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Job Description

Overview of the role:

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will focus on building next-generation platform services for Freshworks with your strong background in distributed systems and mentor your team to achieve this. You will have an opportunity to redefine customer experiences by building systems that are milli-second efficient, always available and working at internet scale. If you are the kind of engineer who is passionate about building systems, have a good eye for analysis and a mind that can think outside the box, we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

- Lead teams to deliver scalable, low latency, and cost-efficient solutions to different product teams.

- Drive solutions and implementation leveraging different open source distributed systems and deliver a complete product.

- Build innovative solutions from scratch and liaise with architects and engineers from other product teams to build solutions and drive adoption.

- Elicit quality attributes of the system as well as create criteria metrics for the product to establish the success of achieved metrics

- Implement and support compliance of self and team to Freshworks compliance and information security processes.

 

Requirements:

- 3-6 years of prior experience

- Advanced understanding of OOPS

- Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)

- Experience of working in an Agile environment

- Ability to design for scale and performance

- Ability to do peer code reviews

- Solid problem-solving skills

- Experience with hands-on programming

- Expertise in data structures and algorithms

Qualifications

Data Structures,Algorithms, Design, Database, Scale, hands-on programming,CS Fundamentals, System Design, working with cross-functional teams,Experience building and maintaining software for scale , Designed or developed the product from the scratch +Team management, Program management, Manage Hiring, Roadmap

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Company

Freshworks

Job Posted

a year ago

Job Type

Full-time

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On-site

Experience Level

3-7 years

Category

Software Engineering

Locations

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Qualification

Bachelor

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