Senior Backend Developer

Privyr is a Singapore-based, venture-backed startup that helps consumer-facing salespeople & businesses contact and convert leads into clients from their phones.

We're trusted by 250,000+ sales professionals & businesses across more than 100 countries around the world, who have received and engaged with over 100 million leads through Privyr. Our customers come from hundreds of professions including real estate, insurance, automobiles, trainers & coaches, doctors, lawyers, farmers, and even magicians.

Here's a teaser video of our product:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcDzudQLvoY

We've just raised Series A funding from leading global investors and are looking to rapidly hire and grow the company.

We're a team of experienced entrepreneurs who have built and scaled successful startups across Silicon Valley, India, and Singapore. We love challenging norms and coming up with new ways to solve old problems. We experiment often and fail fast. We're incredibly passionate founders that believe in attracting highly motivated people and giving them the freedom to build their ideas and realise their ambitions.

This is an opportunity to join a small but experienced team of software engineers across web, mobile, and backend that have built global products loved by tens of millions of users.

What you'll do

• Work closely with tech (backend, web, mobile), product, design, and customer teams to rapidly develop and ship features to production, through 2-3 week sprints
• Produce well-designed, testable, efficient, and fully functional code
• Build features & API integrations that easily scale to millions of users
• Design database schema that allows read/ write operations at the scale of billions of rows per table
• Design and build RESTful APIs to be used in a front-end web app
• Optimize code & database queries to maintain strict performance constraints

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience working as a backend developer in a product-based tech company
• Experience in any of the modern backend frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, Express, etc
• Experience building robust REST API endpoints and a sound understanding of backend concepts
• Good knowledge of relational database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MYSQL
• A high bar for writing clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code
• Ability to learn and implement new technologies in a fast-paced environment
• Good knowledge of IaaS platforms such as AWS, GCP
• Comfortable conversing in English

Bonus Points

• Prior experience working in a startup, especially a B2C or consumer-facing product with millions of users (or more!)
• Experience in Python-based frameworks such as Django, Flask
• DevOps experience working with AWS / Other cloud platforms
• Exposure to working on event-driven architectures. Familiarity with RMQ / Kafka will be a plus

*Benefits *

• Competitive salary & stock options
• Exposure as an early employee in a venture-funded startup, with unlimited growth opportunities as the company scales
• Experience in an early-stage tech startup, working directly with the founders and core team from UC Berkeley, IIT, UCLA, CalTech, and some of the hottest MNCs and startups
• A casual work environment and a fun-loving team