Senior Backend Engineer (Go/Python) - Remote | Immediate Joiners Only

• The development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable code.
• The entire lifecycle of stories: development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Develop a highly scalable and performant backend based on event driven architecture.
• Building robust, secure and scalable microservices.
• Splitting features into tasks and for the backend architecture and its evolution.
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards. This includes collaborating with QAs, PMs to ensure timely delivery of high-quality apps.
• Participating in, designing and driving the code review process.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible to implement relational, document, key, object or graph data-stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
• Tracking defects and working with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog.
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
• Owning and delivering end-to-end backend features, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborating with product stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Writing clean, efficient, maintainable code using best practices and participating in code reviews.
• Building reusable services and contributing to core engineering libraries.
• Documenting and demonstrating solutions through documentation, DFDs, and code comments.
• Solving complex technical problems with objectivity before writing code.
• Taking ownership of backend systems, including APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
• Working closely with Product to help drive KPIs and align engineering goals with business outcomes.
• Staying agile and adapting quickly to evolving requirements, scope, and priorities.

• 3+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Golang.
• Overall 6+ years of experience in software development with a strong base and framework expertise in Java/Go/Python.
• Basic working knowledge of frontend technologies.
• Experience with frameworks – like Springboot, Quarkus, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, transactional systems, and distributed environments.
• Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics (with something like Newrelic).
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSql (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Proficient in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns with Data modeling experience in Relational databases.
• Proficient in building GraphQL APIs.
• Proficient with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and version control (Git).
• Well-versed with TDD and Test Engineering and Automation
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• To have mentored a team of 2-3 engineers.
• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environment.
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities.
• To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.

• Open-source contributions, side-projects, blog posts and YT tech videos.
• Experience deploying serverless applications to GCP.
• Experience in Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Kubernetes, Cloud Vision.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Machine learning experience.

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