About the role

Context about the opening:

We are looking for a senior backend engineer with 7+ yrs of experience in building complex, scalable backend systems and take ownership of our end-to-end backend stack.

Requirements: (Essentials to apply for this job.)

• Minimum 3 years prior experience of working in a B2B SaaS company
• Should have worked in at least one early stage startup
• Should have worked on a service at scale of at least one 1M RPM
• Should be proficient in setting up multi-system architectures using k8s, redis, kafka, DBs and know how to monitor this setup
• Should be extremely proficient in working with at least one cloud provider
• Has worked on projects related to data warehousing and understands how data pipelining works
• Should be based in Bangalore or willing to relocate (We are working from office)

Perfect match: (If any of the following represents you, you’ll be a preferred candidate)

• Should have worked with at least of the OLAP DBs in terms of setting up and usage (eg: Pinot, Clickhouse)
• Understands data technologies like Kafka, Spark, Airflow fluently and has worked with some of them extensively
• Should be familiar and have used monitoring and observability tools like elastic, grafana, prometheus etc.

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to work with and build an A+ team of engineers
• Working directly with founders & founding team
• Higher ownership & steep learning curve to get exposed to areas beyond current experience
• Operating in an industry that requires highest quality and scalability
• Build a new category in real-time product monitoring industry
• Competitive pay & ESOPs per market benchmark

Personal traits expectation:

• Can collaborate with teams, both internal and customers
• Can do customer-first thinking when making decisions
• Can delegate work within the team and own release timelines
• Is aspirational to grow the team as the company grows and lead them

Interview Process (1 week)

Informal Conversation

This stage is a more informal call to get to know more about the role & Dr. Droid and for you to evaluate whether it’s a good fit for you. The conversation will cover some light discussions about your past projects.

Technical Screening

This part is to assess basic skills. We will have a DS & Architecture round where we discuss a few problems and your thought process on them. We will also do some code writing.

Deeper Evaluation

This part will be a deeper understanding of how you approach open ended problems and design solutions for them. This could be around designing a detailed architecture and then answer questions around its flexibility and scalability, as well as your estimation on timelines within which they can be done.

Aspirations & Goal Alignment

If we feel the candidate’s capabilities & skillset is a good match, we spend time understanding the short-term & long-term aspirations of the candidate — this enables us to make a conscious decision to onboard someone and help them grow along with us.

Founded:2022

Team Size:6

Location:San Francisco