Backend Engineer (Senior/Lead) - Hybrid Work in Bangalore

Objectives

• Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers and the IT team personnel
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on long-term technology roadmap
• Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs
• Develop and oversee testing schedules in client server environment, addressing various browsers and devices to ensure that content is displayed as intended
• Produce quality code, raising the bar for team performance and speed
• Recommend systems solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchased alternatives

Responsibilities

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks
• Design robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud
• Optimize web applications for performance and scalability
• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met, and allow for regression testing

Must Have Skills

• Fluent communication in English
• Proficiency in Node.js, Python, Javascript, FastAPI and/or RESTful API, Docker, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis.
• 3+ years' experience with Node.js.
• Strong intuition on system design.
• Familiarity with JavaScript and frontend technologies.
• Solid experience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• 3+ years experience creating and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Meticulous attention-to-detail.
• Pursuit of perfection in your work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Min. 3 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Experience in a venture backed B2B SaaS or Ecommerce startup.
• Experience in leading a team & fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design
• Experience in writing highly secure web applications
• Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies
• Growth mindset that challenges the status quo and focuses on outside-the-box ideas and solutions
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a keen eye for detail.