Associate Lead- Backend Developer

Experience contributing to or maintaining Open Source projects.

Experience collaborating with government, civic-tech, research, or community-driven organisations.

Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.

Basic understanding of message queues such as Redis, RabbitMQ, or Celery.

A healthy sense of humour and a collaborative mindset.

At CivicDataLab, we always emphasise the wellness of our bandhus. This includes any Expenditure done for the purpose of Wellness Setup, except any financial instrument, any expense that can be claimed as a deductible expense under Income Tax rules, any goods and services that attract a combined tax, cess or duty of more than 28%. If you're interested in taking classes that enhance your overall physical or mental well-being, you have an INR 60,000 annual stipend to do so. For some people, that might mean a monthly massage. Some take photography lessons, learn a musical instrument or buy a gym membership. It's up to you; the point is to learn something that you feel enriches you as a person.

At CivicDataLab, we encourage everyone to take up things that help one grow professionally, and you get an annual kitty of INR 60,000 to do so. This includes attending or speaking at conferences and workshops, taking courses, acquiring hardware or software licenses or even joining summer schools. We feel that learning a skill should never be a hurdle to solving important problems for the community.

Our Commitment to Diversity

We are committed to inclusive hiring and strongly encourage applicants from diverse and underrepresented gender and caste identities and/or sociocultural backgrounds to apply for this role. Our organisational policies are gender-neutral, including the POSH policy and leave policy. We provide 6 months of paid time off as parental leave for the primary caregiver and 6 weeks of paid time off for the secondary caregiver, including adoption.

Our Hiring Process

The entire hiring process averages between 3-4 weeks and consists of the following simple steps:

You can submit your application with your detailed portfolio through our website's career page. Link to page is here https://jobs.civicdatalab.in/jobs/Careers

If you are shortlisted, we will have an Introductory discussion to know better and check your fitment and interest

Based on how our discussion goes, we’ll give you a take-home assignment, and you will have a week to follow up with your submission.

Assignment Discussion: Here, you’ll share your screen and collaborate with our team to further enhance your assignment outcomes. The discussion typically runs for 60 to 90 minutes. Based on the inputs from the team, we will make a decision in 1–2 days.

If all goes well, we’ll have a final ‘Culture Discussion’ round, and you get to meet the rest of the team

Note : We appreciate your interest in joining CivicDataLab. Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis . Therefore, we strongly encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity. Due to the volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next stage of the selection process.