Senior Back End Developer

What you will be working on?

• Driving product implementation from conceptualisation to delivery. This would involve planning and breaking down projects, leading architectural discussions and decisions, building high quality documentation and architecture diagrams, and driving the execution end to end.
• Own the development practices, processes, and standards for your team
• Own the technical architecture, drive engineering design, and shoulder critical decisions
• Understand, prioritize and deliver the feature roadmap while chipping away at the technical debt
• Work effectively with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, developers, and QA
• Own the communication of the team’s progress and perception of the team itself
• Collaborate with the Support team to keep track of and triage technical issues and track them through to resolution
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to drive sourcing, screening, interviewing, and recruitment of the right talent for your team
• Continuously improve the productivity of your team by identifying investments in technology, process, and continuous delivery
• Own the morale of your team, unblock them at critical junctures, and break ties in a timely manner
• Own the careers of your team members, deliver regular and timely feedback, represent your team for annual reviews and reward your performers
• You will nurture and grow the team in order to deliver path-breaking solutions, as outlined above, for the business in the coming years

What we are looking for?

• 7+ years of total relevant experience with a minimum of one year of actively managing and owning the delivery of a high-performing engineering team.
• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field
• Ability to work in a very fast-paced environment with high degrees of vagueness.
• Excellent database knowledge and data modeling skills
• Excellent leadership skills to manage and mentor teams
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems
• Superior management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience in delivering high-quality projects on time
• Track record of individual technical achievement
• Excellent command in CS fundamentals and in at least one interpreted language (PHP / Python / RoR)
• Experience developing software in a commercial software product development environment
• Experience leading teams that built software products for scale
• Excellent communication skills, open, collaborative, and proven team player
• Experience working with global customers and experience with agile processes and Serverless Architecture is a plus

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.

• 3 - 5 years of progressive IT experience with a minimum of 1+ years in building Ruby on Rails Web applications and RESTful API endpoints
• Proficient with scripting languages, specifically Python and Bash
• Experience in Object Oriented Java Script.
• Must have Linux command line experience.
• Good experience in developing and integrating reliable REST web services.
• Possess good communication, organizational and creative thinking skills.
• Multi-tasking individual that likes to work both in a team environment and individually
• Excellent technical abilities, leadership, decision making, and adaptability to new technology
• Good knowledge of Agile processes and practice
• Team player

Responsibilities:

• Writes high quality code & unit tests, builds, tests as per agreed timelines
• Participates in technical design and provides estimation
• Owns one or more small to medium features
• Becomes a go-to person in at least one area
• Communicates clearly and gets clarification upfront to minimize rework. Knows when to ask for help to unblock.
• Consistently follows and promotes SDLC best practices: Coding standard, testing, code reviews, code comments etc.
• Exhibit strong problem solving skills, helps other developers and demonstrates teamwork

Requirements:

• Understands detailed requirements and demonstrates excellent problem solving skills
• Deep understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• Excellent programming skills in ROR, Golang, NodeJS, Python
• Strong communication skills
• Strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to deliver results
• 4+ years of experience in product driven organization
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute
• Experience in Golang, RoR, Unity, ML or Python will be an added advantage