Sr Backend Developer

Job Description:

Summary

The Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the data infrastructure. They must have experience with SQL and Python.

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Collaborate with product, business, and engineering stakeholders to understand key metrics, data needs, and reporting pain points.

● Design, build, and maintain clean, scalable, and reliable data models using DBT.

● Write performant SQL and Python code to transform raw data into structured marts and reporting layers.

● Create dashboards using Tableau or similar tools.

● Work closely with data platform engineers, architects, and analysts to ensure data pipelines are resilient, well-governed, and high quality.

● Define and maintain source-of-truth metrics and documentation in the analytics layer.

● Partner with product engineering teams to understand new features and ensure appropriate

instrumentation and event collection.

● Drive reporting outcomes by building dashboards or working with BI teams to ensure timely delivery of insights.

● Help scale our analytics engineering practice by contributing to internal tooling, frameworks, and best practices.

Who You Are:

Experience : 3 to 4 years of experience in analytics/data engineering, with strong hands-on expertise in DBT, SQL, Python and dashboarding tools.

● Experience working with modern data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Airflow).

● Strong data modeling skills (dimensional, star/snowflake schema, data vault, etc.).

● Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

● Ability to work independently and drive business outcomes through data.

● Exposure to product instrumentation and working with event-driven data is a plus.

● Prior experience in a fast-paced, product-led company is preferred.

• As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
• Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
• Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
• Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
• Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories

• Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
• Solid experience in building web-based products
• Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
• Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
• A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
• Modernizing the tech stack
• Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
• Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
• Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
• Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
• Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
• Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
• Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
• Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
• Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

What we offer you:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
• Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
• Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Well stocked pantry
• Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Active Employee Resource Groups – Women 
• Frequent employee events
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!

• Python. Django Rest Framework experience would be great, but not essential! We prioritise
• quality over quantity.
• Postgres with InfluxDB, Oracle, MySQL and Redis experience a plus.
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift and associated tooling.
• AWS, especially ECS, Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB. Performance and uptime are super
• important to us.
• The challenge of scaling a global, distributed API to 10,000+ requests per second.
• We have SDKs in a bunch of languages, so the more polyglot you are the better.
• If you like writing JS and React that would be awesome too.

Job Responsibilities:

• Working in web based applications and services.

• Collaborating closely with the Project Manager ensuring smooth development workflow and timely delivery. 

• Being quick and proactive in resolving application defects and issues.

•  Developing documents, queries etc. for databases.

• Always being ready to make required changes especially at the post-deployment stage.

• Multitasking with multiple projects and designs under stringent budget restrictions.

Candidate Requirements:

• Must have provable proficiency in Golang, MongoDB/SQL Server/MySQL, Web Service/REST API/WCF, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript/JQuery

• 2+ years of relevant experience in Golang Web Application.

• Must be familiar with Golang Programming Language, MongoDB/SQL Server.

• Well-experienced and knowledgeable in Go routine and channel patterns, Go web frameworks, AngularJs/VueJs/ReactJs, and RESTful Web Services/ Web API.

• Must understand code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial.

• The candidate must be self-driven, smart, and self-motivated with good communication skills.

• A go-getter and sales enthusiast who takes all the monthly, quarterly, and yearly sales goals seriously.

• Must have updated knowledge of IT services and industry.

• Should work closely with Business heads and help them with data and reports regarding the customers and their competitors.