Backend Developer

Key Responsibilities:

  Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Go code.

  Implement and integrate with back-end services, databases, and APIs.

  Write clean, scalable, and testable code following best practices and design patterns.

  Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

  Optimize application performance for maximum speed and scalability.

  Identify and address bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.

  Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices.

Required Qualifications:

  Proven experience as a Golang Developer or similar role in software development.

  Proficiency in Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms.

  Experience with server-side development, microservices architecture, and RESTful APIs.

  Familiarity with common Go frameworks and tools such as Gin.

Knowledge implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems

  Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).

  Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

  Strong understanding of concurrency and parallelism in Go.

  Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

  Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

  Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

As a Lead Engineer, you will:

• Design systems that deal with the scale of a billion messages per day
• Work closely with product managers, designers, frontend engineers, and QA to deliver features and improvements from the design phase to production.
• Communicating promptly and clearly with all stakeholders.
• Competence in writing clean, bug-free code and championing best practices in code quality, testing, security, and performance.
• Awareness of technologies used in their project and coding practices, and tools. 
• Cultivate a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement within the team

What will contribute to your success?

• Minimum experience of 5 years in development with a similar stack
• Excellent knowledge of Golang, event-driven systems like Kafka, databases like MongoDB and Redis. 
• Good to have knowledge of React/Redux and application development around the frontend stack
• Autonomy, excellent analytical, problem-solving, organisational, interpersonal, and motivational skills.
• Ability to move cleanly from theoretical to implementation thinking.
• Experience with performance and optimisation problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Highly positive attitude and ability to build conducive working relationships with colleagues from all levels.

What we offer:

• A unique opportunity to join an international and collaborative startup environment in a hyper-growth context
• Hybrid working with 2 days of work from home.
• The chance to grow your professional and technical skills, with actual room for career progression
• A modern office in a central location with free fruits and drinks, and a lot of fun activities
• Excellent referral program where employees can choose a gift item worth 1.5 lac, including a bike, flight tickets, and many more.a
• 1.4 times your day salary if you're working on any week off or holiday due to critical tasks or issues
• An umbrella of leaves and holidays
• Budget to support your workspace at home
• Medical insurance of INR 10 lakh is borne by the company.
• An employee-friendly compensation structure that includes tax-saving optional components, where the employee can save extra tax
• Bi-annual global company offsite; inter-office trips.
• Virtual Festival and Birthday celebrations, Team parties, and team-building outings.

Role Responsibilities:

• Development and Maintenance of REST APIs: Lead the creation and management of our RESTful APIs, ensuring top-notch performance and alignment with evolving requirements.
• Proficiency in Coding: We're in search of expertise in Python or equivalent programming languages. Your coding skills will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality (efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable) solutions.
• Unit and Integration Testing: Apply your expertise to craft unit and integration tests, upholding code quality and reliability.
• Version Control Systems: Proficiency in Distributed Version Control Systems is vital for seamless collaboration during development.
• Elasticsearch Expertise: Having valuable experience with Elasticsearch is a plus, given its critical role in data retrieval and search functionalities.
• NOSQL Database Familiarity: Knowledge of NOSQL databases like Cassandra and MongoDB will be advantageous.
• Message Broker Knowledge: Understanding message brokers, especially RabbitMQ, is beneficial for effective communication within our systems.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience: 1-2 years of hands-on experience as a Python developer.
• AWS: Proficiency in AWS cloud management and architecting enterprise data solutions.
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving: Recognize when a solution should be streamlined and when creating the right abstraction will lead to long-term efficiency gains.
• Passion for Quality: Demonstrate dedication to producing work of the highest quality and following best practices.
• Agile/Lean Process: Familiarity with Agile/Lean methodologies is a plus, reflecting your adaptability and collaborative spirit.
• Startup Mindset: Embrace the challenges and opportunities of a startup environment, contributing your skills and insights to our growth.
• Debugging and Optimization: Showcase excellent debugging and optimization capabilities to enhance system performance.
• Tech Awareness: Stay updated on emerging technologies and possess a solid understanding of the full product development life cycle.
• UX and Information Architecture: Exhibit excellent knowledge of mobile user experience, information architecture, and industry trends.

DeepSource is working on building tools that help developers ship good code. There are over 40 million developers in the world, and all of them write and review code in some form. The Language Engineering team works on the source code analyzers, including both programming languages and configuration-as-code systems. As a member of the Language Engineering team, you will work on building the best, most comprehensive, Ruby analyzer in the world. You will add new rules and Autofixes for finding more issues with code and automatically fixing them. You will be involved with the community to understand the problems with static analysis tools in the Ruby ecosystem.

• Identify bad code practices in Ruby and write new analyzers to detect them.

• Improve the coverage of automatically fixable issues.

• Ensure fewer false-positives are reported by the analyzer.

• Work on the internal tools that support analysis runtimes.

• Contribute to open-source static analysis tools.

• Strong foundational knowledge in Computer Science.

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience in Ruby.

• Understanding of the nuances of execution of the source code (AST, data flow graphs, etc).

• Familiarity with Ruby best practices followed in the industry.

• Native experience with Linux/Unix environment.

• A focus on delivering high-quality code through strong testing practices.

We offer competitive compensation with meaningful stock options, a generous vacation policy, and a workstation of your choice, to name a few of the perks.