At Appknox, we have built some Microservices, Device Farms (Android & iOS) & IDE Plugins with Python/Django, Node, Java, Ember to help developers and enterprises to automatically detect and fix security loopholes in their Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows, etc.) / IoT Apps within a few minutes. Before you wonder: No, you need not know anything at all about security to apply for tech positions in Appknox. We have experienced security professionals on-board who will give us scripts to detect vulnerabilities. Our job is to refine it and integrate it with the whole system. Only requirement to apply for Appknox is to know how to write good code.
*Responsibilities* - You will have to build RESTful APIs - You will have to implement new features - Optimize the parts of code that you feel can be written better - You are responsible for growing your team - You take ownership of the product/service you are writing *Requirements* - Should have at-least 5 years experience in building backend / web application (any scripting language / framework) - Of the 5 years thats mentioned above, at least 3 years should be using any Python frameworks. - Strong HTML; Proficient in JavaScript & CSS - You are able to write clean, pragmatic and testable code - Comfortable with basic unix commands (+ Shell scripting) - Very Proficient in Git & GitHub - Proficient in English - Have a GitHub & StackOverflow profile - Proficient in writing test-first code (a.k.a Writing testable code) - Make sure you read our architecture blog post before applying. You dont have to understand everything there. But just a high-level understanding would be a huge plus - You have your own Linux / Mac machine - Windows is allowed iff you are a windows power-user and capable of setting up dev environment that is identical to Linux/Mac - Any other tech-skill that you have that are not in job requirements (be sure to mention in the mail) - Can play Counter-Strike (Optional. It's okay if you cannot play Counter Strike - we will teach you) - The number of years may not matter if you show promising skills *Nice to have (Optional)* - Django, Celery is a huge plus - DevOps experience is a huge plus - Good grasp on client-side JavaScript (or CoffeeScript is huge plus) - Have used frontend frameworks like Ember, Angular, Backbone, React - SASS / LESS Experience is huge plus *Job Perks* - Competitive Market Salary - Free Food (Break Fast + Lunch + Snacks + Tea) - Free tickets to conferences related to your profession [PyCon, JSFoo, etc] - Flexible office timings - Work from home options (infrequent / limited no of days) - Counter-Strike office party (this happens often) - Monthly Pizza or Beer party - Barbecue @ Appknox Terrace on special occasions (veg & non-veg) - Random trips to random places - Time for open-source contribution (to things that we use here at Appknox) - You can open-source any component that you write (As long as it does not contain business logic / secret sauce) *The Interview Process* The interview process in the order: - 3 programming challenges (If your GitHub/Bitbucket/StackOverflow profile is impressive or if have an impressive portfolio - we will not ask you to take these challenges. You can skip this, as you have already proven yourself, and get to next step) - Phone/Skype/Hangouts interview (personal + past experiences + little bit of tech) with our Tech Team - One week paid-trial. You have to our office and work with us for a week (Monday to Friday). If everything goes well, you will be hired. You will get paid for the work whether your get hired or not. - Play Counter-Strike as a right of passage and become a KnoxStar :) [optional] *How to apply?* Email engineering[at]appknox[dot]com with the role that you are applying in the subject and with GitHub, StackOverflow, personal site (or any link that you think might be useful in evaluating you), etc in the body. Resumes are okay - but not really valuable for evaluation. Once we receive your mail - we will send you the programming challenges. You can take as much time as you want to complete the challenges (But the sooner is better. The timings will be evaluated too). Please visit out GitHub careers page for more info: https://github.com/appknox/careers *PayRange*: 10-20 LPA *ESOP*: upto 1% -- dhilipsiva Full Stack & DevOps Engineer. Website: http://dhilipsiva.com GitHub: https://github.com/dhilipsiva Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhilipsiva E-Mail: dhilips...@gmail.com Phone: +91 81977 93582 <+918197793582> _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers