About GLIDER.ai:  

GLIDER.ai democratizes job opportunities by letting candidates with the right skills get a shot at top opportunities irrespective of their race, gender or lack of academic credentials. We believe that candidates should be assessed only on the skills required to do the job and everything else is just noise.   

Leading companies use Glider to hire top talent in a transparent way for full time hiring and contingent hiring in a wide variety of job roles ranging from IT to non-IT roles across industries.   

We serve leading technology companies like PWC, Infosys, Bank Of America, BMW, AT&T, Facebook, Intuit and Automation Anywhere for full time positions as well as leading talent suppliers like the Adecco group, Apex, Collabera and Artech for contingent hiring. Over 50% of the top 50 IT suppliers in the world use Glider.   

GLIDER.ai is a Series A funded company headquartered in Fremont, California with a development and operations center in Bangalore, India.  

We are rapidly expanding our team both in the US and in India and are looking for ambitious professionals who are looking for challenging roles and wanting to make a dent in the universe. 

People and Culture:   

We are a young and dynamic set of people working in a fast paced environment working hard to turn our vision into reality. We believe in hard work, team effort and empathy. We do not strive for work-life balance but rather imbibe work and fun into life to achieve success both professionally and personally.  

 Job description:  

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who possesses a passion for pushing technologies to the limits and will work with our team to help build Glider's next-generation platform. If you are a person who loves to face technical challenges, innovates consistently and is never satisfied with status-quo then this is the role for you.  

Responsibility  

• Responsible for full software life-cycle, system design and development of front-end & back-end systems 
• Writing high-quality code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems       of varying complexity and scope.  
• Identify libraries and technologies worth experimentation  
• Build innovative solutions from scratch and liaise with architects and engineers to build  solutions  
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance. 
• Mentoring other team members Required Skill  
• Should be a quick learner and willing to go the extra mile in delivering the projects. 
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience  
• Work in a fast-paced environment and make pragmatic engineering decisions in a short  amount of time.  
• Experience with Agile Development and Scrum methodologies.

Requirements 

• 3-8 years of relevant hands-on software engineering experience doing software design and development 
• Excellent understanding of relational database (like MYSQL), having knowledge of unstructured databases (NoSQL like Mongo db) will be an added advantage  
• Proven experience of working on back-end web frameworks like Node.js (preferred) /Spring (Java ) /  RoR / Python / Django /Go 
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS / React JS / Meteor JS 
• Expertise in object-oriented design, unit testing, integration testing, data structures, algorithms, scalable APIs, etc.  
• Knowledge of working on cloud technologies and exposure of AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, etc) 
• Track record of delivering high quality products and a knack for getting things done 
• Passion for learning new technologies and developing skills 
• Passion for working with and mentoring engineers 
• Deep understanding and domain expertise in product engineering ' 

Key Competencies 

• Functional Competencies: Programming, system design and analysis, data structures and algorithms, Agile development, Scalable System architecture  
• Behavioral Competencies: Analytical problem solving, attention to details, Mentorship, Team Management  

What’s in it for you: 

• Chance to work in a high-growth ecosystem by solving real life problems  
• Join the core team to establish the future trajectory of GLIDER.ai 
• Competitive remuneration  
• A fun-filled ride in an informal environment without typical corporate clichés,       hierarchies, structures etc. 

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