Backend Software Engineer

Job Description

• At least 6.5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Extensive experience with at least one OO language (preferably Java)
• Ability to work in a startup environment with high levels of ownership & commitment
• Fast learner & ability to pick up new technologies & tools.
• Posses great coding skills to be able to convert design & ideas into clean code with unit tests.
• Experience with building backend at scale, takes to the heart the core tenants of distributed systems - reliability, scalability, availability, performance & security.
• Experience in building RESTful services, knowledge of microservices & pragmatic understanding of the trade-offs in real world.
• Experience in working with Relational and Nonrelational data stores, queue infra & caching.
• Deep knowledge about Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections, popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)
• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST Express etc.
• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle or Postgres
• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB etc.
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak etc.
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc.