
As a Software Development Engineer II in Hiver’s Strategic Initiative department, you will have a critical role to play in building solutions that hold high strategic value for the business. You will get a chance to work with and mentor a group of smart engineers as well as learn and grow yourself working with very good mentors. Expect lots of challenges and high levels of ownership and autonomy. You’ll get the opportunity to work on complex technical challenges, building frameworks to monitor and improve the performance of our systems, and improving reliability and performance.
You will be working on
- Building, maintaining and scaling APIs and microservices. You will own all aspects of SDLC including documentation, data modeling, and deployment.
- Participate in solution brainstorming, release planning and code reviews.
- This is the early phase of the project and you will do foundational work on multiple aspects and help define and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- Collaborating closely with co-developers, designers and other stakeholders to build dynamic and compelling user experiences while embracing emerging standards.
We are looking for
- 3+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production-grade services that are being used by a good number of active customers.
- 1+ year of professional experience with Ruby-on-Rails.
- Command on web fundamentals and high level knowhow frontend ecosystem and modern development practices
- Sound knowledge of design patterns and best practices for writing clean, linted, maintainable and reusable code
- Deep understanding of relational databases (eg, MySql) and data modeling concepts
- Solid foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- An architect's mindset - we want a fast time to market but without undermining long-term prospects. You will have to continuously assess the various trade-offs when considering long-term vs. short-term benefits/drawbacks and make informed choices about the optimal approach.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills - you should be able to troubleshoot and solve issues in a timely manner.
- Ability to iterate and deliver at a fast pace - speed is of the essence.
- Solid understanding of cloud concepts and latest infra stack (AWS).
- Track record of assessing complex initiatives and coming up fairly accurate expected time of arrival (ETA) and working with a team to meet these timelines with high confidence
- Good communication skills - you should have good communication skills, both written and verbal. You should be proficient in English and be able to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
- Nice to have: (optional)
- Frontend (full-stack) experience (VueJS) is a major plus
At Hiver, we value diversity and inclusion and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply. If you're ready to make an impact and be part of our innovative team, please apply here.

About Hiver
About
We are Hiver. We are a bunch of folks with borderline devotional love for email, committed to the idea of making it noise-free and collaborative for teams. Why email you may ask? Email is one of the most common ways to communicate at work, is far less distracting than its chat counterparts, and lets you respond at your own pace. But it hasn’t evolved over the years to meet the changing collaboration needs of businesses. Teams have to rely on inefficient methods like Forwards and CCs to share information, often leading to messy threads and missed emails. Not to mention the toll it takes on your productivity, ability to concentrate and all things zen. We at Hiver are trying to solve this by giving email collaborative superpowers and, in the process, giving you back the most important currency there is - time.
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● Collaborate with engineering, design and product teams to design and ship new
features. Identify and solve bottlenecks and fix bugs.
Desirable Qualifications:
● Deep knowledge of Ruby on Rails (RoR) practices and commonly used modules; deep
understanding of RoR internals like databases, API, caching, proxies, web services,
performance and scalability.
● Experience creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.
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working with Git, AWS/GCP.
● Good communication skills
● 4+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer
Procol is India's fastest-growing procurement technology company.
Founded in 2018, Procol's solutions have been securely deployed at many $1B+ global companies helping procurement teams reduce costs, digitize procurements, improve compliance by replacing emails and excel workflows with the world's most easy-to-use and secure e-sourcing platform managing a spend of ₹5000 Cr+. Procol is rated 4.9/5 ⭐️ by trusted enterprises on G2 and has been featured by Forbes.
We're a team of ex-Google New York, Zomato, OYO who've worked at high-impact, growth companies and believe that we're on the journey of building one. Backed by investors like Blume Ventures, Sequoia Surge, Beenext, and Rainmatter.
Hiring Technical Lead
You will scale and lead Procol’s engineering teams. You’ll be instrumental in driving the product vision and will be responsible for hiring, developing and leading engineers to seamlessly execute our technical roadmap.
You come from experience but are not as psyched with your current pursuits and believe that there’s something more important to be done with your time. If you are a hustler who likes to take challenges and want to join a team of like-minded enthusiastic individuals then we want you on-board.
What you’ll bring
- You have 4+ years of experience with system architecture and have built scalable software infrastructure.
- You are a hands-on programmer and prefer to spend 20-30% of your time writing production grade code with your team.
- You have sound understanding of software engineering principles, both for code and for people
- You have experience of leading engineering teams.
- You are emphatic and highly customer obsessed.
- You have an eye for great products and can work effectively with product managers, engineers and designers to build them.
What you'll do
- Build, scale, develop and manage teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other.
- Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact.
- Manage the processes necessary to operate the engineering teams effectively.
- Drive and contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives.
- Plan and prioritize short term and long term engineering goals and guide teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work.
- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Focus on developing their careers, and assign them to projects suitable to their skill levels, work styles, and professional goals.
- Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our customers.
- Support the engineering and product teams in achieving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and ease-of-use.
Why you'll love Procol
- Learn and grow fast with a growing startup which impacts millions of businesses
- Work closely with the founding team and become a part of building a successful company
- Openly collaborate with few of India’s most talented folks, who will challenge you every day
- Industry competitive salary and benefits
- Get advance salaries every month
- Employee health insurance covered by us
- Flexible working hours
Procol is an equal opportunity employer and we believe diversity is key to our success.
- Should be able to analyse requirements, design solutions, write code, debug code and modify existing software enhancements or develop new product software.
- Should be able mentor junior developers to perform their tasks more effectively and efficiently.
- Should be able to perform executions against project plans and meet delivery commitments.
- Should have good experience in source control, unit testing, code verification, documentation, automated build, continuous integration, metrics, and code reviews.
- May interact with product specialists / Project Managers / Product Owners to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications and to give status feedback.
- Should be able to work in an Agile Development Environment using SCRUM methodology.
- Should be able to communicate with other teams and stakeholders to achieve the given goal.
- Should be able to participate in the hiring processes.












