Sr. Backend Engineer (Python)

You will be responsible for building a highly-scalable and extensible robust application. This position reports to the Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Align Sigmoid with key Client initiatives
• Interface daily with customers across leading Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements
• Ability to understand business requirements and tie them to technology solutions
• Open to work from client location as per the demand of the project / customer.
• Facilitate in Technical Aspects
• Develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using Java technologies.
• Excellent experience in Application development and support, integration development and quality assurance.
• Provide technical leadership and manage it day to day basis
• Interface daily with customers across leading Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements
• Stay up-to-date on the latest technology to ensure the greatest ROI for customer & Sigmoid
• Hands on coder with good understanding on enterprise level code.
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems
• Experience in defining technical requirements, data extraction, data transformation, automating jobs, productionizing jobs, and exploring new big data technologies within a Parallel Processing environment
• Culture
• Must be a strategic thinker with the ability to think unconventional / out:of:box.
• Analytical and solution driven orientation.
• Raw intellect, talent and energy are critical.
• Entrepreneurial and Agile : understands the demands of a private, high growth company.
• Ability to be both a leader and hands on "doer".

Qualifications: -

• 3-5 year track record of relevant work experience and a computer Science or a related technical discipline is required
• Experience in development of Enterprise scale applications and capable in developing framework, design patterns etc. Should be able to understand and tackle technical challenges, and propose comprehensive solutions.
• Experience with functional and object-oriented programming, Java (Preferred) or Python is a must.
• Hand-On knowledge in Map Reduce, Hadoop, PySpark, Hbase and ElasticSearch.
• Development and support experience in Big Data domain
• Experience with database modelling and development, data mining and warehousing.
• Unit, Integration and User Acceptance Testing.
• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Ability to collaborate with a diverse set of engineers, data scientists and product managers
• Comfort in a fast-paced start-up environment.

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Proficient with SQL and its variation among popular databases.
• Experience working with large, complex data sets from a variety of sources.

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This is a fully remote opportunity

About Us:

We at Ascendeum provide Data and AdTech strategy consultation to businesses worldwide. We started our journey with private funding and has been operating profitably since 2015. We are a lean team of 50+ highly productive and smart people spread across various parts of India who have been consistently delivering intelligent solutions that enable enterprise-level websites and apps to maximize their digital advertising returns.

Job Details:

We are looking for an analytical, results-driven Back-end Engineer who holds a passion to troubleshoot and improve current back-end applications and processes. The Back- end Developer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.

Job Responsibilities:

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team
• members.
• Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• Solid experience specializing in developing and managing back-end systems for enterprise-grade applications.
• Strong command on Python and databases such as MySQL.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming
• techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.

Strong proficiency with one of the Vue.js, Angular JS, React JS JavaScript Techologies
2. Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it , such as Express JS, Strong Loop, etc
3. Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and Promises and its quirks and workarounds
4. Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jade, EJS, etc depending on your technology stack)
5. Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as Styles, Less
6. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap
7. Understanding accessibility and security compliance
8. User authentication and authorization between multiple systems(Internal or Third party), servers, and environments
9. Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
10. Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
11. Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
12. Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
13. Proficient in code versioning tools, such as Git or TFS