
Senior Fullstack Developer (Django)
at A Fashion tech startup offering a personal styling service
We are looking for a high-performing Developer to build our ecommerce platform and API framework powered by Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Candidates for this role will be passionate about well-written code, testing, and excel at coming up with simple approaches to complex problems.
Our work culture is overachiever, very amiable, and at the same time always charged with excitement. We encourage our team members to take responsibility and grow into future leaders in the industry.
Job Responsibilities:
- Understand project requirements, writing bug-free clean code and ensure that the solution works per the agreed architecture, SLAs, KPIs and business model
- Integrate Django backend with third party API
- 100% Hands-on role
- Adapt to rapidly evolving requirements and changing priorities and drive the team accordingly
- Reverse engineer for debugging errors in code and ensure quality control in the process.
- Continually drive products towards a meaningful balance between user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility
- Operate in a hyper-collaborative way and follow these guiding principles: Value common sense and simplicity over complexity.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science from a reputed University
- 3 to 5 years of experience working in Django and Python.
- React and/or Angular for front end
- Proficiency in MongoDB and MySql
- Technical Skills: JIRA, Gitlab, Rest API, GCP or AWS
- Experience in performance profiling, tuning, and optimization, caching mechanisms with Enterprise level applicants
- Experience in writing unit testing and test case automation.
- Ability to operate in an Agile environment with a start-up mentality and unstructured environment, Energy, drive and passion to work, and operate in a digital world.

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About the Role
We are actively seeking talented Senior Python Developers to join our ambitious team dedicated to pushing the frontiers of AI technology. This opportunity is tailored for professionals who thrive on developing innovative solutions and who aspire to be at the forefront of AI advancements. You will work with different companies in the US who are looking to develop both commercial and research AI solutions.
Required Skills:
- Write effective Python code to tackle complex issues
- Use business sense and analytical abilities to glean valuable insights from public databases
- Clearly express the reasoning and logic when writing code in Jupyter notebooks or other suitable mediums
- Extensive experience working with Python
- Proficiency with the language's syntax and conventions
- Previous experience tackling algorithmic problems
- Nice to have some prior Software Quality Assurance and Test Planning experience
- Excellent spoken and written English communication skills
The ideal candidates should be able to
- Clearly explain their strategies for problem-solving.
- Design practical solutions in code.
- Develop test cases to validate their solutions.
- Debug and refine their solutions for improvement.
As a Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll lead a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality.
What You’ll do:
- Work in an agile environment, orchestrating a group mostly comprised of skilled PHP engineers of various levels to complete User Stories authored by professional Product Managers
- Architect highly scalable/transaction heavy web/API applications
- Work with 1-2 Frontend resources (in addition to backend PHP) through projects in React, Angular (maintenance), MooTools/Jquery (deprecation), Socket.io and serverside NodeJS
- Work with Product and QA Managers in multiple grooming sessions and sprint planning for your team
- Collaborate/coordinate with other Engineering Managers and Leads
- Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs
- Work with DevOps to automate deployment and monitoring of applications
- Design and develop Restful APIs using frameworks with design patterns
- Design JSON payloads and various payload contexts
- Convert complex business rules and workflows from User Story requirements into SalesForce type CRM applications and client facing web portals
- Work with monolithic legacy codebases, along with design patterns in newer repositories
- Work with large database schemas of 500+ tables
- Write complex queries. Efficiently joining upwards of 20 tables, some containing +10m rows. In T-SQL or Doctrine ORM
- Integrate 3rd party platforms via APIs and callbacks
- Write Unit tests and documentation
What You Have:
- 10+ years professional experience developing APIs & web based applications in PHP as an individual contributor
- Prior experience working with organized development teams (5+ member pods)
- Prefer hands-on experience using MS SQL Server, CosmosDB, but other relational databases/NoSQL ok (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB)
- Professional experience using open source PHP frameworks. Symfony3+ preferred (Laravel, CodeIgniter - ok)
- Experience scaling in LAMP, but also leveraging Redis, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search (ELK), SupervisorD, Socket.io, centralized Session stores
- Prefer experience designing fault tolerant architecture on cloud deployments (loadbalancing, clustering, reducing/eliminating single points of failure, etc)
- Understand branching, merging, pull requests and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or Github)
- Experienced in leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
- Comfortable on CentOS Linux, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCP…
- Full stack is a plus (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React/Angular/Vue)
- Able to onboard self and others while working entirely remotely in EST
- Experience in Azure PaaS and IaaS
- Experience crafting architecture diagrams in Visio or LucidChart
- Problem solving skills and a proactive work style
- Strong interpersonal & communication skills
The candidate’s primary focus will be developing new features for our
modern web application. They will get exposure to an ‘agile-centric’
delivery model, while leveraging modern / innovative JavaScript
approaches. A candidate who is driven, innovative and has passion for
elegant technical solutions will thrive in this role.
- You should have deep understanding of NodeJS
- You should be strong in Javascript and TypeScript
- You should be capable of writing complex queries
- ES6, Express, Apollo Server, Send Grid Email, Twilio SMS, Payment
- Gateway,
- Error Loggin, API Developement, API Security,
- PostGreSQL/MSSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/CouchDB
- Very good knowledge on REST API
- Good experience in Agile methodologies
- Ability to design and write code complying with coding standards
- and other factors like performance, scalability, reliability,
- reusability, modularity in mind
- You should have strong logical and problem solving skills
- Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills
- AWS certification is nice to have
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and good to have
- ES6(Typescript) knowledge
- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express, Restify
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its
- quirks and workarounds
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems,
- servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one
- system
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable
- application
- Competencies and Skills Required
- equires excellent analytical, problem solving, and good
- communications skills
- Must be able to work effectively with business stakeholders
- Strong passion for delivering technical solutions to business
- problems
- Understanding and mindset of Agile software delivery (Ability to
- adapt to continually changing priorities)
- Team player who understands the importance of teamwork and
- collaboration
- Passion for delivering new approaches and challenging the ‘statusquo’
- Hungry to learn and always in search of continuous improvement
- Work experience as Python developer
- Should have experience in developing and working on consumer facing web/app products on in Django framework
- Should have experience working with react js front end design.
- Thorough knowledge of data stores, MyScore AWS services and should have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
- Experience in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems
- Good experience of developing and integrating APIs
- Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system (mysql)
- Understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tool (git)
- Good problem-solving skills
• Exposure to Cloud
• Versatile in choosing appropriate tools and frameworks for the Core and advance java development procedures.
• Good in Spring Boot and latest java methodologies to suggest best practices and proven solutions to the business.
• Expert in service oriented solutions and micro services architecture (REST). Should have been a part of monolithic to micro services rearchitecture.
• Exposure towards No-Sql databases such as Cassandra or Mongo DB.












