
Backend Developer
at Alternate Saturday Working | 55+ Staff
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Excellent problem-solving & analytical skills & OO principles
- Solid understanding of the data structure & algorithms.
- Expert knowledge with any one of the Javascript Framework such as Node Js.
- Any additional experience with Java or python, GoLang would be nice to have.
- Experience working with SQL database like MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience working with NoSQL databases like mongoDB, couchbase would be nice to have
- Working experience with cache like redis, mem cached or elasticache would be nice to have
- Working experience with Message Queues would be a great advantage.
- Experience with deployment & AWS would be nice to have
- Ability to do in depth analysis or problem statement or use case & Build robust & scalable architecture
- Logging & monitoring of the production system in real time
- Lead a team of 2-4 team members & make sure team practices defined coding practices across the project.

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Requirements (what we are looking for)
The right person is better than the right set of experiences and these are the traits we’ve
identified make great additions to our team.
BE//BTech/ME/MTech in Computer Science or a related field from a Tier I or Tier II
University.
6-8 years of hands-on software development and deployment experience (experience of
working in a consumer product startup during its growth phase will be a plus) of which 1 – 2
years of experience would be in leading a team of software developers.
Expertise in Java 8+ and Spring Boot is a must
Good experience in messaging platforms like RabbitMQ/Kafka
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MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc.
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Worked on microservices based architecture and design
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- 6+ yrs of exposure in the art of writing code and solving problems on large scale.
- Should be language agnostic, with extensive and expert programming experience in any one programming language (strong OO skills preferred).
- Deep experience in at least one general programming language. Preferred (Java,Scala, C++)
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures,
algorithms, and software design.
- Worked end to end on 2-3 complex projects
- Worked in startup like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
- Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing
large complex business flows and dealing with huge amount of data.
- Extensive experience on working with distributed technologies like Kafka, MongoDb,
Redis/Aerospike, MySQL, AWS etc
- Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
- Ability to switch between the technologies and learn new skills on the go.
Roles and responsibilities
Drive discussions to create/improve the product, process and technology
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- Rapid prototyping
- Robust and scalable web-based applications
- Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modelling, break-down of a module
- Thinking platforms & reuse, the open-source contribution will be a plus
- Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
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1: proficient in python, flask, pandas, GitHub and AWS
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• Lead the Backend team and manage their day to day activities and work deliverables
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i. 4-7 years of Working Experience
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iii. Should have working knowledge of Jenkins, Git, Maven, Glassfish or Tomcat server
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3 + years expertise in Python 3.7, Django 2 (or Django 3).
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Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
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Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
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Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic in Django (RESTful APIs).
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Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
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Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
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Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
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Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
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Strong unit test and debugging skills.
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Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
The desirablesoptionals
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Django Channels, Web Sockets, Asyncio.
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Experience working with AWS or similar Cloud services.
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Experience in containerization technologies such as Docker.
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Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application (caching, Redis)
Are you passionate about using technology to make people's lives better? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.
Role and Responsibilities
- Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
- Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
- Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
- Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
- Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
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- About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
- Experience with Golang, REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Elasticsearch, Redis, Docker, or Kubernetes
- Understanding of the philosophy of cloud and an experience of maintaining cloud-native services.
- Experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, and knowledge of composing a service-oriented architecture.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced, rapidly-growing company (Good to Have).
- Working knowledge of Node.js (Good to Have).
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- Passionate about technology and making an impact.
- A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
- A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.
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Who We Are
Blok is a technology-first, online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business, and we are on our way to revolutionize how millions of people across countries consume groceries. We believe in a world where getting everything you need, when you need it, sustainably, is the new normal. And it takes less than 10 minutes.
We believe we are positioned to lead this revolution. Why? Our founding and early team has held senior positions at Deliveroo, Uber, Glovo, Mercadona, or Unilever. We have done this before, and we believe we can do it again. But this time, even better.
Embark on the journey and help us launch the revolution in one of the highest growth industries of the year. Help us shape the new normal.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- 3-5 years of work experience in the development background, with at least 2 years experience in Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, Hibernate or JPA, MySQL, Oracle, Spring MVC.
- B.E. degree in Computer Science, Graduate in Software Engineering or equivalent
- Experience in Core JAVA, Spring, Spring Boot Frameworks.
- Experience with ORM's like Hibernate.
- Good knowledge of developing RESTful web services using Spring Boot, Java1.x,Servlet2.4, JSP2.0, JDBC3.0, Java Mail, Struts2.x, HTML, HTML5, Angular7+, JavaScript, JSF, Bootstrap2.x-3.x, JQuery & CSS 3.x, Maven 3.x, Apache Tomcat7
- Knowledge of Cloud AWS.
- Experience in any Messaging Queue e.g. Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.
- Experience on Web services with REST and SOAP.
- Experience working on tool set like Eclipse IDE, SQL clients.
- Experience using application server like Jboss, TomCat, Wildfly, glassfish.
- Experience in using tools like SOAP UI, POSTMAN
- Ability to write SQL queries to fetch data.
- Knowledge of Micro services, Redis Cache and Mongo DB (or any other NoSQL) is good to have










