Senior Backend Software Engineer

Job ID : LK0601

Java Developer JD;

•  2-7 years of Experience 
• Java 8
• Spring boot
• API development
• MVC architecture
• web services
• OOPS

We have an opening for a professional with basic experience. If you are writing clean scalable code and want to work on building systems that range from high-volume frontends to low-latency backends and everything in between, then we would like you to become part of our team

About Us:

Avarna derived from Sanskrit means one with a fun loving nature but having no form, no color, or marks. We at Avarna Capital solve the most interesting questions in sports analytics. Diligence, productivity and transparency defines the work culture at Avarna. We are a team of
highly motivated and innovative people all working remotely so emphasis on communication, accessibility, and accountability are our key focus to build a strong culture at Avarna.

Resposibilities:

1. Integrate Kafka pipelines into the company's current infrastructure

2. Recommended appropriate solutions to enhance the current software stack

3. Utilizing the latest and most innovative technology in solving business problems

4. Take ownership of project delivery and the entire SDLC

About Embibe
At Embibe, we have just one mission - to truly personalize education. Because every child deserves it. This has led us to embark on this noblest of journeys to deliver life and learning outcomes for every student! Rooted in consumer behavior, we are leveraging AI and Data Science to deliver personalized achievement journeys for every student.
We are a tribe of intellectually fierce people from diverse backgrounds, focused on building cutting-edge products that empower everyone in the education ecosystem - students, teachers, educational institutes and parents. We enable a deeper understanding of student behavior, their strengths and weaknesses through analysis at a granular level. It is this shared vision of democratizing and personalizing education that unites us all.
Embibe is powered by AI and data science algorithms, using these contents being recommended across platforms and millions of learning outcomes delivered to students. Since its inception, millions of students have used the imbibe platform for learning concepts and outcomes. Academic users have spent 52mins on average with an average of 3 sessions daily. Embibe has been launched for 12 languages across India with support for 361 Exams (English), and 120 Exams (Hindi) for K6-K12 having 22.6L+ Qs and 58k+ Tests, 29k videos, 50k+ 3D assets. Embibe is the world's largest live online public sector implementation in edtech for test preparation, NTA app which is powered by Embibe has 3.1Mn+ downloads, and 14.3Mn hours spent by users with total 13.4Mn sessions and 1.64Bn attempts.SchoolApp is currently being used by 1000s of schools across India and we are planning to scale it to 100Mn students with 1Mn schools with 10Mn teachers in the period of the next 3yrs.
Prerequisite
We are looking for a Software Engineer across levels who have ever contributed to any large-scale systems be it content platform e.g. Quora/Medium, streaming platform e.g. Netflix or Hotstar, activity log system e.g. Twitter feeds or payment systems like Razorpay to name a few. I/O, Read-Writes, DB connections, Distributed Locking, Memory, Bandwidth, High Throughput, Low Latency and minimal CPU cycles excite you!! You are deep thinkers and can bring ideas to the table, before starting writing the code!!
Interested? We'd love to hear from you.
Who are you?
● 2-14yrs years of relevant large-scale product company experience ideally in a fast-moving B2C/B2B environment.
● Programming. Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python,React.js, Node.js, Next.js, PHP, Golang etc.
● Deep understanding & experience of high-performance web-scale & real-time response systems, and large scale distributed systems.
● CS Fundamentals – exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, Good in Data Structures and Algorithms Design, Problem Solving.
● Open source contributors and can do quick POC of technologies will catch our eyes.
● Expertise in designing, implementing and operating distributed Systems architectures and concepts, especially on public cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure)
● Demonstrated expertise in applying systems patterns (e.g., Client-server, N-tier, Master/Slave, MVC) and API constructions (e.g., Swagger, OpenAPI).
● Experience in a high-availability 24/7 environment (cloud platforms are a plus). Expertise should include several of the following:
○ High-performance,up-time (99.999%) and self-recoverable systems.
○ Control, orchestration and automation platforms leveraging containers or VMs. ○ RPC frameworks (e.g., Protobuf/gRPC, Thrift, Bond)
● Experience with one or more Data Stores like (MySql, Postgres ) and NoSQL DataStores ( Mongo, Cassandra, Scylladb, Hbase, Redis, Aerospike etc.).
● Experience with Agile software development, TDD, and Continuous Integration. ● Experience in building Web/RESTFul/GraphQL services.
● Sound knowledge of *Nix, ORM(Hibernate, JPA), Spring ecosystem, Messaging platforms like Kafka/RMQ, build framework like Maven/Gradle etc.
● Very strong system design and object-oriented skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.
● Solid coding skills with the ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercises & improve coding standards across large code bases.
● Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions. ● Exposure to complete product development cycles – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, and re-architectures.
● Having experience building web infrastructure in cloud environments (such as AWS or Azure/GCP) is a plus. You understand and are always excited about learning new e.g.docker, Kubernetes.
● Education. M.Tech/M.Eng in Computer Science/Engineering or B.Tech/B.E in the same disciplines with equivalent years of experience would be a plus.
We'd particularly love it if:
● You’re a steward for engineering quality, reliability, scalability, availability, maintainability, flexibility habits and mindset in the organization under your purview, You know SOLID,12 factor App and Design Principles which you can apply or help the team in applying as needed. You can assure that our architectures are consistent with industry best practices. ● Version control tools like Git, SVN etc are good to have.
● Gather, understand, and prioritize requirements, research potential solutions, rapidly build prototypes, and distill and communicate what was learned, expected risks, resources & security concerns.
● Mentoring more junior engineers to instill engineering best practices and driving high standards in documentation, code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions and strategy roadmap development.
● Actively participate in development along with team members - creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
● Set the vision of the domain architecture and technology stack for technology in your organization, You understand LLD and HLD.
● Be an evangelist for technology - drive a culture of curiosity and active debate around technology in your organization.
● Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create.
Note: We just use degrees to measure the Temperature!!

UrbanPiper offers an integration layer that powers the operational efficiency of 1000’s of restaurants across India for selling online through their own white-labelled platform or any of the leading food aggregator platforms — Swiggy, Zomato, Dunzo, Amazon etc. At present, we are
processing nearly 6 million transactions every month. By the end of this year, we will be growing this number to 10 million. The most defining aspects of our work related to — consistency, reliability,scalability and agility. We make use of a wide variety of technologies and process significantly large amounts of data on a daily basis.
We are looking for backend engineers who have an appetite to explore new technologies, while building applications that can scale well both in terms of execution speed and the size of data that is
processed.

You will:
• Work closely with the product management team to understand the scope of an application
• Expected to research for ideal technologies that can work ideally for given problem statements
• Have a good grasp of how to design and implement APIs in conformance to the protocols of REST and GraphQL.
• Need to have a good understanding of network principles related to latency, throughput,bandwidth, security — and how to monitor them.
• Take ownership of the correctness of your work both in terms of functional and usability aspects
• Apply the best practices of software development when it comes to SCM, managing issues and most importantly, documenting your work.

We are looking for someone who has:
• 1+ years of experience in building integration solutions with REST and GraphQL APIs,Databases, email, SMS, etc.
• Familiar with the concepts of distributed systems esp. Queues.
• A sound understanding of disparate persistence systems SQL and NoSQL storage systems.
• Worked with Python on a regular basis and is conversant with the dominant frameworks like
Django, Flask and those required to implement RESTful/GraphQL protocols.
• A strong understanding of data structures.
• The ability to communicate results clearly in a verbal and written manner

Nice to haves:
• Experience in a high growth technology company
• Conversant with the AWS platform and have a good understanding of working remotely on servers using SSH and CLI.
• Can install and operate infrastructure applications which can be used to monitor performance, alert and recover.

Job Description:

Candidate must have 2 to 5-years of experience in various phase of development of a python-based application or API development.

 

Requirements:

Must Have:  Strong expertise in PYTHON and its built-in data structures, developing API using flask or fastapi, data wrangling using standard python frameworks like pandas, NumPy etc., integration of various applications (third party or inhouse) with python.

Good to Have: Deployment using Nginx, GUnicorn, IIS, docker and Kubernetes etc. Good understanding of optimization solutions like differential evolution. Hands on experience with python packages like Scipy.  Tkinter to make python-based applications.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Understanding/gathering the requirements from stakeholder, formulating the problem, and leveraging AI/ML to solve the business problems.
• Integration of third party or in house application with python solution.
• Working on Deployment and optimization of various engineering problems using Numerical/Constraint optimization frameworks such as Differential Evolution and deploy a web-based API using Flask and Nginx/IIS.
• Unit testing of various python modules developed and testing of the API.

Experience Required:
● Has worked extensively on caching technologies such as Redis, Memcached
● Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
● Strong understanding of end-to-end architectures and development frameworks; knowledge across tiers in a multi-tier cloud environment including load balancers, web servers, application containers, data stores, and distributed cache
● Should be strong with Data Structures, Algorithms & OOPs concepts
● Should have a good understanding of database load balancing.
● Can clearly demonstrate an understanding of the Application layer from the OSI model and Presentation layer from the OSI Model.
● Worked on NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
● Designed and developed highly scalable multi-threaded large scale distributed systems
● Well versed with services and microservices architecture
● Usage of containers, virtual machine systems, cloud computing
● Knowledge on Socket would be a big advantage
● Should have a good understanding of how load-balancing works
● Should have an understanding of how CDN works.

Requirements: • 1 to 3 years of experience building web applications and RESTful APIs in Python and Django Strong algorithmic, data structures and computational complexity • Sound knowledge of Python and Django, familiarity with Linux and git • Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes • Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system • Data migration, transformation, and scripting • Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes • Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles • Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS Skills: • Python, Django, RESTful Services, Git, Linux, Redis, Golang, Distributed system

Key Skills:

1. One or more of Python/PHP/Ruby/NodeJS/Java

2. Sound object-oriented skills, including strong design patterns knowledge

2. REST APIs

3. MVC architecture

4. MySQL/PostgreSQL

5. Exp with at least 1 NoSQL databases MongoDB/Memcache/Redis/

6. Exp with search technologies Elasticsearch/Solr

7. Exp building messaging based asynchrounous systems RabbitMQ/Kafka/SQS/Celery will be added advantage

8. Exp with Django/Flask frameworks will be added advantage

9. Knowledge of software best practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) will be added adnavtage

 

 

Requirements:

 

1. Developing software solutions in conjunction with Relational theory, Rest APIs and NoSQL database technologies

2. Knowledge of cloud based technologies in AWS or Azure will be added advantage

3. Understanding of RDBMS technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL.

4. Hands-on with Version control systems (GIT, SVN) and Unix/Ubuntu.

5. Experience in requirement analysis, HLD, LLD, unit & integration testing.

6. Good hands on experience in debugging application issues

 

TL;DR

 

1) Top performer in the company

2) Has worked with product based startup company

3) Ambitious and hardworking