Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our team in Chennai. The role provides a unique and challenging opportunity to work on various products within Kula helping recruiters move faster and be more productive while hiring high quality candidates.

Who are we?

Kula is an all-in-one recruitment automation platform that automates entire hiring process for recruiters so they can move faster with hiring the right candidates. Think, co-pilot for recruiters. We have seen first-hand how using Kula increases the recruiter yield by at least 50% and helps build a predictable pipeline and deliver a great experience to candidates.

How You’ll Be Contributing To Our Engineering Team

Build Kula with us and take it to the next stage of scale. You will be building a platform that can stand the test of scale without compromising on user experience.

What does it take?

• You have 5 to 8 years of Backend engineering experience preferably in a startup environment where you have shipped high quality products to users
• You have a passion for building products that delights customers and approach your work with a strong product mindset and you don't expect everything to be spelled out in user stories and design files
• You make data driven decisions and have a strong sense of ownership on your deliverables and love making stepwise changes to improve the product over a period of time even after launching. Especially after launching and don't expect Product team to tell you how the experience should be improved
• You have great communication skills and can articulate complex, technical concepts to non-technical audience
• You love working autonomously and open to feedback
• You believe in and follow best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
• You love building products that are security-first
• You have a strong experience with any backend languages like Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, NodeJS, etc.,
• You have a strong experience with MySQL or Postgres
• You have a strong experience in distributed systems
• You have a solid understanding of building and managing infra in AWS
• You have experience running projects and taking them from 0 to 1
• You enjoy writing testable code

Some extra skills that would be great

• You have experience with building multi-tenant SaaS applications
• You have experience with frontend frameworks like ReactJS
• You have experience with ElasticSearch
• You have worked with applications that handled and scaled huge amounts of data for online and offline data use-cases.
• You have experience working on GenAI applications
• You have experience working with data warehouses like Snowflake or Databricks

What does success look like in this role?

• You’ll have worked on and contributed to multiple products within Kula and helped customers achieve their goals.
• You’ll have played a major role in defining/refining the backend architecture of all the products we launch.
• You’ll have improved the technical quality of all engineering deliverables.
• You’ll have found a place where you can learn and grow together with the rest of us.
• You’ll have constantly monitored how customers receive our products and continuously improved them and worked towards achieving customer delight.
• You’ll have collaborated with Product owners and monitored the outcome and success metrics of the products we launched and helped improve them to meet the company's goals.