Django Developer

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Kounteq is a fintech startup that helps SMEs adopt, implement and integrate Finance & Operation (SaaS) business apps. Kounteq harnesses the power of 'best-in-breed' cloud applications to design, integrate and deploy solutions to automate inventory and production control, sales fulfilment and accounting workflows to data analytics and insights.

Role Description

This is a full-time role for a backend software engineer located in Islamabad. The Django developer needs to be experienced on GCP and will be responsible for the development & support across distributed systems and implementing testable and scalable code. The candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications. Sound knowledge of secure coding best practices is essential in this role. We expect you to be able to meet deadlines and multi-task between priorities, with excellent communication and problem solving skills. If you are a confident and flexible self-starter, capable of operating in a dynamic environment and want to work within a startup, we'd like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure & high performance systems & services based on the business requirements.
• Integrate systems & services across distributed systems and services.
• Manage deployment of the systems & services to the development, test and production environments.
• HTTP API integration over various authorisation protocols mainly OAuth2 and Basic.
• Experience with ETL and data wrangling with Python.
• Back-end Python web frameworks.
• Wide range of Python data science libraries.
• Wide range of LLMs.
• Experience with Google Cloud server less and managed services.
• Experience with user access control development.
• Automate repetitive deployment tasks and streamline development processes.
• Improve application security.
• Implement user access control and management.
• Subscription management.
• Adding connections and validating extracted SaaS apps data.
• Employ caching.
• Migrate data pipeline to a unified model which supports both workflow and ETL tasks whilst optimising resource utilisation and scalability in terms of adding new connections.
• Employ machine learning for API profiling, resource reduplication and field mapping.
• Design highly scalable, testable code.
• Discover and fix programming bugs.
• Develop test cases for the systems & services based on the business requirement.
• Test and deploy upgrades, updates and patches.
• Respond to end user requests for technical support.
• Perform on-site and remote support & maintain support record.
• Provides emergency on-call support.
• Provide root cause analysis of customer issues.
• Perform maintenance programming and correction of identified defects.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation.

Skills / Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
• 4+ years of commercial experience in Python (using Django and REST Framework).
• Sound problem solving skills using the right data structures, algorithms and design patterns.
• Experience in developing and documenting APIs.
• Experience with integrating 3rd party APIs.
• Experience with relational database PostgreSQL or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD methodologies and container-based packaging & deployment.
• Aware of current industry developments and best practices.
• Fluent in English with excellent writing and communication skills, and an attention to detail.
• Extremely well organised and able to prioritise business needs effectively.
• Confident and flexible self-starter, capable of operating in a dynamic environment.
• An unwavering desire for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Most importantly, the candidate should have a passion for start-ups, the business and this role.
• Last but not least, we are NOT looking for a candidate who overlooks any significant aspect in terms of development and its processes which is not acceptable in the industry and unable to deliver high quality standards.

Compensation

Salary - Negotiable

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development