Lead Engineer - API/Platform

Description

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers
• Work closely with product managers to translate product requirements into design
• Work with the architects and the engineering team on the implementation of these features and participate in design and code reviews
• Work with program management to track day to day project status and run daily scrums.
• Communicate project status to stakeholders 

The ideal candidate will ..

• have experience designing and building large scalable web services.
• be proficient in at-least one server side language such as Java or Node.js.
• have thorough knowledge of cloud infrastructure, monitoring and orchestration tools.
• have an in-depth understanding of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) as well as API cache design and caching technologies. 
• have experience building RESTful APIs and have good knowledge of RESTful design patterns.
• be able to communicate and work well within a geographically distributed team 

We usually look for .. 

• 6+ years of software engineering experience building SaaS or consumer web applications.
• 3+ years of designing and architecting scalable web applications
• thorough knowledge of network and communication protocols
• strong communication skills
• BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or related field 

You get bonus points for .. 

• experience in real-time communication products
• experience in scaling large high transaction volume web services
• contributions to open source projects