Hindi Songs, Bollywood Songs and Indian Music

Software Engineers - Platform (Full Time - Sunnyvale, CA)

Help scale our increasingly complicated backend & recommendation platforms. You should have a passion for building highly performant, responsive recommendation engines powered by social graphs in the form of APIs that will be used by millions of people from different platforms

Role & Responsibilities

Participate in the development of the next generation music streaming platform
Design and build fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable systems
Design and maintain the core software components that support our platform
Improve the scalability, resilience, observability, and efficiency of our core systems
Code using primarily PHP, MySQL, No-SQL and Amazon stack
Knowledgeable about the different cloud caching technologies
Analyze bottlenecks and single points of failure of the whole system and improve performance
Ensure that new features will readily scale
Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from, product management and front-end engineers
Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems
Pro-actively look for ways to make Dhingana better
Speed, Speed, Speed - must be a performance freak!
Play a key role in product development, help shape direction of dhingana feature set

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent. Masters in CS a plus
2-4 years of commercial software development experience
You have built some impressive, non-trivial web applications by hand
Excellent programming skills in PHP or Java
Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
Great written communication and documentation abilities
Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth start-up environment
You know and can admit when something is not great. You can recognize that something you've done needs improvement

Nice-to-have's

Startup experience
Experience with Agile product development methodology
Good at maintaining servers and troubleshooting
Understanding of database query processing and indexing are preferred
Experience with OAuth
Experience writing unit tests
Experience with distributed version control systems (eg: Git)
Passion for music and movies

Benefits & Perks

Most important benefit we offer is giving you an opportunity to work on amazingly creative and interesting problems that can help make millions of users happy and have a positive impact on their lives.

We also offer a list of super-cool benefits and perks: