Staff / Principal Engineer - BackEnd (Java)

Who can apply: ONLY CANDIDATES WHO ARE AVAILABLE ( with notice period: 1 month or 15 days or immediate)

A Fintech start up company that bridges the gap between the digital payments

and the micro-retailing industry of the market. A nexus for the B2B sector providing multi-utility services via an Android app, enabling the micro-retailers across India to revolutionize their business and thus providing them with an opportunity to generate more revenue by offering multiple micropayment and digital services at their offline store. We intend to leverage the mode of smartphone technology in the rural and urban markets across India, thus empowering micro-retailers and creating a sustainable self-employment for this segment. 

Overall Competencies:

1. Tech Depth/Breadth/Problem Solving.

2. Design & Architecture (Code/Design review).

3. Team Management.

Leadership Competency:

- Managing & mentoring a team.

- Ability to deliver projects/sprints on time.

- Obsessed with quality: Design reviews, code reviews, testing (system/performance).

- Spending at least 50% time with hands-on coding while doing the above Programming.

Tech Competency:

- Hands-on with Python/Django/Flask.

- Knowledge of PHP & Laravel is a plus.

- Experience with any JavaScript framework (Angular / React ).

- Prior experience in micro-services based architecture.

- Good understanding of SQL (MySQL, Postgres, or similar).

- Good understanding of one no-SQL (MongoDB / DynamoDB etc).

- Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance.

- Can reason about the complexity of algorithms (time and space).

- Basic CI/CD and DevOps.

- Experience in Docker & Kubernetes.

- Design, QA, and Infrastructure.

- Knowledge of design patterns and cloud scaling.

- AWS & GCP experience. AWS is mandatory.

- Understands BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing/Unit Testing

- Understands REST principles and Microservices

- Understands version control & branching strategies

- Understands application security fundamentals and potential security risks

Education: Bachelors in Computer Science|

Job Description Location: Pune Function: Product Engineering → Backend Development We expect our Sr. Product Engineers to facilitate continuous delivery of quality software using contemporary and collaborative practices and principles. You’ll integrate an agile environment, working in-house and being responsible for developing end to end components within the product suite. You’re expected to contribute not only with your technical skills but also to share knowledge within the team. We expect a strong engineering background, high attention to detail & being outcome oriented. About Amura Amura has two key products in sales, marketing & advertising automation domains. Sell.Do, our sales & marketing automation product, is being used by over 500 businesses globally and helps our customers combine their marketing & sales data, aiding quick decision making. With newer features like Intelligent Recommendations, we are trying to leverage Machine Learning, combining it with business knowledge; to help our clients market smarter & sell faster. Advertise.Do again leverages ML & data from various sources (Adwords, FB, Web Analytics, CRMS) to set up highly optimised digital campaigns for our customers. With similar Intelligence available in advertise.do; customers can get recommendations to optimise their campaigns. Together these platforms have helped save millions of dollars in advertising money and drive over 10X sales growth for customers. Our Team is trying to solve one of the most fundamental problems in digital marketing space of driving higher efficiencies by combining sales, marketing & advertising data and understanding how it adapts per industry/business. What do we do in our regular day at Amura? Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, JavaScript (ReactJS), TypeScript and the likes Work on leading architectural and design methodologies like MicroServices, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Event Driven Architecture etc.; but not just restricted to these. Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality Work closely with the product stakeholders and have the firsthand information of the why, what, who, when and how of the product. Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent and ego-free culture Spread the word about best practices in software development and challenges inside and outside Amura What we look for in you? 5+ years Hands on in development and delivery experience with Java. Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess. Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge Knowledge of best software best practices like Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain Driven Design, SOLID, DRY and more Good knowledge of SQL and NoSQL Databases. Hands on application in PostgreSQL and/or ElasticSearch is favorable. Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP) You’re battle tested with Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Netflix OSS Have written tests using Junit, Mockito, Powermock, Spock and the likes. Understanding of when to mock and when to use stubs is a winner. Have used Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins, Travis-CI, Go etc.; Uses Git as version control system Research, evaluate and adopt next generation technologies Triage and troubleshoot issues Eager on self-learning and sharing with the team The following are some of the favorable considerations: Hands on with Docker and Kubernetes Understands and/or have contributed to branching and release strategies Can Identifying and lay down testing strategies for Microservices Experience with cloud hosting platforms like AWS, Azure, Rackspace etc. Experience with Infrastructure Management tools like Terraform, CloudFormation Experience with Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet

• 3 - 6 Years of Experience in Golang Development
• Understands requirements well and comes up with an efficient design
• Develops complex, well-backed and bug-free products.
• Estimates accurately.
• Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
• Become a go-to person in more than one area. Provide technical mentoring to team
• Communicates clearly, gets clarifications, and establishes expectations for all parties
• Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
• Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design, and code

 

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Solid experience in Golang is a must.
• Solid understanding of Apache Products.
• Should have experience in cloud computing (AWS is desired).
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebases
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into the codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces the right tech/ tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices,
• Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• Experience in product-driven organization

Designing and coding  application that are often high-volume and low-latency
Writing well-designed, efficient, and testable code.
Delivering high availability and performance.
Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.

4+ years experience in java development 1+ year experience in react.js is mandatory. Fullstack java developer able to build applications with react.js as front end technology and java as back end technology.

The platform engineering team designs builds and owns the systems to support the various applications, products, and services. We are a team of highly motivated individuals with a passion for solving large complex problems. We value an aptitude for research and a passion for learning. Together we are building one of the largest distributed computing platforms in the country. As a part of the engineering team you will be: • building highly-scalable and secure payments platform • primary owners of one or more components of the platform and will drive innovation in your area of ownership • working with various product teams gathering requirements and adding capabilities • working with some of the smartest people in the industry and will have ample opportunity to learn and grow • using cutting-edge cryptography to secure payments beyond industry standards. • deriving actionable insights by mining TBs of data. • building low-level infrastructure that aims to push the boundaries of network performance. • participating actively in recruitment and nurturing of engineers as awesome as you. What are we looking for ? Review and influence new evolving design, architecture, standards and methods with stability, maintainability and scale in mind Identify patterns and provide solutions to class of problems Research, evaluate and socialize new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system Be able to multi-task, prioritize and handle dependencies with minimal oversight. From a technology perspective, you should have knowledge and/or experience in a reasonably sized subset of the following ( the more, the merrier!! ) Worked on one or more large scale java applications. Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability. Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases and transactions. Shrewd focus on latency and throughput of services. In-depth understanding of concurrency, synchronization, NIO, memory allocation and GC. Experience with IaaS clouds like AWS/Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack etc.. Experience in working with Message Brokers and Application Containers Great ability to mentor and train other team members. Plus Points: Clear understanding of the CAP theorem and its implications for real-world distributed systems. “Call me maybe” is more than just a song for you. You have studied distributed systems like Dynamo, HBase, various messaging and queuing systems and understand nuances of Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events, rate control, load distribution. You can smell fraud, transaction risks and abuse a mile away.

We need a strong Ruby on Rails developer who has as strong understanding of Rest API's and also a experience on Node.js is plus point. Database understanding and AWS deployment is a must.