Backend Developer

Engineering Manager – Backend

 

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

 

Series D funded supply chain startup.

 

Requirements

 

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack

 

Technologies Used

 

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

 

Roles and Responsibilities

 

This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product

stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:

 

Business and product alignment and planning

 

• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
• Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
• Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. Product and system development

• Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
• Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
• Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
• Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

1. Project Management

• Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
• Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
• Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.

1. Maintenance

• Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
• Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
• Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

1. Team Management

• Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
• Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
• Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.

Product Overview

 

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors

 

include:

 

• Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
• Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
• Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
• Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

Must have skills:

● 3+ years of experience with React.js, React Native and Node.js
● Experience in building and deploying a mobile application using React Native.
● Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript
object model
● A sound understanding of Redux/Flux, Webpack, ES6, Jest.
● Must have hands on experience in Restful APIs
● Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions,
conclusions or approaches to problems
● Ability to ship features on a weekly basis: should be good at time management and
prioritization
● Hands-on experience in CI/CD principles and TDD
● Strong written and verbal English communication skills

Your responsibilities:
● Understand the business context and build high quality code using proven design and
architectural patterns
● Develop, test and deploy integrations required to meet business requirements
● Carry out unit tests and other quality control mechanisms to inform and validate the code and
design
● Utilizing and monitoring cloud infrastructure resources (such as AWS, Azure) efficiently
● Participate in a highly fluid environment applying agile software development principles
● Ensure the coding standards are on-par with the best in the industry

5+ year’s hands-on product development experience,
technical solutions implementation, architecture design, evaluation
and investigation in a cloud environment (specifically AWS and/or
Azure), preferably with IoT products.
● Working with smaller startups or mid-sized companies
Experience in one of following programming languages:
Python/Node.js
● Python and restful API frameworks. Experience of
working/integrating with cloud services providers like AWS
(preferred) / Azure / GCP
● Good understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript & jQuery. Hands
on experience with React.js/React.native Experience in REST APIs,
SSO.
● Experience with server-side programming in a high volume
large system / application environment including the availability,
scalability, resiliency, and performance design patterns
● Management of hosting environment, including database
administration (preferably relational databases MySQL, Postgres etc.)
● Familiarity with software configuration management tools,
defect tracking tools, peer review tools and source control systems
(like git). Create and maintain good quality software documentation.
● Experience & willingness to work with overseas (e.g. USA)
customers and product management teams
● Experience building, leading, managing and mentoring highperformance engineering teams of 3-10 engineers
● Good verbal & written communication skills in English

Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.

Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.

Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.

Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus 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.

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle

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