Senior Software Engineer - Product Development

As a seasoned professional, your influence extends beyond development; you will be instrumental in orchestrating rollout plans and adoption blueprints, thereby shaping our forward-thinking roadmap. Envision yourself leading and contributing to groundbreaking projects such as:

• Crafting a robust infrastructure adept at managing a surge of notifications with negligible latency.
• Building an auto-scaled system from scratch, integrating elements like queuing and caching to address pressing business needs.
• Engaging in profound dialogues to weigh the pros and cons of microservices versus monolithic architectures, steering the team towards the most beneficial approach.
• Overseeing systems that cater to millions of requests per second, enhancing performance through scalable strategies.
• Orchestrating a smooth database transition from self-hosted to managed setups, ensuring uninterrupted service.
• Designing a multi-cloud framework that amalgamates the prowess of diverse cloud platforms, guaranteeing reliability and efficiency.
• Leveraging AI to develop models capable of discerning patterns in creative content, including artworks and designs.
• Developing a swift and efficient data pipeline that can handle the ingestion and processing of millions of records without compromising on speed and performance.
• Excel in Customer Support by analyzing trends and proposing solutions, improve on-call processes, collaborates cross-functionally on bug fixes, and employs advanced debugging strategies for complex issues.
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Who You Are

• 4+ years of solid experience as a Backend Engineer, with expertise in handling large-scale projects using TypeScript/JavaScript, Python.
• Comprehensive understanding of database systems and adeptness in query optimization.
• Skilled in establishing and following best practices in API development and integration.
• A penchant for crafting simple, sustainable, and scalable solutions, with a proven track record of developing enduring systems.
• Agile learner with a proactive stance in adapting to the evolving SaaS landscape, prioritizing substantial business impact over mere code expansion.
• Proven leadership in fostering collaboration and drawing actionable insights from various organizational sectors, steering teams with a visionary and inclusive approach.
• Trusted figure in building and nurturing cross-functional relationships, commanding respect and trust across all organizational levels.
• Source of inspiration and motivation for new team members, often being the catalyst for engineers opting to join your team.
• Dedicated mentor with a deep-seated commitment to nurturing the growth of both engineers and managers, emphasizing personal development and mentorship.

Software Engineer for Java

• Understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns
• Strong with Java programming and Java Servlets.
• Proficient in API design and development using RESTful services (JSON, XML etc)
• Source code management using GIT
• Knowledge in Mongo DB and SQL or any equivalent No-SQL and Relational databases. 
• Experience working with Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery & HTML would be preferred.
• Experience in Node JS would be an added advantage. 

EmptyCup is an interior design platform. Our goal is to make good interior design accessible.

To know more about our vision, checkout this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_PBkSaHLep-QsZzRWdKMI3amc-KFe99z/view">intro presentation.

You can also checkout our https://emptycup.in/">website here to know more about the product offering.

Senior Backend Engineer (Platform) Full Time Bangalore (Potentially Remote)

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and develop core systems that will be power teams to build services and apps
• Ensure and constantly improve reliability, scalability, security and performance of core apis and infrastructure
• Be proactive in technical decision making and a sound influence in technical discussions
• Work with the product teams to help shape product direction by communicating limitations and possibilities
• Adopt and advocate best practices and guidelines in architecture, code conventions, development practice

Who we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience building web services in Python/Go/Java, preferably in Python with excellent debugging and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms and operating systems
• Proven experience in building, deploying and maintaining highly scalable RESTful web services
• Excellent written and oral communication ability in both technical and non tech. aspects
• Good understanding of benchmarking and performance monitoring - concurrency, multi-threading, logging, database optimisations
• Decent knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with shipping code quickly and reliably.

What we offer:

• Ownership of the platform core with a clear roadmap.
• A small cool meritocratic team that's driven by passion.
• An inspiring culture that balances creative exploration & heads down execution.
• Cash compensation upto 20L and negotiable stock in a gold mine.

Job description:

Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Engagement organization brings customers to visit amazon websites, engage them on site and help them purchase from Amazon’s retail sites. This is achieved through highly personalized messages delivered via all available large scale communication channels—both free and paid and offering engaging experience on website. The organization builds, operates, and improves the technology systems that power all marketing channels, and manages prioritization and marketing spend decisions. Consumer Marketing consists of a series of single-threaded technology and business teams, each of which owns the entirety of a channel of communication or customer segment: natural and paid search (i.e. SEO and SEM), affiliate marketing (Associates), display advertising, email, browser integration, and mobile marketing, retail customer experience technology teams.

This position is for a technology leader in Affiliate Marketing Technology group for attribution team. This team owns business critical systems that are responsible for attributing traffic to marketing channels and thrives on innovation to provide rich analytics to its internal and external customers. As a leader on the team, you will be responsible for tier1 critical systems, guide your team through the design, development, testing, and deployment of a range of products involving big data processing and dealing with near real time SLAs. You will have to deal with challenges of high availability (five 9s) guarantee, low latency and high throughput. In addition, you will build and manage roadmaps for software teams, developing cutting edge experiences. You will have sound technical acumen, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and hire, build, and develop your team. You are a true owner - you are deeply interested in product design, architecture, and you innovate relentlessly on behalf of our customers.

This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with our business teams across the world and other tech teams in Bangalore as we raise the bar in delivering innovation.

Primary responsibilities: 

• Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics 
• Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements. 
• Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments 
• Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner 
• Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables 
• Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years professional experience in software development management
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java, Scala, C#, C++ etc 
• Ability to solve complex technical problems and design robust, scalable solutions
• Ability to think critically and actively contribute to strategic choices.
• 3+ years experience in managing development teams working on multiple simultaneous projects.
• 3+ years experience in managing large scale software development teams following Agile development processes. 
• Strong skills in project planning & execution, problem solving. Ability to take a project from initial scoping requirements through actual launch and support of the project
• Proven leadership and teamwork skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both technical and non-technical discussions.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Deep, hands-on technical expertise in high scale, service-oriented architectures
• Exposure to Elastic Map Reduce and Machine Learning programs. 
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge 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
• Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions
• Proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Amazon’s business and relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables
• Strong business and technical vision
• Good understanding of web services

The Java/Backend Developer is responsible for the development and maintenance of Bytemark’s backend APIs. This person utilizes their knowledge of Java development & web technologies as an integral part of the software development team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain, and deliver highly scalable and reliable APIs
• Collaborate with development team and product owners to analyze, design, and implement user stories using an agile methodology.
• Write high-quality software code that complies with design specifications and meets development and support requirements.
• Develop unit tests and test changes using an agile methodology.
• Use a variety of tools to perform unit testing, automated builds, and source control.
• Participate as a member in Agile teams, and work with other team member to review user stories, estimate effort for user stories, and participate in sprint reviews.
• Maintaining current web and back-end features
• Learning new skills and technologies as company products and industry standards warrant

Required Skills:

• 2-6 years of experience building RESTful APIs
• 2+ year of hands-on Java experience using Play 1.x framework
• Knowledge of Spring or Grails frameworks is a plus
• Ability to write SQL.
• Understanding of OOP
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) using JUnit, Selenium or a similar technology
• Basic knowledge of Unix
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• 3-8 years of software development experience
• Undergraduate degree in the field of computer science or equivalent
• Able to handle multiple tasks in a fast paced environment