Software Engineer I - Backend

About Tekion:

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.

Key Responsibilities 

• Design and build solutions for complex business workflows
• Understanding the user persona and deliver a slick experience
• Take end to end ownership of components and be responsible for the subsystems that you work on from design, code, testing, integration, deployment, enhancements, etc.
• Write high-quality code and taking responsibility for their task
• Solve performance bottlenecks
• Mentor junior engineers
• Communicate and collaborate with management, product, QA, UI/UX teams

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

Minimum Qualification 

• Bachelor/Master's in computer science or relevant fields
• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Strong sense of ownership
• Excellent Python and object-oriented development skills
• Experience in building and scaling microservices
• 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 Spark and SQL technologies
• Experience in developing backends for enterprise systems like eCommerce / manufacturing / supply chain etc
• Excellent understanding of Debugging performance and optimisation techniques
• Experience in developing any large scale Experience in cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment
  
  

  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 

   

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

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