Backend Developer

Technical Project/Product Lead

We are seeking a Technical Project/Product Lead with 8-10 years of experience in Microservice.Net Technologies with at least 2-4 years of experience in technical project lead. As a Project Lead, you will be responsible for leading business and technology outcomes for assigned programs or projects.

Educational Qualification:

The ideal candidate should possess educational background in Engineering along with a proven track record of delivering successful projects.

Technology/Skills:

• Expertise in Microsoft.NET Technologies and MVC Architecture.

• Strong design experience including experience in architecture and design patterns.

• DevOps/ Cloud experience is an added advantage.

• Strong experience in integration architecture including API Gateway, Service Catalogs etc.

• Strong experience in integration design for secured and scalable API’s and Webservices.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver projects on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage end-to-end technical project, ensuring successful planning, execution, and delivery within scope, budget, and timeline.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software developers, architects, quality assurance, and stakeholders to define project requirements, objectives, and deliverables.

• Provide technical guidance and expertise in Microsoft .NET, MS SQL, ASP.NET Core, and Azure to the project team, assisting with problem-solving, troubleshooting, and decision-making.

• Ensure adherence to software development best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance processes throughout the project lifecycle.

• Act as a liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders, effectively communicating project updates, progress, and risks.

• Conduct regular project status meetings, providing comprehensive reports and updates to project sponsors and stakeholders.

• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in Microsoft .NET, MS SQL, ASP.NET Core, and Azure, and apply this knowledge to project execution.

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

Responsibilities: 

• Develop backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Bonus:

• Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events
• Know how to use test driven development as a design tool
• Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation
• Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects
• Know how to refactor large codebases safely
• Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools