Proximity Works is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts at Proximity to solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for developing new software products and solving technical challenges.

Requirements

• Overall 6+ years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional)
• Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD
• Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments
• Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix)
• Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ
• DevOps experience
• Experience with AWS stack
• Excellent attention to detail
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities
• To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments
• To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional)
• To have contributed to open-source projects
• To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth
• Proficiency in English
• Experience with Web3(optional)
• DevOps experience

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code
• Solving complex technical problems
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Participating in and driving code reviews
• Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed
• Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions
• Architecting & designing the platform
• Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation
• Writing documentation & create engineering processes
• Working as an individual contributor
• Helping drive KPIs with Product
• Taking ownership of backend systems
• Helping with unit tests & QA process
• Scaling the engineering team
• System scaling to hundreds of millions of users
• Working with product managers and designs

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of actively working on Golang
• Open-source contributions, side projects, blog posts, and YT tech videos

Benefits

• 100% remote team: Work from anywhere you please
• Flexible timings: Set your own hours, and create a productive schedule that works for you
• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly