Lead Software Engineer - Backend | Node.js | SDE 3 @ Fynd

Fynd is India s largest omnichannel platform and a multi-platform tech company specializing in retail technology and products in AI, ML, big data, image editing, and the learning space. It provides a unified platform for businesses to seamlessly manage online and offline sales, store operations, inventory, and customer engagement. Serving over 2,300 brands, Fynd is at the forefront of retail technology, transforming customer experiences and business processes across various industries.

Were looking for a Full Stack Engineering Manager to join our Engineering Team. The Engineering Team forms the backbone of our core business. We build and iterate over our core platform that handles orders, payments, delivery promises, order tracking, logistics integrations to name a few. Our products are actively used by Fynd users, Operations, Delights, and Finance teams. Our team consists of generalist engineers who work on building REST APIs, Internal tools, and Infrastructure for all these users.

• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 2-5 engineers, Delegating tasks, and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
• Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases with the team.
• Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
• Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well operate large-scale applications on AWS
• Give back to the open-source community through contributions on code and blog posts
• This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements
• Write technical documentation

• Atleast 2+ years of Tech Lead Experience, 5+ years of Development Experience
• You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
• Hands-on experience in JavaScript / Python / Node.Js. Exceptions can be made if you re really good at any other language with experience in building web-app based tech products
• Good knowledge of async programming using Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await
• Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Flask, Sanic, Fastapi would be plus
• Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Express.js , Koa.js , Socket.io
• Hands-on experience with Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and AJAX. Plus knowledge of Frontend Frameworks and Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - React.Js , Angular, Vue.js .
• Deep knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, or MySQL
• Basic knowledge of event-based systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• You should have experience with deploying and scaling Microservices.
• Youve worked with AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• Deep Knowledge of Cloud-Native Application Architecture: Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices

What do we offer

Growth

Growth knows no bounds, as we foster an environment that encourages creativity, embraces challenges, and cultivates a culture of continuous expansion. We are looking at new product lines, international markets and brilliant people to grow even further. We teach, groom and nurture our people to become leaders. You get to grow with a company that is growing exponentially.

Flex University: We help you upskill by organising in-house courses on important subjects

Learning Wallet: You can also do an external course to upskill and grow, we reimburse it for you.

Culture

Community and Team building activities

Host weekly, quarterly and annual events/parties.

Wellness

Mediclaim policy for you + parents + spouse + kids

Experienced therapist for better mental health, improve productivity work-life balance

We work from the office 5 days a week to promote collaboration and teamwork. Join us to make an impact in an engaging, in-person environment!