Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join YipitData, a leading market research and analytics firm, as a Junior Software Engineer! This fully remote position, based in India, offers two exciting opportunities: one with the Infrastructure Team and another with the Data Feeds Team. You'll work on challenging projects, collaborating with teams across the globe. We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, including vacation time, parental leave, and learning reimbursement. Your growth is determined by your impact, not tenure. We foster a culture of ownership, respect, and trust.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related majors, 3+ yrs backend experience
• Solid computer foundation and programming skills, familiar with common data structures and algorithms
• 2+ years experience in one of the following languages: Go/Python/C/C++/Java
• Familiar with one of open source components: Mysql/Redis/Kafka/ES/MQ
• Excellent logic analysis capabilities, able to abstract and split business logic reasonably

Responsibilities

• Build expertise in different email providers, such as gmail, outlook, yahoo, exchange etc
• Work on email strategy adjustment, performance improvement, email storage, how to do high availability and scalability
• Be responsible for the email system’s data storage and related improvements
• Understand business requirements and participate in discussions with the different stakeholders to design technical solutions
• Be creative and study new technologies in the space, make sure high availability and scalability for email systems
• Maintain existing service, working on iterative upgrades, deploy improvement, and service governance
• Develop, optimize, and maintain scalable data pipelines for structured and unstructured data processing
• Maintain and enhance the stability, reliability, and high availability of existing data systems and services
• Collaborate with the team to build and refine an expandable, high-performance data architecture
• Partner with various teams to deliver high-quality, dependable data services to internal users
• Understand product and business requirements to design and implement data functionalities, including intuitive data visualizations
• Oversee the integration and maintenance of collaborative data with third-party clients, addressing their data mining and analytical requirements
• Work closely with the US, Singapore and China team, adapting to flexible work hours as needed
• Enforce best practices in data governance, security, and compliance to protect sensitive information

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in architecture and developing large-scale distributed systems.(for infrastructure team)
• Familiarity with one or more of the following: Spark, Hadoop, Hive, or Elasticsearch.(for data feeds team)
• Familiarity with email protocols(IMAP/SMTP) is a plus

Benefits

• Vacation time
• Parental leave
• Team events
• Learning reimbursement