Senior Software Engineer

Who can apply: ONLY CANDIDATES WHO ARE AVAILABLE ( with notice period: 1 month or 15 days or immediate)

A Fintech start up company that bridges the gap between the digital payments

and the micro-retailing industry of the market. A nexus for the B2B sector providing multi-utility services via an Android app, enabling the micro-retailers across India to revolutionize their business and thus providing them with an opportunity to generate more revenue by offering multiple micropayment and digital services at their offline store. We intend to leverage the mode of smartphone technology in the rural and urban markets across India, thus empowering micro-retailers and creating a sustainable self-employment for this segment. 

Overall Competencies:

1. Tech Depth/Breadth/Problem Solving.

2. Design & Architecture (Code/Design review).

3. Team Management.

Leadership Competency:

- Managing & mentoring a team.

- Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time.

- Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance).

- Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above Programming.

Tech Competency:

- Hands-on with Python/Django/Flask.

- Knowledge of PHP & Laravel is a plus.

- Experience with any JavaScript framework (Angular / React ).

- Prior experience in micro-services based architecture.

- Good understanding of SQL (MySQL, Postgres, or similar).

- Good understanding of one no-SQL (MongoDB / DynamoDB etc).

- Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance.

- Can reason about the complexity of algorithms (time and space).

- Basic CI/CD and DevOps.

- Experience in Docker & Kubernetes.

- Design, QA, and Infrastructure.

- Knowledge of design patterns and cloud scaling.

- AWS & GCP experience. AWS is mandatory.

- Understands BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing/Unit Testing

- Understands REST principles and Microservices

- Understands version control & branching strategies

- Understands application security fundamentals and potential security risks

Education: Bachelors in Computer Science|

RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Software development engineer core responsibilities include technically leading a
small team of software development engineers along with writing code in a highly modular,
scalable, maintainable, unit tested platform. You will be working in a fast-paced, agile, dynamic
work environment that has an immediate business impact.

MUST HAVE
● You have 5-7 years of relevant Industry experience.
● You have experience in technically leading a small team of highly motivated engineers,
in guiding them in understanding of requirements, in architecture/design (high level/low
level) of the applications, in best coding and QA practices, in reviewing their software
artefacts.
● You are a rockstar programmer/coder - should be able to convert requirements/design
into code fluently.
● You have a strong concept in design principles, patterns.
● You have good experience in Linux OS.
● You have a solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data
structures, algorithms and software design.
● Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems.
● Worked in startups like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
● BTech, MTech or PhD in Computer Science or related Technical Discipline - preferably
from premier Engineering colleges.
● Good skills to write unit & integration tests with reasonable coverage of code &
interfaces.

NICE TO HAVE
● Knowledge of databases, Cloud, preferably AWS
● Experience in Python, Python frameworks and libraries, and NodeJS.

What’s Ditto? 
Ditto is a new offering from Finshots. We want to help millennials make better financial decisions. And we are starting with Insurance. 

With Ditto, you don’t just compare insurance. You understand it. Narrow down choices. Avoid pitfalls and make better decisions. 
Finshots is one of the leading financial newsletters with over 500K subscribers. 

What do we do at Ditto? 
● We explain health insurance and term(life) insurance in a language you can understand. 
● We are an insurtech company primarily selling Health and Term Life Insurance policies. 

Who’s backing us?
● We are funded by Zerodha- India’s largest stockbroker 

Roles and Responsibilities :
● Architect and build end to end backend services. 
● Integrate services from various stakeholders - Insurers, payment gateways. 
● Build for high observability, high performance and remove bottlenecks within the application. 
● Building reusable code and libraries for future use. 
● Should be comfortable with writing tests, targeting 100% coverage. 
● Should be comfortable managing database migrations, scripting, setup and Administration. 

Experience and Skills 
● For this role we expect you to have 2+ years of experience in Backend development. 
● Proficiency in Python (2+ years) 
● Proven experience in building scalable backend systems (security, middleware, caching, APIs) 
● Hands-on experience with Low level & high-level software design 
● Must have relevant experience with Django or Flask or similar web app frameworks. 
● Knowledge of writing restful APIs. 
● Developer experience with AWS or any major cloud provider is a plus. 
● Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality 

Perks
● Comprehensive Health Insurance 
● Compensation as per industry standards 

Our Interview Process: 
We would like to help you minimize your time and efforts. 
There are 4 rounds & we will be working towards completing all the rounds within a maximum of 2 weeks. 

Please find the schedule here: 
1. Introductory Call 
2. Assignment Round 
3. Live Coding Round 
4. Final Managerial / Technical Round

Job Location:
JP Nagar Bangalore, India

Job Description: -

1) Looking for a Senior Python Developer who will be responsible to understand, decode and maintain a pre-coded web application (Platform).

2) Primary focus will be on resolving real-time bugs on the live platform, testing, maintaining it fully functional, and making it live.

3) Work with the team to define, design, and deliver new features.

4) Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

5) Implementation of security and data protection.

6) Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient, reusable and testable code.

7) Should be able to participate in the requirements gathering and come up with efficient solutions.

8) Ensure platform is up-to-date with the latest technologies.

9) Should be a problem solver to contribute toward the success of the start-up.

10) Develop/Improve the core infrastructure and optimize the platform for high scalability.

11) Should be familiar with startup culture and be comfortable working with early-stage start-up.


Skills and Requirements: -

1) Expert in Python with complete knowledge of Python’s web framework ‘Django’ and related frameworks.

2) Good understanding of AWS and Azure platforms and able to make the platform optimize on the hosting, maintaining workload balancing on server.

3) Stronghold on Nginx, Redis and Celery.

4) A good experience in WebSocket to maintain In-Platform Chats.

5) Basic understanding of front-end technologies like Bootstrap, JavaScript,
JQuery, HTML5, CSS and AJAX while experience in Angular, Node JS, and React will be an added advantage.

6) Good hands-on experience in Creating REST APIs and API Integration with best coding practices.

7) Good knowledge of Relational and Non-Relational Databases.

8) Understanding of online payment gateways and integration knowledge.

9) Good understanding on Web Servers.

10) Experience working in an Agile development environment.

11) Data structure analysis and algorithm design, Solving complex performance problems and challenges.

12) Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like GIT and SVN.

13) Able to work with complex SQL queries and stored procedures.

14) Strong unit testing, integration testing and debugging skills.

• Need to develop the new script using Perl  & Python
• Need to analyse the existing script and do new changes
• Need to interact with QA team, Deployment team
• Need to interact with in-house and external customers
• Need to interact with internal team members for integrated development
• Need to have good communication skills within the team members

 

Skills required:

 

• Need to have experience in developing projects using PERL and Python
• Familiarity in Unix/Linux development environments and tools including
• scripting and  process management
• Need to have experience in database(Mysql) concepts
• Need to have a experience in Elastic Search
• Have a knowledge in Git,Svn commands
• Need to have experience in implementing OOPS concepts
• Need to have a experience in XML functionality (read,create.,etc)
• Have a knowledge in creating a csv,xlsx files, json format
• Need to have a experience in PDF Functionality & FTP,SFTP Modules
• Need experience in unit testing
• Develop best practices to ensure coding efficiency and quality
• Experience in test driven development and Agile methodologies

 

Preference of Educational background:

• B.E

 

Preference of Professional background:

 

• Experience in handling  modules
• Experience in  PERL,Python,Mysql,Linux,Elastic search,Xml,PDF,FTP functionality

 

Python API DeveloperJD:  
Experience: 4-6 Yrs
Notice Period: 10-20 days or within 1 month

>> Develop and maintain various security software products with queues, caching & database management.
>> Hands-on experience in Coding in Python is required along with Knowledge about Data Structures and object-oriented programming, Algorithms.
>> Extensive experience in developing asynchronous systems.
>> Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
>> Implementation of security and data protection.
>> Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation

Mandatory Skills:

• Python
• Flask/Django
• API

Job Type: Full-time

Positions : 2-3

CTC Offering : 40,000 to 55,000/month

Job Location: Remote for 6-12 months due to the pandemic, then Mumbai, Maharashtra

Required experience:
Minimum 1.5 to 2 years of experience in Web & Backend Development using Python and Django with experience in some form of Machine Learning ML Algorithms

Overview
We are looking for Python developers with a strong understanding of object orientation and experience in web and backend development. Experience with Analytical algorithms and mathematical calculations using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas are a must. Experience in some form of Machine Learning. We require candidates who have working experience using Django Framework and DRF

Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :
1. Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development
2. Solid understanding of Python concepts
3. Strong experience in building web applications using Django
4. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask
5. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)
6. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
7. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar
8. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL
9. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git
10. Working experience with Docker
11. Basic working knowledge of ReactJs
12. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

KRAs includes :
1. Understanding the scope of work
2. Understanding and adopting the current internal development workflow and processes
3. Understanding client requirements as communicated by the project manager
4. Arriving on timelines for projects, either independently or as a part of a team
5. Executing projects either independently or as a part of a team
6. Developing products and projects using Python
7. Writing code to collect and mathematically analyse large volumes of data.
8. Creating backend modules in Python by building or reutilizing existing modules in a manner so as to provide optimal deliveries on time
9. Writing Scalable, maintainable code
10. Building secured REST APIs
11. Setting up batch task processing environments using Celery
12. Unit testing prepared modules
13. Bug fixing issues as reported by the QA team
14. Optimization and performance tuning of code

Bonus but not mandatory
1. Nodejs
2. Redis
3. PHP
4. CI/CD
5. AWS

Candidate should have :
Strong technical background in Java, spring (MVC), RESTFUL Web services and Postgres DB
Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

'Ease' is a mobile based app and web-platform that enables from-seat order and on-seat delivery for food and beverages at any F&B outlet through a simple 3-step process on your mobile phone using QR codes i.e. Scan-Order-Pay. It is a digital tool for all physical F&B locations like restaurants, bars, food courts, QSRs, movie theatres and hotels etc. to increase sales and engage with their dine-in customers in a more customized way. Why join us: - Team comprises of graduates from XLRI, JBIMS, IIT Roorkee, DU etc. and having experience of working at McKinsey, BCG, Citibank, ICICI etc. - Pilot launch in two locations (1 restaurant and 1 bar) in Mumbai - Advanced negotiations with 50+ restaurants/bars/movie theatres to go live in April/May - Get experience of creating things from scratch with our early stage startup Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development Responsibilities: - Work on the web application layer to build our product and components - Assume a strong sense of ownership of the product : Design, Develop & Deploy - Provide quick & creative solutions for day-to-day operational issues - Ensure Quality & sustainability of the architecture

1) Experience on Python Django web framework 2) Knowledge on JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, 3) Experience with MySql 4) Experience developing Rest API 5) Knowledge on Nginx, Ubuntu,Git 6) Should write reusable and tested code following coding standards 7) Understanding on customizing any existing third party frameworks 8) Should be proactive self-starter