Senior Backend Software Engineer BigShyft

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Job Description

As a Minicorn employee, you will be responsible for taking ownership of a functional area from product conception to delivery. Your role will involve contributing to engineering requirement documents (ERDs) by defining work breakdown, estimating task duration, and setting milestones. You will also be tasked with handling non-functional requirements such as Reliability & Availability, Scale, horizontal scalability, and making Tech stack decisions. Daily participation in agile team stand-ups, coaching and mentoring junior team members, ensuring code base and documentation quality, and actively clearing maintenance debt are key aspects of the role. To excel in this position, you should ideally possess deep expertise in Python programming language and Django + DRF framework for building backend services. Experience with Node.js and Kafka, as well as substantial experience in developing complex and scalable solutions using SQL databases, is crucial. Hands-on experience in database modelling for NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB, and familiarity with the full backend development life cycle on a Linux platform are required. Operational experience, including optimizations & deployments with Kubernetes, is necessary. Additionally, experience in leading multi-engineer projects, mentoring junior engineers, strong object-oriented design skills, applying design patterns, and designing intuitive module and class-level interfaces are important qualities for this role. Candidates with a BTech, MTech, or higher degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline (or equivalent) will be preferred for this position.,