Software Developer

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of backend development experience in scalable web applications.
• Strong expertise in Python, Django ORM, and RESTful API design.
• Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL databases
• Comfortable working in a startup environment with multiple priorities.
• Understanding of cloud-native architectures and SaaS models.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About the company

We are building analytics on natural language to help product development teams learn from large-scale customer feedback. Since our inception in 2020, we have been backed by top-tier VC firms from Silicon Valley and India. Today, we are proud to partner with some of the fastest scaling Product Led Growth companies. We are growing really fast and excited about having more people join us on this journey

Roles & Responsibilities

• Working closely with founders to develop the entire backend and build out product features at a rapid pace.
• Identifying and driving innovative solutions to address the most critical needs of our customers.
• Work in close collaboration with cross-functional partners in data science, design and frontend functions.
• Solve complex MLOps (model deployment, monitoring, training) challenges.
• Build cost effective and scalable systems.
• Contribute to product development by pitching in with ideas and doing proof-of-concepts.

Qualifications

• Over 2 years of work experience in the industry.
• Experience of domain modelling and deep understanding of distributed systems.
• Proficiency with any part of our technology stack: Golang, Serverless, Event Driven Architectures, NoSql/SQL, Elastic Search, Graphql, Microservice Architecture
• Hands-on experience in using versioning systems like Git.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with automated test suites
• Strong interpersonal skills and a desire to work collaboratively to achieve objectives
• Excellent organisational and analytical abilities

Benefits and Perks

• Autonomy and Ownership
• Smart, Humble and Friendly peers
• Competitive remuneration package with equity options
• Generous vacation
• Maternity and Paternity leaves
• Learning & Development resources
• Initial grant to setup home-office 
• Monthly stipend for coffee / nutritional supplements

• New features developed independently with the ability to document the design after understanding and evaluating the requirements with necessary groundwork on required application components
• Hands-on coding to implement the design for feature completion
• Able to write unit tests that ensures bug free code
• Able to handle the multi-tenant and performance requirements of the new features and applications.
• Integrate the new features with existing modules, deliver ready to use code meeting necessary build requirements and CI/CD requirements.
• Work with other functional groups for product, technology, QA, tech support and deployment team.

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The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications.

• BE/B.Tech Degree from a reputed institution with at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Hands-on experience with Core Java, J2EE with a good knowledge of its ecosystem
• Experience with JUnit, JMH like performance tuning test tools preferred
• REST API design and development experience. Usage of Swagger or other API spec tools would be preferred. Working knowledge on Spring Boot is a plus
• Hands-on experience with some of the following application components is a plus: Solr, Kafka, OpenTSDB, Elasticsearch, Janus graph or any graph DB.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL required.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI, Maven, Ant required
• Experience building applications using microservices architecture is highly preferred. Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker would be ideal
• Working knowledge on public clouds like AWS or Google cloud or Azure is a plus
• Experience building scalable systems
• Strong problem solving skills and ability and interest to solve complex problems
• Interest in machine learning (ML) data science is a plus

• Java, J2EE
• Microservices
• Spring Boot
• JPA, REST API, JSON, JWT, OAuth, Spring Security, Swagger
• Oracle / MySQL / Postgres DB
• Angular / React / React Native
• JIRA, Bitbucket

Must-Have -

• Excellent knowledge of Core Java and Spring
• Strong experience in REST API and web services
• Experience in Oracle / Mysql / Postgres DB
• Should be efficient with Java J2EE and related technologies
• Should have very good communication skills and analytical skills.
• Should have good knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies.
• Good knowledge of current / emerging technologies and trends
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. High levels of initiative and creativity
• Good communication skills with all stakeholders, good team player with the ability to mentor juniors

Good to Have:

• Knowledge in Banking Domain
• Full-stack developers with knowledge and understanding of Javascript and associated technologies like React, Angular, HTML5, CSS will have an advantage.

As per 5 yrs below is the tech stack that he should know around django:

·         Django forms

·         Django Rest APIs

·         Schedulers/Cron Jobs

·         Customising middlewares

·         Customising permission classes

·         Management commands

·         Fixtures

·         Multiple Environment handling

·         Multiple database integration

·         SQL and NoSQL database integration experience

·         Use of loggers or any logging mechanism

·         Signals

·         Push notifications over IOS/Android devices

·         Email notifications

·         Websockets

·         Unit testing

·         Caching

·         Payment gateway integration

AWS & Deployment Skills:

·         Deployment of Django over EC2 using Nginx or Apache2

·         Configuring the Django to run the services like websockets, celery

·         Using and configuring the RDS

·         Should know how to use S3 buckets

aws-lambda

• 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.