Senior BackEnd Engineer

About us

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview

As an SDE 2 Back-end Engineer at Astra, you will play a crucial role in the development of a new vulnerability scanner from scratch. You will be architecting & engineering a scalable technical solution from the ground-up.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals, collaborating to deliver innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in vulnerability scanning. The role requires deep collaboration with the founders, product, engineering & security teams.

Join our team and contribute to the development of a cutting-edge SaaS security platform, where high-quality engineering and continuous learning are at the core of everything we do.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will be joining our Vulnerability Scanner team which builds a security engine to identify vulnerabilities in technical infrastructure.
• You will be the technical product owner of the scanner, which would involve managing a lean team of backend engineers to ensure smooth implementation of the technical product roadmap.
• Research about security vulnerabilities, CVEs, and zero-days affecting cloud/web/API infrastructure.
• Work in an agile environment of engineers to architect, design, develop and build our microservice infrastructure.
• You will research, design, code, troubleshoot and support (on-call). What you create is also what you own.
• Writing secure, high quality, modular, testable & well documented code for features outlined in every sprint.
• Design and implement APIs in support of other services with a highly scalable, flexible, and secure backend using GoLang
• Hands-on experience with creating production-ready code & optimizing it by identifying and correcting bottlenecks.
• Driving strict code review standards among the team.
• Ensuring timely delivery of the features/products
• Working with product managers to ensure product delivery status is transparent & the end product always looks like how it was imagined
• Work closely with Security & Product teams in writing vulnerability detection rules, APIs etc.

Required Qualifications & Skills: 

• Strong 2-4 years relevant development experience in GoLang
• Experience in building a technical product from idea to production.
• Design and build highly scalable and maintainable systems in Golang
• Expertise in Goroutines and Channels to write efficient code utilizing multi-core CPU optimally
• Must have hands-on experience with managing AWS/Google Cloud infrastructure
• Hands on experience in creating low latency high throughput REST APIs
• Write test suites and maintain code coverage above 80%
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
• Good to have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems.
• Understanding of cloud/web security concepts would be an added advantage

What We Offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company
• Fully remote & agile working environment
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally
• Experience with security side of things
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru)
• Open and supportive culture 

Job Description:

• Work primarily with PHP, object-oriented design, Unit testing techniques, debugging techniques, HTTP, MySQL and Apache.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Must possess a strong understanding of Object-Oriented technology.
• Understand the specifications to define system requirements.5

Hiring:
PHP / Laravel Developer with 1 year experience in PHP / Laravel / Wordpress language

Perks:
No salary bar for the right candidate

Flexible and Friendly work environment.

Health / Medical Insurance

Enthusiastic team of developers

Supportive leadership

Opportunity to showcase your creativity

Employee overall development programs and Activities regularly

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop and implement large-scale projects from conception to completion.
• Interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives.
• Translate clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
• Understand and evaluate complex data models.
• Design, develop and implement new integration.
• Execute system development and maintenance activities.
• Develop solutions to improvise performance and scalability of systems.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Minimum Requirements

• 3-5 years of relevant experience, working in Java related technologies.
• A Good Engineering or Masters degree from a reputed university
• Should have strong technical skills with a good grasp of OO concepts and design patterns

• Good knowledge of SQL database ( MySQL, Oracle, etc )
• Good understanding of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• Good understanding of spring boot and microservices.
• Exposure to AWS services - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.

Good to have

• Knowledge of No-SQL DBs like mongo, dynamoDB, etc.
• Knowledge of message brokers/queuing services like SQL, rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.

• Design the architecture of new services to deliver timely communication from server to
• client and server to server, while still functioning alongside existing server components
• Describe and implement the communications across multiple network layers, considering
• performance, reliability, and flexibility with respect to the underlying infrastructure
• Enhance and expand the ORM layer of the studio’s in-house web framework
• Craft software solutions for supporting flexibility in resource allocation, from compute to storage
• Consult with technical operations on appropriate Kubernetes-based infrastructure design
• Design for performance, and measure the effects
• Review your colleagues’ code, and learn from their reviews as well
• Identify, document, and communicate best practices for the engineers who use the fruits of your labour
• Requirements:
• 7+ years professional work experience
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Must be proactive, self-directed, detailed and organized
• Proficient in PHP, C++, or Go
• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
• Experience with in-memory NoSQL databases, such as Redis
• Ability to debug issues within custom code quickly
• Passion for developing scalable and maintainable software systems

2+ years of experience working with backend development.

1+ year experience in GoLang Backend Development.

Must show your previous work.

Deployed at least 3 complete products which use REST APIs.

Exposure to making Postman docs.

Knowledge/ Experience of modern authorisation mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and cookies.

Experience in handling  business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

Experience with version control such as Git and GitHub
Should have a knowledge of

1. GoLang, GoLang Clean Arch, GoRoutines, GORM, Docker, Go Fiber, PostgreSQL

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• 5+ years PHP development experience required with PHP, MVC, CMS, HTML, CSS, AJAX, MySQL
• Development
  • PHP, MVC Architecture
  • Hands-on experience in any of the php frameworks (Laravel / Cakephp / Yii / Codeignitor / Zend)
  • Hands-on experience in RESTful API design and development
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Jquery

• Databases
  • Must be able to design and manage the database using MySQL
  • Strong knowledge on MySQL queries and optimization

• Version Control System
  • Bitbucket or GitHub Source Control

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Flexible, team player, “get-it-done” personality
• Design, Develop, Implement, Test, Document and Maintain high quality Web Application Software
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and teams