Lead Backend Engineer

You will be working on:

• As a lead engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
• Lead technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically.
• Foster and build a culture of actively engaging team members in architecture and design discussions 
• Set up solid processes and practices around code quality, conventions, and standards
• Grooming and Prioritization of Technical Debts 
• Leading and Contributing towards organization-wide tech initiatives
• Mentoring Interns and Senior engineers
• Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives.

We are looking for:

• Strong and self motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions 
• Extensive experience in building web based products
• Experience of leading a small team
• Good communication skills, should be able to articulate thoughts and ideas to engineering and non engineering audiences.
• Overall of 6+ years expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Expertise in Database modelling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common AWS Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• A keen eye for quality with regard to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage, 
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

Nice to have (optional):

• Knowledge of the technical interview process and how roles like backend/frontend/DevOps engineers are vetted
• It is good to have knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker and related deployment technologies
• Web application security best practices and knowledge of common application security  vulnerabilities XSS, SQL injection, etc