Sr. Software Development Engineer (Backend) Chennai, India (Onsite) | Fulltime

Xeniapp, Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS travel technology firm in Chennai is seeking a software developer with over 5 years of experience, expert in Go, Rust, or Java. The role involves building features, maintaining code, and designing API services. Strong analytical skills and teamwork are essential for this position. The ideal candidate will be passionate about learning new technologies and contributing to open-source projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in full cycle software development.
• Expert level skills in Go, Rust, or Java.
• Experience in designing and building API services.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Build new features and maintain existing code for frontend and backend.
• Write unit, functional, and performance test cases.
• Troubleshoot production issues and roll out fixes.
• Own and deliver end-to-end project phases.

Skills

Software development

Problem solving

Communication

Go programming

Java programming

Rust programming

API design

Tools

Git

JIRA

Jenkins

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Job description

Xeni is a leading global innovator in the travel industry, committed to providing seamless and delightful travel experiences across the globe.

We are a SaaS company providing travel planning, booking and exploration capabilities for travel agents to launch their own business with the click of a few buttons, corporate travelling enablement, social travel sales and embedded integration with super applications. Our services are powering several hundred agencies already and we are in the next phase of our company’s growth to extend and grow our current capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build new features, bug fixes and maintain existing code for both frontend and backend.
• Write unit, functional, integration and performance test cases.
• Troubleshoot production issues and roll out hot fixes to solve immediate customer pains.
• Own and deliver end to end (Ideation -> Design -> Build -> Operationalize -> Support).
• Collaborate with business analysts, UX Designers, Front End Engineers, product managers and quality engineers for clarifying the questions and ideas to solve the problems on a daily basis.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in full cycle software development.
• Should have expert level skill in any one of these languages Go or Rust or Java.
• Prior Go experience is much preferred.
• Experience in designing and building API services is required.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, can-do attitude and communication skills are must.
• Strong data structures and algorithms are a must. Proven leet code, hacker rank could be an added advantage.
• Experience in leveraging design patterns and best practices to solve problems is a plus.
• Contributions to open source projects is a plus.
• Cloud services (AWS, Google, Azure etc.) experience is a plus. Not mandatory.
• Experience in SDLC tools like git, JIRA, Jenkins, Code Coverage, Load/Performance tools, AWS Code Deploy etc are a plus.
• Experience in any monitoring and alerting tools are plus.

Additional notes:

• Passion and curiosity to learn new technologies and languages and patterns to improve security, availability, performance and new capabilities quickly.
• Previous experience working in startups is also very helpful along with a can-do attitude.