Team Lead Python Developer
at Service Based IT Company | 5 days working
Job Description for Senior Python Developer
Experience: 4 to 7 years
- Must have strong knowledge in Python 2/Python 3
- Must have a strong knowledge of Web development using the Django web framework and API development experience using Django REST API.
- Flask framework or any other framework’s knowledge is great.
- Ability to write reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Team Handling exposure
- Knowledge of Standard databases like MySql, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Firebase, etc. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Must be good at understanding client requirements.
- Good testing/debugging skills using standard python modules/IDEs
- Deployment experience with standard servers like Apache/AWS etc.
- Experience in testing frameworks known in the industry.
- Having good/basic knowledge of Front end Technologies HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript is good.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools - GIT
The candidate must have experience in coding part and team handling experience both
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and learning.
● Introduce best practices of software development and ensure their adoption
across the team.
● Help set and maintain coding standards for the team.
Responsibilities
Drive new feature development - from ideation to PoC to testing to scalable production deployments
Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
Implementing highly scalable, secure, robust, and fault-tolerant systems
Working on continuously improving tools and systems Required Skills
Knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL
Demonstrable experience with microservices (design, deployment, monitoring, etc.)
Strong proponent for best practices and code quality
Experience in architecting & building real-time, large scale software applications.
Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithm Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
Bring software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms.
Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
Good communication skills
Strong Problem solving and analytical skills
Experience in Fintech Industry is a plus
About the company.
It is India's largest Corporate Employee Benefits Platform. Founded by alumni of UCLA, Amazon, and Microsoft. Our major verticals are Corporate Perks, Rewards & Recognition, and financial solutions. We are currently partnered with more than 250+ corporates, including Concentrix, RBS, Fidelity, Walmart, Amazon, etc., whose employees are offered exclusive privileges through our 10,000+ brand partners across categories It is leading the employee benefits market in India which pegged at $2 billion and growing.
The Role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Python Developer, who adopts a hands-on approach and loves to build scalable, distributed and large web / mobile products. You would be responsible for designing the architecture, reviewing the code, building the technology and deploying web/mobile applications.
Responsibilities:
- Own the product development from scratch.
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Contribute to discussion on software architecture while mentoring a team of developers.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, SCRUM ceremonies, and troubleshoot to ensure uptime for live systems etc.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field from a premier college.
- Prior 3+ years of experience in back-end development (Python/ Golang) in a start-up or a dynamic work environment.
- Good exposure in writing and optimizing SQL for high-performance systems.
- Understanding of asyncio and eventloop/ uvloop concepts. Knowledge of frameworks such as Quart/ Fastapi/ Starlette is preferred.
- Knowledge of AWS; Caching technologies like Redis, Memcache; ELK; mySQL Databases, etc.
- Strong understanding of System Design, Microservice Architecture, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Message queues, and in-memory data stores etc.
- Customer oriented, responsive to changes, and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
JOB DESCRIPTION
DYT - Do Your Thng, is an app, where all social media users can share brands they love with their followers and earn money while doing so! We believe everyone is an influencer. Our aim is to democratise social media and allow people to be rewarded for the content they post. How does DYT help you? It accelerates your career through collaboration opportunities with top brands and gives you access to a community full of experts in the influencer space.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Expert in Python with knowledge of Python best practices (PEP8)
- Strong knowledge of python web frameworks such as Django, Flask • Strong knowledge of building RESTful APIs using Django Rest Framework • Good Understanding of Django ORM Libraries
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system • Strong experience on Linux
- Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e. PostgresSQL,MYSql) • Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes • Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git)
- Experience deploying on AWS is desirable
- Experience with Docker,Test Drive Development will be a plus
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, influence and communication skills • Experience in designing scalable micro-services is desirable
QUALIFICATIONS
- 0-1 years of experience as a backend developer
- At least one product build and published
- SKILLS Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code
- Work well under pressure and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality • Work with distributed development teams
About us:
Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.
We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.
Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.
We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.
About you:
You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).
Your responsibilities:
You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.
Must-have Skills:
- 4-8 years of total experience
- 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
- Designing and building scalable web applications
- Good understanding of REST principles
- SQL database design and queries
- Working knowledge of AWS
Good-To-Have Skills:
- Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
- Designing microservices
- DevOps experience
FAQ's.
1. Your technology ingredients?
Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.
Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.
Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.
2. Your hiring plan?
Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.
3. Your Interview process?
We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.
- 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
- 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
- 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
- 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion
In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.
4. Your WFH and WFO policy?
Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.
5. Your funding status?
In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.