Founded in Singapore with a real passion for new mobility, Bussr is focused on expanding transportation options in APAC, beginning with buses. As cities continue to grow, Bussr will allow urban residents to take ownership of their transportation options.
We are changing the future of mobility in Asia Pacific with sustainability in mind. Bussr strives to provide a platform to avail efficient, convenient and cost-effective means of transportation. Led by a team of expert visionaries and executors in the mobility space, we are rapidly growing our reach to serve the commuting needs of all residents of Asia Pacific in time to come!
We are looking for a smart, collaborative, hard-working Senior Backend Developer to be part of a team building an amazing multimodal transport experience. You are an accomplished, hands-on engineer. Your mission is to serve as a key backend developer on your squad and expertly craft APIs, backend logic and data services that will serve Control Pane as well as the passenger amp; driver apps. You work closely with Product and Design teams to drive and refine specifications and develop strategies to improve the performance and reliability of our applications, especially the backend platform, as we rapidly scale our product and organization. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Who you are
- Love for coding : An engineer who is a fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code, in short, a code -artist.
- Dynamic Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems.
- Analytical mindset: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills from requirements, design to code amp; validation. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.
- Team player Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.
- Accountability High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact.
Key Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science or related field.
- 6+ years of relevant work experience in APIs and backend platform development.
- Minimum 2+ years of leading feature teams through all stages of development.
- Experience with development of scalable, performant amp; robust cloud services on Azure, GCP or AWS
Responsibilities
- Build cloud scale backend services that are scalable, performant and robust while leveraging features amp; capabilities provided by the cloud platform (GCP, Azure or AWS).
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve backend services continually.
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Maintain strong service catalog and up to date technical documentation.
- Establish logging, monitoring, analytics and telemetry frameworks for the team.
- Establish amp; Enforce strong DevOps principles across all stages of development.
- Liaise with the Product development team to plan new features.
- Research and suggest new products, applications and protocols.
- Stay up-to-date with new technology trends.
Requirements
- Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns for building scalable, performant and robust Cloud Services.
- Strong knowledge amp; experience on Nodejs and other frameworks amp; libraries like Express, StrongLoop etc.
- Good understanding of the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- Strong knowledge of server-side templating languages such as Jade, EJS and server-side CSS preprocessors such as Stylus, Less, etc.
- Good understanding of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments, integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system etc.
- Creating polyglot data stores amp; data services that represent and support business processes including relational databases and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
- Experienced with web standards and protocols such as HTTP, REST, DNS, TCP/IP, and socket APIs in general.
- Experience with agile/scrum methodologies to iterate quickly on product changes, developing user stories and working through backlogs. Familiarity in using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Git, bitbucket etc.
- Experience with Geo-location APIs and Google maps APIs and asset tracking is a plus.
- Previous experience in developing mobility or transportation solutions is a plus.</