Senior Developer - Golang

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?

We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India. 

We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.

👩‍💻 The Role

• Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
• Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
• Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
• Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
• Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
• 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
• Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
• Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
• People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
• People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
• Anything else than can surprise us.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

Roles:

• Developing core infrastructure in Python, Django.
• Developing models and business logic (e. g. transactions, payments, diet plan, search, etc).
• Architecting servers and services that enable new product features.
• Building out newly enabled product features

• Minimum 4 years of industry or open-source experience.
• Proficient in at least one OO language: Python(preferred)/Golang/Java.
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].

Roles & Responsibilities JOB TITLE: AEM Developer - Senior

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Participation in software development and maintenance

processes as per quality requirements, procedures and best

practices applicable.

2. Implementing, optimizing and supervising efficiency of IT

systems in accordance with specific standards, resolution or

escalation of problems, as appropriate.

3. Drawing up technical documentation.

4. Developing knowledge in scope of information technology used.

5. Developing knowledge in scope of best practices and standards

of creating software.

6. Developing soft skills in scope of effective communication and

efficient teamwork, solution presentation and knowledge sharing.

7. Interpreting business cases, preparing specifications and

analyzing functional and technical requirements.

8. Designing solutions and creating documentation, estimating

individual scope of works and time consumption of works.

9. Within the team and project/services, proactively identifying

problems and proposing measures to increase the level of services.

10. Developing knowledge in scope of information technology

used.

11. Developing knowledge in scope of best practices and standards

of creating software.

12. Spreading the knowledge throughout the organization by

educating and supporting less experienced Specialists.

13. Maintaining industry standards and practices in projects.

14. Performing tasks assigned by the superior.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE& TECHNICAL SKILLS

1. Minimum 3 years of experience in work related to CQ/AEM

development.

2. Minimum 5 years of experience in work related to Java

development in IT sector.

SOFT SKILLS:

1. Independence in performance of tasks assigned.

2. Team and end user communications skills.

3. Skills to acquire knowledge and put it in practice.

4. Work time estimation based on functional or technical

requirements.

5. Recommending employment in the case of reviewing technical

knowledge of candidates in recruitment process.

6. Work time estimation.

7. Designing and supervising implementation of solutions.

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS: Nice to have: AEM 6 Developer

certification

Skills Primary Skills –

1. AEM including Sling Models

2. Apache Sling

3. JCR

4. Sightly (must)

Secondary Skills –

1. OSGi (Apache Felix),

2. Java, JavaEE (Servlet, Filter, JSP)

3. Git

4. Junit

5. Maven

6. REST

7. Object Oriented Design Patterns, Basic HTML + JavaScript

Experience Total Experience – 4-6 years

Relevant Experience – 4-6 years

Qualification Required to perform the

Job (Any Certifications if Needed)

Bachelor’s in information technology or equivalent qualifications.

We're looking for Senior Node js backend developers with over 2+ years of experience and strong expertise in Javascript based development using Node js and Express. We are looking for cadidates who are go-getters and are leaning towards leadership positions. Candidates must have a proven history of building, scaling, optimising and securing Node js based backends and APIs using a microservice architecture.

Bonus Skill : Experience with ReactJs, Postgres

We would prefer candidates who can join immediately or are currently serving their notice period.

Key Skills Required

1. A passion for Javascript based solutions and an extremely strong understanding of JavaScript

2. Proficiency in Node js and Express based development

3. Stong experience in building scalable REST APIs

4. Experience in implenting API security using tokens, encryptions keys and other methods

5. A proved history of building scalable and secure web applications and APIs with Node js using a microservice architecture

6. Working experience with API Gateways

7. Experience with Docker

8. Experience in maintaining code via Git workflows

9. Ability to work independantly or as a part of a team

10. Ability to work in an Agile environment

Responsibilities

1. Understanding requirement and congributing to engineering solutions at a conceptual stage to provide the best possible solution to the task/challenge

2. Building high quality code using coding standards based on the SRS/Documentation

3. Building component based, maintainable, scalable and reusable backend libraries/modules.

4. Building & documenting scalable APIs on the Open Spec standard

5. Unit testing development modules and APIs

6. Conducting code reviews to ensure that the highest quality standard are maintained

7. Securing backend applications and APIs using industry best practices

8. Troubleshooting issues and fixing bugs raised by the QA team efficiently.

9. Optimizing code

10. Building and deploying the applications