Backend Engineer

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience as a Python developer.
• Expert knowledge of Python and related frameworks including FastAPI/Flask/Django
• Experience in designing, developing, and managing cloud-based (AWS/GCP) infrastructure and applications.
• Good to have knowledge on Docker & CI-CD pipelines
• Good understanding of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources into a single system.
• Ability to collaborate on projects and work independently when required.
• Excellent problem solving and communication abilities, to be able to solve complex problems that may arise during the development process.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Developing applications using the python programming language.
• Involvement in all aspects of the software development life cycle, from requirements gathering to testing and deployment.
• Writing clean, scalable & efficient code
• Integrating user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Building reusable code libraries for future use
• Working closely with other members of the development team, as well as customers or clients to ensure that applications are developed according to specifications.
• Testing applications thoroughly before deployment in order to ensure that they are free of errors.
• Deploying applications and providing support after deployment, if necessary.
• Assisting senior developers in mentoring junior staff members
• Updating software programs as new versions become available.

Key deliverables for the Backend Engineer would be to work on meaningful, large-scale initiatives with a focus on autonomy to build features, be a part of the core team, and give direction to the product.

What you'll do

• You will join a growing team of experienced developers building a cross-platform application, backend services and open platform
• You will collaborate with your peers to define architecture, quality standards, and best practices and participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• You will work closely with our product team, teaming up in small cross-functional teams to bring features from idea to prototype to final implementation

We would love to hear from you if

• You have 3+ years of experience as a software engineer at a SaaS or technology company, including familiarity with the different pieces of technology involved in building modern web applications
• You are proficient in backend development and technologies. You should understand concepts of multithreading, I/O, messaging, instrumentation, and their implementation.
• You have a working knowledge of algorithms and data structures with space and memory complexities
• You deal well with constant change and high levels of ambiguity (we are a startup)
• You have knowledge of Messaging Queues (Kafka/RabitMq/SQS), Dynamodb, Elastic Search, Redis/Memcache/Elasticache
• You have experience in building RESTful APIs, Spring framework, and Mysql/RDS
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• Experience with source control systems (prefer Github)
• Strive to craft clean, reliable, and highly maintainable code
• Experience with test-driven development and pair programming
• To you, technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go

Your Impact:

•                 Interact clearly with clients and the on-shore and off-shore project teams

•                 Regular involvement in thought leadership Best Practices development

•                 Facilitate end to end project design & development while working closely with global client

Your Skills & Experience:

•                 4 to 14 years of development experience in SFDC

•                 Excellent hands-on experience in Salesforce application development including VF, Apex Triggers, Asynchronous Apex

•                 Deep knowledge of Lightning framework

•                 Expertise in Business Requirement gathering, Analysis & conceptualizing high-level architectural framework & design

•                 Experience working with Sales or Service cloud, Community Cloud, Marketing Cloud

•                 Conceptualize end to end integration projects & knowledge of authentication mechanism

•                 Experience in REST & SOAP APIs, knowledge of Governor limits involved during Integration

•                 Working knowledge on continuous integration, working with repositories (e.g. Git)

•                 Should have experience to design the data flow and work with any ETL or dataloader

•                 Excellent experience in designing and architecting large scale applications

•                 Thorough understanding of Solution architecting & Estimation process

•                 Excellent consulting skills, oral and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills 

Set Yourself Apart With:

•                 Salesforce Certifications

•                 Knowledge of Heroku, Angular.js and Salesforce Einstein, Salesforce CPQ, CloudCraze B2B

•                 Incident and problem management skills

•                 Ability to provide necessary coaching to bring juniors up to speed on the technology

•                 Exceptional written skill for solution documentation creation for both technical and non-technical material

•                 Background in force.com platform and deployment experience in an outsourced service environment

•                 Articulation skills & Good team player

•                 Self-starter and self-learner with keen interest to grow

•                 Process orientation and the ability to define and setup processes

•                 Mentoring team members

Benefits of Working Here:

•                 Gender Neutral Policy

•                 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)

•                 Generous parental leave and new parent transition program

•                 Flexible work arrangements

•                 Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being  

• Coding and creating functional web applications and optimizing code for increasing response time and efficiency.
• Coordinating with front-end developers and providing server-side algorithms of user-facing web application elements.
• Analyzing the goals and requirements, handling bugs and errors and providing solutions for the same.
• Interacting with the database for storing data and ensuring that every user has access to what they search.

• Accomplishing the projects and goals within the deadline.
• Managing APIs that are executed across the devices.
• Participating in defining the architecture of the system.

Required skills

• Proven knowledge of front-end technologies, such as Angular, React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will be preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of PHP and related frameworks. Knowledge of Ruby, Python, NodeJs, and Java will be an added advantage.
• Good Communication, Analytical, Logical, and Leadership skills.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as Angular, React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will be preferred.
• Ability to manage a hosting environment along with database administration such as MySQL, Oracle.
• Excellent knowledge of APIs (REST, SOAP) and Web services.
• Capable of scaling applications to handle the load changes.
• Knowledge of version control, such as GIT.
• Knowledge of accessibility and security compliance.

• As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
• Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
• Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
• Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
• Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories

• Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
• Solid experience in building web-based products
• Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
• Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
• A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

· Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

· Write clean code to develop functional web applications

· Troubleshoot and debug applications

· Perform UI tests to optimize performance

· Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications

· Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server- side logic

· Gather and address technical and design requirements

· Provide training and support to internal teams

· Build reusable code and libraries for future use

· Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features

· Follow emerging technologies

• 5-7+ years of commercial Java development experience
• Experience with well known Open Source frameworks/libraries, like Spring Boot
• Work experience with Docker
• Microservice experience
• Experience with AWS like ECS, Lambda, SQS, RDS, Kinesis streams
• Familiar with iterative development
• Upper-intermediate level of English
• Solid understanding of communication and network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP).
• At ease with Unix/Linux
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills
• Familiar with both SQL and noSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, Memcached, Redis)
• Practical experience with scaling applications to big user numbers is a plus
• Experience with other programming languages is a plus.