Senior Software Engineer
Almabase
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bangalore • India
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About the role
- Ensuring Data Integration with Third-Party CRMs: Design and own solutions that integrate customer data seamlessly and reliably with various CRM systems.
- Enhancing Event and Fundraising Management Tools: Drive improvements to our event and fundraising tools, with a focus on reliability and scale.
- Owning Payment and Communication Systems: Take end-to-end ownership of systems that handle payments and user communications, including resilience and failure handling.
- Maintaining and Improving System Uptime: Lead reliability efforts in your areas of ownership, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact customers.
- Own Features End-to-End: Design, build, and maintain features independently — from requirements to production — with minimal supervision.
- Drive System Reliability: Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scalability gaps and address them systematically.
- Debug Production Issues Independently: Investigate and resolve complex production issues using logs, metrics, and structured debugging approaches.
- Code Review and Quality: Conduct and participate in code reviews, raise the quality bar, and help define good engineering practices within the team.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software that meets user needs.
- Contribute to Architecture: Participate actively in design discussions, propose solutions to technical problems, and think through trade-offs clearly.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay current with engineering best practices and apply that knowledge to improve the systems you own.
Requirements
- 3–4 years of full-time software engineering experience
- Hands-on experience with backend development in Java, Python or Go
- Experience with frontend development using React or similar frameworks
- Strong understanding of HTTP, REST APIs, and client–server architecture
- Experience designing data models and writing complex SQL queries
- Proven ability to build and own distributed systems or microservices in production
- Experience designing APIs and backend systems for scale
- Ability to debug and resolve complex production issues independently
- Hands-on experience with performance tuning — query optimisation, caching strategies, and async processing
- Experience using Git, writing tests, and participating in code reviews
- Comfortable working with minimal supervision and taking ownership of outcomes.
- Experience with Redis or similar in-memory data stores for rate limiting, caching, or queuing
- Familiarity with observability tools — metrics, distributed tracing, alerting (e.g. Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus)
- Exposure to database sharding, partitioning, or replication
- Experience with background job systems, message queues, or event-driven architecture (e.g. Celery, RabbitMQ, SQS)
- Prior experience in a SaaS product environment
- Curiosity about how systems fail at scale and how to design around those failure modes.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaPythonGoReactSQLAPI designmicroservicesperformance tuningRedisevent-driven architecture
Soft Skills
ownershipindependencecollaborationproblem-solvingcuriositycontinuous improvementcommunicationleadershipreliabilitydebugging