Software Engineer

We are looking for candidates with strong programming skills and a strong understanding of computer/distributed systems. We want people who love designing and building infrastructure components and large complex services.

Responsibilities:

• Develop/improve Exotel's distributed voice stack.
• Build fault-tolerant, scalable, and real-time distributed systems.
• Own the design, development, and deployment of code to improve product and platform functionality.
• Writing high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code.
• Support team with timely analysis and debugging of operational issues.
• Emphasis on automation and scripting.
• Effectively work in a collaborative and agile team environment.
• Mentor juniors in the team to do the above.
• Be on a rotational on-call roster to handle operational issues.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience working with major cloud solutions: AWS (preferred), Azure, and GCP.
• Candidates who have worked on distributed messaging systems will be preferred.
• Familiarity with 3-tier, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience with the design and development of RESTful services.
• Experience with developing Linux-based applications, networking, and scripting.
• Experience with different data stores, data modeling, and scaling them.
• Familiarity with data stores such as Aerospike, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Experience with one of the OOP languages: Java (preferred) / Golang (preferred) / Ruby / Python / C++.
• Good understanding of data structures, multithreading, and concurrency concepts.
• Experience with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Git is a plus.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch queries and visualization tools like Grafana and Kibana.
• Strong networking fundamentals: Firewalls, Proxies, DNS, balancing, etc.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Team player, flexible, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• A "DevOps" mindset. You own what you will develop.

Good-to-haves:

• Experience in telecom, related protocols, and product start-ups would be a plus.
• Exposure to telephony protocols, ISDN, SIP, and WebRTC.
• Practical experience in managing production-scale systems.
• Experience: 3-6 years.