Lead Software Engineer - Backend
at helps travellers discover & book the most incredible tours
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?
We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India.
We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.
👩💻 The Role
- Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
- Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
- Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
- Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
- Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
- Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.
🌟 Our Dream Engineer
- A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
- You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
- A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
- No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
- You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
- You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.
💝 We like
- Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
- 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
- Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
- Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
- Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
- People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
- People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
- Anything else than can surprise us.
- Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.
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Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development life cycle and distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus on delivering tasks to meet monthly and quarterly digital product release goals
Lead impact assessment and decisions related to technology choices, design / architectural considerations and implementation strategy
Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and apply existing technology to designs
Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
Desired Skills:
Java, Spring,Microservices
As our company continues to grow, we’re looking for a Software Engineer to contribute to our cloud migration solutions that enable enterprise customers’ journey to the cloud, and lifecycle of their data in the cloud.
In This Role, You Will (But Not Limited To)
- End-to-end ownership of new feature development, from design, through implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance in production
- Translating of high-level requirements and end-user use cases into design proposals, including integration with external services and constraints of underlying service infrastructure
- Maintaining constant focus on scalability, performance and robustness of a feature, on the top of base functional implementation
- Designing and implementing logging, monitoring and alerting functions as core parts of overall software solution
- Documenting your own work and design solutions
- Decomposing complex features into smaller, short-term deliverable tasks
- Managing priorities of multiple tasks, providing up-to-date estimates for a milestone delivery
- 5+ of industry experience in technical leadership roles
- Solid knowledge of Go-Lang, Python, C/C++, SQL, shell scripting and Linux operating environment.
- End-to-end experience in design and development of highly scalable enterprise and cloud data products.
- Ability to challenge and redefine existing architectural fundamentals in order to provide next level of performance and scalability; ability to foresee post-deployment challenges.
- Hands-on experience with design and troubleshooting of scalable web services, advanced file systems, geographic replication, distributed databases and modern operating systems.
- Experience with modern DevOps technologies such as Docker and container orchestration, service deployment, monitoring and scaling
- Ability to work with multi-cultural, globally distributed teams to a common unifying product vision and closely coordinate with cross-functional teams in different time-zones.
- Passion to deliver enterprise-grade products to customers and to continuously work with engineering team to refine the product in the field.
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We're looking for highly skilled experienced engineers to design and build high-scale, cloud-based data processing systems that can handle massive amounts of data with low latency. You'll work with a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people and be given the autonomy and support to do your best work. This is a rare opportunity to make a meaningful impact in society while working in a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree required
- Significant experience with distributed systems.
- Experience with modern programming languages such as Java, C#, C/C++, or Ruby.
- Experience with container platforms such as DC/OS, Kubernetes
- Fluency in technologies and design concepts around Big Data processing and relational databases, such as the Hadoop ecosystem, Map/Reduce, stream processing, etc.
- Experience with production operations and good practices for putting quality code into production and troubleshooting issues when they arise.
- Effective communication of technical ideas verbally and in writing, including technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with the team and other stakeholders.
- Preferably, production experience with Cloud and data processing technologies.
Responsibilities:
As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
- Design and build distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems.
- Build cloud services on top of the modern OCI infrastructure.
- Participate in the entire software lifecycle, from design to development, to quality assurance, and to production.
- Invest in the best engineering and operational practices upfront to ensure our software quality bar is high.
- Optimize data processing pipelines for orders of magnitude higher throughput and faster latencies.
- Leverage a plethora of internal tooling at OCI to develop, build, deploy, and troubleshoot software.
- 5-7 years hands-on working experience in Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices
- Data processing capability
- Hands-on working experience with GCP/AWS/Azure
- Hands-on working experience with Junit, Git, Jenkins, Maven
- Excellent communication skill
- Experience on Google cloud data flow would be an added advantage
Java, SpringBoot, Problem Solving skill, Apache Beam, AWS/GCP,
What You will do
● Create beautiful software experiences for our clients using design thinking, lean and agile methodology.
● Work on world-class software products using the latest cutting edge technologies and platforms.
● Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical culture.
● Work in collaborative, fast-paced and value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.
● Help to grow the next generation of developers and have a positive impact on the industry.
Basic Qualifications
● Experience: 4+ years.
● Hands-on development experience in backend, Java, SprintBoot, Hibernate, SQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, Microservices etc...
● Server-side development experience mainly in JAVA.
● Passion for software engineering and follow the best coding concepts. ● Good to great problem solving and communication skills.
● Experience in working with cross-border, distributed teams is a must.
Nice to have Qualifications
● Product and customer-centric mindset.
● Great OO skills, including design patterns.
● Experience with large-scale enterprise systems
Key Responsibilities:
- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
- Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
- Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
- Write unit tests for API Testing.
- Automate the code testing and deployment process.
Skills Required:
- At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
- Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
- Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.
Net Developer & API Expert
Position Summary:
We are looking for .Net Developers who are also Experts in API Integrations to join our development team and participate in different established projects.
We are looking for proactive, team players who are passionate about programming in this language and focused on providing the best experience to the end user.
This is an excellent opportunity for those professionals looking to develop in one of the fastest growing companies in the industry! These developers will face numerous technical challenges.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
· Work on projects in the C#, .NET CORE and entity frameworks
· Validate data with Postman, JSON, and basic SQL queries
· Unit Testing
· Write RESTful APIs (Core Web API)
· Writing clean/maintainable code
· MSSQL Server (Familiar with MongoDB, preferred but not required)
· Understand best practices and commit to follow them
· Work on new and difficult topics and contribute to libraries when needed
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
· Fluent in English
· Strong knowledge of OOPs concepts
· Knowledge of the Linux Operating System
· Strong problem-solving, design, coding and debugging skills.
· Knowledge about Git and Version Control
· Preferred to have knowledge of Microservices Architecture (Not mandatory)
Your responsibilities as a backend engineer will include:
- Back-end software development
- Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
- Working together with engineers and product teams
- Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
- Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
- Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team
What we are looking for:
- 2+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
- Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle.
- Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
- Experience with Databases.
- Experience with writing REST-APIs.
- Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
- Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
- Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
- A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
Bonus:
- Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Requests, sklearn, Selenium
- Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
- Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
- Good Humor
Note- We are currently working from home due to the pandemic. If selected you may work from a remote location though once office reopens candidate must work from Office.
- Mandatory skills: Spring boot, Hibernate, Microservice
- Strong Java skills including Java 8 features
- Good understanding of Microservices-based architecture and the related ecosystem
- Exposure to MS SQL Server, Sybase etc. and NoSQL databases like MongoDB is also preferred.
- Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
- Strong knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Strong Knowledge of Data Structures & Algorithms
- Experience in working with data-driven RESTful APIs using web frameworks like SpringBoot,etc.
- Should be able to do data modeling
- Good understanding of ORMs like Hibernate, JPA, etc.
- Strong debugging skills
- Familiarity with architectural/ design patterns
- Advanced knowledge of Agile methodology.