Backend Engineer

What you will be doing

• Building and maintaining Java micro services.
• Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.
• Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Java based services.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.
• Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.
• Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
• Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.

What you need to be successful

• Has proven himself as a solid individual contributor and has some initial management ability
• Understands the culture and upholds it
• Well respected with the team
• Looking to grow more as a manager than as an engineer
• Split time b/w hands-on technical work and people management of a small team
• Be a role model for the people in your team
• Responsible for team mentorship, technical planning, resource allocation & project delivery
• Build solid working relationships with counterparts outside engineering
• If we shortlist you for a lead role, then you'll have to mentor SDE-1 towards their SDE-2 journey.
• Progress up to manager in 2-3 years
• Strong Data Structure and Algorithms
• Experience of building micro services architectures, developing RESTful services,continuous integration, unit and integration testing.
• Proficient with SpringBoot, Hibernate, JUnit and other Java frameworks apart from RDBMS and NoSQL databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Gauge or other BDD frameworks and experience in Fintech would be preferred.

Founded in 2016, they are one of the leading online scheduling software companies in the world, with over 200,000 customers globally. They are a profitable, high-growth bootstrapped platform-as-a-product company with 50+ team members looking to grow to $50M in revenue in the next 3 years. 

Role: SSE- Backend [Golang]

Location: Remote (India)

CTC: 22-26 LPA

NP: 30 days or less

Note: Other Backend Language /Frameworks like Python, NodeJS and Java Springboot and willingness to learn Golang can also be considered

Skillset Requirements:

- Strong experience with backend programming languages and technologies like

- Golang (minimum 2-year experience)

- Protobuf and gRPC

- RESTful APIs

- Docker and Kubernetes

- Medium-level experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL database concepts.

- Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean code.

- Proven ability to work with multiple teams, multitask and prioritize.

- Experience with Git, JIRA, and Agile working methodology.

- Experience with design patterns, Event-Driven architecture, and Domain Driven Designs.

Responsibilities:

- Write code that meets standard and delivery guidelines.

- Mentor fellow engineers in the team to develop high-quality software and perform code

reviews.

- Work with the team to break user stories into tasks and delegate them to the team

members.

- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient

microservices distributed architecture.

- Analyze solutions and help implement engineering best practices.

- Work with Project Managers for timely delivery and forecast.

- Lead and mentor junior engineers on technical issues. Perform blameless RCAs when

issues occur and take ownership to resolve issues.

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•Hands on experience in Object oriented programming

•Hands on experience in Java, SpringBoot (min 2 years) or kafka or Cassandra or MongoDB

•Experience with developing/enhancing applications connecting to different Databases : Oracle/MySQL/Cassandra/MongoDB

•Strong knowledge of common Data structures and algorithms and when to use them.

•Experience in Xpath or XML or REST or JSON or protobuff

• Experience with software version control (such as git)

•Experience in working in an agile environment such as Scrum.

Preferable:

•Experience in public cloud PaaS (AWS, GCP, Azure)

•Real time stream data handling (Kafka, Kinesis

Job Description: (Mandate Skills)

• Exceptional architecture and design skills using Object Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Hands on Java Engineer, with experience building consumer facing or enterprise applications using Java stack
• Ability to manage small teams (2-4 members) using agile development process

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

• Exposure to building service oriented distributed systems
• In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real time streaming or offline
• In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
• In real time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop based tools.
• In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.

• 4+ years of professional development experience in an agile software engineering role
• Strong development skills in Java or Groovy
• Experience with Jenkins, bamboo and CI/CD environments
• Familiarity with Guice or similar dependency injection frameworks
• Familiarity with relational database technology
• Familiarity with document store database technology such as ElasticSearch or Cassandra
• Experience with design and testing of RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with cross platform development on Linux, OSX and Windows
• Strong understanding of Git version control system
• Knowledge of JavaScript (Node.js)
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Familiarity with Docker / Kubernetes
• Experience with continuous integration and build systems such as Jenkins or Bamboo
• Experience with Jira or other project management, issue-tracking or bug-tracking tools
• Should have knowledge of RDBMS
• Familiarity with Node.js, Kotlin, Kafka, DynamoDB
• Previous experience with SaaS or cloud development, Micro-services