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About SmartQ

A leading B2B Food-Tech company built on 4 pillars-great people, great food, great experience, and greater good. Solving complex business problems with our heart and analyzing possible solutions with our mind lie in our DNA. We are on the perpetual route of serving our clients wholeheartedly. Armed with the stability of an MNC and the agility of a start-up, we have spread across 17 countries, having collaborated and executed successfully with 600 clients. We have grown from strength to strength with a blend of exuberant youth and exceptional experience. Bengaluru, being our headquarters, is known as the innovation hub and we have grown up to be the global leader in the institutional food tech space. We were recently acquired by the world's largest foodservice company – Compass group which has an annual turnover of 20 billion USD.  

In this role, you will:

1. Collaborate with Product & Design Teams Work closely with the Product team to ensure that we are building a scalable, bug-free platform. You will actively participate in product and design discussions, offering valuable insights from a backend perspective to align technology with business goals.

2. Drive Adoption of New Technologies

You will lead brainstorming sessions and define a clear direction for the backend team to incorporate the latest technologies into day-to-day development,continuously optimizing for performance, scalability, and efficiency.

3. RESTful API Design & Development:You will ensure that the APIs you design and develop are well-structured, following best practices, and are suitable for consumption by frontend teams across multiple platforms. A key part of your role is making sure these APIs are scalable and maintainable.

4. Third-Party Integration Support:As we sometimes partner with third-party providers to expedite our market entry,you’ll work closely with these partners to integrate their solutions into our system.This involves participating in calls, finding the best integration methods, and providing ongoing support.

5. AI and Prompt Engineering:With AI becoming more integral to backend development, you’ll leverage AI to speed up development processes and maintain best practices. Familiarity with prompt engineering and AI-driven problem-solving is a significant plus in our team.

Must-Have Requirements:

• Strong expertise in Python, microservices, backend development and scalable architectures.
• Proficiency in designing and building REST APIs.
• Experience with unit testing in any testing framework and maintaining 100% code coverage.
• Experience in working with NoSQL DB.
• Strong understanding of any Cloud platforms such as - GCP/AWS/Azure.
• Profound knowledge in Serverless design pattern .
• Familiarity with Django or Webapp2 or Flask or similar web app frameworks.
• Experience in writing unit test using any testing framework.
• Experience collaborating with product and design teams.
• Familiarity with integrating third-party solutions.

Good-to-Have Requirements:

• Educational background includes a degree (B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech) in ComputerScience, Engineering, or a related field.  
• 4+ years’ experience as a backend/cloud developer.
• Good understanding of google cloud platform.
• Knowledge of AI and how to leverage it for day-to-day tasks in backend development.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering to enhance productivity.
• Prior experience working with global or regional teams.
• Experience with agile methodologies and working within cross-functional teams.

No one should have to make life’s big decisions alone.

At Unibuddy, we're on a mission to connect prospective students to current university students and staff. Shared experience empowers students with the information they need to make life’s first biggest decision: where to go to university and what to study.

Unibuddy's technology helps Higher Education institutions enable prospective students to chat directly with student ambassadors and staff, and to take part in online live events. We provide data tools and insights so that universities attract, engage and retain a diverse student population.

Since launching in 2017, we’ve grown rapidly and now work with over 300 Higher Education institutions in 28 countries worldwide. We’ve raised over $13M from top-tier investors that will fuel our expansion and help us achieve our ambitious goal of empowering 10 million students to make the right choice about their Higher Education journey.

In the next chapter of our journey, we’re looking to take a huge step forward. We're transforming our product offering. We're changing the way both prospective and current students make their life-determining decisions on a global scale. This, and our recent success, means that we need to scale. We're looking for people to help us supercharge our growth, while we continue to embody the values that have got us so far already.

🧗🏻‍♀️ Your Mission 🧗🏾‍♂

As a Software Engineer, you will help drive Unibuddy’s growth by helping build and enhance our products that are aimed at aiding prospective universities and students, turning them into happy and successful users of Unibuddy. We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic engineer to join our engineering team in Bangalore and help accelerate our next phase of growth.

As we are a rapidly growing company you will gain exposure to all areas of the platform, understanding the key success drivers at an early stage engineering team and gaining invaluable experience for your future career. Success in this role will lead to opportunities for growth across the entire engineering team with significant scope for future development.

👩🏻‍🔧 Your day to day tasks will be...

• Quality and consistency: Consistently deliver high quality code. Maintain code quality across the team by reviewing code written by other members of the team
• Constant Learning: Acquire expertise of the codebase to answer questions for newer devs on how to design features around our codebase
• Knowledge sharing: Have extended knowledge of design patterns to help newer devs on finding the appropriate coding solution to a technical problem
• Mentorship: Organising knowledge sharing session when finds out a domain is uncovered by other members of the team
• Setting standards: Proposes set of coding standards for the team
• Going beyond: explores new technologies and new techniques the team could use
• External point of contact: should be able to answer questions about the stack from other non-technical teams
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👨🏽‍💻 This might be for you if…

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or any other related field. The equivalent of this in working experience is also acceptable for the position
• Self-motivated, hard-working, coachable, and driven with a strong entrepreneurial spirit
• Enjoys working in a collaborative atmosphere where new ideas are valued
• 2+ years of overall professional web development experience
• Communicate effectively in fluent English
• Experienced in Javascript, and ReactJS / React Native OR Angular 
• Experienced in industry standard coding practices
• Organising knowledge sharing session when finds out a domain is uncovered by other members of the team
• Have experience working on projects involving test-driven software development
• Most Important: Understands the value of our product and is driven to make it a success
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🎁 Key Benefits

• Stock options based on performance
• Personal development budget of ₹80,000 per year to be used for courses, books, conferences
• Private Unibuddy office in Bangalore with lounge, ping pong tables, conference rooms and more!
• 25 days paid holiday each year
• Flexible working hours
• Work from home Wednesdays
• Conveyance allowance
• Health Insurance
• Free lunches on work from office days
• Bi-weekly tech lunches for a fun learning experience
• Monthly social outings
• 2 weeks personal project time each year
• Yearly cross-tribe pollinations (we have another engineering team in London)
• Wholesome development experience with MacBook Pro and extra monitor(s)
• Regular and transparent appraisals based on performance 
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🚀 More about our Team

As an engineering team, we are dedicated, hardworking and always looking to learn and improve our craft. This happens in regular knowledge sharing sessions with both Full Stack and Machine Learning teams, and we are always keen to collaborate when a challenging problem comes up.

In our work, we use industry best practices like TDD, CI/CD and code reviews as part of building every feature. We also continually evaluate new technologies to see if they can help improve our platform.

You can check out the technologies that we work with
here: https://stackshare.io/unibuddy/unibuddy-platform">https://stackshare.io/unibuddy/unibuddy-platform

Job Description :

Hiring for Staff Engineer (Back end) for a leading product based company at DLF IT Park, Chennai.

Skill Set :

- Strong Experience in any Programming language (Ruby, Go, Java, or other high-performance languages), Architecture, Design (HLD/LLD), Data structures, Algorithms, Hands-on Coding, Problem Solving, etc

- Experience in Web Technology is Must.

- Looking for candidates with good experience in product development.

- Candidates from product development companies will be preferred.

- Candidates willing to relocate/preferring Chennai can apply.

Responsibilities :

- Analyze and drive product requirements

- Architect and design product features for scale and maintainability

- Lead in the design, implementation, and deployment of successful systems and services

- Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems

- Implement code with very high coverage of unit tests and component tests

- Perform design and code reviews

- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions

- Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations

- Possess expert knowledge in performance, security, scalability, architecture, and best practices

- Software development of high quality/availability core systems

- Cross-training peers and mentoring teammates

- Document HLD/LLD for easy knowledge sharing and future scaling

Must have :

- 8-12 years of experience designing, integrating and developing distributed applications in Ruby, Go, Java, or other high-performance languages

- Experience with cluster and container orchestration systems such as Docker, Mesos, Marathon, Salt or Kubernetes.

- Experience with Service design, systems engineering, API Design and versioning

- Understanding of Design Patterns, Serverless computing, cloud-first architecture, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Integration Patterns

Good to have :

- Experience building distributed systems using Kafka. Strong grasp of fundamental concepts of Kafka, ZooKeeper and building producer and consumer applications using Kafka

- Familiarity writing and optimizing advanced SQL queries

- Good Linux/UNIX systems knowledge

- AWS compute and storage PaaS services. AWS certified solutions architect nice to have.

- Experience productionizing Machine Learning models

- Experience publishing technical papers in reputed conferences.