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🕒 March 3

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Weekday (YC W21)

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

☁️ SaaS

🎯 Recruiter

Human Resources • SaaS • Recruitment

Weekday is a modern recruitment platform that combines AI technologies with a vast database of potential candidates, aiming to streamline the hiring process for companies in India. They offer various services, including a proactive outreach approach that helps employers connect with top talent, as well as tools for candidates to easily apply for jobs. Weekday's emphasis on candidate engagement through multiple channels, including email, WhatsApp, and phone calls, sets it apart in the competitive landscape of recruitment agencies.

📋 Description

• Architect and deliver complex stream-processing solutions. • Mentor engineering teams and foster a culture of technical excellence. • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders for robust technical systems. • Optimize streaming jobs for performance, fault tolerance, and resource efficiency. • Conduct design reviews and troubleshoot production issues. • Develop and maintain high-performance backend services and distributed systems using Java. • Design scalable event-driven architectures for high-throughput workloads.

🎯 Requirements

• 10–12 years of overall experience in software engineering, with significant exposure to distributed systems. • Strong hands-on expertise in Apache Flink, including stream processing concepts such as windowing, state management, checkpoints, and event-time processing. • Advanced proficiency in Java, including concurrency, multithreading, memory management, and performance tuning. • Deep understanding of data streaming architectures and real-time processing frameworks. • Experience working with messaging systems (e.g., Kafka or similar platforms). • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles. • Experience deploying and managing applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP). • Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. • Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and monitoring tools. • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases in high-scale environments. • Proven experience leading engineering teams or owning major technical initiatives. • Strong architectural decision-making abilities with a focus on scalability and maintainability. • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Strong ownership mindset and commitment to delivering high-quality solutions. • Experience with big data ecosystems and real-time analytics platforms. • Exposure to performance benchmarking and capacity planning. • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.