Senior Software Engineer - Python/Golang

Job Description :

Role & responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software applications using Python and the Django framework.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features and enhancements.

- Integrate third-party APIs (REST, SOAP, streaming services) into the existing product.

- Optimize application performance and ensure scalability and reliability.

- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following best practices and coding standards.

- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.

- Troubleshoot and debug applications, identifying root causes of issues.

- Stay current with industry trends, technologies, and best practices in software development.

Preferred candidate profile :

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field from IIT, NIT, or any other reputed institute.

- 7-10 years of experience in software development, with at least 4 years of background in Python and Django.

- Working knowledge of Golang

- Experience integrating third-party APIs (REST, SOAP, streaming services) into applications.

- Familiarity with database technologies, particularly MySQL (must have) and HBase (nice to have)

- Experience with message brokers like Kafka (must), Rabbitmq and Redis

- Experience on Version control systems such as Github

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration of third-party APIs.

- Strong understanding of software development methodologies, particularly Agile.

- Demonstrable experience with writing unit and functional tests

- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

- Experience with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.

Good to have :

- Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP or other cloud service provider experience

- Knowledge on IEEE 2030.5 standard (Protocol)

- Knowledge on Serverless architecture, preferably AWS Lambda

- Experience with PySpark, Pandas, Scipy, Numpy libraries is a plus

- Experience in microservices architecture

- Solid CI/CD experience

- You are a Git guru and revel in collaborative workflows

- You work on the command line confidently and are familiar with all the goodies that the linux toolkit can provide

- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

- Good to have front end technologies like - ReactJS, NodeJS