Staff Engineer - Backend

What we want to accomplish and why we need you?

Jio Haptik is an AI leader having pioneered AI-powered innovation since 2013. Reliance Jio Digital Services acquired Haptik in April 2019. Haptik currently leads India’s AI market having become the first to process 15 billion+ two-way conversations across 10+ channels and in 135 languages. Haptik is also a Category Leader across platforms including Gartner, G2, Opus Research & more. Recently Haptik won the award for “Tech Startup of the Year” in the AI category at Entrepreneur India Awards 2023, and gold medal for “Best Chat & Conversational Bot” at Martequity Awards 2023. Haptik has a headcount of 200+ employees with offices in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore.

What will you do everyday?

As a backend engineer you will be responsible for building the Haptik platform which is used by people across the globe. You will be responsible for developing, architecting and scaling the systems that support all the functions of the Haptik platform. While you know how to work hard, you also know how to have fun at work and make friends with your colleagues. 

Ok, you're sold, but what are we looking for in the perfect candidate?

Develop and maintain expertise in backend systems and API development, ensuring seamless integrations and scalable solutions, including:

• Strong expertise in backend systems, including design principles and adherence to good coding practices.
• Proven ability to enhance or develop complex tools at scale with a thorough understanding of system architecture.
• Capability to work cross-functionally with all teams, ensuring seamless implementation of APIs and solutioning for various tools.
• Skilled in high-level task estimation, scoping, and breaking down complex projects into actionable tasks.
• Proficiency in modeling and optimizing database architecture for enhanced performance and scalability.
• Experience collaborating with product teams to build innovative Proof of Concepts (POCs).
• Ability to respond to data requests and generate reports to support data-driven decision-making.
• Active participation in code reviews, automated testing, and quality assurance processes.
• Experience working in a scrum-based agile development environment.
• Commitment to staying updated with technology standards, emerging trends, and software development best practices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to facilitate collaboration and clarity.

Requirements*:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in developing scalable products and applications.
• Must Have Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or related field.
• Proficiency in Python and expertise in at least one backend framework, with a preference for Django.
• Hands-on experience designing normalized database schemas for large-scale applications using technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch.
• Practical knowledge of in-memory data stores like Redis or Memcached.
• Familiarity with working in agile environments and exposure to tools like Jira is highly desirable.
• Proficiency in using version control systems like Git.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in team settings.
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and commitment to delivering results.
• Additional knowledge of RabbitMQ, AWS/Azure services, Docker, MQTT, Lambda functions, Cron jobs, Kibana, and Logstash is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of web servers like Nginx/Apache is considered a valuable asset.
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* Requirements is such a strong word. We don’t necessarily expect to find a candidate that has done everything listed, but you should be able to make a credible case that you’ve done most of it and are ready for the challenge of adding some new things to your resume. 

Tell me more about Haptik

• On a roll: Announced major strategic partnership with Jio. 
• Great team: You will be working with great leaders who have been listed in Business World 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT 35 Under 35 Innovators. 
• Great culture: The freedom to think and innovate is something that defines the culture of Haptik. Every person is approachable. While we are working hard, it is also important to take breaks to not get too worked up. 
• Huge market: Disrupting a massive, growing chatbot market. The global market is projected to attain a valuation of US $0.94 bn by the end of 2024 progressing from US $0.11 bn earned in 2015. 
• Great customers: Businesses across industries - Samsung, HDFCLife, Times of India are some that have relied on Haptik's Conversational AI solutions to engage, acquire, service and understand customers. 
• Impact: A fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its people to make a huge impact. 

Working hard for things that we don't care about is stress, but working hard for something we love is called passion! At Haptik we passionately solve problems in order to be able to move faster and don't shy away from breaking things! 

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking

Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Required skills:-

2+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.

Strong Java Basics

SpringBoot or Spring MVC

Hands-on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)

Proficient in REST API development

Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)

Microservices

Any Caching Mechanism

Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

2+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks

Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.

Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.

Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Position description:

• Architecture & Design systems for Predictive analysis and writing algorithms to deal with financial data
• Must have experience on web services and APIs (REST, JSON, and similar) and creation and consumption of RESTful APIs
• Proficiently writing algorithms with Python/Pandas/Numpy; Jupyter/PyCharm
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Eg. MSSQL, MongoDB, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Implementing Machine Learning Models using Python/R for best performance
• Working with Time Series Data & analyzing large data sets.
• Implementing financial strategies in python and generating reports to analyze the strategy results.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Writing algorithms to deal with financial data and Implementing financial strategies in (Python, SQL) and generating reports to analyze the strategy results.

Educational qualifications preferred Degree: Bachelors degree

Required Knowledge:

• Highly skilled in SQL, Python, Pandas, Numpy, Machine Learning, Predictive Modelling, Algorithm designing, OOPS concepts
• 2 - 7 years Full-Time working experience on core SQL, Python role (Non-Support)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, equivalent or higher education.
• Writing algorithms to deal with financial data and Implementing financial strategies in (Python, SQL) and generating reports to analyze the strategy results.

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• Clear understanding of end to end communication of service calls via API Gateway/Service Mesh/Service Registry
• Experience on Springboot/SpringCloud/Restful Webservices
• Experience in containerisation (Docker) and Kubernetes in terms of creating container images and writing manifest files/helm charts on designing PODs/Side-car patterns etc.
• Good design experience on Web Applications (backend) & since we operate as a DevOps pod we would expect the person be involved in production deployments/support.
• Exposure to usage of CI-CD tools like Git/Jenkins/Maven/Sonar/Junit/CheckMarx/Netsparker/Cucumber

• Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
• Having strong experience in designing data intensive and scalable systems.
• Comfortable with microservices based architecture.
• Knowledge of software engineering processes and unit testing.
• Past experience of mentoring a team of at least two people.
• Prior experience with both relational and non-relational databases.
• Prior experience with caching.
• Ability to debug and hotfix a problem with production in a swift amount of time.
• Communication skills.