Dealshare - Backend Sde 4

**Designation/Role**: Backend SDE - 4

**Location**: Gurgaon + Bangalore

**Working Days**: 5 days/week : WFO

**Years of Experience**:7 - 9** **years
- 2 - 4 years of startup experience is a must with team handling / team management experience
- Good proficiency in core Java and Python

**Educational Qualification**: Bachelor’s degree (4 years) or higher in Computer Science or related engineering discipline from a Tier-1 college.

Software Development Engineer-4 will be a key decision maker for laying down the roadmap, tech stack selection and key architectural and design choices.

**Role Dimensions**:

- Knowledge & Application: Exhibits a broad grasp of fundamentals relevant to the chosen area of expertise. Has operational intuition/depth/sense of ground reality in one or two sub-areas of the chosen area of expertise.
- Interaction: Good understanding of context and accordingly structuring conversations as per business requirements. Understands and constructively tunes levers of impact.
- Problem Solving: Clearly articulated thinking around decision-making/problem-solving. Executes decision-making to deliver the outcome.
- Accountability/Impact: Consistently delivers impact commensurate to his/her role.
- Reporting: The incumbent will be reporting to the Engineering Manager

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Lead tech roadmap based on product requirements and business goals for product areas owned.
- Responsible for choice of the tech stack, design and architecture of the products owned
- Own scalability, performance, availability, service robustness, maintainability, ease of debuggability,
- Contribute to reducing infrastructure cost while improving scalability, availability and responsiveness and onboarding newer use cases.
- Lead design and architecture reviews.
- Mentor and Coach junior SDEs in the team.
- Evaluate avenues for platformization, creation of reusable libraries, etc.
- Lead improvement in development processes and practices for the complete org and drive adoption - coding standards, code reviews, design reviews, build processes, CI/CD, automated testing (functional, performance, etc), and operations.
- Participate in hiring outstanding engineers in the company, and improve the hiring process.

**Skills & Competency**:

- 6+ years of software development experience with 1+ years experience in a lead role (responsible for designing, architecting, tech stack selection, scaling and operationalisation) for creating new systems and redesigning/re-architecting existing systems that were successfully delivered to users.
- Hands-on experience with building high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems, scaling and evolving them.
- Hands-on experience with RDBMS and NoSQL systems (eg: Key-Value, Wide Column, DocumentOriented), scaling and tuning them for heavy read/write loads, making the right tradeoffs.
- Hands-on experience in asynchronous processing, and message queues.
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with one of the key cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) for the creation and scaling of large-scale distributed systems (compute, messaging, notifications, caching, data stores, monitoring, CI/CD, etc).
- Strong expertise in concurrency constructs and debugging memory leaks, expert level skills in object-oriented low-level class/interface designs.
- Possess technical leadership qualities.
- Extremely good at problem-solving and is a self-thinker.
- Ability to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced timeline-driven environment.
- Good team player and ability to collaborate with others.
- Self-driven and motivated, very high on ownership.

**Required Experience**:

- 6+ years of software development experience with 1+ years experience in a lead role (responsible for designing, architecting, tech stack selection, scaling and operationalisation) for creating new systems and redesigning/re-architecting existing systems that were successfully delivered to users.

**Preferred Experiences**:

- 2+ years of hands-on experience in Java, tuning JVM, debugging memory leaks, etc.

**About the Company**: DealShare

A fast-growing e-commerce startup, DealShare is a hyperlocal online buying platform for multi-category

consumer products focused on the new 'WhatsApp first' India. Our mission is to target the new 500Mn users from non-metro cities and rural market spaces who haven't shopped enough online and are uncomfortable on other platforms. These users are primarily on mobile & social media. DealShare makes it extremely easy for these users to buy in a couple of clicks, supported by vernacular browsing.

Further, it allows the users to share deals with their friends and avail discounts if their friends purchase the products via the share link. It is a new retail model in which customers get products at cheaper than wholesale rates. The idea is around demand aggregation (C2B) of mass-market products using social virality, thereby significantly reducing operational costs. Our product ca