Backend Engineer - Java/Scala/Python (4-8 yrs)

Job Description :

You have 4 to 8 years or more of software development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance web applications.

- Very strong understanding and experience with any of Java, Scala, GoLang, Python.

- Experience writing optimized queries in relational databases like Mysql, redshift / Postgres.

- You have exposure to basic data engineering concepts like data pipeline, hadoop or spark

- Write clean and testable code.

- You love to build platforms that enable other teams to build on top of.

Some of challenges we solve include :

Clinical decision support :

- Early Detection : Digitally assist doctors in identifying high-risk patients for early intervention

- Track & Advice : Analyze patient's vitals/test values across visits to assist doctors in personalizing chronic care.

- Risk Prevention : Assist doctors in monitoring the progression of chronic disease by drawing attention to additional symptoms and side effects.

- EMR (Electronic Medical Records) : Clinical software to write prescriptions and manage clinical records

AI-powered features :

- Adapts to doctor's practice: Learns from doctor's prescribing preferences and provides relevant auto-fill recommendations for faster prescriptions.

- Longitudinal patient journey: AI analyses the longitudinal journey of patients to assist doctors in early detection.

- Medical language processing: AI-driven automatic digitization of printed prescriptions and test reports.

Core platform :

- Pharma advertising platform to doctors at the moment of truth - Real world evidence to generate market insights for B2B consumption

Virtual Store :

- Online Pharmacy + Diagnostic solutions helping patients with one-click order

Technologies we use :

- Distributed Tech : Kafka, Elastic search

- Databases : MongoDB, RDS

- Cloud platform : AWS

- Languages : Go-lang, python, PHP

- UI Tech : React, react native

- Caching : Redis

- Big Data : AWS Athena, Redshift

- APM : NewRelic

Responsibilities :

- Develop well testable and reusable services with structured, granular and well-commented code.

- Contribute in the area of API building, data pipeline setup, and new tech initiatives needed for a core platform

- Acclimate to new technologies and situations as per the company demands and requirements with the vision of providing best customer experience

- Meet expected deliverables and quality standards with every release

- Collaborate with teams to design, develop, test and refine deliverables that meet the objectives

- Perform code reviews and implement improvement plans

Additional Responsibilities :

- Pitch-in during the phases of design and architectural solutions of Business problems.

- Organize, lead and motivate the development team to meet expected timelines and quality standards across releases.

- Actively contribute to development process improvement plans.

- Assist peers by code reviews and juniors through mentoring.

Must have Skills :

- Sound understanding of Computer Science fundamentals including Data Structures and Space and Time complexity.

- Excellent problem solving skills

- Solid understanding of any of the modern Object oriented programming languages (like Java, Ruby or Python) and or Functional languages (like Scala, GoLang)

- Understanding of MPP (Massive parallel processing) and frameworks like Spark

- Experience working with Databases (RDBMS - Mysql, Redshift etc, NoSQL - Couchbase / MongoDB / Cassandra etc).

- Experience working with open source libraries and frameworks.

- Strong hold on versioning tools Git/Bitbucket.

Good to have Skills :

- Knowledge of MicroServices architecture.

- Have experience working with Kafka

- Experience or Exposure to ORM frameworks (like ActiveRecord, SQLAlchemy etc).

- Working knowledge of full text search (like ElasticSearch, Solr etc).