Senior Python/Django Full Stack Developer

• BS in CS or EE or equivalent
• Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments
• Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Solid programming skills; preferred experience in Java, and/or Python
• Experience with modern web frameworks, advanced algorithms/data intelligence, public
• cloud platforms and streaming data pipelines
• Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, and delivery
• 5+ years’ experience preferred

Role: Application Architect

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

1. Understand requirements, functional and non-functional requirements, and devise end to end approach and strategy to modernizeapplications
2. Plan, Design, and develop architectures for highly available, scalable, and secure enterprise systems
3. Ideate and drive automation, lead PoVs point of view / PoCs Proof of concept/lead in the development of minimal viable product
4. Identify risks, and issues, and work on a mitigation plan
5. Able to review enterpriseapplicationportfolios and be able to provide application rationalization and modernization strategies
6. Provide functional and/or technical expertise to plan, analyze, define, and support the delivery of future functional and technical capabilities for anapplicationor group of applications.
7. Assist in facilitating impact assessment efforts and in producing and reviewing estimates for work requests.

Technical Experience:

1. Highly experienced withapplicationarchitecture capabilities with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and serverless architectures
2. Understanding of Domain-driven design, Event-drivearchitecture
3. Equipped with in-depth experience in developingapplicationswith either PHP/Python or databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.

Professional Attributes:

1. Candidate should have good communication skills
2. Candidate should have good documentation and presentation skills
3. Candidate should be a team player and must be able to collaborate and network with different teams
4. Highly motivated and should work with minimum supervision and unclear requirements

 

About the Company

Through Bhanzu, we aim to eradicate math phobia and encourage careers in math and STEM fields among learners from across the world. Bhanzu is bridging the gap between dreams and competence, by enabling students to realise their full potential and introduce them to science, coding and AI, through the lens of math.


Responsibilities

● 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

Must haves

● Strong data structure concepts
● Great problem-solving skills
● Strong experience in Python
● Experience in Microservices and Docker
● Exposure to RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases
● Working knowledge of MongoDB/DynamoDB

We are looking for a versatile Backend developer with proficiency in Web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix or Django/Python.
You will get to design, architect and develop complex enterprise software and SaaS web applications leveraging modern web stack.

Roles & Responsibilities
Design & build highly scalable, high performance, responsive web applications.
Take full ownership and responsibility for building, shipping, and maintaining core product features, end to end. Help out in building the backend & front-end infrastructure.
Translation of requirements, designs and wireframes into high quality code. Collaborate closely with designers, engineers, founders and product managers.
Mentor team members and review their work.
You will enjoy this role if you...
Are a geek with a desire to stay ahead of the curve.
Like building beautiful well-architected software products with millions of users.
Work collaboratively as part of a close-knit team of geeks, architects and leads.


Desired Skills & Experience:

2 - 6 years of production experience with modern web frameworks - Ruby on Rails, Phoenix/Elixir and/or Django/Python.
Should have sound experience in developing scalable / distributed SaaS apps
Should have good knowledge and work experience in REST API implementations, JSON format handling, caching, sessions, multi-threading, etc.
Should be comfortable with database schema design and leveraging SQL & NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB)
Experience developing, consuming and transforming internal and 3rd party API's (REST and GraphQL)
Experience with code quality and reusability practices (CI/CD for back-end & front-end repos)
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, design patterns.
Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, troubleshooting, and agile development
Communication: You like discussing a plan upfront, welcome collaboration, and are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Bonus points if you have...
Exposure to front-end technologies like React/Redux, Javascript/Typescript etc.
Cloud native development on AWS or GCP
Experience with implementation of container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes. Knowledge of continuous integration, continuous delivery and enterprise DevOps concepts.

Experience with building backend applications in microservice architecture

Fluency in modern JavaScript (ES6/7) and other frontend fundamentals (HTML5,
CSS3) and Node.js

Exposure to React( native) basics

Experience with AWS, CI/CD and DevOps

Experience with Web Security

Basic exposure to Go is valuable but not necessary

Willingness to travel for onsite assignments outside India

We are on a mission to improve holistic wellbeing using age-old trusted Eastern protocols like astrology, yoga, Ayurveda, meditation, etc. Our goal is to build a life companion app that offers a virtual Disneyworld for wellness.
Starting out, we are building a platform to consult with our ‘Astro-advisors’ and engage in
wellness-focused activity-led content, called activity packs offered post consult. The packs will contain a wide range of activities like meditation, yoga, chants, affirmations, gratitude journaling, and other astrology related remedies. Over time we will expand to other advisors as well. A differentiated and highly trained supply and our content IP will be the two pillars of the business.

Team:
Aniket Lila, Co-Founder, CEO 
• Investment Team at Nexus Venture Partners (largest homegrown VC in India, an early
investor in companies like Zomato, Snapdeal, Unacademy, Delhivery, Whitehat Jr, Postman, Druva)
• Corporate Development, Albertsons (2nd largest grocery store retailer in the US)
• BSc from Northwestern University, US
We are a team of 5 across product, content, ops, and business.

Progress:
We have closed a seed round from Nexus Venture Partners, Titan Capital (Snapdeal
founders) and high-value angels like Srini (Elance / Upwork), Ramakant (Livspace) and Vinay (President, Jio), and Farid (Sharechat). We are in stealth and currently building the first version of the product and hiring a kickass team. Our alpha version of the website is live. 

Job Description:
We are looking for a hands-on full-stack engineer to join our core team with experience in building products from scratch into large-scale platforms and solving business problems leveraging new and innovative technology.

Roles and responsibilities:
● Leverage the DevOps team to ensure the product can be built, deployed, and tested
across all of the release cycles from dev to production
● Strong grasp of modern security principles and how to apply them to applications
● Work with stakeholders (product owners, project managers, and scrum masters) to
define and clarify requirements. Hands-on development with both front-end, middle-tier,
and back-end programming
● Work as per the defined project priorities and project schedules and complete the
assigned projects within allotted timelines
● Adhere to agile development methodologies

Experience you MUST have:
● Building RESTful web services using NodeJS
● Writing batch/cron jobs using Python and Shell scripting
● Web application development using JavaScript and JavaScript libraries and ReactJs
and other web technologies - HTML, CSS, and JS
● Basic understanding of JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, JSON, and REST-based
applications
● Experience/Familiarity with RDBMS or NoSQL Database technologies like MySQL,
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, and Redis
● Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
● Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a big plus
● Building applications deployed in the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and
understanding end-to-end deployment.
● Experiences in JS-based build /Package tools like Grunt, Gulp, Bower, Webpack,
and NPM
● Experience in video streaming and call / chat-based products is a big plus
● Experience in working with global remote teams is a plus

Skills/mindset you MUST have:
● Product-first thinking - Break complex problems into implementable solutions with
iterative mindset using the product
● Whole-brain problem solving - Uses right and left sides of the brain effectively -
Strong business judgment and analytical acumen with creative thinking
● Thrive in chaos - Comfortable with ambiguity but loves defining the boundaries
and parameters and getting shit done
● Communicate, care, inspire - Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills - be
a leader and a team player
● Always push the bar - Strive for excellence in whatever you do, take ownership
and responsibility for outcomes
● Build fast, fail, learn, HUSTLE HUSTLE HUSTLE
● Want to have fun - if you are not happy and people around you are not happy, how
will we make the world a happier place? :)
● Curious and spiritual soul - Understanding of market and experience with
astrology, yoga, mediation, Art of Living, Isha Yoga would be a good plus

Why Astrology? $10B market with a target audience of 200M with 2M astrologers. Astrology is a 4,000-year-old trusted belief system which gives probabilistic insights into the future. People go to astrologers with problems (love and career majorly). They are at low points in their lives and are seeking help. They need guidance and motivation. Just like religion, astrology too gives us hope and brings positivity in our lives.
We want to bring a breath of fresh air to the industry and disrupt the industry using technology and product-first thinking. We want to build a trusted, positive, and relevant wellness brand for today’s audience and be India’s gift to the world.

Skills:

• Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5
• Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience with AngularJS and Angular Frameworks
• Experience with Java, JSON, Spring Boot and Hibernate 
• Experience with MYSQL databases
• Familiarity with Linux environments
• Experience with GIT 
• Hands on experience with AWS S3 is preferred
• Experience with web servers & application servers such as Apache and Nginx is good to have.

Responsibilities: 

• Design and develop client-side and server-side architecture
• Develop and manage well-functioning database
• Implementation of approved user interface
• Design and construction of REST APIs
• Server management and deployment for the relevant environment