Backend Developer

Job Description

Your responsibilities

• You will be the engine that drives the engineering productivity of the team. You will own either a product or feature development end to end from creating a solution, implementing it, ensuring exemplary quality and supporting the deployment and ongoing support work in the live environment.
• You will be responsible for the performance, security, scalability, reusability and quality of the applications under you. You will collaborate with senior engineering managers/architects to refine & improve your solutions. You will cascade the same culture across the team by supporting and mentoring team members, helping build truly scalable applications.
• You will need to collaborate closely with product managers, designers and business stakeholders to achieve predictable results at a rapid pace.
• You will be able to handle competing priorities and chart the best course of action for yourself and your team members ensuring blockers are removed.
• You will be a key person in ensuring that agile processes created by the team are adhered to and you actively contribute to the improvement of these processes. You will be responsible for estimating your tasks and ensuring that promised timelines are met.
• You will help in attracting and evaluating tech talent to help build the engineering brand of the organisation.

Desired background & skills

• 3-9 years of experience as an engineer at top tier digital product companies across consumer or SMB.
• Passion to work in an exciting, fast paced environment. Conscientious, curious, hard-working individual who craves accountability and loves to solve complex problems.
• Knowledge of parallel processing using reactive and asynchronous programming is must. Should have worked with coroutines, goroutines, high concurrency or optimized number of threads for processing on your backend application server.
• Extremely proficient at writing performant, scalable and production-ready code in Kotlin, Java (8 or above, comfortable with concepts like lambda, streams, multithreading etc), Elixir, Rust, or Golang. Should be familiar with static code analysis, code coverage and code reviews.
• Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis or Aerospike is required. Knowledge of RDBMS like Postgres or MySQL is also required. Should have worked with query tuning and database optimization using composite and partial indexes. Should know how to optimize for both write and read path. Should have compared various databases and then made a choice between them based on use case.
• Must have taken keen interest in finding out trends in technologies outside his work. Should know at least two cutting edge technologies outside his work.
• Understanding of HTML / CSS / Angular / ReactJS Frontend technologies is a plus.
• Knowledge with building applications integrated with CI-CD pipelines (automated build, tests and deployments) is mandatory.
• Exposure to micro-services with a good understanding of containers, kubernetes, logging, alerting and monitoring. Inter services communication. Should know how to handle authentication and authorisation around REST APIs and how to manage multiple versions of it.