Trainee Dot Net Developer

Job Title: Python Developer (Full Time)

Location: Hyderabad (Onsite)

Interview: Virtual and Face to Face Interview (Last round)

Experience Required: 4 + Years  

Working Days: 5 Days

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Python Developer with a strong background in building scalable and secure applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Python frameworks, API integrations, and modern application architectures. This role requires a tech leader who can balance innovation, performance, and compliance while driving successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

1. Application Development

• Architect and develop robust, high-performance applications using Django, Flask, and FastAPI.

1. API Integration

• Design and implement seamless integration with third-party APIs (including travel-related APIs, payment gateways, and external service providers).

1. Data Management

• Develop and optimize ETL pipelines for structured and unstructured data using data lakes and distributed storage solutions.

1. Microservices Architecture

• Build modular, scalable applications using microservices principles for independent deployment and high availability.

1. Performance Optimization

• Enhance application performance through load balancing, caching, and query optimization to deliver superior user experiences.

1. Security & Compliance

• Apply secure coding practices, implement data encryption, and ensure compliance with industry security and privacy standards (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR).

1. Automation & Deployment

• Utilize CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes, and monitoring tools for automated testing, deployment, and production monitoring.

1. Collaboration

• Partner with front-end developers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver user-centric, business-aligned solutions.

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Technical Expertise

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI).
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and asynchronous programming.
• Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and big data tools (Spark, Kafka).
• Familiarity with Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus for monitoring and visualization.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Working knowledge of testing tools: PyTest, Selenium, SonarQube.
• Experience with API integrations, booking flows, and payment gateway integrations (travel domain knowledge is a plus, but not mandatory).

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and teamwork abilities.
• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset with the ability to perform under pressure.

What you will be doing

• Build and ship features in our Node.js (and now migrating to TypeScript) codebase that directly impact user experience and help move the top and bottom line of the business.
• Collaborate closely with our product, design and data team to build innovative features to deliver a world class product to our customers. At STAGE, product managers don’t “tell” what to build. In fact, we all collaborate on how to solve a problem for our customers and the business. Engineering plays a big part in it.
• Design scalable platforms that empower our product and marketing teams to rapidly experiment.
• Own the quality of our products by writing automated tests, reviewing code, making systems observable and resilient to failures.
• Drive code quality and pay down architectural debt by continuous analysis of our codebases and systems, and continuous refactoring.
• Architect our systems for faster iterations, releasability, scalability and high availability using practices like Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture and Observability.
• Set the engineering culture with the rest of the team by defining how we should work as a team, set standards for quality, and improve the speed of engineering execution.

The role could be ideal for you if you

• Experience of 4-6 years of working in backend engineering with at least 2 years of production experience in TypeScript, Express.js (or another popular framework like Nest.js) and MongoDB (or any popular database like MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Well versed with one or more architectures and design patterns such as MVC, Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture, etc.
• Experienced in writing automated tests (especially integration tests) and Continuous Integration. At STAGE, engineers own quality and hence, writing automated tests is crucial to the role.
• Experience with managing production infrastructure using technologies like public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.). Bonus: if you have experience in using Kubernetes.
• Experience in observability techniques like code instrumentation for metrics, tracing and logging.
• Care deeply about code quality, code reviews, software architecture (think about Object Oriented Programming, Clean Code, etc.), scalability and reliability. Bonus: if you have experience in this from your past roles.
• Understand the importance of shipping fast in a startup environment and constantly try to find ingenious ways to achieve the same.
• Collaborate well with everyone on the team. We communicate a lot and don’t hesitate to get quick feedback from other members on the team sooner than later.
• Can take ownership of goals and deliver them with high accountability.

About Simpl 

The thrill of working at a start-up that is starting to scale massively is something else. Simpl (FinTech startup of the year - 2020) was formed in 2015 by Nitya Sharma, an investment banker from Wall Street and Chaitra Chidanand, a tech executive from the Valley, when they teamed up with a very clear mission - to make money simple, so that people can live well and do amazing things. Simpl is the payment platform for the mobile-first world, and we’re backed by some of the best names in fintech globally (folks who have invested in Visa, Square and Transferwise), and has Joe Saunders, Ex Chairman and CEO of Visa as a board member.

Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards the long term vision of “making money Simpl”. Our first product is a payment platform that lets people buy instantly, anywhere online, and pay later. In the background, Simpl uses big data for credit underwriting, risk and fraud modelling, all without any paperwork, and enables Banks and Non-Bank Financial Companies to access a whole new consumer market.

In place of traditional forms of identification and authentication, Simpl integrates deeply into merchant apps via SDKs and APIs. This allows for more sophisticated forms of authentication that take full advantage of smartphone data and processing power.

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We’re looking for polyglot developers who love to code. You should have >3 years of experience building high-quality products. You should have the ability to write clean code and must’ve worked on one of Ruby, NodeJS, Golang or Python

Responsibilities

1. Develop new features - build POCs, get feedback, and scale is our default mode
2. Building reusable and platform specific components
3. Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
4. Optimizing services for maximum performance
5. Ensure faster release cycles by managing distribution over the cloud 

Requirements

1. Hands-on experience in all aspects of software development - analysis, coding, writing tests, deployment, the works.
2. Knowledge of relational databases, SQL, ACID and distributed locking
3. Solid OOPS understanding.
4. Good exposure to building distributed systems, micro-services architecture.
5. Continuous delivery experience
6. Exposure to building platforms (not just products) would be a plus