SDE 1/2/3 - Backend (NodeJS/Scala)

Have you streamed a program on Disney+, watched your favorite binge-worthy series on Peacock or cheered your favorite team on during the World Cup from one of the 20 top streaming platforms around the globe? If the answer is yes, you’ve already benefitted from Conviva technology, helping the world’s leading streaming publishers deliver exceptional streaming experiences and grow their businesses. 

Conviva is the only global streaming analytics platform for big data that collects, standardizes, and puts trillions of cross-screen, streaming data points in context, in real time. The Conviva platform provides comprehensive, continuous, census-level measurement through real-time, server side sessionization at unprecedented scale. If this sounds important, it is! We measure a global footprint of more than 500 million unique viewers in 180 countries watching 220 billion streams per year across 3 billion applications streaming on devices. With Conviva, customers get a unique level of actionability and scale from continuous streaming measurement insights and benchmarking across every stream, every screen, every second.

What you get to do in this role:

Work on extremely high scale RUST web services or backend systems.

Design and develop solutions for highly scalable web and backend systems.

Proactively identify and solve performance issues.

Maintain a high bar on code quality and unit testing.

What you bring to the role:

5+ years of hands-on software development experience.

At least 2+ years of RUST development experience.

Knowledge of cargo packages for kafka, redis etc.

Strong CS fundamentals, including system design, data structures and algorithms.

Expertise in backend and web services development.

Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.

What will help you stand out:

Experience working with large scale web services and applications.

Exposure to Golang, Scala or Java

Exposure to Big data systems like Kafka, Spark, Hadoop etc.

Underpinning the Conviva platform is a rich history of innovation. More than 60 patents represent award-winning technologies and standards, including first-of-its kind-innovations like time-state analytics and AI-automated data modeling, that surfaces actionable insights. By understanding real-world human experiences and having the ability to act within seconds of observation, our customers can solve business-critical issues and focus on growing their business ahead of the competition. Examples of the brands Conviva has helped fuel streaming growth for include: DAZN, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, NBCUniversal, Paramount+, Peacock, Sky, Sling TV, Univision and Warner Bros Discovery.  

Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.com. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets! 

About Freespace* (a.k.a. Workplace Fabric)  

Workplace Fabric develops solutions that makes workplaces intelligent. Our solutions help increase productivity of office workers while helping to lower the cost of real estate. Our Flagship 

product Freespace is installed in over 40 cities around the world and serves over 30,000 people every day. Starting with the first deployment in March 2016 we have rapidly grown with our solution being rolled out globally while continuing to stay cash positive. With successes at several blue-chip clients Workplace Fabric has carved a unique leadership position in workplace management and employee engagement SaaS solutions. 

*To find out more, follow us on social media – LinkedIn & Facebook @ workplace-fabric 

What is on our offer?  

• An absolutely action packed, fun, and demanding workplace lets our employees to thrive in a team-based environment with passion, fun, pride and teamwork as our core values. 
• We can offer you career opportunities to challenge, develop and exceed your aspirations with training and development throughout your career. 
• Life is never dull at Freespace as there is always something to learn, constantly pushing you to develop your skills and take on the next exciting challenge. 

 Profile Brief:  

You will be an experienced Backend Engineer with an interest in data and analytics, developing our fast growing Analytics Team. Working closely as an active team member, having ownership & accountability to develop analytics stories, in delivering timely projects through Scrum. Working with product owners and team leads to clarifying requirements, challenge assumptions in order to ensure successful executions and push the client analytics to its best.  

Key Skills and Experience  

Required Skills: JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, Nodejs, AWS (Lambda, Athena, S3) 

Good to have: TypeScript, IoT, AWS Certifications 

Experience: 4-6 years  

• Data processing and manipulation expert 
• Able to easily comprehend and write complex & efficient SQL queries  

• Ability to understand, design and fully document end-to-end scalable IoT systems 
• Expert in in building Well-Architected solutions using AWS Services (eg Lambda, Athena, S3 etc) 
• Master in JavaScript with excellent understanding of asynchronous patterns  
• Comfortable with of ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies  
• Experience of building secure, metered REST APIs and connectors for BI tools like Tableau and PowerBI 

• Hands-on programmer 

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Key Behaviours  

• Be passionate about understanding the business problem and using data to tell the stories in delivering solutions which drive client decisions. 

• Lead by example by demonstrating best practice and mentoring of team members 
• Clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, breaking the problem down into simple achievable and realistically estimated steps 
• Seeing a project through from conception into production and support ensuring quality throughout. 
• Ensure high standards by instilling  data quality checks, code reviews and documentation in work and team practices. 
• Able to challenge solutions and processes in creating the best products and environment to work. 

• Unafraid to own mistakes  
• Customer focussed 

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members. Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-5 years in building backend services using languages like NodeJs, Java etc
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, Node.Js, Python, and operating systems may be required.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.
• Sound knowledge on source control and DevOps

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies