SDE (Automation & Quality Focus)
Drivetrain
IndiaremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Remote-first company
- Backend programming proficiency (Python, Java, C#, Ruby, or Go)
- Focus on Automation & Quality
- Experience with RESTful APIs and GraphQL
Role overview
Drivetrain is a remote-first financial planning & decision-making platform headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, founded in 2021 by ex-Googlers and backed by leading venture capital firms. The company is seeking a highly skilled Backend Engineer passionate about clean code, optimal solutions, and building robust automation frameworks to enhance engineering productivity and maintain high standards of code quality. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining high-quality automation frameworks, breaking code, identifying bugs, and implementing solutions to ensure systems run smoothly and efficiently. You will be involved in every stage of the software development lifecycle, from initial concept to final release, including participating in architectural design discussions.
Responsibilities
- Design and Develop Automation Frameworks: Create and maintain comprehensive automation frameworks to streamline our development processes and enhance productivity.
- Bug Hunting and Fixing: Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex bugs to ensure the reliability and stability of our systems.
- Clean Code Advocate: Promote best practices in coding, ensuring that all code is clean, well-documented, and maintainable.
- Optimize Performance: Develop optimal solutions for backend processes, focusing on performance, scalability, and efficiency.
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with frontend developers, QA engineers, and product managers to deliver high-quality products.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve our development practices and automation tools.
- Documentation - Test Plans, standard operating procedures, Cookbooks, etc.
Requirements
- Strong Coding Skills: Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, Ruby, or Go.
- Web Frameworks: Experience with backend web frameworks like Django, Flask, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, or .
- API Development: Expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs and working with GraphQL.
- Database Management: Strong understanding of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
- Data Structures and Algorithms: Excellent understanding and practical application of data structures and algorithms.
- Automation Expertise: Experience in building and maintaining automation frameworks and tools.
- Problem Solving: Exceptional problem-solving skills with a keen eye for detail and a master bug hunter mentality.
- Clean Code Principles: A strong advocate for clean code principles and best practices in software development.
- Performance Optimization: Proven track record in optimizing backend systems for performance and scalability.
- Collaborative Spirit: Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Nice to have
- Experience with CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices and tools.
- Cloud Services: Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Test-Driven Development (TDD): Experience with TDD and other testing methodologies.
- Microservices Architecture: Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Monitoring and Logging: Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly: Drivetrain brings together the best and the brightest, no matter where they are and provides them a great degree of autonomy.
- Open & transparent: Access to all the information creators need so their best work will emerge.
- Idea-friendly: An environment to explore new ideas, to take risks, to make mistakes, and to learn.
- Customer-centric: Product-led growth strategy, continuously learning from customers and collaborating.
Additional details
- Drivetrain is a remote-first company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Founded in 2021 by a couple of ex-Googlers.
- Backing from leading venture capital firms.
- Originally posted on Himalayas
