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Principal Engineer - Backend

Weekday, Inc.

Principal Engineer - Backend

Posted 13 Days Ago

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In-Office

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND

Senior level

In-Office

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND

Senior level

Lead design and hands-on development of high-volume, low-latency, microservices-based backend systems. Guide senior engineers, define architecture, optimize performance and data stores, deploy on cloud platforms, translate product needs into technical designs, and drive large-scale Agile projects.

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This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 2000000 - Rs 4000000 (ie INR 20 - 40 LPA)

Min Experience: 8+ years

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
JobType: full-time

Responsibilities

- Co-lead end-to-end design and development efforts for high-volume, low-latency applications for real-time event based systems

- Lead and direct senior software engineers, define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of platform modules and features

- Deliver high-availability and high-performance platform using microservices architecture

- Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in code, and devise solutions to production and non-production issues

- Keep an eye out for open source projects and technology trends that can be introduced in the products

- Transform business functionalities and production specifications into technical requirements and low level design

- Be hands-on, adopt a practical approach to software and technology

- Work with product management and other teams to build highly scalable products

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
8 to 10 years of design and development experience in scalable and distributed enterprise applications using Java/J2EE, JPA, Spring framework and RESTful web services
Excellent coding skills in Java
Experience in managing, implementing and optimizing big data stores such as MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
Experience in deploying applications and using various managed services provided by cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
Experience in front-end technologies HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, AngularJS, React and D3.js is preferred
Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design
Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership

Must-have skills

Java

Good-to-have skills

Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, AWS

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