Software Engineer JAVA

Job Title : Software Development Engineer (Python, Django & FastAPI + React.js)

Experience : 2+ Years

Location : Nagpur / Remote (India)

Job Type : Full Time

Collaboration Hours : 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM IST

About the Role :

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in backend development with Python, Django, and FastAPI, as well as working knowledge of AWS.

While backend development is the primary focus, you should also be comfortable contributing to frontend development using JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.

Mandatory Skills : Python, Django, FastAPI, AWS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, REST APIs, SQL/NoSQL.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python (Django / FastAPI).
• Deploy, scale, and manage applications on AWS cloud services.
• Collaborate with frontend developers and contribute to React (JS/TS) development when required.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices.
• Ensure system performance, scalability, and security.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle : planning, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Requirements :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience in Django and FastAPI.
• Practical experience with AWS cloud services.
• Basic proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React for frontend development.
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and software design principles.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative workflows.
• Strong problem-solving ability and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.

Good to Have :

• Experience with Docker for containerization.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

-Design and maintain efficient database solutions using RDBMS.

-Write complex SQL queries for data extraction and manipulation.

-Implement and optimize AWS services for scalable application deployment.

-Develop server-side logic using PHP and integrate front-end elements with JavaScript.

-Collaborate with teams to design, develop, and deploy web applications.

Experience: 
- 4-10 years of Full Stack Application development experience is must. 
- Deep understanding of client side development, coding in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript ES6, and jQuery. 
- Strong experience using a client side MVC framework such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS and Redux.
- Top notch programming skills and write code for robust software design. 
- Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance. 
- Experience in object oriented design skills. 
- Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills. 
- Good understanding of how browsers and DOM work. 
- Experience with Git/Bitbucket. 
- Experience with handling Services, RESTful, APIs. 
 
Responsibilities : 
- To work with a cross-functional software development team on highly visible strategic projects as an expert level individual contributor to the coding tasks assigned. 
- Responsible for development of highly responsive, web based UI in a flexible and well-structured frontend architecture. 
- Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON 
- Experience with third party libraries and APIs 
- Produce well designed efficient code in a timely manner to meet delivery timescales/milestones. 
- Mentor other developers on software best practices technical guidance and help grow their software development skill sets. 

Require a Fullstack Developer with the following Skills:

NodesJS + Typescripts+ AWS Lambda + AWS Step Functions as mandatory skill sets

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of building and maintaining Web APP
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle design, build, deploy, test, release to production and support
• Should be comfortable in building a great consumer user interface and responsive web apps.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-4 years
• React Web Developer with 2+ years of experience
• Should have worked on NodeJS with express framework
• Understanding of Backend services, API implementation, and database systems. - Familiarity with MySQL and Mongo databases
• We encourage all our devs to have a base level of DevOps skills & w.r.t
• Source Control, CI/CD systems, Cloud Services such as AWS, Firebase, GCP Minimum 1 year of experience in responsive app development
• Ability to implement designs and functionality provided by UI/UX teams
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript ES6
• knowledge of Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud is a plus

Key Skills:

• React/JS, NodeJS, Typescript
• Familiarity with Analytics integrations
• Conversant with Github, CI/CD pipeline

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

• The ideal candidate will have experience in development teams that work on business facing transactional systems.
• They will have demonstrated the ability to manage people, make architectural decisions, understand business
• processes to deliver the cleanest solutions.
• Share responsibility for implementing the firms accounting platforms. Partner with 3 rd parties (like Consulting Firms)
• and develop technical specifications.
• Share responsibility for availability, scalability, performance and capacity from development through production
• for a critical strategic build of the new accounting platform
• Reduce errors on deployments, improve reliability, and increase speed of implementation through automation
• Continuously refine and improve our toolset to improve our data and persistence layers

• 7+ years of experience in IT including some experience in architecture roles
• Experience building multi-tier, scalable, fault-tolerant web applications
• Experience with platform integrations and designing service APIs
• Extensive Service-Oriented Architecture patterns and design knowledge and familiarity with cloud based services
• Expertise with identity management, authentication and information security best practices
• Expertise in working with complex cross-domain applications in a global organization across multiple time zones
• Enjoys a fast paced, high-intensity and complex environment, troubleshooting time sensitive critical issues and working with people
• Extensive experience with multi-tier transactional architecture and design
• Extensive experience in enterprise software development in Java and web development stacks (Angular, NodeJS, HTML & CSS)
• Experience with Sybase, Cassandra
• Event / Stream processing technologies
• Experience using Agile methodologies – previous experience working from a backlog, sprints, retrospectives etc.
• Passionate about test driven, clean code, automatically tested and continuous deployment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to present and convey ideas
• Strong attention to detail; action-oriented attitude, and willingness to roll up sleeves
• Curious to explore emerging technologies and learn new things
• Use metrics to drive decision making
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or similar discipline, Masters degree preferred
• Experience in the financial services industry is preferred                                                                                                                         

Job Description

As a Solutions Architect you will be responsible for analyzing, designing and developing viable solutions as per the client needs. You will work with internal and client teams to translate customer needs and business requirements into detailed technical solutions, in both project and proposals scenarios. You will be working in a fast-paced environment solving unique and challenging software problems and developing innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze customer technology, define business and technical requirements;
• Define & drive end-to-end technical solutions. Expected to be hands-on as and when required
• Evaluate potential solutions and systems architecture to ensure that they meet all requirements;
• Contribute to project plan and participate in all project phases (feasibility study, requirement definition, implementation and configuration, user acceptance tests);
• Hold and lead meetings with internal and customers teams to review requirements, address open issues/questions, close gaps;
• Develop technical presentations, proposals and perform customer presentations;
• Work with different teams on planning activities as well as delivery;
• Provide thought leadership to the team around new approaches and workflows and technologies
• Take complete bottom line responsibility of technical designs, code development, and test executions to demonstrate alignment to the functional specification.
• Collaborate with a project team comprised of talented employees with

diverse and complementary skills.

Professional Skill Requirements

• Overall 10 to 12 yrs of IT experience.
• A proven track record of successful project/product implementation with

minimal of 3 years of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair

programming and Test-Driven Development.

• Expert Knowledge of architecture/design frameworks and patterns
• Experience of delivering complex software products relaying on Front End technologies such as Angular JS, React or similar is beneficial
• Experienced on backend web technologies & frameworks as Spring, Spring Boot or equivalent . nodejs is beneficial
• Exposure to Microservices Architectures, Containers & Cloud is appreciated
• Experience with RESTFull design, API First approach and best practices in API definition
• Exposure on JavaScript 6, Typescript, Redux, Redux Middleware & Redux

Axios

• Clear concepts on HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
• Exposure on testing frameworks like Jasmine, Karma, Protractor
• Experience developing on both mobile and web platforms
• Exposure to Agile based execution processes
• Proven skills in improving quality and performance tuning

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!