
Backend Developer (8+ Years Experience)
Position: Expert Backend Developer/Architect
Engagement: Freelance/Contract
Location: Remote (Global)
Experience: 8+ years
Requirements:
• 8+ years of backend development and architecture
• Expert-level knowledge in multiple backend technologies
• System design and distributed systems expertise
• Proven ability to scale applications to high traffic
• Experience optimizing for performance and cost
• Technical leadership background
• Advanced security implementation knowledge
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About the role:
We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer II (SDE2) to help deliver high visibility and impact features for the ChakraHQ Platform. ChakraHQ Platform is the world's first Omnichannel Process Automation Platform. Imagine AWS but for operations and business teams; built on cutting edge technology stacks, to solve problems for modern businesses.
Technology specialists at ChakraHQ are at the core of the company's decisions and vision. As an SDE2, you will contribute to the design and development of the core technology stack of the ChakraHQ Platform. Working closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success you will take ownership to develop features, plugins and custom fixes that will materially impact customer’s and ChakraHQ’s business. You will also be responsible for maintaining a streamlined build and CI/CD system. You will help coordinate the incorporation of upstream features into the ChakraHQ Platform.
Technologies you will work with: NodeJs, PostgreSQL, Serverless, Elasticsearch, Kibana, AWS, Google Cloud
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and maintain features, services, products that are part of ChakraHQ
- Own delivery of said features and services
- Own success of the products by tracking its lifecycle with customers
- Build systems that scale horizontally
- Write automated tests to ensure code quality
- Work with customers to build a product roadmap
- Work with sales & marketing to sell your product to end-users
- Work as an integral part of an agile software development team to build features end-to-end
- Support those features in the ChakraHQ production environment by participating in an on-call rotation
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
- 3+ years of experience working on teams to develop and deploy web or mobile applications
- Extensive experience in any one backend programming language - Java, NodeJS
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amounts of data.
- Proficiency with git and Github workflows
- Expertise with test-driven development and automated testing
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and fluent English
- Open to learn and work on new technologies
As a Software Development Engineer 2 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/C#/Python/C++/Go/Ruby on Rails/node/php.
- You recognise 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.
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 recognise 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.
Requirements:
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field with 3+ years of experience in Design and Development
- 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, php.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability
- Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
As an experienced engineer we know that you have built software to solve various business problems at your previous workplaces. You may have also explored technologies on your own for your learning or hobby projects.
- You will be building APIs for the Synup platform and also UI to make our platform capabilities available to our customers.
- You and the team that you are a part of will be collectively responsible building performant software and customer experiences that scale to our next million customers.
- You will be responsible for writing technical specs and contributing to it's implementation. We expect that you would have done the same in your previous workplaces.
- Other folks on our team are looking forward to learn from your experiences.
For engineers that join our team
- We expect you to be good with Ruby or Python to build APIs.
- You will be contributing to our UI that is built with React and GraphQL.
- We hope our team members have a strong grasp of software design patterns and know when to put them to good use.
- Experience with an SQL datastore would help a lot. PostgreSQL is our primary datastore.
- We optimize our search functionality and rollup reports by using ElasticSearch
- We expect that you have used Redis. Redis is our swiss army knife to solve a lot of problems apart from just caching.
Architectural:
Design and implement a software architecture
Select a technology stack
Design and configure infrastructure
Select a development toolkit (IDE, etc.)
Design and implement a database design
Improve and optimise the application architecture
Ensure scalability of the application
Ensure scalability of the infrastructure
Explore new technologies and decide whether to implement them
Strategy, planning, and design:
- Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify technology requirements, define the future product vision, create preliminary design concepts for add-on modules and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founders, business development, and marketing team.
- Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback.
Implementation and deployment:
- Manage Product Release, QA cycles, feature implementation and on time delivery through in-house team and vendors.
- Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases.
- Creation of wireframes/prototypes, site maps and user-flows for web and mobile platforms.
Operational management :
- Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics.
- Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing.
- Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed.
- Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage.
- Set-up data collection and analysis system in collaboration with CEO to track key performance.
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Strong fundamentals in computer science/engineering and algorithm design.
Practical knowledge of computer software algorithms in machine/deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision etc.
Personal Requirements:
- Min of 7+ years of Hands on experience in Web app development, payment gateways implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.
- Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.
- Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.
- Strong communication skills.
- Willingness to learn and utilise emerging technologies.
- Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant
Experience in writing RESTFUL services, and /or integrating with 3rd party API
Experience in Data Structure & OOPS, GRPC +Protocol Buffers
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm is preferred.
Experience with SQL & NoSQL databases
Excellent communication and analytical skills
Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
Ability to work independently and with team

● Constant benchmarking for capacity and performance
● Documenting feature capability in detail
● Supporting marketing initiatives on the product / differentiators
● Test scenarios for faults / bugs
● On-call (only emergency - L4) support to customer issues
● Building best practices for customer scenarios
Who we are looking for
● Understand the larger picture and work for customer success
● Passionate to solve problems
● Understand the product life cycle









