Software Development Engineer III - Backend Technologies

Responsibilities :

- Responsible for ensuring that the architecture, data pipeline, and design of the platform remain top-notch with respect to scalability, availability, reliability, and maintainability.

- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular mentoring.

- Perform regular performance evaluations and share and seek feedback.

- Own end-to-end availability and performance of features, driving rapid product innovation while ensuring a reliable service.

- Working closely with the various stakeholders like Program Managers, Product Managers, Reliability and Continuity Engineering (RCE) team, and QE team to estimate and plan projects in an agile environment.

- Maintain and drive tech backlog execution for non-functional requirements of the platform, required to keep the platform resilient.

- Assist in release planning and prioritisation based on technical feasibility and engineering constraints.

- A zeal to continually find new ways to improve architecture, design, and ensure timely delivery and high quality.

Requirements :

- Computer Science or equivalent engineering graduate from a reputed college with 5-8 years of experience in backend engineering.

- Thorough understanding of highly distributed, low-latency, and high-throughput systems.

- Knowledge of globally distributed disaster-recovery-enabled architectures.

- Experience with the best practices of REST (SpringBoot, jHipster, Dropwizard) and non-REST (gRPC) communication.

- Exceptional code reviewer and solid programmer (Node.js/Java).

- Knowledge of essential distributed design patterns for backpressure, bulkhead, circuit breaker, event sourcing, CQRS, event driven architecture.

- Good knowledge of mid-tier caching strategies.

- Understanding of Containerization, Orchestration, and Service mesh frameworks (Kubernetes, Mesos, Ist.io, etc).

- Good understanding of the best practices of API design.

- Champion of Engineering excellence - code reviews, unit tests, documentation of system design and architecture, etc.