Software Development Engineer

We're looking for a Backend Lead Engineer to join our Engineering Team. The Engineering Team forms the backbone of our core business. We build and iterate over our core platform that handles orders, payments, delivery promises, order tracking, logistics integrations to name a few. Our products are actively used by Fynd users, Operations, Delights, and Finance teams. Our team consists of generalist engineers who work on building REST APIs, Internal tools, and Infrastructure for all these users.

What will you do at Fynd?

• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 2-5 engineers, Delegating tasks, and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
• Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases with the team.
• Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
• Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well operate large-scale applications on AWS
• Give back to the open-source community through contributions on code and blog posts
• This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements
• Write technical documentation

Some Specific Requirements

• Atleast 2+ years of Tech Lead Experience, 5+ years of Development Experience
• You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
• Hands-on experience in JavaScript / Python / Node.Js. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good at any other language with experience in building web-app based tech products
• Good knowledge of async programming using Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await
• Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Flask, Sanic, Fastapi would be plus
• Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Express.js, Koa.js, Socket.io
• Hands-on experience with Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and AJAX. Plus knowledge of Frontend Frameworks and Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - React.Js, Angular, Vue.js.
• Deep knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, or MySQL
• Basic knowledge of event-based systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• You should have experience with deploying and scaling Microservices.
• You've worked with AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• Deep Knowledge of Cloud-Native Application Architecture: Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices

Job description

Tech Stack: C#, .NET Core, XUnit, Entity Framework Core, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Git, JIRA, Confluence

Senior (Lead) .NET Developer Responsibilities: -

Interface with product owners and software architects to review and finalize requirements

- Participate in the full SDLC including analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and support of new features and applications

- Actively lead and participate in agile ceremonies (Standups, Refinements, Retrospectives, Planning, and Requirement’s discussions)

- Communicate effectively, clearly, and thoroughly with the Scrum Team and Stakeholders - Provide innovative solutions to complex problems

- Design, develop and modify software applications/systems according to specifications

- Develop technical documentation including services, object, and data model

- Create high quality code and perform code reviews

- Create unit and integration tests to ensure the code quality and functionality

- Proactively learn and share knowledge of technology and compare advantages and disadvantages of alternative solutions/technologies

- Identify areas needing process improvements and see them through to resolution

- Support and coach other Developers, provide technical guidance

- Help onboard new team members

Job Type: Full-time

• Analyze highly complex business requirements;
• generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications;
• Acts as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts;
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner;
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment;
• Individual contributor to build the application for e-commerce platform;
• Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported areas;
• Working in cloud data stores to include S3, DynamoDB and/or Amazon RDS;
• Perform test automation in a test-driven development environment;
• Implement DevOps concepts, tools and continuous delivery pipelines - Bamboo, Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, Jira, etc;
• Implement instrumentation to gather business-specific metrics around consumer usage patterns;

Java Backend Engineer - Fintech Rocketship Pilot

Distributed systems, scalability, reliability, robustness, security, quality, building responsive real time systems - do these terms get your adrenaline high? Come be a part of a high growth, fast paced engineering team building for India’s new generation.

We have an open culture, you take responsibility and ownership of what you do. No bureaucracy. No bullsh*t.

If you are up for big engineering challenges, personal and professional growth, then let’s join forces!

You’ll fit right in if you have - 2-3 years of experience building, running and maintaining production services Strong with Java and JVM based services along with PostgreSQL Comfortable working with multiple cloud providers: mainly GCP and AWS Comfortable with CI and CD tools and best practices Done TDD and values TDD

Good to have –

Postgress developer cum database architect

5-7 years experience

Knowledge and experience, specifically PostGre

-           SQL

-           Query Optimization / Optimization strategies (in PostGre)

-           AWS - RDS Relational Databse Service

-           Optional: AWS – RDS API / PostGre API

• Write lots of bug-free, efficient, scalable and reusable code.
• Write unit tests and take responsibility for the quality of your own code.
• Coach, encourage and mentor your fellow software developers to do the same.
• Consult with product owners to define, scope and plan new features.
• Test, evaluate and recommend technologies to improve the overall product.
• Be a key participant in the Agile process.
• Produce excellent documentation.
• Undertake and implement processes for smoother and efficient deployment of code base
• Maintain code base as it grows bigger and scales

What we value

• 2-3 Years of experience building and shipping API’s using python based frameworks
• Proficiency with NoSql Databases (Elastic, Mongo) is a must
• Experience in working with Amazon Cloud Services like SNS, SQS, VPC, etc. is preferred
• Experience with databases migration and system re-architecture is valued
• Ability to write modular, reusable, and clean code
• Comfortable with ticket management and documentation

Position Responsibilities:
1.     Design, implementation, and deployment of applications
2.     Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
3.     Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
4.     Work extensively with cross-functional teams across.
5.     Work with the business team and project managers to convert functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
6.     The ideal candidate will be a leader, builder, and operator. He/she should be able to operate in a very fast-paced environment where time to hit the market is supercritical.

Desired Candidate profile: 
1.     A Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education from Elite College or institution and work experience.
2.     4+ years of Software Development experience.
3.     Excellent object-oriented design and coding skills (Java, C++ on a UNIX or Linux platform).
4.     Very strong software development background including design patterns, data structures, test-driven development.
5.     Ability to design and implement systems end to end on your own while maintaining highest coding standards.
6.     Excellent knowledge of design patterns and ability to reflect it in their code.
7.     Ability to lead projects and mentor junior engineers on the same.
8.     Mandatory work experience in skills sets: REST API, JDBC, RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
9.     Solid Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
10.  Software development experience in Servlet, JSP, Spring, AWS, S3, SQS, building web services and highly scalable applications or Google Cloud Suite.
11.  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.