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Backend Engineer at Reo.Dev : Job Description

[Disclaimer: This is a longish read. However, we felt you might be interested to read in detail, about what you could be doing for the next 5ish years 😊]

Job Function: Backend Engineer

Experience: 2 – 4 years [number of years of experience is not a filter]

Salary and Incentives: Open for discussion

Location: Bangalore, India [Hybrid work - Remote + Office]

👋 Meet Reo.Dev

• Reo.Dev was founded in January 2023. So we are quite young 😊
• Reo was started by Achintya, Gaurav and Piyush – All of them have successfully built companies before [more on the Founding team below]
• We are building a Revenue Operating System for the Developer Focussed Companies (Think of us like a 6sense.com for Dev Focussed Companies).
• What we are building is quite innovative. Currently, no other company offers the capabilities Reo.Dev is building
• We recently closed our Seed round with top early stage investors (not disclosed yet)

Exp: 7- 10 Years

CTC: up to 35 LPA

Skills:

• 6–10 years DevOps / SRE / Cloud Infrastructure experience
• Expert-level Kubernetes (networking, security, scaling, controllers)
• Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code mastery
• Hands-on Kafka production experience
• AWS cloud architecture and networking expertise
• Strong scripting in Python, Go, or Bash
• GitOps and CI/CD tooling experience

Key Responsibilities:

• Design highly available, secure cloud infrastructure supporting distributed microservices at scale
• Lead multi-cluster Kubernetes strategy optimized for GPU and multi-tenant workloads
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform across full infrastructure lifecycle
• Optimize Kafka-based data pipelines for throughput, fault tolerance, and low latency
• Deliver zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines using GitOps-driven deployment models
• Establish SRE practices with SLOs, p95 and p99 monitoring, and FinOps discipline
• Ensure production-ready disaster recovery and business continuity testing

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•  1-3 years of experience in application/web development
• Good experience in working with programming languages Golang.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general
• Working knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes is a plus
• Understand end user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
• Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
• You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.

• Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

About us:

Shiprocket is a logistics platform which connects Indian eCommerce SMBs with logistics players to enable end-to-end solutions.

Our innovative data-backed platform drives logistics efficiency, helps reduce cost, increases sales throughput by reducing RTO and improves post order customer engagement and experience.

Our vision is to power all logistics for the direct commerce market in India including first mile, linehaul, last mile, warehousing, cross border and O2O.

Requirement:

We are looking for a Software Engineer who will develop, record and maintain cutting edge applications for Shiprocket Platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications which have to perform at scale
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Develop backend data services and contribute to increase existing APIs
• Ability to act individually in a complex and fast paced environment
• Closely work with the Product and QA teams to ensure smooth delivery
• Participate in solution designing with Tech leads and Systems Architects
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keep project manager well informed of the status of development efforts
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

Skills:

• Great people skills to closely work with other teams.
• Strong in establishing systems & processes
• Expertise in Laravel or GoLang, MySQL and Git
• Thorough in Object oriented concepts
• Knowledge of restful Web services
• Understanding of web applications
• Working knowledge of one or more caching, queuing systems in desirable
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• Excellent problem solving
• Can do attitude

Primary Responsibilities:

• Principal Engineers  are responsible for driving Technology and Engineering Best Practices in their respective teams.
• They should demonstrate a high level of ownership and accountability for their product and software systems.
• They are expected to go above and beyond their role by contributing in tools, processes and practices which bring operational efficiency and are aligned with business goals.
• They are expected to actively participate in development along with team members and create systems and modules which represent a working model of engineering best practices.
• They are expected to participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• They are responsible for the Engineering metrics/health of their systems including strong alerting and monitoring mechanisms.
• They are expected to lead the adoption of best practices around coding, designing, performance of systems in a team.

Experience or Skills Required:

• B.Tech or Advanced degree in Computer Science with 6-12 years of industry experience in product based companies.
• Proficiency with Basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas
• Experience in building solutions based on Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, K Nearest neighbor, SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees.
• Strong experience with at least one of programming languages: Python, Java, Vertx, Golang
• Strong experience in building Server side reusable components based on Microservices or Distributed Architecture.
• Solid coding skills with ability to lead teams in identifying clearing tech debts for large scale code base.
• Good understanding & experience in improving performance of scalable and real time responsive applications.
• Excellent Problem Solving skills and an aptitude to approach problems from first principles and build solutions for those.
• Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem solving skills.
• Must be able to work independently and enjoy working at a fast paced start-up environment
• Excellent Mentoring skills. Be the technical mentor to your team.
• Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries are not clearly defined.

Experience: 5+ Years

An  Architect  is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.  

• Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
• Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
• Responsibilities:
• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities 
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
• Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
• Requirements:

Ideal candidate should have

• 7+ years of system implementation experience 
• Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
• Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
• Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
• Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
• Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
• Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Good experience with Devops

Tech Stack:

Golang, Microservices (AWS ECS, App Mesh), Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, NATS.

Required Skills:

- 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails OR 2+ years of experience with Golang.

- 5+ years of experience with MySQL or Postgres and relational data modelling.

- Experience consuming and writing REST APIs.

- Focus on writing clear, maintainable, tested code.

- Experience with Git, continuous integration and regular deployments.

- Experience with complex Rails projects and design principles.

- Strong willingness to learn and use Golang at work.

- Experience with CI (continuous integration).

- Strong understanding of Linux.

- Strong understanding of Docker.

- You must be a strong communicator who can explain complex ideas to anyone regardless of background.

Preferred Skills:

- 2+ years of experience with Golang.

- Experience with Microservices deployed in Kubernetes.

- Experience with AWS ECS, App Mesh and Lambda.

- Ability and interest in mentoring junior engineers a plus.

- Excellent written communication skills and diligent ability to contribute to the team by performing code reviews.

- B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience