What you'll do:

• Work closely with Team Leads and Product Managers to gather requirements and estimate project timelines.
• Should be able to understand product specifications and come up with optimal scalable solutions.
• Should be aware of the Agile working model and follow JIRA hygiene.
• Complete ownership of features worked upon should be able to perform RCAs and provide quick resolution of relevant issues/production bugs while training Tech Support Engineers to offload recurring chunks of work.
• Should be a full-time mentor for SDE1s and be able to assist all other SDE1s as and when required.
• Be part of the lateral hiring process and allocate fixed bandwidth for interviewing processes.
• Should strive to follow best coding practices throughout designing, development, and testing.
• Should have great communication skills over email and in-person discussions.

What makes you a great fit:

• Understanding of algorithms and data structures and basic APIs & database design.
• Should have worked with MVC frameworks, web / client-based server architecture, and structured and unstructured databases.
• Ability to translate product spec to engineering actionable.
• Ability to navigate and structure code bases.
• Rudimentary skills around service hosting and infrastructure. Should understand the end-to-end deployment cycle.
• Experience with Java / Spring Boot.
• Worked as SDE for 2-5 years in startup/mid-tier product companies with a small team size (2-3 recent experiences even if the initial job is in service-based companies).
• Excellent internship record.
• Executed on RCAs / challenging engg problems with an SDE III at work.
• Won awards / Recognised by upper management for going above and beyond.
• Has working experience with Linux. Any certification is good to have.
• Open source/pet project contributions.
• Active on GitHub / StackOverflow.
• Published papers in A-level conferences like IEEE, and ACM (optional).