Software Engineer

You will be responsible for building a highly-scalable and extensible robust application. This position reports to the Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Align Sigmoid with key Client initiatives
• Interface daily with customers across leading Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements
• Ability to understand business requirements and tie them to technology solutions
• Open to work from client location as per the demand of the project / customer.
• Facilitate in Technical Aspects
• Develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using Java technologies.
• Excellent experience in Application development and support, integration development and quality assurance.
• Provide technical leadership and manage it day to day basis
• Interface daily with customers across leading Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements
• Stay up-to-date on the latest technology to ensure the greatest ROI for customer & Sigmoid
• Hands on coder with good understanding on enterprise level code.
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems
• Experience in defining technical requirements, data extraction, data transformation, automating jobs, productionizing jobs, and exploring new big data technologies within a Parallel Processing environment
• Culture
• Must be a strategic thinker with the ability to think unconventional / out:of:box.
• Analytical and solution driven orientation.
• Raw intellect, talent and energy are critical.
• Entrepreneurial and Agile : understands the demands of a private, high growth company.
• Ability to be both a leader and hands on "doer".

Qualifications: -

• 3-5 year track record of relevant work experience and a computer Science or a related technical discipline is required
• Experience in development of Enterprise scale applications and capable in developing framework, design patterns etc. Should be able to understand and tackle technical challenges, and propose comprehensive solutions.
• Experience with functional and object-oriented programming, Java (Preferred) or Python is a must.
• Hand-On knowledge in Map Reduce, Hadoop, PySpark, Hbase and ElasticSearch.
• Development and support experience in Big Data domain
• Experience with database modelling and development, data mining and warehousing.
• Unit, Integration and User Acceptance Testing.
• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Ability to collaborate with a diverse set of engineers, data scientists and product managers
• Comfort in a fast-paced start-up environment.

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Proficient with SQL and its variation among popular databases.
• Experience working with large, complex data sets from a variety of sources.

Udrive is the largest car sharing platform in the Middle East. We pioneered the concept in the region and have continued to provide the best experience amongst our peers. We are in rapid expansion and are looking for a bright, successful and determined individual who has the experience to take the companies vision forwards into the next 5 years.

Our next 5 years journey not only includes regional and global aspirations; we are building the next generation of mobility services to change the way people use vehicles

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer for our Core Team. The Core team is responsible for the platform comprising multiple microservices which drive Udrive, from onboarding to billing.

Your responsibilities

As a Full Stack Engineer (Node.js) you...

• will work with a cross-functional agile team on the backend systems that power our platform
• are somebody who is familiar with state of the art technology and development stack and best-practices, you have the option to contribute to the technology strategy and roadmap of the team
• significantly contribute with your day to day work and deliverables to the overall success of our product
• contribute to an engineering culture where developers enjoy working and keep learning
• You have close contact with our product and QA team and help them troubleshoot, debug, and maintain a high quality of our product

Your profile

• You have a track record in building web applications in agile environments.
• +3 years experience with any enterprise technology like Javascript and Node.js or similar
• You have experience using any frontend frameworks like Vue.js, React or Angular
• You have experience in test-driven development 
• You have very good knowledge of Git, development workflow automation and CI. Continuous Delivery is in our DNA.
• You have an appreciation for great user experience as much as for awesome tech architecture
• You are great at communicating with people, motivating everyone and getting the whole team on the same page
• Fluency in English

The most important one: willingness to learn. We are constantly learning new things and we enjoy it a lot. We don't expect to find people experienced in all of them. If you are excited about our tech-stack and you think you are a fast learner, do not hesitate to apply!

• B.Tech/B.E (preferably in Computer Science Engineering) 
• 7+ years of hands-on programming experience in building data-driven REST APIs, services & platforms using advanced Java frameworks like Spring, Redis, Node.js etc. with deep focus on integration & scale.
• We also look for hands-on experience with Mysql, Elasticsearch (or Solr) and Nosql stores.
• Our evaluation starts with focus on computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• You will have been learning new technologies every week and prefer folks who can use golang/rust for backend development and are familiar with equivalent data stores, index stores and pub-sub technologies.

What if, you had a chance to build something iconic?

• The ideal candidate must have experience in enterprise application design, system performance and scalability
• 5+ year experience in web services, distributed systems, and highly available and scalable applications.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills in Java
• Very good knowledge of Core Java and J2EE and should have worked on high availability, low latency platforms.
• Ability to question status quo and identify bad design/code patterns which can impact performance and maintainability of the code.
• Excellent understanding of system design and design patterns.
• Previous experience with the Agile methodology.
• Experience in developing robust RESTful services is desirable.
• Have very good communication skills
• Have strong experience in the Spring framework.
• Good experience in SQL/Oracle
• BS degree in computer science or related fields. MS degree desired

• Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
• Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
• Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
• Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
• Experience implementing unit tests

• Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
• Experience working in Agile Scrum
• Experience working on a globally distributed team