Backend Developer

About the role

Checking quality is one of the most important tasks at Anakin. Our clients are pricing their products based on our data, and minor errors on our end can lead to our client's losses of millions of dollars. You would work with multiple tools and with people across various departments to ensure the accuracy of the data being crawled. You would setup manual and automated processes and make sure they run to ensure the highest possible data quality.

You are the engineer other engineers can count on. You embrace every problem with enthusiasm. You remove hurdles, are a self-starter, team player. You have the hunger to venture into unknown areas and make the system work.

Your Responsibilities would be to:

• Understand customer web scraping and data requirements; translate these into test approaches that include exploratory manual/visual testing and any additional automated tests deemed appropriate
• Take ownership of the end-to-end QA process in newly-started projects
• Draw conclusions about data quality by producing basic descriptive statistics, summaries, and visualisations
• Proactively suggest and take ownership of improvements to QA processes and methodologies by employing other technologies and tools, including but not limited to: browser add-ons, Excel add-ons, UI-based test automation tools etc.
• Ensure that project requirements are testable; work with project managers and/or clients to clarify ambiguities before QA begins
• Drive innovation and advanced validation and analytics techniques to ensure data quality for Anakin's customers
• Optimize data quality codebases and systems to monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Configure and optimize the automated and manual testing and deployment systems used to check the quality of billions of data points of over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a backend or a full-stack software engineer
• Web scraping experience with Python or Node.js
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Should be paranoid about data quality

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

Additional Requirements:

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

 4-8 years of work experience

 Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and

idioms

 Knowledge of common Go routine and channel patterns

 Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:

 Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.

 Go’s templating language

 Go’s code generation tools, such as Stringer

 Popular Go web frameworks, such as Revel

 Router packages, such as Gorilla Mux

 Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments

 Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git

 Good experience with database technologies (MySQL, MS SQL, MongoDB)

 Good knowledge in cloud hosting services like (AWS, GCP)

Look for candidates who can join quickly, (2 weeks joiners preferred)

Location: Bangalore

Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

Requirements:

• 4 + years of experience in Java, Spring, Hibernate, Springboot/microservices
• Good understanding and practical experience in Spring framework ( Spring boot,JPA,MVC)
• Extensively worked on microservices based design architecture
• Strong command on Data Structures, algorithms & Problem Solving
• Very strong on Oops Java Basic,
• Good on Multithreading Concepts
• Should have good exposure on Messaging platform (Kafka,JMS, AMQ etc,)

About Bigbasket.com

At bigbasket.com we believe in being smart, quick and efficient, making your life as leisurely as possible. We understand that in this fast-paced world, time is always of the essence and hence want to make your grocery shopping easy and convenient so that no time is wasted in this process. So, no more hassle of going down to the grocery store and long queues for billing etc. You can browse through our varied range of products at bigbasket.com, order them and get them to be delivered at your own convenient time slot.

We specially hand pick each and every product for you, putting it through a safety packaging process and finding your home, no matter how bad the wind is or how cold the weather is. Our ''No questions asked refund' and ''10% off for a delayed delivery'' policy makes us a customer friendly online food and grocery store. Just follow three simple steps and get your order delivered - simply Browse, Add to cart & Choose delivery slot!

Why Explore a Career at Bigbasket.com

Bigbasket engineering thrives on out of the box thinking and relentless pursuit of excellence. We are looking for senior developers who share our passion for building world class software. If you are excited about the prospect of changing the way India shops for groceries and being a pioneer -- then this a great home for you. Not to mention the thrill of building products that millions use on a daily basis and using cutting edge technology to make the products customers love.

While we are techies at heart -- we don't use technology for the sake of technology, but pride ourselves in solving customer problems in the most efficient and elegant ways. Do the customers really care about efficient implementation of Levenshtein Distance? Well no. But they really appreciate when their typos are pardoned and don't get in the way. Similarly customers don't give a damn that robots efficiently segregate their packets, but they do care about their orders delivered in a timely way.

If you enjoy Coding, Testing and love solving business problems, then we'd like to meet you.

• Well versed in Core Java, OOPs concepts, collections, multi-threading, concurrency, lambdas, and streams.
• Hands-on knowledge of Spring Core, MVC, JPA, Security, transaction
• Working knowledge of REST API designing as well as development, using Spring.
• Exposure to Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift for the microservices environment.
• Savvy with SQL and database concepts.
• Ability to use frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, etc., for implementing unit testing.
• Sound understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/bit bucket with Maven.
• Should have worked in a CI/CD environment with TeamCity/Jenkins.

Develop and maintain dynamic web applications

Involvement in all aspects of the development cycle using PHP ,laravel ,codginator and OOPS concept

Participate in Code Review and walkthroughs

Work on complex and challenging projects

Ensure foolproof performance of the deliverable

Coordinate with co-developers and send regular updates

Knowledge of web applications security norms

Comfortable working with debugging tools

Plan, design, develop, debug, implement and support web-based applications and Services (Websites and Intranet Portal)

Skills Required:

Proven experience on PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Javascript, HTML,Jquery and Ajax

Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular2 and NodeJS

Proficiency in SQL scripting and MySQL 5.x

Experience in API integration, Localstorage, geolocation etc.

Knowledge of Cloud Environment like AWS/EC2, VPC etc.

Experience with version control GIT, BitBucket, SVN, etc.

Must have worked on Agile Methodology

Strong knowledge of OOPS, design patterns and Data structure

Should have strong knowledge of front end and back end optimization techniques