Senior Software Engineer

Job Description: Backend Developer – Design Qandy

Who are we?

Design Qandy delivers personalised luxury interior design to India’s discerning homeowners and corporates. Led by highly admired luxury brand builders, internationally trained designers, world-class technology professionals and curated teams of turnkey project execution specailists. We seek perfection in design and are committed to bringing back trust and excitement in the design process.

Know more about us on designqandy.com and https://instagram.com/designqandy?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Our work culture?

We are a lean team of high performing go-getters, we take ownership in our roles and lead with knowledge. Debates and discussions are an important part of our culture and we encourage people to bring unique perspectives to their conversations. Most importantly, we love solving problems.

Each day is inspiring and we encourage you to apply for this role and experience it for yourself.

What would you be required to do?

·      Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks

·      Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients

·      Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud

·      Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability

·      Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing

·      Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

·      Write clean code to develop functional web applications

·      Troubleshoot and debug applications

·      Perform UI tests to optimize performance

·      Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications

·      Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

·      Gather and address technical and design requirements

·      Provide training and support to internal teams

·      Build reusable code and libraries for future use

What skills we are looking for?

·      Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap

·      Curious and progressive mind to Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs

·      Good technical knowledge to Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed

·      Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives

Skills Needed:

·      PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.

·      Proficient in MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

·      APIs, REST API, SOAP API, API Security, Open APIs

·      Push Notifications, Laravel Events, Queue, Observers

·      Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design

·      Experience writing highly secure web applications

·      Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies

·      Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out-of-the-box ideas

·      Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps

·      Computer science degree or equivalent experience

·      Experience leading a team

·      3-6 Years’ experience in back-end development.

Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (http://www.egregorelabs.com/" target="_blank">www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here

We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (http://www.romulus.co/" target="_blank">www.romulus.co) and Robana (http://www.robana.ai/" target="_blank">www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.

Ideal Background

• At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Sound understanding of computer science principles
• Exposure to any of the following
  • Financial services
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Robotic Process Automation
  • Intelligent Document Processing
  • Document Management and Repositories

Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
• A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well

Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :

• Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
• Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
• Work Ethic- - We've grown up on Wall Street. We work hard and have aggressive goals. We want our teammates to be focused, goal-oriented, and consistent high achievers.
• Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done and getting things done right. We want outcome-focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.

Interested?
We are an early-stage company. Working here is not for the faint-hearted. An intense and unstructured work environment, lots of excitement, and a group of motivated colleagues are what we bring to the table. We ask you to bring your undivided attention, strong worth ethic & resourcefulness. We are Delhi-based and work 6 days a week. Currently, due to the pandemic, we are operating remotely since Feb 2020.

Requirements:

• Expert in Python, with good knowledge in Django technology.
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Experience in Flask will be an add-on
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Spend most of your time developing brand new software in Python
• Build out a secure data replication infrastructure to replicate transactional data across a hierarchical system
• Build out APIs for supporting a fleet of 20k devices
• Build out a configurable data analytics and reporting framework
• Build out real time dashboards for getting a high level and deep dive view of the overall system
• Be responsible for independently designing and building out modules of the overall system
• Work with a team of smart peers and take ownership of the resulting system
• Push yourselves, create impact, learn and grow as an engineer