Software Engineer (Golang + Infra)

• Architect and Develop: Design, implement, and maintain high-performance backend services using Java/Golang and intuitive frontend interfaces using React.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, promoting best practices and fostering a collaborative environment.
• Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following industry best practices and coding standards.
• Collaboration: Work with backend developers, frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver robust solutions.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks and scalability issues.
• Debugging and Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex issues in both backend and frontend components.
• Testing: Implement comprehensive testing strategies, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.
• Continuous Learning: Stay current with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in full stack development.

• 5 to 8 years of experience in Golang development and React front-end
• Develop applications using Golang, React, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Contract position for 6 months to 1 year
• Remote work

About the role

As a full-stack engineer, you’ll feel at home if you are hands-on, grounded, opinionated and passionate about building things using technology. Our tech stack ranges widely with language ecosystems like Typescript, Java, Scala, Golang, Kotlin, Elixir, Python, .Net, Nodejs and even Rust.

This role is ideal for those looking to have a large impact and a huge scope for growth while still being hands-on with technology. We aim to allow growth without becoming “post-technical”. We are extremely selective with our consultants and are able to run our teams with fewer levels of management. You won’t find a BA or iteration manager here! We work in small pizza teams of 2-5 people where a well-founded argument holds more weight than the years of experience. You will have the opportunity to work with clients across domains like retail, banking, publishing, education, ad tech and more where you will take ownership of developing software solutions that are purpose-built to solve our clients’ unique business and technical needs.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality code that allows us to put solutions into production.
• Utilize DevOps tools and practices to build and deploy software.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Engineers to deliver production-quality AI and Machine Learning systems.
• Build frameworks and supporting tooling for data ingestion from a complex variety of sources. Work in short sprints to deliver working software with clear deliverables and client-led deadlines.
• Willingness to be a polyglot developer and learn multiple technologies.

Skills you’ll need

• A maker’s mindset. To be resourceful and have the ability to do things that have no instructions.
• Extensive experience (at least 10 years) as a Software Engineer.
• Deep understanding of programming fundamentals and expertise with at least one programming language (functional or object-oriented).
• A nuanced and rich understanding of code quality, maintainability and practices like Test Driven Development.
• Experience with one or more source control and build toolchains.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD will be an added advantage.
• Understanding of web APIs, contracts and communication protocols.
• Understanding of Cloud platforms, infra-automation/DevOps, IaC/GitOps/Containers, design and development of large data platforms.

What will you experience in terms of culture at Sahaj?

• A culture of trust, respect and transparency
• Opportunity to collaborate with some of the finest minds in the industry
• Work across multiple domains

What are the benefits of being at Sahaj?

• Unlimited leaves
• Life Insurance & Private Health insurance paid by Sahaj
• Stock options
• No hierarchy
• Open Salaries

Purpose of the Role

To design and implement the Peak AI System - a new system of intelligence that allows companies to quickly harness the power of AI.

The Opportunity 

Peak is a Decision Intelligence company - we are on a mission to help organisations use AI to make great commercial decisions, all the time. Just as importantly, we are also focused on building an amazing company - one where we truly value our people & culture, and strive to make an amazing and diverse place to work. Our recent Best Companies award & 3 star accreditation for being one of the top companies to work for is a testament to this.

We have ambitious plans over the coming years; to launch and lead a new category of technology (Decision Intelligence), expand our operations and create the best working culture possible. This is a great time to join Peak and the Engineering team, as we start the next stage of our global growth.

The Role

Based in Jaipur or Pune, you will be working in a collaborative team on cutting edge technologies in a supportive and dynamic environment. Ultimately you are responsible for building the CODI and on-boarding new clients - this involves:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Peak delivers, and how these link to Peak’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Peak processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or support them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Required Skills and Experience

We are building a team of world class engineers in Jaipur / Pune, essentially we are looking for bright, talented engineers looking to work at the cutting edge of practical AI.

• Acquired strong proven professional programming experience.
• Strong command of Algorithms, Data structures, Design patterns, and Product Architectural Design.
• Good understanding of DevOps, Cloud technologies, CI/CD, Serverless and Docker, preferable AWS 
• Proven track record and expert in one of the field - DevOps/Frontend/Backend
• Excellent coding and debugging skills in any language with command on any one programming paradigm, preferred Javascript/Python/Go
• Experience with at least one of the Database systems - RDBMS and NoSQL
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using AGILE or SCRUM techniques to build quality software.
• Advantage: experience in React js, AWS, Nodejs, Golang, Apache Spark, ETL tool, data integration system, certification in AWS, worked in a Product company and involved in making it from scratch, Good communication skills, open-source contributions, proven competitive coding pro

As well as doing great work we have created an award-winning, fun and exciting workplace that people love to be, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and are:

• Open - Always up for new ideas and able to take and give feedback in a positive way.
• Driven - sets high goals, doesn’t give up, and make sacrifices to ensure that their job gets done on time and meets/exceeds expectations.
• Curious - Aware of new technologies and uses them to make new improvements in the Engineering ecosystem.
• Smart - Innovative and thinks out of the box, in difficult situations finds a way to succeed no matter what 
• Responsible - takes ownership of tasks given and has a strong work ethic.

About Peak

In an age when becoming AI and data-driven is one of the most important things businesses must do, it can also be one of the most challenging. That’s where Peak comes in; our CODI system sits at the heart of our client’s businesses, enabling the rapid unification, modelling and - most importantly - use of data - helping decision makers make great commercial decisions, powered by AI. All supported by our world-class data science team.

Founded in 2014, Peak has grown rapidly, in line with the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies, winning numerous awards and attracted significant funding to support the company’s ongoing investment in machine learning and AI technologies. All to further our mission to become the world’s leading AI System business.

Headquartered in Manchester, Peak also has offices in London, Edinburgh, Jaipur and Brisbane. Our clients include some of the world's leading retailers, manufacturers and well-known brands alongside highly innovative and tech-savvy businesses. Peak is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, and holds Machine Learning Competency and Retail Competency status.

Job Summary

• Excellent hands-on experience with Go lang (if not Golang, in either JAVA, DotNet and/or NodeJS)
• Write CRONs and background tasks required for the growth of business and product
• Build REST APIs as required
• Ability to code using design principles
• Write reusable code and libraries for future use
• Have the working knowledge of Microservices Architecture using Docker
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders in executing various new and existing ideas
• Possesses the knowledge of developing and deploying in Linux environments
• Passion for building great products and loads of energy.

Key Skills
Skills that we would be more than happy for a dev to have: - Worked in CI/CD environments - Developed code using TDD/BDD approach. - Worked with Virtualization on Linux (KVM) - Experience in working in Agile development environment 

About You

We’re looking for exceptional Engineers with an amazing breadth and depth of technology expertise! If you’re the kind of person that looks at the bigger picture and want to build something that has a real impact on the end user, go ahead and apply for the position.

Ability to see the big picture but still love to code!

Strong in backend languages, such as Java, DotNet or NodeJS!

Familiar with client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue etc.

Strong HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too.

Knowledge of architectural design and you like to build something scalable and flexible to support business

Agile or Scrum is your favorite development approach.

And when we start talking about performance, security and unit testing? Well that’s music to your ears