
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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- Strong experience in Python (5+ years).
- Hands-on experience with any database (SQL or NoSQL).
- Experience with frameworks like Flask, FastAPI, or Django.
- Knowledge of ORMs, API development, and unit testing
Person should have strong knowledge in -
1. Core Java,
2. JSP
3. Spring Framework,
4. Spring Boot,
5. SOAP and REST Webservices
6. Application Security.
Person should have 4 to 6 Years of work experience in Java and the above-mentioned related technology.
Person should have good Oracle Database knowledge and have good communication skills.
Having work experience in BFSI domain will added advantage
Person needs to work from Mumbai location and also available to join the office
Job Description
Title:- Backend Developer
About us:-
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Responsibilities :-
We are looking for a Python(Django) Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code. Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications. Expert in Python, with good knowledge of Python web framework Django. Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
Skills:- Python, Django, Websockets, storage systems
As a Backend Developer, you will work on the latest and greatest in high performance
web development, data science, community development and mobile technologies.
What you will do:
- Playing a part in defining software architectures – collaborate with leads to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity, uncover potential risks to successful implementation, and learn the applications’ capabilities.
- Implementing solutions as per technical design for new features and changes to existing components.
- Participating in the full development lifecycle of new functionality and enhancements to existing applications.
- Committing to producing high quality, highly performing and robust software within agreed time estimates and to agreed quality standards.
- Managing all stakeholder expectations.
- Working alongside global teams.
- Taking responsibility for successful delivery.
- Being able to work in a fast paced Agile/SCRUM environment.
- Following coding standards, building appropriate unit tests, integrating tests and deployment scripts.
- Assisting in defining software architectures – Collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of opportunities.
- Translating designs and style guides provided by the Design team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance.
- Contributing to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies.
What you need to have:
- Ability to fluently code in Java Spring or similar J2EE frameworks.
- Solid knowledge of application deployment in AWS cloud, Kubernetes, Docker.
- Ability to code in ReactJS or similar Javascript frameworks.
- Proven experience with responsive design, fullstack web development, consumption/creation of RESTful APIs.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related engineering field w/experience in software development.
- 3-7 years of experience developing customer facing web applications.
- 3-7 years of experience in Java Spring or similar J2EE frameworks.
- 3-7 years of experience in front-end development using JavaScript, knowledge of various JavaScript libraries and micro frameworks (React, Angular, Backbone), HTML and CSS.
- 3-7 years of experience coding using object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming, architecture and design patterns.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API principles.
- Strong understanding of security best practices.
- Strong experience with unit testing and end-to-end testing.
- Knowledge of : Programming languages Java 8, J2EE, Node.js, Design Patterns, HTML, CSS, JavaScript Web and cloud Technologies RESTful web services, Cloud functions, Amazon Web Services, SEO/ Sitemap, Serverless
- architecture, JSON Database Management MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Firebase realtime database, Hibernate, Liquibase, Percona, Redis, Memcached Frameworks, Libraries and Tools Dropwizard, Jersey,
- Expressjs, RabbitMQ Web / Application Server Nginx Other Tools and Utilities Eclipse, VS Code, Postman, Git, Gradle, Maven, Imagemagick, Jmeter Operating Systems Linux, Windows.
- Experience in implementing Material Design UI and UX for customer centric frontend.
Minimum 5-7years of professional experience building web-applications
Strong experience in backend development
Strong experience in AI/Machine Learning development, Data Analysis/Processing
Experience in creating robust and secure REST APIs
Hands-on exposure to RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB etc.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, Node/JavaScript
Solid familiarity working with cloud and related technologies, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud environments
Ability to do very quick research in unknown technologies
Startup mindset, comfort with chaos and multi-tasking ability
Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms
An eye for writing performance optimum code in any tool set
1 Bachelor’s / Masters’ degree from a reputed university
2 Technical certifications in Java is a good to have. Other programming certifications and
experience e.g., Python or C# is a plus.
3 Years of experience: 4-7 years for Senior Developer and 0-3 years for Developer
Technical Competencies
1 Hands on experience in writing software applications, in particular server side and backend
applications. Web development expertise is a plus.
2 Software development expertise
• Server technologies – Java based application development. Familiarity with various
Java based development frameworks. Spring development experience is a plus.
• Database technologies - Knowledge and familiarity with SQL. Experience with MySQL
as well as NoSQL databases such as MongoDB is a plus.
• Cloud technologies – Experience in building applications on cloud platforms,
especially on MS Azure, including familiarity with Cloud APIs, is a plus.
• Web technologies – Experience building web applications with JavaScript, CSS,
HTML, and expertise with frameworks such as Angular, Express, Node and others
3 Experience in agile software development and development in sprints
Perks
- Best hardware and software to help you get the job done in the best way possible
- Remote office allowance to support you regardless of where you work
- Learning and development allowance to help you grow your career
- Flexible leave policy to give you more control over your time.
- Health insurance for your family and you to keep you well.
Required experience and skills
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Bonus: Masters degree.9+ years of total full-time work experience, preferably shipping SaaS applications.
- Startup experience strongly desired.
- Played a pivotal role in scaling a company and led teams in an agile environment where iteration has led to perfection.
- Proven track record of on time project deliveries with balanced calls on technical designs and tech debt.
- Expert proficiency in:
- 1. Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Mysql, Linux, Git, AWS, CI/CD, NewRelic.
- 2. broad range of internet technologies and applications.
- 3. interacting, building, and improving the performance of systems end-to-end.
- 4. architecting/designing complex systems
- Strong collaborator and thought partner to Product team.Driven by outcomes more than output.
- Have led projects with small, dynamic, and fast-paced teams (3-5 engineers), with great flexility and adaptability on large projects, delegating working effectively.
- Viewed by the team as their evangelist, role model and bar raiser.
- Past teams and co-workers attest to your prowess & agility in building great products, and driving sound technical decision making.Mentored engineers within and outside own team.
- High on EQ, humility, curiosity and self drive.
Responsibilities
We use a rubric / career ladder as a framework to help our engineers grow in their careers. Please refer to the SDE IV section in the rubric (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z_51E1mZ3qf0MBuAyfHjKE1HN6h_yghAx2WMaB1z-Ms/edit?usp=sharing">click to view) to understand our expectations on your role and responsibilities.
Your responsibilities include:
- Leading completion and delivery of multiple concurrent projects with clear deliverable timelines and milestones
- Providing key input and guidance in helping to solve our most difficult and challenging issues, and providing recommendations for preventing or mitigating the effects of the issues in the future
- Identifying inconsistencies caused by lack of best practices and patterns, and proactively collaborate with the team to gather input to define and rollout new best practices
- Mentoring other engineers on increasing their impact both within and outside of their team, including identifying opportunities for them to do so
- Participate in shaping longer term technical and architectural goals in consideration of product/company strategy, organizational growth, scalability, security, and other factors
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