Lead Backend & Cloud Engineer

Must have skills required :

Backend Development

Good to have skills :

Java, Python, System Design, LLD, HLD

Anakin (One of Uplers Clients) is Looking for:

Lead Engineer) who is passionate about their work, eager to learn and grow, and who is committed to delivering exceptional results. If you are a team player, with a positive attitude and a desire to make a difference, then we want to hear from you.

Role Overview Description

Our technology engine can automatically find, analyze, and generate

insights around hundreds of millions of online listed products across more than 15+

countries in real-time. By leveraging advanced algorithms and intelligent automation,

Anakin empowers its clients to make dynamic and real-time pricing adjustments that align with market demands and competitor strategies.

Founded in 2020 by Mohit Prateek (IIT Bombay) and Rashmi Bala (IIT Kanpur), Anakin is a Y-Combinator 21 backed team of 35+ members and revenue growth of 20%+ month on month. Visit www.anakin.company, TechCrunch, and VCCircle for more information.

**Role Brief:**

At Anakin, Lead Engineer will own, solve problem statements, and derive solutions that enable us to productize our solution, find out ways to automate workflows to bring out efficiencies, and mentor engineers to do their best.

If you are someone who likes to work with an early stage startup that is building a SAAS product from scratch and solving customers data related challenges, this is an amazing opportunity.

**What will you do**

1. Understand the team's technical needs and find possible architectural solutions

using your knowledge of Anakin's product structure.

2. Take ownership of solutions, guiding engineers through every step from design,

implementation, testing, and deployment to continuous monitoring.

3. Take charge of components and subsystems, overseeing their journey across design,

coding, testing, integration, deployment, debugging and ongoing enhancements.

4. Use best engineering practices for refactoring and code modularization

5. Contributing to the design and development of new products and features for

pricing solutions.

6. Ensure adherence to engineering processes while upholding top-notch product

quality.

7. Develop and implement engineering projects from concept to completion.

8. Analyze data and performance metrics to identify areas for improvement.

9. Provide technical direction & engineering leadership for our team of engineers.

10. Examine the work of others (code, design) and offer direction to ensure uniform and

reliable execution.

11. Create easy-to-understand documentation that helps other engineers quickly join in

and complete tasks.

**What do you bring to the table**

- B.Tech/M.Tech (Bachelor's Degree) in engineering or a related field. - 6+ years of

experience in engineering, with at least 2 years in a mentorship role.

- The ability to own end-to-end responsibility right from the requirement to release.

- Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.

- Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and address complex technical issues.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

- Expertise in system design.

Our current tech stack -

- Python/Java/NodeJS/TypeScript

- AWS - (EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, ECR, ECS)

- Database - Postgres/Any SQL database, MongoDB

- GCP - BigQuery

- CI/CD - (Jenkins, Docker)

- JIRA & Confluence

**You would be a great fit, if you know:**

- Web crawling/Scraping knowledge

- Good experience in reverse engineering

- Django/Flask

- Redis

- Kubernetes.