Software Engineer

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Java Developer to join our development team. The ideal candidate should have solid experience in Java and should also be familiar with Kotlin for backend development. You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Work on Kotlin-based backend applications as per project requirements.
• Develop RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

About RARA NOW

Not just a delivery company

RARA NOW is revolutionizing instant delivery for e-commerce in Indonesia through data-driven logistics.

RARA NOW is making instant and same-day deliveries scalable and cost-effective by leveraging a differentiated operating model and real-time optimisation technology. RARA makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to get same-day delivery in Indonesia. While others are focusing on - one-to-one- deliveries, the company has developed proprietary, real-time batching tech to do - many-to-many- deliveries within a few hours. RARA is already in partnership with some of the top eCommerce players in Indonesia like Blibli, Sayurbox, Kopi Kenangan, and many more.

We are a distributed team with the company headquartered in Singapore, core operations in Indonesia, and a technology team based out of India.

Future of eCommerce Logistics:

Data-driven logistics company that is bringing in same-day delivery revolution in Indonesia

Revolutionising delivery as an experience

Empowering D2C Sellers with logistics as the core technology

About the Role

• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient microservices distributed architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of language patterns such as - Goroutine and Channels
• Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep.
• Popular Go web frameworks, such as Echo
• Request routing and API mechanisms
• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
• Familiarity with code versioning tools - primarily Git.
• A basic understanding of computing and Linux systems
• Basic knowledge of Systems Engineering
• Memory management and pointers, specifically in Golang
• Implement Docker for smaller-scale applications that require simpler deployments
• Employ Linux Terminal command structures to allow easy back-end operations for less-expert technical staff
• Structure our user interface with React and ensure REST API access is available for enterprise-grade finance customers on-demand

Roles & Responsibilities

As a member of our fast-growing engineering team, your responsibility will be to get involved in day-to-day development operations and solve complex problems of digitization to meet the demands of business.

To be successful, you must have a self-driven mindset, go getter attitude.

The responsibilities include:

• Writing the clean quality code & Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analyzing the requirements in the context of the product
• Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks
• Determining and implementing design methodologies and tool sets
• Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities
• Being able to lead/support UAT and production roll outs
• Creating, understanding and validating estimated effort for given module/task, and being able to justify it
• Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks and challenges with a mindset of continuous improvement
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations
• Helping the team in troubleshooting and resolving complex bugs
• Coming up with solutions to any issue that is raised during code/design review and being able to justify the decision taken
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements
• Carrying out DevOps activities which includes creating Jenkins pipeline

Key Skills

Should possess hands-on full life-cycle development experience (architect, design, code, test, release) be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, client/server-side development frameworks and third-party libraries.

• Should be strong in data structures and algorithms. Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Work with cutting edge technologies like Java 8, Scala, React, Akka, Docker, Puppet, and Salt
• Hands-on knowledge of Spring core, MVC, JPA. Working knowledge of Spring Boot
• Should have strong hands-on on one of the JavaScript frameworks: jQuery, AngularJS, ReactJS, and Vue.js.
• Willing to working with latest Cloud and Container technologies like AWS
• Experience with both external and embedded databases. NoSQL DB experience is good to have
• Implementing unit testing using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, etc.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with Maven (Other building tools Ant and Gradle are good to have)
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Good understanding of Agile practices

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING: 

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement. 
• Collaborate with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience. 

• Develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends. 
• Record data and report it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership. 
• Participate in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members. 
• Take the lead on projects, as needed. 
• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle. 

• Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future. 
• Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes. 
• Conduct UI tests and optimize performance. 
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications. 

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming or relevant field. Master’s Degree in a related field is preferred. 
• 5-7 years of relevant experience 
• Must be an expert programmer, skilled at computer languages such as HTML, C+++, C#, PHP, Python and Java. 
• Must understand Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, JMS, Mysql, Redis, CouchDb, Micro Services, Docker, Kubernetes 
• Must be able to interpret and follow instructions related to the ultimate functionality of our IT-based product 

• Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS 
• Must be comfortable with technology architecture and how a computer and its software functions. 
• Deadline driven, organized and understand how people view and understand content on the front-end 
• Proven experience in highly complex environments 
• Strong technical documentation skills 

• An ability to solve multifaceted technical issues in a fast-paced environment 
• Self-motivated and accountable for your work 
• Passionate about learning and continuous improvement 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to work overtime 

Job description 

• Lead design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications & back-end  services demonstrating service-oriented architecture. 
• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable APIs, services, and systems within the  platform. 
• Choose the right Data Structures, tools, and tech stacks and do high-level design with guidance. 
• Build, develop, mentor, review code and coach junior team members. 
• Extensive programming experience with cross-platform development: Java/SpringBoot,  Javascript/Node.js, Express.js or Python 
• Extensive knowledge of ElasticSearch, MongoDB or Cassandra, Redis, SQS and data  streaming (Spark, Flink, Kafka streams, storm, etc.). 
• Well versed in Kafka Understanding cloud native technologies such as Docker and  Kubernetes, capable to cover full development lifecycle including CI/CD 
• Experience in use of source code management system like GIT, bitbucket and build tools  like ant, maven, Gradle or make. 
• Take great pride in Code quality and developer productivity. 
• Put in Microservcies architecture in place that paves road for scalability, efficiency,  observability, and availability. 
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale  with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile. 
• Write algorithms and services to influence personalisation and recommendation from a  real-time recommendation engine for both home feed to surface most viral videos +  video e-commerce 
• Build machine learning pipelines using Kinesis,Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc 
• Agile methodologies, Sprint management, Roadmap, Mentoring, Documenting, Software  architecture 
• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems Liaison with Product Management, DevOps, QA, Client and other teams Your Experience Across The Years in the Roles You’ve Played 

• Have total or more 7 - 9 years of experience with 2-3 years in a startup. Have B.Tech or M.Tech or equivalent academic qualification from premier institute. Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred 
• Thoroughly aware of cloud computing infrastructure on AWS leveraging cloud native  service and infrastructure services to design solutions.
• Follow Cloud Native Computing Foundation leveraging mature open source projects  including understanding of containerisation/Kubernetes. 

We Value Engineers Who Are :

• Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the creator is ultimately what  will drive our business forward. 
• Obsessed with Quality: Your Production code just works & scales linearly 
• Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback  and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve. 
• Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our creators desire. You know when it’s  appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability 

Chingari Benefits 

The glory. Almost too much responsibility. 

A fun-life balance 

A ticket on our rocket ship to the moon. �� 

Dot is a technology start-up, operating in Fintech and e-commerce space. With the aim to
revolutionize offline-to-online(O2O) space, Dot strives to enable digital transformation of Offline businesses using smart innovations. This is a huge market, serving the 1.3 billion strong Indian population.

The start-up is led by a strong and experienced team. It has already raised seed funding of ~US$ 35.5 Million from renowned investors.

To know more, head over to: www.dotpe.in

About the Founders
The company is led by an experienced team, three ex-PayU employees - Shailaz Nag, Gyanesh Sharma & Anurag Gupta, with proven expertise & knowledge of the fintech space as well as experience in building & managing companies.

Shailaz Nag is a well known visionary entrepreneur. He was ex-Managing Director and co-founder of PayU, (India’s largest and profitable Payment Company) which is currently valued at US$ 3 Billion. He was also one of the founding members of Ibibo Group. Shailaz Nag is a Chartered Accountant and also holds an MBA degree.

Gyanesh Sharma is an IIT Delhi alumnus, holding a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science. He has strong experience in leading tech teams, holding position of
● CTO at Shopclues
● Head of engg. at PayU
● Engg. Head at MakeMyTrip

Anurag Gupta has a decade long experience in building financial services business. He was Vice-President & Business head at PayU for Omnichannel business. He also headed Bank & Product Partnership for PayU.

Investors
Dot has raised seed funding of US$ ~35.5 million from
● Naspers Fintech (PayU) -
○ $120bn group with global presence. Listed in London, Johannesburg, Amsterdam
○ Presence in India : MMT-Goibibo, PayU, Flipkart, Swiggy, Byju’s, OLX
○ Global Presence : Tencent - WeChat, OLX
● Fosun RZ Capital
○ Affiliate of Fosun Group - A $100Bn Chinese conglomerate
○ Presence across global growth markets
● Info Edge
○ Parent company of naukri.com, jeevansaathi.com, 99acres.com, shiksha.com
○ Listed on NSE & BSE with a market cap of INR 27,000 crore
○ Major investor in zomato.com & policybazaar.com

Products
At Dot, we are solving the key problems that lie at the heart of Offline businesses by equipping them with commerce and fin-tech products. We are building a horizontal Omni-channel platform encompassing several Products all aimed at empowering all types of merchants, big or small, with Digital Technology. Whilst strengthening the merchants, our products also aim to direct this digital transformation towards improving the customer journey.
Our initial Product line-up has already garnered attraction from several renowned enterprises as well as significant interest from every medium and small-scale merchant we touch. And this just marks the start of our journey!

About Profile
Responsibilities
• Understanding the business requirement and provide good scalable solution
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
• Completely owning the backend services of a module
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Our stack is ReactJS, React Native, Golang, MySQL, NoSQL and hosting environment is AWS

Skills and Qualifications
• Extensive and expert programming experience in anyone programming language (Golang/ C/ Java).
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design and distributed system applications
• Experience with building and scaling apps with RDBMS as well as NoSQLs.
• Experience creating scalable Web APIs for mobile and browser consumption
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems
• Worked in start-up culture with high levels of ownership and commitment
• Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design into code fluently
• Engineers from Tier 1 colleges