SDE 1 - Backend

Plivo is a cloud communications platform that empowers businesses to connect, engage and interact with their customers with confidence. Plivo’s mission is to simplify business communications. Thousands of businesses around the globe, including IBM, Workday, Wolters Kluver, Zomato, Yahoo, and Splunk, rely on Plivo to power their voice and SMS communications on a global scale. Plivo becomes a reliable communications platform with its Premium Communications Network that spans 190+ countries.Founded in 2011, Plivo has over 300 employees remotely across the US, India, and Europe. Plivo was a part of YCombinator and is backed by prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures. Plivo has been profitable for the past 7+ years, an unusual milestone for companies of this scale. Plivo’s success has landed it among the leading global CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) companies and at the cutting edge of the CPaaS sector, which has a market size of USD 12.5 billion in 2022. It is projected to reach USD 45.3 billion over the next five years.Plivo is a people-centric organization with a culture of ownership. We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits, including excellent healthcare coverage, to our employees.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own and implement features used by large customers like Truecaller, Mozilla, Zomato, Netflix, etc.
• Performance, Security and Usability goals are in DNA.
• Full ownership and accountability of Microservices which includes day-to-day operations and maintenance.
• Business and technical Metric definitions and reviews.
• Drive CI & CD Evaluate technologies and development stacks for API-based platform which scales to 100,000 transactions per second.
• Perform push-button deployments of any version of the software to any environment on demand.
• Build web apps that are scalable and put user experience front and center.
• Develop modular UI components for company-wide reuse.
• Evolve a common design language for UI across apps.
• Establish and advocate front-end coding guidelines.
• Meld UX and great-looking UI while keeping excellent code quality.
• Own end-to-end life cycle of the product from requirement analysis, design, development, test, release, and maintenance.
• Develop reusable tools/librariesIdentify opportunities for automation and collaboration points.
• Continuously improve cycle time, throughput, and code quality.
• Continuously improve value-adding-activities/non-value-adding activities ratio.

Skills Required

• 2 - 3 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems
• Proficient in Python/Golang/Java/ Node.js
• Understanding of Rest-based API Architecture
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code
• Excellent microservices pattern understanding
• Ability to define cross-core contracts and bring them to closure through collaboration
• Good knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Experience working with AWS components [EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECS, Lambda].(Added Advantage)
• Experience in UI development is an added advantage.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good aptitude in multi-threading and concurrency concepts.
• Working knowledge of Git and proficiency with at least one build server: Jenkins/Travis/Bamboo.