Senior Software Engineer @ Findem

What is Findem:

Findem is HR 2.0. We’re a fast-growth startup with an ambitious vision and the technology to back it up. Our People Intelligence platform uses true AI and machine learning to provide critical solutions for talent acquisition and people analytics functions. With the deep insights that our platform provides, companies can build more engaged and diverse teams, and close their talent gaps faster. We have an amazing opportunity to establish ourselves as leaders in this space, and we need strong advocates to help us achieve that goal.

We’re backed by top-tier investors including Wing Venture Capital – the same firm that backed Snowflake, Cohesity, and Gong. Findem powers businesses across scaling, pre-IPO, and publicly traded companies who trust us to solve their biggest HR and Talent challenges. We have an incredibly skilled and collaborative team that values curiosity, diversity, openness and building great experiences every day for our customers. By joining Findem, you will have the unique opportunity to help define what the future of HR looks like for every business.

What you’ll be doing:

The Backend Engineer will lead a high-performing, diverse engineering team to design, develop, and deploy software components, microservices, workflows, and APIs. They will be responsible for ensuring the continued success of the team by driving technical excellence and rigor. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned engineering leader that is able to distill abstract business requirements into high-level software architectures. The Backend Engineer will collaborate with SWEs, PMs, functional leaders to define the technology direction including best practices and culture.

The Backend Engineer will be responsible for orchestrating the creation of software solutions that meet the needs of our customers. The ideal candidate will be an expert problem solver with a broad technical background and experience with solving diverse technical challenges. In addition to having strong technical acumen, they should possess strong communication skills, and be effective in working with team members from various departments. The Backend Engineer will be joining a diverse team with a vibrant culture, where team success is as important as individual contributions.

Required Skills:

Deep exposure to the latest technologies and skills such as Node.js, MongoDB, TypeScript, JavaScript, REST API, etc

8-15 years of work experience with strong CS fundamentals (Algorithms and Data structures)

Good architectural & design skills

Strong coding, data structures, and algorithms

Strong understanding of the react/react-native architecture

Ability to debug and pinpoint performance issues in production

Knowledge of GIT and branch management

Practical experience with CI/CD pipeline

A keen eye for producing clean and semantic code

Understanding of software engineering best practices

Previously worked on enterprise or user-facing products with scale

Track record in delivering apps/ large software projects

Enthusiasm for evaluating new services and technologies

Responsibilities:

Own end to end responsibility of platform/feature development – right from the requirement to release

Produce bug-free and production-grade code

Modular application development for multiple servers and clients

Work with a performance-oriented team driven by ownership and open to experiments

Learn to design the system for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability

Experience:

Make high-level design choices and dictate technical standards, including coding standards, tools, and platforms

Design multi-tiered architecture and component interactions of a large-scale software system

Provide guidance to large teams, has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field Instrument applications to emit the right metrics

Collect, aggregate and visualize the metrics to provide actionable insight

Track record of implementing highly reliable software

Prior experience with cloud infrastructure service providers, including AWS.

The Backend Engineer will work with some of the brightest engineers. To be successful, they will need to be deeply technical and capable of holding their own with other strong peers. The Backend Engineer must possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills. They must have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, including using tools like Terraform, Ansible. They must have strong software development fundamentals and skills. In addition, they must have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

The Backend Engineer must love solving problems at scale, and prefer to write scalable, reliable, and testable software to automate infrastructure management. The Backend Engineer must be excellent at troubleshooting, and must be deeply technical.

The role is full-time and comes with full benefits. We are globally headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with our India headquarters in Bengaluru, but this role can be fully remote.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.