About Contify

We are a team of analysts, engineers, data scientists and designers buildingpowerful intelligence tools for business users. Contify is a 360 degree marketintelligence platform that enables businesses to monitor competitors, customers,suppliers, and critical market variables against event triggers on an ongoing basiswith unmatched precision and relevance.

Role Summary

● Position: Software Developer

● Function/Team: Technology Team

● Location: Delhi

● Reporting to: Project Lead/ Manager

● Working Hours: 9 Hours per day with 5 days a week. Should be flexible towork in start-up environment

● Travel: No

●Expected onboard time (After roll-out of offer): 15-30 days

ABOUT THE TEAM:

The technology team at Contify is responsible for enhancing and maintaining thevarious aspects of our flagship product. This involves feature additions to our webservice and our client side apps, performance/architecture enhancements, tuningour NLP, machine learning algorithms and a lot more. We stay on the cutting edge,while being sensible about it. Depending on how good you are, you will eventuallybe allowed to choose your own area of specialization.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

RESPONSIBILITIES

● Coordinate with the team lead and architect for new requirements.

● Participate in design discussions and provide input on various featurerequests and requirements.

● Code up new features, fix reported bugs, enhance the product in any waypossible.

● Understand the existing code base, and monitor and maintain existing code.

● Perform peer reviews of colleagues, help maintain high coding standards,learn and share wisdom on best practices.

● Manage the software release process.

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY STACK

● Python and Django are our primary tools.

● PostgreSQL as our database.

● Apache Solr for search.

● AngularJS and jQuery for client side magic.

● OS - Fedora Linux.

● We love trying out new things and are open to adopting newtools/frameworks if their practicality for the job at hand can be proved.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

● Engineering graduate (preferably computer science) with 3 years + ofhands-on experience in coding and web development.

● Proven experience and in-depth knowledge in one or more technologies.Experience in Python or any other scripting language is a bonus.

● Passionate about programming. You are among those who have writtenmultiple scripts for productivity or written proprietary libraries if you can’tfind something that fits the need.

● Participated in the full life cycle of a large project: design, implementation,testing, releasing and sustaining.

● Experience in unit testing and identifying good test cases.

● Experience in working with at least one database - Oracle, MySQL orPostgreSQL preferred. Experience with an ORM technology to map against arelational store is a bonus.

● Experience in natural language processing libraries like NLTK or exposure tosome of these areas is a bonus: Text Classification, Semantic search, Webcrawling, Information extraction, Sentiment analysis, Bayesian classification.

● Experimenting with lots of latest development libraries and tools.

● Must be able to show us projects/websites that you have created. Bonuspoints if you’ve created these projects/websites outside of your work (welove seeing proof of how much you love technology and coding).

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

● Undergraduate: B.Tech.

● Graduate/post graduate: Preferred MCA/M Tech

● Language skills: English