Staff Engineer / Principal Engineer - Java Backend roles

Day-to-day

• Own the architecture of new product platforms to drive business results and support extending existing ones
• Implement scalable architecture and work on a committed team contributing to robust projects
• Write high-quality code that is modular, extendible, and functional
• Advocate for best patterns and practices in the area of system design, coding, performance, and testing
• Developing a highly concurrent and distributed system
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders including, Product, Design, Sales, and Engineering Leadership, to help break down business requirements into actionable plans
• Mentoring junior engineers on design, coding, and troubleshooting

What we're looking for

• BS/MS from a tier-1 institution (IIT, BITS, IIIT, NIT, DA-IICT, etc) or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in backend development/ end-end product development
• Numerous years of hands-on experience in architecture, design, and development of enterprise applications, integrations & data infrastructure
• You have experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems
• You have experience with managing large, complex systems in the cloud
• You have a proven track record in delivering efficient, scalable, reliable, and maintainable customer-facing systems on time
• You are not afraid to take the initiative and help make an impact on the larger organization
• You have solid organizational and excellent communication skills and a proven ability to articulate customer and technical requirements with all stakeholders
• Deep hands-on expertise in one or more of the following server-side languages: Java, Python, Go, Scala, Rust
• Extensive experience designing, building, and integrating with RESTful APIs
• Experience designing and scaling relational and NoSQL database platforms (such as MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticache)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms like AWS or GCP
• Experience building high volume, high performance, and highly available SaaS or consumer-facing products
• Extensive experience with Containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD tools
• Previous startup experience strongly preferred