Technical Lead – Backend

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Technical Lead – Backend
Technical Lead – Backend

5
\- 10 yrs
₹10L - ₹20L / yr
Chennai, Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Skills
Python
Django
Flask
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Linux/Unix
About us:
HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.
We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.
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We’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building web services to join our engineering team to help architect, build and run our growing list of products. You should have prior experience being responsible for building sufficiently complex products/services and mentoring software engineers.
Responsibilities:
– Lead a team of engineers working on our product roadmap. You are expected to contribute to feature development with hands-on development tasks
– Oversee software architecture, source control workflows, and CI/CD processes and perform code reviews to ensure exceptional code quality
– Improve the development experience and the quality of the codebase. You will define and uphold best practices and coding standards for the team
– Responsible for architecture and design decisions
– Own stability and performance of the service that you work on
– Work with the Engineering Manager to ship stable software on time
– Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your area of expertise
Requirements:
– 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role designing and building complex backend systems
– 5+ years of professional software development experience
– Excellent knowledge of best practices and coding patterns
– Deep knowledge of backend programming languages like Python and web application frameworks like Django
– Solid experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
– Proficiency with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform or Azure
– Extensive experience with Linux/UNIX production environments
– Strong sense of quality in terms of both program architecture and code style
– Passion to dig into technically complex problems to troubleshoot and figure out a solution
– Desire to continuously improve and ship the best quality product
– Pragmatic approach to make sure technical decisions align with actual business needs.
– Good understanding of the trade-offs when building for product value, reliability, or performance
– Excellent communication skills with the ability to discuss and explain your point of view clearly and effectively
– An engineering degree is a must(B.E. CS preferred)
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Founded
:
2012
Type
:
Product
Size
:
20-100
Stage
:
Bootstrapped
About
HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.
We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.
To know more, Visit! **
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