Backend Engineer

Company Profile
XpressBees– a logistics company started in 2015 – is amongst the fastest growing companies of its
sector. While we started off rather humbly in the space of ecommerce B2C logistics, the last 5 years
have seen us steadily progress towards expanding our presence. Our vision to evolve into a strong full-
service logistics organization reflects itself in our new lines of business like 3PL, B2B Xpress and cross
border operations.
Our strong domain expertise and constant focus on meaningful innovation have helped us rapidly evolve
as the most trusted logistics partner of India. We have progressively carved our way towards best-in-
class technology platforms, an extensive network reach, and a seamless last mile management system.
While on this aggressive growth path, we seek to become the one-stop-shop for end-to-end logistics
solutions. Our big focus areas for the very near future include strengthening our presence as service
providers of choice and leveraging the power of technology to improve efficiencies for our clients.
Job Description 
XB is looking for driven & talented engineers to build highly scalable, reliable and performant cloud-
based platforms to drive the logistics business. You will have opportunities to make a big impact at XB
on the software solutions being built for Logistics businesses. We build a variety of technology products
that span multiple businesses. 
The challenges that SDEs at XB solve are big (handle 50 Lakh shipments per day!) and influence the E-
Commerce business in India in coming years. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about
creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the fast pace
of the company. The challenges span areas like highly scalable and reliable orchestration
platforms, Client Integration API frameworks, Billing Solutions, Workforce Engagement. Further you may
solve complex optimization problems like Vehicle routing, Allocation, Network Optimization etc. 
Roles & Responsibilities 

 You will be responsible for working with cross functional teams to deep dive into the
business and technology problems related to our portfolio of products, understanding the
gaps that exist in our current tools, and work within our team and with partner teams to
design best in class solutions.  
 You will have the opportunity to influence, invent, and design system architecture
across multiple product and technology spaces. 
 You will lead and mentor other talented engineers. You will be responsible for building
the best customer experience, keeping latency, security, and usability in mind. 
 You will interact with Product Managers and Designers and convert their vision into
a technical solution.  
 You will own portions of software deliverables including major critical path code from
your designs while finding opportunities to grow and mentor the team around you. 
 You will collaborate with other engineering leads and guide the team on software
development best practices and set examples by using them in solutions that you build.  
 You will own the end-to-end design of major deliverables, working closely with a team
of SDEs and Front-End Engineers to execute them. This is a high visibility and fast-paced
environment where you will make a direct impact on the customer experience and the
bottom line of the company. 

 
 You should have a commanding understanding of object-oriented design, data
structures and algorithms which you use to mentor a team of engineers. You should have
experience with agile methodologies, experience building scalable services and robust user
interfaces. We make extensive use of AWS Services (API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, etc.) and
prior experience is a plus. Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (like angular,
react, backbone, and node.js) would be a plus. 

Qualifications 

 Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for
scalability, performance, and reliability. 
 Development experience defining, developing and maintaining web service API's 
 Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural
vision and software quality. 
 Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior
management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs,
and product strategy. 
 Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been
successfully delivered to customers. 
 Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full
software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control
management, build processes, testing, and operations. 
 Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems 
 Deep understanding of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms and
complexity analysis. 
 Experience building large-scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered,
distributed environment. 
 Design and architecture expertise as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and
design patterns (OOA/OOD). 
 Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

 

 

What you need to have:

Looking for a Backend Lead

6-8 yrs experience
Fully Remote position
Max compensation - 45 LPA per annum (Full in hand)

Key Responsibilities

- Design, implement and maintain software to the demanding standards of a real time, highly concurrent distributed system.
- Working in conjunction with the rest of the development team, you will architect and build highly performant, scalable and extensible external APIs
- Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders, at all levels, to continuously improve our product in a measured data-driven approach
- Learn quickly, adapt, and invent based on changing company needs and priorities
- Contribute to code reviews, tech talks, innovation drives and patents

Minimum Qualifications

- Excellent problem solving skills
- Bachelors in a computer science or other equivalent field
- Proficiency in deploying production systems using a major programming language like Java, Python, NodeJS or similar
- Excellent command over object oriented design and system design
- Experience building distributed systems and scaling them with high availability
- Ability to exercise autonomy rather than needing detailed direction and proactively get things done

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in customer facing software development
- Proficiency building unit and performance tests to ensure reliability and scalability
- Experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning (ML) models, Natural Language Processing or Deep Learning is a plus
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP is a plus

Why work with us

- A small collaborative and excited team
- We value autonomy, allowing you to choose the configuration that makes you most productive
- Able to work remotely anywhere in Indian Standard Time
- Continuous learning and up-skill opportunities
- We love ideas, innovation and experiments!
- Competitive salary

Responsibilities: 

As a backend developer you would be responsible for:   

• Executing full lifecycle software development
• Architect and conceptualise the solution from initiation to completion meeting client requirements 
• Work with customer and their integration partners to ensure the product is well integrated 
• Programming well-designed, testable and efficient code 
• Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions 
• Work with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering and ML team) to craft custom solutions 
• Ensure clients change requests are addressed effectively in a timely manner 

Requirements:  

• 2+ years of experience in architecture and developing high performance web applications
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment)
• Strong NoSQL and/or SQL database design and query writing skills with a commitment to performance and efficiency 
• Knowledge of RESTful API and SOAP Webservices paradigms 
• Experience with CRM/ERPs like systems SAP, Oracle, SalesForce, Servicenow, Workday, etc. would be a huge plus 
• Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment 
• Superior verbal and written communication skills 

Our Technology Stacks:  

• Demonstrated experience in our tech stack will be a big plus as it lets you get up and running with our product that much sooner 
• Node.js back-end with typescript 
• MongoDB as database 
• React to power our user interfaces (don't worry, we don't expect it for back-end) 
• NGINX as our web server 
• RabbitMQ 
• Redis 
• Elasticsearch 
• Docker 

Introduction Give is India’s largest and most trusted giving platform, and our mission is to promote effective and efficient giving, so that our poor have a chance. With contributions of over 300 crores made to our 200+ vetted and trusted nonprofits, our giving community of 1M+ donors has impacted lives of 4M+ people across 23 states in India. We are an extremely rare workplace that brings a fast-paced, high-growth startup work culture together with a compassion-driven high-impact work environment. Give Platform We are building one of the world’s best tech platforms for online giving, where we provide opportunities for people to donate to any cause, non-profit or geography that they care about, in the most simple, personalised and effective manner. We hope to scale our impact on the lives of millions of underprivileged people every year, by democratizing philanthropy, through our workplace giving, subscription giving and crowdfunding products. Give Tech Stack Details: https://stackshare.io/giveindia Role At Give, we are looking for top-talent for our engineering team - software engineers who want to solve really complex problems, continually learn, and most importantly, make a real impact in the lives of others. We have open positions for senior engineers, who can take end-to-end ownership of full development lifecycle, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance. At Give, you will… work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate. think through complex architecture to build robust and scalable platforms. build well-abstracted modules and services. provide design reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability follow scrum methodology to iterate and deploy fast mentor other team members and colleagues Apply if you have experience in… designing and using REST services which can scale horizontally using NodeJS and Express NoSQL databases (data model design), PostgreSQL or similar Python or other major OO language like Java, Ruby Identity Management and Security (SSL protocols, data encryption, user authentication, authorization services) Good to have… A Github account, Stack Overflow account or equivalent that demonstrates your ability to work on complicated projects or some other way to validate your expertise. Working Knowledge of AWS and shell scripting is a huge plus.

Advanced proficiency in MEAN Stack (NodeJS, MongoDB, Express, Angular2/4) Exceptional coding skills in JavaScript Design and implement APIs in support of front-end services and help create a highly scalable, flexible, and secure backend.

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