
https://www.getzuma.com/">https://www.getzuma.com/
Location – Bengaluru
GETZUMA
Senior Backend Engineer
Zuma makes an automated sales agent that converses with 100% of inbound leads, ultimately improving the way consumers interact with businesses and organizations. We’ve built this from the ground up using AI, ML, and human support which helps increase sales conversion and support capacity for businesses of all kinds. Zuma is one of the fastest-growing startups in San Francisco, and is well-funded and backed by world-class investors such as Y-Combinator, Joe Montana’s fund (Liquid 2 Ventures), Day One Ventures, Soma Capital, and other notable angel investors including Austen Allred (from Lambda School), YC’s ex-COO Qasar Younis, among others.
Headquartered in San Francisco, USA, we operate nationally and have plans to grow rapidly over the next few years. To do that, we need great people committed to our vision in a big way. We're looking to build a team of rockstars that are equally excited about the opportunity to leverage technology to improve the way customers interact with businesses!
We're looking for a senior backend engineer with experience building highly scalable systems to join our growing engineering team at Zuma. In this role, you will work closely with members of the engineering and product teams to deliver against our ambitious product roadmap as well as have a direct impact on the products and features you'll be building. We're a small but nimble team and are looking for candidates who thrive in an autonomous environment, with experience shipping products quickly and iteratively.
Job Description
Skills
- o 5+ years of professional software development experience
- o 4+ years working with Node.js ecosystem
- o 4+ years experience building with AWS tech stack (RDS, EC2, Lambda)
- o Experience in developing complex web applications
- o Proficient in Javascript ES6 and above
- o Should be hands-on knowledge in working on VCS like Git
- o Should have sound knowledge in algorithms and problem-solving techniques
- o Should have knowledge about web application development and related technologies
Role and responsibility
- o Organize full lifecycle software development
- o Lead the backend engineering team and make critical platform architecture decisions
- o Write well designed, testable, efficient code
- o Work alongside and effectively coordinate with other engineers on the team
- o Come up with procedures and frameworks to avoid technical debt
- o Create efficient architectural and database design
- o Evaluate and deploy software tools, processes and metrics
- o Help other engineers excel in their job and in their careers
- o Create amazing products that scale
Good to Have
- o Experience utilizing telecommunication services such as Twilio
- o Experience working with Keras/Tensorflow

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The Software Engineer II is responsible for independently developing and assisting in the design of a product that our customers and associates love. As a Software Engineer II, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. In addition, Software Engineer IIs may be involved in configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring.
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Proven experience as application developer
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