Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Python Developer with strong experience in Flask framework to join our growing development team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in developing scalable backend applications, REST APIs, and integrating databases/services in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain backend applications using Python and Flask.
• Design and build RESTful APIs for web and mobile applications.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, QA teams, and product stakeholders.
• Write reusable, scalable, and efficient code.
• Integrate third-party APIs and services.
• Optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Work with databases and ensure data security and integrity.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.
• Maintain proper documentation for development activities.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of experience in Python development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Flask framework.
• Good understanding of REST API development.
• Experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB databases.
• Familiarity with ORM libraries such as SQLAlchemy.
• Knowledge of Git/version control systems.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Basic understanding of Docker and deployment processes is an added advantage.
• Good debugging and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AWS/Azure or cloud platforms.
• Exposure to microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of frontend technologies like React or Angular is a plus.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

What We’re Looking For

• Immediate joiner or candidates with short notice period.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Self-driven and proactive mindset.

Key Responsibilities

1. Full Stack Development • Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using Python and Django. • Build and maintain REST APIs using Django REST Framework. • Work on backend architecture, business logic, database schema, and API integrations. • Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs and ensure smooth end-to-end functionality. • Write clean, reusable, testable, and maintainable code. • Optimize application performance, database queries, API response time, and server-side logic. • Debug and resolve production and staging issues in a structured manner. • Review code written by team members and enforce coding standards. • Prepare and maintain technical documentation, API documentation, and deployment notes. • Participate in architecture decisions and suggest scalable technical solutions. Senior Full Stack Django Developer cum Project Manager JD | Hinjawadi, Pune

2. Project Management and Delivery • Understand client and internal product requirements and convert them into actionable technical tasks. • Prepare project plans, sprint plans, milestones, and delivery timelines. • Assign tasks to developers, QA, UI/UX, and support team members based on priorities. • Track daily progress, remove blockers, and ensure timely completion of planned work. • Conduct daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, release planning, and internal status meetings. • Coordinate between product, development, QA, implementation, support, and management teams. • Identify delivery risks early and take corrective action before timelines are impacted. • Ensure proper UAT support, bug tracking, release notes, and production deployment coordination. • Maintain task boards and project documentation using Jira, ClickUp, Trello, Asana, or similar tools.

3. Team Leadership • Lead and manage a team of approximately 8 members, including developers, testers, and other technical contributors. • Mentor junior and mid-level developers on technical implementation and best practices. • Ensure task ownership, accountability, and disciplined execution within the team. • Conduct code reviews and guide the team on better architecture, security, and performance practices. • Help team members resolve technical blockers and improve delivery quality. • Support onboarding and training of new developers when required. • Build a positive, structured, and performance-driven engineering culture.

4. Client Communication and Product Demos • Handle client calls, requirement discussions, project update meetings, and product walkthroughs. • Conduct confident and professional client demos for developed modules and product features. • Explain technical and product workflows to clients in simple business language. • Collect client feedback and convert it into clear development tasks. • Coordinate with clients during UAT, go-live, training, and post-deployment support. • Communicate timelines, dependencies, risks, and progress updates clearly. • Build trust with clients by ensuring structured communication and timely delivery.

The key aspects of this role include:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using Python.

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business need and architectural improvements.

• Act as a subject matter expert for Application Software developers and Engineers.

• Handle server-side code for a production platform and contribute to new features

To be the right fit, you'll need:

• More than 4+ years of experience as a software developer in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django, Flask, etc.

• Good understanding of common design patterns and architecture principles to design reliable and Scalable applications

• Strong communication skills

• Knowledge of databases line NoSQL or MongoDB

• Good to have AWS and Docker or Web services

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS

ABOUT US.

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate people to be part of the team for an upcoming project at client location.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Preferably have a working experience of 2 Years and more , on production PostgreSQL DBs.
• Experience of working in a production support environment
• Engineering or Equivalent degree
• Passion for open-source technologies is desired

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Install & Configure PostgreSQL, Enterprise DB
• Technical capabilities PostgreSQL 9.x, 10.x, 11.x
• Server tuning
• Troubleshooting of Database issues
• Linux Shell Scripting
• Install, Configure and maintain Fail Over mechanism
• Backup - Restoration, Point in time database recovery
• A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.
• A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner. You are someone that invests in yourself as much as you invest in your professional relationships.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitoring database performance
• Optimizing Queries and handle escalations
• Analyse and assess the impact and risk of low to medium risk changes on high profile production databases
• Implement security features
• DR implementation and switch over

LOCATION: Pune & Bangalore

Experience: 2 yrs plus

Package: upto 10 LPA

• Work closely with design, product management, and front-end teams to create REST APIs using NestJS
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Work on the implementation of security and data protection
• Review and optimize the app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively

• 1+ years of experience in NodeJS-based frameworks like NestJS, and microservices-based architecture is a bonus.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, persistence, threading, queuing, and caching.
• Thorough knowledge of designing, implementing and scaling relational and document-based databases
• A love for systems and an ability to think through and plan for their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes
• First principles thinking, Excellent problem-solving ability
• A good all-rounder with a can-do, startup mentality

• Experience with ReactJS
• Cloud deployment and scaling experience

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

Your Responsibilities:

• Own the backend stack – Python based, that powers our product

• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Backend Developers(Node.js), Front-end developers, DevOps to design and implement new features
• Build and maintain several Backend Jobs and REST’ful Services which will be used internally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
• Deploy and monitor the Jobs and endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X data processing load)
• Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.

Skills that you bring Along:

• A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Python and related frameworks – particularly Flask.
• Extensive experience in designing and scheduling backend Python jobs
• Hands on working in different file formats like Json, Parquet, csv etc. coming from Data Science side.
• Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
• Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
• Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
• Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
• Good experience with design patterns
• Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
• Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
• Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
• Good experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
• Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Ideally experience in parallel data processing and building end-to-end Data Pipelines using tools such as Airflow/Prefect and Spark/Dask
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 5 years experience with the Django framework
• Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL) 
• Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
• React.js knowledge would be an added bonus 
• Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
• Strong communication skills.

Experience:

• Min 5 year experience
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote developer

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.