Rust Tech Lead/Senior Rust Developer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Help your engineers grow their skills and experience

- Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture as well as get involved in solving bugs and delivering small features

- Hold regular 1:1's with all members of the team, give regular and clear feedback around the individual's performance

- Foster technical decision-making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary

- Provide oversight and leadership to a team of developers to ensure timely execution of team and project deliverables

- Maintain up-to-date skills in software development technologies and a broad understanding of the business, business needs, and how applications/assets drive and support the business

REQUIREMENTS:

- 6+ years of experience in software development and 1+ in team management.

- In-depth technical experience in at least one of the core languages, frameworks, or technologies used in backend development.

- Ability to mentor junior software developers, as well as to collaborate with all stakeholders.

- Extensive experience in developing, deploying, and integrating software solutions.

- Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.

- Knowledge of best practices related to design principles, API development and software architecture.

- Ability to keep up with software industry trends and innovation.

- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Position Overview:

We seek a talented and experienced professional to serve as the Head of Engineering and a Senior Backend Developer with expertise in Go (Golang). In this dual role, you will lead our engineering team and contribute hands-on to developing our B2B SaaS platform, which aims to revolutionize blue-collar worker training in India. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, set engineering standards, and ensure the successful execution of our technology initiatives.

As Head of Engineering:

• Oversee the recruitment, mentoring, and performance management of engineering team members.
• Define and maintain engineering best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies.
• Manage project timelines, resources, and budgets
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Drive technical decisions and architecture discussions to ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.

As Senior Backend Developer (Go):

• Design the architecture and implement high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services in Go.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while ensuring the security and integrity of the platform.
• Optimize and fine-tune the backend components for maximum speed and scalability.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with frontend and external systems.
• Implement asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture for handling concurrent requests efficiently.
• Work on data modelling and integration with databases for data storage and retrieval.
• Write unit tests and perform code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure robustness.

Designation: Team Lead ( Dot Net Development)

Experience: 5 to 8 years

Required Skills:

• Project Management skills.
• Previous experience leading development teams is a plus.
• Application of agile development processes in a leadership capacity.
• Proven experience with Microsoft .NET technologies including, ASP.NET, MVC, Entity Framework.
• Proven Skills with C#, SQL, JavaScript/DHTML, HTML-CSS, AJAX, jQuery, Web Services, etc.
• Ability to complete all phases of software development life cycle including analysis, design, functionality, testing and support.
• Ability to manage large scale web/database application.
• Should have working knowledge of using a latest development tools and techniques.
• Must have good problem solving and analysis skills.
• Team-player with strong communication & collaboration skills.
• Previous experience with ecommerce website development is preferred.

Rapido is India’s largest bike taxi player focused on solving the first and last mile connectivity problem for India. The primary focus is mobility and changing all facets of mobility across India. We believe that 2 Wheeler are the right mode of transport for developing countries like India and have much more scope than 4 wheelers, which is also reflected in the fact that the number of 2 wheelers is significantly more than the number of 4-wheelers.We have operations in close to 100 cities and are the undisputed market leader in this space. Growing close to 500% year-on-year, we have ambitious targets set for ourselves in the future as well.

What you will do :   

We are looking for a Technical Architect to design the structure of our IT systems and oversee programs to ensure the proper architecture is implemented.

Should have experience in data modelling, distributed system design, Microservice architecture and communications protocol and is passionate about writing code and the art of management

In this role, you should be an excellent communicator who is able to translate complex requirements into functional architecture. We'd also like you to have hands-on experience on software development and be able to manage complex programs. Overseeing development and implementation of programs. Providing technical leadership and support to software development teams. Your goal will be to ensure our internal IT framework operates properly.

Responsibilities:

• Understand company needs to define system specifications
• Plan and design the structure of a technology solution
• Communicate system requirements to software development teams
• Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
• Oversee assigned programs (e. g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members
• Assist with solving technical problems when they arise
• Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure
• Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions
• Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Technical Architect
• Hands-on experience with software development and system administration
• Understanding of strategic IT solutions
• Experience in project management and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Knowledge of selected coding languages (e. g. JavaScript, Java)
• Familiarity with various operating systems
• Experience in cloud technologies
• Excellent communication skills
• Problem-solving aptitude
• Organisational and leadership skills

Role Competencies:

• Proven work experience as a Back-end developer.
• Hands on experience with programming languages like Java/NodeJS/Golang, JavaScript, Familiarity with Git,
• Database (SQL/Mysql/NO SQL).Good to have Kafka/queuing/messaging system.
• Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
• Strong knowledge of design principles, user interfaces, web standards and usability.

Functional Behavioral:

• Excellent analytical and time and people management skills.
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude.

Responsibilities Include

You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.

Requirements

• B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
• Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
• Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive adoption within the extended technology team
• Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
• Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
• Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
• Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
• A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
• Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.
• Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
• Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would be a big plus.