Backend Lead at Puramilk Tech

Job Description

₹40L – ₹65L

We’re in search of a senior back-end engineer that specializes in building highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
As a part of the Core Backend team, you’ll be working on some complex and interesting problems such as building suggestion algorithms to bring out meaningful relations between our users.

With a lean team like ours, you’ll have ample opportunities to work with various aspects of the application and build something meaningful.

*Requirements *

*Must-haves: *

• You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
• Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
• Should have experience with various database flavours and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
• Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
• Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
• Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
• Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
• Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
• Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
• Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
• Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
• You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required) Good to have
• App Development experience
• Experience in Test Driven Development
• Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
• Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
• Experience in working on a Social Media Product
• Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
• Data-Driven Approach to monitoring