Sr. Business Analyst

Job Title: Freelance Python Team Lead & Developer (Hyderabad-based)

Project Overview

We are a service-based IT firm seeking a Senior Python Developer (3–5 years experience) for a long-term freelance engagement. This is a unique "Player-Coach" role where you will balance high-level individual coding with the leadership of a junior intern team.

Logistics & Commitment

• Location: In-office (Hyderabad). Candidates must be local.
• Time Commitment: 3–4 hours per day, 5 days a week (approx. 20 hours/week).
• Duration: Ongoing freelance contract.

Core Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of interns. You will be responsible for task delegation, technical guidance, and conducting rigorous code reviews to ensure production-quality output.
• Individual Contribution: Act as the lead developer for complex backend modules, API architecture, and system integrations using Python (Django/FastAPI).
• Delivery Management: Ensure that the intern team meets project milestones and adheres to clean coding standards (PEP 8).

Requirements

• 3–5 years of professional experience in Python development.
• Proven experience in a service-based company environment.
• Strong proficiency in Django, Flask, or FastAPI and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Excellent communication skills with a natural ability to mentor and explain technical logic to juniors.
• Availability to work from our Hyderabad office during standard business hours.

Please include your resume and a brief summary of your experience leading teams or mentoring juniors.

Criteria

Mandatory

Strong Dremio / Lakehouse Data Architect profile

Mandatory (Experience 1) – 5+ years of experience in Data Architecture / Data Engineering, with minimum 3+ years hands-on in Dremio

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Strong expertise in SQL optimization, data modeling, query performance tuning, and designing analytical schemas for large-scale systems

Mandatory (Technical Skills 1) – Deep experience with cloud object storage (S3 / ADLS / GCS) and file formats such as Parquet, Delta, Iceberg along with distributed query planning concepts

Mandatory (Technical Skills 2) – Hands-on experience integrating data via APIs, JDBC, Delta/Parquet, object storage, and coordinating with data engineering pipelines (Airflow, DBT, Kafka, Spark, etc.)

Mandatory (Architecture) – Proven experience designing and implementing lakehouse architecture including ingestion, curation, semantic modeling, reflections/caching optimization, and enabling governed analytics

Mandatory (Governance) – Strong understanding of data governance, lineage, RBAC-based access control, and enterprise security best practices

Mandatory (Stakeholder Management) – Excellent communication skills with ability to work closely with BI, data science, and engineering teams; strong documentation discipline

Mandatory (Company) – Candidates must come from enterprise data modernization, cloud-native, or analytics-driven companies

Preferred

Exp - 4-6 years

Immediate joiners preferred

Location - Bangalore

Java + Spring boot 

Microservice 

MYSQL 

Design principal 

-Clear Communication: Practice clear and concise communication to effectively convey technical concepts.

- In-Depth Knowledge: Be prepared to provide detailed insights into experiences with specific technologies and tools, showcasing expertise.

- Specific Examples: Share real-world examples or projects where they have applied the mentioned technologies to demonstrate practical knowledge.

- Problem-Solving Skills: Be ready to discuss how they have solved real-world technical challenges in previous roles.

- Continuous Learning: Emphasize a commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends, especially in rapidly evolving fields like cloud technologies.

We are looking for an ambitious Co-founder and CTO to join and support our growth at Spacenos. The Person we are looking for will fill an entrepreneurial C-Level role and will enrich our team with the product development and delivery skills.

Skills Required

• 3+ years of experience as a technology leader. 
• Skilled in Java, ReactJs, Firebase, Google Cloud.
• Applied knowledge of Cloud Security, AWS, Machine Learning, AI and Tensorflow.
• Strong communication and team management skills. 
• Excellent resource handling and understanding of scaling principles. 

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and understand technological roadmap
• Develop feature rollout systems and processes
• Hire and manage outside/contracted engineering talent
• Structure and lead teams, individuals, and cross-functional relationships in a way that ensures productivity and communication.
• Collaborate with other teams to optimize user experience of products.
• Drive modern engineering principles and practices by implementing relevant techniques, processes, and best practices
• Clearly articulate plans and projects to both senior level executives and more junior team members.

Spacenos is the fastest-growing start-up which is innovating in the finance, edtech and marketing domain since 2015 and won multiple awards and recognitions from more than 40+ MNCs and Fortune 500 companies. Our Clients are based out of the U.S.A and Australia. We are funded & Supported by Government of Karnataka, Angel Investors and International Grants.

1. Apply for your CV and past work to be reviewed.
2. Receive a telephonic interview or assessment upon filling the final step form.

3. Receive offer letter if selected.

Our hiring process takes less than 24 hours from the time you receive the Final Step form.

Validity: Up to Dec 2023

- Apply soon, the earliest applicant would be preferred over the late applicants.

About Tazapay Tazapay is founded by 3 seasoned professionals with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce, technology, cross border trade and high growth technology businesses. The company is financially backed by the likes of Sequoia Capital, Saison Capital, RTP Global etc. We https://tazapay.com/ are a Singapore-based b2b and payments startup enabling small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct cross-border commerce securely. We believe the world will look very different after this pandemic, as it did after the second world war and the financial crisis of 2008. We foresee a gigantic acceleration towards digitalization. Especially in the B2B space which has lagged behind B2C peers. The pandemic will change that equation

Responsibilities

• Design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance

• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards

Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design

• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies

• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution

• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight

• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies

• An enormous sense of ownership

• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

The Ideal Candidate Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications

• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures

• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++

• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns.

• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services

• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.

• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling

• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability

• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases

• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design

• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks

• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem

• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus

• Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols. Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.

• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.

• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions

• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues

• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach

• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills

• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: upto 20LPA

Skills & Certifications 

• Experience supporting enterprise systems with a background in a large global, highly complex environment 
• Should have very good knowledge and experience of complete Record to Report (R2R) cycle 
• One year experience with Oracle Cloud/Fusion (implementation or support) required 
• Must have expertise in Oracle Fusion/Cloud Financials/Oracle R12 modules such as 

Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, and Procurement 

• Strong experience in ACH processing and Smart View/FRS/OTBI 
• Experience with integrating external applications to Fusion Cloud 
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with ability to diagnose issues with complex applications and processes. 
• Very strong customer service orientation 
• Highly self-motivated and directed 
• Ability to absorb new ideas and concepts quickly 
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities 
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment 
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language • Excellent written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills 

Level 3 Contractor-to-Fulltime-Programmer Role:

Must have 1-2 years (ideally 12 to 30 months) of post-collegiate professional programming experience at a top SaaS company in React, Typescript, Javascript working within Visual Studio Code and Yarn, leveraging superior techniques with Routing, Components, State, and Props to deliver elegant consumer applications based on dynamic data.

Ability to translate user story completely into exceptional functionality that consistently meets acceptance criteria and delights users.  Ability to convert complex workflows into elegant experiences highly prized.

Experience with Firebase, Firestore, MongoDB, Heroku and other Cloud-based technologies to deliver scalable, performant data-driven applications, with deployments on Kubernetes.  Ideally experienced working with colleagues over Discord.

Ability to exhibit judgment to independently author test suite and testing scripts to evaluate code additions, ensuring no regressions in functionality or user experience.

Proficiency in translating complex mathematical concepts into effective data structures and programming practices.  Personal pleasure in solving mathematical puzzles elegantly is a huge plus.

Bonus for those possessing keen interest in better investing, wealth creation, and FinTech/WealthTech experience.

Collaborate effectively through coding tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Slack.

Enthusiastic, collaborative, driven, curious, professional, fast-paced, detail-oriented.  Clear communicator, flexible work hours to be part of experienced Silicon Valley product team. Able to make constructive contributions to improved team development practices
.

Anticipated first year will be entirely working from home given COVID as Level 3 Contractor, and upon completion of first anniversary will be eligible for sign-on bonus as full time employee. Required to have own effective laptop/development set up and sufficient bandwidth to be exceedingly productive.

We are excited to consider applicants from outside top IITs and top technical cities, so you don’t have to be a graduate of IIT Madras or IIT Bombay, nor living in Bangalore, Pune, or Hyderabad – we are more interested in exceptional and fluent programming talent and passion than just these degrees.  And all that being said, we confess we do have a founding team with degrees and DNA from Stanford, Harvard, and INSEAD.

There will be a technical task/test, a fit/communication interview, and a technical interview.