Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.

Lead Software Engineer – Backend 

Key Responsibilities 

• Understanding the user persona and deliver slick experience 

• Take end to end ownership of components and be responsible for the sub systems that you work on from design, code, testing, integration, deployment, enhancements etc. 

• Write high quality code and take responsibility of their tasks 

• Deliver with quality, on time in a fast-paced start-up environment 

• Design and build solutions for complex business workflows 

• Solve performance bottlenecks 

• Mentor junior engineers 

• Communicate and collaborate with management, product, QA, UI/UX teams. 

Skills and Experience  

• Bachelor/Master's in computer science or relevant fields  

• 8 + years of relevant experience.  

• Strong sense of ownership.  

• Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills.  

• Experience in building and scaling microserives  

• Strong problem solving skills, technical troubleshooting and diagnosing  

• Expected to be a role model for young engineers, have a strong sense of code quality and enforce code quality within the team.  

• Strong knowledge in RDBMS and NoSql technologies  

• Experience in developing backeds for enterprise systems like eCommerce / manufacturing / supply chain etc.  

• Excellent understanding of Debugging performance and optimisation techniques.  

• Experience in Java, Mongo, MySQl, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, Kafka  

• Experience in developing any large scale Experience in cloud technologies  

• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast paced environment  

• Good Communication Skills  

Perks and Benefits  

 Competitive compensation  

• Generous stock options  

• Medical Insurance coverage  

• Work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful companies  

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