Engineering Lead - Lightning Job By Cutshort ⚡

The Thrive team is focused on bringing Wealth Management awareness and capability to the
common man. We are on a mission to deliver institutional-grade financial advice through
technology – no more missed opportunities and no more regrets.
The division has, within a tenure of less than 2 years, built the capability to manage as much as
200 Crores and is now en-route to triple it by the end of this year.
Thrive is therefore fulfilling the company’s vision to use Creativity and innovation to bring simple
solutions to complex problems of the common people.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
We are inviting extraordinary people to solve ordinary problems, by breaking from routine and
building innovative products for our customers. An ideal candidate will:
● have mastered NodeJS (TypeScript), with at least 5 years of experience
● have good experience building large scale products on a No SQL database (MongoDB
preferred)
● know about building and scaling a product to handle large volumes of financial data and
transactions using Microservices architecture
● have experience working with and integrating 3rd party applications using RESTful APIs
● have seen the startup journey through business pivots and be willing to partner with the
business teams to drive engineering and product decisions
● have worked with large teams of engineering and product team members
● be able to advise the engineering team and enforce good coding and collaboration
practices making use of Object Oriented Programming, while ensuring the highest code
quality
● constantly strive to optimize the application from an efficiency, scalability and security
perspective and actively own the code reviews for the team
● conform to the agile development framework and own up to quality and reliability of the
deliverables
● have some exposure to front end technologies like React
● have worked with multiple hosting and service infrastructures including Azure and have
dabbled with the infra using Kubernetes, Docker,Pager Duty, New Relic, Data Dog, etc.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile:
1. Work experience between 3 years to 9 years in building large scale high user traffic consumer facing applications with desire to work in a fast paced startup.
2. Knowledge on reactive and asynchronous programming is preferable. If you have worked with coroutines, goroutines, high concurrency or optimized number of threads for processing on your backend server you could be a good fit.
3. Extremely proficient at writing performant, scalable and production ready code in Kotlin, Java (8 or above, comfortable with concepts like lambda, streams, multithreading etc), Elixir, Rust, or Golang. Should be familiar with static code analysis, code coverage and code reviews.
4. Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis or Aerospike is required. Knowledge of graph DBs like Neo4j is preferred.
5. Strong in algorithms, problem solving and data structures.
6. Knowledge of TDD and experience with building applications integrated with CI-CD pipelines (automated build, tests and deployments).
7. Exposure to micro-services with good understanding of containers, kubernetes, logging, alerting and monitoring. Inter services communication. Should know how to handle multiple versions of APIs.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and build solutions for complex business workflows
• Understanding the user persona and deliver a slick experience
• Take end to end ownership of components and be responsible for the subsystems that you work on from
• design, code, testing, integration, deployment, enhancements, etc.
• Write high-quality code and taking responsibility for their task
• Solve performance bottlenecks
• Mentor junior engineers
• Deliver with quality, on-time in a fast-paced start-up environment

Required Skills:

• Bachelor/Master's in computer science or relevant fields
• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Strong sense of ownership
• Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills
• Experience in building and scaling microservices
• Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting and diagnosing
• Expected to be a role model for young engineers, have a strong sense of code quality and enforce code
• quality within the team
• Strong knowledge in RDBMS and NOSQL technologies
• Experience in developing backends for enterprise systems like eCommerce / manufacturing / supply chain etc
• Excellent understanding of Debugging performance and optimization techniques
• Experience in Java, Mongo, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, Kafka
• Experience in developing any large scale Experience in cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

What are we looking for
● You’ve been building the backend for web applications.
● You have experience with any of these backend programming languages --
Python, NodeJS or Java.
● You write an understandable, testable code with an eye towards
maintainability.
● You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to
designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
● You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures,
algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information
retrieval.
● You have completed a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or
related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.

The key aspects of this role include:
• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using Python.
• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements
based on business need and architectural improvements.
• Act as a subject matter expert for Application Software developers and Engineers.
• Handle server-side code for a production platform and contribute to new features

To be the right fit, you'll need:
• More than 4+ years of experience as a software developer in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django, Flask, etc.
• Good understanding of common design patterns and architecture principles to design reliable and Scalable applications
• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of databases line NoSQL or MongoDB
• Good to have AWS and Docker or Web services
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Go/Scala/C++. Ability to understand and critique
the core library/language constructs.
• Knowledge of processor, memory, network and storage internals. Familiarity with I/O optimized
algorithms.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems including fault modeling, concurrency, isolation,
consensus etc.
• Internals of a RDBMS like MySQL
• Conversant with the internals of systems like Kafka, Cassandra/Scylla, Redis, RocksDB etc
• Working knowledge of hosting and network infrastructure (K8s, Envoy, etc)
• Familiarity with binary serialization protocols like thrift/protobuf/flatbuffers etc
• Familiar with gRPC, HTTP/2, QUIC, etc.
• Troubleshooting memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills and data structures.
• Productionizing machine learning pipelines using Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc
• Familiarity with big data concepts - HDFS, hive, presto, spark, oozie, ambari, airflow, atlas,
ranger, etc. Familiarity with formats like avro, parquet, orc, arrow etc
• Good understanding of branching, build, deployment, continuous integration methodologies
• Experience in leading a team and mentoring engineers
• Attitude to get Stuff Done!
• Ability to make decisions independently.
Desired Background:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from premier institutes preferred
• 8+ years of experience in software design, development & architecture

Job description

Do you want to work with high traffic OLTP and OLAP systems that provide real value to retailers? Want to build real web applications that work across multiple channels and devices? In this critical role, the right candidate should have an entrepreneurial mind-set, have experience working across an application stack and a strong background in developing complex web experiences that are rich, responsive and interactive. The individual should have exhibited good technical leadership skills and be a highly motivated individual.

Role & Responsibility

• Exhibit strong technical knowledge, leadership skills and independent execution.
• A keen eye for good experiences. Understanding the experience from a customer perspective.
• Drive design discussion of complex features and own development of these modules across the application stack.
• Ability to adapt to changing business and product needs.
• Experience evolving the design and operation scale as new features are added to the product
• Mentor junior developers and ensure quality code output (via code reads, reading references, etc.) from them.
• Co-ordinate with internal teams and external partners in ensuring we build the best solution on time for the customer. Constantly looking at ways to innovate and improve the product.
• 8+ years of experience in Java & J2EE based Web Technologies & Frameworks with a focus in either Service Oriented Architecture or APIs. 
• Experience in designing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Strong knowledge of web technologies, common web frameworks, networking, SQL and database technologies
• Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
• Strong debugging / troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to propose and defend solutions.
• Ability to work closely with product management, customer support, and  other engineering teams to continuously evolve and innovate the enterprise-class Products.

Skills • Building interactive consumer data from multiple systems and Restfully abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend • Define code architecture decisions to support a high-performance and scalable product with a minimal footprint • Address and improve any technical issues • Collaborate well with engineers, researchers, and data implementation specialists to design and create advanced, elegant and efficient systems • Should have work experience in a MEAN Stack Developer • In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify • Experience implementing applications using Angular 1 or React • Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS • Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side • Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with MEAN Full stack paradigm • Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage: o Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications o Experience with cloud technologies also a plus o Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, JavaScript, JQuery o Continuous integration (Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (SVN, Git)

What you should be amazing at: Developing PWAs (Progressive Web Apps). Expertise with React & Redux, and Meteor Expertise in JavaScript (ES 5 & ES 6). Understanding of Server Side Rendering Ability to create Responsive layout Understanding of SQL/ NoSQL Familiarity with tools like webpack, babel, jest, etc. Understanding AWS cloud technologies - must Development for both mobile and desktop Should be familiar Testing Tools Experience & In depth knowledge of PWA What you will need to do: Develop PWAs Maintain & Enhance features Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability Transform mocks, designs and wireframes into product features. Deploy new features and iterate on improvements. Contribute ideas to the product. Work with an in-house team, headed by a very very cool CTO

We aim to become one of a kind safety solution for automobile drivers and provide comprehensive real-time tracking (video and location) and management services for their bosses. We also intend to develop customer-facing part of this project for all the major computing platforms. Since it is built from the ground up in-house, it requires innovation and expertise in software and hardware alike. Hence, we are also looking for passionate and self motivated people to come and work with us.