Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer

Job Description:-

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, ensuring scalability and reliability of cloud resources.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Establish and enhance CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes, facilitating faster and more reliable releases.

Configuration Management: Manage and automate server configurations using tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, ensuring consistency and compliance across environments.

Monitoring and Logging: Set up and maintain monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK stack) to proactively identify and troubleshoot issues within the AWS infrastructure.

Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices and compliance standards (e.g., AWS IAM, Security Groups) to protect data and resources. Conduct security audits and vulnerability assessments.

The Successful Applicant

AWS Proficiency: Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and more. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is a plus.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in writing and maintaining infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies.

CI/CD Tools: Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, or AWS CodePipeline. Ability to configure and optimize automated build and deployment pipelines.

Containerization: Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes in AWS.

Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) for automating tasks and managing infrastructure.

Monitoring and Logging Tools: Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.

Security and Compliance: Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), and compliance frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).

Networking: Knowledge of AWS networking concepts, VPC, and routing. Experience with VPNs, Direct Connect, and other networking technologies is a plus.

Database Administration: Basic knowledge of database administration on AWS, including RDS, DynamoDB, or Aurora.

Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication and teamwork skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and convey technical information effectively.

Who are we and what do we do?

The Dice platform, one of the most advanced SaaS fintech organizations, helps businesses convert their spending from many fragmented applications, prepaid cards, offline reimbursement/invoice management, procurement, and payment systems to a single spend platform. There will be no more cash, cards, refunds, or offline invoicing since our entire goal is to provide businesses more knowledge and control over how they spend their money, resulting in significant cost savings and profitability. We are a hyper growth startup collaborating with premium Indian enterprises, startups, and industry leaders across disciplines.

Perks in store for you when you join the team:

• You'll be surrounded by passionate team members.
• Your work will have a visible impact.
• You will be working on interesting technical challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements and skills:

• Hands-on Software Development experience.
• 2-4 years of relevant experience in Java development.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms.
• Object-Oriented Analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Profound insight of Java and Java EE (Multithreading, Reactive Programming, etc)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and ORM technologies (MySQL, EBean)
• Excellent knowledge in RESTful API development, event-based processing.
• Experience with test-driven development.
• Knowledge of GIT, Linux, Docker, Redis

Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining Java applications that are often high-volume and low-latency, required for mission-critical systems
• Delivering high availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well-designed, efficient, and testable code
• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging
• Managing Java and Java EE application development
• Ensuring designs comply with specifications
• Preparing and producing releases of software components
• Transforming requirements into stipulations
• Support continuous improvement
• Investigating alternatives and technologies

Location:

Pune

UKG's engineering teams wants to add 4 staff aug consultants (2 in US and 2 in Noida) to support their identity platform infrastructure, deployments to prod, escalations/KTLO, and debugging needs. They'll need to partner with internal dev teams who consume our Identity platform around any issues or new integrations needed. RCA/enhancing our observability.

They need to have the below qualifications:

• Linux (Ubuntu) - Understanding of Linux OS and has experience with troubleshooting complex issues that can be due to infrastructure related around disk/iops, network latency, jvm/gc related, as well as application related defects.

Python/similar scripting language to help automate manual tasks/remediation efforts.

• Ansible

• Identity platforms/technology -

SAML2/Oauth2/Directory server LDAP#python queryquerylanguage/OpenDJ/OpenAM/Auth0/Okta/SSO

• Java - understanding of Java tuning/best practices for high volume applications at scale

• Nginx

• Grafana • PagerDuty

• Postman/API • Kibana/Splunk

Dynatrace

GCP preferred. Azure is good as well.

Built a collaboration platform - messaging, voice, video - to be used in mobile apps, web etc. 

● Good understanding of Docker and Kubernetes deployments

You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.

Your core responsibilities:

• Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
• Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
• Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
• Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
• Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
• Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
• Good in Database schema design.
• Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
• Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
• Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
• Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.

Whom you will be sharing your work day with? 

• We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.