About the Role:
We are looking for somebody with an engineering mindset who can bring fresh ideas from various areas, including large-scale platform design, analytics, data structures, security practices, large-scale data retrieval and processing environments. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working closely with product managers, QA engineers, software engineers, and will be responsible for designing, building, deploying, maintaining and scaling various products under the umbrella of CleverTap Platform.
What will you do:
- You will write server side code, APIs to be utilised by front end engineers as well as other microservices.
- Your day to day work consists of optimising servers for speed and stability, implementing security structures, generating reusable code libraries and generating data storage solutions.
- You will work closely with our SRE team and different vendors to deliver some core tools for the rest of the engineering organisation
- Apart from this, you will also be involved with the product team directly in deciding the requirements, estimating delivery date for a particular feature and documenting the technical details for developing it.
What are we looking for?
Must Have:
- 5+ years of experience in back-end development (designing, developing, testing and deploying large scale applications in Java)
- Strong organisational and time-management skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to meet communicated deadlines and release projects with minimal bugs
- Good knowledge of data structures, OOP concepts and Java
- Experience with cloud native distributed systems (one of GCP, AWS or Azure)
- Quick learner
- Ability to switch focus and work on multiple projects simultaneously, prioritising based on changing requirements
- You are passionate about experiencing technology and its impact on enabling growth
Good to Have:
- Hands-on on MongoDB, Redis and AWS
- Some DevOps/SRE experience
- System level knowledge and shell scripting
- Java certification (OCJP or equivalent)
Measures of Success:
- Writing quality and bug free code adhering to functional and nonfunctional requirements
- Follow standard practices (Unit Tests, Reduce technical debt, Code Coverage, Integration Test, etc)
- Excellent troubleshooting skills - memory leaks, GC tuning
- On-time delivery and excellent inter team and intra team communication
Who will you report to: Senior Manager - Backend Engineering
Key Competencies:
- Functional Competencies: Programming, system design and analysis, data structures and algorithms, Agile development, distributed systems
- Behavioral Competencies: Analytical problem solving, attention to details, teamwork and collaboration
Why join us?
- Be a part of a global growth stage startup
- Work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your contribution matters
- You are passionate about technology and its impact within the high growth mobile technology space
- Innovate at scale, learning with every opportunity
What is working at CleverTap like?
- Be a part of a global category creator - hyper growth B2B SaaS startup
- Work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your contribution matters
- Work, performance and results are real sources of happiness in addition to the fun of working with and celebrating success with an exceptionally talented team
- Accountability and driving outcomes is the key to success
- Your career here is limited by you and nothing else
- Teamwork trumps individual success
- Innovate at scale, with learning opportunities and having fun along the way!
About CleverTap:
CleverTap is the all-in-one engagement platform that helps brands unlock limitless customer lifetime value by helping them create personalized experiences to retain their most valuable customers. The platform empowers businesses to orchestrate experiences for individuals across their lifecycles and design personalized journeys that span a lifetime. It offers analytics that encompasses every aspect of the lifecycle, enabling businesses to measure and optimize each experience in real-time. Its unique AI capability is insightful, empathetic, and prescriptive, facilitating smarter and faster decisions. The all-in-one platform unifies experiences from every touchpoint, paving the way for a new era of customer engagement.
The platform is powered by TesseractDB™ – the world’s first purpose-built database for customer engagement, offering both speed and economies of scale.
CleverTap is trusted by 2000 customers, including Electronic Arts, TiltingPoint, Gamebasics, Big Fish, MobilityWare, TED, English Premier League, TD Bank, Carousell, AirAsia, Papa John’s, and Tesco.
Backed by leading investors such as Peak XV Partners, Tiger Global, Accel, CDPQ, and 360 One, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with presence in New York, São Paulo, Bogota, London, Amsterdam, Sofia, Dubai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Singapore, Jakarta, and Ho Chi Minh.
If you think you’d be a good fit for this role, we’d love for you to apply!
CleverTap is dedicated to establishing an inclusive culture that welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds, encouraging them to contribute their unique perspectives to our workplace.
We are committed to cultivating an empowering environment, enabling each of us to reach the peak of our professional careers.
We're excited to showcase what we have to offer!
