
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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This is a fully remote opportunity
About Us:
We at Ascendeum provide Data and AdTech strategy consultation to businesses worldwide. We started our journey with private funding and has been operating profitably since 2015. We are a lean team of 50+ highly productive and smart people spread across various parts of India who have been consistently delivering intelligent solutions that enable enterprise-level websites and apps to maximize their digital advertising returns.
Job Details:
We are looking for an analytical, results-driven Back-end Engineer who holds a passion to troubleshoot and improve current back-end applications and processes. The Back- end Developer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.
Job Responsibilities:
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
- Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
- Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team
- members.
- Taking lead on projects, as needed.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
- Solid experience specializing in developing and managing back-end systems for enterprise-grade applications.
- Strong command on Python and databases such as MySQL.
- Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming
- techniques and tools.
- Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
- Excellent project and time management skills.
- Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently or with a group.

Job Description:
We are looking for a passionate Backend developer with a focus on building maintainable and scalable systems. The developer will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s backend platforms. You will be closely working with Product Managers and Frontend developers to gather requirements and implement features. As a senior developer in the Team, you will be taking ownership of services/systems and be a mentor to other developers in the team.
Responsibilities:
● Own and drive the development of new features
● Lead design and development of the Jodo backend platform
● Troubleshoot production defects and performance issues
● Write reusable code/modules
● Optimize for speed of development/delivery
● Collaborate with frontend developers for integration
● Identify opportunities for automation
● Make cloud(AWS) infrastructure/services scalable and secure
Qualifications:
● 5+ years of proven experience as a Backend developer
● Experience in working with distributed systems
● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack
● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases
● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus
● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools
● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services
● Champion code quality and drive best practices
● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements
● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership
● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have
• Experience in the financial domain preferred.
• Hands-on developer in Core Java with an excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
• Experience with frameworks like Spring, Restful Webservices, Queuing systems, Angular, and Python is highly desired.
• Deep understanding of several cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google etc.
• Hands-on experience developing CI/CD pipelines for continuous development and integration.
• Deep knowledge and experience of Java/J2EE and servers like Tomcat.
document, build, and deploy RESTful JSON APIs with continuous uptime and minimal latency.
Roles and Responsibilities:
-Building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
Expert level understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
Expert level understanding of Javascript concepts on callbacks and closures
Experience with Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, and Firebase Realtime database
Experience with AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Lambda,
API Gateway, SQS, etc
Understanding of patterns and techniques for building scalable back-end
infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization
schemes.
Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with
millisecond response times
Experience working in a collaborative team environment
Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
Willingness to learn and pick up new technology along with patience to mentor.
NOTE- Candidates only from PRODUCT BASED companies will be preferred. Location is Mumbai and its Work from Office.


Python API DeveloperJD:
Experience: 4-6 Yrs
Notice Period: 10-20 days or within 1 month
>> Develop and maintain various security software products with queues, caching & database management.
>> Hands-on experience in Coding in Python is required along with Knowledge about Data Structures and object-oriented programming, Algorithms.
>> Extensive experience in developing asynchronous systems.
>> Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
>> Implementation of security and data protection.
>> Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation
Mandatory Skills:
- Python
- Flask/Django
- API
- You will be working on Designing the Database, writing low latency microservice architecture in node js, express js.
- If you have basic knowledge of reactjs that would be plus for you as well as us.


What we are looking for
- At-least 3 years of experience of development on backend applications. Full stack experience is a cherry on the top!
- Experience / knowledge of designing robust systems, maintaining & scaling them
- Experience with usage of NoSQL databases like MongoDB & with SQL and RDBMS Systems
- Experience of creating applications with any of the popular frameworks in Python, Java, GoLang, Node
- Experience with JS frontend frameworks like React, Angular, Vue etc is a big plus
- Well versed with versioning systems like git
- Understanding of rest API implementation
Some of the responsibilties you will be taking up are following
- Working on creating performant and fault tolerant systems which are scalable
- Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable codebase
- Effectively work with product to gather requirements, gain deep understanding of use cases and business needs, and translate into design and implementation.
- Maintain code integrity and organization.
- Manage basic devops related to CI/CD
- Creating secure systems
- Lead other junior developers
- Define optimal and minimal architecture to achieve product requirements
● Build new features to allow for rapid product experimentation to power web and
android applications, implementing features in an efficient way
● Incrementally adapt an existing Node.js monolith for scalability and very fast growth
● Deliver within project timelines through diligent planning and attention to detail.
● Keep key stakeholders informed about progress and problems; avoid surprises.
● Identify and report performance bottlenecks wherever feasible
● Follow testing and documentation best practices for the services developed.
● Work in a dynamic and collaborative culture ensuring good teamwork and
communication with remote team members when needed
Requirements
● 2 or more years of backend development experience
● At least 1 year of experience with Node.js frameworks like Express, Koa, Sail etc.
● Strong problem-solving skills. Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
● Solid understanding design patterns and OOP concepts; familiarity with
object-oriented JS (asynchronous code, events loop etc) is highly preferable
● Strong hands-on exp of relational DBMS concepts with PostgreSQL / other SQL DBs
● Ability to quickly design and implement optimized solutions for feature requirements
● Good understanding of the fundamental design principles for a scalable application
● Strong handle over Git, following best practices to facilitate collaboration
Nice to haves
● Experience working with apps in a microservices architecture
● Familiarity with caching solutions like Redis, Memcached etc
● Knowledge of testing best practices and concepts of test-driven development and
experience with unit testing frameworks in any of the major programming languages
● Familiarity with documentation tools and generators for Node.js applications
- 3+ to 6 years of hands-on coding experience in Java preferably Version 8
- Building RESTFUL services using Spring boot, Spring WS, etc
- Hands on experience in Microservices
- Data-Layer Development: MySQL, NoSQL, ORM


