Technical Lead

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
• Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
• You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.

• Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

As a Tech Lead I (Backend) at Gocomet, you will be pivotal in driving backend development initiatives. Your role will involve leading the design and implementation of robust backend systems, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

You will work closely with other team leads and departments to define and meet the technical and business requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Backend vision & ownership: Architect and implement scalable and efficient backend solutions, contributing significantly to the design and overall architecture, keeping in mind a long term vision of the product & scale.
• Optimize Performance: Focus on optimizing the application for maximum speed and scalability, including database optimization, effective caching strategies, improving code health, code design & refactoring, etc.
• Technical Innovation: Suggest innovative solutions wherever required for problems related to new product requirements & scale related issues. Stay abreast of emerging backend technologies and trends, advocating and leading the adoption of technologies that will give a competitive edge to our products.
• Mentor and Guide: Provide mentorship and guidance to backend development team members, ensuring the dissemination of best practices and efficient use of technology stacks. Take ownership of hiring & building a high quality backend team.
• Quality Assurance: Uphold high standards in code quality, including rigorous code review processes, and ensure adherence to industry best practices in backend development.

Experience & Skills:

• Backend Expertise: 4-6 years of experience in backend development, with a deep understanding of server-side logic, architecture design & handling scalability issues.
• Cloud & DevOps exposure: Experience with Cloud (GCP or AWS) with a deep understanding of different services, resources utilisations, CI/CD pipelines, Observability tools (Sentry, New Relic / Datadog, etc.) and an ability to debug infra related issues.
• Strong Technical Skills: Strong expertise in a Backend development framework (preferably Ruby on Rails but not mandatory), SQL & NoSQL database technologies.

(like Postgresql and MongoDB), Caching (Redis), Async job frameworks (like Sidekiq), etc.

• Problem-Solving Ability: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, research ability with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated experience in mentoring backend development teams and taking complete tech ownership.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical challenges and solutions to both technical and non-technical team members.
• Continuous Learning: A commitment to continuous learning and staying current with the latest backend development trends and technologies.

Benefits:

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Dynamic & high-performing team that thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Cutting-edge technology stack and tools.
• Make a significant impact on our products and the user experience.
• Join a team of passionate, creative, and driven individuals.
• 5 Days working.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Experience good work culture with regular fun activities.
• Health medical insurance coverage with Family, etc.

Job Location: Bangalore

Why Gocomet?

GoComet is a dynamic SaaS start-up that provides AI-powered transportation visibility solutions to revolutionize the trillion-dollar logistics sector. At GoComet, we are revolutionizing the logistics sector one day at a time, and every team member is committed to making it a reality.

We're seeking individuals who embody our core values, character, and attitude. While we recognize that skills can be developed with the right mindset and learnability, we prioritize those who share our philosophy. Our recruitment processes reflect this belief.

Look no further if you're looking for a diverse, talented, and vibrant workplace that recognizes and rewards hard work. We're ambitious, fast-paced, and unafraid to experiment, fail, learn, and ultimately succeed. This is us! Join our team if you share our culture and values.

We're an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome qualified applicants from all races, colors, religions, sexes, nationalities, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities.

We are hiring for multiple positions.

For any queries, feel free to write to Know more about us:

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• 3 years Experience in Ruby on Rails
• Minimum 3 years in MongoDB / PostgreSQL
• Must be from Product based companies   

Senior Software Engineer

The Company strives to provide a great service and to deliver excellent user experiences that improve the value of our customers.

We are seeking a new developer to join our development team. We work on a variety of projects using various exciting technologies such as Ruby on Rails, AWS, and JS frameworks such as Node and React to build outstanding webapps and provide business support to meet our customer's needs.

The ideal candidate will be someone who loves to learn and is willing to look for new and innovative solutions to problems and challenges for our customers. They may or may not have a wealth of experience but, the willingness to learn, try new things, and can think problems through and analyze available options is more meaningful, we can guide you the rest. You will have opportunities to combine your technical ability, critical thinking, and design experience.

• Ability to communicate clearly. Programming isn't just about writing code, it's about being able to communicate ideas with your team, customers, and the machine
• Keen desire to We are constantly aspiring to improve our work and ourselves, by constantly learning we can do this.
• Self-motivated. Even if a decision turns out to be wrong, this is better than being Trying and learning from failures is hugely valuable.
• Knowing when to ask for Try for as long as you can but if you get stuck, ask for help. Your teammates are here to support you and your development.
• Critical Be able to base decisions on the information available, not just blindly accepting solutions without investigation.

• Strong programming experience. We primarily write in Ruby, so experience here is a
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented design patterns as well as Test-Driven
• Be familiar with Rails, Sinatra, etc, and how these can be used to implement RESTful
• Knowledge of RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL and SQL to run queries against

• Knowledge of any AWS systems such as EC2, Lambda, RDS,
• Knowledge of API design patterns, REST, RPC, and can explain the advantages and disadvantages.
• Knowledge of DevOps skills such as Terraform, CI/CD,

Responsibilities

• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of engineers
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
• Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product decisions

Apply If You have:

• Graduation/Post Graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
• 6-10 years of strong experience in JAVA(Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), JavaScript, NodeJS with good exposure to MySQL
• Experience with AWS, Microservices, Caching, Performance Optimization, Nginx, Solr, Redis, Redshift
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in dynamic and disruptive environment
• 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of backend, frontend and QA.
• Hands on writing and reviewing code
• Exceptional design and architectural skills
• Strong communication skills
• High motivation to work in a fast paced, dynamic, collaborative team environment

• Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
• Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
• Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer, or product owner
• Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
• Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
• Manage interactions with designers, testers, and other developers

Required Skills :

• 4-6 years of overall software development experience
• 2+ years of development experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with support of high-availability, high-performance, customer-facing web applications
• Expert in configuring and deploying multiple rails applications quickly
• Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Continuous Integration, Capistrano)
• Experience building internal and external APIs and RESTful web services
• Strong foundation in Database ( SQL / Postgres )
• Experience deploying and managing applications on cloud-based infrastructure (Heroku/AWS)
• Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture

It will be good if you also have:

• Worked in a web startup before and been part of the core development during a high growth phase
• Practical experience with building scalable, high availability, and high-performance systems
• Hands-on background with agile development practices including test-driven development and scrums
• Contributed to open-source projects on Github
• Familiarity with a variety of programming languages and development tools

The primary responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
• Manage stakeholder planning and communications ensuring key outcomes
• Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineering and management talent
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization.
• Provide a strong understanding of native mobile developer platforms and bring broad thought leadership to the next generation mobile developer experience.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent products and programs from delivering on product and program objectives.
• Balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems; holds internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate.

REQUIRED

• 8+ years of industry experience with 2+ years of senior leadership experience.
• Solid track record of over-achieving engineering and platform delivery and scaling targets in high volume, innovative and fast-paced high-pressure environment; proven results in delivery on platform product.
• Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Python/Scala. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs with skilled knowledge on UI technologies like Angular 2+, React, D3.JS
• Working experience with Agile methodologies and durable team concepts.
• Knowledge in DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge in Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, Testing methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, Kafka
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.

Roles/Responsibilities

• Own the coding/design of a sub-module
• Review the requirements and provide simple solutions  
• Design the sub-module working with the tech-lead
• Hands-on code the critical parts of the module
• Ensure coding standards, proper design patterns, writing test cases and project mgmt processes are followed
• Mentor the junior programmers
• Peer and junior programmers code review
• Work independently and proactively to deliver production-ready code with minimal guidance

Jobs Skills required

• Strong experience in developing either backend or front end systems
• Backend Exp: RoR, NodeJS, Java, Go, MySQL, Mongo
• Ability to work in a team structure and deliver projects
• Very strong analytical and problem solving skills in super changing environment
• Understanding of algorithms and data structures

• Build robust & scalable web applications
• Participate in product design, development, verification, troubleshooting & delivery of web applications.
• Design and create relational database schema & application framework as needed
• Work with a worldwide team to integrate the product to meet the requirement

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science from a top-tier institution
• Relevant full-time work experience of 4-8 years
• Strong foundation in computer science, with solid competencies in object-oriented software design patterns, software QA methodologies, processes, and test automation.
• Ability to self-teach.

Mandatory Technical Skills:

• PHP, Javascript/AJAX, SOAP/REST, GIT
• MySQL/NoSQL
• Linux
• Software development life cycle (SDLC)

Desirable Technical Skills:

• Linux scripting