Backend Developer - SDE 1

How to apply?

Step 1: Here's a short assignment for you to complete and submit

Assignment direct link - https://www.notion.so/bitespeed/Bitespeed-Backend-Task-Identity-Reconciliation-1fb21bb2a930802eb896d4409460375c

Submission Form link - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy1k9SPaW5MQYd0TUj4N5K3AqdOK7G1hXTtnYIzCHw438W-g/viewform

About BiteSpeed

Hey there! We are a Sequoia backed SaaS startup on a mission to help e-commerce brands embrace conversational commerce as the future of selling online.

Currently, 2000+ Shopify brands across 50+ countries use BiteSpeed to drive 20%+ revenue doing everything from Whatsapp marketing to chatbots & handling support across channels.

💡Read more about our mission and the story of commerce here-

https://www.notion.so/bitespeed/BiteSpeed-s-Mission-the-Future-of-Commerce-b3cf14a080d94654ba46693c8cacd24f

Check out more about us here - https://www.bitespeed.co/ and do read through our 200+ odd 5-star reviews to get a sense of what our customers say about us here - https://apps.shopify.com/bitespeed-fb-messenger-chatbot (we openly brag about this 😉)

We’ve had some solid investors back us (making it easier for you to stalk us since you’d do this anyway):-

• BiteSpeed Raises USD 3.5M Funding, Led by Peak XV’s Surge- https://www.businesswireindia.com/e-commerce-ai-startup-bitespeed-raises-usd-3-5m-funding-led-by-peak-xvs-surge-92455.html

• E-commerce AI start-up BiteSpeed raises $3.5 million funding led by Peak XV’s Surge- https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/e-commerce-ai-start-up-bitespeed-raises-35-million-funding-led-by-peak-xvs-surge/article68863058.ece

• BiteSpeed Raises $1.9 Million Seed Funding From Sequoia India's Surge- https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/business-news/bitespeed-raises-19-million-seed-funding-from-sequoia/418414

About the role

We’re looking for a backend developer to join our early engineering team and drive our product development. If you’re someone who thrives on high ownership, can figure stuff out on your own and wants to be part of the zero-to-one journey, this might be for you.

What you’ll do

Tl;dr, we’re at 100k requests per day, you’ll take us to 10M requests per day.

As we’re still early at building a dedicated backend team, responsibilities will have breadth over a lot of cool stuff 🙌

• Looking out for cool new technologies and implementing them for required internal as well as business use cases.

• Designing scalable architectures for backend systems.

• Optimising performance of applications for full scale production deployments.

• Implementing business logic and developing APIs and services.

• Conceptualising and implementing scalable databases across various services.

• You’ll be hiring and mentoring junior developers.

What makes you a good fit

• If you can write code that works, we should be good but read on (disclaimer: most of what follows is not a hard requirement);

• You have 1-3 years of experience building and scaling backend systems from scratch;

• You've built server-less backend architectures using AWS platforms and resources like Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, etc. (Brownie points if you’ve worked with NodeJS, Redis and PostgreSQL);

• You have managed deployment at scale using CI/CD integrations and implemented error management systems like Sentry;

• Most of the above is us trying to sound legit about our stack, so if you’ve not worked with some of it & are open to learning or have better ideas, it’s totally cool;

• Be ready to jam to this every time we push to prod - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QNUcrjtOs;

Salary and Location

Location: Bangalore

Expected CTC: We pay top of market for the right folks and also offer generous equity (ESOP) to everyone in the team.

Our Way Of Life - https://www.notion.so/bitespeed/Way-Of-Life-At-BiteSpeed-44d9b9614d9641419da910189b1e9f8e.

Our Purpose

At BiteSpeed, work is personal. You could blame this on us being existential, but most of us are spending the best years of our lives doing this and we want to be purposeful about the kind of workplace we’re trying to create.

Our purpose is about why we’re here and what we care about:-

• Personal Transformation
• Wealth Creation
• Winning Together

Our Values

Our values are about how we do what we do. Values define the right thing to do. We hire, reward and sometimes have to let go based on our values.

We have 5 core values:-

• Go Above And Beyond
• Making Things Happen
• Say It Like It Is
• Progress Over Perfection
• Don’t Take Yourself Seriously, Take Your Work Seriously

Perks & Benefits

Small things we’ve done to ensure we take care of our wellness, learning & keep things fun:-

• Health Insurance - Health insurance cover and accident coverage for extra cushion and mental peace when rainy days hit us.

• Quarterly Off-sites - Quarterly off-sites are a core part of the BiteSpeed culture. Our off-sites range from intense quarter planning sessions to crazy mafia nights and competitive cricket matches (with a lot of trash talking).

• Cult Fitness Membership - All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. Cult Fit and Cult Play passes to make sure we hit the gym more often.

• Personal Development - We sponsor courses, conference tickets, books on a case to case basis to ensure we’re constantly growing.

• Salary In Advance - Trust first, by default. We pay out salaries in the first week of the month.

Know someone who might be a great fit? Refer them to us, if they end up joining we'll send you an Apple AirPods Pro as a gesture of thanks!

For any queries feel free to write to [email protected].