Software Developer

As Backend developer, you will play a key role in building a product that will impact the way users experience Yoga and Fitness. Working closely with our technical and product leadership you will help solve for securing the performance, experience and scalability of our product. With your erudite experience, you will play a key part in our product and growth roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• At least 3 years of experience in product development and backend technologies, with strong understanding of the technology and familiarity with latest trends in backend technology developments.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of new features, driving projects from concept to deployment.
• Optimize application performance and ensure high availability across systems.
• Implement robust security and data protection measures to safeguard critical information.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and architectural planning, ensuring long-term scalability and efficiency.
• Create and maintain clear, concise technical documentation for new systems, architectures, and codebases. Lead knowledge-sharing sessions to promote best practices across teams.
• Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers, guiding them through complex problem-solving, architectural decisions, and best practices. Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews to ensure high standards of code quality.
• Work closely with product managers, front-end developers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, design systems, and deliver impactful product features within reasonable timelines.
• Continuously identify opportunities for system improvements, automation, and optimizations. Lead efforts to implement new technologies and processes that enhance engineering productivity and product performance.
• Take ownership of critical incidents, performing root cause analysis and implementing long-term solutions to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively at various levels - intra-team, inter-group, spoken skills, and written skills - including email, presentation and articulation skills.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in backend software engineering with a strong track record of delivering complex backend systems, preferably in cloud-native environments.
• Strong experience with designing and maintaining large-scale databases (SQL and NoSQL) and knowledge of performance optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native architectures (containers, serverless, microservices) is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including CI/CD, test automation, and Agile methodologies.
• Proven ability to solve complex engineering problems with innovative solutions and practical thinking.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and influence technical direction across teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for career advancement and professional growth.
• A supportive and dynamic team environment where innovation and creativity are encouraged.

About Company:

MyYogaTeacher is a fast-growing health tech startup with a mission to improve the physical and mental well-being of the entire planet. We are the first online marketplace to connect qualified Fitness and Yoga coaches from India with consumers worldwide to provide personalized 1-on-1 sessions via live video conference (app, web). We started in 2019 and have been showing tremendous traction with rave customer reviews.

• Over 200,000 happy customers
• Over 335,000 5 star reviews
• Over 150 Highly qualified coaches on the platform
• 95% of sessions are being completed with 5-star rating

Headquartered in California, with operations based in Bangalore, we are dedicated to providing exceptional service and promoting the benefits of yoga and fitness coaching worldwide. To learn more about us, visit https://myyogateacher.com/aboutus

We put our employees' well-being at the forefront by providing competitive industry salaries and robust benefits packages. Were proud to foster an inclusive workplace and make a positive impact on the community. Additionally, we actively promote internal mobility and professional development at every stage of your career.

Read more on our mission and culture at https://myyogateacher.com/articles/company-mission-culture

What You'll Do


You will be part of our data platform & data engineering team. As part of this agile team, you will work in our cloud native environment and perform following activities to support core product development and client specific projects:

• You will develop the core engineering frameworks for an advanced self-service data analytics product.
• You will work with multiple types of data storage technologies such as relational, blobs, key-value stores, document databases and streaming data sources.
• You will work with latest technologies for data federation with MPP (Massive Parallel Processing) capabilities
• Your work will entail backend architecture to enable data modeling, data queries and API development for both back-end and front-end data interfaces.
• You will support client specific data processing needs using SQL and Python/Pyspark
• You will integrate our product with other data products through Django APIs
• You will partner with other team members in understanding the functional / non-functional business requirements, and translate them into software development tasks
• You will follow the software development best practices in ensuring that the code architecture and quality of code written by you is of high standard, as expected from an enterprise software
• You will be a proactive contributor to team and project discussions

Who you are


• Strong education track record - Bachelors or an advanced degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline from Indian Institute of Technology or equivalent premium institute.
• 2-3 years of experience in data queries, data processing and data modeling
• Excellent ANSI SQL skills to handle complex queries
• Excellent Python and Django programming skills.
• Strong knowledge and experience in modern and distributed data stack components such as the Spark, Hive, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure) and native cloud technologies for data storage and data processing
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Blobs, MongoDB etc.
• Familiarity with ML models is highly preferred
• Experience with Big Data processing and performance optimization
• Should know how to write modular, optimized and documented code.
• Should have good knowledge around error handling.
• Experience in version control systems such as GIT
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Self-starter, continuous learner.

Good to have some exposure to

• Start-up experience is highly preferred
• Exposure to any Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau, Dundas, Power BI etc.
• Agile software development methodologies.
• Working in multi-functional, multi-location teams

What You'll Love About Us – Do ask us about these!

• Be an integral part of the founding team. You will work directly with the founder
• Work Life Balance. You can't do a good job if your job is all you do!
• Prepare for the Future. Academy – we are all learners; we are all teachers!
• Diversity & Inclusion. HeForShe!
• Internal Mobility. Grow with us!
• Business knowledge of multiple sectors

Excellent programming skills in C/C++ and Python
Need experience on cloud/Virtualization experience.
Strong working experience in developing application on Linux 
Experience of working with multi-threading, IPC and socket programming is must.
Familiarity with OS concepts like memory management, scheduling etc. is desirable.
Familiarity with TCP/IP protocol stack is desirable
Knowledge of Linux networking stack including conceptual understanding of IPsec, iptables, conntrack, bridging, policy based routing etc. is desirable
Familiarity with container technology
Aware of Agile Methodologies, CI/CD methods
Experienced with all phases of project in development, testing and deployment and management of enterprise solutions.
Excellent verbal written communication skills.
Self-motivation and the ability to work under aggressive timeline is must.
Strong problem-solving skills and very good time management skills

Role- Software Development Engineer-2

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Top Skills

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Roles & Responsibilities
• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object-oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

About Amazon.com

“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.

Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.

We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.

About Amazon India

Amazon teams in India work on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, including Amazon websites across the world as well as support Payments, Transportation, and Digital products and services like the Kindle family of tablets, e-readers and the store. We are proud to have some of the finest talent and strong leaders with proven experience working to make Amazon the Earth’s most customer-centric company.

We made our foray into the Indian market with the launch of Junglee.com, enabling retailers in India to advertise their products to millions of Indian shoppers and drive targeted traffic to their stores. In June 2013, we launched http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in for shoppers in India. With http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in, we endeavor to give customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient online shopping experience. In just over a year of launching our India operations, we have expanded our offering to over 18 million products across 36 departments and 100s of categories! Our philosophy of working backwards from the customers is what drives our growth and success.

We will continue to strive to become a trusted and meaningful sales and logistics channel for retailers of all sizes across India and a fast, reliable and convenient online shopping destination for consumers. For us, it is always “Day 1” and we are committed to aggressively invest over the long-term and relentlessly focus on raising the bar for customer experience in India.

Amazon India offers opportunities where you can dive right in, work with smart people on challenging problems and make an impact that contributes to the lives of millions. Join us so you can - Work Hard, Have Fun and Make History.