Senior Backend Developer

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Locus, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with Locus’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen Locus’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Mandatory (Tech skills 1): Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Mandatory (Tech skills 2): Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Mandatory (Tech skills 3): Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Mandatory (Tech skills 4): Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Mandatory (Communication): Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Mandatory (Company): Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Mandatory (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• Mandatory (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

• Proficient knowledge of Django and Django REST framework 
• Experience and good understanding of Redis
• Good knowledge and understanding of PostgreSQL or other relational databases 
• Proficient in NoSQL document databases especially MongoDB. 
• Understanding of threading and multiprocessing in Python, and multi-process architecture 
• Good-enough understanding of version control systems like Git or Mercurial 
• Strong unit-test and debugging skills 
• Knowledge of container technologies (specially Docker) and orchestration systems is a plus 
• Strong understanding of various Python Libraries, APIs, and toolkits
• Excellent understanding of MVC and OOP
• Rapid prototyping skills for getting product feedback 
• Experience with Agile and SCRUM methodology

Responsibilities:

• Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
• Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
• Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
• Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.

Requirements:

• A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
• Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
• Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
• Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
• Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
• Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES

• Experience 4 – 5 years
• Good in Backend Springboot
• write Rest API (Should be strong in this area)
• Good Analytical ability, Good coding practice, Knowledge of Spring Security (Desirable),
• UI Knowledge of Angular (Average knowledge should be enough)

Looking for enthusiastic tech driven individuals who can architect a web application, push pixels, design a web API, design a UI and optimize the backend for scalability. Should be thrilled to deep dive into the field of Location Intelligence. 

Hiring for the role of  Backend Developer for our Development team. Apply if you are keen to explore how data-tech is changing the decision intelligence landscape.

Sociometrik is a geospatial data intelligence start-up based out of New Delhi, India - founded in 2019 with the mission of redefining data-backed executive decision making. We measure and quantify physical earth, built structures and human activity using multi-channel data sources like satellite imagery, smartphone mobility, web records and administrative data to power alternative data-based decision support systems for our clients.

• Write effective, scalable and reusable code
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions
• Collaborate with Product Owner to identify optimal ways to implement new features & product enhancements.
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions.
• Create UI mock-ups and transform them into quality product features consistent with the Product Owner’s vision.

• Minimum 3 years of work experience as a backend developer
• Minimum 3 years experience in Node.js
• Must have Experience working in a Typescript codebase
• Experience with Leaflet.JS, Google Maps API, or Geospatial projects are a "Nice to Have"
• Exposure to deck.gl is “Good to Have”.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery
• Must have Experience collaborating in a team environment

• An analytical bent of mind
• Good time management skills
• Curiosity for learning
• Creative vision
• Team spirit and good problem-solving skills

Hiring Process

Below is our hiring process for this position. We will reach out or send a rejection notice to most candidates within 1-5 business days of applying. Sociometrik promises to value your time and professionalism in every step of the process.

• Quick Screening 
• Interview with Technical Lead

• Final Interview with Leadership

We are looking to hire Java developers who can help us in our mission to transform ideas into applications. Our cross-functional team of motivated, skilled and experienced software engineers and designers, help the clients unlock the business values of their enterprises in a time-bound and cost-effective manner. True to our team you would be working on high-impact projects and making a dent in the Service industry on a daily basis. 

Skills :

• Excellent Communication Skills
• 4-6 years of experience in Java8 Development.
• V yAPI, Spring Boot/MVC, Spring Security
• Hibernate, JPA, MySQL/POSTGRES, Jenkins, Git
• Experience of developing high-performance and scalable web applications and APIs using frameworks such as Spring Boot/MVC, Spring Security, Hibernate, and JPA.
• Hands-on Experience of Version control(Git), MYSQL/POSTGRES, Jenkins, etc.

• At least 4 years of experience programming in Python.
• Develop application code and modules for business and technical requirements.
• Tune up design for maintainability, scalability and efficiency.
• Resolve and troubleshoot problems and complex issues.
• Perform unit tests and fix bugs.
• Integrate best qualitative practices in design and development aspects of programs.
• Ability to mentor subordinates.
• Excellent communication skills.

• 4+ years Rails experience in a production environment working complex Ruby on Rails applications and Ruby gems
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• Knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
• Knowledge on HTTP and RESTFUL API development experience
• Experience in Angular is a plus
• Proactiveness, good communication and fast learning.