Job Description

• Location - Bangalore

About Us

Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its SaaS platform - Circles X, helping telco operators launch and operate successful digital brands through its offerings.

Having pioneered a successful blueprint for disrupting the telco space in Singapore, Circles has since launched its own digital telco, Circles.Life, in Singapore, Taiwan and Australia. Circles has also partnered with other telco operators to launch digital services, enabling our partners to accelerate growth and capture market share within a short period of time.

Today, Circles is partnering with operators in 14 countries to deliver delightful digital experiences to millions of people through our businesses.

We are backed by global investors such as Sequoia, Warburg Pincus, EDBI and Founders Fund – renowned backers of industry-shaking innovators.

Job Responsibilities

As our Staff Engineer (Back End),you'll be responsible for building new features, enhancing the existing ones as well as supporting them in production. You will also be responsible for building reusable libraries or technology platforms that address multiple use cases. You will work towards delivering specific milestones and objectives in a very dynamic environment

You Will Be In Charge Of The Following

• Working closely with the Engineers to develop the best technical design, strategy and drive execution to build capabilities into the platform
• Service ownership for the assigned services.
• Owning the delivery of various timelines, ensuring that key milestones are met and deliveries are of the highest quality
• Establishing various best practices for software development and encouraging their adoption with the team and organization
• Collaborate with other non-technical stakeholders of the business which includes
• Product Managers, Designers, Marketing etc.
• Encouraging and mentoring an excellent team of talented engineers by mentoring them and working with them to remove any roadblocks
• Functional availability of the software developed, enhancing the product based on functional requirements
• Managing cloud-based services, web applications for their functional correctness, availability, security
• Deploy and maintain enterprise class RESTful web services
• Own the engineering excellence and operational readiness of the service driving the
• SLO,SLI, SLA of the relevant services
• Take ownership to drive quality of the services under your purview via integration test and unit test coverage
• Responsible for all microservices within your purview responsible driving their quality, security, availability, scalability and other “Utilities”
• Dive deep into each issue, own reactive fixes, and execute long term fixes
• Assist other Support Engineers on complex RCA issues
• Provide technical mentoring and guidance to other engineers
• Provide L3 engineering support

Requirements

• Minimum 8 plus years of experience in software development of which 2 years are relevant Engineering Leadership experience
• Strong design and architectural experience in building various highly-scalable and highly-available products
• Strong understanding of the SDLC Activities which include Analysis, Design,
• Development, Testing, Deployment and Post-Production Support etc.
• Proficiency in at least one server side framework for languages such as Spring boot-Java ( Prefer to have experience in Node.js, Golang too)
• Experience working on NoSQL & SQL Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis etc
• Preferred experience in Elasticsearch and Kibana (ELK Stack)
• Preferred experience with messaging systems like RabbitMQ
• Deep Dive, problem-solving, RCA and systematic thinking to reach the cause of issues
• Able to work independently and multi-task effectively
• Program at a system level and able to manage service stability
• Excellent experience maintaining, scalable, extensible code
• Methodical in maintaining up to date documentation
• Metric-driven mindset and obsessive about ensuring clean coding practices
• Preferred experience in product development
• Preferred working experience on microservices platforms