Assistant Project Manager

Required Technical Skills:

Backend

• Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript
• Extensive experience with NestJS framework
• Hands-on experience with Prisma ORM and complex database schemas
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and Swagger documentation
• Proven experience writing unit and integration tests with Jest

Frontend

• Expert-level React knowledge and modern React patterns (hooks, context, etc.)
• Deep understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals
• Experience with performance optimization techniques (code splitting, memoization, lazy loading)
• Strong grasp of responsive design and modern CSS practices

General

• Demonstrated experience conducting thorough code reviews
• Commitment to following strict development standards and best practices
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and design patterns

Position Purpose:

The Software Engineer II is responsible for independently developing and assisting in the design of a product that our customers and associates love. As a Software Engineer II, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. In addition, Software Engineer IIs may be involved in configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

Delivery and Execution - Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions; Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met; Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable; Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases; Writes custom code or scripts to do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production; Program configuration/modification and setup activities on large projects using HD approved methodology; Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively

Learning - Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems

Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Assists in creating new and better ways for the team to be successful; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

Education Required:

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Years of Relevant Work Experience:

3+ years

Preferred Qualifications:

• Should have worked in a SaaS Company
• Experience in creating developer friendly integrations with other Apps/Software
• Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Experience in version control systems
• Experience in front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks
• Experience in an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Experience in source code version control
• Experience in Relational or noSQL database technology
• Experience in cloud computing techniques
• Experience in CI/CD tools
• Experience in microservice-based architecture
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Exposure to security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
• Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests

About SuperK

We are re-imagining how Bharat’s neighbourhood retail, the unorganized Kirana stores of today will get transformed into organized convenience retail chains over the next decade - we are driving this change.

SuperK is a well-funded early-stage startup that offers a full-stack solution to empower small format retail stores in Tier 2 and below towns. SuperK is rebranding existing small format retail stores and providing them with the benefits of procurement, tech systems, intelligence, and marketing at scale to create a chain of mini supermarkets. Some parallels can be drawn to how Oyo has transformed the small hotel industry, Medplus & Apollo have changed pharma retail and BigC & others have changed offline mobile buying.

What you will be doing

• Working closely with the Engineering lead to contribute to deciding the backend as well as frontend system architecture for products used by consumers, retailers, and other stakeholders.
• Stay informed about the product strategy; evaluate the feasibility of solutions proposed by PMs, estimate development effort, and help in planning the roadmap and individual features.
• Building the blocks of the entire system across multiple products on your own from the ground up with the freedom to try new things.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other developers to meet the timelines.
• Built systems that scale through software, contributing to the architecture and design.

What we would like to see in you

• 2-4 years of relevant experience as a full-stack engineer who has owned the entire stack of a product or a major module.
• Strong programming expertise in any of the JavaScript frameworks like NodeJS, ExpressJs, or Python frameworks like Django.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in OOPs, DS algorithm design and time complexity analysis.
• Experience in writing REST APIs
• Good understanding of relational databases and networking systems.
• Proficiency with at least one Object Oriented language(e.g Java, Python)
• Exposure to Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment
• High enthusiasm and self-drive to build systems from the ground up.
• Focus on things that work compared to traditional conventions.

• Participate with the senior developer in the entire application lifecycle, designing, coding, testing, debugging to deployment.
• Implementing designs and coordinating the frontend development and required backend for it.
• Work on back-end development tasks and designing the architecture for the same.
• Efficient usage of database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis etc. as part of the dev work.
• Perform research and find opportunities to utilise web development best practices, form guidelines to improve system productivity, and work on scaling and monitoring.
• Work with cross-functional teams to maintain and make sure the product should be scalable, maintainable and secure.
• Coordinate with multiple junior team members for the development of the tasks & projects.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of experience working as a Full-stack developer or Backend but knows Frontend technology.
• Proficiency in Javascript Frameworks like React and thorough knowledge in CSS skills is an added advantage.
• Built an application from scratch earlier.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of any backend language such as Python, Java etc.
• Experience with Backend Web development.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• The ability to own end to end responsibility - right from the requirement to release.
• Willingness and enthusiasm drive to learn new technologies.
• The ability to pick the right tools for the job.
• Desire and ability to play different roles as necessary.

• Developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflow.
• Architect the application out in clean MVC kind of architectures in ReactNative for Android/iOS app development.
• Developing APIs with MVC frameworks in Java / Python.
• Designing and building REST APIs.
• Building on and maintaining services on cloud platforms.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

• Self-motivated, team player, action-and-results oriented.
• Well organised, good communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines.

Technologies

Must have                         Core JAVA, J2EE, Multithreading, OOPS, and Multiprocessing

Great to have                   RabbitMQ, Netty, XML, JSON, Messagepack

Huge Advantage:             Good at mathematics, statistics, complex data structures, algorithms, and design patterns

Other skills

• Ability to understand most complex and challenging problems and solve them from users’ view point
• Ability to create and present software designs (as per the aligned solution) to the product owner
• Ability to build and create modules from scratch.
• Ability to write, understand and deal with large code base
• Experience in understanding and implementing design patterns
• Ability to provide technical leadership to a team of equally talented, efficient and motivated engineers

Roles and responsibilities

• Responsible for solving the most complex and seemingly impossible problems related to variety of dimensions of software engineering. Dealing with Big Data to Complex Data Structures, From Inter Process Communication to sub 100 MilliSec server responses, From Distributed Systems to 99.999 Availability.
• Responsible for providing technical leadership to a team of 3-4 Engineers
• Responsible to drive delivery of a project/module and report to Product Owner
• Responsible for functional/technical tracking of a project/module

Responsibility Split

• 80% Technology, 20% Team management
• With 80:20 split this is definitely a technology oriented role suitable for geeks.