The Opportunity
The Springboard engineering team is looking for software engineers with strong backend technical expertise. In this role, you would be responsible for building exciting features aimed at improving our student experience and expanding our student base, using latest technologies like GenAI, as relevant. You would also contribute to making our platform more robust, flexible and scalable. This is a great opportunity to create a meaningful impact as well as grow in your career.
We are looking for engineers with different levels of experience and expertise. Depending on your proficiency levels, you will join our team as a Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer or Lead Software Engineer.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop features for the Springboard platform, which enriches the learning experience of thousands through human guided learning at scale
- Own quality and reliability of the product by getting hands on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues and so on
- Contribute to the platform architecture through redesign of complex features based on evolving business needs
- Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools
- Provide technical mentoring to team members
You
- You have experience in backend technologies for web based applications with strong understanding of domain driven design, SOLID design principles, database.
- You have hands-on experience in,
- Coding and debugging complex systems, with frontend integration.
- Code review, responsible for production deployments
- Building scalable and fault-tolerant applications
- Re-architecting / re-designing complex systems / features (i.e. managing technical debt)
- Defining best practices for backend systems.
- You have excellent problem solving skills and are comfortable handling ambiguity.
- You are able to analyze various alternatives and reach optimal decisions.
- You are willing to challenge the status quo, express your opinion and drive change.
- You are able to plan reasonably complex pieces of work and can handle changing priorities, unknowns and challenges with support. You want to contribute to the platform roadmap, aligning with the organization priorities and goals.
- You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner. You are able to communicate with various stakeholders to understand their requirements.
- You are a proponent of quality - building best practices, introducing new processes and improvements to make the team more efficient.
Non-negotiables
Must have
- Expertise in software design and architecture
- Experience in web application development, building scalable and fault-tolerant applications
- Ability to handle ambiguity and take good decisions
Good to have
- Experience with Python/Django/GCP
- Experience working with any Learning Management System (LMS), such as Canvas
- Experience working with GenAI ecosystem, including usage of AI tools such as code completion
- Experience with refactoring (redesigning complex systems / features, breaking monolith into services)
- Working knowledge on CI/CD pipelines and applications deployed on Kubernetes
- Delivery skills, specifically planning open ended projects
- Mentoring skills
Expectations
- Able to independently own end to end delivery of medium sized projects. This includes being able to:
- Communicate effectively with business stakeholders to clarify requirements
- Work with open ended problems and come up with efficient solutions
- Plan and estimate tasks of medium size and complexity
- Communicate plans, deviations and blockers in a timely manner to all project stakeholders
- Able to design and develop high quality software, increasing the overall standard of excellence in the team
About Springboard
Springboard is on a mission to transform one million lives through education by 2030.
Springboard is an online learning platform that prepares students for the tech industry’s most in-demand careers with comprehensive, mentor-led online programs in software engineering, data science, cybersecurity, UI/UX design, and more.
We act as a support system, coach, and cheerleader for working professionals who are ready to level-up or make a major career shift. Our one-size-fits-one approach combines a bleeding-edge curriculum with expert mentors, career coaches, and student advisors, who provide an individualized and personalized learning experience. We give our students everything they need to fuel their progress, and hold them accountable for their dreams.
Since our founding in 2013, we’ve doubled our team size each year, with offices in Bengaluru and San Francisco. Today, the Springboard community includes tens of thousands of students and alumni, more than a thousand expert mentors, dozens of career coaches, and hundreds of employer partners. Together, we’re building a network that’s bridging the world’s skills gap.
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Architect, design and develop web applications using Restful Services on Node.js.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
Lead code reviews to drive teams to the highest standards for Node.js web apps.
Strong background in algorithms, data structures, database design.
Experience in Node, Redis.
Experience in cloud infrastructure like google app engine/AWS/Heroku etc.
Design and create efficient RESTful endpoints for both internal and public consumption.
Participate in regular bug fixing Intimate knowledge of Git, Github, AWS, CDNs.
Experience with creating RESTful endpoints using the REST framework.
Developing high performing REST APIs for application functionality.
Necessary Requirement:
Min -1 years of Experience with Node.js
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Hands on Experience in REST APIs for application functionality.
Hands on Experience in cloud infrastructure
Company is a remote-first team, looking to scale our Open Source Feature
Flagging, Remote Config and A/B Testing product. With both SaaS and on-premises customers, we are investing into our globally distributed, low latency API and making it simple for customers to deploy on their own infrastructure via Kubernetes and OpenShift.
We are looking for a Lead Server-Side Engineer, who also enjoys working on dev-ops, infrastructure and orchestration, and can help build out our existing API and infrastructure.
We are a really small team right now, and this is our first technical hire outside of the founders, so it’s a great opportunity to be part of something that is looking to scale quickly!
We are looking for someone who loves working with:
- Python. Django Rest Framework experience would be great, but not essential! We prioritise
- quality over quantity.
- Postgres with InfluxDB, Oracle, MySQL and Redis experience a plus.
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift and associated tooling.
- AWS, especially ECS, Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB. Performance and uptime are super
- important to us.
- The challenge of scaling a global, distributed API to 10,000+ requests per second.
- We have SDKs in a bunch of languages, so the more polyglot you are the better.
- If you like writing JS and React that would be awesome too.
We are a 100% remote team, currently based on the West Coast US and in Europe
Who you are:
- You have an overall software development experience of 4 to 10 years
- 3+ years proficiency in Java and Spring boot
- Familiar with distributed computing and frameworks such as gRPC/ protobuf
- Understands JVM metrics, Garbage collection and performance tuning
- Experience in creating high-level design(HLD) and low-level design(LLD)
- You have a good understanding of relational database, NoSQL technologies, and REST
- Good to have experience in HTML, JavaScript, GraphQL, TypeScript, ReactJS and related toolsets
- Exposure to AWS stack/cloud computing
- Self-motivated developer who takes ownership of work
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computing related discipline
- Experience in Product Development Environment is a plus.
- Drive development and delivery of top notch technology solutions to clients efficiently.
- Lead development of implementation plan, logic and modules to embed in client solutions and client discussion ready documents /presentations.
- Lead in designing, implementing, maintaining and updating applications that are often high-volume and low-latency, required for mission critical systems.
- Lead in refining and improving system stability by continuously refactoring and measuring performance.
- Drive development of actionable, clean, maintainable, testable, reusable, extensible codes, including standardization and automation of processes.
- Provide technical and functional guidance to team members through expert knowledge and hands-on support.
- Manage projects, resource utilization, time schedules and deliveries to clients.
- Proactively drive discussions with stakeholders to understand their business requirements, business context and guide team to provide robust actional solutions.
- Effectively engage with stakeholders – create and nurture and deepen relationships.
- Ensure positive & creative work-environment, culture of collaborations, speak-up, high level of energy & enthusiasm, curiosity to learn and continuous improvement.
- Inspire, engage, motivate and provide constructive feedback to team members to develop their technical & soft skills and fully support their development aspirations.
- Drive researching and conceptualizing solution approaches, new techniques or solution frameworks and author high quality discussion papers.
Qualifications, Skills and Experiences
- BE / BTech / ME / M Tech in engineering or MCA or similar relevant field.
- 2 to 17 years (Junior, Intermediate, Senior Role & we have multiple openings)of relevant hands-on experience and excellent knowledge of Java, Python, SQL, Relational Databases, DB schema or ORM technologies.
- Excellent knowledge and experience of building applications, platforms and services in Java, Python and MS SQL or at least two of them.
- 5 + years of experience of managing projects, team and stakeholders.
- Knowledge and experience of agile methodologies.
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced environment and make quality decisions in moderately to high ambiguous work environment.
- Previous work experience in financial services, especially, capital markets is preferred.
- We are looking for a seasoned Backend engineer to manage our web infrastructure. Successful candidates will have a minimum of 2 years of recent experience with all the skills listed below.
- Our project entails implementing our pre-approved UI, constructing our API, connecting the two, and setting up our server infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Pixel-perfect- implementation of our approved user interface
- Design and construction of our REST APIs
- Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
- Maintaining the current web services by making regular updates to improve security and performance
Skills :
1) Experience :
- >1+ years experience in Backend development, preferably in Python [Flask].
- > 1+ years experience in writing REST APIs in Python/Flask.
- > Database design and management, including being up on the latest practices and associated versions
- > Server management and deployment for the relevant environment
2) Experience with SQL databases
3) Experience implementing testing platforms and unit tests
4) Proficiency with Git.
Technical Experience :
- 2-6 years of Python working experience
- Expertise in at least one popular Python framework /Django/ Flask
- Knowledge of object-relational mapping d
- Familiarity with front-end technologies JavaScript and HTML5
Key Responsibilities :
- Write effective, scalable code
- Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
- Integrate user-facing elements into applications
- Test and debug programs5 Improve functionality
We are seeking a lead Python Developer to lead the backend efforts and, in the process design, develop, and deploy its customer centric applications.
The person will have the opportunity to design and build an early stage, rapidly evolving platform from scratch and carry out these primary responsibilities -
Optimize components for maximum performance across multiple devices and browsers
Write performant REST APIs for both internal and external consumption
Build micro services and their deployment process
Work with problems of scale, leveraging technologies that are distributed in nature.
Perform code reviews
Required qualifications and must have skills
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Proven-deep-expertise with Python programming (4+ years of hands-on experience in Python and backend development)
Building performant and scalable applications from scratch
Experience in working with frameworks like Django, Flask, etc.
Experience with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
Experience with any RDBMS and strong SQL knowledge
Comfortable with Unix / Linux command line
Object-oriented concepts & design patterns
Sytem and database desinging skills
Nice to have Skills
Knowledge of other programming languages beyond Python
Familiarity with managing infrastructure on AWS/GCloud
Experience with working with/building data analytics pipleline
Familiarity with NoSQL databases
Good understanding of Docker and container platforms like Mesos and Kubernetes
Security-first architecture approach
Application benchmarking and optimization
Interpersonal Attributes
You are driven by the impact your work creates
You can answer the why behind any technological choice you make
You can work independently as well as part of a team