Sr. Backend Engineer

• Leading Saas Startup hiring remote engineers in India

• Fantastic engineering & founding team of serial entrepreneurs

• Work directly with the founders and have an impact on the product

• Lean Engineering team, have accountability in development, learn 10x faster

• Experience no bar to authority. Have a say in architecture and infrastructure decisions at a young stage of career

• Be a part of a company that is modernizing all MSME factories. Our product makes operating Small and medium factories effortless and paperless

• We have already onboarded 300+ factories from 20+ cities in India

About FactoryPlus:

We believe that by empowering the 2 crore MSME manufacturers in India with easy-to-use mobile-first workflow management tools, we can play a pivotal role in realizing India’s dream of becoming the world’s top-most-desired manufacturing destination and a $5 trillion economy.

FactoryPlus provides a fast and secure platform for factory owners to manage production and inventory on the go with a Mobile App and a web dashboard. The app offers a simple, easy to use interface that even semi-skilled or unskilled workers can use to manage the entire operational workflow of small & medium factories with ease. Factories get live inventory tracking, production orders, reports and stock management in a single paperless interface that actually works without any need for specialised training.

Our Engineering Philosophy:

Our engineering team ardently believes in these 2 core fundamentals: 

Polyglot Programming: we are language-agnostic and focus on finding the most optimal and robust solution to a problem - independent of the programming language 

Asynchronous Communication: async is an important factor in our team’s productivity. Not only does async produce the best work results, but it also lets people do more meaningful work and live freer, more fulfilled lives. 

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant systems for one of the fastest-growing startups in India 

• Participate in code reviews and share knowledge across the team 

• Pair with team members on functional and non-functional requirements and spread design philosophy and goals across the team 

• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across distributed teams 

• You should understand the user and their behavior and will continuously contribute to making their experience better with each release

  
  
  

Requirements:

• Having built scalable backends using Javascript / Typescript would be preferable You should be able to design RESTful APIs that are not overly constrained, and can easily be consumed by the frontend dev 

• You have worked with Relational databases like MySQL, Postgres and understand partitioning, sharding, as well as NoSQL databases such as MongoDB/Couchbase etc

• You have worked with searching systems , caching systems and queuing systems You should be at ease with maintaining cloud instances on AWS, GCP, and the like

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes in production would be prized 

• You should have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions 

• You have experience in identifying, debugging, and resolving complex production issues

• Relevant working experience of at least 3 years 
  
  
  

Nice to have:

• experience of Product Startup at scale
  
  
  

What you'll get:

• Flexibility: You get to design your workday around your life - we believe in outcomes and not counting hours

• Have meaningful impact: Your work will enable Crores of MSME factories to do better for their owners, supervisors & 10s of crores of Factory workers