MERN Stack Developer

HIRING FOR OUR CLIENT - PERFORMIO ( IT Product company)

About Performio

Headquartered in Irvine, California, and with offices in San Francisco and Melbourne, Performio continues to offer sales performance management software for businesses looking to automate their sales compensation calculations and provide increased transparency to their sales reps.

Used by large global enterprises such as Veeva, GrubHub, Johnson & Johnson, and Vodafone - as well as growing mid-market companies - Performio is a new breed of sales compensation software that combines the enterprise-grade functionality that you need with the ease of use you’ve come to expect from modern software applications.

https://www.performio.co

https://www.linkedin.com/company/performio/

What’s the opportunity?

As Staff Engineer, you will play a leading role in turning our product vision into reality, while working with other senior Product Engineering staff to design and develop our systems. 

You’ll join an enthusiastic and experienced Product Engineering team in our Bangalore office, with plenty of flexibility to work from home as required. When you join our team, you’ll be the development lead for India, which currently consists of one team with expectations to expand. 

This isn’t your average Lead Engineer role; expect to be heavily involved in product discovery as the Engineering voice alongside your peers in Product and Design. You’ll be engaged in forward planning while also coaching and pairing with your team to execute on product requirements. You’ll also take a seat on our Technology Council to establish contemporary systems architectures that are highly scalable, durable, and based on current best practices.

Our product is written mainly in Java, Spring and ReactJS, and runs on AWS across multiple regions. We use tools like GitHub, Docker and Buildkite and deploy our systems and monitor our technology using CloudWatch, OpsGenie and Open Telemetry while embracing AI tooling to deliver with efficiency. We’re looking for someone to help us evolve how our systems hang together while we grow our team and capability.

What will U be doing?

Creating change in a complex system. The technical lead for a team, making well-considered decisions around patterns, principals, frameworks, languages and tools, thinking through and mitigating for potential cascading impacts of those changes.

Acting as a trusted advisor. Partner with PMs, engineers and customer-facing teams to negotiate appropriate product architectures with consideration for user needs, business goals and technology constraints.

Designing and developing well-architected systems. Understand and contribute to our product source code and cloud infrastructure.

Designing holistically, delivering iteratively. Break down system-wide architecture recommendations into small, intelligently planned increments for delivery. 

Advocate for technology needs. Translate technology risk into opportunity during product and technology roadmap discussions and advise on the required 

 areas of focus.

Coach and mentor. Thoughtfully lead the team around you and assist with career development of less experienced staff on our teams.

 What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated experience as a lead or staff engineer, with at least 10 years experience in technology roles
• Experience working on technical leadership teams involved in roadmap planning, hiring and staff capacity planning
• You’re opinionated on what “great code” looks like and you’re passionate about code quality
• Experience working on complex systems and cloud architectures
• Excellent understanding of the Java programming language, frameworks such as Spring & SpringBoot and frontend technologies like React.
• Excellent understanding of data structures and database design
• Excellent knowledge of AWS services, design patterns and practices
• Highly effective at communicating, and comfortable whiteboarding architecture ideas with teams of engineers, product managers, and business analysts
• Desire to challenge the status quo and maturity to know when to compromise
• Respect for and ability to collaborate and influence team members from all disciplines and at all levels throughout the business

• As a lead engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members.
• Participate in code reviews, app architecture, and design discussions.
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables.
• Be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting. 
• Mentoring junior developers and set best practices for coding, reviews, etc.
• Ensuring performance and scalability in all new product features being developed. 

• Overall of 5+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language like Python and one MVC web framework, preferably Django.
• Experience in at least one frontend framework, preferably React.js
• Expertise in database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries.
• Expertise in all common AWS cloud technologies, knowledge of CI/CD tools, and workflows.

JOB DESCRIPTION :

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Gurucul is transforming enterprise security with user behavior and predictive analytics. If you enjoy

working in a fast-paced, rapidly growing and progressive environment, this is the position for you.

Gurucul offers competitive compensation packages and full benefits for all full-time employees.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Technical Lead

Seeking a Java Technical Lead Developer, who will create scalable multi-tier web applications in an agile

software development environment. Applicant should have significant hands-on experience in designing

and coding server components.

The ideal candidate must be able to design and develop enterprise-scale information security software

in collaboration with the engineering team in India and with their counterparts in the US.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 8 to 14 years experience working as a Java developer on Web/EE applications, ideally multi-tenant SaaS products and at least 3 years as a tech lead.
• Expert in core Java development and Java EE technologies.
• Solid experience building server-side components for enterprise applications.
• Good understanding of browser-side development using any one of the frameworks like Angular, React etc.
• Good understanding of Single-page applications architecture.
• Good understanding of HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, Javascript and object-oriented javascript Should be well versed with server-side and client-side design patterns and anti-patterns.
• Experience using Spring and Hibernate in a commercially available software product.
• Good experience in MVC Architecture like Grails, Spring MVC, Servlets and JSP API programming.
• Exposure to maven/Gradle build script.
• Exposure/Experience with Hadoop and related big data technologies.
• Experience with Git/Gitlab.
• Experience in JMS, Kafka, and Logstash would be considered an added advantage.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and JSON.
• Expert in RDBMS like MySQL 8, SQL, SQL query design, tuning, and experience working with very large databases.
• Experience in multi-threading, and building cluster-aware applications.
• Strong communication skills.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with DevOps pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Gitlab, and Nexus would be a big plus.
• Experience in working in SCRUM as a scrum master.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Provide inputs in the architecture and design of enterprise applications targeting Fortune 500 companies.
• Development of web-based Enterprise Applications using cutting-edge technologies.
• Gain an insight into enterprise security challenges as it relates to information/Application and infrastructure protection.
• Work closely with a brilliant team based in the USA and India that has successfully launched several software companies.

LOCATION

• The position is based in Pune (India)

Technical Leader reporting to the CTO/CEO. Your responsibilities include the following, but are not limited to:

1. Architecting, Designing and Developing Software Programmes based on requirements provided
2. Designing and Developing with a high quality of code that is modular, scalable and re-usable at all times
3. Promote SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) to ensure all of the services are Highly-Available and Fault Tolerant at all times
4. Communicate effectively the system requirements to other software development teams
5. Involve pro-actively with client and their requirements
6. Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
7. Oversee assigned programs (e.g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members
8. Assist with solving technical problems when they arise
9. Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure
10. Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions
11. Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software