Senior Backend/DevOps Role: Java, AWS, Kafka Engineering (5+ Years)

Location : Remote

Experience: 2+ years

• 2+ years of strong programming skills in developing applications using Haskell (OR) any functional programming language
• Experience in Kubernetes
• Experience in writing well-documented, clean JavaScript code. TypeScript is a plus

Engineering Manager – Backend

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

Series D funded supply chain startup.

Requirements

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack

Technologies Used

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

Roles and Responsibilities

This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product

stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:

Business and product alignment and planning

• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
• Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
• Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. Product and system development

• Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
• Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
• Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
• Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

1. Project Management

• Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
• Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
• Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.

1. Maintenance

• Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
• Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
• Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

1. Team Management

• Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
• Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
• Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.

Product Overview

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors

include:

• Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
• Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
• Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
• Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

• Software Engineering
  • Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry
  • Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
  • Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services
  • Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence
• Product Delivery
  • Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap
  • Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
  • Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution
  • Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

• Software Engineering
  • Deep knowledge of one of the programming language they have experience in
  • Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus
  • Data modelling experience in Relational Databases
  • Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Product Delivery
  • Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.
  • Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development, code review, testing and release management
  • Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Product Maintenance
  • Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks etc
  • Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design

Key Responsibilities

• Back-end Implementation: Authorization, Authentication, Modular design
• Application Development: Documentation, code quality, Unit Testing, Optimization, Bug fixing.)
• Back-end Operations (build tools, deployment, speed: (app, tests, builds, deploys), monitoring errors/logs, and stability).
• Review the created data model & ask any necessary clarifying questions before starting on work
• Write API code to implement the action on visual elements.
• Develop Json Web Services and Web applications.
• Create prototypes and staging sites for review and feedback
• Optimize websites and applications to ensure fast loading speeds
• Maintain websites and implement any necessary additions or enhancements
• Identify and troubleshoot various website issues and coding problems
• Collaborate with members of the website team, including designers and front-end developers, to consistently improve functionality and user-friendliness of web applications
• Maintain updated knowledge of the development industry and any advancements in technology
• Meet tight deadlines as required
• Knowledge of the common application/web security and OWASP vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of the encryption algorithms to protect sensitive information.
• Knowledge of PII, PCI, HIPPA, and GDPR compliance and how to implement.
• Understanding of security breaches of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and knowledge in implementation for both.
• Knowledge/Aware of finding the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/libraries used in the application and remediating vulnerabilities.

 

 

Technical Skills: Java,Spring boot, Rest API, Json, JPA and/or Hibernate, SQL, AWS

Database : MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB

Other : Tomcat, Eclipse, Oauth, JWT, Git.

Responsibilities

1. Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
2. Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
3. Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
4. Support test and deployment of new products and features
5. Participate in code reviews

Skills & Qualifications

• 4-12 years of experience in Java Development.

• Excellent verbal and written English communication is a must. You may have to interact with clients directly.

• Technology agnostic approach is a must. Ready to adopt new technology and a faster learning curve.

• Writing scalable, maintainable and reusable code.

• Keen interest in SAAS based products and mobile applications.

• Experience working with Distributed Systems

• Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, API Design Experience with Event-Driven Architecture, Multithreading

• Kafka iOS Experience with Event Sourcing Reactive and Functional

• Programming Strong understanding of best practices for creating/working with Microservices

• Experience implementing Message Brokers and Messaging subsystems(experience working with Kafka a strong plus)

• Be open-minded, creative, and self-critical; be collaborative and communicative

• Have experience with and curiosity about agile and lean philosophies

• Experience working with small teams to ship products to market

• Have experience developing full-service consumer, employee and business applications

• Language agnostic and experienced polyglot Passion for Working Software and SOLID principles

• Experience with designing and refactoring complex systems

• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) Interest in working in a pair-programming environment Deep understanding of design patterns and applying them in production environments

• Passion for enabling team members

• Java 8 or Java 11. Both are LTS. The project will be on Java11

• Spring Boot

• Git

• SQL

• AWS and AWS Aurora

• Microservices

• Multithreading

Perks

• Flexible time schedule.
• Work from home or work from anywhere.
• Health insurance.
• Team building activities.
• Training and conference tickets.

Position Responsibilities:
1.     Design, implementation, and deployment of applications
2.     Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
3.     Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
4.     Work extensively with cross-functional teams across.
5.     Work with the business team and project managers to convert functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
6.     The ideal candidate will be a leader, builder, and operator. He/she should be able to operate in a very fast-paced environment where time to hit the market is supercritical.

Desired Candidate profile: 
1.     A Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education from Elite College or institution and work experience.
2.     4+ years of Software Development experience.
3.     Excellent object-oriented design and coding skills (Java, C++ on a UNIX or Linux platform).
4.     Very strong software development background including design patterns, data structures, test-driven development.
5.     Ability to design and implement systems end to end on your own while maintaining highest coding standards.
6.     Excellent knowledge of design patterns and ability to reflect it in their code.
7.     Ability to lead projects and mentor junior engineers on the same.
8.     Mandatory work experience in skills sets: REST API, JDBC, RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
9.     Solid Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
10.  Software development experience in Servlet, JSP, Spring, AWS, S3, SQS, building web services and highly scalable applications or Google Cloud Suite.
11.  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• discussing clients’ requirements and proposed solutions with a senior developer (for developers at mid-skill level and below)
• writing and testing code
• collaborating with other developers
• using development tools (see below)

Development tools are used by software developers to write and test code, often as a team. Common development tools include:

• integrated development environments (eg Eclipse, IntelliJ): for writing and editing code
• source control management (eg Git, SVN, Mercurial): to enable teams to work together to manage changes to source code
• issue management systems (eg Jira): for managing a list of issues or improvements
• test driven development: for writing code to test your code