
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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Python. Django Rest Framework experience would be great, but not essential! We prioritise
quality over quantity.
Postgres with InfluxDB, Oracle, MySQL and Redis experience a plus.
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift and associated tooling.
AWS, especially ECS, Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB. Performance and uptime are super
important to us.
The challenge of scaling a global, distributed API to 10,000+ requests per second.
We have SDKs in a bunch of languages, so the more polyglot you are the better.
If you like writing JS and React that would be awesome too.
• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain software
• Delivering high quality and well-structured code
• Manage individual project priorities and deadlines
• Participate in enhancing tools and processes
• Participate in production observance and technical incident management
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to keep up in a fast-paced environment
Must haves:
• Strong data structure concepts
• Great problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of at least one or more of Java / JavaScript / C / C++ / Golang / Python
• Exposure to RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases
• Working knowledge of GitHub, CI/CD, Devops
Good to have:
• Any cloud exposure like AWS, GCP or Azure
• Hands-on experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes etc
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related field with a minimum of 2 years of experience.
A zeal to learn and ability to enjoy the journey more than the destination is a must
Senior Python Developer (6 + Years Experience)
Core Skills:
- Strong Python experience and understanding of modern design patterns, abstractions, object oriented programming at scale.
- Strong understanding of event based/async architectures (Kafka, WebSockets)
- Database interactions
- Working understanding of infrastructure as code (terraform ) and how develop code that will be deployed by IAC.
- Working understanding of Kubernetes including containerization, deploying, debugging services running on k8s.
Preferred:
- Working GCP experience including GKE, GCE, Cloud functions/cloud run, IAM.
- Git required
- CICD and automation experience; stack includes Jenkins, Terraform, Argo, Harness.
- Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.
- Have a good understanding of design and user experience principles.
- Open-minded, flexible, and willing to adapt to changing situations
- Ability to work independently as well as on a team and learn from colleagues
- High adaptability in a dynamic start-up environment
- Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably, and securely. Evaluating and implementing new systems and infrastructure.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving abilities with a tenacious commitment to finding the root cause of issues.
Qualifications :
- B. Tech/ B.E. /M. Tech/ BCA / MCA or a related technical discipline from reputed universities
Skills Required :
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in REST API development using python.
- Must have experience with anyone popular python frameworks like Django, Flask, and FastAPI Framework.
- Experience in designing and developing Restful Web services and Remote procedure calls.
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Knowledge of load testing and optimizing code for performance, security, and scalability
- Experience with Unit testing frameworks in Python
- Knowledge of modern authorization & authentication mechanisms.
- Able to create database schemes that represent and support business processes
- Knowledge of Version Control System & basics of CI/CD
- Write and maintain technical documentation
- Solid foundation in OOPS, Data structures, and Algorithms
- Knowledge of SDLC phases of project development.
- Experience in one or more No SQL Databases such as MongoDB, and Cassandra.
- Experience with event-based databases and programming
- Good experience in synchronous programming and thread-based programming.
- Experience with schedulers.
- Good to have knowledge of Linux shell commands.
- Good to have experience in Kubernetes & Docker
- Knowledge of any Cloud Service like GCP or AWS would be an added advantage
- Cares deeply about writing Quality, Testable & Modular code
- Good to have an understanding of NLP.
- Back-end development using Python/Django
- Front-end development using CSS, HTML and JS
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Implement security and data protection
- Use Amazon Relational Database Service
- Commit, push, pull and sync to Bitbucket, GitLab
- Deployment of code on MS Azure and AWS
- Build efficient scripts and cron jobs in GCP
- Connect apps and automate workflows using Integromat
- 3+ years of Professional Full time experience building and maintaining complex software on a cross-functional team. You'll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You'll write testable, quality code. You'll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
- Python and Django
- Strong database skills
- Basic systems administration
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering (or equivalent)
- Minimum product dev experience of 3+ years in web/mobile startups with expertise in designing and implementing high performance web applications.
- You're an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
- You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production env and finally monitoring.
- Sound working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS is an add-on
- Technical know-how of MS Azure, AWS and GCP are desirable
- Understand and keep the technical documentation up-to-date on Confluence
- Collaborate work using bug tracking and project management tools like Jira, Redmine
- Excellent knowledge in one or more of Python/NodeJS REST Frameworks
- Hands on experience in system architecture and data modelling. Experience with databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.
- Devops capabilities - with good understanding of deployments and cloud infrastructure. In depth knowledge of container architecture using Docker is must.
- Scaled systems using RabbitMQ/ Redis /Celery/ Kafka
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We want to ensure that our tech is successfully consumed by end users easily.
We are looking forward to work with you.
We would love to have you for the following reasons :
- Strong hold in python based backends such as Flask & Django
- Knowledge of backend principles, patterns, and best practices
- Aware of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available.
- Proficient understanding of Git
- Must have written Unit, Integration and UI Test Cases
- Understanding of Cloud hosting (AWS,Azure) principles and interface guidelines
- Experience in working with distrubuted data using REST APIs, JSON and other technologies
- Potential interns with experience in containers will hold an advantage.
- Experience in Kafka & ELK will be an advantage.
- Experience of 1-2 years.
scalability, accessibility, usability, design, and security in mind. If you don't have all
of these, that's ok, but be excited about learning the few you don't know.
Familiar with building complex web applications using Javascript / AJAX, XHTML,
CSS.
Experience with or knowledge of jQuery, Java, Struts, and other website technologies.
Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a
UNIX or Linux platform)
Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures,
test driven development
Knowledge of Perl or other scripting languages a plus
Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational
databases
Software development experience in building highly scalable applications
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical
discipline
Experience in eCommerce and Deep hands-on technical expertise
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Experience working with service oriented architectures and web based solutions.









