Senior Software Engineer (Python)

We are looking for candidates with 0.5 - 2 years of work experience*

ByteAlly is a software consultancy based out of Chennai focusing heavily on the supply chain industry. Our solutions span Blockchain solutions, Food traceability, B2B integrations, and enterprise applications. We are looking for a Back End developer to join our force.

• Proficiency in C# - Experience using .NET Core.
• Experience in developing ASP.NET MVC / ASP.NET Core WEB API applications
• Extensive knowledge of Entity Framework/ EF Core
• Proficient knowledge of SQL Server
• Knowledge in React.JS preferred
• Extensive experience in performance tuning and code optimization

Please Note: We are also looking for candidates who are available to join immediately or with a notice period of maximum 30 days.

Back-end developers design and enable code-based innovation in our suite of web-based platforms and databases. Together with the front-end development team output enabling a intuitive, highly functional and seamless experience that delights our users.

This opportunity will rely on your ability to develop backend code, create, edit, or manipulate platform databases, leverage an API based integration approach for platform development.

We are looking for:

• Prior experience designing and developing backend code in support of web applications and platforms
• Sound programming skills and logic
• Excellent team spirit: including daily engagement, strong communication skills and ability to easily collaborate with various stakeholders
• Excellent time-management skills and accountability for tasks on a daily, weekly and sprint basis

Skills Required:

• Sound knowledge and experience with backend technology such as Node, SQL, Python
• Understanding of secure API’s and the successful use in a commercial setting
• Understanding of JSON files, data manipulation techniques and products such as DataBricks
• Experience with Agile development efforts and Azure Dev/Ops tool

Key initial responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test and compile high quality code, data artifacts , processes, in support of the buildout of our platform and web applications
• Collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Designers and Front-end developers to establish and satisfy development objectives
• Foster innovation supporting new and existing programs, products, and features through a combination of thought leadership and emerging industry trends
• Reconciling data and reporting deliverables to internal and client teams
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• Taking lead on projects as needed.

Create and maintain database tables, views, indexes, and triggers.

Implement and maintain database code in the form of stored procedures, scripts, queries, views, triggers, etc.

Develop and maintain high-quality stored procedures.

Write low cost, high-quality database queries and code while maintaining data quality, privacy, and security

Profile databases, measure database performance and troubleshoot complex database issues, and IO bottlenecks.

Optimize database queries and ensure table locking/deadlocks happen in production.

Optimize large, complicated SQL statements & Stored Procedures.

Cost optimization of Amazon instances using databases.

Knowledge of database design principles, query optimization, index management, integrity checks, statistics and isolation levels

Knowledge of message queuing, indexing, and high-performance data concept

Knowledge of JSON and PostgreSQL support for JSON.

Good Grasp of ETL concepts

Work with front-end developers to define simple yet powerful APIs

Work with DBAs to ensure the efficiency of database code, integrity of data structures and quality of data content.

Coordinate with product managers and leadership teams to build effective database objects

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Good attitude towards work and flexibility

Ability and willingness to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

Ability to evaluate alternative solutions and/or workarounds

• Experience in designing & developing systems/software for large business environments (Java, J2EE).
• Strong design and coding skills in Enterprise Java, REST & SOAP web services, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), Spring, Maven, JMS (ActiveMQ), Caching, XML, JSON.
• Experience with multiple integration technologies / frameworks.
• Must have good experience in Unix/Oracle/SQL.
• Experience in Agile Development, Scrum, and Iterative approaches.
• Experience and exposure to AWS Cloud Services and DevOps mindset and expertise is a plus Experience with Mule or any ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) is a plus.

What You'll Do


You will be part of our data platform & data engineering team. As part of this agile team, you will work in our cloud native environment and perform following activities to support core product development and client specific projects:

• You will develop the core engineering frameworks for an advanced self-service data analytics product.
• You will work with multiple types of data storage technologies such as relational, blobs, key-value stores, document databases and streaming data sources.
• You will work with latest technologies for data federation with MPP (Massive Parallel Processing) capabilities
• Your work will entail backend architecture to enable data modeling, data queries and API development for both back-end and front-end data interfaces.
• You will support client specific data processing needs using SQL and Python/Pyspark
• You will integrate our product with other data products through Django APIs
• You will partner with other team members in understanding the functional / non-functional business requirements, and translate them into software development tasks
• You will follow the software development best practices in ensuring that the code architecture and quality of code written by you is of high standard, as expected from an enterprise software
• You will be a proactive contributor to team and project discussions

Who you are


• Strong education track record - Bachelors or an advanced degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline from Indian Institute of Technology or equivalent premium institute.
• 2-3 years of experience in data queries, data processing and data modeling
• Excellent ANSI SQL skills to handle complex queries
• Excellent Python and Django programming skills.
• Strong knowledge and experience in modern and distributed data stack components such as the Spark, Hive, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure) and native cloud technologies for data storage and data processing
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Blobs, MongoDB etc.
• Familiarity with ML models is highly preferred
• Experience with Big Data processing and performance optimization
• Should know how to write modular, optimized and documented code.
• Should have good knowledge around error handling.
• Experience in version control systems such as GIT
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Self-starter, continuous learner.

Good to have some exposure to

• Start-up experience is highly preferred
• Exposure to any Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau, Dundas, Power BI etc.
• Agile software development methodologies.
• Working in multi-functional, multi-location teams

What You'll Love About Us – Do ask us about these!

• Be an integral part of the founding team. You will work directly with the founder
• Work Life Balance. You can't do a good job if your job is all you do!
• Prepare for the Future. Academy – we are all learners; we are all teachers!
• Diversity & Inclusion. HeForShe!
• Internal Mobility. Grow with us!
• Business knowledge of multiple sectors

Here a video that explains our product journey:

https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21">https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21

This is fully a remote role, but the employer needs to fly down to the office in Kolkata for 5–6 days every month. Plane tickets and accommodation will be reimbursed by the company.

About Sportz Interactive

Sportz Interactive (SI) works with its clients and partners to revolutionize the sports fan experience across consumption points by creating best-in-class, kickass products. SI was founded in 2002 as a B2B sports content business. Through the years, it gained immense reputation for its state-of-the-art hosted solutions, digital simulators, match centers and fantasy games. Sportz Interactive has a fantastic reputation in the online sports community, having worked with clients across the globe including the likes of The International Cricket Council, STAR Sports, Yahoo!, AOL, Eurosport, Castrol, Web 18, NDTV, Nimbus, Times of India, Rediff.com and Singtel amongst others. 

Sportz Interactive provides in-depth sports information and content and specializes in product development for the web, mobile and other interactive platforms. 
http://www.sportzinteractive.net/">www.sportzinteractive.net 

Designation: Senior Associate 

Office Location: Goregaon East, Mumbai

Position description:

3+ years of experience in database development.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Understand requirements from front end applications developers
• Write advanced queries, stored procedures, cursors, functions & triggers
• Conduct code reviews
• Work with high-traffic application servers
• Complete understanding of various DB like Postgresql, Mongo DB, MySQL 
• Ability to identify root cause and mitigate issues
• Ability to lead a team of DB developers

Required Skills:

Mandatory: Passionate about sports, Problem solving, Team player, Target & Result oriented, Strong communication skills.

Functional: Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL Development - TSQL, Advance Queries, Query Optimization, Stored Procedures, Triggers & Cursors, Database Design, Indexes, Joins, ETL tools like SSAS, SSIS, High Data Volume Processing, DB Backup/Recovery.

We are looking for Django Developers who will  work on a wide range of industries namely automobile, banking, education, fashion, etc.

Skills Required: 

• Professional and precise communication skills.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, testable modules and components..
• Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performance visual effects and keeping the frame rate above 30fps at all times.
• 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 multithreading, when needed.
• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around resources.
• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets.

Qualifications and Experience Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in Backend Development
• Preferred skills - Python, MySql, PostgreSQL
• Proficiency with Python, Django framework, JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
• Knowledge of AWS Cloud Services ( EC2, AWS Lambda,Elastic Beanstalk, API Gateway, S3 etc )
• Familiar with XAMPP, LAMP etc.

Responsibilities:

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic

• Implementation of security and data protection

• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack)

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture

• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance (depending on the specific project)

• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

• Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform

• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

• Strong unit test and debugging skills

• Basic knowledge of machine learning algorithm and libraries like keras, tensorflow, sklearn.