Sr. Backend Engineer

We are on a mission to make marketing easy and efficient for eCommerce companies. We are currently helping Shopify Merchants succeed in Google Shopping.

• Democratizing marketing: Quality Marketing is a great way for SMBs to level the playing field against large corporations. Enabling SMBs to prosper will result in increased competition & value add to many instead of a few.
• Building a large profitable business: We envision building a capital-efficient, large profitable business to achieve our mission of democratizing marketing. We are one of the few profitable Indian SaaS startups building Value SaaS.
• Employee Wellness <> Customer Success: We give as much importance to each team member’s personal & professional success as much as we care about our customer's success. We believe it’s all about balance.

• 8000+ active stores using our software
• Profitable for more than 12 months
• 10M+ products updated daily
• Achieved with a small team of 12

• Total Salary: Rs. 12 to 15 lakhs per annum (based on prior experience and fit)
• Equity will be awarded after 12 months, based on the impact created. We prefer that you hold equity in the company.

Within 1 month:

• Learn all aspects of our current product as part of your training.
• Setup the dev environment and push your first small piece of code to production.
• Have a one-one chat with every member of the AdNabu team, so you get to know everyone well.

Within 3 months:

• You'll start developing your first service all by yourself. (With some guidance)
• Write your first set of unit test cases and set up functional testing workflows.
• Conduct your first review of a peer's code.
• Participate in several bug-bashes to get a deep understanding of all the new features we're working on.

Within 6 months:

• You'll launch your first two or three services to production.
• Take architectural and infrastructure decisions that will impact the entire product.
• Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new services.

Within 12 months:

• You'll launch at least 3 to 4 core services to production and completely own scaling for some more.
• Participate in interviewing and hiring to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and customer success leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.

• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, databases, networking, and distributed systems.
• 3-6 years of experience with product development(Python & MVC based web framework).
• Experience with working on Linux system, version control, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in designing scalable architectures to support a data-intensive application.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• The ability to explain sophisticated architectures to engineers, product managers, and support & operation executives.
• You are expected to write a proposal for your idea/solutions and take feedback from the team.
• Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.

• 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.

By joining as our third Software Engineer in a growing team, you have the opportunity to make a huge impact by working closely with the leadership team, including the CEO. As we scale our tech team over the next few months, you will have a key role in hiring and taking on bigger responsibilities.

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who wants to take up challenging work & push your personal boundaries, then this is the right place for you.
• Great Salary & Equity: For our top performers and leaders, we grant stock options. As AdNabu continues to grow, you’ll have a real opportunity to create wealth for yourself and your family. We'll ensure you are financially well-off in the end.
• Holistic Growth: Building a career doesn’t have to be at the cost of missing out on your personal front. We believe that professional success is worth it when personal goals are nurtured with equal importance. We will support you on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be on an entrepreneurial journey, then working with AdNabu gives you that opportunity to experience it all first hand.
• Food & Snacks: We provide Sodexo coupons monthly. This is on top of your salary :)
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage for you & your dependents.
• Flexible leaves & work-from-home: We only care about the work being effective and on-time. Do it from wherever you want to do it. Your home, or a beach in Goa, that’s all up to you :). Team bonding activities like quizzes, games, and more are conducted regularly.

If all of this sounds exciting to you, join us for an exciting and equally fulfilling ride at AdNabu!

Grid is a low-code platform that enables enterprises to move from traditional software to rapid application development. We are helping users change the way they interact with technology for internal management. Our plans for 2022 are to rapidly scale the customer base across our verticals and establish Grid as the leading digital transformation platform, this is where you come in.

About the Role:

As a Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining complex B2B Software-As-A-Service production software. You will use open-source technologies to build and maintain backend components. You will write and execute tests to validate the quality of your product. The role requires strong analytical skills, unwavering commitment to quality, a collaborative work ethic, and cutting-edge technical skills. We’re a small team who likes hands-on development, troubleshooting, helping and being helped by our colleagues, and challenges at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Creating and optimizing APIs for front-end teams to consume
• Troubleshooting production issues with priority
• Driving the evolution of the technology stack
• Designing and reviewing solutions for backend
• Understand user stories and prioritize them
• Performing deeper studies and proof of concepts

Requirements:

• 2+ years of Relevant Software Engineering experience
• Strong grasp of programming with languages such as Python
• Experience with Python development frameworks - Django/Flask
• Understanding of deployment tools such as Docker, Kubernetes & Jenkins
• Knowledge of Relational Database and API Concepts
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

About Our Client

It is a last-mile tech-logistics solution provider for intra-state deliveries based in Bangalore. It offers reliable, affordable, and professional services, structured to serve enterprises.

Our Client aggregates light commercial vehicles for urban logistics and has onboarded 55,000+ truckers on its platform across 14 cities. Our Client works across industry sectors like organized retail, FMCG and e-commerce, distribution and 3PL companies. Some of its clients include Amazon, Flipkart, Bisleri, Vishal Mega Mart, Future Supply Chain, Coca-Cola, Delhivery, and Udaan.

The company offers customized logistics solutions for clients, along with other value-added services such as screened drivers, audited and GPS-enabled vehicles, point-to-point billing, status updates, 24x7 service, and greater efficiency, all at transparent and economical pricing.

Our Client, as a brand, is known as one of the market leaders in the enterprise segment, and first movers to identify and empathize with the underserved urban trucker community, playing a huge role in making them a part of the mainstream economy. This series-B funded tech-logistics company aims to disrupt the primitive $35bn+ urban-logistics industry by leveraging technology and help enterprises to reach consumers faster.

Our Client is India's largest enterprise urban-logistics provider in India, with 55,000+ Light Commercial Vehicles on its platform.

Why Our Client?

1) Young Startup growing and well funded.

What will I do?

- Designing user flows and converting them into logical entities in the code.

- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

- Designing Database schemas.

- Building reusable code and libraries for future use

- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability

- Implementation of security and data protection

- Design and implementation of data storage solutions

What skills should I have?

- 3+ years of experience in Backend Development.
- Language: NodeJs
- Additional knowledge of Python will be a plus
- Understanding of microservices architecture.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes

- Data migration, transformation, and scripting

- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Syfe is the digital wealth manager for investors who expect more – greater transparency, smart­er personalised portfolios, and better investment outcomes.

We combine proven investment strategies with game-changing technology to give investors globally diversified portfolios that are in sync with their personal risk profiles. Unlike traditional investment management, there are no high fees or hidden costs involved, so investors can be sure they are always earning the best possible return on their investment.

We are backed by leading Global investors and building Asia digital wealth champion out of Singapore.

Who are we:

While we are a diverse set of people, we value the following core traits:

• Fast learning: We often require learning new tools and technologies. We believe in adopting them if they are particularly well suited for our problems, instead of limiting ourselves to what we already know. However, we are always short of time and therefore have to learn fast.
• Versatility: While each one of us has a core skill, we possess at least one secondary skill as well. Apart from allowing the team to be fluid, it also helps us understand how all pieces (frontend, database, network, servers, etc.) fit together.
• Madness about quality: Put together, individual lines of code should be robust, scalable, high-performance, fault-tolerant, and most importantly, beautiful software. We also stay up-to-date with the latest in the world of software to make ourselves better.
• Passion: To try out new ideas and iterate on existing product features, and love experimenting with new technology if it's right for the job. Because not only do we ride the cutting edge, we make it happen.
• Collaboration: We believe that engineering is a continuous process of learning and improvement and that the best way to learn is by getting help from your fellow engineers. Coding is more fun when you do it together and appreciate the feedback.

We are seeking a Backend Engineer to develop and own state of the art products that help bring people closer to their financial goals. As we build and scale Syfe over the next few years, our product and engineering team is growing and it is the perfect time to join the team at an early stage and create an impact within and outside the organisation.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of new products/features.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of our backend APIs and fund management system.
• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices and maintain the overall quality of our codebase.
• Mentor and assist younger members of the team and perform code reviews.
• Work with the product team to translate powerful ideas into everyday business value.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Firm grasp of at least one programming language
• Experience with distributed system a plus
• Curiosity about how things work
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude

What you get:

• Opportunity to be a core part of the team and shape the company
• Opportunity to learn and grow fast
• Competitive market salary
• A fun workplace
• Most importantly, a kick-ass team

• Design, develop, test, debug and maintain components of a feature-rich management and orchestration product
• Manage one or more project priorities and deadlines
• The programming languages are mainly Python and Java
• Understand the infrastructure details of public clouds and use DevOps best practices to implement provisioning

You'll Need:

• Strong software design and implementation skills in building infrastructure frameworks.
• Experience building and operating extensible, scalable resilient systems.
• Working knowledge of Java and Python.
• Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, etc).
• Willingness and ability to learn new languages and concepts.
• 8+ years of experience and a BS/MS degree in Computer Science -or- a related field.

Nice to have:

• Cloud infrastructure systems engineering experience.
• Experience in building control planes.
• Experience building RESTful APIs.
• Experience with containers and cluster managers like Kubernetes.
• Experience in App deployment and config management frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.

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Please read more about the company and work culture here : https://www.simform.com/careers/

Job Description :

Summary : Major focus will be the development of server-side logic to ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests received from front-end. Deployment on the production server.

Responsibilities :

- Understanding the project requirement and coding the programs efficiently to meet the client's requirements to the closest proximity.

- Optimise output to run smoothly on multiple delivery platforms.

- Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

- Integration of user interface elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

- Integration of data storage and third-party library/package into the application.

- Create or integrate any such thing manually if not available on standard package list.

- Create the best fitted and scalable database schema for particular business logic.

- Should be hands-on in reading large volumes of data from the database, or over HTTP(S)/WebSockets.

- Ensure programs and applications are bug-free and run smoothly.

Skills And Qualifications :

- Familiarity with Python web stacks and In-depth knowledge of different frameworks (Django, Flask, etc.)

- Understanding different types of Object Relational Mappers.

- Ability to work on multiple API integrations, and write modular reusable code.

- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture

- Good knowledge of a server-side templating language.

- Basic understanding of front-end frameworks such as Angular, ReactJs, VueJs and technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

- Knowledge of user authentication and authorisation between multiple systems, servers, and environments

- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

- Familiarity with object event-driven programming in Python

- Strong unit test and debugging skills

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.