Job Description

Principal engineer- Platform

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of experience, building large scale applications
• Experience working at startups in growth phase with war stories to share
• Experience with frontend technologies like vue.js or react.js
• Strong experience with at least one backend framework, preferably express.js
• Extensive experience in at least one programming language (preferably Javascript, GoLang) and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
• Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
• Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good To Have:

• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
• Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR
• Exposure to AI/ML