Golang Developer

Join an innovative and groundbreaking cybersecurity startup focused on helping customers identify, mitigate, and protect against ever-evolving cyber threats. With the current geopolitical climate, organizations need to stay ahead of malicious threat actors as well as nation-state actors. Cybersecurity teams are getting overwhelmed, and they need intelligent systems to help them focus on addressing the biggest and current risks first.

We help organizations protect their assets and customer data by continuously evaluating the new threats and risks to their cloud environment. This will, in turn, help mitigate the high-priority threats quickly so that the engineers can spend more time innovating and providing value to their customers.

About the Engineering Team:

We have several decades of experience working in the security industry, having worked on some of the most cutting-edge security technology that helped protect millions of customers. We have built technologies from the ground up, partnered with the industry on innovation, and helped customers with some of the most stringent requirements. We leverage industry and academic experts and veterans for their unique insight. Security technology includes all facets of software engineering work from data analytics and visualization, AI/ML processing, highly distributed and available services with real-time monitoring, integration with various other services, including protocol-level work. You will be learning from some of the best engineering talent with multi-cloud expertise.

We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead the development and scaling of our backend systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in distributed systems, database management, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies. As a key technical leader, you will design, implement, and optimize critical backend services, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Develop Distributed Systems: Design and implement scalable, distributed systems using microservices architecture. Expertise in both synchronous (REST/gRPC) and asynchronous communication patterns (message queues, Kafka), with a strong emphasis on building resilient services that can handle large data and maintain high throughput. Craft cloud solutions tailored to specific needs, choosing appropriate AWS services and optimizing resource utilization to ensure performance and high availability.
• Database Architecture & Optimization: Lead efforts to design and manage databases with a focus on scaling, replication, query optimization, and managing large datasets.
• Performance & Reliability: Engage in continuous learning and innovation to improve customer satisfaction. Embrace accountability and respond promptly to service issues to maintain and enhance system health. Ensure the backend systems meet high standards for performance, reliability, and scalability, identifying and solving bottlenecks and architectural challenges by leveraging various observability tools (such as Prometheus and Grafana).
• Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, guiding architecture decisions, reviewing code, and helping to build a strong engineering culture. Stay abreast of the latest industry trends in cloud technology, adopting best practices to continuously improve our services and security measures.

Key Qualifications:

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with at least 5 years of experience in building distributed systems.
• Technical Expertise:
• Distributed Systems: Extensive experience with microservices architecture, working with both synchronous (REST, gRPC) and asynchronous patterns (SNS, SNQ). Strong understanding of service-to-service authentication and authorization, API rate limiting, and other critical aspects of scalable systems.
• Database: Expertise in database technologies with experience working with large datasets, optimizing queries, handling replication, and creating views for performance. Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Cassandra). Expertise in various database technologies and deep experience with creating data models that provide consistent data views to the customer while data is being morphed, handling data migrations, and ensuring data integrity and high availability.
• Kubernetes: In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, with experience deploying and managing services in Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS). Strong understanding of pods, services, networking, and scaling applications within Kubernetes environments.
• Golang: Proven experience using Golang as the primary programming language for backend development. Deep understanding of concurrency, performance optimization, and scalability in Golang applications.
• Cloud Technologies: Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS, EKS). Experience in designing and optimizing cloud-based architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Problem Solver: Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with a proven ability to design and optimize complex systems.
• Leadership: Experience in leading engineering teams, guiding architectural decisions, and mentoring junior engineers.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of GitHub-based CI/CD tools and best practices.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Cybersecurity experience.

Roles:

• Developing core infrastructure in Python, Django.
• Developing models and business logic (e. g. transactions, payments, diet plan, search, etc).
• Architecting servers and services that enable new product features.
• Building out newly enabled product features

• Minimum 4 years of industry or open-source experience.
• Proficient in at least one OO language: Python(preferred)/Golang/Java.
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].

Kutumb is the first and largest communities platform for Bharat. We are growing at an exponential trajectory. More than 1 Crore users use Kutumb to connect with their community. We are backed by world-class VCs and angel investors. We are growing and looking for exceptional Backend Developers to join our Engineering team.

More on this here - https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us">https://kutumbapp.com/why-join-us.html

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and develop real-time, resillient and high availabilty systems
• Architect and Build Microservices
• Iterating and building experiments
• Will be working with Node.js, Go, MySQL and Redis

You are the right fit if you have:

• Strong systems, architecture and database fundamentals
• Build from scratch and be a good decision maker
• The Ownership skills and can own the problems end to end
• The Zeal and willingness to put in extra efforts to build a product which will be used by millions of users, and most importantly
• The ability to find the solution to any problem and get things done

What we offer:

• High pace of learning
• Opportunity to build the product from scratch
• High autonomy and ownership
• A great and ambitious team to work with
• Opportunity to work on something that really matters
• Top of the class market salary and meaningful ESOP ownership

Founder’s LinkedIn profile

Dheeraj Pandey

(Founder, Investor, & Then-CEO of Nutanix / One of the Indian origin guy out of 10 Board Member of- Adobe / Alumni- IIT, Kanpur & University of Texas, Austin)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/

&

Chandra Nath

(Vice President- Nutanix/ Vice President, Head of International- Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd) – Alumni- IIT, Kanpur, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/

&

Manoj Agarwal

(Co-Founder at Stealth Startup, Previously SVP Engineering & GM Hybrid Cloud at Nutanix/ Alumni- IIT, Kanpur)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/

• Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
• Year founded: 2020.
• Work Location: Bangalore
• Team size: 35-40 (In US from companies like Google, Airbnb, Blizzard, Facebook, Palantir, Microsoft, CapitalOne, Nutanix and Confluent)
• Funding: 50 M USD (raised the largest seed round in the history of Silicon Valley)

Note:

We already have a team of 30-35 people in San Jose, California, United States, now we are building a new team in india and they are hiring 0-5 years of rock stars from top notch colleges (Top 5 ranked IIT’s only & BITS) & companies only.

Note:

Basically, I did not have the exact JD with myself, but I can arrange an Exploratory call for you with above senior and core members of a company (Dheeraj/Chandra/Manoj).

Job Role – Backend developer.

If you think, you are one of them then please reply with your interest and we will take your candidature ahead for next level of evaluation. (No Bar of budget for strong candidate).

Looking forward to taking you to the next level of technology.

Warm Regards,

Rahul Rajput

Senior talent acquisition 

Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
2. Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
3. Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
4. Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
5. Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
6. 1.  

1. About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
2. Experience with Golang, REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Elasticsearch, Redis, Docker, or Kubernetes
3. Understanding of the philosophy of cloud and an experience of maintaining cloud-native services.
4. Experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, and knowledge of composing a service-oriented architecture.
5. Experience of working in a fast-paced, rapidly-growing company (Good to Have).
6. Working knowledge of Node.js (Good to Have).
7. 1.  

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.
4. 1.  

Who We Are

Blok is a technology-first, online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business, and we are on our way to revolutionize how millions of people across countries consume groceries. We believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And it takes less than 10 minutes.

We believe we are positioned to lead this revolution. Why? Our founding and early team has held senior positions at Deliveroo, Uber, Glovo, Mercadona, or Unilever. We have done this before, and we believe we can do it again. But this time, even better.

Embark on the journey and help us launch the revolution in one of the highest growth industries of the year. Help us shape the new normal.