Senior Backend Engineer (LATAM)

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for the development of new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

This role is Bangalore based and you will be required to work from the office.

you’ll be responsible for —

• The development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable code.
• The entire lifecycle of stories: development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Develop a highly scalable and performant backend based on event driven architecture.
• Building robust, secure and scalable microservices.
• Splitting features into tasks and for the backend architecture and its evolution.
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards. This includes collaborating with QAs, PMs to ensure timely delivery of high-quality apps.
• Participating in, designing and driving the code review process.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible to implement relational, document, key, object or graph data-stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
• Tracking defects and working with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog.
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.

you need —

• 3+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Golang.
• Overall 6+ years of experience in software development with a strong base and framework expertise in Java/Go/Python/Node.js.
• Basic working knowledge of frontend technologies.
• Experience with frameworks – like Springboot, Quarkus, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, transactional systems, and distributed environments.
• Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics (with something like Newrelic).
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSql (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Proficient in OOP, SQL, Design Patterns with Data modeling experience in Relational databases.
• Proficient in building GraphQL APIs.
• Proficient with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and version control (Git).
• Well-versed with TDD and Test Engineering and Automation
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• To have mentored a team of 2-3 engineers.
• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environment.
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities.
• To be experienced in working on massively large scale data systems in production environments.

bonus points for —

• Open-source contributions, side-projects, blog posts and YT tech videos.
• Experience deploying serverless applications to GCP.
• Experience in Cloud Run, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Kubernetes, Cloud Vision.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Machine learning experience.

what you get —

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

about us—

We are Proximity — a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech at scale. Here’s a quick guide to getting to know us better:

• Watch our CEO, Hardik Jagda, tell you all about Proximity.
• Read about Proximity’s values and meet some of our Proxonauts here.
• Explore our website, blog, and the design wing — Studio Proximity.

Get behind the scenes with us on Instagram! Follow @ProxWrks and @H.Jagda