Senior Software Engineer - backend

As a Senior backend engineer in the Strategy team, you will work closely with a lean team and take responsibilities in building new applications & improving existing ones. You’ll be building systems from scratch and would be expected to take end to end ownership.

What do we expect from you

• Software development experience of 5+ years with Java or Scala, Play Framework.
• Experience of working with microservices, architecture, and patterns.
• Experience of working with non-relational databases.
• Experience of working with backend for mobile apps.
• Great prototyping skills.
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Good English skills, oral and written.
• Mentoring/ Leadership skills.
• Enthusiastic and passionate about working on the product and contributing to deliver the best technical solutions to user’s problems.
• Having strong opinions held loosely. Willing to change opinions in the light of new information, facts. Willing to disagree and commit.
• Not afraid to experiment, fail and learn.
• Curious by default, asking a lot of right questions.
• Believer in outcomes over output.
• Team player, polite and respectful while being assertive.

What will you work on

• Responsible for building backend for products developed under the New Initiatives team while providing know-how in the full software development lifecycle.
• Building a reliable system while having the ability to move fast.
• Participating in problem solving sessions with the team & providing solutions.
• Developing a framework to allow rapid prototyping.

It would be great if you also have experience with

• gRPC
• Cassandra
• Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform
• Docker
• Working in a startup environment