Python Engineer

Location: Bangalore,Karnataka,India

If you are young (1-4 years experience), love computer programming, solving hard programming problems, enjoy innovating; are intelligent and hard working; you will enjoy working with us. We offer great compensation and benefits, a generous employee stock option plan, flexible work timings, and a fun work atmosphere where you will not only challenge and grow your own technical abilities, but also help change the world while doing so.

If you enjoy working at a big brand company, being a small cog in a big wheel, do not like working for more than 40 hours a week, and talk about your big company as if it was yours with no stock options, do not read forward. You will not enjoy working with us.

At MyParichay, just some of the interesting challenges that we solve are:

• User Experience - continuously improve the MyParichay user and recruiter experience
• Scalability - support growth of thousands of daily new users while reducing our response times
• Relevancy - search, recommendation
• Data mining - search, recommendations, user analytics et al.
• Security - keep our customer's information secure
• Social interaction - continuously improve the social interaction features

PluggdIn rates us in its Top 11 Hot Startups and Red Herring rates us in its Asia Hot 100 Startups.

The Role

You will work in a small cohesive team of engineers, designers, product managers and senior management to rapidly develop and deploy innovative new features that will be used by thousands of new users everyday. This job is a fit for you if:

• You love to code and to get things done
• You are looking to learn and grow as an engineer
• You like working in a fast-paced, agile environment
• You want to build large-scale social software

Responsibilities

Your core responsibilities will be to

• develop object-oriented models, design data structures, implement business logic, and create data models capable of supporting new features on MyParichay.
• Work with large data sets, complex business logic, tight Facebook integration while ensuring rapid response times.
• Discuss design, scalability, security, etc. with the team.
• Write new code for weekly iterations
• Refactor and maintain existing code
• Write tests and fix bugs

Qualifications

• 1 - 4 years coding experience with Django web application framework on significant projects
• Familiar with common tools used in large application deployments such as: Fabric, setuptools, Git
• Experience with asynchronous tools like gevent/eventlet, multiprocessing, Celery task queue, and web workers
• Database programming experience with MySQL, Redis, MongoDB.
• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem is a plus
• Adhere to PEP8 Python coding style standards
• Engaged with the Python community and stays up to date with latest technologies, and patterns
• Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities
• Strong object oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• B Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college

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