Senior Python Engineer

Job Description   - Omniflow and Java Developer

Should have working experience between 6-8 years in Java development

Mandatory skills are good knowledge of object oriented concepts, experience of working on Spring boot application, should have worked on hibernate ORMS and candidate must have clear understanding of database concepts

Optional skills include knowledge of angular framework and postgreSQL database

Good to have knowledge of jBPM open source workflow

Qualifications

Master or Bachelor degree in Engineering/Computer Science /Information Technology

Additional Information

Skills and Competencies:
Strong documentation skills
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Decision making and problem solving skills
Good organizational skills        

Job Overview:

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer (SDE III) with over 5 years of experience to lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in software development, deep technical expertise, and a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale engineering teams and projects. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence.As a Backend Lead, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Team Development: Lead and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Manage the hiring, training, and career development of engineering staff.
• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Define technology roadmaps and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, robust software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure high-quality product delivery.
• Project and Program Management: Oversee the successful delivery of engineering projects, ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, resource allocation, and performance metrics. Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and scalable system design.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks For this role we require expertise in Python/Django and API Development
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Good experience with MySQL and ElasticSearch. Slight experience with other NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
•  Experience in delivering full-stack B2B/SaaS applications including mobile applications, web frontend, and a scalable backend.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Requirements

• Design and implement a full-stack web application using Python Django framework and ReactJS.
• 1+ years of experience in building and deploying web applications.
• Experience in designing and using RESTful APIs.
• Basic knowledge in front-end technologies such as JavaScript, , ReactJS, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Understanding of databases, SQL and non-relational, plus the Django ORM.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Experience in web mark-up like HTML and CSS.
• Experience with data structure libraries.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• A knack for bench marking and optimization.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as NPM etc.
• Strong knowledge of Git version control.
• Experience deploying Python applications into production.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) knowledge is a plus.
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Responsibilities

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications using Django framework in Python.
• Create and use the REST APIs for communicating with other apps.
• Assess and prioritize feature requests and work in Agile framework.
• Implementation of security and data protection algorithms.
• Integration of data storage solutions like databases, key-value stores, blob stores, S3 etc.
• Improve the functionality of existing systems and applications.
• High commitment to work and taking ownership of deliverables.
• Help to research and influence our path forward with strategic technology initiatives.

• Writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code
• Understanding, analyzing, and implementing – Business needs, feature modification requests, conversion into software components
• Integration of user-oriented elements into different applications, data storage solutions
• Developing – Backend components to enhance performance and receptiveness, server-side logic, and platform, statistical learning models, highly responsive web applications
• Designing and implementing – High availability and low latency applications, data protection and security features
• Performance tuning and automation of application
• Working with Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, etc.
• Creating predictive models for AI and ML-based features
• Keeping abreast with the latest technology and trends
• Fine-tune and develop AI/ML-based algorithms based on results

Good proficiency in,

• Python frameworks like Django, etc.
• Web frameworks and RESTful APIs
• Core Python fundamentals and programming
• Code packaging, release, and deployment
• Database knowledge
• Circles, conditional and control statements
• Object-relational mapping
• Code versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket

Fundamental understanding of,

• Front-end technologies like JS, CSS3 and HTML5
• AI, ML, Deep Learning, Version Control, Neural networking
• Data visualization, statistics, data analytics
• Design principles that are executable for a scalable app
• Creating predictive models
• Libraries like Tensorflow, Scikit-learn, etc
• Multi-process architecture
• Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
• Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system
• Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
• Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

You should primarily be a backend developer or full stack developer, very good at code reviews and code optimization. Our products depend on processing large amounts of data and having fast response times is absolutely essential.

You will have the opportunity to

• Take responsibility of building systems for scale
• Manage our backend systems and database optimizations
• Assist in key decisions and design architecture that drives development across products
• Define processes and help with efficient functioning of the team
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the products are scalable, maintainable and secure

What we expect from you:

• We work on Ruby on Rails but you can have 2+ years of experience as backend developer in any language
• Have a solid grasp of OOP, databases and automated testing methodologies.
• Know how to manage sprint and ensure tasks are completed within the timeline
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Strong understanding of SQL databases
• Proficient knowledge of various authentication methods like JWT, OAuth etc..
• Perform peer code reviews and Code audit - Analyze existing code and remediate performance issues within existing applications

Having seen over 10x growth in 2021 alone, we are expanding our scope of products to cater to the fast growing creator economy and help creators monetize in ways beyond influencer marketing. We are also looking at tremendous growth in the next few years, standing at the verge of building something huge!

Come join our team of developers if a fast learning environment in a high growth industry excites you.

About Winkl

Please check out our product before applying to this position -
* Website - https://winkl.co
* Team - https://winkl.co/about
* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.winkl.app&;amp;hl=en
* iOS App - https://www.winkl.co/app

Winkl is a technology company that is changing how influencer marketing is done. From a manual process earlier to an automated and data-driven process with Winkl. More on this here.

Leveraging data & technology helps Winkl scale influencer marketing to a level that wasn't possible earlier. This has helped Winkl power influencer campaigns for top brands in India like Flipkart, Amazon etc.

Culture & Expectations

* At Winkl, no one tells you what to do. We don't micromanage. We don't spoon feed. As long as you're willing to learn new things, are proactive, initiate activities on your own, make mistakes and learn from them, take responsibility, stick to your word of getting things done, we think you'd be a great fit at Winkl.
* On a day to day basis, you'll get to be an important part of a high growth startup as it scales.
* You'll receive all possible support from your team at Winkl to help you succeed. 
* Being highly accountable is a non-negotiable requirement

Programming Languages: Perl, Python, java. Perl programming with strong OOPs knowledge.

• UI: HTML, JS
• System: Linux must have – good knowledge and shell scripting experience.
• Prior experience in infrastructure automation, monitoring will definitely help.

Description:

The person in this role:

- Will be involved in developing new monitoring scripts, enhancement & defect fixes on existing monitors

- Have to be on-call to support any incoming production/P1 internal issues which need urgent attention (team members are on call for a week and we have a weekly rotation policy within the team)

Preferred skills:

Perl
- Shell scripting

- Unix

- Jenkins

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

• Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
• Having strong experience in designing data intensive and scalable systems.
• Comfortable with microservices based architecture.
• Knowledge of software engineering processes and unit testing.
• Past experience of mentoring a team of at least two people.
• Prior experience with both relational and non-relational databases.
• Prior experience with caching.
• Ability to debug and hotfix a problem with production in a swift amount of time.
• Communication skills.