Backend Developer

What we are looking for

We are looking for an excellent problem solver with strong full-stack software engineering skills to manage and constantly enhance the 8 different software modules in our power distribution management platform. The candidate will be driving the architecture design of new features and modules, building and managing a team of full-stack developers, and architecting and maintaining a high-performance and scalable cloud

infrastructure that runs our platform.

What You Will Be Doing

• Gathering and converting business requirements from internal and external clients for various software modules of Gram Power’s platform
• Designing the architecture of new modules, features and its interconnection with other modules in the platform
• Building modules and features of our platform to operate at scale. We design for 20+ million distributed devices being handled on the platform
• Ensuring modules are built and maintained to be extensible, easily dockerized for on-premise & multi-tenant cloud deployments, and operate in a microservice architecture
• Monitor and maintain uptime of our cloud infra on which critical power infrastructure is managed
• Performance monitoring of all APIs and services to ensure high performance of applications
• Keep a close watch on cloud expenses per device and stick to necessary budgets
• Maintain strong technical documentation

What You Should Have

• Should have 6+ years of experience in full-stack development with a focus on backend development.
• Strong preference for candidates with experience of building and managing a platform/ software product.
• Proficiency in the following tech-stack:

Javascript, ReactJS, Python, Django

Strong fundamentals on web standards, browser performance, rendering pipelines, HTTP, and other concepts

PostgreSQL, Dynamo DB, Firebase DB optimization

GIT, AWS

Microservices framework Kafka

Asynchronous & event based programming

Big data tools like

Apache web services

Good understanding of networking fundamentals

• Knowledge of Docker, CI/CD
• Strong experience of building schemas for large scale data storage and ingestion
• Experience of launching, monitoring and integrating new services into a complex cloud platform
• Ability to collaborate with a team and work remotely while adhering to deadlines
• Comfortable with task planning, agile methodology of development, and performing in a rapidly changing environment
• Excellent skills in communicating with multiple departments in the organization