals can uncover, prioritize and engage buyers to drive more revenue.
6sense is seeking a Python Developer to become part of a team designing, developing, and deploying its customer centric applications.
A Python Developer at 6sense will have the opportunity to
- Optimize components for maximum performance across multiple devices and browsers
- Write performant REST APIs for both internal and external consumption
- Build micro services and their deployment process
- Work with problems of scale, employ technologies that are distributed in nature.
- Perform code reviews
Required qualifications and must have skills
- BE/BTech/BS or equivalent
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven-deep-expertise with Python programming (3 to 8 Years of minimum hands-on experience in Python).
- Hands on with Data structures & Algorithm programming.
- Experience in working with frameworks like Django, Flask, etc.
- Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
- Experience with any RDBMS and strong SQL knowledge
- Comfortable with Unix / Linux command line
- Object-oriented concepts & design patterns
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autonomous world.Rich data in large volumes is getting collected at the edge (outside a datacenter) in use cases like autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, satellite imagery, smart retail, smart agriculture etc.These datasets are characterized by being unstructured
(images/videos), large size (Petabytes per month), distributed (across edge, on-prem and
cloud) and form the input for training AI models to get to higher degrees of automation.
Akridata is engaged with building products that solve these unique challenges and be at the forefront of this edge data revolution.
The company is backed by prominent VCs and has it’s entire software engineering team
based out of India and provides ample opportunities for from-scratch design and
development.
Role:
This role is an individual contributor role with key responsibilities in developing web server
backends for Akridata management plane software that provides a ‘single pane of glass’ for users to manage assets, specify and monitor large volume data pipelines at scale involving 10s of petabytes of data.
This role involves:
1. Working with tech leads and the rest of the team on the feature design activities and
picking appropriate tools and techniques for implementation.
2. Be a hands-on developer able to independently make correct implement choices, follow
sound development practices to ensure an enterprise grade application.
3. Guide and mentor junior team members.
What we are looking for:
1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science with strong CS fundamentals and
problem solving.
2. 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development with 3+ years on web
backend development.
3. A good understanding of backend application interactions with relational databases like
MySQL, Postgres etc
4. Knowledge of web server development frameworks preferably on Python.
5. Enthusiastic to work in a dynamic, fast paced startup environment.
Good to have:
1. Hands-on experience with designing database schema and implementing and debugging SQL queries for optimal performance for large datasets
2. Experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
3. Experience with working on a product from early stages of it’s development typically in a
startup environment.
Your Responsibilities:
- Own the backend stack – Python based, that powers our product
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, Backend Developers(Node.js), Front-end developers, DevOps to design and implement new features
- Build and maintain several Backend Jobs and REST’ful Services which will be used internally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
- Deploy and monitor the Jobs and endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X data processing load)
- Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.
Skills that you bring Along:
- A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Python and related frameworks – particularly Flask.
- Extensive experience in designing and scheduling backend Python jobs
- Hands on working in different file formats like Json, Parquet, csv etc. coming from Data Science side.
- Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
- Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
- Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
- Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
- Good experience with design patterns
- Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
- Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
- Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
- Good experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
- Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Ideally experience in parallel data processing and building end-to-end Data Pipelines using tools such as Airflow/Prefect and Spark/Dask
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner
Job Description for Senior Python Developer
Experience: 4 to 7 years
- Must have strong knowledge in Python 2/Python 3
- Must have a strong knowledge of Web development using the Django web framework and API development experience using Django REST API.
- Flask framework or any other framework’s knowledge is great.
- Ability to write reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Team Handling exposure
- Knowledge of Standard databases like MySql, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Firebase, etc. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Must be good at understanding client requirements.
- Good testing/debugging skills using standard python modules/IDEs
- Deployment experience with standard servers like Apache/AWS etc.
- Experience in testing frameworks known in the industry.
- Having good/basic knowledge of Front end Technologies HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript is good.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools - GIT
The candidate must have experience in coding part and team handling experience both
- Strong first principles
- Hustle! We're young, lean, and in our early days. You'd have to set up your own shop, work with design customers to find generalizable use cases, and build them out.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and ship new features
- At least 2-6 years of experience with primary exp in Python
- Must have skills - Flask / Django, RESTful Web Services, Database SQL / NoSQL
- The preferred Location is Bangalore but is also flexible with PAN India.
- Would require candidates from Tier 1 & 2 Companies or Tier 1 & 2 Colleges preferably.
- Proficient experience of back-end programming language - Python
- The preferred Location is Bangalore but is also flexible with PAN India.
- Would require candidates from Tier 1 & 2 Companies or Tier 1 & 2 Colleges preferably.
Roles and responsibilities
- Develop well-designed performant and scalable applications and microservices
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code aligning to software development best practices
- Integrate data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
- Build integrations with 3rd party applications through apis’ to ingest and process data
- Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
- Ensure security and data protection aspects within the applications
- Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve the performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
- Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
- Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments and production issues
- 4+ years of experience in developing applications using python and related technologies.
- Familiarity in data ingestion and processing libraries in python.
- Thorough understanding of REST and GRPC technologies.
- Experience in using ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries for data access.
- Experiencing in developing and hosting APIs and integration with external applications.
- Experience in building data models and repositories using relational and NoSql databases.
- Knowledge of JIRA, Bitbucket and agile methodologies.
- Good to have knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, dynamodb, kinesis and others.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Familiarity with event-driven programming
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Affinity for learning and applying new technologies and solving new problems
- Effective organizational skills with strong attention to detail
- Experience in working with docker is a plus
- Comfortable in working with Unix/Linux environment
- Strong communication skills — both written and verbal