Software Engineer

bout the Role

We are seeking an experienced Python Data Engineer with a strong foundation in API and basic UI development. This role is essential for advancing our analytics capabilities for AI products, helping us gain deeper insights into product performance and driving data-backed improvements. If you have a background in AI/ML, familiarity with large language models (LLMs), and a solid grasp of Python libraries for AI, we’d like to connect!

Key Responsibilities

•   Develop Analytics Framework: Build a comprehensive analytics framework to evaluate and monitor AI product performance and business value.

•   Define KPIs with Stakeholders: Collaborate with key stakeholders to establish and measure KPIs that gauge AI product maturity and impact.

•   Data Analysis for Actionable Insights: Dive into complex data sets to identify patterns and provide actionable insights to support product improvements.

•   Data Collection & Processing: Lead data collection, cleaning, and processing to ensure high-quality, actionable data for analysis.

•   Clear Reporting of Findings: Present findings to stakeholders in a clear, concise manner, emphasizing actionable insights.

Required Skills

•   Technical Skills:

o   Proficiency in Python, including experience with key AI/ML libraries.

o   Basic knowledge of UI and API development.

o   Understanding of large language models (LLMs) and experience using them effectively.

•   Analytical & Communication Skills:

o   Strong problem-solving skills to address complex, ambiguous challenges.

o   Ability to translate data insights into understandable reports for non-technical stakeholders.

o   Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and frameworks to assess AI product effectiveness.

o   Experience in statistical methods to interpret data and build metrics frameworks.

o   Skilled in quantitative analysis to drive actionable insights.

1. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
2. Experience in Agile development using JIRA, GIT,  Confluence.
3. 3+ years of Experience in  node.js + Express.
4. Experience in profiling, debugging & troubleshooting Node.js processes.
5. Strong Experience as a backend developer for REST API design.
6. Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQLdatabases like  PostgreSQL / MySQL or MongoDB
7. Understanding accessibility and security compliance
8. Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
9. User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

Roles:

• Developing core infrastructure in Python, Django.
• Developing models and business logic (e. g. transactions, payments, diet plan, search, etc).
• Architecting servers and services that enable new product features.
• Building out newly enabled product features

• Minimum 4 years of industry or open-source experience.
• Proficient in at least one OO language: Python(preferred)/Golang/Java.
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

•   At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Should Have experience leading a team.
•   Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
•   Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
•   Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
•   Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.

Opportunity

Here 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.

Responsibilities for Staff Engineer role:

• Having experience in Java along with Springboot, Micorservices, RDBMS
• Experience required: 6yrs to 8 yrs.

• 6+ years Java coding experience with immediate joiner
• Will be working closely with Product and Technology team
• Very good logical thinking and quick at learning and exploring new frameworks
• Hands-on with technology and providing POC
• Strong background culture of delivering projects with First time right and near-zero defects in production

Skill Sets: 

• Java Spring Boot 
• Micro Services architecture
• J2EE, JDBC, ORM Frameworks, JPA, NoSQL

Our backend(NodeJS+PHP) team is passionate about technology, and we love building scalable web solutions keeping performance in mind.We're looking for a full stack developer that has experience developing a variety of Web Apps using the PHP and NodeJS stack.

Role + Responsibilities:

• Work with the team to design, develop and support scalable applications        
• Developing API’s(REST), designing the database schema and implement same in web frameworks like Laravel and Express along with ORM(including migration script and seeds data)    
• Very good end-to-end debugging skills in PHP and NodejS stack.    
• Write, test, and release production-ready code.        
• Work with our DevOps team to ensure continuous deployments of our applications

Person Specification and Qualifications:

• Experience developing highly scalable services and APIs(in NodejS and PHP frameworks)    
• Knowledge of data modelling and database performance using NoSQL/SQL    
• Strong experience with PHP framework like Laravel(PHP) and JS frameworks like Express, and other Framework In nodeJS.    
• Good knowledge in code versioning(git or svn)    
• Good knowledge in html templating, javascript, html and css.    
• Good experience with code deployment on server like ubuntu, linux.    
• Knowledge of SDK integration(social media sdk like Facebook, google, etc and cloud services sdk like AWS and Azure)    
• Familiarity developing SaaS applications in AWS/Azure cloud services.        
• In-depth knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architectures for multi-tier applications