Back-End Developer

• Take accountability and solve complex problems
• Handle authentication and authorization around REST APIs and manage multiple versions of it
• Be the engine that drives the engineering productivity of the team
• Be responsible for the product or feature development from end to end
• Create a solution, implement it, ensure exemplary quality, and support the deployment and ongoing support work in the live environment
• Take ownership of the performance, security, scalability, reusability, and quality of the applications
• Collaborate with senior engineering managers/architects to refine and improve solutions
• Support and mentor team members, helping to build truly scalable applications
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to achieve predictable results rapidly
• Handle competing priorities and chart the best course of action for the team members
• Ensure that agile processes created by the team are adhered to
• Actively contribute to the improvement of these processes
• Estimate and ensure that promised timelines are met
• Attract and evaluate tech talent to help build the engineering brand of the organization

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor s/Master s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3-9+ years of relevant experience as a back-end developer
• Experience working at a top tier digital product companies across consumer or SMB
• Knowledge of parallel processing using reactive and asynchronous programming is a must
• Prior experience working with coroutines, goroutines, high concurrency, or optimized number of threads for processing on the back-end application server
• Extremely proficient at writing performant, scalable, and production-ready code
• Experience working with Kotlin, Java 8 or above, Elixir, Rust, or Golang
• Comfortable with concepts like lambda, streams, and multithreading
• Familiarity with static code analysis, code coverage, and code reviews
• Core expertise in working with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, or Aerospike
• Knowledge of RDBMS like PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Prior experience working with query tuning and database optimization using composite and partial indexes
• Keen interest in finding out trends in technologies outside his work
• Understanding of HTML, CSS, Angular, and ReactJS front-end technologies is a plus
• Knowledge of building applications integrated with CI-CD pipelines (automated build, tests, and deployments)
• Exposure to micro-services with a good understanding of containers, Kubernetes, logging, alerting, and monitoring