Senior Software Engineer (SDE III) at Amazon India · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 7 - 16 years · ₹40L - ₹60L / yr · Profitable · Posted 20 Jul 2018


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Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world.
Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind.
You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1." What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and focus on delighting our customers.
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Experience Required : 3+ Years
Employment Type : Full-time
Location : Gurugram, India (Onsite)
Working Days : 6 Days (5 Days WFO + 1 Day WFH)
Job Summary :
We are seeking a talented and experienced Python Developer with a strong background in Django and a proven ability to build scalable, secure, and high-performance web applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with RabbitMQ, Redis, Celery, and PostgreSQL, and will play a key role in developing and maintaining robust backend systems. This is an onsite opportunity for immediate joiners.
Mandatory Skills : Python, Django, RabbitMQ, Redis, Celery, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, Docker.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, and maintain Django-based web applications and APIs.
- Implement asynchronous task handling using RabbitMQ and Celery.
- Optimize application performance using Redis for caching and session storage.
- Manage database operations, including schema design and query optimization, using PostgreSQL.
- Collaborate with front-end developers, DevOps teams, and stakeholders to deliver full-featured solutions.
- Write clean, modular, and well-documented code aligned with industry best practices.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across the application stack.
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and sprint planning.
- Ensure the scalability, performance, and security of backend services.
Required Technical Skills :
- Minimum 3 Years of experience in Python development.
- Strong hands-on experience with the Django framework.
- Proficiency in RabbitMQ for message brokering.
- Practical experience with Redis for caching and session management.
- Experience using Celery for background job/task queue management.
- Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL (database design, indexing, and optimization).
- Understanding of RESTful API development and integration.
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization.
Preferred Skills :
- Exposure to CI/CD tools and pipelines.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Knowledge of Django ORM optimization techniques.
- Basic familiarity with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Soft Skills :
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to thrive in an agile, fast-paced development environment.
At https://www.holofy.io/">Holofy, We are building an incredible product and to do that we need incredible people.
If you have ambition and drive and want to own your roadmap in a company that knows how to innovate and scale, we want to talk to you.
We work in small, self-managing, collaborative and agile/Kanban teams and are looking for great technology developers who can work in the same.
Location - Remote/WFH
Pre-requisites:
If you are applying or referring somebody to this role, these are the must-haves attributes:
- 5+ years of extensive Backend Development experience using Nodejs/ MERN Stack.
- Experience working in Agile teams.
- Be able to write solid and delicate code within the following: NodeJS with Javascript and Typescript including the translation between the two.Expert knowledge of Express.
- NoSQL systems such as MongoDB or DocumentDB and Working knowledge of AWS.
- Past experience building and troubleshooting large scale cloud-based management systems.
- Strong experience with the creation of RESTful services and API's We are a forward thinking team who are always looking to improve ourselves and our product. Along with experience with API testing frameworks.
We are a forward thinking team who are always looking to improve ourselves and our product.It would be great for you to have some knowledge or experience in the following technologies. If not, there will be plenty of opportunity to learn these new things and more whilst at Holofy.
- Knowledge of kafka, elasticsearch, or RabbitMQ
- Experience with GraphQL
- An understanding of cloud-native systems such as docker
- DevOps Knowledge
Responsibilities:
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good coding practices and habits
- Research and evaluate a variety of software products
- Ability to manage and organize a team of technical staff
- Develop a strategy that the team will use to reach its goal
- Provide timely training to team members on the latest technology
What else we can offer:
- Limitless growth and encouragement to be innovative and challenge status quo.
- Exceptional compensation & benefits and performance-based recognition & rewards.
- Open door policy and flexible working hours and Medical coverage
skills needed:
java
springboot
microservices
kafka/rabbitmq
jpa
Experience:
The candidate should have about 1+ years of experience with design and development in Java/Scala. Experience in algorithm, data-structure, database is mandatory.
Required Skills:
- Java or Scala
- Extensive experience in developing web applications. Should possess good Oops knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
- Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complexity of spark job.
- Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
Good To have: -
- Python
- Distributed Computing
Responsibilities:
• Should have good knowledge and understanding in the following areas and you are able to apply that knowledge in delivering small and medium tasks:
• Programming language(s)
• Frameworks and libraries
• Platforms and tools
• Hands-on experience on AWS serverless services and familiarity with the environment
• Confident personality with good communication skills who can hold a conversation with a client and is not hesitant to put across his point.
• Ability to lead the calls independently in absence of a team lead
• Hands-on experience test case writing.
• Good aptitude
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to lead a group of software developers technically.
• Flexible working hours.
Requirement:
• Must have:
• NodeJS/JavaScript/Typescript
• AWS Serverless services especially lambda, S3, and DynamoDB
• Conceptual understanding of elastic cache and related services
• Restful API
• Intermediate SQL – Querying and analysis
• Microservice architecture
Nice to have:
• Typescript
• Event-Driven Architecture in cloud-like SQS
• OAuth/SAML integration
• Terraform, - would be a great addition
Benefits:
• A competitive annual salary based on experience and market demands
• Flexi-timings
• Medical insurance with the option to purchase a premium plan or HSA option for your entire family
• Business casual atmosphere
• Work from anywhere.
Experience: 5+ Years
An Architect is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.
- Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
- Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
- Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
- Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
- Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
- Requirements:
Ideal candidate should have
- 7+ years of system implementation experience
- Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
- Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
- Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
- Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
- Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
- Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Good experience with Devops
- B Tech/BE or M.Tech/ME in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
- Experience level of 7+ years in building large scale applications.
- Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with distributed systems handling large amount of data.
- Excellent coding skills in Java / Python / Node / Go.
- Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
- Very good understanding of any RDBMS and/or messaging.
- You will be responsible for design, development and testing of Products
- Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
- Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
- Prepare and produce releases of software components
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
- Some of the technologies you will be working on: Core Java, Solr, Hadoop, Spark, Elastic search, Clustering, Text Mining, NLP, Mahout and Lucene etc.












