Principle Engineer Backend

Role overview

• Overall 5 to 7 years of experience. Node.js experience is must.
• At least 3+ years of experience or couple of large-scale products delivered on microservices.
• Strong design skills on microservices and AWS platform infrastructure.
• Excellent programming skill in Python, Node.js and Java.
• Hands on development in rest API’s.
• Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability.

What would you do here

• To Work as a Backend Developer in developing Cloud Web Applications
• To be part of the team working on various types of web applications related to Mortgage Finance.
• Experience in solving a real-world problem of Implementing, Designing and helping develop a new Enterprise-class Product from ground-up.
• You have expertise in the AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Micro-services architecture around the AWS Service stack like Lambdas, SQS, SNS, MySQL Databases along with Dockers and containerized solutions/applications.
• Experienced in Relational and No-SQL databases and scalable design.
• Experience in solving challenging problems by developing elegant, maintainable code.
• Delivered rapid iterations of software based on user feedback and metrics.
• Help the team make key decisions on our product and technology direction.
• You actively contribute to the adoption of frameworks, standards, and new technologies.

Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices

Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)

Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D

Mandatory (Education) – Candidates from top engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges) are preferred

Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :

1. Proficiency in Python  & Django

2. Solid understanding of Python concepts

3. Experience with some form of Machine Learning (ML)

4. Experience in using libraries such as Numpy and Pandas

5. Some form of experience with NLP and Deep Learning using any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn or similar

6. Hands on experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL

7. Experience building REST APIs using DRF or Flask

8. Comfort with Git repositories, branching and deployment using Git

9. Working experience with Docker

10. Experience in deploying Django applications to AWS,Digital Ocean or Heroku

Minimum of 4+ years of experience in Java development

• Experience delivering Services (REST, SOAP) and Web applications in Micro services architecture
• Experience developing and deploying Java solutions to cloud
• Experience in Spring Boot and components of Spring framework
• Experience in a JavaScript framework such as Angular or React
• Experience in TDD using Junit or similar frameworks

·       Experience in Design Patterns and service oriented architectural principles, Data structures and Algorithms.

·       Individual should be an active participant in the product design and code reviews for self and team and can competently review any aspect of their product or major sub-system.

·       Experience in SQL, Unix skills.

·       Good communication Skill

Primary duties and responsibilities include:

·         Candidate should be able to work independently with client and should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

·         Work closely with experienced integration, frontend, or backend development teams

·         Contribute to estimation and scoping of projects

·         Work on presales environment for checking feasibilities for customer requirement.

Required Experience

·         Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

·         8 to 10 years of programming experience—preferably with Java 8+, and other tool support

·         5 years of Java # 6 experience

·         Should have experience in executing project independently.

·         Demonstrated ability of Design Patterns and to write efficient, reusable rest services and libraries

·         Experience with agile software development methodologies and software development best practices, pair programming and CI/CD

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills

·         Excellent analytical skills for solution building of customer requirements.

·         Good knowledge of datastores (RDBMS, Oracle, SQL)

·         Must have in depth understanding of the L1, L2, L3 support environment.

·         Experience in Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML and other web technologies

·         Strong understanding of network OS and system configurations.

·         Familiarization with OSLC and REST APIs

·         Ability to successfully lead offshore development teams and work in global delivery model- US, India, Germany

·         Knowledge of LDAP

·         Experience with Microsoft Office products- Word, Excel, Powerpoint

·         Experience with other Requirements Management Tools (Polarion, PTC Integrity) will be a value add

Preferred Experience

·         Understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed systems

·         Working knowledge of iText 7, OpenFeign, RabbitMQ/JMS, Mockito and jUnit/nUnit, Spring Cloud


Salary is not constriant. Candidate should have interest to new things.

• Manage and improve the engineering process continuously and make sure the team delivers the quality code with zero-waste.
• Should provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 5-8 top-notch engineers.
• Should do sprint planning and run daily stand-ups and deliver 100% hit rate.
• Maintain the legacy code base and reduce tech debt on a continuous basis.
• Able to handle multiple projects and deliver with stringent timelines without compromising the code quality.
• Work with the product team for roadmap planning and delivery as per the plan.
• Conduct sprint planning & sizing, engineering grooming, daily stand-ups, and deliver with zero spillovers.
• Prepare & publish sprint reports to the leadership team and provide visibility to stakeholders.
• Hire and mentor junior/ senior team and make them engineering champions.
• Mentor the engineering team with your technical skills to write scalable, generic, reusable code.
• Develop and Coach engineers on the team, share engineering pointers, conduct regular 1-1s with the team, and help them advance in their careers.

Requirements

• Having work experience in a Product organization with 7 -10 yrs also in leading a cross-functional engineering team that includes API Development and Backend & Middleware development.
• Should have experience in the continuous delivery process. Ship new features and improvising the code base continuously.
• Should have involved in setting up engineering process.
• Must have experience in microservices and distributed patterns.
• Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
• Must have prior experience in handling mid to large-size projects.
• Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
• Should have managed and lead the engineering team of Web App and Backend development teams.
• Must-Have Experience in Python programming & Postgressql/ Nosql (MongoDB as a data store.
• Must have experience in modern back-end tech stacks (Django, Postgress, NoSQL) and cloud design & deployment patterns.
• Must be conversant with AWS, Docker/Kubernetes
• Should be good with design patterns and integration patterns.
• Should have knowledge/ experience in concurrent programming & distributed locks.
• Requires solid understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.
• Should have handled multiple epics, themes, and experience of delivering high-quality projects on time.
• Should have managed end to end development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations