Loco - Backend Developer (2-6 yrs)

Loco is looking for a talented Backend Developer to join the Engineering team.

About Us :

At Loco, we're revolutionizing gaming entertainment, breaking down barriers to make it accessible and thrilling for users from every corner of the globe. As India's largest and fastest-growing game streaming platform, Loco is the epicenter where the gaming community unites to watch, celebrate, and thrive. Whether it's tuning into live streams from India's top gamers and esports teams or seeing aspiring streamers rise to fame, Loco is where it all happens. With blockbuster titles like BGMI, Call of Duty Mobile, Valorant, and GTA 5, we've captivated over 50 million registered users and set records with some of the country's most-watched gaming streams over the past five years.

In March 2022, Loco raised the largest Series A round in Indian gaming when it raised $42 million from Hashed, Makers Fund, Catamaran, KIP among others. In June 2021, Loco raised a $9mn seed round, which was a top 10 seed round of all time in India at the time, led by Krafton and Lumikai.

As part of our growth plan, we will now be scaling the app to multiple international markets, which will bring a completely new dimension to the scale we have already achieved. We encourage you to join us in the challenge and excitement of delivering a world-class experience to a whole new audience, developing cutting-edge interactive features that stand out in a crowded market, and ensuring lightning-fast rollouts across the globe. At Loco, your engineering talent will be at the forefront of redefining the future of gaming entertainment on a global scale.

We are building cutting edge tech to :

- Solve for scale on massive concurrent live stream views

- Build best-in-class live streaming video latency and interactivity

- Create the capability to handle high in-app transaction volumes

- Enable rapid iteration by constructing a microservices architecture

As a company we like to :

- Give and take feedback proactively

- Communicate transparently, and to over-communicate

- Share information and knowledge company-wide, irrespective of level

- Work like a sports team, where performance matters and merit earns you the opportunity

- Under-promise and over-deliver

- Be guided, but not blinded by data

What you'll be doing :

- You will build product features end-to-end-through conception, exploration, maintenance, polish, and testing.

- Build a browser-based interface that borrows the best of visual design tools to create polished experiences for all our users and creators to build their digital identities.

- You will help build Loco's UI component library and custom animations.

- Use the latest and/or greatest frameworks (and have opinions on when to use which) to build a cutting edge but functional product

- Create intuitive and often hidden features to keep creators/streamers in a creative/flow state, empowering creators/streamers and helping them build their digital identity is a key focus area for the entire team

- Integrate with our existing backend infrastructure and machine learning components

- Work with designers, product managers and engineers to scope features that balance complexity with agility and customer experience

You'll be a good fit if :

- 3 years of demonstrable experience with back-end engineering

- Expert in Python or Go or NodeJs, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django

- Strong algorithmic, discrete math, data structures, computational complexity

- Experience with computer security and AWS is a bonus

- In-depth knowledge of databases and middleware technologies (MySQL/PostgreSQL, RESTful Web services, Web sockets, etc.) preferably on AWS

- Design, build and maintain reliable reusable backend architecture, which scales to serve more than a million concurrent users

- Work with product, business, and customer excellence teams to understand their requirements and architect appropriate solutions

- A knack for solving complex problems without compromising on code quality and performance

- Previous experience taking ownership of features/functionality and delivering projects end-to-end with high quality and robust architecture.

- Excellent communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional business partners

- Ability to dive deep into any technical component as well as understand and drive the overall systems architecture

- Ability to quickly ramp up on new domains and technologies

- Previous work experience with a start-up is preferred.