SDE 2 - Backend

FanCode is India’s premier sports destination committed to giving fans a highly personalised experience across content and merchandise for a wide variety of sports. Founded by sports industry veterans Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan in March 2019, FanCode has over 100 million users. It has partnered with domestic, international sports leagues and associations across multiple sports. In content, FanCode offers interactive live streaming for sports with industry-first subscription formats like Match, Bundle and Tour Passes, along with monthly and annual subscriptions at affordable prices. Through FanCode Shop, it also offers fans a wide range of sports merchandise for sporting teams, brands and leagues across the world.
Technology @ FanCodeWe have one mission, Create a platform for all sports fans. Built by sports fans for sports fans. We’re at the beginning of our story and growing at an incredible pace.Our tech stack is hosted on AWS and is built on  Cloudfront / AWS API Gateway, NGINX, Node.js / Java, Redis / ElastiCache and MySQL / Cassandra as our end to end stack.Besides these, we heavily use Kafka, Spark, Redshift and other cutting edge tech to keep improving FanCode's performance. As a data-driven team, we also use R, Python and other big data technologies for Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. Your Role:

• Building high performance and scalable software platforms
• Developing and owning product components – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures
• Work with leaders in Product and Engineering to drive and implement platform and product vision
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve development efficiency

Must Have:

• 4-6 years of hands-on coding and expertise in any programming language, preferably Java / Node.js
• Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and use of advanced data structures
• Strong relational and NoSQL database skills
• Hands on experience on Web framework and RESTful APIs

Good to Have:

• Love Sports
• Strong design skills backed with analytical and problem solving ability
• Experience with reactive programming using VertX / Akka
• Being a die-hard Cricket and/or Football Fan
• Prior experience working on agile methodologies (Scrum)
• A never say die approach to problem solving