Technical Lead - Full Stack

About UsupGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19,

upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.

upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.

We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.

upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.

Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Roles & Responsibilities

Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.

Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements.

Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards.

Support test and deployment of new products and features.

Participate in code reviews.

Skills Required

A highly talented developer with 6-9 years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks

Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo

Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Apache Spark, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.

Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.

Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.

Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.

Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.

Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.

Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.

Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).