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60 Decibels is a global, tech-enabled impact measurement company that brings speed and repeatability to social impact measurement and customer insights.
We have a network of 900+ researchers in 70+ countries and have worked with more than 800 of the world’s leading impact investors, companies, foundations, corporations, NGOs, and public sector organisation
About the role
We seek a full-time Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our engineering team based out of Bengaluru, India.
You’ll be an early engineer in a newly formed engineering team. This is a unique opportunity for you to learn, build, demonstrate, and subsequently own diverse components of our tech stack and evolve as we scale our business. As a core engineer in a small team, the role demands a high degree of self-drive and ownership, on a path to achieving outsized impact.
Your Primary Responsibility Will Be:
To Advance Our Integrated Data Capture And Insights Platform (Ruby/React/PostgreSQL) And Associated Tooling (Python)
In this role, you will:
- Work with a diverse multidisciplinary team across Engineering, Product & Operations, to translate product specs into clean, functional, production-ready code.
- Participate actively in defining the systems architecture vision to better support our team’s needs
- Grow our technical capacity by mentoring other engineers and interviewing candidates
- Collaborate with team members to identify systems, practices & technologies that suit our needs the best
- Seek, learn, adopt and advocate industry best practices. Contribute towards the engineering culture
- Troubleshooting coding problems quickly and efficiently to ensure a productive workplace
About You
First and foremost, you bring passion and dedication to this work because it matters to you.
You are a pragmatic and product-driven engineer who is interested in solving user problems and delivering value while taking into account tradeoffs between Business and Tech. You have a bias towards action: you get your hands dirty and actively tackle problems in a way that leads to the best outcomes and brings teams together. You successfully balance flexibility and rigour, using informed judgement to make decisions. You model critical thinking and introspection, taking strategic risks and growing from mistakes. You are decisive and bold, have a growth mindset, are an excellent communicator, and know the value of being a part of an effective team.
Minimum Qualification:
- At least 4+ years of experience in software engineering building SaaS platforms, products and APIs
- At least 1+ years in your current role as a senior engineer
- Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails (primary) and Python (additional)
- Strong proficiency in data modelling, RDBMS (Postgres preferred) and NoSQL databases.
- Proficient in software design, modularity, testability and software quality
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
Additional desired qualifications:
- Preferred prior experience in the following stack: Python, Ruby On Rails, React, Postgres, AWS
- Experience in working on natural language processing, and ML for text and audio.
- Fast self-learner, with aptitude and interest in learn new technologies, languages & frameworks
- Experience working on data-pipelines, and data transformation systems.
- Experience setting up, managing and ensuring best practices on public clouds like AWS, GCP, or Azure (we use AWS)
Working with 60 Decibels
We are a fun, international and highly-motivated team who believes that team members should have the opportunity to expand their skills and career in a supportive environment. We offer a competitive salary, the opportunity to work flexibly and in a fun, supportive working environment. If this sounds like the role for you, get in touch!
60 Decibels is deeply committed to having a workplace that is inclusive and anti-discriminatory. We believe that our team must embody the compassion, listening, and sense of shared humanity that is so central to our goal as an organisation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
As a growing company, we are building towards a more universally accessible workplace for our employees. At this time, we do use some cloud-based technologies that are not compatible with screen readers and other assistive devices. We would be happy to discuss accessibility at 60 Decibels in greater depth during the recruitment process.
Interested in applying?
Application: Please use this link to apply. As part of the application process, we will ask you for your CV/resume, a link to examples of your work and a short cover letter telling us why you are interested in the role and describing an engineering solution that you’ve built that you’re proud of.
Location: This role is based out of our Bengaluru, India office. We are located at WeWork, Prestige Central, Infantry Road, Bengaluru
Deadline: Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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