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What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers. 

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

• At least 1+ years’ experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers

Opportunity

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (1+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms

• 3 - 6 Years of Experience in Golang Development
• Understands requirements well and comes up with an efficient design
• Develops complex, well-backed and bug-free products.
• Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Become a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications, and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design, and code

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Solid experience in Golang is a must.
• Solid understanding of Apache Products.
• Should have experience in cloud computing (AWS is desired).
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebases
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into the codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces the right tech/ tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices,
• Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• Experience in product-driven organization

(Senior Product Engineer - ROR)

Experience - 3 to 6 years

Location  - Pune

We are looking for an enthusiastic developer with a strong understanding of core Ruby and Rails framework along with PostgreSQL database. Someone who is passionate about coding and loves to work in an ongoing challenging environment. You will be part of a talented software team. You have to consistently deliver in a fast paced environment and should be more than willing to build software that people love to use.

Key Responsibilities

The individual role that you’ll play in our team:

• Developing large multi-tenant applications in Rails.
• Understanding Rails best practices and religiously introducing those to our codebase.
• Knowledge on how to do effective Refactoring.
• Ability to write unit tests and following those practices religiously.
• Working closely with the Product managers and UX team.
• Helping QAs to write automated integration tests.
• Staying up-to-date with current and future Backend technologies and architectures.

Read the ‘Skills and Experience’ section, it is not the usual yada yada, you’ll be asked specific questions on these.

Skills and Experience

• Ruby on Rails architecture best practices
• Knowledge on the latest versions on ROR
• Strong OOP knowledge in Ruby.
• Asynchronous Networking in Ruby 
• Designing RESTFul HTTP APIs using JSON-Schema or JSON API (http://jsonapi.org/">jsonapi.org).
• Ability to architect and develop API only backend
• Experience in using ActiveRecordSerializer
• Understanding O-Auth2 or JWT (Json Web Token) authentication mechanisms.
• How to use RSpec
• Rails Security Best Practices
• PostgreSQL and Rails.
• SQL concepts like Joins, Relationships etc.
• Understanding DB Partition strategies.
• Knowledge about refactoring ActiveRecord Models (read this - “7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models”).
• Understanding scaling strategies for a high-traffic Rails applications (2 million+ requests a day).
• Background Job processing using Redis and Sidekiq
• Experience in using Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools.
• Writing automated Deployment Scripts using Capistrano, Ansible etc.
• Sending emails in Rails
• Knowledge in Linux and Git is mandatory

Optional Skills

• Knowledge in using Chef or Puppet
• Ability to do basic DevOps like setting up a Linux server.
• Websocket communication in Rails 5.
• Node.js
• JRuby

Scalefusion (formerly known as Mobilock Pro): (Our Flagship Product)  

Scalefusion MDM allows organizations to secure & manage endpoints including smartphones, tablets, laptops, rugged devices, mPOS, and digital signages, along with apps and content. It supports the management of Android, iOS, macOS and Windows 10 devices and ensures streamlined device management operations with InterOps. Fusion of Endpoints at Scale. 

Promobi Technologies:   

ProMobi Technologies provides a leading Mobile Device Management Solution under the brand Scalefusion. The solution allows organizations to manage Android and iOS devices from the cloud. It offers modern mobile device management (MDM), application management (MAM) and content management (MCM) experience for corporate-owned devices. Renowned organizations from startups to Fortune 500 trust Scalefusion for their Device Management.