Sr. Backend Engineer - Bangalore

About the Role: Software Engineer (Backend/GoLang)

We are currently looking for people to join our Engineering team where internet scale, reliability, security, high performance and self-management drives almost every design decision that we take. This role will be based out of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

We are looking for Software Engineers to help us build functional products and applications. Software Engineers responsibilities include participating in software design, writing clean and efficient code adhering to coding standards, guidelines & best practices for various applications, running tests to improve system functionality, performance & security and documenting design and code.

Responsibilities

• Core server side Technology Skills;
• Expertise in GoLang
• Implementation of REST based APIs
• Cassandra or other comparable NOSQL data storage

Requirements

• 1-3 years of golang experience.
• Managing API Authentication, Authorisation and Auditing
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, Mercurial or SVN)• Elasticsearch
• Understanding of search engines like SOLR / ElasticSearch
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Bachelor's in Engineering (Required)
• Good to have
• Knowledge of Python or similar scripts
• Design of large distributed cache systems

10+ years of experience in web application design and development

• 10+ years experience with Ruby on Rails

• 5+ years of experience in Jenkins and must have an understanding of CI/CD pipelines

• Analyze, design, develop, and maintain scalable solutions.

• Participate in code review.

• Collaborate with design team to create customer friendly solutions.

• Work with the support team to fix any bugs that arise in code.

• Perform debugging and troubleshooting of existing code base. • Good knowledge of Dockers containers. • Experience with Git/GitHub/AWS DevOps. • Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase o Experience with React-o Experience with AWS Lambda

Nice to have: Experience with building integrations with 3rd party services/tools such as:o Experience with Sinatra Experience with WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore Experience with MongoDB

Project Overview: We are looking for expert level Postgres database developer to work on a software application development project for a fortune 500 US based telecom client. The application is web based and used across multiple teams to support their business processes. The developer will be responsible for developing various components of the Postgres database and for light administration of the database.

Key Responsibilities: Collaborate with onshore, offshore and other team members to understand the user stories and develop code. Develop and execute scripts to unit test. Collaborate with onshore developers, product owner and the client team to perform work in an integrated manner.

Professional Attributes: Should have the ability to work independently and seek guidance as and when necessary - Should have good communication skills - Flexible working in different time zones if necessary - Good team player - Mentoring juniors

Experience preferred:

• Extensive experience in Postgres database development (expert level)
• Experience in Postgres administration.
• Must have working experience with GIS data functionality
• Experience handling large datasets (50-100M tables)
• Preferred – exposure to Azure or AWS
• Must have skillsets for database performance tuning
• Familiarity with web applications
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight
• Experience working cohesively in integrated teams
• Good interpersonal, communication, documentation and presentation skills.
• Prior experience working in agile environments
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with clients, Business Analysts and Developers
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and conceptual skills
• Excellent organizational skills; attention to detail
• Ability to resolve project issues effectively and efficiently
• Ability to prioritize workload and consistently meet deadlines
• Experience working with onshore-offshore model

Developer – Golang 

Responsibilities: 

• An individual contributor who will be part of the Software R&D team working on the following areas 

• Backend work in Golang, Micro services architecture 

• Work with internal team and customers to deliver solutions that will meet the customer needs with respect to the performance security, scalability and functionality. 

• Implementation of API and authentication methods using JWT 

• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code 

• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software 

Skills 

• 2-5 years of experience in Go programming language 

• Strong experience in working with Goroutine and channel patterns 

• Experience in Go framework for DB, JSON, Sockets, Web Frameworks and tools 

• Knowledge of logging and configuration packages like Zap, Viper 

• Experience in writing unit tests for Golang code 

• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git or Azure Repo 

• Should have knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or any RDBMS 

• Good knowledge of Linux / Ubuntu 

2+ years of experience working with backend development.

1+ year experience in GoLang Backend Development.

Must show your previous work.

Deployed at least 3 complete products which use REST APIs.

Exposure to making Postman docs.

Knowledge/ Experience of modern authorisation mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token and cookies.

Experience in handling  business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

Experience with version control such as Git and GitHub
Should have a knowledge of

1. GoLang, GoLang Clean Arch, GoRoutines, GORM, Docker, Go Fiber, PostgreSQL

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• Must be from good companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic.
• Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise Go Langauge
• Experience building microservices.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Good knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure Proficient with RDBMS

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• Taking lead on projects, as needed.

• Using the latest technologies to solve real problems for our customers at a massive scale
• Collaborating closely with other engineers as a valuable member of a cross-functional team
• Sharing your knowledge and building creative solutions while helping the team evolve best practices
• Designing, developing, and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability
• Taking end-to-end responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation

Who you are

• A minimum of B.S. degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or 5+ years in a similar position
• Able to adapt, change and grow quickly as we scale the organization
• Passionate about engineering practices like agile, continuous delivery, test-driven development, traceability, and observability
• Growth mentality is curious and not afraid to be experimental.
• You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
• Solid experience as an Engineer designing, developing and maintaining API driven solutions
• Strong communication skills, high integrity, and great attention to detail

You’ll get to work with:

• Docker and Kubernetes
• Go and/or PHP
• PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ
• Memcache, Redis
• Microservices architecture
• ELK, Jaeger, Prometheus & Grafana