Senior Backend Engineer - Platform

About the Role:

We are looking for somebody with an engineering mindset who can bring fresh ideas from various areas, including large-scale platform design, analytics, data structures, security practices, large-scale data retrieval and processing environments. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working closely with product managers, QA engineers, software engineers, and will be responsible for designing, building, deploying, maintaining and scaling various products under the umbrella of CleverTap Platform.

What will you do:

- You will write server side code, APIs to be utilised by front end engineers as well as other microservices.

- Your day to day work consists of optimising servers for speed and stability, implementing security structures, generating reusable code libraries and generating data storage solutions.

- You will work closely with our SRE team and different vendors to deliver some core tools for the rest of the engineering organisation

- Apart from this, you will also be involved with the product team directly in deciding the requirements, estimating delivery date for a particular feature and documenting the technical details for developing it.

What are we looking for?

Must Have:

- 5+ years of experience in back-end development (designing, developing, testing and deploying large scale applications in Java)

- Strong organisational and time-management skills

- Attention to detail

- Ability to meet communicated deadlines and release projects with minimal bugs

- Good knowledge of data structures, OOP concepts and Java

- Experience with cloud native distributed systems (one of GCP, AWS or Azure)

- Quick learner

- Ability to switch focus and work on multiple projects simultaneously, prioritising based on changing requirements

- You are passionate about experiencing technology and its impact on enabling growth

Good to Have:

- Hands-on on MongoDB, Redis and AWS

- Some DevOps/SRE experience

- System level knowledge and shell scripting

- Java certification (OCJP or equivalent)

Measures of Success:

- Writing quality and bug free code adhering to functional and nonfunctional requirements

- Follow standard practices (Unit Tests, Reduce technical debt, Code Coverage, Integration Test, etc)

- Excellent troubleshooting skills - memory leaks, GC tuning

- On-time delivery and excellent inter team and intra team communication

Who will you report to: Senior Manager - Backend Engineering

Key Competencies:

- Functional Competencies: Programming, system design and analysis, data structures and algorithms, Agile development, distributed systems

- Behavioral Competencies: Analytical problem solving, attention to details, teamwork and collaboration

Why join us?

- Be a part of a global growth stage startup

- Work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your contribution matters

- You are passionate about technology and its impact within the high growth mobile technology space

- Innovate at scale, learning with every opportunity

About CleverTap:

CleverTap is the leading all-in-one customer engagement platform that helps brands unlock limitless customer lifetime value. CleverTap is trusted by over 2000 brands like Domino’s, Levis, Jio, Papa John’s, Zomato, Kotak Bank, Jio, Air Asia, Carousell, TD Bank, and Tesco to help build personalized experiences for all their customers. The platform is powered by TesseractDB™ – the world’s first purpose-built database for customer engagement, offering speed and cost efficiency at scale.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Accel, Peak XV Partners, Tiger Global, CDPQ and 360 One, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, with presence across Seattle, London, São Paulo, Bogota, Mexico, Amsterdam, Sofia, Dubai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Singapore, Vietnam, and Jakarta.

For more information, visit clevertap.com or follow us on:

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If you think you’d be a good fit for this role, we’d love for you to apply!

CleverTap is dedicated to establishing an inclusive culture that welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds, encouraging them to contribute their unique perspectives to our workplace.

We are committed to cultivating an empowering environment, enabling each of us to reach the peak of our professional careers.

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