Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Community)

<p><strong>About Company</strong></p><p>Founded in 2019, Apna is India’s largest professional networking and jobs platform for &gt;250M members of India’s rising working class. Our mission is to connect people to opportunities and help reduce the skill and employment gap. </p> <p>We help candidates build their digital professional identities, find the best fit hyperlocal jobs, grow their network and learn new skills to grow their careers. Employers can find the best talent and hire for over 70 different roles in &lt; 48 hours.</p><p>Having raised $90+ million from marquee investors like Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, Rocketship.vc and Greenoaks Capital, Apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India. </p><p><br/></p><p>We are looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer responsible looking for engineering ownership of one/many products at Apna. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end (Android + WebApp). A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.<br/></p><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p>4-6 years of experience building large scale, distributed systems</p> <ul> <li>Hands and confident in any programming language and willing to learn GoLang.</li> <li>Develop highly scalable services and solve complex software systems problems</li> <li>Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Postgres)</li> <li>Experience with Big Data technologies (Apache Spark, Elasticsearch)</li> <li>Experience with distributed event streaming platforms (Kafka)</li> </ul><p><br/></p><p><strong>Preferred Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience working on Google Cloud.</li> <li>Working experience in Neo4j is plus</li> </ul><p><br/></p><p>Tech stack at Apna : <a href="https://stackshare.io/apna/apna" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">https://stackshare.io/apna/apna</a></p>