clients Skuad

Tech Lead [Backend]

Location

Gurugram

Job Type

Full-time

Experience

5 to 9 years

Salary

N/A

Skill Set

Role

Technical Lead

Why you should join Skuad

πŸ’΅ Venture capital-backed hyper growth company

πŸš€ Rapid career advancement with opportunities to learn

πŸ’° Competitive salary and Performance bonus

πŸ– Paid time off, Flexi-hour policy & Wellness benefits 


About the role

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 


  • Translate requirements and implement product features to perfection 
  • Work directly with developers as a team lead and manage products to conceptualize, build, test, and realize products 
  • Deliver best-in-class code across a broad array of interactive web and mobile products 
  • Work on continuous improvement of the products through innovation and learning
  • A knack for benchmarking and optimization 
  • Developing features for highly complex, distributed transaction processing systems. 
  • Implement functionality for automated tests that will successfully pass and meet coding standards
  • Debug production issues and create subsequent mitigation plans
  • Optimize the performance of existing implementations
  • Stay abreast of innovations and the latest technology trends and explore ways of leveraging these to improve the product in alignment with the business


Note: This is not a remote role. Candidate is required to work from office.


Ideal candidate

  • 5-9 years of experience as a Backend developer
  • Experience in Node.JS & Nestjs is a must and experience in any of these is good to have - Javascript, Java, Typescript 
  • Database architecture and design on SQL (like Postgres) and NoSQL (like MongoDB) systems
  • DOM manipulation and new CSS functionalities and processors 
  • Memory management, multithreaded programming, and background processing 
  • Unit testing and a strong emphasis on TDD 
  • Debug moderately complex problems analyze logs in production systems and read existing code
  • Various data storage options, such as Relational, NoSQL 
  • Object-oriented design, data structures, and complexity analysis 
  • CI/CD environment with Jenkins/CircleCI 
  • Microservices 
  • Agile Development (SCRUM methodology, JIRA) 
  • Code versioning tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Mercurial, SVN, etc 
  • WebSocket, REDIS, Memcached, and Cloud Messaging Frameworks (PUSH Notifications) 
  • Elasticsearch ELK stack- Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, REST API integration
  • Have the ability to deal with ambiguity 
  • Critical Thinker, Problem Solver and team player 


Good to Have 


  • Prior experience working on high-visibility, high-traffic web applications will be an advantage
  • Experience working in a startup 


Perks of Joining Our League


  • Get Matched & Valued: Forget about the one-size-fits-all industry standards! With us, you're valued for your unique talents and skills. We ensure you get what you truly deserve – a package that reflects your worth and contribution.
  • Upskill & Cross-Train with the Best: Dive into a pool of knowledge and emerge stronger! Interact, learn, and level up with a band of like-minded tech enthusiasts. It's more than just a job – it's a continuous journey of growth and mastery.
  • Talent-Centric Universe: Here, it’s all about what you bring to the table. Get selected, recognized, and appreciated based solely on your potential and skills. We're not just looking for employees; we're scouting for heroes to join our epic saga of innovation and success!
  • Workplace culture: that’s all about empowerment, inclusivity, and fun with monthly team bonding activities and annual hackathons.



About Skuad

Envision a world without borders where a company can find, hire, and manage talent regardless of location. A world where you can find work that speaks to your passion without having to move to another place. Skuad enables this! 


Skuad is a global employment and payroll platform - we enable companies to employ contractors and full-time employees in over 160 countries, without the complexities of setting up a local legal entity.


With Skuad's unified platform, companies can -


  • onboard new hires anywhere in the world in minutes
  • run global payroll securely and with a single click
  • stay 100% compliant with local employment laws
  • manage benefits, work permits, timesheets, and more


Our leaders have over two decades of HR experience and expertise in building globally diverse and distributed teams, with a vision to create 1 million opportunities globally by 2027. We function well as a globally distributed team of driven individuals. We achieve this with a deep focus on providing value to our customers, learning from one another, and collaborating asynchronously and effectively while being committed to continuous learning & improvement


We raised $15 million in Series A funding in October 2022. This funding round brings the total raised to $19 million, including participation from returning investors Beenext and Anthemis.


With Skuad you'll have πŸ˜ƒ 


  • Ownership: You will own what you do. We are a results-driven team, which means we expect you to get things done.
  • Endless support: You will always have the help you might need and the resources you need to deliver.
  • Experiment: This is your playground. Come up with ideas, pitch them and take initiative. You will have a free hand to execute exciting ideas.
  • Impact: Be a part of a world-class team where we are constantly working on something new and maximise the impact of the products we build.


If you are someone who wants to solve real-world challenges and enjoys finding elegant solutions to difficult problems, Skuad is the perfect workplace for you! 


Join us to build a global employment solution that is making opportunities accessible for talent and organisations across the world.



Founders

Sundeep Sahi, CEO

Has over 20 years in the industry with executive roles in product, analytics, and technology across startups and enterprises. Sundeep co-founded Indifi, worked at Microsoft, headed Wynk product to mention a few. He holds 3 patents in Distributed Applications and is adept at building and managing large distributed teams spanned across North America, Europe, India, and Australia.


Awards

Recognized under 30 Startups To Watch: The Startups That Caught Our Eye In January 2021 by INC42