Backend Developer (2.5-4 Years)

About the Role:

Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems? Experienced in being in a team of highly competent software engineers impacting millions of lives around you? If so, here is an opportunity tailored for you.

As a SDE, you will interact with the entire engineering team to solve problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture of our growing product. This will involve working on our existing codebase along with new projects. Airtel Xtelify has a highly passionate engineering-driven environment where your contribution will be felt immediately. All teams at Xtelify are involved in every part of our development life cycle.

Out of many tools and technologies, we use Golang, Java, Postgres, Aerospike, Redis, Kafka extensively for our back-end development.

Responsibilities:

• Developing a highly-concurrent and distributed system
• Performance optimization and problem diagnosis
• Designing/Developing for high-availability
• Designing/Developing and testing new features
• Supporting release and documentation of developed features
• Estimating the effort required to develop and implement
• Help define coding standards and development processes
• Willing to learn & adapt different technologies

Skill Sets:

• Have extensive hands-on experience in Golang, in production-grade systems
• Experience dealing with highly concurrent, distributed architectures / systems
• Strong Data Structures & Algorithms concepts
• Comfortable working in a nix environment & using cli.
• Experience with building HTTP and GRPC based services
• Willingness to get hands dirty and not afraid of low-level details
• Ability to carefully break down the problem into small pieces
• Ability to effectively communicate problems and solutions to the different team members
• Be able to debug non-trivial application code.
• Be able to write clear, concise source-code documentation, unit and integration tests.
• Be able to think beyond code to architecture and user experience.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL/Postgres, Redis, REST, Elasticsearch/MongoDB
• Proficient with code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Familiarity with Deployment on Cloud (AWS, GCP) with Jenkins, Ansible, Consul, Nats will be plus
• Familiarity with frameworks/tools like statsd, Open tracing, Prometheus will be plus