Software Engineer, Backend (5-7 years)

Overview

Challenges

Building for Scale, Rapid Iterative Development, and Customer-centric Product Thinking at each step defines every day for a developer at PhonePe. Though we engineer for a 50million+ strong user base, we code with every individual user in mind. While we are quick to adopt the latest in Engineering, we care utmost for security, stability, and automation. Apply if you want to experience the best combination of passionate application development and product-driven thinking

As a Software Engineer

:● You will build Robust and scalable web-based applications You will need to think of platforms & reus

e● Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scop

e● Drive problem-solving skills for high-level business and technical problems

.● Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modeling, break-down of a modul

e● Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the sam

e● Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed system

s● Mentor young minds and foster team spirit, break down execution into phases to bring predictability to overall executio

n● Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead execution of medium-sized project

s● Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively iterate to improve them As a senior software engineer you must hav

e● Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming language (e.g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code

.● Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programmin

g● Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interface

s● Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluentl

y● Knowledge of Test Driven Developmen

t● Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, etc

)● Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problem

s● Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platfor

m● Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned task

s● Worked in a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitmen

t● BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)

.● Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data

.● 5+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a Large Scale

.● An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and takes constructive feedback

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As a Software Engineer, good to ha

ve● The ability to drive the design and architecture of multiple subsyste

ms● Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the produ

ct● Understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate technical documentatio

n.