What you'll do:

• Understand product requirements and features, keeping in mind the real-world problems that our customers face.
• Design and implement well thought out services, systems, and solutions that are reliable, scalable and maintainable.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high-quality software. Break down complex projects/epics/stories into achievable tasks for developers.
• Develop object-oriented models and design data structure for new software projects taking systems aspects into account.
  
• Participate and contribute to discussions and decisions for creating and improving architecture across applications and the software development processes.
• Oversee work by junior engineers and set proper guidelines on development methodologies.
• Be an approachable leader to mentor junior engineers and clarify their doubts.

What makes you a great fit:

• Strong experience in leading and mentoring junior engineers on the technical front. 
• Strong experience in developing highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services.
  
• Should be proficient in backend performance optimization and caching techniques. 
• Strong experience with microservices architecture and with building reusable server components.
• Strong programming experience in Java, Javascript, or Go. PHP experience is a plus. 
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL database systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Strong experience with async workflows and messaging queues such as RabbitMq, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with frontend technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Angular and ReactJS are a plus.
• Experience working with the AWS cloud platform.
• Must be open to experimenting with new technologies & enjoy working in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Experience with API Design, ability to architect and implement an intuitive customer and third-party integration story.