Senior Software Engineer App Development (Remote)

BuyStars is a well-funded new age gaming platform merging finance, trading and gaming. The platform enables fans to trade cricketers thereby turning their interest into a 24×7 speculation game. The company is funded by Chiratae Ventures, Leo capital, Saison Capital and top angels. The founders, Aman Satija and Sriram Krishnamoorthy, come with 15+ years of product, business and gaming experience. Nitin Goel heads engineering and was last working for Amazon USA where he was one of the core architects for AWS.

BuyStars is a Technology company by building long term and scalable solutions for billions of sports fan across the globe. BuyStars will be launching their product by Feb end, 2022.

Engineering@BuyStars

Buy Stars is looking to build a results-oriented rockstar Engineering team. An ideal candidate for us would be a passionate builder of great products/frameworks and has excellent leadership qualities. You are someone who would thrive in a fast-paced environment and is able to create an environment for others to thrive too. You are enthusiastic about all aspects of the business and able to make fast paced decisions to drive consumer satisfaction and business growth.

In this role, you will be responsible for architecting and owning the end-to-end delivery of front end consumer experience for trading and fantasy gaming. You will be responsible for driving front end components as a decoupled platform to drive faster experimentation and that is extensible to cutting edge backend technologies in trading and gaming. You are someone who leads by example to drive software best practices and innovations in the team. You are a problem solver by nature, capable of taking bigger responsibilities and should be an enthusiastic learner.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of trading and fantasy front end platform. Make and own the architectural decisions to deliver positive impact to the customers and the business.
• Solve ambiguous problems. Architect, design and build user friendly and responsive user experiences. Architect the gracefully degradable front end experience in case of high latency, system errors, low bandwidth etc. Strong understanding of the backend system constraints like latency, availability, error propagation etc.
• Own the continuous delivery of features on iOS and Android applications.
• Influencing the backend API requirements.
• Deliver through others and work as a force multiplier in the team. Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
• Drive operational excellence in the team, to measure and review the consumer facing tech metrics. Drive decisions to coarse correct the architectural choices to have a positive impact.
• Work independently with stakeholders like product managers, team members, business analysts, customers and API vendors.
• Stay ahead of other team members to learn new web technologies like web3, conceptualize and define the proof of concepts around them to solve critical business problems.

What are we looking for?

• 4-7 years of experience as an app and front end developer.
• BTech, MTech in Computer Science or a related technical discipline (or equivalent) and excellent track record of delivering end-to-end mobile applications.
• 4-7 years of experience in various front end technologies like JS, React, React Native, HTML, AngularJS and iOS/Andriod App development.
• 3-4 years of experience in using cloud technologies like Firebase for app-development.
• 3-4 years of experience in automating the testing of web applications and various UI interaction patterns.
• Experience with defining the RESTful API.
• Experience in architecting and end-to-end delivery of at-least one large scale mobile application.
• Experience in technically leading the team of at-least 4-5 members. Managing the agile software development best practices in the team.
• Ability to provide simple solutions to complex problems
• Excellent track record in operational excellence. Building and defining the test strategy for the gracefully degradable user experience in cause of backend outrages. Self-motivated to think long term solutions to fix recurring or severe problems

Preferred

• Domain knowledge in Finance, Banking, Trading or Gaming software systems.
• Experience in people management.

Skills:- Model-View-View-Model (MVVM), RxJava and iOS App Development