
Company: Altimetrik
MUST HAVE - SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
- Around 4 +years of overall software development experience.
- Around 3 years of expertise in Go Language (aka GoLang) and SQL, with skills in data retrieval and manipulation.
- 3+ years of experience with JavaScript, including expertise in leveraging libraries like jQuery and Bootstrap, and proficiency in customizing CSS for styling and layout management.
- Experience in developing and managing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
- Development experience in a Linux/Unix environment, coupled with proficiency in bash scripting and Linux commands, provides a significant edge.
- Willingness to learn Perl as needed to migrate or support existing Perl applications.
- Currently a hands-on software developer, actively writing code and contributing to software development projects.
- Experience with tools and pipelines such as Rally, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, etc. is desirable.
- Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, multi-tasking, analytical, and problem-solving skills are essential.
- Self-starter with good communication skills, fluent in English (written and verbal).
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies or skills is a must.
- Expertise with the RedHat OpenShift Container Platform.
- Expertise with Kubernetes.
- Expertise in IaC tools: Terraform, Ansible, Go
- Experience in Infrastructure provisioning, monitoring and Ops
- Expertise working with Docker or similar container technologies.
Location : Chennai
Years of Experience : 4 to 8 years +

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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.
We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java and GoLang, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.
You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
- Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java and GoLang
- Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
- Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
- Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
- Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
- Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews.
Key focus areas include:
- Performance optimization, reliability, and low-latency API design
- Microservices architecture and cloud-native development (Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD)
- Experience with large-scale systems, monitoring, and performance profiling
- Deep understanding of concurrency,
- JVM tuning, and scalable data handling
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java and GoLang and familiarity with modern frameworks.
- Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
- Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
- Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
- Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.
Benefits:
- Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
- Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.
About Us
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.
Today, we are a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product, and design teams.
- Experience in designing scalable micro-services required
- Sound knowledge of Python and Django, familiarity with Linux and git
- Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work
- Familiarity with HTML / CSS and templating systems, Redis, RabbitMQ, NGINX preferred
-Bonus - Preliminary knowledge of any one of these languages - Golang / JavaScript / Lua Responsibilities
Designation: Technical Lead (ABL_SS_272)
Position description:
- Work with Product and Engineering leaders to drive and implement platform and product vision.
- Leverage deep and wide knowledge of technology stack to recommend appropriate architecture and design solutions, and provide technical leadership to a team of rock star Software Engineers.
- Translate the impact of design choices on non-functional attributes like scalability, performance, availability, and security.
- Create large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed web applications with databases, and designing web services, APIs, data models, and schemas, using SQL or NoSQL.
- Experience with Cloud environments, such as AWS.
- Comfortable working with Windows and Linux environments.
- Work with different data storage solutions such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, ElasticSearch, SQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB.
- Experience delivering high-quality software following continuous delivery and using code quality tools (JIRA, GitHub, Jenkin, Hudson, Sonar, and Fortify, etc.).
- Drive adoption of best practices across the Software Engineering Lifecycle, including reviews, source control, build processes, continuous integration, and deployment.
- Develop and maintain cross-functional relationships and alignment.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Application Development using Golang / C++.
Reporting Department: Application Development and Maintenance (1991)
Educational qualifications preferred Degree: Bachelors degree
Required Skills:
- Experience of building scalable architectures
- Hands-on experience with GoLang, Node Js, C++ or Java or any other Open Source technologies/ Cloud Servers
- Experience in developing software using a formal & structured development methodology
- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
- Experience with test-driven development & proper unit testing of code
- An iterative approach to development, using short development cycles & frequent builds
- Object-oriented programming/ Object Oriented Design (OOP/OOD)
- Ability to develop secure solutions & knowledge of industry best practices regarding information security & defensive development
- Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
- Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions
- Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time
- Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions
- Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them.
- Drives people to solve engineering challenges
- Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams
- Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and
internal/external clients as necessary.
- Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them
- Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards
- Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
- Must have experience in cloud computing
- Operates independently with almost no oversight
- Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the
team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership
- Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
- 7+ years of experience in product driven organization
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably
- Must be from good companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic.
- Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise Go Langauge
- Experience building microservices.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
- Good knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure Proficient with RDBMS
Primary Responsibilities
- Design, architect and develop advanced software solutions in a cross functional Agile team supporting multiple projects and initiatives
- Collaborate with product owners and/or the business on requirements definition, development of functional specifications, and design
- Collaborate on or lead development of technical design and specifications as required
- Code, test and document new applications as well as changes to existing system functionality and ensure successful completion
- Take on leadership roles as needed
Skills & Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related field
- 3+ years of software development experience using GoLang/Java programming language
- Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP/Pivotal Cloud Foundry/any private cloud) and containerization is required
- Experience with a micro-services architecture is a plus
- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other Relational Databases
- Test-driven development mindset and a focus on quality, scalability and performance
- Strong programming fundamentals and ability to produce high quality code
- Solid understanding of Agile (SCRUM) Development Process required
Job description
We are looking for a passionate Software Development Engineer to develop, test, maintain and document program code in accordance with user requirements and system technical specifications. As a Software Development Engineer, you will work with other Developers and Product Managers throughout the software development life cycle.
Software Development Engineer responsibilities include analysing requirements, define system functionality and writing code in the companys current technology stack. The candidate is expected to be familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) process from preliminary system analysis to tests and deployment. Ultimately, the role of the Software Engineer is to build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software that complies with coding standards and technical design. Your goal will be to build efficient programs and systems that serve user needs.
To be qualified for this role, you should hold a minimum of Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, like Computer Science, IT or Software Engineering. You should be a team player with a keen eye for detailed and problem-solving skills. If you also have experience in SDLC, Agile frameworks and popular coding languages (e.g., Java), strong computer science fundamentals we’d like to meet you.
Years of experience : 2 to 10 years.
Roles & Responsibilities
The overview of this position (based in Chennai, India) includes:
- Develops, enhances, debugs, supports, maintains and tests software applications that support business units or supporting functions. These application program solutions may involve diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies and tools.
- Participates in the design, development and implementation of complex applications, often using new technologies.
- Technology professional with experience in designing and managing the implementation of future looking, flexible and reusable, enterprise applications and components.
- Expert in translating business requirements into an application design that includes Data Model, Web Screens, Web Services, and batch processing.
- May provide technical direction and system architecture for individual initiatives.
- Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource.
- Deploy programs, gather and evaluate user feedback
- Recommend and execute improvements
- Create technical documentation for reference and reporting
- Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
- Document and maintain software functionality
- Ensure software is updated with latest features
- Good interpersonal and technology understanding skills
- Evaluate open-source components and integrate into product pipeline
Skills and Qualifications
- Hands-on experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of complex, custom-built applications.
- Strong Java, development skills (JAVA, J2EE, STRUTS, SPRING, Web Services, Eclipse, UI screens, AngularJS, React.JS)
- Excellent debugging skills
- Strong knowledge on databases (MySQL, MSSQL Server and NoSQL databases)
- Understanding of various deployment servers (Apache Tomcat is a must)
- Understanding of OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge is a must.
- Strong understanding in creating and maintaining web services.
- Understanding of the software development life cycle
- Experience with Implementation and release management activities
- Good understanding of unit/system and functional testing methodology
- Experience working in large transaction-based systems
- Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI)
- Experience documenting technical functions
- Desire to contribute to the wider technical community through collaboration, coaching, and mentoring of other technologists.
- Experience in Linux based systems, development of shell-based scripts.
Job Training
- Training on the coding paradigms, guidelines, frameworks, usage of the applications would be provided by the engineers
- Periodic training sessions would be conducted by the technical architects in terms of technology and skills to be learnt
- Periodic, structured training would be provided on the applications Hours & Environment
- Typical 40 hours of work a week
- Depending on the requirements, work hours may have to be extended during the day, weekend
Requirements:
- Solid experience in Java or Golang
- Good to have exposure to ML
- Should have experience in cloud computing
- Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
- Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
- Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
- Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
- Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
- Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
- 4+ years of experience in product driven organisation
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)








