Backend Engineer

5 years in software development (Minimum 3 years)

Strong expertise in Ruby on Rails (3-5 years)

Knowledge of Python is a plus

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#Skills:

Proficiency in scalable app techniques: caching, APM, microservices architecture

Ability to write high-quality code independently

Experience mentoring junior engineers (0-2 years of experience)

What We Offer:

An opportunity to work with a dynamic team

A challenging environment where your skills will be put to the test

A chance to make a real impact by guiding and mentoring others

Ready to make your mark? If you're based out of or willing to relocate to Gurgaon and have the experience we're looking for, apply now!

1. Writing reusable, testable, and efficient
2. Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant
3. Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side
4. Implementation of security and data
5. Integration of data storage solutions may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc. Experience administering innovation with methodologies such as design
6. Experience working on Agile Scrum and DevOps aligned delivery
7. Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as
8. Strong communication skills and great product
9. Proficient communication skills verbal and
10. Understanding of accessibility and security compliance depending on the specific
11. Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
12. Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable
13. Familiarity with event-driven programming in
14. Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific
15. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business
16. Strong unit test and debugging

1. Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology
2. Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper)
3. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one
4. Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process
5. Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology
6. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and
7. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc. 

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred. 
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

• At least 2-5 years of working experience in web services, preferably in Python
• Should have built and released APIs in production
• Experience working with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Designing thoughtful, extensible data models
• Knowledge of identifying, defining and building micro-services
• Working knowledge of GCS, AWS, Azure or any other cloud provider
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills - written and spoken

HealthifyMe is a Health Tech Startup on a mission to make healthy living easy, fun and affordable for everyone by providing tech-enabled solutions. Founded in 2012, HealthifyMe is now India's largest and most loved health/fitness app with over 3 million users. The company helps consumers manage their health and fitness with diet and exercise tracking through a mix of technology intervention and human experts/coaches backed with artificial intelligence. HealthifyMe is co-founded by Tushar Vashisht (UPenn graduate, ex UID) and Sachin Shenoy (ex Google), and was incubated by Microsoft Accelerator.  HealthifyMe is the highest rated app on Google Play with a rating of 4.6/5 and has been featured by Google and Apple multiple times for its quality benchmarks. The company, delivers measurable results on eating habits, fitness, and weight and is a platform of choice by leading Corporates and Healthcare partners in India.

Leadership Skill

• Technically hands on.
• Have previous experience of leading teams.
• Have experience with agile process, and ability to guide the team to follow the process.
• Comfortable in chaotic & high-energy, high-stakes start-up environment.
• Hates wasting time in unproductive meetings, and prefers getting quick consensus to move ship forward.
• Prefers delivering in production than spending time in meeting.
• Able to technically mentor team and guide them to high performance.

Technical Skills

• Loves solving technically hard problems. 
• Have previous experience with Python(Django), MySQL.
• Have previous experience with one or more of AWS, RDS, SQS, EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache. 
• NoSQL experience is good to have.  
• Loves clean and structured code, and thrives to maintain it. 
• Fast at coding, fast in learning and technically solid.
• Have previous experience in building, running and managing scalable and highly availability web services.

Look forward to

• Working with a world-class team. 
• Fun & work at the same place with an amazing work culture and flexible timings. 
• Get ready to transform yourself into a health junkie