Backend Django Developer

About LINC Education
LINC Education (www.linceducation.com), based in Singapore and India, is an education technology cum services startup providing high-touch, high-quality educator-led support services to universities around the world. LINC Education’s services are customized for each university, and delivered using a cutting-edge technology platform (LINCtrac) to provide a superior and effective learning experience to students.

LINCtrac CRM is our student engagement platform, that helps enhance the relationship with students. It brings a host of capabilities together like list all LINC Fellow’s(LF) students, view student’s complete history, make calls, send emails and SMS, instant chat, schedule appointments, add notes, smart and real-time notifications, rule based system that helps LF to make action decisions, and data secured systems.

Key responsibilities
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Designing and implementing low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Integrating user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Implementing security and data protection of the platform
• Integrating with database solutions
• Ensuring that all the components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain

Skills Required:
• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django, or Flask
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Celery
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git