Senior Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for the development of new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

In Short

• The development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable code.
• The entire lifecycle of stories: development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Develop a highly scalable and performant backend based on event driven architecture.
• Building robust, secure and scalable microservices.
• Splitting features into tasks and for the backend architecture and its evolution.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
• Participating in, designing and driving the code review process.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Golang.
• Overall 6+ years of experience in software development with a strong base and framework expertise in Java/Go/Python/Node.js.
• Basic working knowledge of frontend technologies.
• Experience with frameworks – like Springboot, Quarkus, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, transactional systems, and distributed environments.
• Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics.
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSql (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Proficient in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns with Data modeling experience in Relational databases.
• Proficient in building GraphQL APIs.
• Proficient with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and version control (Git).
• Well-versed with TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• To have mentored a team of 2-3 engineers.
• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environment.
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities.
• To be experienced in working on massively large scale data systems in production environments.

Benefits

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.