Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.
Role and Responsibilities
- Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
- Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
- Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
- Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
- Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
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- About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
- Experience with Node.js (Hapi, Restify, Express, Mongoose, Socket.IO, Mocha)
- Experience with Elasticsearch
- Experience building and deploying Docker containers
- Strong general Linux experience
- Extensive experience with REST APIs
- Experience with microservice architecture
- Experience with MongoDB
- Expert knowledge of Redis and caching strategies
- Strong knowledge of unit/integration testing, including the art of mocking and writing testable code
- Passionate about technology and making an impact.
- A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
- A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.
Blok is a technology-first online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business, and we are on our way to revolutionize how millions of people across countries consume groceries. We believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And it takes less than 10 minutes.
We believe we are positioned to lead this revolution. Why? Our founding and early team have held senior positions at Deliveroo, Uber, Glovo, Mercadona, or Unilever. We have done this before, and we believe we can do it again. But this time, even better.
Embark on the journey and help us launch the revolution in one of the highest growth industries of the year. Help us shape the new normal.
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Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Overlook development of all consumer products in JAVA and
- Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and
- Focus on code maintainability and performance of
- Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming
- Continuously create new and interactive features that would help to improve user experience and user engagement.
- Assist with troubleshooting of issues as
- Lead the design and architecture of software
- Assist in developing and maintaining continuous integration.
Skills Required:
- Skills required: JAVA, Python (Flask and Django), Spring/Spring Boot, React, Hibernate,
- 2+ years of experience in Java and Python
- Linux, REST, Kafka, Mysql,, AWS, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch), CI/CD
- Good experience in Java and/or Python based
- Experience in designing databases and system
- Experience in building products from scratch at well-funded start-ups
Location - Pune/ Mumbai/ Bangalore
Education
Degree, Postgraduate in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent industry experience)
Experience
- Minimum 5 years of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript and Databases.
- At least 1 year hands-on in TypeScript .
- Hands-on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring
Technical Skills
- Excellent knowledge developing scalable and highly-available Restful APIs using NodeJS technologies
- Practical experience with GraphQL.
- Experience in working with AWS platform and its core services like Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, CDK, SQS, S3 etc., or its equivalent Azure services
- Hands-on working experience in front-end applications development with HTML, CSS, Node JS with strong working experience in backend technologies Java, TypeScript and JavaScript programming languages.
- Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers , Kubernetes.
- Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.
- Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, oAuth)
- Experience on DevOps ways of working with good understanding on CI/CD and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem
- Hands on experience with both SQL and No-SQL databases.
- More than 3 years proven experience in developing high volume scalable cloud solutions utilizing platforms like Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure.
- Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka
Functional Skills
- Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices Experience in Banking, Financial and Fintech experience in an enterprise environment preferred
- Experience in Agile methodology.
- Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.
- Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.
Soft Skills
- Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.
- Self-motivator and self-starter, Ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.
- Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact and present the ideas to Senior and Executive management
1. As a founding backend engineer, tackle a wide range of technical challenges: from
designing powerful new integrations to scaling our real-time web service to hundreds
of users
2. Build high-impact, end-user features that vastly improve user productivity.
3. In a small cross-functional team you will collaborate closely to discuss the feasibility
and direction of prototypes or planned product features.
4. Address complex problems at both an application and system-level, and maintain
existing codebases
5. Work directly with CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture and create
processes for improving engineering standards
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have a work experience of 3+ years as a Backend Developer
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS, Golang will be a plus
3. Demonstrated fluency with REST APIs, third-party libraries, and client/server
architectures
5. You have experience with maintaining backend microservices
6. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility
7. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
8. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects
The Senior Software development engineer core responsibilities include technically leading a
small team of software development engineers along with writing code in a highly modular,
scalable, maintainable, unit tested platform. You will be working in a fast-paced, agile, dynamic
work environment that has an immediate business impact.
MUST HAVE
● You have 5-7 years of relevant Industry experience.
● You have experience in technically leading a small team of highly motivated engineers,
in guiding them in understanding of requirements, in architecture/design (high level/low
level) of the applications, in best coding and QA practices, in reviewing their software
artefacts.
● You are a rockstar programmer/coder - should be able to convert requirements/design
into code fluently.
● You have a strong concept in design principles, patterns.
● You have good experience in Linux OS.
● You have a solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data
structures, algorithms and software design.
● Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems.
● Worked in startups like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
● BTech, MTech or PhD in Computer Science or related Technical Discipline - preferably
from premier Engineering colleges.
● Good skills to write unit & integration tests with reasonable coverage of code &
interfaces.
NICE TO HAVE
● Knowledge of databases, Cloud, preferably AWS
● Experience in Python, Python frameworks and libraries, and NodeJS.
Responsibilities
- Plan, develop and implement large-scale projects from conception to completion.
- Interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives.
- Translate clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
- Understand and evaluate complex data models.
- Design, develop and implement new integration.
- Execute system development and maintenance activities.
- Develop solutions to improvise performance and scalability of systems.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
Minimum Requirements
- 3-5 years of relevant experience, working in Java related technologies.
- A Good Engineering or Masters degree from a reputed university
- Should have strong technical skills with a good grasp of OO concepts and design patterns
- Good knowledge of SQL database ( MySQL, Oracle, etc )
- Good understanding of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, etc.
- Good understanding of spring boot and microservices.
- Exposure to AWS services - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.
Good to have
- Knowledge of No-SQL DBs like mongo, dynamoDB, etc.
- Knowledge of message brokers/queuing services like SQL, rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Participating in all phases of the development and maintenance lifecycle, focusing on speed and efficiency
- Planning and implementing model data structures for scalability
- Working on the maintenance or enhancement of existing data structures
- Designing REST APIs which will be used by multiple clients
What you need to have:
- B.E./ B.Tech/ MCA
- Have experience of building large scale & complex systems with low latency and high availability.
- Have strong experience of working with design patterns & REST APIs.
- Have strong experience of working with Go routines.
- Knowledge of static code analysis tools.
- Must have strong experience with Build and Release management, Agile processes and Estimations.
- Strong understanding of implementing server-side code and designing the data architecture using modern web frameworks.
- Strong understanding of designing database schema.
- Should know about micro-services.
- Writing highly optimised code on server.
- Should be a fast learner and go-getter without any fear of failing.
- Willingness to learn new technologies.
- Experience with popular Golang frameworks like Revel.
- Know how of HTML / PHP.