Senior Backend Engineer (python & Django) Job in Velotio Technologies Pvt Ltd

• Design, build, test, and ship customer-facing features & products using modern web-app engineering stack. Our teams use Python (Django), PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, data engineering tooling, Kafka and AWS.
• Participate in engineering discussions, technical evaluations, design reviews and retrospectives.
• Provide database schema, API designs and micro-service implementations.
• Mentor team members and peer review code. Focus on best practices for engineering processes and code quality.

You will enjoy this role if you...

• Like building elegant well-architected software products with enterprise customers.
• Want to learn to leverage public cloud services & cutting-edge OSS technologies like Kafka, Airflow, Vault, Kubernetes & edge computing.
• Work collaboratively as part of a close-knit team of geeks, architects and leads.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 4-8 years of backend engineering experience (ideally with Django, DRF, Flask, Tornado)
• Experience working in a modern web-app engineering environment (APIs, SPAs, CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure, Automated Testing, Git, Agile)
• Strong database fundamentals and schema design skills. You should be able to use ORMs but still be comfortable with SQL.
• Experience with SQL & NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4j)
• Experience in at least one cloud platform (Amazon Web Service or Google Cloud Platform)
• CI/CD and test automation frameworks
• A strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Communication: You like discussing a plan upfront, welcome collaboration, and are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Bonus points if you have...

• Experience in building multi-tier & micro-service applications with exposure to caching, pub-sub, data security, authentication, messaging technologies.
• Knowledge of container and container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, ECS)
• Experience with data engineering, ETL and analytics.