Architect - Backend

Responsibilities

• Design, Implement and Scale the backend and frontend of joyride platform.
• Create Abstractions, Database, API, and core packages which are used to build the joyride platform.
• Perform Peer Code Review.
• Work in articulate, agile, scrum driven fast throughput environment.
• Contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organising to execution and delivery, to solvecomplex engineering problems.
• Work closely with the engineering, product and analytics teams to implement and maintain backend systems.
• Formal mentoring, reviewing code, reviewing and writing design documents.
• Manage individual priorities, deadlines,, and deliverables.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind.
• Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.

Requirmenets

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS or related fields preferably from tier one institutes.
• 10 years of experience on server Backend Distributed and Parallel Systems, Scalable EnterprisePlatforms and Applications, Application Security, and Incident Management.
• Very good at CS fundamentals, Code design, and Object-oriented programming.
• Strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, Numerical Methods of Computation, Operating Systems, and Distributed Software Design.
• Experienced in Java and Java frameworks.
• Hands-on with Postgres, and MySQL.
• Experience in designing software for scalability.
• Drive architecture discussions and propose solutions to system and product changes.
• Leads product design and code reviews; can competently review any aspect of their product or major sub-system.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Proven Leader with experience in managing small teams.
• Produce clear, well-communicated, complete designs for product features or sub-systems.
• Ability to adapt to the new development environments, changing business requirements, and learning new systems is highly desirable.
• Unix/Linux Shell Scripting.
• Drives architecture discussions and proposes solutions to system and product changes.
• Knowledge of play framework.
• Akka actor system.
• Experience with Docker is bonus.