Principal Engineer (Node.js-AWS Backend)

Note: CTC bracket negotiable for exceptional candidates

About RAx

RAx is the first smart workspace that helps researchers (students, professors, corporate researchers) to be better and faster in their research projects. Powered with proprietary AI algorithms and a unique approach to solving problems with design and tech, RAx is set to be the default workspace for any research-heavy projects. Launched in 2019, the product connects information (Research papers, Blogs, Wiki, Books, Courses, Videos, etc.) to behaviors (reading, writing, annotating, discussing & more), opening up newer insights and opportunities in academic space that was otherwise not possible (or not imaginable).

About the team

We are a small group of passionate researchers, engineers, and designers who came together to build a product that can revolutionize the way any research-intensive projects are done.

Reducing cognitive load and helping people to convert information into knowledge, is at the core of our mission. Our engineering team is building a scalable platform that deals with tons of data, AI processing over the data and interactions of users from across the globe.

We believe research plays a key role in making the world a better place, and we want to make it easy to approach and fun to do!

Role overview

As a Principal Engineer you will actively lead a team of talented web developers, understand the larger picture and work towards high-quality end to end delivery along with Technical Project Manager(TPM). You will also proactively work on ensuring the flexibility of the product, ensuring tech debt doesn’t creep in. In essence your usual day will be primarily coding and mentoring 100% of the time.

The person that we are looking for

We are seeking a Principal Engineer at RAx ( https://raxter.io ) with 6+ years of enterprise backend web-dev and software architecture experience. We are looking for:

1. Excellent research skills to frame technical solutions for complex business problems.
   
2. You have experience with unit and integration testing. You believe in and encourage extensive test coverage and seek to automate testing whenever possible.
3. You will be responsible for designing and conducting high-quality code-review process and maintain highly performant, testable code with following strong software design patterns.
4. You show remarkable foresight in designing optimized scalable solutions.
5. You enjoy breaking down complex problems into small tasks and PRs to deliver value safely and incrementally.
6. You will be actively reviewing approaches created by tech team and help them to find the optimal solutions to the problems.
7. You take pride in estimating project efforts with reasonable accuracy and ensure healthy communication up and down the chain of command.
8. You will work with the TPM and other senior developers to optimize, update, and maintain cloud infrastrucuture and associated cost (AWS).
9. You are very well aquainted with best practices around project deployment and educate team about the same.
10. You will be helping the TPM in evaluating the tech team performance (KPI).
11. You will be helping the TPM in hiring proces making sure that we have a great tech team that has: (a) high level of curiosity, (b) resourcefulness, (c) solid expertise level, (d) high attention-to-details, (e) superb commitment and reliability, and (f) obsession for amazing user experience.
    

Experience

1. You have proven 6+ years of Tech Lead or Senior Software Engineer (fullstack or backend) experience working with backend technologies including relational (Postgres/MySQL) and document (MongoDB) databases, Docker & Orchestration, CI/CD, Node.js.
2. You have strong experience working with AWS technologies like Lambda functions, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB etc.
3. You have good understanding of HTML, CSS, CSS processors, CSS framework.
4. You have good understanding of front-end JS framework (eg. Vue.js / React.js)
5. You know when to write highly optimized vs highly maintainable code.
6. You are well aware of best practices around developer tooling and workflows.
7. You consider testing, monitoring, and observability first-order priorities. Until your code runs in production and returns the results and metrics you expect, you know your work isn't complete.
8. You have worked on high impact projects, and you see software engineering as a team sport and like collaborating with fellow engineers, product managers, and others to deliver customer value. You are energized by working in a highly collaborative environment at a user experience obsessed startup.
9. You are very good in profiling and impact analysis for code being written
10. You are an RCA freak.
11. Added advantage: Elasticsearch sever cluster optimization; Apache Spark; Redis/memcache; Kafka/RabbitMQ