Senior Backend Engineer

An eCommerce growth platform using AI and machine learning to help establish and
grow online businesses across multiple channels and global markets. They use data-driven tools to optimize how products are advertised and listed across marketplaces – and handle all associated shipping, logistics, taxes, and compliance.
Their business model is built on aligned incentives with no initial costs. They only makes
money if and when customers’ products sell.

They are expanding their Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team
composed of owners. They are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence.
As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential.


What you will do?

 Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
 Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
 Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
 Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
 Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular
design.
 Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation
and monitoring
 Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have
quality in mind.
 Own the full release cycle from development to deployment.


What you will need?

 3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
 Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
 Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
 Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for
data retrieval and persistence.
 Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection,
design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
 Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing
skills.
 Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
 Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast paced, ambiguous work environment.


Bonus if you have

 Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
 Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.