Backend Developer

About Klevu:

Klevu is a discovery experience suite that revolutionises online shopping. It provides a range of SaaS based solutions, that are deep rooted in AI-ML technology and delivered via cloud for online retailers. Klevu is a global Finnish company that prides in diversity, great team, excellent partner network and global customer footprint. Learn more from www.klevu.com

Experience: 5+ years

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Responsibilities:

• Build, scale and maintain various services on the Klevu platform
• Design and develop solutions for business needs on the Klevu platform

Must have skills:

• 4+ years on experience with Java
• Experience in Web application development on Spring framework
• Experience working with database technologies – RDBMS or NoSQL
• Ability to communicate effectively within and outside the engineering team
• Familiar with agile software development process

Nice to haves:

• Experience in Hibernate, MySql, Redis, ActiveMQ or Kafka
• Experience in UI Frameworks like Jquery, React, Angular or equivalent
• Experience in REST API development
• Experience in debugging issues and checking production logs
• Experience working in eCommerce and/or SAAS startups
• Experience working with microservices architecture

What we offer:

• Being part of one of the most exciting search technology company from Nordics with global footprints
• Work with a team in 3 continents (North America, Europe, Asia)
• Excellent work culture, hands-on, result oriented
• Good salary and flexible hours

Professional Requirements:

• 2-8 Years professional development experience.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Good understanding of high level and low-level design of distributed systems.
• Experience coding in any one of the following Java or Nodejs.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems on cloud infrastructure will be plus.
• Exposure to architectural pattern of a large, high-scale web application.

Requirement/responsibilities: To take a project from scoping requirements through launch of the project. Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production. Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns. Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation. Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments. Participate in design and code reviews.

• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.

Looking candidated from service base or service division of any company.
Minimum Qualification​:

• Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections, popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)
• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST Express etc
• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle or Postgres
• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB etc
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak etc
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc

• Owns team's output and E2E definition and execution of SDLC. Drives sprint planning, estimates & prioritizes tasks, Keeps key stakeholders updated on progress, milestones, and any potential slippages.
• Identifies pitfalls across codebases proactively. Writes model code that is looked up to. Understands internals of programming languages & runtimes. Creates common reusable components/libraries- Uses advanced data structures.
• Designs API contracts between large systems with end-to-end service design and active leadership towards long-term sustainability including versioning, complex migration plans, impact analysis across products.
• Owns NFRs and pushes the envelope on performance, scalability, and high availability with cognizance towards the cost of infra. Drives tech stack selection independently, mentors junior engineers. Evangelises of generic platform building across the organization.
• Troubleshoots unseen issues across codebases. Solves large end-to-end cross-cutting problems with elegant solutions with an eye on long-term sustainability.
• Partners with and influences product managers on “how”. Leads the pack on hiring and evangelizes steeper hiring standards towards building an A+ team. Represents company on external platforms/conferences.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• 7+ years relevant work experience in software engineering while leading teams.
• Proficiency in more than one modern programming language such as Python (preferred) associated tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered
• Should be strong with System Design and Database designing
• Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments with Strong object-oriented design skills
• Experience mentoring other software engineers.
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in software development in an object-oriented language such as Java, .NET or Node.Js
• Exceptional design, coding, and problem-solving skills, with a bias for architecture at scale.
• Experience with HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, front-end technologies like AngularJS, Redux / React and upcoming web technologies.
• Real-world experience developing large scale commercial services with robust performance, resiliency, and telemetry, delivered both Online and OnPrem.
• Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Ability to appreciate complex problems with a thorough design.

• Involved in entire SDLC lifecycle including analysis, development, fixing and monitoring of issues on the assigned product lines.
• Meets and exceeds standards for the quality and timeliness of the work products.
• Implements, unit tests, debugs and leads integrations of complex code.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to best practices, standards and processes.
• Ensure robust, securely accessible, highly available and highly scalable product that meets or exceeds customer and end-user expectations

Experience

Technical Duties & Responsibilities

3 – 6 Years

With 2-4 years of experience in Scalable Architecture development. We are looking for Independent Contributors, who have good understanding of Microservices based architecture, and a comprehensive awareness of various architectures & their suitability as per product requirements: -

• Can solve problems independently, be responsible for the requirement analysis and design implementation of important business modules, and be familiar with the online deployment environment, able to independently analyse and quickly troubleshoot online faults.

• Familiar with JAVA programming principles, understand their advanced features and class libraries, network and server programming, multi-threaded programming, common open source products
• Experience in SOA EIP using Apache Camel Spring Integration

• High quality coding ability, reusability, low coupling, scalability, high performance, maintainability, high security

• Have the architectural design capabilities of modules and subsystems, master common architectural design methods and patterns

• Understand SOA, event-driven, distributed system principles, large-scale network application structure, message middleware, caching, load balancing, clustering technology, data synchronization, NoSQL

• Have the project experience of RabbitMQ or Kafka

• If the candidate has air fare industry experience, might be priority