Backend Engineer (Go / Python / Java)

Strong Full stack/Backend engineer profile

Mandatory (Experience): Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience as a full stack developer (backend-heavy)

Mandatory (Backend Skills): Must have 1.5+ strong experience in Python, building REST APIs, and microservices-based architectures

Mandatory (Frontend Skills): Must have hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue) and JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Mandatory (Database Skills): Must have solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis

Mandatory (Cloud & Infra): Must have hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and SNS

Mandatory (DevOps & Infra): Must have working experience with Linux environments, Apache, CI/CD pipelines, and application monitoring

Mandatory (CS Fundamentals): Must have strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, OS concepts, and system design

Mandatory (Company) : Product companies (B2B SaaS preferred)

Hiring: Senior Java Full Stack Developer

Exp: 8-13 Years

Location: Bangalore-HAL Main Road [WFO 3 Days]

NP: Only Immediate Joiners

Mandatory Skills: Core Java, AWS, Microservices, ReactJS, Redux

Responsibilities

Core Java Expertise: Utilize your deep knowledge of Core Java to develop robust, high-performance server-side applications.

Spring Boot & Microservices: Design, develop, and maintain Microservices-based applications using Spring Boot, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.

Frontend Development: Develop responsive and interactive user interfaces using React.js and Redux, ensuring a seamless user experience.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the 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

Desired Skills and Experience

• Golang , Java , Python , Ruby

Job description:

Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Engagement organization brings customers to visit amazon websites, engage them on site and help them purchase from Amazon’s retail sites. This is achieved through highly personalized messages delivered via all available large scale communication channels—both free and paid and offering engaging experience on website. The organization builds, operates, and improves the technology systems that power all marketing channels, and manages prioritization and marketing spend decisions. Consumer Marketing consists of a series of single-threaded technology and business teams, each of which owns the entirety of a channel of communication or customer segment: natural and paid search (i.e. SEO and SEM), affiliate marketing (Associates), display advertising, email, browser integration, and mobile marketing, retail customer experience technology teams.

This position is for a technology leader in Affiliate Marketing Technology group for attribution team. This team owns business critical systems that are responsible for attributing traffic to marketing channels and thrives on innovation to provide rich analytics to its internal and external customers. As a leader on the team, you will be responsible for tier1 critical systems, guide your team through the design, development, testing, and deployment of a range of products involving big data processing and dealing with near real time SLAs. You will have to deal with challenges of high availability (five 9s) guarantee, low latency and high throughput. In addition, you will build and manage roadmaps for software teams, developing cutting edge experiences. You will have sound technical acumen, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and hire, build, and develop your team. You are a true owner - you are deeply interested in product design, architecture, and you innovate relentlessly on behalf of our customers.

This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with our business teams across the world and other tech teams in Bangalore as we raise the bar in delivering innovation.

Primary responsibilities: 

• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics 
• Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements. 
• Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments 
• Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner 
• Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables 
• Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years professional experience in software development management
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, Scala, C#, C++ etc 
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and design robust, scalable solutions
• Ability to think critically and actively contribute to strategic choices.
• 3+ years experience in managing development teams working on multiple simultaneous projects.
• 3+ years experience in managing large scale software development teams following Agile development processes. 
• Strong skills in project planning & execution, problem solving. Ability to take a project from initial scoping requirements through actual launch and support of the project
• Proven leadership and teamwork skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Deep, hands-on technical expertise in high scale, service-oriented architectures
• Exposure to Elastic Map Reduce and Machine Learning programs. 
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• 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
• Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions
• Proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Amazon’s business and relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables
• Strong business and technical vision
• Good understanding of web services

ABOUT ZYCUS:

Headquartered in Princeton, U.S. in 1998, Zycus has grown every day to be established as an organization which now is a leading global provider of complete Source-to-Pay suite of procurement performance solutions.

We develop cloud-based (SaaS) https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fsolution%2Fprocurement-performance.html">Source-to-Pay solutions for large global enterprises, and have successfully deployed about 200 solutions to over 1000 Global clients. We are proud to have as our clients, some of the best-of- breed companies across verticals like Manufacturing, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Oil and Gas, Food Processing, Electronics, Telecommunications, Chemicals, Health and Pharma, Education and more. 

With a team of 1000+employees, we are present in India with 3 development centers at Bengaluru, Mumbai & Pune and offices in the https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fcareers%2FUS-Careers.html">U.S., U.K., Australia, https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fzycus-expands-middle-east-presence-with-new-location-in-dubai.html">Dubai and https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fzycus-continues-global-expansion-with-new-office-in-singapore.html">Singapore, Amsterdam. 

https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fcompany%2Fcareers.html">Know more about the LEADER of: https://workable.com/nr?l=http%3A%2F%2Fcampaign.zycus.com%2FGMQ2017">Gartner’s 2013, 2015 & 2017 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites and https://workable.com/nr?l=http%3A%2F%2Fcampaign.zycus.com%2FThe-Forrester-Wave-eProcurement-Q2-2017-Zycus-Named-a-Leader">The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement, Q2 2017

1. Involvement in the full software development life cycle with stringent needs on (i) time to market, & (ii) quality of product - functional and non-functional aspect.
2. Ownership of complex software architectures, operational metrics, and running the day to day business operations.
3. Designing and defining the interaction between the different components and teams.
4. Work closely with peers and product managers to develop great technical design and approach for new product development.
5. Definition of, and compliance with, a world-class build/release and configuration management process.

This position will report in to Director of engineering & the roles & responsibilities are as below: 

1. Identify the technologies that would be used for the product.
2. Recommend the development methodology and framework for the project.
3. Provide the overall design and structure to the application.
4. Ensure that the product is adequately defined & documented.
5. Establish design/coding guidelines and best practices, and drive usage of design patterns.
6. Enforce compliance with coding guidelines using code reviews etc.
7. Build solution which is easily configurable, deploy-able and secure in SaaS environment.
8. Responsible for planning product iterations & releasing iterations on schedule.

   The Applicant with a total experience of 10-20years, should have hands-on development experience in Core Java and J2EE with proven expertise in writing application architecture and core design ground up with sound algorithmic thought process enabling bullet-proof application performance in terms of key drivers like security, load, scalability, etc.

   Skills and Technologies:
   1. Versatile experience with delivering highly available services on multiple technology stacks in traditional data centers, public clouds, and private clouds.
   2. Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, JMS/Rabbit MQ/Kafka, Web-Services, Oracle, MSSQL, JSP-Servlets, , Design Patterns.

   Nice to have: New edge technology (Hadoop, AWS, Spark, RabbitMQ etc)

   Team mentoring:

   1. Mentor developers for difficult tasks & provide technical advice and guidance to the Tech Leads.
   2. Guide the team is doing POCs and early risk assessments.

      Leadership Abilities:

      • Optimize & effectively manage resources and time of the team members.
      • Identify, track and mitigate risks to the product
      • Should not hesitate to carry out healthy and constructive confrontation with team members, peers and managers for the benefit of Product.
      • Along with a competitive compensation structure, Zycus believes in an open culture learning environment, where everyone gets a chance to share their ideas and deliver par excellence.