Senior Software Engineer - Python Django

About AdNabu

We are on a mission to make marketing easy and efficient for eCommerce companies. We are currently helping Shopify Merchants succeed in Google Shopping.

We believe in

1. Democratizing marketing: Quality Marketing is a great way for SMBs to level the playing field against large corporations. Enabling SMBs to prosper will result in increased competition & value add to many instead of a few.
2. Building a large profitable business: We envision building a capital-efficient, large profitable business to achieve our mission of democratizing marketing. We are one of the few profitable Indian SaaS startups building Value SaaS.
3. Employee Wellness <> Customer Success: We give as much importance to each team member’s personal & professional success as much as we care about our customer's success. We believe it’s all about balance.

Our impact so far

• 8000+ active stores using our software
• Profitable for more than 12 months
• 10M+ products updated daily
• Achieved with a small team of 8

Compensation

• Total Salary: Rs. 10 to 15 lakhs per annum (based on prior experience and fit)
• Equity will be awarded after 12 months, based on the impact created. We prefer that you hold equity in the company.

Responsibilities:

Within 1 month:

• Learn all aspects of our current product as part of your training.
• Setup the dev environment and push your first small piece of code to production.
• Have a one-one chat with every member of the AdNabu team, so you get to know everyone well.

Within 3 months:

• You'll start developing your first service all by yourself. (With some guidance)
• Write your first set of unit test cases and set up functional testing workflows.
• Conduct your first review of a peer's code.
• Participate in several bug-bashes to get a deep understanding of all the new features we're working on.

Within 6 months:

• You'll launch your first two or three services to production.
• Take architectural and infrastructure decisions that will impact the entire product.
• Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new services.

Within 12 months:

• You'll launch at least 3 to 4 core services to production and completely own scaling for some more.
• Participate in interviewing and hiring to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and customer success leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, databases, networking, and distributed systems.
• 3-6 years of experience with product development(Python & MVC based web framework).
• Experience with working on Linux system, version control, CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in designing scalable architectures to support a data-intensive application.
• Experience in managing the infrastructure for distributed systems.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• The ability to explain sophisticated architectures to engineers, product managers, and support & operation executives.
• You are expected to write a proposal for your idea/solutions and take feedback from the team.
• Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.

Personality traits we really admire:

• Great attitude to ask questions, learn, and suggest process improvements.
• Attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
• Equal importance to planning, coding, code reviews, documentation, and testing.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Adheres to release cycles and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Why should you join AdNabu?

By joining as our third Software Engineer in a growing team, you have the opportunity to make a huge impact by working closely with the leadership team, including the CEO. As we scale our tech team over the next few months, you will have a key role in hiring and taking on bigger responsibilities.

This is what our team members enjoy the most about AdNabu:

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who wants to take up challenging work & push your personal boundaries, then this is the right place for you.
• Great Salary & Equity: For our top performers and leaders, we grant stock options. As AdNabu continues to grow, you’ll have a real opportunity to create wealth for yourself and your family. We'll ensure you are financially well-off in the end.
• Holistic Growth: Building a career doesn’t have to be at the cost of missing out on your personal front. We believe that professional success is worth it when personal goals are nurtured with equal importance. We will support you on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be on an entrepreneurial journey, then working with AdNabu gives you that opportunity to experience it all first hand.
• Food & Snacks: We provide Sodexo coupons monthly. This is on top of your salary :)
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage for you & your dependents.
• Flexible leaves & work-from-home: We only care about the work being effective and on-time. Do it from wherever you want to do it. Your home, or a beach in Goa, that’s all up to you :). Team bonding activities like quizzes, games, and more are conducted regularly.

If all of this sounds exciting to you, join us for an exciting and equally fulfilling ride at AdNabu!

Job Perks

• Health Insurance
• Sodexo Food Coupons
• Assistance in setting up Home Office