Backend Developer

My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
• Modernizing the tech stack
• Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
• Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
• Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
• Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
• Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
• Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
• Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
• Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
• Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

What we offer you:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
• Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
• Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Well stocked pantry
• Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Active Employee Resource Groups – Women 
• Frequent employee events
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!

We are looking for a Backend Developer for our Engineering team.

What You'll Do :

 You will be a part of our backend team working on keeping our REST API and GraphQL API up and running and making sure that our users get the right data at the right time.
 You will have ownership of developing and maintaining our backend services including users, courses, and operations tools that manage our product and logistics.
 You will work on architecting and scaling highly-available RESTful services and back-end systems from scratch.
 This is a position for an experienced Node programmer with at least 2 years under the belt, but you don't have to be a rock star, a ninja, or a superhero to apply.

What You'll Need :

 You will fit well in the backend team if you are passionate about technology and have experience programming in Node. Knowledge of technologies like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, REST and JSON will help you get going from day one.
 As an experienced Node developer, you should be intimately familiar with the platform, with
JavaScript, and with the stables of full-stack web development : HTTP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SQL.
 It's a bonus if you're broadly familiar with other languages as well- we write some services in Go and have data pipelines written in Python- but your main work will be JavaScript through and through.
 You will be a perfect match with our team if you love collaborating with people from all disciplines to solve complex problems, always want to learn new skills and take ownership of your work.

Backend developer with good Nodejs & Rest APIs experience.
Experience with SQL & NO SQL
In-depth knowledge and experience in developing web applications with service-oriented frameworks.

We're looking for someone to join a team dedicated to building performant APIs and backend services that deal with large volumes of data for the company's flagship, global consumer product. Small, high-impact teams require conscious planning and decision-making when it comes to design, architecture, and product features. So, it's essential that you enjoy working in such an environment.

 

We're a team that cares about simplicity and being able to build reliable, deterministic systems and platforms. Hence, our choice of tooling is usually battle-tested reliable software with a robust test suite.

 

 

How we work

1. You won't deal with the hustle culture. We're focused on building well-thought-out, stable and reliable software and we try our best to ensure everyone understands the big picture and the immediate goals.
2. We work a solid 6-8 hour days and don't slave away 24/7.
3. We're a remote engineering team. This makes effective communication extremely important. Our teams have benefitted greatly from good written communication. This includes everything from the product specification to the API spec. We spend a lot of time writing READMEs. As a result our engineers work with greater clarity and planning.
4. We deploy several times a day and rely on a good test suite to ensure we're not making life hard for our colleagues.
5. We don't expect anyone to know everything, but we are curious and learn along the way.
6. We learn about the fitness space and what it means to really be fit and not just Instagram fit.

 

 

The Python Backend Engineer position may be a good fit for you if:

1. You have 3 (or more) years of experience building and maintaining cloud applications.
2. You have built APIs with Python, Flask, Django or FastAPI before.
3. You have experience working with relational databases like PostgresSQL or MySQL and have spent time writing SQL queries for large datasets.
4. Experience in writing Unit tests with pytest.
5. You have worked with Docker, docker-compose.
6. Familiarity with the AWS ECS stack.

 

We want you to care about

1. Good object oriented design
2. Performant APIs
3. Analysing why queries are slow and how to go about improving them.
4. Understanding DNS, Load balancing, Caching and Hashing.
5. Customer data and privacy.

 

Our API Stack services use:

1. Python 3.8+, Typescript
2. FastAPI, Flask, HapiJs
3. PostgresSQL, MySQL
4. Redis
5. Celery
6. Pytest, Jest for unit testing.
7. Gitlab CI/CD
8. Amazon ECS container services

Job Description

 

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc. 

 

Eligibility

 

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred. 
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

 

Skills required:

1. PHP 7.x, MySQL 5.x

2. Must have experience of 5+ years with core OOP

3. Must have experience in MVC framework Laravel ( Must ) , CakePHP (2/3), CodeIgnitor, deep understanding of MVC architectures etc.

4. jQuery, BootStrap, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, AngularJS.

5. Must have Version Control knowledge of Git (preferred), SVN.

6. Must have experience in REST, SOAP API creation and integration for mobile applications.

7. Must be good in scalable programmng and coding PSR standards.

Responsibilities:

1. Ability to handle work independently.

2. Ability to work with large database, can create database and optimize.

3. Able to communicate easily with iOS and Andriod teams.

4. Can solve technical issues and have strong debugging skill.

5. Ability to build strong architecture and analytical skills.

6. Know SDLC and Agile development methodology.

7. Can use latest collaboration tools like Jira, BitBucket, Confluence.

8. Must have developed on SaaS base web applications and enterprise applications.

9. Must be knowing about current technology trends.

● Develop new user-facing features in both web and native javascript apps ● Build reusable code and libraries for future use ● Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs. ● Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability. ● Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services. ● Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities • Develop software in the .NET MVC 6.0 using Entity Framework and SQL stored procedures as a full stack developer. • Expertise in software engineering including Rest full APIs in .NET and C#. • Expected to have a solid understanding of software development design patterns and ability to develop solutions from complex business logic. • Must have clear oral and written communication skills to interact with technical and non-technical personnel. • Expected to conduct system analysis and development, with limited support from professional staff, to keep our systems current with changing technologies. • Responsible for coding standards and peer reviews. • Take specifications and develop applications and solutions. • Designing, coding and debugging applications in various software languages. • Scoping documents and technical specs and analyze product requirements and design technical solutions. • Be a point of contact in your area of expertise and fix assigned product issues.

Who are we? We are an early stage startup working on an EdTech platform for the global audience. Our mission is to break the barriers to knowledge and make professional skills accessible to everyone. The founding team has experience in technology and business across US, Europe and India. We are currently operating out of India and Germany. Why join us? In addition to the thrill of building a global product from scratch, we promise you a fun and challenging work atmosphere. You will have unparalleled opportunity to design and prioritize features that align with the business objectives. True to our mission, we ensure that our employees are being mentored for their own development and grow with the company. Job description We are calling in applications from software professionals who want to have a big impact on how this platform will shape up. As an early employee, you are expected to act proactively and take lead in developing features of the platform. Specifically, we are looking for following technical skills - Desired technical expertise - - Strong proficiency with AngularJS and related available frameworks and js libraries (MEAN.io / Radian etc) - Experience in cloud-based technologies (either Amazon's AWS, Google's GCP or Microsoft's Azure) - Working knowledge of database technologies (preferably MySQL) - Working knowledge of HTML5, Javascript, CSS/CSS3, Jquery, responsive design using bootstrap etc. - Working knowledge of UI and UX using newer JS technologies like Material Design, NGX-Bootstrap, Angular Material, etc. Ideal fit for the company - - Strong logical and analytical thinking - Passionate for coding and developing software solutions - Someone with a go-getter attitude who does not wait for instructions - Hungry for learning and personal development