We are looking for an ambitious, experienced, driven and solution orientated individual to join our product and platform development team. As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for designing and developing product features that can scale to 100K+ RPS, taking ownership of product features and ensuring their quality, writing clean code with proper test coverage, and mentoring junior members of the team.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop product features that are delivered to 820M monthly active users and can scale to 100K+ RPS
• Take ownership of the product features and be responsible for its quality
• Write clean code with proper test coverage
• Review others' code and ensure that it is up to organization standards
• Mentor junior members of the team
• Build reusable modules and libraries for future use
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Participate in the hiring process
• Keep calm and learn every day

Requirements

• 4+ years of medium to large scale server-side software development experience
• Strong working knowledge of a backend programming language like Clojure and Java in production
• Thorough knowledge of CS fundamentals: Data structures and time complexity of algorithms
• Knowledge of system design and architecture
• Experience in working with one or more of MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Postgresql at scale
• Knowledge of Posix compliant operating systems (we develop on Mac OS X and deploy on GNU/Linux)
• Comfortable using CLI tools for achieving day-to-day tasks
• Experience in writing unit and integration tests
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to issue resolution
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

Nice to have

• Knowledge of frontend development and tools, especially JavaScript and React
• Knowledge of functional programming is a plus (we use Clojure)
• Experience with benchmarking systems for performance, and failure detection

Benefits

• Hybrid setup
• Worker's insurance
• Paid Time Offs
• Other employee benefits to be discussed by our Talent Acquisition team in India

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