Job Requirements
1 - 3 years of experience
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Daphne Tay
Last active 5 months ago
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Job description for Backend Developer/ software engineer at Bluente
Company Description
Bluente is an early stage enterprise language SaaS firm. We are the world’s first mobile app that helps learners achieve business language proficiency. Our vision is to connect international communities globally through language.
Our app is now live on the app store and we have just secured our first round of funding.
We're looking for people who are enthusiastic about our product but also fast and independent learners. As a software engineer at an early-stage company, you'll be an essential part of the product team and will be shipping code daily to a rapidly growing user base.
Why this role?
- Get your hands dirty: As one of our initial members, you'll play a role in shaping the product and learn multiple aspects of software engineering.
- Fast-paced: You'll be involved with product development in every angle, from front-end to back-end, to infrastructure.
- Mentorship: You’ll be working closely with our CTO, an ex-Goldman Sachs, former Stashaway alumni.
- Build a product that counts: We believe we can change the language learning space and help break the communication barriers for people globally. We hope you are interested too!
Join at an exciting time: We have just received our first round of funding and are ready to scale and grow. You'll be an essential part of our journey and be involved in building exciting features that delight our users.
Role: Backend Developer
- Be part of the core development team
- Take charge of the development of of specific functionality and workflows for Bluente's web software and tools
- Write clean, testable, scalable and maintainable code that complies with Bluente's standards and best practice
- Design technical solutions with team members
- Implement technical solutions to support business requirements
- Give and receive technical feedback through code reviews or design discussions
- Collaborate with other engineers (and people from other disciplines) to proactively seek and incorporate feedback
- Monitor the results of user tests and log tasks for next development iteration
- Have the opportunity to work alongside top engineers to gain invaluable insights on how to build a scalable and high performance platform
- Enhance coding skills and get exposed to new tools and programming languages
- Hands-on experience to apply computer science studies in a professional environment
- Be responsible and responsive during on-call duty, with a strong ability to debug and troubleshoot production issues, monitor the performance of the live software and continuously improve them on both code and experience level
Requirements:
- BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other relevant majors with 2+ years of work experience (open to fresh graduates)
- Must have strong programming and development skills
- Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in general purpose programming languages
- Experience in building in Golang (preferred)
- Experience in databases (SQL/noSQL)
- Experiences in cloud (AWS/ GCP)
- Strong analytical capabilities and ability to simplify code
- Acute attention to detail and highly accountable and takes ownership of one’s own work
- Curiosity to explore creative solutions and try new things
- Experience dealing with production issues at scale (preferred)
- Experience in education and/or tech industry a plus