Lead Backend Engineer

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

At Prudential Health India (PHI), we are on a mission to make Indians healthier, while bridging the health protection gap. This is a Zero to One team undertaking a greenfield health insurance deployment in India committed to building journeys that will truly empathize with the customer and offer a differentiated, uniquely delightful, and bespoke experience.

To partner us in this mission, we are looking for a talented…

Job Description: Lead Backend Engineer

As a backend lead, your typical week might include the following:

• Participate in all stages of the development lifecycle, from requirements gathering, to deployment to production, to triaging production issues, to proactive monitoring.
• Design, develop, unit test and implement software programs for backend supporting mobile apps, SDKs, micro-frontends, WhatsApp or eco-system partners. Come up with desired sets of standards to be followed for platform development.
• Conceptualize and incorporate reusable development frameworks.
• Create specifications and detailed plans, write code, own unit, performance and functional testing and debugging, and play an active role in the rollout and launch.
• Work in close collaboration with other engineers, designers, R&D, analysts, product managers and other teams and stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes for the company.
• Develop open APIs and capabilities required to enable seamless integration across ecosystem partners.
• Use data-driven insights to guide development of programs and apps that fill a user need.
• Mentor and upskill other backend and front-end developers.
• Develop world class and reusable platform capabilities as a RESTful services with flawless code continuously delivered in production
• Develop capabilities ingrained with enough intelligence around user activities and usage          
• 100% adherence to enable user behavioral analytics using events and Crashlytics
• You can define and ensure adherence to architecture and coding standards
• Keeping up with innovativeness to build world class propositions using bleeding edge technologies, frameworks and best practices as needed to bring differentiation through technology.

You could be the right candidate if you:

• Have bachelor’s in engineering from a recognized institute
• Have deep technology expertise, enterprise-grade, best-of-breed.
• Have knowledge and experience in ecosystem/platforms-as-a-service approach.
• Have knowledge and experience in wellness and insurance domain capabilities.
• Can demonstrate Prudential’s core values in whatever you do.
• Have solid foundation in algorithms, data-structures, software frameworks and patterns, systems and architecture
• Are not intimidated by the rapidly changing technology ecosystem and keep your current through self-learning and constantly playing around with latest technologies.
• Are fanatical about technology and are always on the look-out of newer better ways of building solutions using state-of-the-art and bleeding edge technologies.
• Understand the concept, needs, requirements and can conceptualize to design and build solutions for end users/Enterprises.
• Are obsessed with providing the highest quality product and experience to the customer using the power of software.
• Are a highly driven individual who goes that extra mile to deliver an outstanding product to the business team and end users/customers.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a fast paced and hyper-growth environment using agile methodologies where the requirements are fluid and engagement with end users is needed through smart use of latest technologies.
• Have extensive experience in evaluating system-wide platform decisions and setting of long-term companywide technical strategy. Understands, and can articulate, implications and trade-offs of reliability, scalability, operational effort/costs, ease of adoption by organization, reuse, etc.

This could be the gig for you if you:

• Are passionate about bringing truly consumer centric ideas and products into reality to help customers be healthier; you enjoy spending time with customers to understand what they really want. Have an attentive ear listen to new ideas.
• Thrive in environments that celebrate co-creation and collaboration.
• Have strong technical knowledge on building scalable backend platforms using micro-services.
• Have built best in class backend platforms/services using micro-services.
• Are passionate about leveraging new age digital tools and technologies to transform customer experience.
• Like to work in a culture where everyone can see what others are doing
• Take help from others when stuck and encourage others when there are setbacks
• Take full responsibility for your team’s contribution output while thinking wing to wing across the organization; to solve for the customer.
• Have 7-10 years of total experience with at least 3 years domain experience in any of these sectors: health or life insurance, wellness, payments, financial services ecommerce, insurance core systems, health tech, insure tech, tele-sales & non voice customer servicing platforms, loyalty platforms
• Hands-on software-engineering experience and demonstrable body of work (Min. 7 years)
• Have deep expertise in
  • Java, NodeJS, Python etc
  • Building scalable, event-drive and distributed micro-services
  • Enterprise NoSQL databases e.g. Couchbase
  • Stream based processing with full actor-model implementation e.g. Flink, Google Cloud Data Flow etc
  • REST API frameworks e.g. Swagger
  • Enterprise pub-sub frameworks e.g. Kafka
  • Full-Duplex secure communication protocols using non-blocking message flows e.g. WSS
     
• Have used tools like:
  • IDE: Eclipse
  • Build Tools: Gradle, Maven
  • Versioning and delivery helper tools: Git, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins
  • API development and debug tools: Postman, Websocket client

What can make you extra special if you:

• Have demonstrable experience building high performance & highly available enterprise platforms catering to millions of daily traffic with 24 X 7 service stability/availability to end users/customers.
• Have strong experience in using agile CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps frameworks especially with Google Cloud.
• Have experience in cloud-based (Google Cloud) and containerized (Docker/Kubernetes) infrastructure.
• Have proven track record of managing critical IT stack with high level of vigilance implemented using automated monitoring and self-healing technologies.
• Have real stories to tell about how your team and you challenged convention and took the path less travelled.

We are keen to listen to your story; doesn’t matter if you tell these stories with a sigh or with excitement. We respect both versions. Truly.

Location: Bangalore/Mumbai

If you think this is the one for you, drop in a line with your story at Email id: [email protected]
We are eager to catch-up!

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