Backend Engineer

What if, you had a chance to build something iconic?

Presenting Bharat's first of its kind vernacular instant messaging app that is smart & secure - Buzz is an AI & machine learning powered - content-driven instant messaging app tailored to make user secure with more focus on privacy. At Buzz, we are on a mission - to help users be in control of the degree of their digital exposure, with a goal to create a space as India's first smart instant messaging platform among dominating foreign players.

And this is just the beginning :

With our eyes set on the future, we are looking for an exceptional iOS Developer with must have excellent experience in Socket.IO, to help us realise, build and scale our offering, who possesses a passion for technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our application.

iOS Beta already launched.

What you'll get :

Compensation in terms of EQUITY ONLY, salary only once we raise funds. This is more of a hands-on role especially in the initial stages of the company. Part-time would also temporarily work.

We are looking at passionate people with entrepreneurial spark and a hustler.

People who are deeply passionate of solving user problems in social networking space and vision of making an Indian product to be used by billions worldwide must only apply.

- A unique opportunity, unlike anything you have experienced before.

- Flexible timings & work from home

- A friend for life.

What matters to us : 1) Attitude > 2) Skill > 3) Experience > 4) College

Who are we looking for?

Key Responsibilities :

- Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.

- Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.

- Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.

- Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.

- Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and cross-team.

- Excellent technical issue diagnosis and problem-solving skills

Excellent knowledge of :

1) Node.js

2) Express.js

3) MongoDB

4) Restful APIs

5) Socket.IO

Skills required :

- MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.

- Must have experience in working in an Instant messaging service provider.

- Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

- Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

- Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem-solving skills.

- Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server-side development.

- Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github. 

- Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

- Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast-growing and start-up workplace.

- Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.