
Backend Developer - Java / Go / Product Development
at Metadata Technologies, North America

Back End Developer
Job Description:
Location: Pune (Initially Remote due to COVID 19)
We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join the team in India and be instrumental in taking our products to the next level. In this role, you will be working in close collaboration with a team of highly empowered, experienced developers who are building a high-performance, highly scaled global platform.
About the Organisation:
- It provides a dynamic, fun workplace filled with passionate individuals. We are at the cutting edge of advertising technology and there is never a dull moment at work.
- We have a truly global footprint, with our headquarters in Singapore and offices in Australia, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, and India.
- You will gain work experience in a global environment. We speak over 20 different languages, from more than 16 different nationalities and over 42% of our staff are multilingual.
You will:
- conceive, build, and operate highly distributed systems deployed around the planet
- employ cutting-edge technologies and techniques in a rapidly evolving domain
- thrive in a progressive, environment which relies on communication and initiative rather than process to deliver at a high velocity
- have a "Product Owner" rather than a "Task Implementer" attitude
Candidate's Profile:
- Experience building systems involving messaging or event-driven architectures
- Deep technical understanding of Java or Go, and willing to work with both
- Strong handle on concurrency challenges and design solutions
- Strong buyer of Agile / Lean values
- Heavy emphasis on code testing and designing for test-ability
- Maturity and aptitude to operate in a high-freedom/high-responsibility environment
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience with supporting and troubleshooting large systems
- Exposure to infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible
- Exposure to IAAS platforms such as AWS EC2, GCP, etc…
- Experience with Cassandra, Aerospike, or other NoSQL databases

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- Providing technical guidance as well hands on management for all product development within the company.
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- Ensuring that the product quality is world class at all times.
- Growing the internal information technology development organisation; managing and recruiting a multidisciplinary high-performance technology team.
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- Passionate about automated testing: Managing / driving testing - unit tests, system tests, regression.
- Performance Tuning/ Profiling: In-depth understanding of popular architectures SOA, RESTful, Microservices, Messaging Bus.
What you need to have:
- B.E / B.Tech or similar qualification from a premier institute.
- Good communication skills.
- Self-starter, Highly motivated.
- People Management skills.
- Go-getter attitude.
- 3 - 7 years of hands-on development experience in backend development with a track record of solid technical accomplishments. Node.js experience will be preferred.
- Knowledge of multiple programming languages will be preferred.
- Knowledge of Caching solutions Redis, Memcache
- Databases experience - MySQL/NoSQL, RabbitMQ, Kafka.
- Capability to present different architecture for the same problem.
- Knowledge of popular front end MVC technologies.
- Understanding of production level problems and their possible solutions



At Tekion, we're building the only cloud-native platform that is transforming the automotive retail industry, leapfrogging it into the future and providing unparalleled customer experience. We're creating seamlessly integrated, elegant, and intuitive solutions built with cutting edge technology and powered by Big Data, Machine Learning (ML)/ AI and Internet of Things (Connected vehicle to connected devices). We’re harnessing passion, entrepreneurial spirit, deep industry expertise and the latest technologies to create something very special. We're inventing new technology along the way to overcome barriers and solve big problems, all while having a blast doing it!
Key Responsibilities
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Design and build solutions for complex business workflows
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Understanding the user persona and deliver a slick experience
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Take end to end ownership of components and be responsible for the subsystems that you work on from design, code, testing, integration, deployment, enhancements, etc.
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Write high-quality code and taking responsibility for their task
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Solve performance bottlenecks
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Mentor junior engineers
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Communicate and collaborate with management, product, QA, UI/UX teams
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Deliver with quality, on-time in a fast-paced start-up environment
Minimum Qualification
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Bachelor/Master's in computer science or relevant fields
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0.6 to 2 years of relevant experience
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Strong sense of ownership
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Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills
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Experience in building and scaling microservices
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Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting and diagnosing
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Expected to be a role model for young engineers, have a strong sense of code quality and enforce code quality within the team
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Strong knowledge in RDBMS and NoSql technologies
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Experience in developing backends for enterprise systems like eCommerce / manufacturing / supply chain etc
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Excellent understanding of Debugging performance and optimization techniques
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Experience in Java, Mongo, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, Kafka
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Experience in developing any large scale Experience in cloud technologies
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Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

● Be responsible for programming and software development using various programming languages and related tools and frameworks, reviewing code written by other programmers, requirement gathering, bug fixing, testing, documenting and implementation.
● Good understanding of GoLang and microservices
● To take up development and deployment of native code to manage the customer facing platforms
● Explain complex technical issues to project managers, developers, application leads and architects in an easy to understand manner, and recommend clearly thought out solutions.
● Knowledge of Integration Design patterns for building middleware systems from the ground up
● Knowledge of Web Services Interoperability, standards and ability to suggest, criticize and formulate solutions in a multi-vendor and architecture discussions.
● Develop solutions by designing system specifications, standards and programming
● Troubleshoot issues and provide bug fixes.


Key Skills:
1. One or more of Python/PHP/Ruby/NodeJS/Java
2. Sound object-oriented skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
2. REST APIs
3. MVC architecture
4. MySQL/PostgreSQL
5. Exp with at least 1 NoSQL databases MongoDB/Memcache/Redis/
6. Exp with search technologies Elasticsearch/Solr
7. Exp building messaging based asynchrounous systems RabbitMQ/Kafka/SQS/Celery will be added advantage
8. Exp with Django/Flask frameworks will be added advantage
9. Knowledge of software best practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) will be added adnavtage
Requirements:
1. Developing software solutions in conjunction with Relational theory, Rest APIs and NoSQL database technologies
2. Knowledge of cloud based technologies in AWS or Azure will be added advantage
3. Understanding of RDBMS technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL.
4. Hands-on with Version control systems (GIT, SVN) and Unix/Ubuntu.
5. Experience in requirement analysis, HLD, LLD, unit & integration testing.
6. Good hands on experience in debugging application issues
TL;DR
1) Top performer in the company
2) Has worked with product based startup company
3) Ambitious and hardworking

