Sr Backend Engineer (Tech Lead ) at Seed Funded product start-up · Remote only · 4 - 10 years · ₹20L - ₹65L / yr · Remote only · Posted 10 Feb 2023

Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
- Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family

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Roles and Responsibilities:
- The work will involve the development of workflows triggered by events from other systems
- Design, develop, test, and deliver software solutions in the FX Derivatives group
- Analyse requirements for the solutions they deliver, to ensure that they provide the right solution
- Develop easy to use documentation for the frameworks and tools developed for adaption by other teams
Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
- Must have unit testing and debugging skills
- Good problem solving and analytical skills
- Python packages such as NumPy, Scikit learn
- Testing and debugging applications.
- Developing back-end components.
Requirement:
- Min 2-3 Year Experience. Preferably in the E-commerce domain.
- Proficient with both MySQL and NoSql Databases (Elastic, Mongo)
- Strong hold on PHP and preferably good knowledge of Python
- Experience with JavaScript/JQuery
- Ability to do software design for a enterprise web application
- Working knowledge of a MVC front-end framework
- Proficient in HTTP protocol, REST APIs, JSON
- Ability to do database design and modeling
- Proficient in OOPS concepts and writing code using classes
- Ability to write modular and clean code
Role:
- Software Development of various product line
- Creation web-services and optimization for existing and new feature rollouts
- Collaborate with Product Managers and design solutions
- Develop very high sense of ownership, the zeal to build scalable applications
- Build customer facing technology product
- Individual Contributor
Quoality- A Modern Operating Infrastructure for Hospitality Businesses to help them improve the guest experience and generate additional revenue.
Launched in 2021, Quoality is a Hospitality Tech company backed by a US-based Newchip Accelerator. Our mission is to equip businesses with the tools they need to grow.
By providing tools, insights, and education with minimal effort on the business's part, the barrier to making actionable business decisions is lowered dramatically. Everything we do is driven by this mission. Everything we do needs to positively answer the question, "Does this help businesses grow?"
Product Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKklkRYKkC4&t" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKklkRYKkC4
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🙋♀️ The role & what we are looking for?
Oh, this is our favorite part. We’ve seen companies that write 'templatized' BS for this section; stuff that’s never followed in reality.
Not us. Here are some of our core values to give you a sense of who we are as a team:
- First and foremost, we’re super transparent. We all know what everyone’s working on, how’s the company doing, and the whole shebang.
- We’re all super chill.
- Work time ain’t playtime. We take our work very seriously. We’re a small bunch on a mission to change the guest experience in the hospitality industry, once and for all.
- Deadlines are a thing for us. We are super punctual.
- We know what we are working on and aren’t clueless.
- We’re more friends than colleagues.
- Monthly 1:1s with the founders where you can directly share & receive feedback.
Not convinced yet? Okay, here’s the fun stuff:
- Flexible leave policy. Yeah, it’s truly flexible. We trust you.
- We have a flexible remote work policy in India. Work from the beautiful beaches of Goa or the stunning mountains of Manali, we’re all good.
- Annual workstations at exotic destinations. Subject to change and hitting milestones.
- Allowances to choose your coworking space (if you want), courses & any tool that you think is beneficial to succeed in this role.
📄 The role & what we are looking for:
🧑💻 Responsibilities:
- Write code that will impact the businesses of thousands of hotels, hostels, and vacation homes across the globe.
- Collaborate with Frontend to spec, write, test, and deploy API endpoints.
- Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs that work on our data pipelines.
- Build all support infrastructure to scale our data delivery pipelines - endpoints, security, logging, messaging.
- Product development activity includes data querying from our various stores, real-time analytics, ML algorithms.
- Developing & Integrating of the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability.
- Brainstorm features with the product team and guides decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase.
- Take full ownership of the module starting from architectural and design decisions to shipping.
- Like the work you do, enjoy collaborating with your coworkers, communicate as much as you can, and have fun.
- 1+ years of relevant work experience.
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
- You have a good understanding of multi-process architecture and the threading limitations of NodeJs and Express frameworks.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages.
- You have good knowledge of relational databases as well as key-value databases and are capable of designing scalable database models based on the product requirements.
- Familiarity with REST API development standards, protocols (HTTP, WebSockets and more), and GraphQL.
- You’re comfortable picking up new stacks and choosing the right tool to get the job done.
- You are open to learning new stuff and avoid internal politics. (super important).
- You are humble, kind, and are open to feedback.(super duper important).
❕Bonus:
- Entrepreneurial spirit, Product Thinker, and ‘Can-Do' attitude.
- Passionate about leveraging technology for supporting product delivery in the Hospitality space.
- Operating style suited to working in a startup environment, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued.
- Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to manage multiple assignments at a time.
🤙 What's the interview process like?
Yes, we do have a process, and it’s simple.
- Step 1: You apply for the job.
- Step 2: Quick intro call with the founders.
- Step 3: Solve an assignment.
- Step 4: A round where we evaluate your assignment along with you.
- Step 5: One round of interviews to gauge if you are a good culture fit.
- Step 6: Job Offer (contingent on the above steps).
- Step 7: Welcome to the Quoality! 🙂
So, think we’re a good fit? Then let’s roll.🤘
•Web frameworks: Django, Flask
•JavaScript libraries: jQuery
•Web servers: Nginx, Apache, uWSGI
•Data stores/tools: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch
•Virtualization: AWS, VMWare, VirtualBox, Docker
•Web scraping and browser automation
•Selenium
Good to Have Skills
•ExperiencewithFrontendJavaScriptFrameworks
•Experience with third party and OAuth implementations.
•Understanding of cloud service platforms and web service infrastructure
Must Have Traits
•Self Starter
•Able to manage projects with minimal hand-holding
•Good verbal and written communication skills
•Enthusiastic, able to research and implement new technologies
•Ability to handle high-pressure situations
Experience Specifics
•Proven expertise in product development •GoodandPracticalUnderstandingofPython(2.7,3.3+)
•Hands on with Linux systems for deploying systems and applications
Responsibilities:
Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
Designing back-end services for various business processes.ses.
Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
Skills:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
Great organizational and time management skills.
Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.
We’re Looking for Someone With:
Experience working with startups.
Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django
Experience with SQL and databases (Postgres preferred)
Experience in developing large server side applications and microservices
Ability to create high quality code
Experience with python testing tools (pytest) and test automation
Familiarity with code versioning tools like GIT
Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
Experienced in the tools of our web stack
o Python
o Celery
o Postgres
o Redis
o RabbitMQ
Nice to Haves:
Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
Experience with ReactJS, Google Cloud, Heroku
Cloud deployment and scaling experience
Full Time position
Work Location:Hyderabad
Experience level: 3 to 5 years
Mandatory Skills:Python, Django/Flask and Rest API
Package:Upto 20 LPA
Job Description:
--Experience in web application development using Python, Django/Flask.
--Proficient in developing REST API's, Integration and familiar with JSON formatted data.
--Good to have knowledge in front-end frameworks like Vue.js/Angular/React.js
--Writing high quality code with best practices based on technical requirement.
--Hands-on experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of complex, custom-built software products.
--Should have experience in Database, preferably Redis.
--Experience in working with Git or equivalent code management / version control system with best practices.
--Good to have knowledge in Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker.
--Should have interest to explore and work on Cyber Security domain.
--Experience with Agile development methods.
--Should have strong analytical and logical skills.
--Should be good at fundamentals: Data Structures, Algorithms, Programming Languages, Distributed Systems, and Information retrieval.
--Should have good communication skills and client facing experience.
Responsibilities:
• Should have good knowledge and understanding in the following areas and you are able to apply that knowledge in delivering small and medium tasks:
• Programming language(s)
• Frameworks and libraries
• Platforms and tools
• Hands-on experience on AWS serverless services and familiarity with the environment
• Confident personality with good communication skills who can hold a conversation with a client and is not hesitant to put across his point.
• Ability to lead the calls independently in absence of a team lead
• Hands-on experience test case writing.
• Good aptitude
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to lead a group of software developers technically.
• Flexible working hours.
Requirement:
• Must have:
• NodeJS/JavaScript/Typescript
• AWS Serverless services especially lambda, S3, and DynamoDB
• Conceptual understanding of elastic cache and related services
• Restful API
• Intermediate SQL – Querying and analysis
• Microservice architecture
Nice to have:
• Typescript
• Event-Driven Architecture in cloud-like SQS
• OAuth/SAML integration
• Terraform, - would be a great addition
Benefits:
• A competitive annual salary based on experience and market demands
• Flexi-timings
• Medical insurance with the option to purchase a premium plan or HSA option for your entire family
• Business casual atmosphere
• Work from anywhere.
● Build new features to allow for rapid product experimentation to power web and
android applications, implementing features in an efficient way
● Incrementally adapt an existing Node.js monolith for scalability and very fast growth
● Deliver within project timelines through diligent planning and attention to detail.
● Keep key stakeholders informed about progress and problems; avoid surprises.
● Identify and report performance bottlenecks wherever feasible
● Follow testing and documentation best practices for the services developed.
● Work in a dynamic and collaborative culture ensuring good teamwork and
communication with remote team members when needed
Requirements
● 2 or more years of backend development experience
● At least 1 year of experience with Node.js frameworks like Express, Koa, Sail etc.
● Strong problem-solving skills. Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
● Solid understanding design patterns and OOP concepts; familiarity with
object-oriented JS (asynchronous code, events loop etc) is highly preferable
● Strong hands-on exp of relational DBMS concepts with PostgreSQL / other SQL DBs
● Ability to quickly design and implement optimized solutions for feature requirements
● Good understanding of the fundamental design principles for a scalable application
● Strong handle over Git, following best practices to facilitate collaboration
Nice to haves
● Experience working with apps in a microservices architecture
● Familiarity with caching solutions like Redis, Memcached etc
● Knowledge of testing best practices and concepts of test-driven development and
experience with unit testing frameworks in any of the major programming languages
● Familiarity with documentation tools and generators for Node.js applications









