Job Description

Lead Engineer

Location : HYDERABAD

About Company 

Keka has been a silent revolution in the making since our launch 7 years ago. Our steadfast focus on building an employee-centric HR platform was well received by more than 6500 businesses across India and the world. Today we are India’s #1 platform in the segment with the greatest number of new customers adopting the platform. All with zero advertising spend and pure customer love. We are an organization built by our employees. The passion and the extreme ownership that our people bring to the table are contagious. We don’t hide our shortcomings and we aren’t afraid to ask for help. When we fail, we learn, adapt, and do better in the future. This open culture encourages our people to innovate, regardless of their function and across departmental boundaries.

Recently, in November 2022, the company secured India’s largest Series A SaaS funding with a whopping $57 million from WestBridge Capital. 

Our Engineering Team 

Keka Engineering Team follows modern engineering practices and works with latest stack. Refactoring is central to our philosophy to evolve the design, maintain code consistency and adapt to dynamic business needs. We believe in DevOps practices, there is no fixed release cycle; our CI/CD pipeline, deployment automation, blue-green deployment and other related practices gives us flexibility to deploy multiple times a day (if required). Our Engineering team is made up of small cohesive teams embracing Agile; working on focus areas to deliver awesome experiences to our Customers. Keka Engineering Team works on complex technical challenges, learns & adapts and most importantly; we have fun along the way.      

 Skills Required 

• 6+ years of strong programming experience on .NET platform (open to candidates with Java background) 
• Proficient with Web application development – we leverage ASP.NET MVC / Web API / Typescript / Angular (open to candidates experienced with Web development and zeal to learn) 
• Experience building applications leveraging Azure (or AWS) 
• Hands on experience on Html, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap (or any other CSS framework) 
• Experience with SQL Server (Stored Procedures & UDF) and NoSQL (Cosmos DB or others) 
• Good grip on Fundamentals of CS, OOPS Concepts, SOLID Principles, Design Patterns and its usages 
• Ability to prepare both high level and low-level design of the system 
• Familiarity with TDD, CI/CD, GIT, DevOps 
• Experience with microservices architecture 

Expectations 

•   Provide technical leadership and functional help working closely with team members 
• Design, implement and maintain application within all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) on Microsoft Azure (or AWS)  
• Independently carry out the activities without much of guidance  
• Create, understand, and validate design and estimates and be able to justify them 
• Applies knowledge of principles and techniques to solve technical problems. 
• Works closely with other functions to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps 
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills and detail oriented 
• Comprehensive understanding of OOPS concepts, data structures, algorithms and product development techniques and theories  
• Should be able to design schema for enterprise level applications 
• Should be able to apply design patterns 
• Should be open to face new challenges and learn new technologies.
• Should be ready to create proof of concepts and explain the value created out of it.
• Responsible for Deliverables on time
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization