Backend - Tech Lead

About JOSYS

Josys, a dynamic B2B SaaS platform startup, has embarked on a mission to revolutionize IT operations globally, following an exceptional launch in Japan and securing $218 million in Series A and B funding. Our platform enables businesses to conquer the complexities of work-from-anywhere setups, rapid digital transformation, and the proliferation of SaaS applications by simplifying, optimizing, and securing their IT operations.

With a presence in 9 countries, including Japan, India, and the USA, our cutting-edge product technology center is located in Bengaluru, India. As we continue our rapid expansion, we aim to double our full-time employee headcount in 2024, enhancing our capacity to innovate and deliver.

Josys was spun off from RAKSUL, a celebrated Japanese unicorn and Forbes Startup of the Year 2018, which is a transformation through three pioneering B2B e-commerce platforms.

Technologies: 

Microservices, containers/orchestration, DevOps, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, Express, cloud APIs, Ruby, Rails, MySQL/ Postgres/ MongoDB. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Produce software code of highest quality, efficiency, craftsmanship, simplicity and elegance. 

• Design solutions to complex problems. 

• Undertake evaluation of contemporary and emerging technologies and recommend adoption with discretion, with the sole purpose of benefiting the product and enabling business growth. 

• Embrace, evangelize and promote automation and DevSecOps.

• Gain in-depth understanding of plans for strategic product evolution, tech-stack, modernization/migration, progressively clearing tech debt, and contribute to execution in a way it has zero disruption to short-term business. 

• Drive for highly efficient and effective cloud infra utilization. 

• Own the product as much as its architecture: delivering the product to meet/exceed customer expectations while enabling business growth is an extremely important responsibility of this role. 

• Understand the business, customers and product-market fit deeply. 

• Install and promote best practices and standards for design, coding, quality assurance, automation, security and agile processes in general. 

• Act as the gatekeeper for everything that gets delivered to the customer, and be accountable for quality and total customer experience. 

• Demonstrate technical leadership and participate in the review of designs and code to ensure adherence to the highest levels of quality. 

• Identify areas of improvement in the code base to ensure architectural/design integrity and extensibility. 

• Assume ownership for technical screening and interviewing to help with the growth of the team. 

• Work collaboratively with the business team, product management, UX design team and leadership, to ensure that the product development team constantly stays in alignment with the business. 

• Strong proficiency in Express.js,  Node.js) and TypeScript.

• Experience with microservices architecture and design patterns.

• In-depth knowledge of database systems (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL).

• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.

• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.

• Experience with GoLang,ElasticSearch

Requirements / Qualifications: 

• Software coding craftsmanship and hands-on coder. 5+ years of experience in hard-core software product development. Experience with product companies is an important requirement. 

• Deep experience architecting, designing and implementing cloud/SaaS products.

• Strong computer science fundamentals. 

• Adept with contemporary technologies and paradigms (such as Agile, DevSecOps, containers, microservices, REST APIs, MEAN /MERN stack, etc.) 

• Strong inclination for end-to-end product ownership. 

• Have a penchant for high-quality and timely product delivery. 

• Experience with Ruby on Rails would be a plus. 

• Undaunted by ambiguity and ability to solve complex problems. 

• Strong interest in exploring emerging tech to enable business growth.

• Experience working on B2B e-commerce and building digital products from scratch would be highly valuable.

• Understands and works towards customer delight and comprehensive customer experience. 

• Possesses good business acumen. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and influencing skills. 

• Good with people and enjoys mentoring/coaching juniors technically.

• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.

• Manage the team's workload, priorities, and deliverables.

• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration.