

From the very beginning, Ally has believed that the right people united by the right mission can redefine the possible
Ally is a B2B SaaS startup. We enable teams to focus, align and achieve goals, with strong employee engagement. Our OKR solution is ridiculously easy to use and scalable to startups and larger teams.
We believe in being where the work happens. Ally is well integrated with the tools and products that we already use in our daily workflows. Further, you can access it from the web and mobile. Ally’s Insights identifies problems and helps the team make the necessary changes to achieve the goals on time.
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Ally Engineering Team in Chennai, India.
What does a lead software engineer do at Ally?
As a lead software engineer, you will be the technical lead for a team that focuses on building software applications that scale well. You will play a significant role in shaping our software architecture that provides measurable customer value. You understand both technology and business to know the right tradeoffs to make. You will be a technical mentor for your team members. You will work closely with your peers, managers, product, design and operations teams to create solutions that meet business requirements. You will drive engineering and operational excellence across Ally. You will collaborate with other engineers to surface common pain points, develop solutions and evangelize best practices.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building customer-facing web and/or mobile applications
- Strong coding skills using Ruby, Java, C/C++, Scala (or equivalent programming language)
- Excellent knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms
- Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Self-starter, quick learner and passionate problem resolver
- Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, with an enthusiastic attitude to support and resolve customer problems
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Above all, an insatiable desire and ability to learn
Nice to have skills:
- Experience with large-scale SaaS applications
- Experience building web and mobile applications
- Experience designing services on top of cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, etc
- Knowledge of Ruby on Rails
- Prior experience as a technical lead
Additional Information
Benefits
- Ownership and autonomy to drive customer and culture initiatives
- Centrally located in the city; right next to Metro station
- Opportunity to get mentored and mentor junior engineers
- Competitive salaries
- Paid time off
- Medical insurance

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Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Post-secondary degree in computer science, software engineering or related discipline, or equivalent working experience.
- Development of distributed applications with Microsoft technologies: C# .NET/Core, SQL Server, Entity Framework.
- Deep expertise with microservices architectures and design patterns.
- Cloud Native AWS experience with services such as Lambda, SQS, RDS/Aurora, S3, Lex, and Polly.
- Mastery of both Windows and Linux environments and their use in the development and management of complex distributed systems architectures.
- Git source code repository and continuous integration tools.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from a premier institute Strong development, coding experience in one or more programming languages like OO Programming (Java), Functional/Scripting languages.
• Expertise in Data Structures, Algorithms, Concurrency.
• Expertise in Micro-services Architecture, multi-threading, performance-oriented programming and designing skills
• Strong software design/development experience in building massively large-scale distributed internet systems and products
• Experience of working on Big Data technologies and applications
• Expertise in one or more persistence technologies (Cassandra, Redis, ElasticSearch, RDBMS).
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
• 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 a fluid environment
• Provide good attention to details
• Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed system for building audience targeting capabilities
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
- Collaborating with the product team to understand the requirement
- Managing Design and development of the product
- Ensuring code quality, security and extensibility
- Following the agile development cycles
- Conducting performance tests and optimization of the code based on the results.
- Debugging and troubleshooting of technical issues
- Helping the support team to resolve external user issues
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- B.Tech /B.E.; M.Tech; MCA
- Strong at OOPS, Java/ J2EE, JAX-RS, JDBC, RESTful Web Services, Data Structures, Queues, Multi-Threading etc.
- MySQL and Mongo database knowledge
- Basic understanding of AWS Cloud
- Must have worked on highly scalable and available systems
- Good at adapting and understanding architecture and overall design of the system
- Exposure to design patterns is a plus
- Must have exposure to agile development
- Experience of creating and maintaining system documentation such as architecture, design, deployment plan etc.
- The candidate must have excellent technical skills and must be willing to learn
- new technologies on the go.
- Good at communication
- Good Exposure to Kafka and Redis
Job Summary:
We want a techie at heart. Someone who is happy and curious to work on all aspects of software development.
Reporting directly to the CTO, you will be responsible for feature design, development, and continuously optimizing our tech stack.
- We are looking for an experienced software engineer with at least 5 years of experience in a startup or product environment. Ideally you have been involved in all aspects of software development from requirements gathering to design, development, deployment and post-release support. We are looking for all-round technical maturity. Our tech stack is Angular, Spring boot and Django/Python.
Key Skills
Java
SpringBoot
PostgreSQL/MySQL
Git
AWS
REST api design
Experience integrating with external APIs
Good applied understanding of Object Oriented Programming
Good database modeling and SQL knowledge.
/React is a big plus.
Responsibilities and Duties
Build out features across the stack : backend, API design and integration, database optimization , microservices, plugins, queues etc
Fix bugs and write automated tests
Maintain and upgrade our Tech Stack
Translate requirements to design and write/present articulate software design.

● Write clean, maintainable and efficient code
● Design robust, scalable and secure features
● Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
● Follow best practices (test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring and code standards)
● Drive continuous adoption and integration of relevant new technologies into design
Requirements
● 2 to 5 years of experience in developing applications using Ruby on Rails
● Experience in Rails gems like rspec, devise, cancan, active-admin
● Proven work experience in software development
● Experience in writing ReSTful APIs
● Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS and JQuery
● Experience developing highly interactive applications
● A firm grasp of Object Oriented analysis and design
● Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code
● Good knowledge of relational databases
● Working knowledge of NoSQL database
● Experience in using AWS services is a plus.
● A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and
work experience
● 5 to 9 years of Software Development experience
● Experience in system design, distributed systems, relational and No-SQL databases.
● Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux
platform)
● Solid software development background including design patterns, algorithms, data structures,
test driven development
● Any previous experience in working with Big Data or leveraging machine learning in improving
consumer experience is desirable.
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills



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- Sound understanding and knowledge of Python and its ecosystem libraries like pandas and numpy. Also be able to write modular code and understand the python packaging system.
- Experience on web crawling, scraping (Scrapy,BeautifulSoup, Selenium) and web application development using Django/Flask Framework.
- Experience on Data-Science; exposure to Theanos, Tensorflow, Pytorch (preferable)
- Exposure to data mining, Pyspark (preferable)





