The firm :
It’s an amazing time to be joining SalaryBox as we continue to transform attendance and payroll for over 60 million MSME’s in India.
We launched the app in Jan 2021, and now have more than 1 million downloads of the app. We support more than 200k businesses and operate at scale.
Backed by Y-Combinator, SalaryBox is India’s leading attendance and payroll app. Considered to be the engine of economies around the world, the MSME segment in India alone has ~63 million units, and employs ~100 million people. The sector accounts for 27% of GDP and is crucial to the functioning of the economy.
We are on a mission to make work easier for these business owners, managers, and employees so that they can focus on the things they do best.
Today, SalaryBox is a fun bunch of analytical and ambitious folks building the first-of-its-kind technologies for the MSME ecosystem. We are here to enhance the employee experience of over 10 million end consumers in the next twelve months. Our mission is big, so we act with urgency in everything we do. We find creative ways to test ideas and learn today so that we focus on the right things tomorrow.
And we are just getting started!
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About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with at least 3 years experience. You will be an integral part of building the back-end architecture and developing core systems.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop our core systems from scratch.
- Deploy and maintain the product on AWS.
- Guide the team in making strategic technical decisions.
- Find and address performance issues.
- Help build the engineering team & subsequently mentor junior developers.
Requirements:
- 3+ years’ experience as a backend engineer.
- Expert in Python and Django.
- Experience with databases (Postgres, Redis etc. ).
- Good understanding of platforms (Docker, AWS).
- Basic understanding of Dev Ops.
- Previous experience architecting and developing back-end systems and an understanding of scalable micro service architecture.
- Hands-on attitude and ability to drive solutions to completion.
About Salarybox
SalaryBox is solution that makes employee management effortless.
Our product offers a range of features, from time and attendance tracking to employee payments, and much more. We help small businesses manage their payroll by eliminating the hassle of manual, paper-based processes With our service, you'll always know what you owe employees when payments are due, and who's been paid.
With our automated system, you can have your payroll processed in seconds, right from the palm of your hands. Our customers enjoy peace of mind knowing their company is following all regulations.
Founded in 2020 , we have raised capital from top-tier investors including Y Combinator , DoorDash Inc.’s Gokul Rajaram, former Tinder and Spotify executive Sriram Krishnan and former Facebook executive Anand Chandraskeran.
Our values are rooted in Customer Empathy & a relentless obsession with Product Innovation. Our passion to build an extremely useful and usable product has helped us grow significantly within a small span of time.
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About the role:
We are looking for a Python Backend Developer - Serverless/Microservices, with a strong background in Python.
Skillset required:
- 2+ years of experience designing and building apps in Python
- Experience with Python web frameworks like Django, Flask, or FastAPI will be an added advantage
- Experience with common development tools such as Pylint, Black Python code formatter, etc.
- Strong proficiency in Python, including Object-Oriented & Functional Concepts
- You have a sound understanding of data structures and algorithms and Systems Design.
- You understand CS fundamentals
- You know the difference between a good Python code and a bad Python code
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
- You love building things and have built some applications in the past (Optional)
- You are analytical and are curious about technology.
- When you don't know, you ask questions or look for answers on the internet.
- You are not afraid to express your opinion.
- You are fanatical about the quality of your work; you finish what you start.
- You have strong English comprehension and communication skills; you can articulate your ideas clearly. (Non-Negotiable)
- Must be willing to learn in a fast-paced environment.
- Must have a good sense of user experience
- You’re kind, curious, and tenacious
Optionally:
- Experience as a team leader/mentor. We plan to grow our engineering team.
- Knowledge of Web Servers and Linux.
Desired Experience
3+ years
Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
- The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis
What you bring to the table
- 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Java & Node / Rust /Python & Go
- Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Great communication skills
Bonus if you have…
- Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
- Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
- Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
- Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency
Roles & Responsibilities
- Writing good quality code.
- Be able to design ,implement and deploy scalable backend applications on cloud(AWS/Azure).
- Be able to take ownership of projects and deliver them on time.
- Be able to lead a team and mentor junior developers.
Qualifications:
- BE/BTech degree in CS/IT or similar related field.
- 4+ years experience as backend engineer.
- Good knowledge in Python and at least one of the framework - Django, Flask, FastAPI, etc.
- Hands on experience in building microservices applications on AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Good understanding of platforms(Docker, AWS/Azure).
- Must have good understanding of Data Structures/Algorithms/Databases and other CS concepts.
- Experience working in multiple databases and data modelling.
- Experience writing APIs and related technologies like REST, JSON, websockets, grpc etc.
- Should be inquisitive enough picking up any language and frameworks based on need.
- Should be able to design/implement/deploy end-to-end systems.
- Having good knowledge on deploying cloud applications and with Dockers/Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience building end-to-end analytics systems is a plus.
Responsibilities:
- Understanding requirements from the product manager and translating to technical specifications
- DB schema development
- API development (structuring REST endpoints + real-time endpoints like socket.io integration)
- Integrating 3rd party services for payments, email, whatsapp, and other such services
- Optimizing our current architecture & processes for scale (we expect usage to go up)
- Guiding junior developers on best coding practices
Requirements:
- Experience in at least one Python-based Web Framework like Flask or Django
- Experience in SQL databases & API design
- Experience with Docker
- Hands on experience in full lifecycle development and deployment of a platform/system
- Being a self-starter with the ability to thrive in ambiguous and high pressure scenarios working towards a common goal with other teams
framework and Django Rest framework. The suitable candidate for us will meet the
following criteria -
1. Candidates must have at least 1 year of experience in working with Python,
Django and Django Rest framework.
2. Candidates must have knowledge of Redis and Celery.
3. Candidates must have a solid grasp on data structures and algorithms to
provide the most optimal solution to the given task.
4. Candidates must have an excellent understanding of restful APIs.
5. Candidates must have experience in writing unit test cases.
6. Candidates must be capable of identifying edge cases for the functionality to
be developed.
7. Candidates must have a good understanding of RDBMS concepts.
8. Candidates must have excellent knowledge of designing database schemas.
9. Candidates must have excellent communication skills.
The Backend Developer will be working alongside other Software Developers, Project Managers,
QA, Software Architects and DevOps in order to shape and implement the technology and product
deliverables that will drive forward the strategy of our venture
Key responsibilities include:
Working with the Team in building world class recommendation
Brain-storming and experimenting with new ideas for efficiently improving the service
Writing effective, low-latency and high-availability, and scalable Python codes.
Working with System Layered Services like Virtualization, Network Management and core
OS Technologies
Working on Creating Pipe-lines and Services necessary for Critical Real Time Systems
Required Competencies:
3+ years of experience with a track record of delivering quality results
Strong Knowledge in OOPS, Data Structures, Algorithms, Networking Concepts, OS
Concepts
Experience in successfully building Microservices, Server Services etc at scale
Experience in working with Cloud Technologies and possibly bare-metal hardware
Have knowledge on Virtualization, Kafka Streaming, Networking Protocols, Web Crawling,
Caching, Routing Algorithms etc
About Us:
• Rainbox a media-tech start-up, focusing on content aggregation, Search/Discovery &
recommendation.
• Our core Product is Oneplay, which provides universal search & discovery of contents across
multiple OTTs, Personalised Recommendations, Live TV Content Tracking & EPG and lots more,
becoming a single destination for all entertainment a user need.
• Oneplay’s newest project is the ‘Netflix of Gaming’: In past 5 years we have seen how OTT has
changed the overall media/entertainment industry, likewise the next entertainment viewership is
changing from watching live cricket to watching live game streamers. so looking at the market
trend our company is about to start cloud gaming.
We are looking for a Backend Developer who has 4-6 years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing backend services using Python and Django.
- Responsibilities-
- Design highly scalable, testable code and follow Test Driven Development methodology
- Able to write well-organized, modularised code with test cases.
- Contribute to the design and architecture of our backend APIs and deployment of microservices
- Ensure adherence to engineering best practices and maintain the overall quality of our codebase.
- Work with the product team to translate powerful ideas into everyday business value.
- Skills-
- Back-end programming language: Python
- Familiarity with Django or Flask framework
- Familiarity with AWS and Elastic Search
- Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases with an insight into various data modeling use cases
- Experience with system & unit testing
- Familiarity with containerized deployment
- Proficiency with Git
- Sound with data structures and algorithms and have a good understanding of design patterns, software architectures
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