Senior/Lead Software Engineer(Python, Microservices)

Job Description: Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore

WHO WE ARE :

As part of TIFIN's technology division, you will play a critical role in enabling the company's growth by developing highly scalable applications that provide practical solutions to clients in the financial services- domain. You will design, build, test, and maintain scalable and stable-the-shelf applications or custom-built technology solutions to meet business needs.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

• Grow at the Edge: We embrace personal growth by stepping out of our comfort zones to discover our genius zones, driven by self-awareness and integrity. No excuses.
• Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth: Transparency, radical candor, and authenticity define our communication. We challenge ideas, but once decisions are made, we commit fully.
• I Win for Teamwin: We operate within our genius zones, taking ownership of our work and inspiring our team with energy and attitude to win together.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business needs and architectural improvements.
• Review code for quality and implementation of best practices.
• Promote coding, testing, and deployment best practices through hands-on research and demonstration.
• Write testable code that enables extremely high levels of code coverage.
• Ability to review frameworks and design principles toward suitability in the project context.
• Candidates who will demonstrate an ability to identify an opportunity lay out a rational plan for pursuing that opportunity, and see it through to completion.

Requirements:

• Engineering graduate with 3-5 years of experience in software product development.
• Proficient in Python, Django, Pandas, GitHub, and AWS.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Strong Experience in designing REST APIs.
• Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications.
• A clear understanding of software design constructs and their implementation.
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python and multi-process architecture.
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
• Good understanding of Test Driven Development.
• Unit and Integration testing.
• Preferred exposure to the Finance domain.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and ESOP.
• Medical insurance.
• Flexible PTO policy and company-paid holidays.
• Access to our Chief Mindfulness Officer for mindfulness events and 1:1 personal coaching.

Note on Location:

While we have team centers in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and this role is based out of Bangalore

TIFIN is an equal-opportunity workplace, and we value diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any discrimination.

• Should have knowledge in Core PHP and object-oriented programming.
• You will be responsible in developing applications using Laravel/ wordpress/ Codeignitor - preffered (Laravel)
• Responsible for Developing High-Quality Web Applications, Admin dashboards and PHP Scripts, APIs.
• Should be able to Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based php applications on portal plus permiium service platforms
• Need to Identify and fix bugs that are found within code.
• Strong knowledge to Interact with SQL databases.
• Must be Creative problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering business value quickly
• Knowledge of MySQL and ability to write/ Maintain complex queries.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming, Jquery and Javascript
• Should have good communication skills

Roles and Responsibility: 

∙ Develop functional and fast-responsive web applications, using markup languages. ∙ Maintain websites. 

∙ Elaborate mobile-based and web-based features. 

∙ Troubleshoot apps for bugs. 

∙ Fix bugs if necessary and improve usability. 

∙ Improve apps for maximum speed. 

∙ Troubleshoot UI and improve its performance accordingly. 

∙ Employ the latest technology in order to re-built legacy apps. 

∙ Integrate UI elements with server-side ones. 

∙ Detect and fulfill front-end and back-end requirements. 

∙ Perform training and support activities. 

∙ Develop reusable code. 

∙ Write comprehensive manuals, guides, and documents. 

∙ Compile prototype and quality mockups. 

∙ Make sure that high-quality graphic standards are met.

About Climate Connect Digital

Our team is inspired to change the world by making energy more intelligent, greener, and affordable. Established in 2011 in London, UK, and now headquartered in Gurgaon, India. We have become a leading energy-AI software player from unassuming beginnings at the vanguard of accelerating the global energy transition.

In 2020 Renew Power, India's largest renewables developer, acquired Climate Connect. Following ReNew's listing on NASDAQ during summer 2021 Climate Connect has become the technology anchor of a new fully independent subsidiary - Climate Connect Digital. With backing from ReNew as the anchor investor to pursue an ambitious and visionary new strategy for rapid organic and inorganic growth.

Our mission has technology at its core and involves unlocking value through intelligent software, digitalisation, and horizontal integration' across the energy ecosystem. However, the application of computational power and machine learning to the energy sector has yet to be fully leveraged and can create massive value.

How do you fit in

Curious:You love learning about new tools and technologies

Exposure: You have plenty of experience in executing projects successfully. You

have a client-side exposure on project management

Team player: You have no problem working in a team setting. You can effectively

collaborate with people to reach a solution.

Problem solver: You are the person your peers turn to for solving problems.

Talented: You are an expert in database designing.

Honesty: You work diligently and honestly. You have strong moral principles.

Job Responsibilities

You will be working at the epicenter of energy transformation. You will be creating

data-driven software solutions for forecasting and scheduling data in the renewables power

market. Ultimately, through your contribution to the renewable energy revolution, you will be

doing your bit to mitigate the effects of climate change. These are a few things you can look

forward to working on:

Designing and implementing low-latency, high-availability, and performance

applications

Identifying and mitigating security-related threats to the application.

Using your expertise in database designing and application architecture planning for

Core & MVC projects

Debugging browser extensions & server tools

Solving complex technical issues

Ensuring quality projects are delivered within defined timelines

Designing new frameworks, debugging and modifying existing frameworks

Maintaining databases to ensure strong optimization and functionalities

Learning new technologies and how to design and implement Project Architectures

Job Requirements

PHP/Python

MVC Framework Laravel / Python Flask.

AJAX, HTML/HTML5 & CSS/CSS3 JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks(preferably jQuery)

Web services (SOAP, REST)

SQL and NoSQL scripting and databases like MYSQL and Mongo DB administration

Code versioning tools, such as Git

AngularJS / ReactJS

B. E / B. Tech / M. Tech / B. Sc in CS or IT

2-4 years of experience in the field

What's in it for you

We offer competitive salaries based on prevailing market rates. In addition to your introductory package, you can expect to receive the following benefits:

Flexible working hours and leave policy

Learning and development opportunities

Medical insurance/Term insurance, Gratuity benefits over and above the salaries

Access to industry and domain thought leaders.

At Climate Connect, you get a rare opportunity to join an established company at the

early stages of a significant and well-backed global growth push. We are building a remote-first organisation ingrained in the team ethos. We understand its importance for the success of any next-generation technology company. The team includes passionate and self-driven people with unconventional backgrounds, and we're seeking a similar spirit with the right potential.

a. Expert in Core PHP & OOP Concepts

b. Medium in Mysql DB

c. Expert in HTML & JS/Jquery

d. Knowledge on CSS id preferred

e. Experience on any one of the MVC framework is mandatory

What will I be doing? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Leading parts of the product from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product’s execution.
Working with our Sales and frontend team to build products with the goal of delighting and increasing the success of our users.
Architecting, building, testing, and releasing product-facing features.
Contributing to our side projects and free tools for the education industry.

What do I need? 🤓

1-2 years of industry experience in a software engineering role, preferably building a SaaS product. You can demonstrate significant impact that your work has had on the product and/or the team.
Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, PHP, Python, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)
Deep knowledge of SQL Databases
Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch as well as on AWS primitives
Willingness to learn and use new technologies
Extremely data-driven
Ability to debug complex systems

Brownie points 🍰

Using a framework (for example, Laravel, Code Igniter, Django)
Understanding of containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) along with ability to deploy to AWS ECS (or similar tools)

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.

Perks 😍

Flexible vacation
Take a tutorial, on us
Monthly remote meals

Tech stack 🔨

PHP
Laravel
NodeJS
VueJS
Ionic Angular
Digital Ocean
AWS
MySQL

Why Classcard? 🚀

We are still in the early stages of our journey. You will be working closely with our users, acting on both their feedback and what our data says. Things you build here will have tremendous impact on both our business and Classcard as a company.
What happens after I apply? 🤔

1. Quick phone call with a member of our engineering team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Classcard.

2. Video interview:

   Technical discussion with a senior engineer
   Pairing on an interesting problem
   Meet the founders

Role:

• Design and Develop scalable high performance server applications
• Contribute towards scalable Design / Architecture for various modules / complete application
• Deliver high quality, robust, bug free code

Details

• Location – Pune
• Reporting to – CEO
• Team – To be built

This is what you will do

• Interface with the QA teams to ensure that the product meets desired quality standards
• Strong individual contributor who can develops excellent application without much supervision
• Excellent team player who can collaborate with other engineers to ship quality product in timely manner
• Assist Engineers in estimating effort, assigning tasks to engineers and tracking deliverables
• Research on new technologies, libraries and frameworks as per project needs
• Help maintain code quality, follow coding standards and guidelines
• Communicate on assignment progress / completion on a frequent basis

Educational Background:

• Engineering Graduate / Post Graduate Degree holder / MCA

Professional Experience:

• 4 – 7 Years of software development experience using Java/J2EE

Tech Skills

• Have very good hands on experience of Core Java, Spring, Hibernate and related JEE technologies
• Have good understanding of data structure and algorithms
• Good in programming fundamentals
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web technologies
• Basic understanding of RDBMS concepts, preferably using MySQL
• Good understanding of client-server architecture and multi-threading
• Knowledge of Web Services, XML and socket programming is plus
• Have very strong problem-solving skills

Other Skills

• Good listener
• Confident approach
• Strong problem-solving skill
• Highly proficient with MS Office
• Ability to structure processes and lay down the foundation for a department

Personality and attitude traits

• Passionate about work – We like people who like to work, and want their work to mean something
• Self-starter and motivator – We do not believe in monitoring or tracking team members
• Eager and quick to learn – If you are not excited to learn new things, then tech companies are not for you
• Individual contributor – We are a small team, and everyone has hands on contribution
• Start-up savvy