Senior Software Engineer - Marketplace

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Lead the development and maintenance of backend APIs that powers experimentation products

• Evolve GraphQL gateway that unifies the interface to interact with experimentation data.

• Integrate multiple APIs into one single GraphQL gateway.

• Solve complex technical problems to improve our development process, increase our efficiency and unlock new business opportunities.

• Take initiative to improve existing solutions, challenge decisions, propose augmented alternatives and address technical debt.

• Lead the technical discussion around software architecture and guide the team to make decisions that are agile, incremental and beneficial for the long term

• Responsible to refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessary and guide more junior members of the team in this topic

• Coach, guide and improve the overall performance of more junior colleagues

The job requirements

• Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in software engineering development with extensive knowledge of at least one backend language like Perl, Java, NodeJS (JavaScript) or Python

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field or 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the specialty as equivalent

• Extensive knowledge and experience in domain based systems design including API design, management, documentation and governance

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and cooperate with people at all levels

• Experience with mentoring, coaching and training team members, formal and informal

• Experience driving successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality

• Demonstrable experience with MySQL or similar relational databases

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus

• Practical experience with GraphQL and APIs development is a plus

• Experience working with teams located in different timezones is a plus

• Experience with experimentation, statistics and A/B testing is a plus

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