Senior Python Developer

Sr. Backend Engineer - (Django & Python)

Must have Crypto/Blockchain Experience.

CoinCROWD is an innovative Fintech company. We offer a crypto platform for seamless payments, Crypto Vouchers, crypto trading, portfolio management, real time market data, breaking news and powerful analytics.

Website: https://coincrowd.com/

Domain : Finance, Blockchain, Crypto

Role : Permanent full time Employment

Job Location : Work from Home / Remote

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 backend with third party APIs
• 100% Hands on role
•  Make design decisions that contribute to maintainable systems
• Adapt to rapidly evolving requirements and changing priorities and drive the team accordingly Responsible to drive and support e-commerce project activities and ensure marketplace implementation, deepen customer engagement, satisfaction, and user engagement
• Reverse engineer for debugging errors in code and ensuring quality control in the process.
• Continually drive products towards a meaningful balance between user needs, business objectives and technical feasibility
• Documentation and reference preparation for users by writing operating instructions including changes and revisions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a reputed University
• 5+ years of experience with at-least 2-3 years working in the Finance domain is Plus.
• Django , Django Rest Framework, Python 3, Mysql, Elasticsearch, websockets, javascript, JIRA, Gitlab, Rest API, GCP or AWS
• Finance, Social Analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skill with proven experience troubleshooting and fixing production bugs
• 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.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with remote teams

What We Offer:

In recognition of your valuable contributions, you will receive an equity-based compensation package. Join our dynamic and innovative team in the rapidly evolving fintech industry and play a key role in shaping the future of Coincrowd's success.

About Us: Hey there! We’re Cambridge Wealth, part of Baker Street Fintech Pvt Ltd, and we’re shaking things up in the wealth and mutual fund distribution world. We've got some cool awards from BSE Star and top mutual fund houses, and we work with UHNI/HNI/NRI clients, including top-notch professionals. We're a fintech startup building a platform that blends cutting-edge tech with a personal touch. Our culture is all about ownership and excellence, led by a team with a history of delivering award-winning digital experiences.

What You’ll Do:

As a Back End Developer Trainee, you’ll be a part of the backbone of our tech team, making sure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes. You’ll be working with Python, Hasura, Jenkins, Rest APIs, Zoho CRM, and AWS services including RDS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateways, SNS, and EC2 to build and maintain the core functionalities of our platform.

Your Responsibilities:

• Develop and Maintain: Write clean, scalable code using Python and ensure our systems run efficiently.
• Integrate Systems: Use Hasura and Rest APIs to integrate various services and ensure seamless data flow.
• Automation: Implement Jenkins for continuous integration and deployment, making our development process as smooth as possible.
• AWS Services: Utilize AWS services like RDS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateways, SNS, and EC2 to enhance our platform’s capabilities.
• CRM Management: Work with Zoho CRM to streamline our customer relationship management processes.
• Collaborate: Team up with front-end developers, designers, and product managers to create a cohesive product.
• Troubleshoot: Identify and fix bugs or performance issues, ensuring a smooth user experience.
• Documentation: Keep comprehensive records of your code, integrations, and processes.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience with Hasura and building/integrating Rest APIs.
• Familiarity with Jenkins for CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with Zoho CRM.
• Proficiency with AWS services (RDS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateways, SNS, EC2).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Great communication skills and a team player mindset.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in the fintech industry.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Knowledge of financial regulations.

Is This You?

• You have 0-1.5 years of experience or a keen interest in fintech startups.
• You’re excited about building from the ground up in a startup environment.
• You thrive in an unstructured, small-team setting where you take the initiative.
• You’re aiming for a role with growth potential to a founding team position.
• You’re a self-starter who takes ownership of tasks and drives them to completion.

Compensation: Competitive

Location: Full-time, on-site at our Prabhat Road, Pune HQ.

Our Hiring Process:

1. Apply and answer a few quick questions (5 min).
2. Online Assessment Test (1.2 hour).
3. Recruiter screening phone interview (20 min).
4. Skills assessment take-home challenge.
5. Technical interview (30 min, discuss submitted assignment).
6. Founder’s interview (30 min).
7. Offer and reference/background check.

Ready to shape the future of fintech with us? Apply now and be part of our exciting journey!

You can speed-track your application by completing the online test below:

https://app.testgorilla.com/s/5u2jbv7w

We're looking for someone to join a team dedicated to building performant APIs and backend services that deal with large volumes of data for the company's flagship, global consumer product. Small, high-impact teams require conscious planning and decision-making when it comes to design, architecture, and product features. So, it's essential that you enjoy working in such an environment.

We're a team that cares about simplicity and being able to build reliable, deterministic systems and platforms. Hence, our choice of tooling is usually battle-tested reliable software with a robust test suite.

How we work

1. You won't deal with the hustle culture. We're focused on building well-thought-out, stable and reliable software and we try our best to ensure everyone understands the big picture and the immediate goals.
2. We work a solid 6-8 hour days and don't slave away 24/7.
3. We're a remote engineering team. This makes effective communication extremely important. Our teams have benefitted greatly from good written communication. This includes everything from the product specification to the API spec. We spend a lot of time writing READMEs. As a result our engineers work with greater clarity and planning.
4. We deploy several times a day and rely on a good test suite to ensure we're not making life hard for our colleagues.
5. We don't expect anyone to know everything, but we are curious and learn along the way.
6. We learn about the fitness space and what it means to really be fit and not just Instagram fit.

The Python Backend Engineer position may be a good fit for you if:

1. You have 3 (or more) years of experience building and maintaining cloud applications.
2. You have built APIs with Python, Flask, Django or FastAPI before.
3. You have experience working with relational databases like PostgresSQL or MySQL and have spent time writing SQL queries for large datasets.
4. Experience in writing Unit tests with pytest.
5. You have worked with Docker, docker-compose.
6. Familiarity with the AWS ECS stack.

We want you to care about

1. Good object oriented design
2. Performant APIs
3. Analysing why queries are slow and how to go about improving them.
4. Understanding DNS, Load balancing, Caching and Hashing.
5. Customer data and privacy.

Our API Stack services use:

1. Python 3.8+, Typescript
2. FastAPI, Flask, HapiJs
3. PostgresSQL, MySQL
4. Redis
5. Celery
6. Pytest, Jest for unit testing.
7. Gitlab CI/CD
8. Amazon ECS container services

• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Own code for the products with responsibilities including but not limited to designing, developing, testing, maintenance of products.
• Building RESTful services and do DevOps.
• Talking to customers and business teams to suggest improvement areas in product flows.
• Create peer learnings for team members and build context for new teammates
• Help with building the company's tech team and iterating on the hiring framework.
• Provide regular feedback to your team (peers and managers) to ensure continuous improvement.
• Keeping abreast with the latest technologies and working on your skills regularly.

Skills & Requirements

• Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.
• At least 1-8 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Node.js(Node.js preferred).
• Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture.
• Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics
• Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.
• Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Have empathy for the users you build for

Good to have

• Experience in the fintech industry
• Experience leading design and implementation of robust and secure web services

• Building scalable web applications
• Integrating UI elements with server-side
• Handling Security and Data Protection
• Integrating front- end with SQL and NoSQL databases and ensuring its consistency
• Building reusable code and libraries
• Optimizing the code to improve its quality and efficiency

• 2+ yrs of Backend development experience
• You have excellent programming skills in python, ORM libraries and Django
• You have experience inbuilt tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Rundeck
• You have experience in cross-browser/cross-platform front-end development with HTML/CSS/Javascript in Angular or similar frameworks
• You are an expert in SQL (Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySql, or similar) and NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• You design, build and test RESTful web services.
• You have experience with Apache HTTP, NGINX, Tomcat or Jetty.

Company Introduction –

• Information Security & Data Analytics Series A funded company.
• Working in cutting edge technologies - Using AI for predictive intelligence and Facial Biometrics.
• Among Top 5 Cyber excellence companies globally (Holger Schulze awards)
• Bronze award for best startup of the year (Indian Express IT awards), only cyber Security Company in top 3.
• More than 100+ clients in India.

Job Description:-

Job Title: Python Developer

Key Requirements:-

• Mine data from structured and unstructured data sources.
• Extract data (text, images, and videos) from multiple documents in different formats.
• Extract information and intelligence from data.
• Extract data based on regular expressions.
• Collect data from structured RDBMS databases.
• Work closely with Project/Business/Research teams to provide mined data/intelligence for analysis.
• Should have strong exposure to core python skills like multiprocessing, multithreading, file handling, data structure like JSON, Data frames, and User Defined Data structure.
• Should have excellent knowledge of classes, file handling, memory manipulations.
• Strong Knowledge in Python.
• Strong exposure to frond end languages like CSS, JavaScript, Ajax etc.
• Should have exposure to requests, Frontera, scarpy-cluster, elastic-search, distributed computing tools like Kafka, Hbase, Redis, Zookeeper, restAPI.
• Should be familiar with *nix development environment.
• Knowledge of Django will be added advantage.
• Excellent knowledge on Web Crawling/Web scraping.
• Should have used scraping modules like Selenium, Scrapy, and Beautiful soup.
• Experience with text processing.
• Basics of databases. Good troubleshooting and debugging skills.

 
Education

   B.Tech, MCA, Computer Engineering