Backend Lead

About Us: Hoop Konsulting is an IT consulting and software development company focused on delivering custom software solutions to clients globally. Our core values of integrity, trust, respect, hard work, and mutual growth are the foundation of everything we do.  

Job Description: 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing complex web applications using the MEAN (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js) stack. As a Senior Developer, you will be responsible for developing, and maintaining web applications, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop, and maintain scalable web applications using the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js). 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. 
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications. 
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. 
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation. 
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members. 
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies. 
• Mentor and guide junior developers. 

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience in web development, with a focus on the MEAN stack. 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript. 
• Extensive experience with Angular and Node.js. 
• Proficiency with MongoDB and Express.js. 
• Experience with RESTful API design and implementation. 
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks. 
• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git. 
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills. 
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. 
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies. 

What We Offer: 

• Competitive salary and benefits package. 
• Health and accidental insurance 
• Opportunities for professional growth and development. 
• A collaborative and innovative work environment. 
• A chance to work on exciting and challenging projects with international clients. 

If you are a passionate and experienced MEAN Stack Senior Software Engineer, looking to be a part of a professional, conducive, growth oriented environment,  we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our talented team at Hoop Konsulting! 

Sizzle is an exciting new startup that’s changing the world of gaming.  At Sizzle, we’re building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube streams. We’re looking for a superstar Python expert to help develop and deploy our AI pipeline. The main task will be deploying models and algorithms developed by our AI team, and keeping the daily production pipeline running. Our pipeline is centered around several microservices, all written in Python, that coordinate their actions through a database. We’re looking for developers with deep experience in Python including profiling and improving the performance of production code, multiprocessing / multithreading, and managing a pipeline that is constantly running. AI/ML experience is a plus, but not necessary. AWS / docker / CI/CD practices are also a plus. If you are a gamer or streamer, or enjoy watching video games and streams, that is also definitely a plus :-)

You will be responsible for:

• Building Python scripts to deploy our AI components into pipeline and production
• Developing logic to ensure multiple different AI components work together seamlessly through a microservices architecture
• Managing our daily pipeline on both on-premise servers and AWS
• Working closely with the AI engineering, backend and frontend teams

You should have the following qualities:

• Deep expertise in Python including:
• Multiprocessing / multithreaded applications
• Class-based inheritance and modules
• DB integration including pymongo and sqlalchemy (we have MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases on our backend)
• Understanding Python performance bottlenecks, and how to profile and improve the performance of production code including:
• Optimal multithreading / multiprocessing strategies
• Memory bottlenecks and other bottlenecks encountered with large datasets and use of numpy / opencv / image processing
• Experience in creating soft real-time processing tasks is a plus
• Expertise in Docker-based virtualization including:
• Creating & maintaining custom Docker images
• Deployment of Docker images on cloud and on-premise services
• Experience with maintaining cloud applications in AWS environments
• Experience in deploying machine learning algorithms into production (e.g. PyTorch, tensorflow, opencv, etc) is a plus
• Experience with image processing in python is a plus (e.g. openCV, Pillow, etc)
• Experience with running Nvidia GPU / CUDA-based tasks is a plus (Nvidia Triton, MLFlow)
• Knowledge of video file formats (mp4, mov, avi, etc.), encoding, compression, and using ffmpeg to perform common video processing tasks is a plus.
• Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
• Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online

Seniority: We are looking for a mid to senior level engineer

Salary: Will be commensurate with experience. 

Who Should Apply:

If you have the right experience, regardless of your seniority, please apply.

Work Experience:  4 years to 8 years

About Sizzle

Sizzle is building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube videos. Sizzle works with thousands of gaming streamers to automatically create highlights and social content for them. Sizzle is available at www.sizzle.gg. 

• Minimum 4 years’ experience developing Node.js applications on top of RESTful APIs.
• Experience building single page applications using JavaScript frameworks and libraries (React)
• Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform and design constraints on the web.
• Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts.
• Have a passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well.
• Proficient in Git and familiarity with continuous integration.
• A team player who values collaboration, innovation, and inclusion
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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