Tracxn - Platform Engineer

Job Description

Total Experience: 2+ years

Notice Period: Immediate to a maximum of 45 Days

Mode Of Hire: Permanent

Required Skills Set (Mandatory):

• Data structures and Algorithms,
• IAAC (Infrastructure as a code): Python (OOP), Shell Scripting, Ansible
• Linux System and Networking understanding,
• Software design, and database systems.

Desired Skills (Good if you have): AWS, HAProxy, ELK, MongoDB, Kafka, Terraform

Job Responsibilities

• Architect and develop scalable platforms and infrastructure solutions to support different environments (local, staging, production) and CI/CD processes.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure using AWS services, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Create and maintain automation scripts using Ansible, Bash, and Python to enhance platform functionality and streamline operations.
• Collaborate with Managers and other Engineers to help define, scope, and implement high-quality features that solve critical user needs.
• Break down requirements into architecture and deliver code, while keeping operational issues in mind.
• Monitor and optimise platform performance, implementing best practices for scalability and resilience.
• The ability to own end-to-end responsibility right from the requirement to release.
• Write clear documentation so that other engineers can jump in and get things done.
• Actively participate in design and code reviews.
• Help take Tracxn to the next level as a world-class engineering team

Job Requirements

• ​​Experience with building backend services. Strong algorithm and CS skills.
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing large‐scale distributed systems.
• Experience with multiple programming languages (Python, Java) and data stores
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, agile, and in ownership, and results-oriented culture.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Culture

• Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
• Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• No strict deadlines focus on delivering quality work.
• Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
• Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.

About Tracxn

Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem. We are a team of 800+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporates such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.

Founders

• Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
• Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)

News about Tracxn:

• Tracxn Technologies' Singh On Expansion Strategy (Neha's interview with Bloomberg)
• The goal is to build an iconic data-providing company from India, like how Infosys is an iconic software company from India: Founders Abhishek Goyal and Neha Singh (Interview with Moneycontrol)
• All You Need To Know About Tracxn Technologies: IPO Adda (Interview with BQPrime)

About Technology Team

Tracxn's Technology team is 50+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each of which owns one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team as compared to an individual.

We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to ReactJS, Next.js, Storybook, Webpack, Node, Mongo, AWS Lambda, Spring, Elastic Stack, MySQL, Kafka, Redis, Ansible, etc.

We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.