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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.

About us:

Shiprocket is a logistics platform which connects Indian eCommerce SMBs with logistics players to enable end-to-end solutions.

Our innovative data-backed platform drives logistics efficiency, helps reduce cost, increases sales throughput by reducing RTO and improves post order customer engagement and experience.

Our vision is to power all logistics for the direct commerce market in India including first mile, linehaul, last mile, warehousing, cross border and O2O.

Requirement:

We are looking for a Software Engineer who will develop, record and maintain cutting edge applications for Shiprocket Platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications which have to perform at scale
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Develop backend data services and contribute to increase existing APIs
• Ability to act individually in a complex and fast paced environment
• Closely work with the Product and QA teams to ensure smooth delivery
• Participate in solution designing with Tech leads and Systems Architects
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keep project manager well informed of the status of development efforts
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

Skills:

• Great people skills to closely work with other teams.
• Strong in establishing systems & processes
• Expertise in Laravel or GoLang, MySQL and Git
• Thorough in Object oriented concepts
• Knowledge of restful Web services
• Understanding of web applications
• Working knowledge of one or more caching, queuing systems in desirable
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• Excellent problem solving
• Can do attitude

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

• 4-7 years of experience working on .Net Technologies ( Core , C# )

• Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages
• Development, maintenance and production support of existing products
• Understand business requirement and come up with design and solution.
• Remain up to date with the terminology, concepts and best practices for coding web and mobile apps

• Strong knowledge of .NET Technologies such as Dot Net Core, C#
• Experience in building API Programming REST-based services and/or applications with Event-Driven Microservices Architecture
• Good understanding of Design Patterns and Principles
• Working knowledge of Relational Database, SQL, and ORM technologies (Entity Framework Core, Hibernate) with extensive DB experience in writing SQL and NoSQL queries, SQL statements / SQL Injection, and Change Data Capture (CDC)
• Experience in test-driven development with experience in writing effective unit testing using XUnit
• Clear understanding on CI/CD pipeline [QA/UAT/PROD environments]
• Experience with using GitHub , VSTS for Source control.
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to multi-task and manage time effectively