26 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and ship backend features and improvements from problem clarification through production follow-up.
- Design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, bounded services, data models, migrations, indexes, and query behavior.
- Write maintainable, secure, observable, and performant code and improve automated unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end test coverage.
- Review code and investigate build, test, deployment, and runtime failures, including technical debt and operational improvements.
- Participate in on-call or operational support according to the team’s ownership model.
- Use AI coding tools productively, validate generated output, and correct it when necessary.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, PMs, and designers in a remote asynchronous environment.
Requirements
- Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications.
- Strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals.
- Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or another modern backend language, with the ability to learn and adapt.
- Ability to own features independently from clarification through delivery and follow-up while seeking input appropriately.
- Sound judgment regarding security, reliability, performance, maintainability, operational risk, and modular backend boundaries.
- Strong written communication and effective remote collaboration skills.
- Practical experience with AI coding tools and the ability to review and correct their output.
- Helpful experience includes production Go services, APIs, concurrency, profiling, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, cloud deployment, Rust, PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, event-driven workflows, and observability.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with location-based eligibility requirements for some roles.
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental leave.
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