Tech Lead Backend Developer at Healthifyme · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 4 - 8 years · ₹30L - ₹60L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 5 Mar 2020
HealthifyMe is a Health Tech Startup on a mission to make healthy living easy, fun and affordable for everyone by providing tech-enabled solutions. Founded in 2012, HealthifyMe is now India's largest and most loved health/fitness app with over 3 million users. The company helps consumers manage their health and fitness with diet and exercise tracking through a mix of technology intervention and human experts/coaches backed with artificial intelligence. HealthifyMe is co-founded by Tushar Vashisht (UPenn graduate, ex UID) and Sachin Shenoy (ex Google), and was incubated by Microsoft Accelerator. HealthifyMe is the highest rated app on Google Play with a rating of 4.6/5 and has been featured by Google and Apple multiple times for its quality benchmarks. The company, delivers measurable results on eating habits, fitness, and weight and is a platform of choice by leading Corporates and Healthcare partners in India.
Leadership Skill
- Technically hands on.
- Have previous experience of leading teams.
- Have experience with agile process, and ability to guide the team to follow the process.
- Comfortable in chaotic & high-energy, high-stakes start-up environment.
- Hates wasting time in unproductive meetings, and prefers getting quick consensus to move ship forward.
- Prefers delivering in production than spending time in meeting.
- Able to technically mentor team and guide them to high performance.
Technical Skills
- Loves solving technically hard problems.
- Have previous experience with Python(Django), MySQL.
- Have previous experience with one or more of AWS, RDS, SQS, EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache.
- NoSQL experience is good to have.
- Loves clean and structured code, and thrives to maintain it.
- Fast at coding, fast in learning and technically solid.
- Have previous experience in building, running and managing scalable and highly availability web services.
Look forward to
- Working with a world-class team.
- Fun & work at the same place with an amazing work culture and flexible timings.
- Get ready to transform yourself into a health junkie
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