Lead Backend Engineer

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.

Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels

Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.

Actively participate in code reviews

Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for?

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are

Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider

We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.

Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.