Senior Software Engineer

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it.

The position:

Cliffcast Apps has an opening for a Senior Software Engineer. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. This role is remote. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Job duties:

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs

Minimum qualifications:

• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line

Preferred qualifications:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Contributions to open source projects
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Rate: ₹19,50,000 - ₹23,50,000 pa

What you get:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Gratuity
• Internet reimbursement
• Group term life insurance
• Learning budget

Please submit your CV in English.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Cliffcast Apps.