What you will do:

• Drive design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
• Work with product, engineering and business teams to ideate on technology strategy and line up initiatives around the same
• Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
• Build clean, modular and scalable frontends
• Own quality and velocity of releases across the engineering organization
• Manage and mentor a team of engineers
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
• Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem, propose and implement new technologies/methodologies as per the business needs
• Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
• Champion infrastructure-as-code mindset and encourage automation
• Identify problems around engineering processes, propose solutions and drive implementations for the same

What makes you a great fit:

• At least 8 years of experience, building large scale applications
• Experience working at startups in growth phase with war stories to share
• Experience with frontend technologies like vue.js or react.js
• Strong experience with at least one backend framework, preferably express.js
• Extensive experience in at least one programming language (preferably Javascript, GoLang) and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
• Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
• Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills