Senior Backend Engineer (Contractual)
We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.
qualification–
responsibilities—
you’ll be responsible for—
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
- Solving complex technical problems.
- Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
- Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
- Participating in and driving code reviews.
- Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
- Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
- Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
- Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
- Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
- Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
- Architecting & designing the platform.
- Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
- Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
- Working as an individual contributor.
- Helping drive KPIs with Product.
- Taking ownership of backend systems.
- Helping with unit tests & QA process.
- Scaling the engineering team.
- System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
- Working with product managers and designs.
business partnership related—
supporting tasks will include—
you need—
- Overall 6+ years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
- Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
- Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
- Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
- Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
- Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
- Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
- DevOps experience.
- Experience with AWS stack.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
- To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
- To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
- To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
- To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
- To have contributed to open-source projects.
- To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
- Proficiency in English.
- Experience with Web3(optional).
role relationships—
technical skills—
bonus points for—
- 4+ years of actively working on Golang.
- Open-source contributions, side projects, blog posts, and YT tech videos.
what you get—
- 100% remote team: Work from anywhere you please.
- Flexible timings: Set your own hours, and create a productive schedule that works for you.
- Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
about us—
- The Proximity Foundation is dedicated to enriching the lives of underprivileged and high-risk groups of women and children through accessible education.
- Our goal is to provide them with a well-rounded education that combines academics with the essential life skills necessary to thrive in the 21st century and beyond.
- In a heartfelt post, our Founder and CEO, Hardik, shares his personal journey and the inspiration behind the Proximity Foundation. You can watch it here.
- Visit our website to discover our innovative programs and initiatives and learn how you can be a part of our mission by clicking here.
- Follow us on social media handles for other stories and updates:
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about us—
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for leading startups, fast-growing scale-ups, and global enterprises. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.
We are Proximity — a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product and design teams. Here’s a quick guide to getting to know us better:
- Watch our CEO, Hardik Jagda, tell you all about Proximity.
- Read about Proximity’s values and meet some of our Proxonauts here.
- Explore our website, blog, and the design wing — Studio Proximity.
- Get behind-the-scenes with us on Instagram! Follow @ProxWrks and @H.Jagda
To apply, email us a one-pager writeup (including links to your work) and your resume at founders@proximity.tech
