Senior Software Engineer- Backend

About Performio

Headquartered in Irvine, California, and with offices in San Francisco and Melbourne, Performio continues to offer sales performance management software for businesses looking to automate their sales compensation calculations and provide increased transparency to their sales reps.

Used by large global enterprises such as Veeva, GrubHub, Johnson & Johnson, and Vodafone - as well as growing mid-market companies - Performio is a new breed of sales compensation software that combines the enterprise-grade functionality that you need with the ease of use you’ve come to expect from modern software applications.

What’s the opportunity?

As Staff Engineer, you will play a leading role in turning our product vision into reality, while working with other senior Product Engineering staff to design and develop our systems. 

You’ll join an enthusiastic and experienced Product Engineering team in our Bangalore office, with plenty of flexibility to work from home as required. When you join our team, you’ll be the development lead for India, which currently consists of one team with expectations to expand. 

This isn’t your average Lead Engineer role; expect to be heavily involved in product discovery as the Engineering voice alongside your peers in Product and Design. You’ll be engaged in forward planning while also coaching and pairing with your team to execute on product requirements. You’ll also take a seat on our Technology Council to establish contemporary systems architectures that are highly scalable, durable, and based on current best practices.

Our product is written mainly in Java, Spring and ReactJS, and runs on AWS across multiple regions. We use tools like GitHub, Docker and Buildkite and deploy our systems and monitor our technology using CloudWatch, OpsGenie and Open Telemetry while embracing AI tooling to deliver with efficiency. We’re looking for someone to help us evolve how our systems hang together while we grow our team and capability.

What will U be doing?

Creating change in a complex system. The technical lead for a team, making well-considered decisions around patterns, principals, frameworks, languages and tools, thinking through and mitigating for potential cascading impacts of those changes.

Acting as a trusted advisor. Partner with PMs, engineers and customer-facing teams to negotiate appropriate product architectures with consideration for user needs, business goals and technology constraints.

Designing and developing well-architected systems. Understand and contribute to our product source code and cloud infrastructure.

Designing holistically, delivering iteratively. Break down system-wide architecture recommendations into small, intelligently planned increments for delivery. 

Advocate for technology needs. Translate technology risk into opportunity during product and technology roadmap discussions and advise on the required 

 areas of focus.

Coach and mentor. Thoughtfully lead the team around you and assist with career development of less experienced staff on our teams.

 What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated experience as a lead or staff engineer, with at least 10 years experience in technology roles
• Experience working on technical leadership teams involved in roadmap planning, hiring and staff capacity planning
• You’re opinionated on what “great code” looks like and you’re passionate about code quality
• Experience working on complex systems and cloud architectures
• Excellent understanding of the Java programming language, frameworks such as Spring & SpringBoot and frontend technologies like React.
• Excellent understanding of data structures and database design
• Excellent knowledge of AWS services, design patterns and practices
• Highly effective at communicating, and comfortable whiteboarding architecture ideas with teams of engineers, product managers, and business analysts
• Desire to challenge the status quo and maturity to know when to compromise
• Respect for and ability to collaborate and influence team members from all disciplines and at all levels throughout the business

Requirements:

• Proficient in fundamental Software Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, Problem Solving and Complexity Analysis.
• Proficient in programming languages like Python/Java/Javascript/Golang or similar.
• Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Hands-on Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases such as Postgres, Mysql, MongoDB.
• Hands-on experience with GIT, CI/CD, REST APIs and Cloud ( AWS/ GCP/ Azure) will be preferred.
• Understanding of Microservice Architecture and System Design Principles is a plus.
• Self-driven, detail-oriented and Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and ability to deliver great work.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing, releasing and maintaining large scale software applications.

The ideal candidate will be familiar with the full software design life cycle. They should have experience in designing, coding, testing and consistently managing applications They should be comfortable coding in a number of languages and have an ability to test code in order to maintain high-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test and manage various applications
• Collaborate with engineering team and product team to establish best products
• Follow outlined standards of quality related to code and systems
• Develop automated tests and conduct performance tuning

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
• 1+ years of experience working with .NET, Asp.net or relevant experiences
• Experience developing web-based applications in Asp.net, Dot net Core, jQuery, HTML5, Rest base API integration
• Understanding DB,PL/SQL, Webform
• Experience working in agile development environment

Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role:

• Document all technical requirements and design technical solutions utilizing enterprise architecture standards including documenting all solution components and configurations
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
• Ensure designs follow specifications.
• Ability to work independently.
• Persistent problem solver but know when to ask for help.
• Open-minded, transparent and able to learn and adapt.
• Good communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude.

• Strong experience in Java Development
• Deep expertise and hands-on experience with Web Applications
• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot is an added advantage.
• Experience in Microservices
• Hands-on design experience with Web Services (REST, SOAP, etc ..).
• Strong grasp of security principles.

Nice to Have

• Spring Zuul
• Kafka
• cryptography and certificates

Abilities:

• Developer with  strong ability to develop web applications using Java
• Should be able to Code, design, and implement
• Maintain code integrity and organization

• Web development using PHP & experience in coding on MVC architecture of Laravel
• REST API knowledge is a must with oAuth security
• Understanding of mobile apps with REST API integration, firebase & google analytics is important
• Need to have knowledge of querying MySQL & NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Experience with Node Js for our notification system

• Understanding of cloud services like Google cloud & AWS ec2 instance is a bonus for the profile