Role overview :

A day in your role will involve any of the following (or a combination) :

- Develop APIs for new features that will be consumed by the frontend (web and mobile)

- Develop APIs for integrations into 3rd-party ERP & HRMS systems like SAP, etc

- Build new services or add functionality in existing systems & services like IoT Data Parsers and Ingestors, etc

- Build modular sub-systems that can be reused to develop a scalable system

- Optimize application backend for speed and scalability

- Ship out bug-free code using TDD

- Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend

- Build and maintain CI CD pipelines for application deployments

- Be part of product planning with the product manager

- Take the lead in deciding how to build what needs to be built for scale and ensure the technical feasibility of a product feature

- Understand the requirements and give adequate time estimates for the features

- Coordinate with QA for every feature and make sure releases are bug-free

- Managing junior developers for their workload and mentoring them in the right way to code and contribute

- Help with the recruitment of engineering talent

- Implement and continuously improve processes for high-velocity engineering, including DevOps, testing, CI/CD, PRs, etc.

This list is not exhaustive at all, and you'll have a lot of autonomy over your work.

This is a full-time position based in Noida. During the interview, you'll be able to share what you're most interested in.

Technically, these are some of the things we would like for you to have to be able to contribute effectively in this kind of position :

- You are fluent in working with server-side languages and frameworks, in particular NodeJS, but any other language proficiency is also fine, e.g., Go, Python, Java, as long as you can pick up a new language and contribute

- You are fluent in using SQL Database, preferably PostgreSQL,s and at least one NOSQL Database, preferably MongoDB, but feel free to surprise us!

- You have experience in developing backend apps and have put it to production

- You can write clean, modular code in either Object-Oriented style or Functional style

- You are comfortable with Test Driven Development

- You have working knowledge of cloud services (AWS and Azure) like S3, CloudFront, IAM, etc and dev ops, and can set up and manage CI CD pipelines (GitLab or GitHub) for application deployment

- You have shipped code to production recently, regularly

- You are fluent in using the tools of the trade : Testing, Infrastructure Setup, Code Pipelines, Editors, Git, Command line, Slack, Jira

- You can lead a highly driven team and galvanize Syook Engineering in the tech community, and position the engineering team for growth

- You have a growth mindset, can keep up with the latest technology changes and trends, and suggest enhancements based on these

Apart from the above, it would be a plus if you also have :

- Experience with Docker & Kubernetes

- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other pub/sub and queue management systems

- Open source contributions

Our current development practices :

Since we're an early-stage startup, we constantly have to ask "what gets the most value, cheaply, to validate our assumptions?" We build some things to last a long time, and others as prototypes.

We use linting, e2e testing, CI CD, observability logging, and production probes. We've documented both our web and mobile apps so that you should be able to get started easilyand if you need help, we'll absolutely improve our docsand contribute on your first day.

We recognize the value of maintainability and keeping our developer experience nimble. Our sprints are for 2 weeks, and we push releases to production as per this schedule.

You'll help push us to be our best, and we're excited for recommendations and insights you have as you join. You'll be an owner and contribute to how we work.

About you :

- Love thinking broadly about problems and thinking creatively about how to solve them efficiently.

- Happy to try things out to validate new features, and move on if they no longer solve a problem.

- Excited for a front-row seat in a fast-growing, early-stage company. Things will change a lot!

- Enjoy thinking through trade-offs, with both mindfulness of short-term needs and our long-term direction.

- Happy writing documentation so that others can ramp up super easily, and you're never a single-source-of-failure. We're a bit too small to have silos.

- You are driven and care about doing a good job and improving your craft.

- Love to manage people and make sure you get the best out of them

- You have a growth mindset, can keep up with the latest technology changes and trends, and suggest enhancements based on these

- Most importantly, youre the kind of person who is friendly, approachable, ready to help others, and personally driven to put your best foot forward.