Senior Software Engineer - Backend

• This role will be a member of Software Engineering in-house team building for Zed.
• Who will be working on the development of Zed Mobile Apps and Web App.
• Senior Engineer will have system level defined deliverables in align with product roadmap with expected delivery in Sprints.Will be responsible for refinement/estimation of Product strategic roadmap items and execution/delivery in a timely agreed SLA duration.
• Will be responsible for overall architecture and stability of system Will be responsible for mentiorship of other team members will continuous improvement in engineering delivery .
• Will be responsible for timely delivery of Product tasks agreed within Sprint scope which is on application component level, with high quality of code and scalable/reliable solution delivery on production environment.
• Propose and drive engineering best practices and contribute to engineering excellence.
• Work with the product and design team to understand the requirements and have the ability to translate them into technical solutions.
• Actively participate in code reviews and work with other team members to raise the bar.
• Stay up to date and close to the competitive technology landscape.
• Consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and be willing to any production incidents within the defined SLA -As a staff engineer, able to mentor and unblock other teams members -Have the ability to own and improve overall system architecture with latest tech stack.Will not have direct reportees but will be responsible for mentoring within the team to clarify any product requirements and smooth execution.
• Also will be owning communication with external vendors within the scope of assigned product task.Will be responsible for raising the bar of existing applications in terms of engineering practices.
• Will be responsible for tech research and conduct knowledge-sharing activities to stay uptodate with industry standards.

Candidate Profile

• More than 5 years of experience in one of the backend platform like Node.Js .Strong experience with monitoring and observability platforms likes Sentry, New Relic, AWS stack .Experience in building complex, scalable and high-quality applications, and should have a strong knowledge of microservice architecture.
• Good experience and knowledge of different databases (PostgreSQL and NOSQL) .Strong knowledge in source control preferably Git .Experience with CI/CD tools and techniques .Experience with AWS services, Dockers is preferred .
• Experience in ride-hailing application domain is a big plus.
• Experience in backend stack development with high traffic scale especially in ride-hailing domain.
• 5+ years of Backend development experience.
• Delivery of product features within agreed SLA, with bug-free code and production readiness state
• Improvement in Error Budget and Reliability of System
• Continuous monitoring of the Production system along with sprint tasks.
• Delivery of Product development features in stretched timelines
• Oncall production systems support during off-hours
• Mentoring other team members including own IC tasks.