Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Location: Sri Lanka
About Us
Circles.Life revolutionizes the digital services industry by giving power back to our customers. Born in Singapore as Asia’s first and most successful digital mobile services, our services have been rapidly gaining market share since our 2016 launch, while delivering best-in-class customer experience. We are owning the market in innovation, customer happiness and growth.
Looking ahead, Circles.Life plans to further leverage its telco technology, including a new digital data platform to create more lifestyle products. Discover, an AI-driven events feature, is the first of many more.
We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
Do you want to get firsthand insights on how a hyper-growth company operates and be part of building disruptive technology? Are you passionate about being part of a fun, ambitious team that thrives in an entrepreneurial tech environment?
If the answer is YES, read on to find out more!
Job description:
Circles.life is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our dynamic team. As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our cutting-edge software applications. You will be responsible for both front-end and back-end development, ensuring seamless integration of user-facing elements with server-side logic. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and innovation of our company while working in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.
As a key member of our team, your responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications from concept to production.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements, and translate them into technical specifications.
- Implement user interfaces using modern front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React.js).
- Develop server-side logic using back-end platforms, tools and technologies.
- Design and implement database schemas, queries, and optimizations for relational and non-relational databases.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, adhering to coding standards and best practices.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior team members.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues, and implement effective solutions in a timely manner.
- Take part in on-call responsibilities to address urgent issues outside of regular business hours.
- Utilize monitoring and debugging tools such as New Relic and Grafana to analyze application performance and identify bottlenecks.
- Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends, and propose innovative solutions to improve our products and processes.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
- 6-8 years of experience in full stack web development, with a strong focus on both front-end and back-end technologies.
- Passion to get hands dirty with coding.
- In depth understanding/High Proficiency in at least one modern backend development framework / language with a focus on Golang and/or Node.js.
- In depth understanding/High Proficiency in at least one modern frontend development framework with a focus on ReactJS. Experience in Vanilla JS, CSS and JQuery.
- High proficiency in working on SQL & NoSQL Databases such as MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis etc. Hand-on experience in query optimizations and data modeling for scale and performance.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
- Experience with monitoring and debugging tools such as New Relic, Grafana, or similar.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and self-motivated attitude.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment is a plus
- Ability to Mentor and lead teams
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What We Do
Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its SaaS platform - Circles X, empowering telco operators launch and operate successful digital brands. Today, Circles is partnering operators in 14 countries with the mission to deliver delightful digital experiences to millions of people through our businesses. With Circles.Life, our digital lifestyle brand, we empower and delight customers across the world by offering digital experiences that go beyond traditional telco services. With Circles X, our digital telco technology empowers operators to launch digital telco brands from anywhere in the world. Built for operators by an operator, Circles X powers both Circles.Life and our partner operators’ digital telco brands. Circles is backed by global investors such as Sequoia, Warburg Pincus, EDBI and Founders Fund – renowned institutions with a track record of backing industry-shaking innovators. To learn more, visit www.circles.co.
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