Software Development Engineer IV at Tophatter · Remote only · 9 - 11 years · Profitable · Remote only · Posted 18 Mar 2021
Perks
- Best hardware and software to help you get the job done in the best way possible
- Remote office allowance to support you regardless of where you work
- Learning and development allowance to help you grow your career
- Flexible leave policy to give you more control over your time.
- Health insurance for your family and you to keep you well.
Required experience and skills
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Bonus: Masters degree.9+ years of total full-time work experience, preferably shipping SaaS applications.
- Startup experience strongly desired.
- Played a pivotal role in scaling a company and led teams in an agile environment where iteration has led to perfection.
- Proven track record of on time project deliveries with balanced calls on technical designs and tech debt.
- Expert proficiency in:
- 1. Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Mysql, Linux, Git, AWS, CI/CD, NewRelic.
- 2. broad range of internet technologies and applications.
- 3. interacting, building, and improving the performance of systems end-to-end.
- 4. architecting/designing complex systems
- Strong collaborator and thought partner to Product team.Driven by outcomes more than output.
- Have led projects with small, dynamic, and fast-paced teams (3-5 engineers), with great flexility and adaptability on large projects, delegating working effectively.
- Viewed by the team as their evangelist, role model and bar raiser.
- Past teams and co-workers attest to your prowess & agility in building great products, and driving sound technical decision making.Mentored engineers within and outside own team.
- High on EQ, humility, curiosity and self drive.
Responsibilities
We use a rubric / career ladder as a framework to help our engineers grow in their careers. Please refer to the SDE IV section in the rubric (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z_51E1mZ3qf0MBuAyfHjKE1HN6h_yghAx2WMaB1z-Ms/edit?usp=sharing">click to view) to understand our expectations on your role and responsibilities.
Your responsibilities include:
- Leading completion and delivery of multiple concurrent projects with clear deliverable timelines and milestones
- Providing key input and guidance in helping to solve our most difficult and challenging issues, and providing recommendations for preventing or mitigating the effects of the issues in the future
- Identifying inconsistencies caused by lack of best practices and patterns, and proactively collaborate with the team to gather input to define and rollout new best practices
- Mentoring other engineers on increasing their impact both within and outside of their team, including identifying opportunities for them to do so
- Participate in shaping longer term technical and architectural goals in consideration of product/company strategy, organizational growth, scalability, security, and other factors
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- Monitor production systems and provide support through on-call rotations.
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Mandatory Skills
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Agile scrum participation experience. Work experience with several agile teams on an application built
with microservices and event-based architectures to be deployed on hybrid (on-prem/cloud)
environments.
Good knowledge of Spring framework (MVC, Cloud, Data and Security. Etc) and ORM framework like
JPA/Hibernate.
Experience in managing the Source Code Base through Version Control tool like SVN, GitHub,
Bitbucket, etc.
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subscribers/customers.
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Experience in performing Java Code Review using review tools like SonarQube, etc.
Good understanding of end-to-end software development lifecycle. Ability to read and understand
requirements and design documents.
Good Analytical skills and should be self-driven.
Good communication with inter-personal skills.
Open for learning new technologies and domain.
A good team player and ready to take up new challenges. Active communication and coordination with
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Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redshift, MongoDB
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Cloud Services: AWS and Azure
Version Controls/ Devops tools: Git, Bitbucket and Jenkins.
Message brokers: RabbitMQ, and Kafka
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Build Tools: Gradle/Maven
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- Knowledge of the Principles & Patterns of Agile Software
- Ability to understand and troubleshoot existing code and maintain existing systems.
- Ability to identity performance bottlenecks.
- Experience working with version control tools such as GIT and CI/CD tools.
Regards
Sundaravalli
Desired Experience
3+ years
Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
- The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis
What you bring to the table
- 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Java & Node / Rust /Python & Go
- Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Great communication skills
Bonus if you have…
- Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
- Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
- Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
- Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES (include but are not limited to)
Implement new features using Ruby on Rails/ReactJS/MySql/AWS tech stack.
Learn our cloud-based application and our human business processes.
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service; set up an API between that service and the main application.
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LOCATION: New Delhi
PRIMARY SKILLS: Java, AWS, Spring, Spring, multithreading, mySql, mongoDB.
EDUCATION: B.Tech/B.E. in Any Specialization, MCA
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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
•Hands-On experience on Springboot, Spring MVC, Web services (RESTful/Web Client API), JPA, Microservices.
•In depth understanding of Databases (mySQL/NoSQL).
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• Immediate Joiners Preferred
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