Senior Software Engineer

Job Title : Python Django Developer

Experience : 3+ Years

Location : Gurgaon Sector - 48

Working Days : 6 Days WFO (Monday to Saturday)

Job Summary :

We are looking for a skilled Python Django Developer with strong foundational knowledge in backend development, data structures, and operating system concepts.

The ideal candidate should have experience in Django and PostgreSQL, along with excellent logical thinking and multithreading knowledge.

Main Technical Skills : Python, Django (or Flask), PostgreSQL/MySQL, SQL & NoSQL ORM, Microservice Architecture, Third-party API integrations (e.g., payment gateways, SMS/email APIs), REST API development, JSON/XML, strong knowledge of data structures, multithreading, and OS concepts.

Key Responsibilities :

• Write efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code using the Django framework
• Develop backend components, server-side logic, and statistical models
• Design and implement high-availability, low-latency applications with robust data protection and security
• Contribute to the development of highly responsive web applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on system design and integration

Mandatory Skills :

• Strong programming skills in Python and Django (or similar frameworks like Flask).
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL / MySQL and experience in writing complex queries.
• Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL ORM.
• Solid grasp of data structures, multithreading, and operating system concepts.
• Experience with RESTful API development and implementation of API security.
• Knowledge of JSON/XML and their use in data exchange.

Good-to-Have Skills :

• Experience with Redis, MQTT, and message queues like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Understanding of microservice architecture and third-party API integrations (e.g., payment gateways, SMS/email APIs).
• Familiarity with MongoDB and other NoSQL databases.
• Exposure to data science libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn.
• Knowledge in building and integrating statistical learning models.

· 5+ years of experience in software development using Java.

· Proficiency in Spring Boot and Spring Batch.

· Experience with microservices architecture.

· Hands-on experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL databases.

· Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).

· Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

· Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins etc

· Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

· Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Important consideration:

· Core Java - 4 to 6 Yrs

· Spring and Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security - 4 to 6 Yrs

· DevOps (Jenkins, Junit, sonarQube, Maven) - 1 to 2 Yrs

· MongoDB, NOSql, Couch DB, Cassandra - 1 to 2 Yrs

Responsibilities include:

• Coordinate and clarify the requirements and technical issues (including client interaction)
• Support creation of high and low level design
• Development and maintenance of automation code
• Build reusable Business objects as required
• Review the automation implemented code
• Deploy the code to multiple environments phase wise
• Provides regular status updates to clients and management
• Participates in research/design/implementation of appropriate automation tools
• Develop .net libraries using C# /.Net
• Design and develop SQL scripts – Stored procedures, queries, and functions
• Perform unit testing, support systems integration testing and UAT testing
• Raise ticket and co-ordinate with IT team and CS team
• Analyze, estimate and implement special projects
• Effectively manage multiple priorities / assist with various projects as they arise.
• Accurately track, monitor, and report progress and obstacles
• Travel requirements will be modest, working hours must be flexible to deal with international time zone and key process owners located throughout the world.

Education, Experience, & Required Skills:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent is required
• 7+ years of overall IT experience
• 2+ years of overall development experience with leading RPA tool.
• Certified RPA Tool (UiPath, UiPath X, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere) as developer
• Programming experience in Java, .Net, C, C#, .Net, Python
• Sufficient knowledge of RDBMS like ORACLE / MS SQL Server and SQL tools
• Knowledge in developing & understanding excel macros codes.
• Knowledge in Power BI, Excel Macro, web forms, mobile applications are preferable.
• Knowledge of service oriented architecture is preferable.
• Knowledge in Finance & Accounting domain is preferable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organization and communication skills.
• Effectively interact with various levels of management.
• Ability to multitask.

About Us:

Developed in formal collaboration with the University of Cambridge in May 2000, HeyMath! is an Ed-Tech company whose mission is to Raise the Game in Maths for school systems around the world. We do this using technology to deliver engaging teaching methodologies and personalised learning paths for students. HeyMath! has been successfully adopted by CBSE schools since 2004, with positive outcomes for the entire ecosystem.

Check us out at www.heymath.com

We plan to work mainly from home in 2022 and the virtual office atmosphere is collegiate, informal and friendly, with small high-impact teams making a difference to customers.

What we are looking for:

Experience in building and re-engineering cloud based solutions on AWS.

Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Programming(OOPS) and design patterns is a must. Hands-on development on Spring MVC framework.

Experience working on Java 8 or above.

Must have very good knowledge of RDBMS such as MySQL and performance tuning of the same.

Exposure to server-side and client-side caching mechanisms. Ability to debug the applications and provide instant workable solutions.

Experience working on Elastic Search / Kafka / Kubernetes or all is a nice to have.

• 2 + years of software development experience utilizing Java based frameworks and technologies to build enterprise grade product solutions.
• 2+ years of experience designing, developing and documenting RESTful APIs.
• Strong understanding of concepts/technologies like Spring MVC, Spring boot, J2EE, EJB, application/API security, API governance/gateway platforms like apigee or kong.
• Good understanding of RDMS concepts and development preferably using MS SQL Server.
• Experience using test automation technologies like cucumber, selenium is a big plus.
• Partner with scrum masters to address technical blockers/impediments to progress.
• Prior experience working with agile scrum-based development methodology. Participate in sprint planning and estimate development efforts for features and stories.
• Partner with DevOps to install and configure/tune application containers like embedded Spring boot tomcat and webserver technologies preferably nginx or apache.
• Partner with cloud engineering group to outline the infrastructure provisioning requirements/needs for new product development.
• Design and develop CI/CD tools and process preferably using Jenkins to configure build jobs for APIs and design pipeline to promote artifacts from development all the way to production
• Experience with messaging technologies like kafka is a huge plus
• Work with Test Automation engineering team to integrate test automation scripts as part of the CI/CD process.
• Prior proven experience of utilizing and productionizing container/container orchestration technologies like Docker, kubernetes.
• Participate and Resolve issues related deployments, application performance etc.

• Mandatory skills: Spring boot, Hibernate, Microservice
• Strong Java skills including Java 8 features 
• Good understanding of Microservices-based architecture and the related ecosystem 
• Exposure to MS SQL Server, Sybase etc. and NoSQL databases like MongoDB is also preferred.
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge 
• Strong knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and
• Continuous Integration (CI) 
• Strong Knowledge of Data Structures & Algorithms
• Experience in working with data-driven RESTful APIs using web frameworks like SpringBoot,etc. 
• Should be able to do data modeling
• Good understanding of ORMs like Hibernate, JPA, etc. 
• Strong debugging skills
• Familiarity with architectural/ design patterns
• Advanced knowledge of Agile methodology.

• 2+ years of experience on Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate in medium to large-scale projects
• Must have experience with at least some flavours of both SQL (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, NoSQL distributed cache system, DynamoDB etc), datastores in production
• Must have experience with Kafka or similar message queue systems in production
• Stellar problem solving skills
• Hunger to learn new things and ability to grasp new concepts quickly
• Ability to move quickly without breaking things too much (we are dreamers)
• Ability to work under immense pressure which is balanced by a sense of responsibility and ownership
• Should be able to groom juniors and take them to the next level