Backend Engineer - SDE2

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of backend development experience in scalable web applications.
• Strong expertise in Python, Django ORM, and RESTful API design.
• Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL databases
• Comfortable working in a startup environment with multiple priorities.
• Understanding of cloud-native architectures and SaaS models.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

oin us and be a part of a company that thrives on creativity, technology, and excellence. 

CHANCE TO WORK WITH APPS WITH 10LAKH CONCURRENT USERS IN GAMING INDUSTRY 

Role Description 

• You are a champion at Code reviews and Unit/Mock/integration Tests 
• You have a strong sense of ownership of what you design and deploy 
• You provide strong technical mentorship to team members 
• You are an excellent team player 
• You continuously learn and improve 

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Java Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead and manage software development projects across diverse domains such as Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of projects, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations. 

Skill Sets 

• Excellent Programmer: in Java Intermediate (Collections, Polymorphism, Design Patterns) to Expert level (Annotations, Lambda, Streaming, Concurrency) 
• Startup Experience: Proven ability to take extreme ownership of results, with a history of leaving a lasting impact on the business. 
• Relevant Experience: At least 6-10 years of experience demonstrated the ability to develop resilient, high-performance, and scalable code tailored to application usage demands. 
• Java Framework Expertise: Significant experience in designing and building Java microservices with VERT.X, SPRING BOOT, with proficiency in Java. 
• REST API & GraphQL: Hands-on expertise in development API endpoints with RESTful & GraphQL approach, also non-REST frameworks like gRPC over Thrift or Protobuf Nuances of TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTP2, SSL, Thorough understanding of designing distributed systems without single point of failures 
• Cloud Proficiency: Strong understanding and hands-on experience of building applications deployed on the cloud using Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, and Kubernetes, Experience writing batch/cron jobs using Python and Shell scripting. 
• Containerization & Orchestration: Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. 
• Time & Space Complexity: if methods you write are in the traffic request path, you know how to avoid unacceptable time complexity & space complexity. 
• Database Knowledge: Strong experience with Data Structures & Algorithms working with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and other similar databases, ability to choose the right data store for the given requirements Relational, Graph, Object, Document, Columnar, Key-Value. Experience with Redis, Memcache, EHCache, Hazelcast, Aerospike 
• Messaging Systems: Proficiency in working with RabbitMQ, BullMQ & others 
• Agile Practices: At least a few years of experience practicing the SCRUM framework, collaborating with scrum masters, product owners, and other stakeholders. 
• Collaboration & Communication: A team player who thrives in a remote, collaborative environment. 
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Solutions-Oriented: Comfortable with the fast pace of startup life and adept at finding solutions to challenges. 

Responsibilities 

• Scalable Architecture: Lead the design and development of scalable architecture to ensure efficient performance and reliability of web and mobile applications. 
• Informed Decisions: Make informed architectural decisions that align with both current and future business needs. 
• Security & Privacy: Ensure security and privacy considerations are integrated into the selection of solutions and coding of back-end services and API endpoints. 
• Code Quality & High Standards: Uphold high standards of code quality through regular reviews, maintaining best practices in programming. 
• Robust Testing: Implement robust testing strategies to ensure code reliability and performance. 
• Backend Development: Design, develop, and deploy backend services and APIs using VERT.X, SPRING BOOT Java and AWS technologies. 
• NoSQL Expertise: Effective schema design and data modeling for NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB, including robust indexing strategies. 
• Technical Debt Management: Monitor and control technical debt to ensure it does not compromise application scalability or performance. 
• Task Planning: Collaborate with the PM and BA to plan and delegate tasks efficiently among backend team members, ensuring clear objectives and timelines. 
• User Requirements: Support the PM, BA team in identifying and analyzing user requirements to ensure development aligns with user expectations and project scope. 
• Systems Thinking: Apply systems thinking to align with broader business objectives. 
• Autonomy: Get things done independently without supervision and without creating future issues. 
• Simplicity: Strive for simplicity in solutions and code. 
• Proactive Problem Solving: Fix problems, even those outside your immediate responsibility. 
• Solution-Oriented: Focus on providing solutions to problems, not just writing code. 

Life@Sciflare:  

• An exciting & lively workplace gives you the chance to work in an environment where you may unleash your creativity and inventiveness to the best extent possible. 
• Work in a collaborative setting where your cooperative team contributes new perspectives to your objectives and forges strong bonds. 
• Growth mindset: You are nurtured through each stage of your professional advancement by learning and unlearning new things. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 2-7 Years of Experience
• Expertise in software design and development
• Proficiency with at least one Object Oriented language (e.g. Java)
• Have knowledge about Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
• Experience with building high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems
• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story
• Ability to think and analyse both breadthwise (client, server, DB, control flow) and depth-wise (threads, sessions, space-time complexity) while designing and implementing services

Java Developers

Exp: 3-5 years

Joining: 15-30 days

Skillset: Java, Microservices, Spring, Springboot, Hibernate

• 3 years Willing to take efforts to advance in the technology or learn new technologies.
• Solid understanding of OOPs concepts.
• Willing to take efforts to advance in the technology or learn new technologies.
• Good communication skills and a continuous learner.
• Experience working on waterfall or Agile (Agile model preferred)
• Solid understanding of Python scripting and/or frameworks like Django, Flask Back up RRS.

• 8+ years of relevant work experience
• Well-versed in data structures, algorithms, and software design. Programming experience with at least one of
• Java or Python and object-oriented design
• Knowledge on SQL, NoSQL databases, Messaging/Caching technologies and AW deployments is a plus
• Exposure to the architecture and design (design patterns, security, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows involving multiple third-party integrations
• Prior startup experience is a plus

We are looking for a Tech with a proficiency in backend technologies to design, develop a new state-of-the-art, paradigm changing product in software development. Responsibilities include evaluating technologies, developing proof-of concept prototypes, designing, and developing complete end-to-end products.

What would you be doing?

• should be able to mentor, guide, and train other engineers.
• should also be able to work with different stakeholders such as business owners, leadership, and customers.
• able to evaluate the business requirements, performance constraints, trade-offs and system limitations when developing software.
• should be well versed with new technologies and software development practices and be able to judge the trade-offs to make well thought out decisions, design choices and build the system for extensibility and robustness.
• The Django developer will be part of the core engineering team, entrusted with the complete architecture, design and development of the product.
• Work on a great product which empowers next generation entrepreneurs from its early phase

What makes you a suitable candidate?

• 1+ years of experience in designing and developing large scale, complex software applications
• Strong analytical, problem solving and design skills
• Strong knowledge of data structure, algorithms, and coding
• Proven experience in any high-level programming languages like Python, Django, DRF, Elasticsearch etc
• Knowledge of MVC architecture and hands-on experience with Spring, Spring security, Spring boot, and Hibernate framework
• Proven experience in database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB).
• Working knowledge of developing Restful Micro services, ORM technologies etc
• Experience in container-based deployments
• Working experience in Amazon DynamoDB, Docker, AWS-Lambda
• Experience with Messaging technologies like Kakfa, RabbitMQ, redis etc
• Ability to multitask
• Good communication, organizational and leadership skills

• Very Strong knowledge and programming skills on C,C++
• Should have knowledge and experience of developing ANSI C based applications
• Capability to implement core technical functionality as per functional requirements of the solution
• Strong knowledge of data structures, concurrency control, objected oriented design and development (OOA& OOD)
• Working experience with Linux
• Adherence to source control and versioning – SVN is a plus