Senior Backend Developer

Senior Backend Developer What We Are At VuNet, we are building next generation products that use a full stack product with big data and machine learning in innovative ways to monitor customer journeys and improve user experience. Our next generation systems are helping the largest financial institutions to improve their digital payment experience, driving more financial inclusion across the country. We empower our teams to solve hard problems – customer and business problems – in ways that our customers love. Great ideas get converted to extraordinary products and reach the customers in the shortest time. Our teams are cross functional, immerse into details, engage in collaborative debate and working with a shared purpose of creating a world class product company. Imagine what you could do here. Platform Core OS team in VuNet is responsible for creating highly scalable products for our customers and delivering excellent customer experience. We are looking for a strong, enthusiastic self-driven software engineer to join as a member of this group. You will have a tremendous amount of individual responsibility and influence over the direction the backend of many critical vuNet's products take for years to come. As part of this team your responsibilities include working closely with other engineering team members, and interacting with product, design, content, business and many other groups to deliver world-class software solutions.Our team is not afraid to question assumptions and given the demand, our team needs to break new grounds from creating entirely new platform architectures from high speed data indexing to storage, go deep into platform scale for streaming data to innovative ways of looking at combining various modules together for a seamless user experience. As part of this team, you also need to have excellent communication skills as your responsibilities include working closely with other engineering team members, and interacting with product, design, content, business and many other groups to deliver world-class software solutions. If you want to be part of this amazing team, this position is for you. Join VuNet, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Roles and Responsibilities ● Primary responsibility is to take up backend development and ability to work with the larger product team, arrive at best architectural approach, choose most appropriate frameworks, code and deliver ● Collaborate with Front-end developers ● Define and communicate technical and design requirements ● Provide training, help and support to other team members ● Stay up to date with current best practices ● Embrace good development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing and code reviews ● A self starter, who loves to take on hard problems, loves solving service scalability problems, enjoys breaking things and enthusiastic to learn new technologies and working in startup environments ● Takes ownership and responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions Skills and Experience ● Minimum 5+ of excellent Programming experience in Python and Django framework ● Experience in developing scalable web applications using Python and SQL/NoSQL databases ● Experience in third party integrations ● Work Experience on framework or existing apps ● Critical thinker and problem-solving skills ● Strong communication skills ● Ability to work in a team ● Eye for detail and identifying problems ● Good analytical skills ● Shown success as an individual contributor and ability to communicate in great detail ● Knowledge/Experience in the following technologies will be an added plus: Elasticsearch, Kafka, Apache Spark, Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop ● Interest and aptitude to learn new technologies and domains