Senior Backend Engineer

What youll do?

We are seeking extremely smart & independentsenior developers who are gung-ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers.

You will:

• Lead design and development of products working closely with businessteam.
• Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers.
• Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance.
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready backend architectures that can support millions of users in parallel
• Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.
• The candidate will be suitably well versed with the appropriate information security responsibilities for the role and is responsible for adhering to them.

Who you need to be?

• 4+ years’ experience in software product development and delivery
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms, and excellent problem-solving abilities.
• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Able to take ownership of working with at least one of mobile or web app teams for complete integration with backend
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development.
• Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred). NoSql is a plus.
• Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile workplace.
• Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work
• Comfortable with exploring proven open-source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few.
• Knowledge of test-driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus.

Job location

• Chennai/Bangalore (work from office-Hybrid)