Backend Engineer | Team Lead

About A digital first, multi-brand consumer goods company owned and operated under one house, with each of its brands working together toward one mission: To help Indians lead a more fulfilling life surrounded by wellness and grace. The founders, Revant and Dhyanesh have more than a decade of experience building, advising and investing in consumer brands. This has allowed them to understand the Indian consumer in a level of detail about their health, habits, and more. The business is creating a family of purposeful brands with products that solve a particular problem for a small segment of people. Each brand provides the essentials to make an individual segment of people lead a graceful life full of purpose and wellbeing. Each brand offers high quality, responsibly-made products that are inviting and easy to use, paired with access to ongoing guidance and support. Role As one of the first members of the backend development team, you will be responsible for architecting and setting the standards for building our core backend/microservices. Also, you will be responsible for shaping up the entire system for scale and collaborating extensively with the frontend and design teams to create the best consumer experiences. Responsibilities ● Develop microservices that will be used by the frontend through API endpoints. ● Translate business requirements into high quality code. ● Ensure that the code is deployed in a secure and scalable fashion. ● Focus on code maintainability and performance of application. ● Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems. ● Enhance Analytics and overall backend architecture for better performance. Requirements ● 3+ years of backend/full-stack development experience ● 1+ years of experience on NodeJS ● 1+ years experience in building APIs in a microservice architecture ● Experience in PHP is a plus ● Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront ● Has experience managing other developers ● Has experience in code reviewing/being the gatekeeper for an entire project ● Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system ● Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus ● Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins ● Good knowledge of working with Git ● A knack for benchmarking and optimization