Senior Python Developer

Requirements

• 3+ years work experience with production-grade python. Contribution to open source repos is preferred
• Experience writing concurrent and distributed programs, AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, Spark is preferred.
• Experience with one relational & 1 non-relational DB is preferred
• Prior work in the ML domain will be a big boost

What You’ll Do

• Help realize the product vision: Production-ready machine learning models with monitoring within moments, not months.
• Help companies deploy their machine learning models at scale across a wide range of use-cases and sectors.
• Build integrations with other platforms to make it easy for our customers to use our product without changing their workflow.
• Write maintainable, scalable performant python code
• Building gRPC, rest API servers
• Working with Thrift, Protobufs, etc.

FirstFiling is a FinTech startup that is managed, operated, and driven by Chartered Accountants, Company secretaries, IT engineers, and Lawyers. We provide registration and financial compliance services to businesses and individuals across India.

Our aim is to simplify the lives of people by helping individuals and businesses with mandatory compliances, filings, and statutory requirements while promoting financial literacy among the masses. 

 

Role: Backend Developer (2 openings)

Technology Profile-

The candidate must have experience in the following technologies (the more the better):

Backend:

Languages and Frameworks: PHP, NodeJS, Python, etc.

Database: MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Neo4j, etc.

Extra: OAuth, Firebase

 

Requirements:

• Ability to reuse components
• Proven experience in working with Git and Github 
• Creating and consuming a RESTful API
• You must have clear concepts of client-server architecture
• Familiarity with MVC (Model-View-Controller) design patterns
• Working experience with NoSQL and relational databases
• Understanding of OOP concepts

 

Furthermore, the candidate must have built or published any web app or project through which they can demonstrate their experience and knowledge of the aforementioned technologies and requirements. 

Job Description:

Key Responsibility Areas:	·         Design, build and deliver Enterprise software solutions. ·         Write code with standards and conventions and follow best practices. ·         Encourage and lead innovation and solid lifecycle processes. ·         Collaborate with development teams on work definition, estimation and prioritization ·         Lead and grow as a professional software engineer. ·         Full ownership of product deliveries and mentoring junior team members. ·         Preparing curriculum to train junior developers for Java Web Development ·         Strong client interactions to provide excellent Quality of Service. ·         Owning the code base and making sure all code is reviewed and is of very high quality. ·         Write and modify coding conventions and standards documents for all development
Required Skills:	Technologies/Frameworks –  ·         Core Java, J2EE,  ·         Spring Core and Spring MVC, Sprint Boot, Spring Security,  ·         JDBC, Hibernate, RESTful APIs, SOAP WebServices ·         Knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3, Angular is added advantage ·         Junit or Mockito frameworks ·         Maven, Git ·         Knowledge Data Structures,  ·         SQL, MySQL  ·         Designing relational database schemas                                                                                                                                                     ·         Basics of AWS, Cloud, Microservices   Must have strong knowledge and experience in Agile based software development methodologies. Knowledge of an Agile tool like Jira. Strong knowledge of working in Integrations of 3rd party APIs and creating the new APIs. Must have good knowledge of creating Flow diagrams, UMLs and all the required documentations. Must have Team Lead exposure  Domain Preference ·         BFSI, FinTech
Qualification	B.E., B.Tech. from reputed institutes with good academic record

 

#Responsibilities:

-Design and build advanced applications from scratch keeping scalability and performance in mind.

-You’ll be working on our P2P and cryptocurrency exchange platforms to build more features around it.

-Collaborating with various stakeholders to determine software requirements

being a financial product, you’ll be involved in building tools to make our user’s data more secure.

-You will be working on blockchain technologies

-You will help maintain code quality and organization.

-Should be able to work with juniors; help and guide them as needed.

-We expect you to learn about new software technologies, and proactively look for ways to make them better.

#You'll be a good fit if:

-You’ve got 3+ years of development experience and an expert in the Ruby and Rails framework.

-You’re a Hands-on expert who can code, architect/design systems, and understand building highly available and scalable microservices on cloud infrastructure.

-You have a very good understanding of Containers and Container Orchestration Technology such as Docker / Kubernetes and AWS Cloud Platform exposure.

-You’ve hands-on experience in using DevOps tools such as Newrelic, Jenkins, Grafana, ELK, etc

-You’re an expert in writing background tasks, test-driven development.

-You enjoy collaborating with the front-end developers, DevOps, and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.

-You’re committed to quality, and your code solves more problems than it creates ;)

Technology Vision

The B2B manufacturing industry has a lack of digitisation globally. NowPurchase is building layers of technology to help improve the productivity and profits of the manufacturer. For this we are building the OS (Operating System) that will seamlessly connect factory equipment such as furnaces and spectrometers to our software systems that provide real time optimisations.

The end-game is to use this interconnected system to do great production planning and autonomous procurement of their raw materials. The Heart of NowPurchase will be a marketplace consisting of these smart factories and raw material suppliers.

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.

Role Description

NowPurchase is looking to add an immensely talented Senior Backend Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet the above vision.

- Expect to build a lot of services and APIs in the cloud and stand-alone IoT devices to serve both the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises.
- Expect designing algorithms that model the metallurgy of the manufacturing processes as well as using tools such as linear programming, machine learning etc.
- You need to lead the backend team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and is constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.

What are the expectations from this role?

- Deliver high quality modular code deployed to serve web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets. This would include algorithms for real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
- You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
- Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
- Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
- Collaborate on the end to end design and implementation of the platform, including data modeling, systems architecture, data security, access controls, architecture, user experience, deployment, automation, and monitoring.
- Maintain a high level of data integrity, quality and security checks.
- Develop data pipelines and RESTful services that are distributed, robust and highly performant.
- Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.

Qualifications and Experience

- 4+ years of demonstrated software engineering experience in an agile environment designing, architecting and implementing robust scalable systems preferably for modern SaaS application
- 1+ years of technical leadership experience
- Experience with modern server-side programming languages such as Python, Scala, Go. Experience with web frameworks such as Django Rest Framework, Flask.
- Experience with architecting asynchronous services with design patters leveraging PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery for storage and multi-tenant servers over AWS Elastic BeanStalk.

Compensation & Benefits

- **Cash Compensation:** As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
- **ESOPs:** 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
- **Medical Insurance:** Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
- **Generous leave structure and WFHs** including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
- **Complete Relocation Expenses:** We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.

**Possible Growth path**

Senior Backend End Engineer > Engineering Manager > VP of Engineering

**Tech Stack**

- React/Redux
- Python/Django/Celery
- Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
- PostgreSQL/Redis/S3

## **Hiring Process**

1. Screening of applicants & initial telephonic call with Manager -HR
2. F2F/Video Interview with Engineering Manager and Cofounder CTO
3. Take home written assessment
4. F2F/Video Interview with Cofounder CEO
5. Email communication on final feedback

The end to end process shall take less than 10 days. We pride ourselves on being transparent & moving fast.

*Candidates who accept an offer may join within 1 hour, 1 week or up to 45days of signing - though, we have a preference for as short a gap period between signing and joining since we're at the most exciting part of our journey - laying the foundation for the NowPurchase platform!*

Description Firm knowledge of PHP, MySql, Javascript, Html, CSS. Fair understanding of Bootstraps. Strong problem solving and analysis ability. Good communication skills, able to approach task analytically.

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JOB PROFILE: BACKEND DEVELOPER (FULL-TIME JOB)
REQUIREMENTS:
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or framework like Django (Python).
• Proficient in MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Proficient understanding of Git & Github.
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers,
and environments.
• A solid understanding of how Web Apps work including security and session
management.
• Adequate knowledge of relational database systems and OOPconcepts.
• Experience with testing tools like Sentry.
• Ability to learn and research about things you don't know.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Understanding and interpreting the task assigned by Team Lead.
• Getting the assigned work done in the given deadline.
• Giving suggestions to improve our web application and solve business problem.
TENURE: Full-time job
LOCATION: Work from Home
SALARY: Rs. 20000/- to Rs. 25000 (IN HAND)
BENEFITS:
• Certificate of Experience
• Letter of Recommendation