Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Skills and expertise you’ll require

• Java
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• MongoDB
• Node.js
• REST
• Express.js

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications & back-end services demonstrating service-oriented architecture.
• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable APIs, services, and systems within the platform.
• Choose the right Data Structures, tools and tech stacks and be able to do High Level Designing with guidance.
• Build, develop, mentor, review code and coach junior team members.
• Extensive programming experience with cross-platform development: Java/SpringBoot, Javascript/Node.js, Express.js or Python
• Extensive knowledge of ElasticSearch, MongoDB or Cassandra, Redis, SQS and data streaming (Spark, Flink, Kafka streams, storm, etc.).
• Well versed in Kafka Understanding cloud native technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, capable to cover full development lifecycle including CI/CD
• Experience in use of source code management system like GIT, bitbucket and build tools like ant, maven, Gradle or make.
• Take great pride in Code quality and developer productivity.
• Put in Microservcies architecture in place that paves road for scalability, efficiency, observability, and availability.
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile.
• Build algorithms and services to influence personalisation and recommendation from a real-time recommendation engine for both home feed to surface most viral videos + video e-commerce.
• Build machine learning pipelines using Kinesis,Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc
• Agile methodologies, Sprint management, Roadmap, Mentoring, Documenting, Software architecture
• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems
• Liaison with Product Management, DevOps, QA, Client and other teams

Your Experience Across The Years in the Roles You’ve Played

• Have total or more 5 – 7 years of experience with 2-3 years in a startup.
• Have B.Tech or M.Tech or equivalent academic qualification from premier institute.
• Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred
• Thoroughly aware of cloud computing infrastructure on AWS leveraging cloud native service and infrastructure services to design solutions.
• Follow Cloud Native Computing Foundation leveraging mature open source projects including understanding of containerisation/Kubernetes.

We Value Engineers Who Are

• Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the creator is ultimately what will drive our business forward.
• Obsessed with Quality: Your Production code just works & scales linearly
• Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve.
• Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our creators desire. You know when it’s appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability.
• Owners: Engineers at Chingari know how to positively impact the business.