Senior Python Developer (4–6 Years Experience)

Founded by a Harvard Business School and IIT Kharagpur alumna, is revolutionizing what and how students learn in the 21st century. With 1000+ subjects outside the school on which structured thinking and effective communication are developed.

The academy provides children with curated, Harvard-like content that inspires them every day, and exposes them to a wide range of topics, careers, and leaders. Here the student will enhance both the knowledge as well as skills of the 21st century.

Job Details: Full Stack Engineer - FSE - 1

Role Scope:

We are looking for a MEAN/MERN Stack developer to join our Technology team.

As a full-stack developer, you will work closely with our Technical Architectural members to develop microservices that focus on the educational needs of Parents and Students globally.

If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications from scratch, we would like to meet you. Working at Early Steps Academy is one of the best opportunities to get first-hand experience in an early-stage startup, explore different domains, and achieve your career goals.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Strong programming skills in Javascript/Typescript with Object-oriented design

Hands-on expertise in building reusable components and independently publishable packages

Strong experience in HTML, Angular(2+)/React, ExpressJS, MongoDB, NodeJS and CSS frameworks

Practitioner of IaC (AWS), CI/CD, Containerization(Docker), Accessibility, Server Side Rendering, Pre-rendering, Serverless and Agile Ability to adapt quickly to a new direction.

Location - Bangalore

Required Skills 

1) Good experience in AngularJs or Angular 9+ Version 

2) Hand on Node.JS./Express JS 

3) Database : MYSQL/MongoDB 

4) Experience in Java Script, Typescript. 

5)Good experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Jquery 

6) Experience working in an Agile environment. 

7) Good communication skills.

Key Qualifications

1) BS/MS in Computer Science or relevant field and 6+ years of experience in building backend services with

Python 3.7.x using Django >= 2.2.1, Django REST framework >= 3.13.1, Flask >=1.1.2 and relational databases

design and maintenance.

2) At least 4 years of solid experience in working with front-end MVC framework React and caching strategies

(memcached, Redis).

3) Expertise in building microservices-based and cloud-based architectures including development and deployment

in AWS.

4) At least 3 years of experience with Web Application technologies: REST, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, AWS

Lambda, API Gateway and web servers Apache, Nginx.

5) Follows coding best practices to produce tested, scalable, reliable and maintainable code.

6) Hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and releasing large-scale applications.

Responsibilities

1) Understand complex requirements, scope and architect major features and perform API technical design for

junior developers to enhance the product at all layers.

2) Think in terms of future possibility of features, backward compatibility, and application performance.

3) Build cloud-based Python Django software products and implement UI components in React.js framework.

4) Write quality code (with comments, unit tests & documentation), design, implement and manage data pipelines

at enterprise scale with data migration and production data maintenance.

5) Collaborate with different teams to conceptualize, design, and build highly scalable and reliable software

solutions with REST APIs following SDLC best practices and DevOps principles.

6) Work closely with product, project and business teams to translate user feedback and company vision into

technical roadmap.

7) Possess strong product-centric mindset. You should be interested in the way software products are built and

comfortable to be proactive with your ideas and opinions.

 Must Have: BE/BTech/ME/MTech in Computer Science or Information Technology

Our Stack

Back-end: Python, Django REST, MySQL, Celery, Rabbitmq, Sqlalchemy, RDS

Front-end: JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

Ops: Docker, AWS, RDS, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS Route53, AWS cloudwatch

The ideal candidate should be a proactive individual with strong communication skills and a team player. He or she should have experience of at least 5+ years in MEAN stack development.

Should have hands-on experience in the following:

• Hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using MEAN stack and have at
• least 5+ years experience on the same.
• Should have excellent in-depth knowledge of Nodejs and Mongo DB.
• Working knowledge of RESTful web services.
• Working knowledge of Angular js.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good communication skills.
• Experience in working effectively within a team

• Think like a product owner
• Design and build new products and manage their delivery
• Drive culture, learning, and development of team members and of the larger org
• Mentor, motivate & ensure delivery from a small team
• Take ownership and get the job done
• Ensure the quality of deliverables

• 4-7 years of hands-on experience in the design and development of applications using NodeJs, ReactJs, MySQL, etc.
• Good architectural and design skills
• Strong coding, data structures, and algorithms
• An engineering degree preferably, from a top-tier school (or an equivalent experience)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Experience in Elastic Search/ Solr/ Amazon AWS
• Experience building sites to function cross-platform and cross-browser
• The ability to own end-to-end responsibility
• The role will give you an opportunity to work with a cross-functional team from Business, Product, and Design, and lead a team of 4-7 rockstar engineers.

• A team of aces, from top-tier schools and startups, to work with
• A fast-paced, data-driven, and fun work environment
• A huge appetite for new, disruptive, creative, and implementable ideas
• An open work culture

• Competitive salary
• A great working environment with an opportunity to work directly with the founders on very exciting real-life problems
• Opportunity to grow really fast.
• Opportunity to hire a team & mentor them.
• ESOPs

Responsibilities

• Developing user-focused website applications.
• Seeing a project from conception to finished product.
• Working alongside designers and mobile developer.
• Meeting both technical and end-user needs.

Must Haves

• Proficiency in fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS (Including SASS), and JavaScript (Also comfortable with the JS library: jQuery, React or Angular)
• Proficiency in server-side language PHP.
• Comfortable with Database systems (MySQL, SQL), NOSQL (i.e. Mongo dB)
• Strong understanding of how a server works
• VCS (Version control system): Git
• Ensuring the developing application(website) has met the security standards: Front end Back end
• Testing: Experience with unit testing and tools
• WordPress development
• Working with API (REST)
• Evaluating code to ensure it meets industry standards, is valid, is properly structured, and is compatible with browsers, devices (Mobile).
• Experience in Cloud Computing (i.e. AWS, Google Cloud Platform) is a plus.
• Attention to detail
• Creative vision
• Good organizational skills
• Good problem-solving skills
• Patience, a big one
• Identifying problems uncovered by customer feedback and testing, and correcting
• Able to develop ideas and processes and clearly express them

Good to Have

• Comfortable with MVC frameworks (Zend, Laravel)