Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About SmartQ

A leading B2B Food-Tech company built on 4 pillars-great people, great food, great experience, and greater good. Solving complex business problems with our heart and analyzing possible solutions with our mind lie in our DNA. We are on the perpetual route of serving our clients wholeheartedly. Armed with the stability of an MNC and the agility of a start-up, we have spread across 17 countries, having collaborated and executed successfully with 600 clients. We have grown from strength to strength with a blend of exuberant youth and exceptional experience. Bengaluru, being our headquarters, is known as the innovation hub and we have grown up to be the global leader in the institutional food tech space. We were recently acquired by the world's largest foodservice company – Compass group which has an annual turnover of 20 billion USD.  

In this role, you will:

1. Collaborate with Product & Design Teams Work closely with the Product team to ensure that we are building a scalable, bug-free platform. You will actively participate in product and design discussions, offering valuable insights from a backend perspective to align technology with business goals.

2. Drive Adoption of New Technologies

You will lead brainstorming sessions and define a clear direction for the backend team to incorporate the latest technologies into day-to-day development,continuously optimizing for performance, scalability, and efficiency.

3. RESTful API Design & Development:You will ensure that the APIs you design and develop are well-structured, following best practices, and are suitable for consumption by frontend teams across multiple platforms. A key part of your role is making sure these APIs are scalable and maintainable.

4. Third-Party Integration Support:As we sometimes partner with third-party providers to expedite our market entry,you’ll work closely with these partners to integrate their solutions into our system.This involves participating in calls, finding the best integration methods, and providing ongoing support.

5. AI and Prompt Engineering:With AI becoming more integral to backend development, you’ll leverage AI to speed up development processes and maintain best practices. Familiarity with prompt engineering and AI-driven problem-solving is a significant plus in our team.

Must-Have Requirements:

• Strong expertise in Python, microservices, backend development and scalable architectures.
• Proficiency in designing and building REST APIs.
• Experience with unit testing in any testing framework and maintaining 100% code coverage.
• Experience in working with NoSQL DB.
• Strong understanding of any Cloud platforms such as - GCP/AWS/Azure.
• Profound knowledge in Serverless design pattern .
• Familiarity with Django or Webapp2 or Flask or similar web app frameworks.
• Experience in writing unit test using any testing framework.
• Experience collaborating with product and design teams.
• Familiarity with integrating third-party solutions.

Good-to-Have Requirements:

• Educational background includes a degree (B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech) in ComputerScience, Engineering, or a related field.  
• 4+ years’ experience as a backend/cloud developer.
• Good understanding of google cloud platform.
• Knowledge of AI and how to leverage it for day-to-day tasks in backend development.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering to enhance productivity.
• Prior experience working with global or regional teams.
• Experience with agile methodologies and working within cross-functional teams.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high-performance web applications and backend services using Python.
• Build scalable, secure, and reliable backend systems and APIs.
• Optimize and debug existing codebases to enhance performance and maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and uphold best coding practices.
• Write clear, comprehensive technical documentation for internal and external use.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends to continually improve development processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python development.
• Strong expertise Flask.
• In-depth understanding of software design principles, architecture, and design patterns.
• Proven experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid debugging and problem-solving capabilities.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with a team-first mindset.

Technical Skills:

• Programming: Python (Advanced)
• Web Frameworks: Flask
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Version Control: Git
• API Development: RESTful APIs
• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
• Cloud Platforms: AWS or Azure (hands-on experience preferred)
• DevOps: CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

• Responsible for providing technical leadership, design and development of complex pieces of the service oriented architecture based platform.
• Modelling Database Design for large scale applications.
• Develop for performance engineering.
• Design for the right use of micro services, containerization and observability.

• Drive technology and product innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Create reference implementation for our integrations and for backward compatibility.
• Not interested in managerial responsibilities

Requirements, Desired Skills and Experience

• Tech Stack based on Ruby-on-Rails, Python-Django or Node.js frameworks.

• Engineering degree 

   Opportunities for the right candidate

• Build and develop SaaS and PaaS products from scratch
• Build the best-in-class UX based products
• State of Art technologies (Latest trends in the industry)
• Work with a well-knit team, almost like one’s family
• Startup culture and advantages of working in a co-working space
• Performance based career progress and high visibility with management and founders

Type, Location: Remote, India

Desired Experience: 2+ years

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Hands-on GoLang development
• Go Lang developers perform tasks related to the design, development, modification, and administration of software systems and applications.
• Comfortable with algorithm design, scripting, and unit testing.
• Demonstrated skills in debugging, design patterns, and enterprise resource planning.
• Is skilled at problem-solving.

Must have skills :

● You must have 2+ years Golang experience.

● You must have (React.js or Node.js or Python or Java )experience.

● You must have any Frontent or Backend Technology with Golang 

Design, develop and support real time data monitoring application and a dashboard for a VoIP network

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

Required Skills:

• 3+ yrs of experience developing Ruby applications on Linux platform with exposure to HTML, CSS and javascripts
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Experience with any one NoSQL solution like Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB is a must
• Deep understanding of high traffic, highly scalable, complex web applications
• Ability to work in a dev-automation environment with some source control, continuous integration/delivery systems
• Good problem solving/analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Preferred Skills:

• Conversant with Elasticsearch, Neo4j and D3.js
• Inclination to GO programming
• Experience working with open source projects

Role Description:

As a Lead Backend Engineer , you will be responsible for designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems for Radiusagent. Experience as a Tech Lead, managing tasks with back-end engineers while coding themselves will be a bonus point for the ideal candidate.

Responsibilities will include-

• You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
• You will build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
• You will ensure compliance with the build/release and configuration management process.

Skills needed:

• be able to design and build modules from ground up
• proficient in any one programming language out of php/golang/node/python/javascript/java/ruby and ability to pick up others
• experience with mysql/postgres/mongodb/couchdb
• experience  with redis/memcached
• experience with rabbitmq / kafka
• experience in having written cron jobs, troubleshooting downtime
• ability to work with ambiguous requirements
• good understanding of OS concepts

Nice to haves:

• experience with managing VMs' on aws/gcp/digitalocean 
• experience with docker/kubernetes
• experience elasticsearch or lucene