Posted 4 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Details

Not disclosed

Compensation

Full time

Time commitment

Internet

Industry

Between 1 - 10

Company size

Skills

Python

Kafka

Flask

Aws

REST API

Job description

Privyr is a Singapore-based, venture-backed startup that helps consumer-facing salespeople & businesses contact and convert leads into clients from their phones.

We're trusted by 50,000+ sales professionals & businesses across more than 75 countries around the world, who have received and engaged with over 25 million leads through Privyr. Our customers come from hundreds of professions including real estate, insurance, automobiles, trainers & coaches, doctors, lawyers, farmers, and even magicians.

We’ve just raised Series A funding from leading global investors and are looking to rapidly hire and grow the company from 10 to over 40 team members within a year.

We're a team of experienced entrepreneurs who have built and scaled successful startups across Silicon Valley, India, and Singapore. We love challenging norms and coming up with new ways to solve old problems. We experiment often and fail fast. We're incredibly passionate founders that believe in attracting highly motivated people and giving them the freedom to build their ideas and realise their ambitions.

This is an opportunity to join a small but experienced team of software engineers across web, mobile, and backend that have built global products loved by tens of millions of users.

What you’ll do

Work closely with tech (backend, web, mobile), product, design, and customer teams to rapidly develop and ship features to production, through 2-3 week sprints
Produce well-designed, testable, efficient, and fully functional code
Build features & API integrations that easily scale to millions of users
Design database schema that allows read/ write operations at the scale of billions of rows per table
Design and build RESTful APIs to be used in a front-end web app
Optimize code & database queries to maintain strict performance constraints

Requirements

4+ years of experience working as a backend developer in a product-based tech company
Experience in any of the modern backend frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, Express, etc
Experience building robust REST API endpoints and a sound understanding of backend concepts
Good knowledge of relational database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MYSQL
A high bar for writing clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code
Ability to learn and implement new technologies in a fast-paced environment
Good knowledge of IaaS platforms such as AWS, GCP
Comfortable conversing in English

Bonus Points

Prior experience working in a startup, especially a B2C or consumer-facing product with millions of users (or more!)
Experience in Python-based frameworks such as Django, Flask
DevOps experience working with AWS / Other cloud platforms
Exposure to working on event-driven architectures. Familiarity with RMQ / Kafka will be a plus

Benefits

Competitive salary & stock options
Exposure as an early employee in a venture-funded startup, with unlimited growth opportunities as the company scales (you’ll be within the first 20 employees!)
Experience in an early-stage tech startup, working directly with the founders and core team from UC Berkeley, IIT, UCLA, CalTech, and some of the hottest MNCs and startups
A casual work environment and a fun-loving team

Privyr is a Singapore based, venture-backed startup that helps consumer-facing salespeople & businesses contact and convert leads into clients from their phones.

Our mobile CRM works with popular chat apps like WhatsApp, SMS, iMessage, emails, and phone calls without any setup or configuration needed. It also connects to lead sources like Facebook ads, Google ads, and website contact forms to automatically receive new leads for one-touch follow ups.

We're trusted by 45,000+ sales professionals & businesses across more than 75 countries around the world, who have received and engaged with over 20 million leads through our app. Our customers come from hundreds of professions including real estate, insurance, automobiles, trainers & coaches, doctors, lawyers, farmers, and even magicians.

We're a team of experienced entrepreneurs who have built and scaled successful startups across Silicon Valley, India, Indonesia, and Singapore. We love challenging norms and coming up with new ways to solve old problems; we experiment often and fail fast; we're incredibly passionate founders that believe in attracting highly motivated people and giving them the freedom to build their ideas and realise their ambitions.

If you'd like to join a rapidly scaling startup and help define the future of consumer sales, we'd love to chat with you!

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