Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Back End Developer responsible for developing the data interchange between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be developing all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

What you will do

• Build : Work with the team to plan, ideate, build new product features in close interaction with our AI team to integrate GPU-based networks, general architecture improvements to improve service scalability.
• Improve: Work on performance, reliability and traceability of our backend services. Build platform and processes for early problem identification and proactive resolution, improving our current SLA, reorganise parts of the backend into highly scalable & isolated micro-services components. Improve team processes and propose engineering-wide process transformations.
• Growth: Take an active part in growing professionals in company, improving them with valuable feedback during code review, Scrum events and 1-1 meetings. Set personal goals aligned with company's goals.

What are we looking for

• Experience: 7+ years of experience in software development and 4+ with Node.js
• Problem Solver: Thoughtfully understanding the context and decomposing the larger problem to come up with a clean plan with the team. You do not hesitate asking for help.
• Platform Knowledge: Strong knowledge of node.js and docker, ability to debug code running in a container, experience with MongoDB and Redis, experience in developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Get It Done: You can work with the teams in shipping quality backend services that work in scale. You can deal with ambiguous situations to take a call and move forward.
• Business and Product Acumen: You understand the business impact of the feature you are building. You can find the right balance between delivery and ideal stuff.
• Learner: You love few technologies, but at the same time you are open to learn new ones as well. You love sharing your knowledge with others.
• Team Player: Smooth cross functional team communication. You love to help your teammates. Learning and growing together. You are open-minded and can provide your valuable feedback constructively. You work and also celebrate together with your team.

Mandatory Technical Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in Nodejs
• Experience in MongoDB or any other NoSQL databases
• Experience with Redis
• Experience in developing REST APIs and micro services
• Experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience with TypeScript

Bonus Points

• Experience with molecular microservices framework
• Experience with application performance tracking tools such as Grafana/Prometheus
• Experience with Camunda Orcherstrator
• Experience with React + Redux
• Proven records of team process improvements
• Experience in hiring and growing amazing professionals
• Track record of architecture transformations and improvements
• Track record of leading technical projects
• Experience with Python