Tech lead

About us

Blitz is into Instant Logistics in Southeast Asia. Blitz was founded in the year 2021. It is in the business of delivering orders using EV bikes. Blitz not only delivers instant orders through EV Bikes, but it also finances the EV bikes to the drivers on lease and generates another source of revenue from the leasing as well apart from delivery charges. Blitz is revolutionizing instant coordination with the help of advanced technology-based solutions. It is a product-driven company and uses modern technologies to build products that solve problems in EV-based Logistics. Blitz is utilizing data sources coming from the EV bikes through IOT and smart engines to make technology-driven decisions to create a delightful experience for consumers

We are looking for a talented Backend Engineer with a strong proficiency in Go/Golang development to join our team. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable backend systems that power our

Applications. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver robust and efficient solutions that meet our business requirements

Responsibilities

1. Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Go/Golang.
2. Collaborate with product managers and front-end engineers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
3. Architect scalable and high-performance systems to handle large volumes of traffic.
4. Implement security best practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and data.
5. Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following coding standards and best practices.
6. Optimise database queries and data access patterns for maximum performance.
7. Implement automated tests to ensure the reliability and stability of the backend services
8. Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to identify and resolve issues in time.
9. Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and provide constructive feedback to peers. 
10. Stay up-to-date with the latest backend technologies, frameworks, and industry trends.

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
2. Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in backend development.
3. Proficiency in Go/Golang programming language for at least 2 years.
4. Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and computer science fundamentals.
5. Experience with building and deploying microservices architectures.
6. Strong knowledge of database systems, including SQL and NoSQL databases.
7. Familiarity with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
8. Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
9. Understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
10. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. 
11. Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
12. Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience with distributed systems and messaging queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
2. Knowledge of GraphQL and GraphQL query language.

Company's website - https://rideblitz.com/

Experience: 2 years - 4 years
providing 100% remote 

We love solving hard problems together because the hardest challenges are often the most rewarding. You will have an opportunity to create products that will disrupt the industry. Providing customer delight is not just a phrase for us - It’s our mantra, Voice will always be heard - we encourage different points of view. 

Do you aspire to be a tech ninja?

Do you have a passion for building products in India and changing the worldview that we are just about services?

We want people who go deep and understand the fundamentals

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Development and maintenance of automatic regression tests suites used in the product delivery process
• Development and maintenance of testing frameworks supporting the automatic regression testing
• Management and tracking of automatic regression test suite execution
• You will own some or all of a product/feature. You will also mentor others, read and review code, maintain code, deploy code, and tune the performance of systems.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• We’re looking for 2 - 4 years of experience. However, the number is irrelevant if you have the necessary skills.
• Strong proficiency in Java, J2EE, JDBC, Spring MVC & Boot, Hibernate, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery, Ajax
• Good exposure to RESTful API concept and JSON
• Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS.
• Proficient understanding of development tools such as SVN, GIT
• Good communication skills with proficiency in English (Oral and Writing) / banking knowledge. 

Plus Points:

• Product experience
• Startup experience
• Technologies that are Self-taught
• Contributed to stock exchange etc
• Open source contributions
• Any of your work in public that we can see

Responsibilities

- Software Engineering

- Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal

guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry

- Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design

philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team

- Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services

- Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence

- Product Delivery

- Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap

- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design

- Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution

- Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

Qualifications

- Software Engineering

- Should have at least 2 years of hands on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying

applications on Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Python, Node or Go for large scale applications

- Deep knowledge of one of the programming language they have experience in

- Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus

- Data modelling experience in Relational Databases

- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services

- Product Delivery

- Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency

risks.

- Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development,

code review, testing and release management

- Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source

code management tools

- Product Maintenance

- Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks

etc

- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design.