
Senior Python/Django Developer
at A firm which works with US clients. Permanent WFH.
This person MUST have:
- B.E Computer Science or equivalent
- 5 years experience with the Django framework
- Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL)
- Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
- React.js knowledge would be an added bonus
- Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
- Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
- A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
- Strong communication skills.
Experience:
- Min 5 year experience
- Startup experience is a must.
Location:
- Remote developer
Timings:
- 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone. Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.
Position:
- Full time/Direct
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.

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Requirements:
- Should be a go-getter, ready to shoulder more responsibilities, shows enthusiasm and interest in work.
- Excellent core Python skills including threading, dictionary, OOPS Concept, Data structure, Web service.
- Should have work experience on following stacks/libraries: 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 Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as Angular, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
Experience in both RDBMS(MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HDFS, HIVE etc) or in-memory caching technologies such as ehcache etc is preferable
Responsibilities:
● Design and develop websites and web applications from initial concept, site architecture, and user interface to finished deliverables.
● Write clean, secure, test-driven, easily maintainable and modular codes adhering to the technical standards.
● Database designing and maintenance.
● Create and update reusable code libraries to streamline the development cycle.
● Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
● Collaborate and work with front-end/mobile developers on the backend needs of projects.
● Client communication (verbal/written) as and when required.
Required Skills:
● Previous working experience as a PHP / Laravel developer. Experience in CMS like Drupal and WordPress will be an added advantage.
● Excellent knowledge of the Laravel framework and experience building factories/facades/libraries using abstract classes, interfaces, and traits.
● Good knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL/MS SQL/PostgreSQL), database designing and query optimization techniques.
● Good core knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Bootstrap framework.
● Hands-on experience in RESTful API design and development, including implementing oAuth2.0 for authentication and authorization.
● Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
● Excellent communication (verbal/written) skills.
About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.
Founder & Team
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.
Background
- At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
- Should Have experience leading a team.
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
- Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.
Opportunity
Here are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product.
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs.
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product.
• Develop and maintain all server-side network components
• Ensure optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests
• Collaborate with Frontend Developers on the integration of elements
• Working knowledge of socket programming
• Understand Facebook, Google, Twitter APIs
• Design customer-facing UI and backend services for various business processes
• Develop high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code
• Implement effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions
• Run diagnostic tests, repair defects, and provide technical support
• Document node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as prepare reports
• Recommend and implement improvements to processes and technologies
• Keep informed of advancements in the field of node.js development
• Extracting data from various social media and web via scraping or official API
Profile Requisites
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or similar
• At least 4 years' experience as a node.js developer
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks
• Knowledge of frontend technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3
• Should have extensive experience with MongoDB
• Experience with a caching layer like redis
• Familiarity with Facebook, Google & Twitter APIs
• Familiarity with social media login and extracting data from authentication
• Experience with AWS services like SNS, SQS, EC2 instances, and Lambda
• Experience with Jenkins and Docker
• Familiarity with scraping from web and social media
• Familiarity with creation and working with proxies
• Proficient in unit testing framework like Mocha
• Experience in integrating 3rd party APIs
• Experience with elastic search would be great
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude
• Should be able to think of optimized solutions and scalable solution
● Write clean, maintainable and efficient code
● Design robust, scalable and secure features
● Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
● Follow best practices (test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring and code standards)
● Drive continuous adoption and integration of relevant new technologies into design
Requirements
● 4 to 8 years of experience in developing applications using Ruby on Rails
● Experience in Rails gems like rspec, devise, cancan, active-admin
● Proven work experience in software development
● Experience in writing ReSTful APIs
● Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS and JQuery
● Experience developing highly interactive applications
● A firm grasp of Object Oriented analysis and design
● Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code
● Good knowledge of relational databases
● Working knowledge of NoSQL database
● Experience in using AWS services is a plus.

Kindly do not apply if you have less than 4 Yrs of Experience in Python
Position(6 Months Contract in Gurugram, India) :
Sr. Software Engineer
Experience:
4+ years of relevant exp
Location:
Gurugram, India
(Note: FREE accommodation can be given in Gurgaon, India for the 6 months & 'work from home' is not allowed)
About Company:
The company for which you will be working is an online insurance provider that operates a B2C platform as well as a B2B2C platform. They are working to revolutionize the way insurance is bought in India by not only offering an online platform but also providing every customer a touchpoint with its partners. The company has been a platform for Motor, Health, Travel, & Life Insurance.
Key Competencies:
- A strong technical solutioning sense.
- Excellent experience in writing code using the following technologies: Python and Django.
- Can write elegant and performant SQL queries.
- Understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
- Strong problem-solving, data structures, and algorithm design skills.
- Good understanding of REST APIs and web technologies in general.
- Very good understanding of any RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases.
- Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
- A willingness to learn and choose new technologies with a strong justification for the choices made.
Roles/Responsibilities:
- Be involved in all aspects of development: playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, testing, and deployment.
- Help develop best practices for future development.
- Thinks and implements in the right way instead of cutting corners.
- Conceptualize, Design, and Develop new features in the product.
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications, test & debug programs
- Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application.
- Use technical knowledge and creative thinking to provide the most innovative solutions.
- Optimizing the performance of the components and keeping up to date with the latest industry trends
- Doing effective peer reviews where your peers learn from you every time.
- Be a great team player
If interested, please share your CV with kuldeep[dot]pandey[@]benchkart[dot]com
Must haves
- At least 3 years of professional programming experience in Ruby on Rails.
- Solid fundamentals with software development, systems, troubleshooting, and teamwork
- Strong testing habits, passionate towards unit testing and TDD.
- Good understanding of RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Strong knowledge of git
- Good understanding of data structures
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Good to have
- Experience with Javascript
This position will work on the logistics portion of our eCommerce technology stack.. As a senior developer, the role will involve taking on a larger amount of ownership on the project. This role will involve design as well as do hands on PHP Development as well. The person in this role will need to be able to work with minimal supervision. Additionally, they will need to participate in larger architectural decisions, and perform code reviews.
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE NOT CURRENTLY DOING DEVELOPMENT IN PHP.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain high traffic transactional web applications.
Develop and optimize existing features, as well as prototype and implement new features.
Ability to design and implement elegant and simple software solutions for business problems.
Prototyping with new technologies to evaluate them for inclusion in our technology stack
Improving website performance, availability, resource usage
Contributing to the continual improvement of our development process
Skills & Requirements
Strong PHP and MySql capabililities.
Having worked and developed full PHP applications. You should have a good understanding of OOP and about designing scalable web applications.
Minimum 6+ years of experience in PHP.
Solid understanding of general principles of caching and scaling websites, including configuring and optimizing Redis, Apache, and MySQL.
Analytical thinker, self-motivated and driven to learn new technologies.
A constant desire to improve, learn more, and take things higher producing quality deliverables
SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES ARE EXPECTED TO COMPLETE A PHP CODING TEST TO QUALIFY FOR THE INTERVIEW.
Role: Technical Lead
Location: Mumbai/Kolkata
Years of Experience - 9 to 15 years
Qualifications:
- Required person as .net core, team Management,Good communication,Plus Rest API,AWS Lambda,mySql
- AWS API Gateway .
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
- 9 to 12 yrs years’ experience in technology related roles including relevant work as technical architect.
- Experience working with latest software technologies (.Net core 3.1+, MVC/WCF/Web API, cloud hosted (AWS) , mobile ready software products (Angular 6+/React.js)
- Experience in AWS cloud.
- Experience working with GIT/TFS, CI/CD setups, Application Monitoring, Logging and Analysis tools
- Experience working with Service Oriented Architecture
- Experience working in an Agile-SCRUM environment using tools like Jira or equivalent
- Experience working with international customers (US and UK preferable)
- Experience in customer interaction and ability to present solutions and consult clients on technology solutions.
- Ability to effectively communicate with various levels of employees ranging from entry level to senior leadership.
- Proven strong relationship-building and communication skills with team members and business users. Ability to coach and mentor internal teams and customers.
- Highly motivated with excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation and problem solving skills.
- Self-starter with strong organizational and time management skills, self-directed and able to handle multiple priorities with demanding timeframes.
- Willingness and ability to work flexible hours and with minimal supervision.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestic and occasional international across US and Europe.
- Proficient using standard software, such as MS Office applications, Google Apps, and communication and diagramming/presentation tools.






