

Backend Engineer (Senior Role 7 Years) - 3 Positions
We are looking for an ambitious and self-driven Sr. backend Engineer to join JiT Finco. As a member of the core technology team, you will be working with the existing product development team and owning a few modules that are critical to our customer journeys.
We are looking for an engineer to join our front-end engineering team who has experience in Python (Django Framework)
Skills and Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a similar field.
- Previous experience 6-8 Yrs working as a Python Developer
- Experience with owning and developing product modules in Django
- In-depth knowledge of Django Framework
- Built RESTful APIs and familiarity with Postman
- Sound familiarity with GitHub
- Exposure to aspects related to product architecture
- Has experience in architecting and building for scale
- Knowledge of AWS, CI/CD pipeline et al
- Knowledge of performance testing frameworks
- Familiarity with Celery would be an added advantage
- Experience with Agile development
- You write clean, concise, self-documenting code that both you and your team can still understand a year after. You test everything.
- You already master a few scripting languages, or easily find your way around a new one. You enjoy picking up new things and incorporating those in your skillset.
The Interview Process
- Introductory call with (60 mins)
- Coding Assignments (150 mins)
- Follow up call with (Related to assignment - 60 mins)
- Closing call and offer (30 mins)
The entire process should take max 3 days subject to your availability.
JiT Finco Techstack
AWS, Python (DJango), PostGres SQL, Celery, React, React JS

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About Potentiam
Potentiam helps SME companies build world-class offshore teams. Our model is our locations and your dedicated staff under your control. Potentiam have offices in Iasi in Romania, Bangalore and Cape Town, home to large liquid pools of offshore talent working for international companies. Potentiam's management team have had over 15 years' experience in building offshore teams, and have specialist functional expertise to support the transition offshore in technology, finance, operations, engineering, digital marketing, technology and analytics. For decades corporations' scale has enabled them to benefit from the cost and skills advantage of offshore operations. Now SME companies can enjoy a similar benefit through Potentiam without any upfront investment.
Location : Bangalore ( Hybrid)
Experience - 6+ Years
Professional Experience:
- Experience using a Python backend web framework (like Django, Flask or FastAPI)
- In particular, experience building performant and reliable APIs and integrations
- Competency using SQL and ORMs
- Some experience with frontend web development would be a bonus using a JavaScript framework (such as Vue.js or React)
- Understanding of some of the following: Django Rest Framework, PostgreSQL, Celery, Docker, nginx, AWS
Benefits and Perks
- Health Insurance
- Referral Bonus
- Performance Bonus
- Flexible Working options
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent


Position: Lead Backend Engineer
Location: Pune, India (Initially Remote Due to COVID 19)
About the Organization:
It is one of the most exciting Bay Area Product Driven Organization in Logistics industry supporting more than 30,0000 customers.
As a software engineer on the Backend team, you will be building and owning backend services and infrastructure that power our core products. We strive for high standard of engineering quality while solving unique hardware as well as software challenges. You will have high impact roles at a relatively small company for our user base. You thrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments that require you to wear many hats and think on your feet.
What we are looking for?
- 4+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ year of experience in Python/Django or Go
- Familiarity with Node.JS is a plus
- You write high quality and well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
- Good intuition for REST API design
- Start-up experience is a plus
- BS/MS/PHD in Computer Science or a related field (ideal)
- Preferably a Pune based candidate who can join at the earliest / Within a month
Should Be a Computer Science Graduate from a Tier-1 Engineering college like IIT/ BHU / NIT / VIT / COEP / PICT / BITS
Why join us?
- Very high-growth
- Passionate, collaborative, and awesome co-workers
- Free lunches
- Competitive salaries


We are looking for an experienced Python developer who can help create dynamic software applications for our clients with their skill set. In this role, you will be responsible for gathering requirements from clients and accordingly write and test scalable code, and develop back-end components.
Technologies worked on:
Python - Django/Flask/FastAPI, Pytest/Unittest, AWS services.
Database - Postgresql/Mysql or NoSQL databases.
Requirement Description:
• Experience in designing,implementation & testing of Python Applications.
• Must have knowledge of at least one of python web framework Django/Flask/FastAPI and any of unit test frameworks(Pytest/Unittest).
• Should have a solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP).
• Well-experienced to perform Unit Testing and Integration Testing
• Have good experience in Agile based development approach.
• Expertise in developing enterprise-level web applications and REST/GRAPHQL APIs using
MicroServices, with demonstrable production-scale experience.
• Demonstrate strong design and programming skills ,writing optimized code.
• Working knowledge with SQL(MySQL,Postgresql etc) is mandatory and knowledge on NoSQL databases can be an addon.
• Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective design, development, validation, and support activities.
• Understanding of core AWS services, uses and basic AWS architecture best practices.
• Proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS.
• Ability to use the AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, and SDKs to write applications
• Ability to identify key features of AWS services while designing a solution.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and recommend solutions by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of custom development
• Should contribute to team meetings, troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms
• Execute strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams.
• Responsible for quality and timely deliverables for each given task.
• Knowledge on frontend technologies could be addon.


We are looking for a Backend developer who is passionate about building end to end applications.
What you will be doing:
- Designing and developing scalable applications and takes care of test and deployment as well.
- Managing individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Architect and implement software libraries in a multi-cloud environment
- Design and build a flexible logging, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure
- Build scalable APIs using python and is familiar with the latest developments in the language
Skills Required:
- Expert in Python 3
- Detailed knowledge of Python web framework Django or Flask (2 to 3 years)
- Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries,
- Knowledge of Django REST framework and its concepts like Serializers, Viewsets, Filters, Mixins.
- Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Experience with Python libraries like Pandas, Numpy.
- Experience with databases NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB is a big plus
- Experience with technologies like Celery, Gunicorn, Redis.
- Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, databases, networking, and distributed systems.
- Experience with working on Linux system, GIT, CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience in designing scalable architectures to support a data-intensive application.
- Experience of working with AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, lambda etc.
- Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.
- Prior experience working in IoT domain or energy sector will be plus.
Personality traits we really admire:
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn, and suggest process improvements.
- Attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
- Equal importance to planning, coding, code reviews, documentation, and testing.
- Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
- Adheres to release cycles and absolute commitment to deadlines.


Responsibilities:
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Design and implement backend infrastructure and APIs.
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Write high quality code that is robust, readable and scales.
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Possess the drive to dive deep. thrive and progress even in ambiguous situations.
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Encourage and support knowledge sharing within teams and external groups.
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Troubleshoot & debug applications.
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Adopt problem solving as a way of life - always go to the root cause.
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Collaborate with the team to discuss and implement ideas.
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Build responsive, robust and optimised applications.
Requirements:
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Passionate about building backend systems.
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Desire to explore new ideas, open to other ideas as well.
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Love for writing clean, beautiful, readable and testable code.
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Experience in designing extensible DRY code.
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Our stack is based on Django, Python3 Celery, Angular and Postgres.
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We expect you to have a good understanding of Python. It's even better if you are familiar with some of Git. Django, Celery, Redis and Unix Shell.

The B2B manufacturing industry has a lack of digitisation globally. NowPurchase is building layers of technology to help improve the productivity and profits of the manufacturer. For this we are building the OS (Operating System) that will seamlessly connect factory equipment such as furnaces and spectrometers to our software systems that provide real time optimisations.
The end-game is to use this interconnected system to do great production planning and autonomous procurement of their raw materials. The Heart of NowPurchase will be a marketplace consisting of these smart factories and raw material suppliers.
Here a video that explains our product journey:
https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21">https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21
This is fully a remote role, but the employer needs to fly down to the office in Kolkata for 5–6 days every month. Plane tickets and accommodation will be reimbursed by the company.
Role Description
NowPurchase is looking to add an immensely talented Senior Backend Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet the above vision.
- Expect to build a lot of services and APIs in the cloud and stand-alone IoT devices to serve both the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises.
- Expect designing algorithms that model the metallurgy of the manufacturing processes as well as using tools such as linear programming, machine learning etc.
- You need to lead the backend team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and is constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.
What are the expectations from this role?
- Deliver high quality modular code deployed to serve web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets. This would include algorithms for real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
- You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
- Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
- Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
- Collaborate on the end to end design and implementation of the platform, including data modeling, systems architecture, data security, access controls, architecture, user experience, deployment, automation, and monitoring.
- Maintain a high level of data integrity, quality and security checks.
- Develop data pipelines and RESTful services that are distributed, robust and highly performant.
- Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.
Qualifications and Experience
- 4+ years of demonstrated software engineering experience in an agile environment designing, architecting and implementing robust scalable systems preferably for modern SaaS application
- 1+ years of technical leadership experience
- Experience with modern server-side programming languages such as Python, Scala, Go. Experience with web frameworks such as Django Rest Framework, Flask.
- Experience with architecting asynchronous services with design patters leveraging PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Celery for storage and multi-tenant servers over AWS Elastic BeanStalk.
Compensation & Benefits
- **Cash Compensation:** As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
- **ESOPs:** 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
- **Medical Insurance:** Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
- **Generous leave structure and WFHs** including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
- **Complete Relocation Expenses:** We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.
**Possible Growth path**
Senior Backend End Engineer > Engineering Manager > VP of Engineering
**Tech Stack**
- React/Redux
- Python/Django/Celery
- Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
- PostgreSQL/Redis/S3
## **Hiring Process**
1. Screening of applicants & initial telephonic call with Manager -HR
2. F2F/Video Interview with Engineering Manager and Cofounder CTO
3. Take home written assessment
4. F2F/Video Interview with Cofounder CEO
5. Email communication on final feedback
The end to end process shall take less than 10 days. We pride ourselves on being transparent & moving fast.
*Candidates who accept an offer may join within 1 hour, 1 week or up to 45days of signing - though, we have a preference for as short a gap period between signing and joining since we're at the most exciting part of our journey - laying the foundation for the NowPurchase platform!*

o Strong Python development skills, with 7+ yrs. experience with SQL.
o A bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science or related areas
o8+ years of experience in data integration and pipeline development
o Experience in Implementing Databricks Delta lake and data lake
o Expertise designing and implementing data pipelines using modern data engineering approach and tools: SQL, Python, Delta Lake, Databricks, Snowflake Spark
o Experience in working with multiple file formats (Parque, Avro, Delta Lake) & API
o experience with AWS Cloud on data integration with S3.
o Hands on Development experience with Python and/or Scala.
o Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
o Experience in using data modeling techniques and tools (focused on Dimensional design)
o Experience with micro-service architecture using Docker and Kubernetes
o Have experience working with one or more of the public cloud providers i.e. AWS, Azure or GCP
o Experience in effectively presenting and summarizing complex data to diverse audiences through visualizations and other means
o Excellent verbal and written communications skills and strong leadership capabilities
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