Senior Backend Developer
Fast-growing startup that serving retail industry

Senior Backend Developer
at Fast-growing startup that serving retail industry
Agency job
3 - 8 yrs
₹10L - ₹16L / yr
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Skills

Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
RESTful APIs
Solr
Microservices
Hands-on programming and technical design skills with a passion for learning new technologies
Experience of building highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services
3+ years of experience of designing and developing software systems or services
Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general.
Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
Working experience with AWS
Knowledge of designing microservices
Knowledge of search platform like Elastic Search, Solr etc
Knowledge of messaging technology such as Kafka or rabbitmq
Startup experience is a strong plus
Experience of Python is a strong plus
Critical thinking is a plus.
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