Software Engineer

BuyStars is seeking a results-oriented Software Engineer to join our rockstar team. The ideal candidate is a passionate builder of great products/frameworks, with excellent leadership qualities. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, can create an environment for others to thrive too, and are enthusiastic about all aspects of the business and product development, BuyStars is the place for you!

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and build highly reliable, available, and low-latency microservices that can handle millions of API calls across systems.
• Own big functional components from a very ambiguous problem statement to software design, development, deployment, testing, maintenance, and technical metrics.
• Have good problem-solving skills and the ability to transform complex problems into simple reusable solutions.
• Work independently with stakeholders like product managers, team members, business analysts, customers, and API vendors.
• Make the best performance and frugal infrastructure choices to deploy services.
• Learn new technologies and build proof of concepts around them to solve critical business problems.
• Lead by example and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to the development of software delivery best practices.
• Platformize components as libraries, utilities, and services and promote reuse.

Requirements

• BTech, MTech in Computer Science or a related technical discipline (or equivalent) and excellent track record of delivering user-friendly app experiences.
• Knowledge of different programming languages (Java, Node.js, Golang, JavaScript), their suitability, and ability to make right choices.
• Experience in architecting and end-to-end delivery of at least one large backend component.
• Experience in building serverless architecture (such as AWS Lambda).
• Experience with building RESTful API.
• Experience with building UI applications in React Native is preferable.
• Ability to provide simple solutions to complex problems.
• Ability to drive best practices in software testing and deployment.
• Excellent track record in operational excellence. Maintaining the health of the large-scale system in the production and ability to mitigate problems within minutes.
• Self-motivated to think of long-term solutions to fix recurring or severe problems.
• Experience in analyzing data and coming up with actionable insights for problems.

This job was posted by Sriram Krishnamoorthy from BuyStars.