Platform Software Engineer - II

We are looking for an ambitious, experienced, driven and solution orientated individual that thrives in a fast-paced, cutting-edge, technology-driven environment. You will be an integral part of our product and platform development team, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver high-quality and highly scalable products.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of medium to large scale server-side software development experience.
• Strong working knowledge of a backend programming language like Clojure and Java in production.
• Thorough knowledge of CS fundamentals: Data structures and time complexity of algorithms.
• Knowledge of system design and architecture.
• Experience in working with any one of YugabyteDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka or Postgresql.
• Knowledge of Posix compliant operating systems (we develop on Mac OS X and deploy on GNU/Linux).
• Comfortable using CLI tools for achieving day-to-day tasks.
• Efficiency with code editor of choice.
• Experience in writing unit and integration tests.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to issue resolution.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).

Responsibilities:

• Work on the Resiliency, Availability and Latency of our Core platform and services that are delivered to 820M monthly active users and can scale to 100K+ RPS.
• Work with multiple databases and ensure scalability for the interacting platform components.
• Take ownership and publish (internal) reusable services and APIs.
• Enable feature teams to use the Core platform.
• Write clean code with proper test coverage.
• Review others code and ensure that it is up to organization standards.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Participate in the hiring process.
• Keep calm and learn every day.

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of frontend development and tools, especially JavaScript and React.
• Knowledge of functional programming is a plus (we use Clojure).
• Experience with benchmarking systems for performance, and failure detection.
• Experience in working with any of the above databases at scale is good to have.