Technical Support Engineer

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?

We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India. 

We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.

👩‍💻 The Role

• Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
• Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
• Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
• Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
• Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
• 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
• Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
• Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
• People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
• People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
• Anything else than can surprise us.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

• Strong at Core Java and OOPs concepts

• Exposure to Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Security
• Exposure to implementation of RESTful APIs
• Exposure to programming using Queues and No SQL database
• Good understanding about JavaScript, JQuery and HTML
• Good understanding about Data Structures and Multithreaded Programming
• Good understanding about Design Patterns
• Good understanding about Standard and Secure Coding practices

• You would be responsible for Developing SQL Databases, automation of business reports and Developing Business Dashboard using BI Tools.
• Development of high quality database solutions 
• Create complex functions, scripts, stored procedures and triggers to support application development.  
• Develop, implement and optimize stored procedures and functions using T-SQL
• Review and interpret ongoing business report requirements
• Build appropriate and useful reporting deliverables
• Analyze existing SQL queries for performance improvements
• Fix any issues related to database performance and provide corrective measures.  
• MIS Automation
• Provide timely scheduled management reporting
• Create Business dashboard using Tableau BI Tool

Requirement / Desired Skills:

• 5+ years of business Analyst / SQL developer experience in Fintech,internet,consulting etc industry
• Excellent understanding of T-SQL programming
• Excellent understanding of Microsoft SQL Server 
• Good knowledge of HTML and JavaScript 
• SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services
• Knowledge of any of the BI Tool (Tableau, PowerBI or Qlikview)

• Company  Activation Specialist team is accountable for tactical Buying and implementation for a set of clients.
• WM Activation Specialist team to understands clients’ brand identity. Agency’s deliverables and campaign KPI’s.
• Understand the campaign brief received from Agency Specialist lead, and provide benchmarking/ planning rates / final negotiation in line with SOP.
• Coordination with other stakeholders, mainly the WM Planning team for deal closures
• Negotiate with Vendors for your activation plan including campaign value adds, FCT management, campaign execution etc.
• Optimize the activation plan to achieve the objectives/ KPI.
• Close the optimized plan with Activation Specialist lead.
• Track the live campaigns on daily/ weekly basis in terms of spot implementation, campaign performance, mid- evaluations etc.
• Campaign management including performance and corrective measures. Campaign inflight optimization is compulsorily done for every single campaign
• Follow end to end process for Campaign execution and Campaign management.

Skills:

• .NET framework, VB, C#
• HTML 5, Bootstrap, CSS, Less .
• Communication Protocols like HTTP, TCP, WCF, Web API, Modbus.
• Databases- MS SQL Server 2008 R2, MySQL. Knowledge on Redis, MongoDB.
• Scripting language -Java-Script, jQuery, AngularJS, SignalR, Ajax.
• AWS SDK preferred, Cloud Migration., IIS, Self-hosting, window server,
• Other tools -Postman & Fiddler, Tortoise SVN, Mantis bug tracking, Redmine.

Key Strengths :

• Good debugging skills.
• A major responsibility includes planning development cycle, designing, module development, code merge, Unit / Integration testing etc.
• Highly motivated team player.
• Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Quick learning of any new technologies.
• Capable to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.

Key responsibilities:

• Involved into discussion of design and development of new feature enhancement.
• Involved in integration with the IoT devices over the TCP binary protocol.
• Involved in design and development of Web API to expose the data uploaded by devices to third party applications.
• Coordinating with the testing team for fixing bugs.
• Coordinating with firmware (Embedded) team for device integration.
• End to end design and development of modules.