Team Lead - Backend Engineer

About the Role:

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

What will you do:

- You will be responsible to write server side scripts, API’s to be utilised by front side engineers and also other microservices.

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

- 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 to 10 years of experience in back-end development (Designing, developing, testing and deploying large scale applications with Java)

- Must have experience in leading and managing a team.

- Strong organisational and time-management skills

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

- Good knowledge of data structure, OOPs concepts and Java

Good to have:

- Hands-on on Mongo DB, Redis and AWS

- Familiarity with front side platforms such Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and Vue

- Prior knowledge of Email services(SES, SMTP etc) is good to have.

Measures of Success:

- Writing scalable and bug free code adhering to the functional and non-functional requirements

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

- Excellent troubleshooting skills - memory leaks, GC tuning

Who will you report to: Director Backend Engineering

Key Competencies:

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

- 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 on the high growth mobile technology space

- Innovate at scale, with learning opportunities

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.

We're excited to showcase what we have to offer!