Lifesight - Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

Location : Lifesight - Innovation Hub - Bengaluru, KA, India

Working Model : Work From Office (5 days)

About us :

Lifesight is a fast-growing SaaS company focused on helping businesses leverage data & AI to improve customer acquisition and retention. We have a team of 130 serving 300 customers across 5 offices in the US, Singapore, India, Australia, and the UK.

Our mission is to make it easy for non-technical marketers to leverage advanced data activation and marketing measurement tools that are powered by AI, to improve their performance and achieve their KPIs. Our product is being adopted rapidly globally and we need the best people onboard the team to accelerate our growth.

Position Overview :

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, self managed and multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software products and working on improving numerous non-functional requirements of the products as well.

If youre looking to be a part of a dynamic, highly-analytical team and an opportunity to hone your java, cloud engineering and distributed system skills, look no further. As our Senior Software Engineer for the platform team, you will be handed the reins to build the core microservices. Along with building services to query billions of rows in Googles BigQuery, you will be in charge of building scalable APIs to build user segments and evolve architecture to send millions of notifications through varied streams like Email, SMS, in-app notifications per day.

Key Responsibilities :

- Be responsible for the overall development of the modules/services that you will be working on

- Code, design, prototype, perform reviews and consult in the process of building highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant systems.

- As our senior software engineer continuously refactor applications and architectures to maintain high-quality levels.

- Continue to stay abreast of the latest technologies in distributed systems, caching and research new technologies, tools that enable building the next generation systems

- Act as an engineer that enjoys writing readable, concise, reusable, extensible code every day

- Discuss, articulate requirements with product management and scope, execute the feature road map

- Participate in teams hiring process by being a panelist in interviews.

What we are looking for :

Skills :

- Good knowledge in one or more of these areas : Cloud, NoSQL stores; we use GoogleCloud, Kubernetes, BigQuery, messaging systems

- Excellent attitude and passion working in a team with willingness to learn

- Experience in building low latency, high volume REST API requests handling

- Experience in working in distributed caches like Redis

- Ability to Get Stuff Done

Nice to have skills :

- Experience in containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes

- Experience working in any cloud platforms (preferably GCP)

- Experience in NoSQL stores (like Cassandra, Clickhouse, BigQuery)

Experience :

- Ideally 2 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying large scale applications, microservices in any language or stack (preferably java, Springboot)

Heres what you can expect :

Early impact Help shape the tech stack and build products from the ground up.

Agile culture Small teams, zero bureaucracy.

Great benefits Competitive pay, health insurance, daily breakfast, weekday lunches, Friday team lunch, Fun OClock Fridays, and unlimited coffee, tea & snacks.