


About KAFQA
At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watches performing arts. Our launch services consist of technology-enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities, and social media broadcasting & competitions.
Founder & Team
The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consisted of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.
Background
- At least 6+ years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
- Should Have experience leading a team.
- Deep understanding of technologies used in web products, including Rest APIs
- Sound understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps.
- Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms.
Opportunity
Here are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product.
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs.
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product.

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2. Should have 7+ years of experience in Python and Django framework
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5. Should have working experience in session management in Django
6. Should have expertise in the Django MVC and uses of templates in frontend
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Technical Proficiency :
Must have :
- Strong development experience in Python in the environment of Unix/Linux/Ubuntu
- Strong practical knowledge of Python and its libraries.
- Current working experience with cloud deployment of AWS/Azure/GCP, Microservice architecture, and Docker in Python.
- Good knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Good Experience of Python with Django/ Scrapy/ Flask frameworks.
- Good Experience in Jupyter/ Docker/ Elastic Search, etc.
- Solid understanding of software development principles and best practices.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to drive large-scale projects with a deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration, and leadership.
Good to have :
- Expected to have migration experience from one version to the other, as this project is about migration to the latest version.
- Preferred if had an OpenEdx platform experience or any LMS platform.
Minimum Qualifications:
5+ years of experience with Linux/Unix system administration and networking fundamentals 3+ years in a Software Engineering role or equivalent experience
4+ years of working with AWS
4+ years of experience working with Kubernetes, Docker.
Strong skills in reading code as well as writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code
Good knowledge of Python
Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable services and/or service-oriented architecture Experience with high-availability
Experience with modern configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible/AWX, Chef, Puppet, Pulumi) and idempotency
Bonus Requirements:
Knowledge of standard security practices
Knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem (e.g. Hadoop, Hive, Presto) including deployment, scaling, and maintenance Experience with operating and maintaining VPN/SSH/ZeroTrust access infrastructure Experience with CDNs such as CloudFront and Akamai
Good knowledge of Javascript, Java, Golang


Required Skills:
● Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least Django (More web frameworks are a plus)
● Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
● Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
● Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)
● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 (is a plus)
● Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
● Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
● Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
● Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
● Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
● Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Strong unit test and debugging skills
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
● Knowledge of application deployment process and server set up
● Integration of data storage solutions
Responsibilities:
● Owning one or more of the web services; adding new features, resolving bugs, and refactoring/ improving code base.
● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
● Translating product requirements into functional, maintainable, extensible software that is in-line with company objectives.
● Good knowledge of software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, troubleshooting, & agile development.
● Work on cutting-edge web technologies to make a powerful impact on 1M+ enterprise users
● Be part of a growing team that will design, develop, and test software and cross-product applications which span across different Planview products
● Work in an agile engineering team writing maintainable and scalable code for software components and influencing team decisions
● Contribute to the product’s architecture vision and execution, working closely with cross-product teams and other leaders within the R&D department
● Collaborate with stakeholders to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that impacts our customers and inspires your peers
● Drive continuous improvement of software quality, CX and maintainability of features
● Continuous learning of technology trends, tools, and approaches, including sharing this knowledge with your team

About Accubits Technologies
We are a full-service software provider offering product development and digital transformation services to Governments, Tech startups, Fortune 1000 companies, and Businesses.
We help organizations to be future-proof through data-driven solutions for mobile, cloud, and web platforms using cutting edge technologies such as AI, Blockchain and RPA.
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Preferred Skills
- Must be an expert in Python programming.
- Proficiency in Django and MySQL (MANDATORY) Create and Maintain Rest API’s.
- Integrate and Handle MySQL database.
- Should have knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
- Must be familiar with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
- Must be able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Experience in working with a SCRUM or Agile team is an advantage.
- Strong understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Strong unit test and debugging skills.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.
- Strong Knowledge of Rest Framework.
- Good to have knowledge in the Flask framework but not necessary.


Requirements:
- Expert in Python, with good knowledge in Django technology.
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
- Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
- Experience in Flask will be an add-on
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python.
- Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.
- Good communication skills.


Fulfil’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of customer orders are fulfilled by merchants. Our products need to handle information at massive scale. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas into our technology.
As a senior software engineer, you will work on our python based ORM and applications that scales to handle millions of transactions every hour. This is mission critical software and your primary focus will be building robust and scalable solutions that are easy to maintain.
In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the rest of the team working on different layers of infrastructure in an international environment. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product are important.
What You’ll Do:
- Own definition and implementation of API interfaces (REST and GraphQL). We take pride in our 100% open API with over 600 endpoints.
- Implement simple solutions to complex business logic that enables our merchants to manage financials, orders and shipments across millions of transactions.
- Build reusable components and packages for future use.
- Translate specs and user stories into reviewable, test covered patches.
- Peer review code and refactor existing code.
- Integrate with our eCommerce partners (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon), shipping partners (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL) and EDI.
- Manage Kubernetes and Docker based global deployment of our infrastructure.
Requirements
We’re Looking for Someone With:
- Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django (2-3 years)
- 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- Python, Celery, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ
Nice to Haves:
- Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
- Experience with ReactJS, Google Cloud, Heroku
- Cloud deployment and scaling experience

Roles and Responsibilities :
- Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices and scalable cloud-native apps.
- Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
- Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve the quality and productivity of deliverables
- Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
- Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with the cross-functional team along with the client's team
- Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
- Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
- Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
- Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member
Primary Skills
- Expert in Python with experience on Django.
- Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic.
- Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
- Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python.
- Experience with python packages like Numpy, pandas, flask, Pyspark, pymongo, os, logging, re, pyyaml.
- Experience with swagger io module to expose API
- Strong unit test and debugging skills.
- At least 2 years of experience in RESTful API/HTTP/JSON`
- Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git.
- Good understanding of Linux OS.
Secondary Skills:
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- Web Sockets
- RAbbitMQ
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- Excellent knowledge in one or more of Python/NodeJS REST Frameworks
- Hands on experience in system architecture and data modelling. Experience with databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.
- Devops capabilities - with good understanding of deployments and cloud infrastructure. In depth knowledge of container architecture using Docker is must.
- Scaled systems using RabbitMQ/ Redis /Celery/ Kafka





