Full Stack Engineer

What do we mean?

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Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems for one of the world’s fastest growing unicorns.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.
• Pair with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy and goals across the team.
• Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap.
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution and customer delight.
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across distributed teams in a global environment.
• Building and managing fully automated build/test/deployment environments.
• An innate desire to deliver and a strong sense of accountability for your work.
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.

About You

• You greatly value humility.
• You understand the dangers associated with being attached to your code.
• You write code because you like to. You never stop wanting to get better at it.
• A strong sense of ownership.
• A passion for crafting delightful customer experiences.
• A desire to be part of a team that delivers impactful results every day.
• A commitment to writing understandable, maintainable, and reusable software.
• 4+ years of experience in software development or a serious open source track record
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications large scale applications in any language or stack
• 2+ years of hands-on experience working on one or more front end technologies — Web, Android or iOS — and understand their nuances
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Proficiency in OOP, including design patterns. Experience with functional programming is a plus.
• Data modelling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Well versed with Lean methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation.
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services.
• Experience troubleshooting server performance ­memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks etc.
• Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimisations, database interactions, network programming, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security and operability of systems.
• Continuously refactor applications and architectures to maintain high quality levels.
• Ability to plan, prioritise, estimate and execute releases with a high degree of consistency.
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.
• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems.
• We primarily use Clojure, Golang, Ruby, Kotlin, Swift and Java. Familiarity with one or more is a plus.
• Prior experience being a founder is a huge plus.

Sound like you? Please apply here.