Backend Developer

Your Impact:

•                 Implements Digital Consumer experiences based on a foundation of SFCC (Salesforce commerce cloud) to meet expected quality standards

•                 Ensures functional requirements and high-level solution designs are understood and are translated into detailed technical design

•                 Implement proofs of concept to prove any new technologies, application flows or integration scenarios and identify customizations needed to SFCC platform for meeting client requirements

•                 Guides the performance tuning and scalability of the ecommerce solution

•                 Diagnose and solve technical problems during implementation and support phases

Your Skills & Experience:

•                 4-8 Years with 2+ years of implementing commerce application on any eCommerce platform in last 3 years

•                 If you have not worked in eCommerce platform, we can still discuss with you if you are expert in Java/.Net and understand REST/SOAP webservices.

•                 Demonstrate proficiency in build and release management using CI/CD strategies (leveraging tools like Jenkins and DevOps practices), implement Mocha/Chai unit and functional test cases in order to reduce costs while ensuring quality

•                 Contributes to designing, implementing and documenting the build release process as well as system configuration and deployment characteristics of the applications

•                 Participates in technical walkthroughs/ code reviews of other team members’ components, test plans and results and help them with gaps

•                 Collaborate with architect to define implementation processes and quality gates and standards

•                 Identifies risks and issues, and help monitor them

•                 Guides the development of reference and resource materials

•                 Mentors developers in improving their platform knowledge and development skills

•                 Communicate technical design to the developers and help/guide them in the implementation

•                 Participates in Agile sprints

Set Yourself Apart With:

•                 eCommerce platform certification

•                 Security considerations – OWASP, CSRF, reCAPTCHA etc. – Basic knowledge or experience

•                 Git Development workflow – Proficient

•                 Visual Studio Code IDE or Eclipse IDE - Proficient

•                 Knowledge on Agile methodology and desired tools like Jira, confluence etc.

•                 Scripting/development experience with Node.js, Mocha/Chai

•                 Experience working in any Salesforce cloud environment like SFMC, SFSC etc.

•                 Excellent written, verbal communication and articulation skills & Good team player

•                 Self-starter and self-learner with keen interest to grow

•                 Process orientation and the ability to define and setup processes

•                 Ability to provide necessary coaching to bring team members up to speed on the technology

•                 Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks

•                 Excellent and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions

•                 Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with excellent personal ownership of problem resolution

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and understand business processes and requirements to develop effective technical solutions.

• Assist in the planning, designing, development, of new applications and enhancements to existing applications.

• Collaborate with IT team members, decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business requirements and systems goals, and identify and resolve business systems issues.

• Prepare functional specification documents in accordance to new business requirements.

• Ensure compatibility and interoperability of business software applications.

• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems.

• Assist in the deployment of new applications and enhancements to existing applications.

• Identify, assess, and recommend software solutions and implementation partners to management.

• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.

• Participate and sometimes drive IT projects to ensure that system requirements and data engineering needs are addressed throughout the project life cycle.

• Create systems models including integration points, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to internal stakeholders and third parties.

• Coordinate and perform in-depth tests, including end-user reviews, for modified and new systems.

• Provide orientation and training to end users for all modified and new systems.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in related fields with 3 to 4 years in systems and/or functional analysis.

• Proven experience in analysing, designing, and implementing information systems.

• Strong understanding of business processes and technical systems.

• Hands-on skills in SQL and databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server).

Other Prerequisites

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure. • Good project management skills.

• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required.

• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.

• Highly self motivated and directed.

• Keen attention to detail.

• Proven analytical and creative problem-solving abilities.

• Strong customer service orientation.

• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

Role Responsibilities:

• Development and Maintenance of REST APIs: Lead the creation and management of our RESTful APIs, ensuring top-notch performance and alignment with evolving requirements.
• Proficiency in Coding: We're in search of expertise in Python or equivalent programming languages. Your coding skills will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality (efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable) solutions.
• Unit and Integration Testing: Apply your expertise to craft unit and integration tests, upholding code quality and reliability.
• Version Control Systems: Proficiency in Distributed Version Control Systems is vital for seamless collaboration during development.
• Elasticsearch Expertise: Having valuable experience with Elasticsearch is a plus, given its critical role in data retrieval and search functionalities.
• NOSQL Database Familiarity: Knowledge of NOSQL databases like Cassandra and MongoDB will be advantageous.
• Message Broker Knowledge: Understanding message brokers, especially RabbitMQ, is beneficial for effective communication within our systems.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience: 1-2 years of hands-on experience as a Python developer.
• AWS: Proficiency in AWS cloud management and architecting enterprise data solutions.
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving: Recognize when a solution should be streamlined and when creating the right abstraction will lead to long-term efficiency gains.
• Passion for Quality: Demonstrate dedication to producing work of the highest quality and following best practices.
• Agile/Lean Process: Familiarity with Agile/Lean methodologies is a plus, reflecting your adaptability and collaborative spirit.
• Startup Mindset: Embrace the challenges and opportunities of a startup environment, contributing your skills and insights to our growth.
• Debugging and Optimization: Showcase excellent debugging and optimization capabilities to enhance system performance.
• Tech Awareness: Stay updated on emerging technologies and possess a solid understanding of the full product development life cycle.
• UX and Information Architecture: Exhibit excellent knowledge of mobile user experience, information architecture, and industry trends.

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

• Spent at least 1 yr in a solid back end role
• Experience taking a problem to a product solution (module/product)
• Prior experience working with startups and understanding the fast-paced, dynamic nature of work

• Javascript, NodeJS
• Client-server architecture
• OOP concepts, including design patterns
• Understanding of RDBMS (MySQL, Postgresql)
• Understanding of REST API
• Familiarity with frameworks such as ExpressJs

• Knowledge of TDD frameworks mocha, chai, jest, etc
• Knowledge of AWS (Lambda, RDS, EC2, SQS, S3, ECS, etc)
• Basic knowledge of Typescript, NextJs
• Prior experience in fin-tech

Company: Runo – https://runo.in

Location: Hyderabad, India

Who We Are:

Runo is a product based funded company incubated at T-Hub (IIITH Campus) and currently operating from Cyber Towers, HiTec City. We offer Call Management CRM for sales teams across the world. We are currently scaling up the engineering team to support the continued growth of the user acquisition in the global market, after a steady success in the Indian market.

The Role:

Runo is looking for a Lead Backend Developer to join our team. The lead backend developer is responsible for scaling up the existing architecture to handle billions of requests every month (We are currently at a scale of 100 million requests per month). You will be contributing in architecting the database/reporting layer to support complex queries and data exports of millions of records. You will be a lead developer responsible for development of new software products and enhancements to existing products.

Our Ideal candidate:

• Proficiency in NodeJS.
• Expert knowledge of NoSQL Databases (MongoDB is preferred)
• Hands on experience of working on products handling more than a million requests per month
• 4-8 years of relevant professional work experience 
• Self-motivated, able to work independently. Commitment to high quality.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the product architecture in handling millions of requests per day.
• Optimizing the architecture for regional data zones.
• Develop high performance, reusable & bug free APIs
• Optimize the existing APIs for performance (by data denormalization/ decoupling the long running APIs using queues)
• Get familiar with the AWS Services like API Gateway, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, SES

What We Offer: 

• Competitive Salary
• ESOPs
• Medical Insurance

• Java
• Springboot
• REST API
• Microservices