Software Development Engineer -II

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?

We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India. 

We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.

👩‍💻 The Role

• Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
• Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
• Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
• Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
• Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
• 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
• Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
• Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
• People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
• People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
• Anything else than can surprise us.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

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. 

Primary Responsibilities:
➢ Design and develop core server side components for our consumer facing site
as well as for fulfillment and inventory logistics
➢ Prototype new ideas
Experience / Skills Required:
➢ B.Tech or advanced degree in Computer Science with 8-12 years of progressive industry
experience
➢ Strong experience with Python development and Django framework or NodeJS required
➢ Strong experience with JavaScript , HTML, CSS, AJAX and JSON
➢ Strong experience with building reusable server components
➢ Strong experience with WebServices, XML, REST interfaces
➢ Strong experience with object oriented programming
➢ Strong experience with backend performance optimization and algorithms
➢ Strong experience with SQL, RDBMS, data modeling and MySQL, Oracle or other RDBMS
➢ Strong leadership / technology mentoring skills a must. Ability to do code and design reviews is a
key part of this role.
➢ Experience with Microservices / Distributed event based architectures desired.
➢ Deep experience with Linux based development and deployment architectures.
➢ Experience with database query tuning.
➢ Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS is a great plus
➢ Experience with frameworks such as Angular / React JS is a great plus
➢ Awareness of and experience with reactive programming is a plus
➢ Experience with Ecommerce/Consumer facing applications serving a large volume of users is a
great plus.
➢ Exposure to technologies like Kafka, Redis, Spark, Kinesis, Solr, ElasticSearch etc is a plus.
➢ Experience with NoSQL or BigData is a great plus
➢ Hands on Full Stack experience desired.
➢ Must be adept at experimenting with new technologies
➢ Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem
solving skills
➢ Must be able to work independently and enjoy working at a fast paced start-up environmen

Core Java,J2EE
Frameworks - Springboot, Hibernate, Junit
REST / SOAP Web Services Implementation
Micro-services and Data Structures experience
SQL and exposure to Oracle or MySql or SQL Server or any standard RDBMS
Scrum or SAFe or other Agile delivery ways
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), good interpersonal skills, ability to
understand/expand requirements & technical specs

Bachelor’s Degree (Masters preferred) in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of software development experience on web applications
• Experience in working in an onsite and offshore development model
• Must have hands-on design and development experience in Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, Microservices,
Java, J2EE, Spring/Boot, Hibernate, JUnit and Integration with front end via rest interfaces.
• Must have Hands-on experience in Multi-threading, Non-blocking IO, Kafka, JMS
• Strong integration background required. Experience with Microservices, REST, JSON and APIs is required
• Experience with as many of the following is highly desirable: Tomcat, Node.js, XML, XSLT, XPath, Web Services,
MongoDB, MYSQL, and query performance tuning
• Experience with code management and continuous integration techniques and tools such as Maven, Gradle, Github,
JMeter, Jenkins, NPM etc. is highly desirable
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and working knowledge in data structures, algorithms, problem-solving and
complexity analysis
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life
cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and
operations
• Proven ability to troubleshoot issues in production including root cause analysis
• Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
• Experience with Agile software development in a UNIX/Linux environment
• Experience with system architecture/design

Responsibilities Include:
You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.
Requirements:
● B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
● 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years
in an architectural role.
● Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge
plus.
● Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive
adoption within the extended technology team
● Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s),
platforms and core technologies
● Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering
process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond
ownership
● Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
● Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
● Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
● A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
● Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS,
message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra,
Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as
Docker and Kubernetes etc.
● Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right
trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.

Our company works on world’s most cutting-edge software products, and we want you to be a part of our team. We are currently in search of an experienced Software Developer to create and maintain software. The successful candidate will also help to develop critical products, and offer excellent technical support. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage in a positive and creative work environment that offers excellent benefits and flexible schedules.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Gupshup is a global leader in cloud messaging, enabling businesses to build engaging conversational experiences, seamlessly across 30+ messaging channels, using a globally available cloud API.

 

Gupshup handles over 4.5 billion messages per month and has processed over 225 billion messages, enabling over 36,000 businesses to engage nearly a billion users across channels including SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, WeChat, Viber, Slack, Android RCS, Mobile App and Mobile Web.

 

Gupshup offers a comprehensive product portfolio that includes an easy to use omni-channel messaging API, advanced bot building platform and mobile marketing tools. Gupshup has also forged strategic partnerships with Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and Cisco to offer innovative mobile messaging solutions with broad reach.

 

You could log on to https://www.gupshup.io/developer/home">https://www.gupshup.io/developer/home for more information.

 

Location: Mumbai (Goregaon East )

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Java and associated technologies.
• Should have worked with highly scalable web applications
• Good debugging capability
• Should be able to search through logs on server and narrow down to root cause of functional issue from stack trace or performance issue from logs of latency of different components.
• Product development experience in agile environment will be a big plus though not mandatory.
• Highly Tech Savvy and hands-on. Good exposure into design patterns
• Good understanding of OOPS concepts.
• Experience of working with open source technology and tools.

 

Regards,
Tina Dsouza

B2B companies have dramatically accelerated customer acquisition efforts by employing technology such as Salesforce.com, Marketo and Eloqua. But as more businesses are paid over time, customer acquisition is merely the beginning of the story. That’s why customer-driven enterprises are using Gainsight, the leading Customer Success Management solution, to proactively manage retention, reduce unexpected churn and identify upsell opportunities by leveraging “big data” analytics across sales data, usage logs, support ticket, surveys and other sources of customer intelligence.

What you'll do:

• Solve complex development problems and produce the highest quality code while striving to push technical boundaries
• Work closely with both external clients and internal, cross-functional product and technical teams to support multiple projects
• Maintain technical design documentation, communicating architectural and design changes to development teams
• Conduct regular design and code reviews, establishing and publishing quality and performance metrics
• Manage and foster a team-oriented environment, providing technical oversight to team members

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science
• 9+ years of experience working with .NET technologies, with advanced proficiency in C#
• A minimum of 4-5 years working with SQL Server Databases, designing new or altering existing table structures to meet project requirements
• Demonstrated knowledge of enterprise architecture and SOA services
• Strong background in web technologies and architectures
• Technical acumen and understanding of Agile technical practices and how they operate within an Agile organization
• Strong Communication Skills
• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment

 

Preferred qualifications:

• Data-driven, analytical approach to problem solving and project management
• Experience working in a product-based IT company and/or banking and financial services company
• Familiarity with multiple implementation standards and methodologies, including Agile
• Experience working with ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, NoSQL, Message Queue, and building Reusable Libraries