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The Opportunity
The Springboard engineering team is looking for software engineers with strong backend technical expertise. In this role, you would be responsible for building exciting features aimed at improving our student experience and expanding our student base, using latest technologies like GenAI, as relevant. You would also contribute to making our platform more robust, flexible and scalable. This is a great opportunity to create a meaningful impact as well as grow in your career.
We are looking for engineers with different levels of experience and expertise. Depending on your proficiency levels, you will join our team as a Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer or Lead Software Engineer.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop features for the Springboard platform, which enriches the learning experience of thousands through human guided learning at scale
- Own quality and reliability of the product by getting hands on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues and so on
- Contribute to the platform architecture through redesign of complex features based on evolving business needs
- Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools
- Provide technical mentoring to team members
You
- You have experience in backend technologies for web based applications with strong understanding of domain driven design, SOLID design principles, database.
- You have hands-on experience in,
- Coding and debugging complex systems, with frontend integration.
- Code review, responsible for production deployments
- Building scalable and fault-tolerant applications
- Re-architecting / re-designing complex systems / features (i.e. managing technical debt)
- Defining best practices for backend systems.
- You have excellent problem solving skills and are comfortable handling ambiguity.
- You are able to analyze various alternatives and reach optimal decisions.
- You are willing to challenge the status quo, express your opinion and drive change.
- You are able to plan reasonably complex pieces of work and can handle changing priorities, unknowns and challenges with support. You want to contribute to the platform roadmap, aligning with the organization priorities and goals.
- You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner. You are able to communicate with various stakeholders to understand their requirements.
- You are a proponent of quality - building best practices, introducing new processes and improvements to make the team more efficient.
Non-negotiables
Must have
- Expertise in software design and architecture
- Experience in web application development, building scalable and fault-tolerant applications
- Ability to handle ambiguity and take good decisions
Good to have
- Experience with Python/Django/GCP
- Experience working with any Learning Management System (LMS), such as Canvas
- Experience working with GenAI ecosystem, including usage of AI tools such as code completion
- Experience with refactoring (redesigning complex systems / features, breaking monolith into services)
- Working knowledge on CI/CD pipelines and applications deployed on Kubernetes
- Delivery skills, specifically planning open ended projects
- Mentoring skills
Expectations
- Able to independently own end to end delivery of medium sized projects. This includes being able to:
- Communicate effectively with business stakeholders to clarify requirements
- Work with open ended problems and come up with efficient solutions
- Plan and estimate tasks of medium size and complexity
- Communicate plans, deviations and blockers in a timely manner to all project stakeholders
- Able to design and develop high quality software, increasing the overall standard of excellence in the team
Job Description
- Strong Expertise in CodeIgniter Framework.
- Sound knowledge of database designing and application architecture planning for Core PHP projects.
- Expertise in PHP, MVC Frameworks, and good technology exposure of CodeIgniter Open cart or any CMS added advantage.
- String core PHP Hands-on experience.
- Good Knowledge of PHP5, MySQL, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, XML
- Assure that all user input is validated before submitting it to the back-end.
- A good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX will be preferred.
- Prior experience in the payment gateway or education ERP domain is a plus.
- 2-5 years of experience in 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 real-time 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
Bonus skills -
- Experience with ElasticSearch, Puppeteer
- Experience writing unit tests
JOB DESCRIPTION
Senior Software Engineer
It is a fish and seafood supply chain platform.It is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry.Building the future of meat and seafood supply chain.We are building smart supply chain to deliver the highest quality seafood and meat for the Indian consumer. Our innovations in process management and workforce orchestration along with strong industry credentials are enabling us to deliver the fastest harvest-to-fork in the industry.Our endeavor is to leverage experience across various parts of the value chain – farming, production, delivery to marquee brands – to deliver similar value to the Indian consumers.
Role
As a senior software engineer, you will contribute to our end to end supply chain platform. You'll work with all key stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable backend code and work with frontend developers to deliver amazing user experiences. We are building a design and process-centric culture where you'll play a key role in the implementation of the foundation of all our systems. Up for a challenge?
You are:
- A self-starter with a sense of what it takes to be successful as a team
- Agile - welcome change, do as less as possible and embrace continuous delivery
- Conscious about how quality is carried through from the UI to all layers underneath
- Opinionated, but flexible to accommodate the big picture
Responsibilities
- Analyse requirements, provide estimates and deliver code in an agile setup
- Stay on top of all owned work and raise red flags as early as possible
- Define the architecture, best practices and coding standards
- Support continuous technical improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and present them for architectural review
- Motivate team members, coach junior members and extend goodwill to other employees
Must have
- Prior startup experience, preferably with war stories to share
- 4-6 years of software industry experience
- Solid understanding of software design, development, testing, and problem-solving
- Expertise in coding efficient, high quality and modularized software
- Expertise in JavaScript, node.js based backend development
- Expertise in common design patterns and anti-patterns in Javascript
- Experience in building and scaling service-oriented architecture and microservices
- Expertise in relational and non-relational databases and expertise in at least one database system
- Experience with planning, execution and maintenance of test infrastructure for backend workflows
- Experience with CI/CD and setting up a monitoring infrastructure
- Knowledge of AWS, specifically building scalable cloud-native architectures using services like Lambda, AWS Gateway, Aurora, etc
- Knowledge of Unix shell and source control systems and tools such as git
- Strong technical leadership skills
- Strong communication skills
- Technical mentoring skills
Great to have
- Experience with GraphQL, meteor.js and other modern JS ecosystems
- Experience with blockchain and interest in ML
- Experience working on high traffic systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
● Follow due SDLC process for different phases of
development like design, development, unit testing,
maintenance
● Understand the requirements clearly from Functional
specs and future roadmap
● Write and update software design specs for the
solution
● Participate and invite peer review for design and
coding
● Support the automation requirements of continuous
integration and continuous deployments
● Handle customer escalations and special requests in a
timely manner
● Work with the rest of the team in a professional manner
and show ownership and commitment.
Qualifications and Required Skills:
● 2+ years experience in Software development
● In-depth knowledge of database technologies (SQL and
NoSQL)
● Proficiency in Python/Django framework
● Experience building RESTful APIs and knowledge of
RESTful design patterns
● Well versed with the complete Software Engineering Lifecycle.
● Strong Software development fundamentals including OOPS,
MVC, General Algorithms, Design Patterns etc.
● Good debugging and problem solving skills
● Analytical skills.
● Algorithmic and structured thinking.
● Works effectively within a collaborative team environment
● Good communication skills and positive attitude
Other Benefits:
● Insurance - Medical Insurance Coverage of 3,00,000 for
individual, spouse and kids. *Option of including parents and
higher coverage amount of 5,00,000
● Professional Development - Reimbursement towards relevant
courses that can help you grow your career and build your
knowledge level.
● Food - Lunch, Tea and Snacks. All you can eat!
● Work Culture- Flexible Result Oriented Work Environment
● Dress - We aren’t buttoned down. Wear anything you’re
comfortable in.Wear any comfortable dress you like to the office
– and be as comfortable at work
● Foosball - Whether you want to pick up the game or master
your skills, you’ll find plenty of people to play with
● TGIF - We’ll find something to do at the end of each week. Work
hard, party harder!
⦁ 2+ years of working experience as a software engineer.
⦁ Engineer capable of designing solutions, writing code, and deployment
⦁ Demonstrated skills, knowledge, and expertise with statistical computer languages (Python, Django) and the related ecosystem (PyCharm, Jupyter)
⦁ Good knowledge of Python.
⦁ Creative problem-solving ability and sound judgment ability to use own initiative and take responsibility for decisions.
Candidate must have
⦁ Good knowledge of Python
⦁ Django, Flask, FastApi
⦁ Candidates must have knowledge about Product Development.
⦁ Candidates must have Technical Degree.
Skills
⦁ Developing back-end components.
⦁ Design and develop web applications in Python, and Django.
⦁ Good knowledge of Django, Flask, FastApi
⦁ Must be proficient in writing python codes
⦁ Must have worked on back-end development
⦁ Integrate Python application with other internal applications.
⦁ Strong spoken and written communication skills in English
Position: Backend Developer 1 / Backend Engineer:
Location: Bangalore
Experience: .5 to 4 years, preferably in an agile environment
Strong Knowledge Node.js and MongoDB
Good Knowledge on Flask, SQL and other databases
Good Knowledge on Deployment Process (Nginix, Docker, AWS, Digital Ocean)
Basic Knowledge on Python