Streak - Backend Developer (2-3 yrs)

Job Description :

We are seeking a talented and experienced Backend Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development and experience with backend technologies. You will work closely with our engineering team to design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend systems.

Responsibilities :

- End to end engineering - design, develop, test, deploy, debug, maintain and improve the server-side applications and APIs.

- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.

- Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and reliability.

- Implement security and data protection measures.

- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards.

- Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

- Troubleshoot and debug issues as they arise.

- Stay up to date with the latest backend development trends and technologies.

- Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines, and deliverables

- Build low latency microservices.

- Work on scaling services.

- Participate first hand in system design and architecture discussions.

Qualification :

- 2 to 3 years of hands-on experience in developing applications

- Experience working in a fast-paced environment.

- The need to be proficient in Golang and Python is an added advantage.

- Strong design skills involving data modeling and low-level class design

- Knowledge of best practices of working with large data sets and DB clusters.

- Must have a passion for tackling problems and building and managing scalable systems.

- Experience developing scalable and low latency microservices.

- Experienced in docker and deploying using CI/CD pipelines.

- Understanding of public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP

- Hands-on experience of working with Databases and Linux/Unix platform

- Understanding of Micro-services architecture and associated design patterns etc.

- Experience working with caching (Redis), message queues, streaming services, web-sockets, SQL (clickhouse), and NoSQL (Mongo DB).

- Experience with scalable systems (techniques like replication, sharding)

- Experience with performance engineering (monitoring & actioning on application performance stats)

- Good to have : Experience with gRPC (HTTP2 Protocol buffers)

- Good to have : Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of requests.

- Troubleshoot and debug issues as they arise.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest backend development trends and technologies.

Benefits :

- Competitive salary

- Working closely with management