Senior Backend Engineer

Overview

Permanent senior backend engineering role working alongside clients to design and deliver custom software solutions using modern agile technical practices.

What you'll do

• Work with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them.
• Deliver software using agile practices (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc.).
• Automate system infrastructure and deployments.
• Provide production support for the systems you work on (you build it, you run it).
• Advocate agile practices to the client organisation.
• Mentor client team members.
• Help improve the team's and clients' delivery capabilities.

What you'll need

• Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.
• Expert level knowledge of your chosen programming language and the associated tooling.
• Extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects.
• Extensive knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing.
• Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and of the approaches that can be effective in realising them in different contexts.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members, and to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.
• A growth-based, learning mindset and a passion for technology.

Nice to have

• Experience with other programming languages.
• Hands-on experience developing distributed systems, including microservice architectures and RESTful services.
• Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems, ideally in containerised/cloud environments using AWS, GCP or Azure.

Details

• Location: India.
• Permanent position.