As a Senior Backend Engineer, 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.

The impact you will create:

• 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.

What you bring in:

• Software development experience of 5+ years with Scala, Java or Play Framework.
• Experience of working with microservices, architecture, and patterns.
• Experience of working with relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience of working with backend for mobile apps.
• Interest in latest technologies and proactive in tinkering with it.
• Entrepreneurial in nature. Doesn't believe in the status quo.
• Can work independently. Independent contributor with minimal supervision, and handholding.
• Can find out smart ways of doing things, not necessarily the perfect way.

It would be great if you also have:

• Scala or any other functional programming languages (Haskell, Erlang, Clojure, etc.)
• NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Mongo, etc), Relational databases.
• Event-driven systems, stream processing
• Akka
• Pure functional programming and libraries such as Cats, Scalaz
• Kubernetes, Continuous Delivery
• Distributed systems
• Shipping your own side/hobby project(s) end-to-end