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Sr. Backend Developer

at AI-Based Ed-Tech Brand

Agency job
via Unnati
2 - 5 yrs
₹14L - ₹25L / yr
Chandigarh
Skills
Software Development
AWS RDS
skill iconAmazon Web Services (AWS)
skill iconC#
skill iconVisual Studio
MySQL
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
skill iconElastic Search
Algorithms
Database architecture
Data Structures
Data security
backend deverloper
coding
Do you look forward to working for a well know ed-tech brand and be part of their growth story? Then here is a fantastic role.. read on.

Our client is a revolutionary Educational services platform, that brings in innovation and expertise in their ways of learning. Awarded as one of the best Google apps of 2017, the app provides students with a variety of online courses that cover K12 subjects, Entrance exams, Engineering and FInance stream topics, as well as Self-help notes.

Their unique and simple AI based site and app feature 500+ courses, nearly a lakh videos and tests, and also imparts strength and weakness analysis for the students to improve their knowledge base. The 5yr old organisation is one of the most loved ed-tech platforms that reaches more than 4.5Mn registered users.
 
As a Sr. Backend Developer, you will optimize applications for maximum speed and troubleshoot and fix bugs / flaws to ensure company applications are running optimally.
 
What you will do:
  • Planning and implementing company's application and data model structures for scalability.
  • Maintaining central databases, ensuring high performance, and responding to requests from the front-end.
  • Developing reusable code and libraries for future use. Building for new features and maintaining the present ones.
  • Implementing comprehensive security and data protection.



What you need to have:
  • Has 2-5 years of experience working on a growth stage product, where they first scaled from 0 to 1 and then 1 to n.
  • You have studied Computer science (or a similar degree) from a Tier 1 college OR have a great set of experiences working at products that scaled massively.
  • You understand product and database architecture like you understand basic Maths and have worked on it for 3 to 7 years. Further, you know how to optimise AWS/ GCP for both efficiency and cost.
  • You have experience in managing a team and setting up the best processes / practices (1yr+ Engineering Manager experience)
  • You are deeply driven for creating an impact. You obsess over doing things the right way, and you enjoy writing beautiful code.
  • Though technology stack is not the primary concern, we would value some experience in C#/ Visual Studio, RDS/ MySQL, ElasticSearch, System Architecture and general AWS solutions.
Traits that are important to us:
  • Ownership: Absolute ownership of the product and your code, with relentlessness to deliver with speed and precision.
  • Dynamic & Resourceful: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of changes in a fast paced environment. Super willing to learn new technologies and systems. And resourceful and inventive in the face of every problem.
  • Deep Love for coding: You write code because you love doing it and not just because it's a job for you.
  • Perfection/ Obsession/ Hygiene: You deeply understand & achieve perfection in even the 'small' features. And you deeply care about the quality of your code.
  • Good eye for usability & design and willing to put-in extra effort for delivering the best user experience.
  • Creating Algorithms that can change the game: Should understand requirements and design algorithms accordingly.
  • Driven by Data: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills leveraging/finding all data available.
  • Team player: Keeps the team over themselves. Has a knack for influencing without being authoritative. Goes out of the way to help wherever the team needs them.
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