pythonista.md

Pythonista

Make sure you read Common Requirements & Responsibilities before you proceed

How to apply

Refer here: https://github.com/reckonsys/careers#how-to-apply

Salary Range

• Depending on your experience and skillset.

Responsibilities

• You will have to build GraphQL APIs
• You are responsible for deploying your code (We already have all the deployment scripts that are well-documented over here: bigga)
• You may be required to build the product from ground up.
• You will have to implement new features
• Every day, you will have to adress bugs (atleast the critical/medium ones) before starting a new feature.
• Optimize the parts of code that you feel can be written better

Requirements

• Check out the Tech Stack below (and make sure you are comfortable with at-least the essentials of the stack)
• Should have at-least 3 years experience in building backend / web application (any scripting language / framework)
• Of the 3 years thats mentioned above, at least 2 year should be using Django (Or at-least any other python framework).
• Strong HTML; Proficient in JavaScript & CSS
• The number of years may not matter if you show promising skills
• Exposure to celery
• Knows how to setup a server
• Basic understanding of containers

Nice to have (Optional - but, these are huge plus)

• Go Lang / Elixir
• Know how to deploy backend using our bigga project. [This is just a docker-compose file]
• Basic grasp of AWS / Google Cloud / Azure
• Basic grasp on client-side JavaScript (or CoffeeScript/typescript)
• Have used frontend frameworks like Ember, Angular, Backbone, React
• SASS / LESS Experience is huge plus

Tech Stack

You should have a strong understanding (at the least, the fundamentals / getting started) of the following:

• Python
• Django
• GraphQL
• Graphene

Assignment

Using the tech stack above (This is a must), build a simple blog API service. It should expose a GraphQL endpoint to do the folloing things:

1. Implement a createPost() mutation which will create a Post (a blogpost object) with attributes {title, description, publish_date, author (just a name as TextField)}
2. Implement a updatePost($id) mutation which will update a Post attributes by $id
3. Implement a createComment() mutation which will create a Comment object with attributes {post (the blogpost object), text, author (just the name as a TextField)}
4. Implement a deleteComment($id) mutation to delete the given Comment by its ID.
5. Implement a posts() query to list all the posts
6. Implement a post($id) query to get details of a post and all its comments12

Please push the assignment to a private github repo and add @rs-ds, @svisanagiri, @subhoreck0n & @rmad17 as collaborators to your private repo.