Sr. Backend Engineer

About the role

Checking quality is one of the most important tasks at Anakin. Our clients are pricing their products based on our data, and minor errors on our end can lead to our client's losses of millions of dollars. You would work with multiple tools and with people across various departments to ensure the accuracy of the data being crawled. You would setup manual and automated processes and make sure they run to ensure the highest possible data quality.

You are the engineer other engineers can count on. You embrace every problem with enthusiasm. You remove hurdles, are a self-starter, team player. You have the hunger to venture into unknown areas and make the system work.

Your Responsibilities would be to:

• Understand customer web scraping and data requirements; translate these into test approaches that include exploratory manual/visual testing and any additional automated tests deemed appropriate
• Take ownership of the end-to-end QA process in newly-started projects
• Draw conclusions about data quality by producing basic descriptive statistics, summaries, and visualisations
• Proactively suggest and take ownership of improvements to QA processes and methodologies by employing other technologies and tools, including but not limited to: browser add-ons, Excel add-ons, UI-based test automation tools etc.
• Ensure that project requirements are testable; work with project managers and/or clients to clarify ambiguities before QA begins
• Drive innovation and advanced validation and analytics techniques to ensure data quality for Anakin's customers
• Optimize data quality codebases and systems to monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Configure and optimize the automated and manual testing and deployment systems used to check the quality of billions of data points of over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a backend or a full-stack software engineer
• Web scraping experience with Python or Node.js
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Should be paranoid about data quality

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

Additional Requirements:

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

• Python developer with Django experience
• 6-8 yrs of total experience
• Strong communication is a MUST

We are looking for a Python Web Developer Intern responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Perks of working with us:

• Competitive stipend
• Remote option available
• Certificate and Letter of recommendation
• Slack/Asana focussed environment
• Cool managers
• Meme focussed communication
• Opportunity to convert to work full-time

Skills

• In-depth knowledge in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework 
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving aptitude
• Attentive to details
• Available for 6 months

• Deep understanding of Django and DRF
• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

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

Position: Python Developer

Experience: 2-9 Years

Company Profile:

About Exponentia: Exponentia is an AI tech organization with presence across India, Singapore, Middle East, and the UK. We are an innovative and disruptive organization, working on cutting edge technology to help our clients transform into the enterprises of the future. We provide artificial intelligence-based products/platforms capable of automated cognitive decision making to improve productivity, quality, and economics of the underlying business processes. Currently, we are transforming ourselves and rapidly expanding our business.

About Engagely: Engagely is an artificial intelligence based conversational product (SaaS) by Exponentia. Our core engine uses NLP and machine intelligence to deliver intelligent conversations. We help organizations create virtual assistants, bringing in automation and insightful customer engagement.

Requirements:

• 2-9 years hands on experience in Core Python with any framework (Flask/Django) building end to end applications development.
• Experience in Mongo (or any Nosql)
• Experience in client coordination
• Experience in Nodejs would be a plus
• Experience in Web technologies-HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Database-SQL Server/My SQL/ No SQL database
• Good understanding of Algorithms, data structures 

Education

BE/MBA /PG (Statistics) with good academic credentials