Senior web backend developer

Job Title : Perl Developer

Experience : 6+ Years

Engagement Type : C2C (Contract)

Location : Remote

Shift Timing : General Shift

Job Summary :

We are seeking an experienced Perl Developer with strong scripting and database expertise to support an application modernization initiative.

The role involves code conversion for compatibility between Sybase and MS SQL, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability of mission-critical systems.

You will work closely with the engineering team to enhance, migrate, and optimize codebases written primarily in Perl, with partial transitions toward Python for long-term sustainability.

Mandatory Skills :

Perl, Python, T-SQL, SQL Server, ADO, Git, Release Management, Monitoring Tools, Automation Tools, CI/CD, Sybase-to-MSSQL Code Conversion

Key Responsibilities :

• Analyze and convert existing application code from Sybase to MS SQL for compatibility and optimization.
• Maintain and enhance existing Perl scripts and applications.
• Where feasible, refactor or rewrite legacy components into Python for improved scalability.
• Collaborate with development and release teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment.
• Follow established Git/ADO version control and release management practices.
• (Optional) Contribute to monitoring, alerting, and automation improvements.

Required Skills :

• Strong Perl development experience (primary requirement).
• Proficiency in Python for code conversion and sustainability initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with T-SQL / SQL Server for database interaction and optimization.
• Familiarity with ADO/Git and standard release management workflows.

Nice to Have :

• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools.
• Familiarity with automation tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Job Description:

Required Skills

• Experience-4+ years
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Good understanding of system design concepts for scalable and reliable applications.
• Hands-on experience with at least one backend language such as Golang, Node.js, Java, Rust, Python, or similar.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, service design, authentication, authorization, and API security.
• Good knowledge of database design, indexing, query optimisation, transactions, and data consistency.
• Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar.
• Understanding of NoSQL databases, caching systems, and when to use them.
• Experience working with Redis or similar caching technologies.
• Understanding of message queues, event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and background jobs.
• Ability to reason about memory management, garbage collection, concurrency, and runtime behaviour.
• Experience debugging performance issues in backend systems.
• Good understanding of high TPS systems, load testing, horizontal scaling, and bottleneck analysis.
• Familiarity with containerisation using Docker.
• Working understanding of Kubernetes-based deployments, preferably EKS.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployment practices.
• Good communication skills and ability to explain technical decisions clearly.

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience with AWS services, especially EKS, RDS, SQS, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, API Gateway, or Lambda.
• Understanding observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Open Telemetry, or similar.
• Experience with distributed tracing and production monitoring.
• Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Knowledge of security best practices around JWT, OAuth2, RBAC, secrets management, and secure API design.
• Experience designing systems for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or reviewing technical designs.

Company Description

Hubler is a NoCode platform located in Bangalore Urban that helps businesses digitally transform and manage every aspect of their business onto a single platform. Our clutter-free app-building platform offers ready-to-deploy apps and app canvas to digitize any business process into mobile and web apps overnight, as well as actionable insights in real-time.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Senior Software Engineer (Python) at Hubler. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software applications while working within a team of developers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and develop software solutions that meet client needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in developing, and maintaining high-quality software applications using Python
• Must enjoy Coding with Passion
• Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, algorithms, data structures and design patterns
• Experience working with Django, Flask, Python-based web frameworks and Restful APIs
• Experience in database design and management with MongoDB
• Experience in distributed source control, such as Git
• Experience with scrum development methodology
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related field
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, to facilitate clear communication with team members and stakeholders
• The ability to work in a collaborative team environment with willingness to share skills and knowledge

WHO WILL LOVE THIS JOB?

• Attracted to creativity, innovation, and eagerness to learn

• Alignment to a fast-paced organization and its short-term and long-term goals

• An engaging, open, genuine personality that naturally encourages interaction with individuals at all levels

• Strong value system and sense of ethics • Absolute dedication to premium quality

• Want to build strong core product team capable of developing solutions for complex, industry-first problems.

• Build balance of experience, knowledge, and new learnings

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Driving the success of the software engineering team at Datamotive.

• Collaborating with senior and peer engineers to prioritize and deliver features on the roadmap.

• Build strong development team with focus on building optimized & usable solutions.

• Research, Design & Develop distributed solution to handle workload mobility across multi & hybrid cloudsr

• Assist in Identifying, Researching & Designing newer features and cloud platform support in areas of disaster recovery, data protection, workload migration etc.

• Assist in building product roadmap.

• Conduct pilot tests to assess the functionality of newly developed programs.

• Front facing customers for product introduction, knowledge transfer, solutioning, bugs triaging etc.

• Assist customers by giving product demos, conducting POCs, trainings etc.

• Manage Datamotive infrastructure, bring innovative automation for optimizing infrastructure usage through monitoring and scripting. • Design test environments to simulate customer behaviours and use cases in VMware vSphere, AWS, GCP, Azure clouds. • Help write technical documentation, generate marketing content like blogs, webinars, seminars etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS?

• Experience in software development with relevant domain understanding of Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Ransomware Recovery.

• A strong understanding and demonstrable experience with at least one of the major public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure or VMware)

• A strong understanding and experience of designing and developing architecture of complex, distributed systems.

• Insights into development of client-server SaaS applications with good breadth across networking, storage, micro-services, and other web technologies.

• Experience of building and leading strong development teams with systems product development background

• Programming knowledge in either of GO Lang, C, C++, Python or Shell script.

• Should be a computer science graduate with strong fundamentals & problem-solving abilities.

• Good understanding of virtualization, storage and cloud platforms like VMware, AWS, GCP, Azure and/or Kubernetes will be preferable

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! https://www.happyfox.com/

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team to help build and maintain our growing list of products. You should have prior experience being responsible for building sufficiently complex features by yourself.

Responsibilities: 

• Implement product features by writing clean, robust, reusable code with tests
• Conduct peer reviews to keep the codebase a great environment to work on
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver high-quality features
• Bring new ideas and best practices to improve the team and the codebase

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional work experience
• Proficiency in backend programming languages like Python
• Experience working with web application frameworks like Django
• Experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Proficiency in writing highly performant and scalable code
• Experience in building REST APIs and a good understanding of best practices around building APIs
• Good communication skills with an ability to articulate your views
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

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.