
1. As a founding backend engineer, design, build and evolve the backend architecture
of our product to support customer-facing and internal features to serve 1000s of
customers and millions of data requests per hour
2. You will engage in technical decisions from choosing the optimal database design to
best-practice infrastructure decisions
3. You will proactively incorporate best practices for security, analytics, and monitoring
4. You will contribute to DevOps by building procedures for deployment,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
5. You will work directly with the CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have 4+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying production-level
large-scale web applications
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS and other programming languages
(Ruby, Go, Python)
3. You have worked previously on PostgreSQL, SQL, and Message Queue 4. Practical
knowledge and experience in deploying and managing big data applications on a cloud
platform like AWS or Google Cloud.
5. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility.
6. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
7. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects

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Will be responsible for Backend and infrastructure for mobile app and website.
We are looking to recruit a candidate for a role that will require:
● Talented Leader who will be responsible for Leading a group of talented technical individuals to build
scalable, and secure products
● Leads our Back-End and infrastructure
● Drives architecture and the design of enterprise mobile/web/API solutions at scale
● Work with Product, Testing and Infrastructure teams to understand product vision and requirements
● Oversee the development and execution of development plans and report on execution
● Work with Product and testing teams to understand product vision and requirements
● Has deep exposure to all aspects of engineering, modern web, desktop & mobile application architectures,
data modelling, high level design, low level design, non-functional technical requirements and visual design
Requirement
● 5+ years of experience in hard core development in predominantly product development companies
● Strong troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving skills
● Proven track record of building scalable and reliable services on Cloud
● Architecture & Design
● Solid experience of designing end-to-end architecture and design of applications using one or more
platforms for large-scale high-throughput solutions
● Design and implement technical governance process as appropriate across the application development
lifecycle
● coding guidelines, quality standards, best practices, code acceptance criteria, automation
● Experience in collaborating with the team in reviewing application architecture. - Node.js, Web Services
REST, MySQL/MongoDB/NoSQL
Education: Engineering/MBA
Work experience: 5 years relevant experience
Compensation: Based on Industry Standards
1. Proficiency in Python 3.x based web and backend development
2. Solid understanding of Python concepts
3. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)
4. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
5. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar
6. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL
7. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask
8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git
9. Working experience with Docker
10. Basic working knowledge of ReactJs
11. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku
Location: Chennai
Requirements:
REQUIREMENTS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1+ years of exposure to the architecture and design (design patterns, security, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or other related fields
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java or Python including object-oriented design
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Proven ability to take initiative and dive into new areas of technology.
- Passion for learning, analysing technology trade-offs and shipping products.
- Knowledge on SQL, NOSQL databases and AWS deployments is a plus
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive
- Ability to work well with people and be both highly self motivated and motivating
- Must be independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environment
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- You will build cutting-edge secure and scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
- You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
- You will be the owner of your feature and work directly with product teams to drive customer impact.
- You will ensure that the systems you oversee are secure, fault-tolerant and are performing reliably at high volumes.
- Constantly look at possibilities to improve the overall functioning of the product.
- You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team
- You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environments
- You will manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
- You can collaborate with globally-located cross functional team in building customer-centric products
- You will analyze existing software implementations to identify areas of improvement and provide estimates for implementing new features
- Full stack experience is a plus
- Understanding of complete SDLC and Agile methodologies
- Domain expertise in Financial Services, Banking or Payments
- Code Quality –Code Hygiene (Coverage, Complexity, Usability)
- Collaboration –Strong peer review standards
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.
Top Skills
- You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++/C/Python/ROR/C#
- You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
- You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
Roles & Responsibilities
- You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
- You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
- You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
- You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
- You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
- You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
- You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
- You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
- You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.
Skills & Experience
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
- Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
- Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
- Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.








