Hey there!! It is good to see you interested in our open position for the role of Software Engineer.
Time is valuable, so we will not jibber jabber about ourselves. Rather you can read about us at your own leisure at Saltside.
Nerd facts
People come in many different shapes, and we are open to everyone.
At Saltside, who you are is important - but never limiting. Our team represents people of different origin, sex, religion and beliefs.
Our mission is simple;
- Our job is to build the easiest listing platform for buying, selling and recruiting.
- We sell increased exposure on our platform, with minimal manual involvement from us
- We want to offer our employees a fantastic place to work
Whether you have an academic background or just a lot of experience is less important to us, what we are interested in is someone with learning mindset ready for new challenges.
Since we are a fully remote company, all the interviews for this role will be over a video call.
Wearing the hat of a Software Engineer
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be expected to:
- Design high quality components in Golang/Ruby using clean and tested code.
- Integrate AWS technologies to achieve high scale and reliability.
- Lead architecture, design, and develop features and solutions with high quality.
- Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members.
- Design and implement Backend Services to be consumed by front-end client.
- Take ownership of code base & provide meaningful contribution towards its improvement.
- Continuous delivery with continuous improvements at all levels.
Necessary Skills & Experience
The following are necessary to be successful in this role:
- At least 5 years of development experience (Ruby/Go preferred but other backgrounds are acceptable).
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and various software design patterns.
- Have worked in creating services (preferably RESTFUL) for large-scale server applications using SOA principles.
- Experience with Test Driven Development/Unit Testing.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL preferably MongoDB/DynamoDB.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with others in a remote environment.
- Experience working in an Agile Team is a plus.
- Experience with any cloud service provider is a plus.
Will be added advantage if you have:
- Experience with elastic search
- Experience with kafka
- Experience with gRpc
- Experience with ELK stack
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline like Buildkite and integration with Kubernetes
Familiarity with one or more of the following might help, but even if you do not, do apply if you think you’re right for the job!
Interview Rounds:
Round 1: HR screening call (15 mins)
Round 2: Technical Video call (1 hour)
Round 3: Technical Video call (1 hour)
Round 4: Managerial Video call (1 hour)
Round 5: HR Round (45 mins)
