Senior Backend Engineer - C++/Java/Node.js (4-8 yrs)

Responsibilities :

- Develop Software : Design, implement, test, and support high-quality software, used by millions of consumers every day, in an agile, iterative development culture.

- Build Web Services: Implement, test, troubleshoot and support Secure, Scalable and Fault Tolerant Production Ready microservices.

- Connect the dots: Understand the requirements, design robust and complete solutions, and deliver the product best suited to the user experience.

- Bring Visuals to Reality : Turn requirements and UI/UX designs into web features, creating excellent interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules.

- Focus on Performance : Make that software hit our Service-Level Agreements, be agile in development and always have performance and scalability in mind

- Learn: Contribute to team success by learning new technologies and algorithms, often while designing and building the software.

- Collaborate: Work closely with other team members to invent, prioritize, build, and support our applications. Participate in design reviews, code reviews and provide improvement recommendations.

- Mentor: Oversee and support the career and/or development of team members outside the normal supervision process by encouraging and empowering personal development, helping identify and correct gaps in relevant skills and knowledge

Qualification & Skills :

Strong candidates will have many of the following qualifications :

- 5-8 years as a professional software engineer with hands-on experience using Scala, Javascript (NodeJS), C++, or Java.

- Basic Experience with Modern Frontend Frameworks & Technologies

- Experience with Modern Web Libraries, especially REST API integration and other enterprise solutions like Google Analytics.

- Security: Understanding of information security principles and best practices.

Understanding of tools :

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Bitbucket, Github

- Good to have an understanding of containerization and deployment tools like Docker, Jenkins and Kubernetes.

Design :

- Familiarity with object oriented practices and concepts

- Ability to write modular, reusable libraries which can be used across multiple functions

- Ability to design applications with robust and scalable front end architecture

Collaboration skills :

- Ability to translate functional requirements into UX/technical specifications to build robust, scalable, supportable solutions

- Work together with members of various internal teams, including listening and communicating.

- Comfortable working in a fast paced, Agile, release often environment

- Understanding of the SDLC processes and facilitate the working of the team

- Should have work experience and/or knowledge of backend technologies

- Execution skills : Gets things done both independently and collaboratively, and understands when each is appropriate.

- Passion : Has an interest in our business domain (Fashion), solution space (Fashion Technology), or technology stack.

- Undergraduate or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent.