The Institute of Big Data is a research institute founded by Vingroup. Our mission is to conduct data-driven research that helps to develop high-impact applications. We are currently looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join Biomedical Informatics Center.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Keep improving the development environment and process.
• Continuously enhance reliability, performance, and scalability of our system.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers.
• Participate in Agile software development, prototyping, and code review with development teams to build scalable microservices-based products.
• Work with delivery teams to achieve success through development using CI/CD and DevOps practices, processes and tooling.
• Provide robust coding practices and solid unit and component test coverage, and code debugging.

Qualifications

• A team player.
• 6+ years’ experience as a Backend Engineer or similar software engineering roles.
• 4+ years’ experience in building large-scale real-world projects.
• Programming language: Python and/or Go.
• An understanding of core backend methodology like REST, GraphQL, and common pitfalls when using one of the framework: Flask, FastAPI (Python) or Gin, Fiber (Golang).
• Strong experience in design complex systems (System design, OOP design).
• Experience working in a 24/7/365 service environment.
• 2+ years’ experience with AWS infrastructure ans services (we use ECS, RDS, Step Functions, EKS, API Gateway, AWS Batch, SQS, SNS, SES, Lambdas & Cognito, to name a few).
• Experience with caching layers (e.g. Redis / ElastiCache).
• Tools: Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools.
• Databases: Mongodb, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch.
• Good knowledge of message queue system such as Kafka, Rabbitmq, Redis.
• Familiarity with Agile workflow methodologies (SCRUM).
• Love to automate things.
• Excellent technical, organizational, analytical and documentation skills.
• Proven problem-solving skills and able to think about possible issues.
• Ability to be flexible and assist in other areas where needed.
• General knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and frontend frameworks (Vuejs, ReactJS) is a plus.

Benefits

• Insurance and premium health care for employers and/or their families.
• Preferences when using the services of the Vingroup’s member companies.
• Training course and certificates support.
• Nice and professional working environment with nice and excellent colleagues.
• Values-driven, international working environment and agile culture.