Senior Software Engineer - backend

As a Senior backend engineer in the Strategy team, you will work closely with a lean team and take responsibilities in building new applications & improving existing ones. You’ll be building systems from scratch and would be expected to take end to end ownership.
What do we expect from you
Software development experience of 5+ years with Java or Scala, Play Framework.
Experience of working with microservices, architecture, and patterns.
Experience of working with non-relational databases.
Experience of working with backend for mobile apps.
Great prototyping skills.
Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
Good English skills, oral and written.
Mentoring/ Leadership skills.
Enthusiastic and passionate about working on the product and contributing to deliver the best technical solutions to user’s problems.
Having strong opinions held loosely. Willing to change opinions in the light of new information, facts. Willing to disagree and commit.
Not afraid to experiment, fail and learn.
Curious by default, asking a lot of right questions.
Believer in outcomes over output.
Team player, polite and respectful while being assertive.


What will you work on
Responsible for building backend for products developed under the New Initiatives team while providing know-how in the full software development lifecycle.
Building a reliable system while having the ability to move fast.
Participating in problem solving sessions with the team & providing solutions.
Developing a framework to allow rapid prototyping.


It would be great if you also have experience with
gRPC
Cassandra
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
Docker
Working in a startup environment