Senior Python Developer

Job Title: Python Developer - Django (Full Time)

Location: Gurgaon, Onsite

Interview: Virtual Interview

Experience Required: 3+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled Python Developer with hands-on experience in building scalable backend systems. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python, Django, distributed task queues using Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, and experience working with event streaming platforms like Kafka.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python and Django.
• Implement and optimize task queues using Celery with Redis/RabbitMQ as brokers.
• Develop and integrate event-driven systems using Apache Kafka.
• Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Build RESTful APIs and integrate with external services.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and security of applications.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, DevOps, and product teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in production and staging environments.

Required Skills & Experience

• 2+ years of professional experience in Python backend development.
• Strong knowledge of Django Framework.
• Hands-on experience with Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.
• Good understanding of REST API design principles.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Familiarity with version control (Git) and Agile development.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software
• Delivering high quality and well-structured code
• Manage individual project priorities and deadlines
• Participate in enhancing tools and processes
• Participate in production observance and technical incident management
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to keep up in a fast-paced environment

• Strong data structure concepts
• Great problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of at least one or more of Java / JavaScript / C / C++ / Golang / Python
• Exposure to RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases
• Working knowledge of GitHub, CI/CD, Devops

• Any cloud exposure like AWS, GCP or Azure
• Hands-on experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes etc

Elocity is a cleantech start-up striving to make the world a better place through technology innovations. We are building a global infrastructure for making the transition to electric vehicles viable, affordable, and sustainable by working closely with the utilities, governments, and public.

Headquartered out of Canada, we are a team of highly specialized domain experts and problem solvers enabling utilities, public and private sector entities to successfully manage the demands of electric vehicle charging and its infrastructure needs to pave the way for electromobility in future.

To know more visit https://elocitytech.com/

Responsibilities:

• Determines technical feasibility of features or solutions by evaluating problem, customer requirements, possible solutions and technology requirements.
• Exercises judgement in prioritizing tasks and selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Create low-level design of modules of a software application through proper documentation and
• diagrams.
• Develops software solutions by studying requirements, clarifying customer/user needs, analysing data
• and processes and following established software development practices and processes.
• Develops proof of concepts for technical evaluation and early customer feedback
• Updates and shares knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming
• techniques, and computing technology; reading professional publications
• Networks with internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
• Skills:
• Good command in JavaScript/TypeScript. Knowledge of Java/Python will be a plus.
• Experience in Debugging/troubleshooting TypeScript code.
• Experience in API development (REST/GraphQL etc)
• Experience in development of Web and Mobile(android/iOS) applications
• Exposure of Parallel and Asynchronous programming
• Experience in writing Unit tests (Jest or any similar framework)
• Should be proficient in relational Database concepts (Postgres etc.)
• Knowledge of Non-relational Databases would be a plus.
• Good Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming Concepts.
• Good Understanding of Design Patterns.
• Good command of Data structures, Algorithms and Complexity.
• Good at problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with Source Code Versioning systems (Git etc)
• Understanding of Micro services Architecture would be a plus 

Senior Web Backend Developer

 Company Overview:

It is a US based startup founded in 2018 to build an edge data platform for the autonomous world.Rich data in large volumes is getting collected at the edge (outside a data center) in use cases like autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, satellite imagery, smart retail, smart agriculture etc.These datasets are characterized by being unstructured (images/videos), large size (Petabytes per month), distributed (across edge, on-prem and cloud) and form the input for training AI models to get to higher degrees of automation. It is engaged with building products that solve these unique challenges and be at the forefront of this edge data revolution.

The company is backed by prominent VCs and has it’s entire software engineering team based out of India and provides ample opportunities for from-scratch design and development.

Role:

This role is an individual contributor role with key responsibilities in developing web server backends for Akridata management plane software that provides a ‘single pane of glass’ for users to manage assets, specify and monitor large volume data pipelines at scale involving 10s of petabytes of data.

This role involves:

1. Working with tech leads and the rest of the team on the feature design activities and picking appropriate tools and techniques for implementation.
2. Be a hands-on developer able to independently make correct implement choices, follow sound development practices to ensure an enterprise grade application.
3. Guide and mentor junior team members.

 What we are looking for:

1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science with strong CS fundamentals and problem-solving.
2. 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development with 3+ years on web backend development.
3. A good understanding of backend application interactions with relational databases like MySQL, Postgres etc
4. Knowledge of web server development frameworks preferably on Python.
5. Enthusiastic to work in a dynamic, fast paced startup environment.

Good to have:

1. Hands-on experience with designing database schema and implementing and debugging SQL queries for optimal performance for large datasets
2. Experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
3. Experience with working on a product from early stages of it’s development typically in a startup environment.

Here a video that explains our product journey:

https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21">https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21

This is fully a remote role, but the employer needs to fly down to the office in Kolkata for 5–6 days every month. Plane tickets and accommodation will be reimbursed by the company.

Experience: 9 to 16 Yrs

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 days

Job Description:

- The Lead Engineer is responsible for deriving the technical architecture, detailed design, implementation, Performance, and Scalability of the developed system.

- The individual should be capable of single-handedly understanding the requirement, liaison with the product owner and external teams; produce the technical output required.

- Strong Leadership skills to contradict, produce a new design to current trends is required.

- Should be an avid technology enthusiast with strong views on technical architecture.

Technical Skills:

1) Strong Python and Mongo DB is mandatory

2) Web Application Architecture - One Large Project Experience of Development & Maintenance

3) Knowledge in one or more frameworks like WSGI(uwsgi), Django, Flask, Web Application development

4) Exposure to Databases like MongoDB, BigQuery, Elastic Search, Redis, etc.,

5) Knowledge of Code Quality Process and Discipline (Git, Jenkins, etc)

Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Test cases should be upto the mark
• Performance tuning knowledge is a must. Experience is an added advantage.
• In Backend – fundamentals of all languages is a must• Good hands-on software development experience with proven working experience
in Python development
• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such
as Django, Flask)
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process
architecture
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and
CSS3
• Understanding of memory model/GC from performance point of view.