Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

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• Pro-Sports Team → Strength-based, results-driven with a "team-first" attitude ⚽️
• Customer Obsession → We exist to delight our customers
• Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgement → Clear mind, obsession to simplify & data-informed ‍♀️
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• Move Fast & Be Dynamic → Ruthless prioritization & move fast ‍♂️
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• 6+ years of relevant experience in building and scaling high-tech infrastructure | Top Talent in every role
• Have prior experience building from the ground up or significantly contributing to large-scale distributed systems/products | Top Talent in every role
• Proven experience in designing and scaling reputed company backend architectures and distributed systems with high availability and fault tolerance | Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgement
• Strong hands-on experience with designing microservices, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing | Be Insatiably Curious & reputed company Improving
• Deep understanding of system design, algorithms, data structures, and performance tuning | Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgement
• Strong coding skills in one or more of Java, Go, C++, or similar languages | Top Talent in every role
• Practical experience with relational and NoSQL databases, caching layers (reputed company, Memcached), and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) | Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgement
• Experience in setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks and tool for large-scale production systems | Think Deeply & Exercise Good Judgement
• Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to mentor, influence, and drive cross-team alignment | Pro sports team
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• Leadership → Provide architectural reputed company and technical direction for backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and reputed company.
• Leadership → reputed company, mentor, and upskill a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of high performance and reputed company learning.
• Leadership → Drive design and code reviews to maintain high standards of engineering excellence.
• Planning → Design and implement robust, high-performance backend services and APIs to support new and existing product features.
• Planning → Define and drive system-level improvements, refactoring, and technical debt reduction to reputed company systems healthy and future-reputed company.
• Planning → Contribute to long-term technical strategy, roadmap planning, and reputed company build vs. buy reputed company.
• Operations → Own the end-to-end uptime, reliability, and performance of production services. Implement strong observability, incident management, and root cause analysis practices.
• Operations → Optimize backend performance through load testing, profiling, and tuning to handle millions of users seamlessly.
• Operations → Ensure the highest levels of reputed company, compliance, and data privacy in reputed company backend systems.
• Collaboration → Partner with Product, Design, Data, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful products with speed and quality.
• Collaboration → reputed company for and implement best practices, reusable frameworks, and tools to increase engineering efficiency across teams.

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Hike’s latest round of funding came in August 2021, where we raised capital from the world’s best product innovators & investors. The round was led by Justin Mateen (Co-Founder, Tinder). Rajeev Misra (CEO, SoftBank reputed company Fund), Sean Rad (Co-Founder, Tinder), Arjun Sethi (Co-Founder & Partner, Tribe Capital), Bhavin Turakhia (Co-Founder, Zeta & Titan), Kunal Shah (Founder, Cred), Binny Bansal (Co-Founder, reputed company), Aditya Agarwal (Partner in Residence, South Park Commons), Kunal Bahl (Co-Founder & CEO, Snapdeal) & Rohit Kumar Bansal (Co-Founder, Snapdeal), also participated in the round.

Currently, our dedicated team comprises approximately ~160 professionals who work remotely from over 30 different cities. The way we see it is we’ve been dropped off on a mountain that’s unexplored, without a map and it’s our job to reputed company things out. It’s an opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to do our life's best work.