Senior Software Engineer

Engineering Manager – Backend

 

Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?

 

Series D funded supply chain startup.

 

Requirements

 

• Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
• Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack

 

Technologies Used

 

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture

 

Roles and Responsibilities

 

This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product

stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:

 

Business and product alignment and planning

 

• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
• Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
• Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.

1. Product and system development

• Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
• Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
• Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
• Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.

1. Project Management

• Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
• Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
• Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.

1. Maintenance

• Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
• Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
• Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.

1. Team Management

• Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
• Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
• Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.

Product Overview

 

You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors

 

include:

 

• Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
• Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
• Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
• Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
• Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

Backend Cloud Engineer @ CricStox
CricStox is a Pune startup building a trading solution in the realm of gametech x fintech.
We intend to build a sport-agnostic platform to allow trading in stocks of sportspersons under any sport
through our mobile & web-based applications.
We’re currently hiring a Backend Cloud Engineer who will gather, refine specifications and requirements
based on technical needs and implement the same by using best software development practices.
Responsibilities?
● Mainly, but not limited to maintaining, expanding, and scaling our microservices/ app/ site.
● Integrate data from various back-end services and databases.
● Always be plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and
activities.
● Comfortably work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web
technologies and techniques.
● Juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines and budgets with business acumen.
What skills do I need?
● Excellent programming skills in Javascript or Typescript.
● Excellent programming skills in Nodejs with Nestjs framework or equivalent.
● A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and
best development practices.
● Good working knowledge and experience of how AWS cloud infrastructure works including services
like APIGateway, Cognito, S3, EC2, RDS, SNS, MSK, EKS is a MUST.
● Solid understanding of distributed event streaming technologies like Kafka is a MUST.
● Solid understanding of microservices communication using Saga Design pattern is a MUST.
● Adequate knowledge of database systems, OOPs and web application development.
● Adequate knowledge to create well-designed, testable, efficient APIs using tools like Swagger (or
equivalent).
● Good functional understanding of ORMs like Prisma (or equivalent).
● Good functional understanding of containerising applications using Docker.
● Good functional understanding of how a distributed microservice architecture works.
● Basic understanding of setting up Github CI/CD pipeline to automate Docker images building,
pushing to AWS ECR & deploying to the cluster.
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git (or equivalent).
● Hands-on experience with network diagnostics, monitoring and network analytics tools.
● Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills.

Requirements:
You have 7 years or more of backend development experience with expertise in designing and
implementing high-performance applications.
Worked with and built high performance products using Node Js/GoLang/ Python and have seen
the product evolution cycle from PoC to Production
You have a deep understanding of design principles and can rightly judge/implement solutions to
complex problems
You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a
particular language/framework.
You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.
You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either
yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then
production environment, and finally monitoring.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

 

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking

Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Must Have Skills
- Hands-on programmer with ability to write idiomatic code in Java
- Strong preference to write automated unit & integration tests
- Prior experience in designing & deploying Microservices and performant REST APIs
- Good understanding of and experience in Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
- Hand-on experience using one of the server-side Java frameworks such as Spring Boot
- Excellent communication skills

Nice to have
- Experience working with AWS or other Cloud providers
- Experience working in Event-Driven systems (using Apache Kafka or something similar)
- Exposure to Angular or React

TECHNICAL SKILLSET REQUIRED :

- 2+ years of professional software development experience

- 2+ years of object-oriented Java / J2EE development

- Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc- )

- Experience with Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring

- Experience with SOAP / REST web services

- Knowledge of SQL

- Knowledge of No SQL concepts, understanding of Solr, Redis and Mongo DB is desirable

- Understanding concepts of CDN & Content Management

- Must have worked on any one messaging solutions

 Bonus Points for micro service design and development experience

- Bonus points for any mobile development experience

- Used Agile methodology

- Experience leading or working with cross geography teams

- Bonus Points for experience working on Unix, shell scripting & Build Systems

- Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage

POSITION :

- You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle. Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding, testing, customer feedback cycle changes and support.

- Primary role in software development with object-oriented Java

- The customized solutions that you will be architecting and developing will also require knowledge and experience with spring / Hibernate, SOAP / REST, and SQL.

- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and willingness to read and digest large existing source code and take ownership on complex component or subsystem to drive improvements and re-architecture

- Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the design and development of global platforms

- Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, cloud based or hosted product platforms

- Drive the implementation of new technologies which improve our ability to build great customers products.

- Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.

QUALIFICATION : 

- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

- M-Tech or advanced degree a plus

- Hackathon participation and accolades are a plus

Job Role : 

Quinbay is an upstart digital platforms and products company with a core focus on disrupting traditional markets and business models with the strength of our innovation driven digital value. We harness the power of our open innovation culture, our unique talent selection approach, the skills and expertise of our people across various industries, domains and technologies and a unique blend of analytics driven strategies for creating future digital platforms.

OPPORTUNITIES :

- Pursue opportunities in and learning/growth interests in Mobile, product development, product management, Analytics, Machine learning, UI/UX design, DevOps, Automation, Drones, bots and Java / open source development frameworks and methodologies - on a variety of domains like eCommerce, Logistics and fulfilment, Mcommerce and a whole lot others.

- Opportunities to be part of fastest growing eCommerce platforms in exciting application areas like core commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, merchant, mobile commerce, analytics, automation and a lot more for the global markets positioned for Asia.

Dear Aspirants, We are looking for smart coders who are cognizant of business, product and quality. Requirements Have a taste for solving complex and interesting problems. A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design. Extensive and expert programming experience in any one programming language. Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces. Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming is must. Worked in a startup like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment. Should have basic operational experience including deployments and maintenance of aws services like ec2, rds, sns, sqs, route53 etc. Strongly practice writing unit and integration tests with reasonable coverage of code. Experience building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows. Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline. Regards, Cibi M Thomas

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