Senior Backend Developer
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- Design and build reliable distributed systems that handle high volumes of data With low latency.
- Maintain, support, and enhance business-critical systems.
- Ensure timely and high quality of software development w.r.t to project architecture, code quality, testing, and deployment.
- Own complete service lifecycle including development, deployment, performance on scale, and monitoring.
- Make your mark on ambitious projects
Backend Tech Stack
- Go and Scala
- Environments build around Docker and GCP
- Complete Kubernetes infrastructure
Requirements
- Is a great problem solver who takes pride in their work
- Is comfortable with the unknown and loves to experiment
- Can construct good arguments for methodologies or practices
- Strong concepts of clean code principles
- Has worked with, or understands the principles behind working with data at scale
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About the Role: Software Engineer (Backend/GoLang)
We are currently looking for people to join our Engineering team where internet scale, reliability, security, high performance and self-management drives almost every design decision that we take. This role will be based out of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
We are looking for Software Engineers to help us build functional products and applications. Software Engineers responsibilities include participating in software design, writing clean and efficient code adhering to coding standards, guidelines & best practices for various applications, running tests to improve system functionality, performance & security and documenting design and code.
Responsibilities
- Core server side Technology Skills;
- Expertise in GoLang
- Implementation of REST based APIs
- Cassandra or other comparable NOSQL data storage
Requirements
- 1-3 years of golang experience.
- Managing API Authentication, Authorisation and Auditing
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, Mercurial or SVN)• Elasticsearch
- Understanding of search engines like SOLR / ElasticSearch
- Good communication and problem solving skills
- Bachelor's in Engineering (Required)
- Good to have
- Knowledge of Python or similar scripts
- Design of large distributed cache systems
What you’ll do:
- Work closely with the founders and the team to plan, design, and build the next iterations of Dyte’s video-audio APIs.
- You will collaborate closely with other engineers of the team and lend your help in your areas of expertise.
- Build micro-services to support new functionality.
- Build best practices to improve the current API workflow.
- Help us scale our current micro-service framework to support a multi cloud, multi region environment.
- Work closely with the media and the infra team to optimise the performance and reduce the latency of our API framework.
- Help design and develop the next iteration of our observability platform.
- Mentor and hire Junior Developers.
- Ensure that our customer’s experience is the best it can be. You might have to interact with the dev team of our clients.
Who you are:
- 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer in a fast paced environment.
- Well versed with Golang or Javascript.
- You are intensely curious and passionate about the prospect of diving deep into multiple technologies, platforms, and problem spaces, even if they are currently unfamiliar.
- You embrace uncertainty. Our space is a rapidly growing one and specifications are continuously changing.
- You care about the user experience and know-how to build user-friendly web applications.
- You have experience with continuous delivery. Experience with AWS is a bonus.
- You have a working understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms.
- You care about web technologies, exploring data, and software design (and video calls!).
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and can communicate your ideas.
- Experience with WebRTC, iOS, Android, or C++ development is a bonus.
- A degree in Computer Science or a similar area are bonuses.
Our Perks:
- Competitive Salary
- ESOPs
- Medical Insurances
- Friendly leaves policy
- 100% Remote Option
As a Backend Developer, you will work on the latest and greatest in high performance
web development, data science, community development and mobile technologies.
What you will do:
- Playing a part in defining software architectures – collaborate with leads to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity, uncover potential risks to successful implementation, and learn the applications’ capabilities.
- Implementing solutions as per technical design for new features and changes to existing components.
- Participating in the full development lifecycle of new functionality and enhancements to existing applications.
- Committing to producing high quality, highly performing and robust software within agreed time estimates and to agreed quality standards.
- Managing all stakeholder expectations.
- Working alongside global teams.
- Taking responsibility for successful delivery.
- Being able to work in a fast paced Agile/SCRUM environment.
- Following coding standards, building appropriate unit tests, integrating tests and deployment scripts.
- Assisting in defining software architectures – Collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of opportunities.
- Translating designs and style guides provided by the Design team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance.
- Contributing to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies.
What you need to have:
- Ability to fluently code in Java Spring or similar J2EE frameworks.
- Solid knowledge of application deployment in AWS cloud, Kubernetes, Docker.
- Ability to code in ReactJS or similar Javascript frameworks.
- Proven experience with responsive design, fullstack web development, consumption/creation of RESTful APIs.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related engineering field w/experience in software development.
- 3-7 years of experience developing customer facing web applications.
- 3-7 years of experience in Java Spring or similar J2EE frameworks.
- 3-7 years of experience in front-end development using JavaScript, knowledge of various JavaScript libraries and micro frameworks (React, Angular, Backbone), HTML and CSS.
- 3-7 years of experience coding using object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming, architecture and design patterns.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API principles.
- Strong understanding of security best practices.
- Strong experience with unit testing and end-to-end testing.
- Knowledge of : Programming languages Java 8, J2EE, Node.js, Design Patterns, HTML, CSS, JavaScript Web and cloud Technologies RESTful web services, Cloud functions, Amazon Web Services, SEO/ Sitemap, Serverless
- architecture, JSON Database Management MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Firebase realtime database, Hibernate, Liquibase, Percona, Redis, Memcached Frameworks, Libraries and Tools Dropwizard, Jersey,
- Expressjs, RabbitMQ Web / Application Server Nginx Other Tools and Utilities Eclipse, VS Code, Postman, Git, Gradle, Maven, Imagemagick, Jmeter Operating Systems Linux, Windows.
- Experience in implementing Material Design UI and UX for customer centric frontend.
Responsibilities:
• As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, implement and build server-side components that run seamlessly on the Tickertape product which is loved and used by millions of investors every day.
• You will partner with other engineers to build high-performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend experiences.
• Influences best practices in the team.
• Perform data analysis and troubleshoot technical issues with platforms, performance, data discrepancies.
Requirements:
• 5 - 7 years of experience
• Good programming skills with any of the programming languages like Go, Javascript/Typescript (Nodejs)
• A good understanding of RDBMS(PostgreSQL), NoSQL systems(Mongo, Elasticsearch), Time series DB(Influx, Timescale), Queuing Systems(Kafka, SQS), caching technologies(Redis), and cloud technologies(AWS) is a must
• Web development concepts - basics of REST APIs, server architecture
• Extremely good at problem-solving, interest in building things from scratch, and is a self-learner.
• Good team player and ability to collaborate with others.
• Interest (and/or experience) in the financial/stock market space - interest trumps experience
- Must be from good companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic.
- Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise Go Langauge
- Experience building microservices.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
- Good knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure Proficient with RDBMS
- You will own a functional area - from product conception to its delivery to customers
- You will be designing and coding independently in multiple tech components related to your functional area
- You will also need to develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly
- You will also be actively mentoring our junior engineers. You need to someone who owns the codebase quality
- We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not just coders
- Engineers get to significantly amplify the impact of their efficient work or creations with the scale that startups operates at
- Love the Startup Hustle? You have come to the right place!
Requirements:
- 2+ years of deep expertise with JavaScript (Node.js) and any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs
- Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions
- Strong problem solving skills
- Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities
- Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals
- Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform
- Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
- Experience in Consumer facing apps - Analytics SDKs integrations, Marketing SDKs integrations, Performance optimisation, SQL databases
- Should have developed and delivered successful mobile app projects
- Experience with Devops including Docker, AWS, Serverless
Perks
- Opportunity to start from scratch
- Flexible and cool work environment - Startup work culture
- Young and dynamic team
- Offsites
- Regular game and hangout sessions every week
- Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
- You will design Scalable and Fault-Tolerant systems
- You will help Maintain critical and auxiliary systems (databases, cache ...)
- You will build Experiments that help validate hypotheses for the product
Experience:
2+yrs In your first 3 months, you will…
- Successfully onboard and create strong bonds with the current team
- Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
- Contribute to existing product features and experimentation
In your first 6 months, you will…
- Develop prototypes of new features or products using rapid iteration and experimentation as we explore new ideas
- Partner across the engineering team to ship features
In your first year, you will...
- Champion best-in-class engineering practices and systems for an emerging engineer team
- Help build a suite of features for the product
Our Ideal Hire:
- Learned best practices and has experienced the challenges and joys working at a startup
- Managed and maintained production code at increasing scales
- Feels strongly motivated by our mission
- Communicates complex problems and proposes solutions, in writing and in conversation
Expertise:
- Proficiency in any one language (ex: NodeJS / Go / Python)
- MySQL (design / indices / optimizing queries)
- Redis (types/ functionality/ use cases)
Hands-on experience:
- Handled scaling issue
- Good at debugging
Good to have:
- Kafka (or other stream-processing software)
- AWS
Do not apply if you are not:
- Ownership driven
- Curious in general
- Able to explain things in simple terms
- Self-motivated
- Use to work in the chaotic environment
- Highly proactive
- Willing to Mentor and humble to ask for collaboration
- Most important, Learn & Grow yourself!
- Hungry to grow anymore
- You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years
- You’re proficient in NodeJS, TypeScript, MySQL, and MongoDB
- You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
- Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
- You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experience with TDD (Test Driven Development)
- You have the ability to build RESTful APIs
- Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
- Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems
- Frontend experience; (Good to have) Angular
- Start-up experience, preferably a tech start-up
- Open-Source contributor
- You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g., Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, C, etc.
- Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
- You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
Qualifications
- BE/ B. Tech/ MSc/MTech
- Candidate should possess the degree from a recognized University/ Institution only
- 1+ year of experience
- Full responsibility for designing and building core back-end modules and system architectures.
- Good understanding of database concepts.
- Experience with at least two programming languages (PHP & GoLang).
- Experience in creating at least one web application.
- Knowledge of MySQL in-depth and basic understanding of MongoDB along with basic understanding about different paradigms of programming.
- Ability to interact and coordinate with a team.
- Should have a basic understanding of APIs.
- Modify code in time to keep code dry and reusable.
- Should have worked in at least one framework in the backend.
- A background in Software Architecture would be preferred.
Requirements
- Develop data-driven web solutions on PHP frameworks (ideally CakePHP), but be undeterred when the need arises to create an application from the ground up as required, maintain, contribute and adhere to our programming best practices and guidelines.
- Work with a team of UI designers, programmers, and server admins, to bring brand new concepts to the market.
- Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews.
- Immediate Joiner
Dot is a technology start-up, operating in Fintech and e-commerce space. With the aim to
revolutionize offline-to-online(O2O) space, Dot strives to enable digital transformation of Offline businesses using smart innovations. This is a huge market, serving the 1.3 billion strong Indian population.
The start-up is led by a strong and experienced team. It has already raised seed funding of ~US$ 35.5 Million from renowned investors.
To know more, head over to: www.dotpe.in
About the Founders
The company is led by an experienced team, three ex-PayU employees - Shailaz Nag, Gyanesh Sharma & Anurag Gupta, with proven expertise & knowledge of the fintech space as well as experience in building & managing companies.
Shailaz Nag is a well known visionary entrepreneur. He was ex-Managing Director and co-founder of PayU, (India’s largest and profitable Payment Company) which is currently valued at US$ 3 Billion. He was also one of the founding members of Ibibo Group. Shailaz Nag is a Chartered Accountant and also holds an MBA degree.
Gyanesh Sharma is an IIT Delhi alumnus, holding a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science. He has strong experience in leading tech teams, holding position of
● CTO at Shopclues
● Head of engg. at PayU
● Engg. Head at MakeMyTrip
Anurag Gupta has a decade long experience in building financial services business. He was Vice-President & Business head at PayU for Omnichannel business. He also headed Bank & Product Partnership for PayU.
Investors
Dot has raised seed funding of US$ ~35.5 million from
● Naspers Fintech (PayU) -
○ $120bn group with global presence. Listed in London, Johannesburg, Amsterdam
○ Presence in India : MMT-Goibibo, PayU, Flipkart, Swiggy, Byju’s, OLX
○ Global Presence : Tencent - WeChat, OLX
● Fosun RZ Capital
○ Affiliate of Fosun Group - A $100Bn Chinese conglomerate
○ Presence across global growth markets
● Info Edge
○ Parent company of naukri.com, jeevansaathi.com, 99acres.com, shiksha.com
○ Listed on NSE & BSE with a market cap of INR 27,000 crore
○ Major investor in zomato.com & policybazaar.com
Products
At Dot, we are solving the key problems that lie at the heart of Offline businesses by equipping them with commerce and fin-tech products. We are building a horizontal Omni-channel platform encompassing several Products all aimed at empowering all types of merchants, big or small, with Digital Technology. Whilst strengthening the merchants, our products also aim to direct this digital transformation towards improving the customer journey.
Our initial Product line-up has already garnered attraction from several renowned enterprises as well as significant interest from every medium and small-scale merchant we touch. And this just marks the start of our journey!
About Profile
Responsibilities
• Understanding the business requirement and provide good scalable solution
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
• Completely owning the backend services of a module
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Our stack is ReactJS, React Native, Golang, MySQL, NoSQL and hosting environment is AWS
Skills and Qualifications
• 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
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• 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
• 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
• Engineers from Tier 1 colleges