
Infrastructure
Pocket Gems wants to build the greatest games and interactive entertainment in the world.
That’s the mission our founders began within an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009
and we continue it today.
Pocket Gems has grown to over 250 people in San Francisco. With $155 million in backing from
Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground with graphically rich mobile
games, fun new genres of mobile entertainment, and innovative technologies like our mobilefirst Mantis Engine.
Our products have been downloaded over 325 million times by players around the world. We
have several flagship products including the most recent - Adventure Chef Merge Explorer, a
casual merge and explore game. Some of our other ongoing hits include Episode, a mobile
storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy
game.
Pocket Gems is home to some of the most massive and delightful mobile-first games, like War
Dragons and Episode. Those games need a solid backend platform, to function critical tasks to
delight our players, and is supported and optimized by our Central Engineering team. As a Sr.
Software Engineer on the Central Infrastructure Team, you will build microservices that acts as
the core of all our games, facilitate the processing and recording of billions of events per day,
support critical systems for marketing, finance. You will be responsible for some of our biggest
projects as you build APIs and infrastructure that scales to millions of players in real-time
games.
What You’ll Do:
• Implement flexible, reusable, and scalable solutions to improve our data pipeline
• Develop microservices for critical infrastructure like A/B tests, Offer recommendation, etc
that is mission-critical to the business
• Develop microservices for our games such as real-time communication platforms,
leaderboard, etc
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party APIs that you suggest or write yourself
• Build scalable web tools (including open source tools) to support data analysis and
visualization for the company and influence what we build for our games’ players
What You Bring to the Central Infrastructure Engineering team:
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience (including 3+ years backend experience)
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
• Experience leading complex projects, preferably involving distributed systems
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Hadoop, and related backend technologies is a
plus
• Strong skills in data structures, algorithms, software design, and OOP
• A love for delighting users, both internal and external, with reliable tools, data, and
creative and highly technical solutions to their problems
Extra Gems for:
• Experience in working with microservices

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Location: Ahmedabad (Onsite)
Skill Set: Python, JavaScript, Python frameworks (Flask, Django, Django Rest Framework), AWS, Data Science, Machine Learning.
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- Develop and maintain Python applications, using frameworks like Flask or Django to create and manage APIs and web services.
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- Employ strong debugging and optimization skills to ensure high performance and resolve issues promptly.
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- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Python, including its standard libraries, toolkits, and APIs.
- Experience with web frameworks like Flask or Django, and familiarity with REST framework principles for web services.
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Location: Pune
Type: Full-Time
Who We Are:
After a highly successful launch, Azodha is ready to take its next major step. We are seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to build and enhance a disruptive healthcare product. This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing startup and play a pivotal role in shaping both the product and the team.
If you are an experienced backend engineer who thrives in an agile startup environment and has a strong technical background, we want to hear from you!
About The Role:
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Azodha, you’ll play a key role in architecting, solutioning and driving development of our AI led interoperable digital enablement platform.You will work closely with the founder/CEO to refine the product vision, drive product innovation, delivery and grow with a strong technical team.
What You’ll Do:
* Technical Excellence: Design, develop, and scale backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, including REST and GraphQL APIs. Ensure systems are scalable, secure, and high-performing.
* Data Management and Integrity: Work with Prisma or TypeORM, and relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL
* Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest trends in backend development, incorporating new technologies where appropriate. Drive innovation and efficiency within the team
* Utilize ORMs such as Prisma or TypeORM to interact with database and ensure data integrity.
* Follow Agile sprint methodology for development.
* Conduct code reviews to maintain code quality and adherence to best practices.
* Optimize API performance for optimal user experiences.
* Participate in the entire development lifecycle, from initial planning , design and maintenance
* Troubleshoot and debug issues to ensure system stability.
* Collaborate with QA teams to ensure high quality releases.
* Mentor and provide guidance to junior developers, offering technical expertise and constructive feedback.
Requirements
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, software Engineering, or a related field.
* 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development using Node.js and TypeScript.
* Experience working on Postgres or My SQL.
* Proficiency in TypeScript and its application in Node.js
* Experience with ORM such as Prisma or TypeORM.
* Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
* Ability to work independently and in a team oriented, fast-paced environment.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* Self motivated and proactive attitude.
Preferred:
* Experience with other backend technologies and languages.
* Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment process.
* Contributions to open-source projects related to backend development.
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• Experience in Core Java, Spring Boot
• Experience in microservices and angular
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale systems for global organization. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
• Should be able to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.
• Good development experience with RDBMS in SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle or DB2
• Good knowledge of multi-threading
• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java
• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
• Should be able to express their design ideas and thoughts
- 3+ 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:
- 3+ 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.
Required Skills:
- 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relational 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
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- 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.
- Good experience in Javabackend/J2EE, Eclipse, Javascript, XML, Data Structures, Database
- Should have good experience working in Springboot.
- Good experience in JSON / RESTful API / Web Services.
- Experience with Design Patterns.
- Experience in AWS and Queuing systems is an advantage
- Basic estimation experience
- Self starter and quick learner
- Should be able to work in a growing environment that is very dynamic and challenging
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Highly self motivated and directed
- Ability to work without a lot of supervision
- Experience in working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.
Job Responsibilities:
Support, maintain, and enhance existing and new product functionality for trading software in a real-time, multi-threaded, multi-tier server architecture environment to create high and low level design for concurrent high throughput, low latency software architecture.
- Provide software development plans that meet future needs of clients and markets
- Evolve the new software platform and architecture by introducing new components and integrating them with existing ones
- Perform memory, cpu and resource management
- Analyze stack traces, memory profiles and production incident reports from traders and support teams
- Propose fixes, and enhancements to existing trading systems
- Adhere to release and sprint planning with the Quality Assurance Group and Project Management
- Work on a team building new solutions based on requirements and features
- Attend and participate in daily scrum meetings
Required Skills:
- JavaScript and Python
- Multi-threaded browser and server applications
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- REST
Responsibilities
- Understand the high-level product roadmap for the squad and immediate features to be developed, contributing to high-level estimation and lay-out of the development sequences. Complete complex development tasks with minimal guidance
- Constantly and actively contribute to pushing code to production with the objective of becoming a main contributor. Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and deployment, that respects best practices and industry development standards
- Review Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams and technical documentation, ensuring its quality. Enable best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually thrive in improving the technology of the product/team.
- Drive the adoption of best practices & regular participation in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions
- Experiment with new and relevant technologies, and tools, and drive innovation & adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create.
- Implementation of long-term technology vision for your team. Responsible for the complete architecture of your product.
- Creating architecture & designs for new solutions around existing/new areas u Decide technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
- Be accountable for code quality with the assistance of a QA Analyst to conduct adequate testing.
- Review and contribute to technical documentation. Contribute actively to the design of the solution, challenging other members on technical decisions.
Skills
- Working with other TypeScript developers and software engineers to develop Front-end and back-end architecture that’s well-structured and flexible, along with the APIs to support it.
- Developing and implementing Back-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
- Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using Node concepts.
- Create data visualization tools, libraries, and reusable code for prospects.
- In-depth knowledge of TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and back-end languages.
- Knowledge of Backend service like AWS Services, Microservice, Serverless software.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
- Proficiency with TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and Back-end languages.
- 7+ years’ experience in Node JS, Typescript, NoSQL, RDBMS, AWS Services
- The ability to learn new technologies quickly
- The ability to communicate complex procedures to other colleagues.
- Understanding the business requirement and providing good scalable solution
- Integrating user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimizing the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
What you need to have:
- Engineers from Tier 1 colleges, B.Tech/ B.E from only from Tier 1 colleges
- Extensive and expert programming experience in anyone programming language (Golang/ C/ Java).
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design and distributed system applications
- Experience with building and scaling apps with RDBMS as well as NoSQLs.
- Experience creating scalable Web APIs for mobile and browser consumption
- Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems
- Worked in start-up culture with high levels of ownership and commitment
- Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design into code fluently
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