Golang

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

You'll work closely with our team to implement best practices, improve our architecture, and create a high-performance engineering culture. Over a 6–9-month period, you'll also immerse yourself in game development, Unity, and C# to become a well-rounded technical leader in the gaming space.

• Drive maximum development velocity through direct involvement in development sprints, ensuring developers work as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Drive architectural decisions that ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-performance game products.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture aligned with ambitious goals, accountability, and proactive problem-solving.
• Implement and enforce engineering best practices (e.g., code reviews, testing, documentation) and the adoption of new tools, technologies including AI, and methodologies to optimize team efficiency.
• Transition our team to a high-performance culture aligned with our ambitious, venture-backed goals.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership role
• Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
• Strong programming fundamentals and hands-on coding abilities
• Strong grasp of software architecture, TDD, code reviews, and clean coding principles.
• Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Experience building complex, scalable software systems
• Proven track record of driving architectural decisions and technical excellence
• Experience mentoring and developing engineering talent
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

• We foster a culture of continuous learning.
• We value talent and the ability for significant self-improvement.
• Honest feedback and transparency across all departments allow for rapid skill development.
• You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting new game development product with complete autonomy.

About us

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview

As an SDE 2 Back-end Engineer at Astra, you will play a crucial role in the development of a new vulnerability scanner from scratch. You will be architecting & engineering a scalable technical solution from the ground-up.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals, collaborating to deliver innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in vulnerability scanning. The role requires deep collaboration with the founders, product, engineering & security teams.

Join our team and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge SaaS security platform, where high-quality engineering and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will be joining our Vulnerability Scanner team which builds a security engine to identify vulnerabilities in technical infrastructure.
• You will be the technical product owner of the scanner, which would involve managing a lean team of backend engineers to ensure smooth implementation of the technical product roadmap.
• Research about security vulnerabilities, CVEs, and zero-days affecting cloud/web/API infrastructure.
• Work in an agile environment of engineers to architect, design, develop and build our microservice infrastructure.
• You will research, design, code, troubleshoot and support (on-call). What you create is also what you own.
• Writing secure, high quality, modular, testable & well documented code for features outlined in every sprint.
• Design and implement APIs in support of other services with a highly scalable, flexible, and secure backend using GoLang
• Hands-on experience with creating production-ready code & optimizing it by identifying and correcting bottlenecks.
• Driving strict code review standards among the team.
• Ensuring timely delivery of the features/products
• Working with product managers to ensure product delivery status is transparent & the end product always looks like how it was imagined
• Work closely with Security & Product teams in writing vulnerability detection rules, APIs etc.

Required Qualifications & Skills: 

• Strong 2-4 years relevant development experience in GoLang
• Experience in building a technical product from idea to production.
• Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems in Golang
• Expertise in Goroutines and Channels to write efficient code utilizing multi-core CPU optimally
• Must have hands-on experience with managing AWS/Google Cloud infrastructure
• Hands on experience in creating low latency high throughput REST APIs
• Write test suites and maintain code coverage above 80%
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
• Good to have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems.
• Understanding of cloud/web security concepts would be an added advantage

What We Offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally
• Experience with security side of things
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru)
• Open and supportive culture 

• Key Skills:
• Expert Proficiency in anyone the below programming language - Node JS, PHP or GoLang
• Expert Computer Science fundamentals like Data Structures, Algorithms, Time Complexity, and others
• Strong Microservices, REST API, Git source control, CI/CD, and other latest technology trends
• Strong System Design, DB Design proficiency
• Strong knowledge in Design Patterns, best software development practices
• Good exposure to working in Open Source stack, E-Commerce, or Fintech domain.

About Simpl 

The thrill of working at a start-up that is starting to scale massively is something else. Simpl (FinTech startup of the year - 2020) was formed in 2015 by Nitya Sharma, an investment banker from Wall Street and Chaitra Chidanand, a tech executive from the Valley, when they teamed up with a very clear mission - to make money simple, so that people can live well and do amazing things. Simpl is the payment platform for the mobile-first world, and we’re backed by some of the best names in fintech globally (folks who have invested in Visa, Square and Transferwise), and has Joe Saunders, Ex Chairman and CEO of Visa as a board member.

Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards the long term vision of “making money Simpl”. Our first product is a payment platform that lets people buy instantly, anywhere online, and pay later. In the background, Simpl uses big data for credit underwriting, risk and fraud modelling, all without any paperwork, and enables Banks and Non-Bank Financial Companies to access a whole new consumer market.

In place of traditional forms of identification and authentication, Simpl integrates deeply into merchant apps via SDKs and APIs. This allows for more sophisticated forms of authentication that take full advantage of smartphone data and processing power.

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We’re looking for polyglot developers who love to code. You should have >3 years of experience building high-quality products. You should have the ability to write clean code and must’ve worked on one of Ruby, NodeJS, Golang or Python

Responsibilities

1. Develop new features - build POCs, get feedback, and scale is our default mode
2. Building reusable and platform specific components
3. Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
4. Optimizing services for maximum performance
5. Ensure faster release cycles by managing distribution over the cloud 

Requirements

1. Hands-on experience in all aspects of software development - analysis, coding, writing tests, deployment, the works.
2. Knowledge of relational databases, SQL, ACID and distributed locking
3. Solid OOPS understanding.
4. Good exposure to building distributed systems, micro-services architecture.
5. Continuous delivery experience
6. Exposure to building platforms (not just products) would be a plus

• A Bachelors or master’s degree in engineering.
• 2-4 years of experience in software product development.
• Excellent in Data structure, Algorithms & Problem-solving skills.
• Should be willing to code in Node.js/Java/Python/ROR/Golang
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components.
• Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and able to multi-task.
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment

What you need to have: