Senior Golang Developer

Java with cloud

 

• 3-8+ years of experience programming in a backend language (Java / Python), with a good understanding of troubleshooting errors. 
• 5+ years of experience in Confluent Kafka / 3+ years of experience in Confluent Kafka 

• Cloud Kafka, Control Central, Rest Proxy, HA Proxy, Confluent Kafka Connect, Confluent Kafka Security features 

Out of many tools and technologies, we use Java, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, Twem, Netty extensively for our back-end development.

 

• Leading the entire Backend platform for a product portfolio.
• End to end delivery new features.
• Evolving the architecture for performance and scalability.
• Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web services platform.
• Constantly strive to improve software development process and team productivity.
• Mentor and train team members
• Lead module development independently

 

Required background, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

 

• 5.5+/ 7+ Years of experience in a scalable product/ecommerce organization·       
• Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach
• Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
• Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms
• Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services
• Experience with prevalent design patterns and advanced system designing
• Good experiences with databases and Schema design. We heavily use NoSQL databases
• Strong Problem Solving skills

Requirements:

• Solid experience in Java or Golang
• Good to have exposure to ML
• Should have experience in cloud computing
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• 4+ years of experience in product driven organisation
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)

We need a backend java developer who is willing to work in a fast paced and exciting environment of a startup. 
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About Instamojo Instamojo is India's fastest growing on-demand payments and e-commerce platform that enables over 6,00,000 SMEs to build, manage and grow their business online. A trusted partner for SMEs in India, Instamojo's insightful tools are poised to enable small entrepreneurs to minimize costs and grow their business. It is a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs that caters to their diverse business needs by leveraging technology, data and design. Instamojo has acquired 10% of digitally active MSMEs and powers 1 out of 100 to control 30% of their annual turnover through its flagship link-payments and online store products. In addition to link-based payments, Instamojo plans to offer e-commerce enabling services, cataloguing, compliance, lending, logistics, promotions via third-party providers. Founded in 2012 by Sampad Swain, Akash Gehani and Aditya Sengupta, Instamojo raised Pre-Series B funding from AnyPay a Japanese payments firm. In November 2014, the company raised USD 2.6 million in Series A funding from Kalaari Capital, Blume Ventures, 500Startups and others. Prior to this, it had raised approximately USD 500,000 from 500 Startups, Blume Ventures and angel investors Rajan Anandan, Sunil Kalra, Dave McClure, Rob de Heus, Thijs Gitmans among others. Instamojo at a glance:  Caters to 6,00,000 SMEs.  Instamojo has acquired 10% of the digitally-active SMEs in India and controls 30% of their annual turnover. It aims to extend its wallet share to 70% by 2019.  The company aims to increase its target merchant base 400% and target 1 MN small and medium businesses by 2018.  Instamojo turned EBITDA positive in July 2017 and has witnessed a 10-15% month-on-month growth.  With demonetization, Instamojo added 3000 SMEs daily to the platform, which was 15x higher than daily average.  Digital Transactions performed on Instamojo's platform have grown by over 178 % in the last year alone.
We are building consumer internet space, payment processing, e-commerce and/or enterprise. SAAS products. Undergraduate (or higher) degree in computer science/engineering. You have an excellent grasp over theoretical and applied computer science.
Job Description
Responsibilities  You can take responsibility of large sized projects.  You can take full responsibility of one or more core modules and/or technical verticals / libraries / frameworks / components.  This will include design and architecture, evaluating and deciding which framework/language/data store/tools to us, preparing roadmaps and timely delivery.  You understand the business impact of your decisions.  You will review code and ensure that implementations are testable, performant, scalable, documented and secure.  You will work closely with product, design, revenue, platform and growth teams.  You can take responsibility of large sized projects involving inter-departmental stakeholders.  You can take full responsibility of one or more core modules and/or technical verticals / libraries / frameworks / components.  Payment processing framework capable of supporting multiple payment methods (cards, netbanking, UPI, wallets, etc.) with one or more payment method supported across multiple payment gateways.  This will include design and architecture, evaluating and deciding which framework/language/data store/tools to us, preparing roadmaps and timely delivery.  You will drive engineering best practices, recruit other engineers, lead and manage teams, conduct performance reviews and mentor other engineers.  You will review code and ensure that implementations are testable, performant, scalable, documented and secure.  You will work closely with product, design, revenue, platform and growth teams.
Requirements  3-5 Years of Experience in software engineering.
 5-10 years of industry experience in software engineering building consumer internet space, payment processing, e-commerce and/or enterprise SAAS products.  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 3+ years relevant work experience.  Undergraduate (or higher) degree in computer science/engineering.  You have an excellent grasp over theoretical and applied computer science.  You have excellent problem solving and analytical skills.  You should be able to identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and design/architect improvements.  Experience with working on PCI compliant infrastructure.  You should be able to build at this engineering level Store builder (products with multi-level variants (colour, size, etc.), SKUs, discounts) and shopping cart.  Highly concurrent double entry accounting system.  You have excellent problem solving and analytical skills.  You should be able to identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and design/architect improvements.  Good hold on data structures and algorithms.  Strong object-oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interface.
Desired Skills and Experience Python, Golang, Java, Ruby on Rails, Django

Basic Qualifications

• Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
• Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
• Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
• Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
• Experience implementing unit tests

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
• Experience working in Agile Scrum
• Experience working on a globally distributed team