Senior Backend Engineer

Experience 5 Years

Objectives and Key Results

• Lead a team of junior backend engineers/developers
• Audit and optimise existing products at Appscrip
• Work with frontend team to resolve performance and security issues
• Refactor legacy code & implement code best practices
• Build process to ensure reliability & quick deliveries
• Be the evangelist and backend-end advocate inside the company
• Resolve and minimise tech debt
• Coordinate with clients, manage and run backend sprints
• Implement agile practices & increase visibility of team via clean reporting in JIRA/Asana

Who is this for?

• Stack agnostic (Nodejs MongoDB/Elastic/Redis Python appreciated)
• Ability to design systems at scale while being cost efficient
• Should be able to configure servers, manage load balancing, autoscaling and optimise performance based on traffic
• Experience with load testing is a plus
• Should be able to unit and integration tests
• Understands limitations of monoliths and microservices based architectures
• Has worked on products/website with 1 million MAUs
• Can own, manage and optimise modules/products
• Should be able to debug and optimise using server logs, API logs, newrelic andsentry reports
• Strong DSA understanding
• Should be able to do code reviews, and ensure best practices for code & security
• Experience with CDN, CMS, SSR, SSG is an add on
• Should be able to improve code for space and time complexity
• Should be able to manage delivery
• Should be able to maintain clean swagger documentation for the APIs
• Experience with containerization is a plus

Who is this not for?

• People who cant read and interpret server logs, and API logs
• People who are lousy with code reviews
• People who ignore security measures while developing any services
• People who cant improve and optimise code for space and time complexity
• People who do not challenge the status quo
• People who cannot lead a team and ensure delivery
• People who pile up tech debt