Backend Developer

We are looking for engineers who love to build SaaS products to join our team.

This position is for a product we have been building for 4 years now, for a long term customer of ours. The Codebase is well maintained, with a rails backend and a react frontend. 

If you are someone who has invested time into writing reusable rails or nodejs modules, who has written ruby gems or npm packages, you feel at home working with us.

Required Knowledge:

1. How Web backends or Rails works
2. Mastery over ORMs or Active Record Migrations, Validations
3. Good knowledge of writing encapsulated business logic

Great to Have

• Open source npm packages or ruby gems
• Performance tuning for Apps
• Ruby Metaprogramming knowledge
• Functional JS

Interview Format

Two coding rounds of 45 mins each.

If you crack both the rounds, you get the job, and incase you decline the offer any reason we will give you a gift voucher for spenidng your valuable time with us.

In case you dont crack the question, we will tell you what to learn so that next time you will have a good chance :)

Backend Architect:

Technology: node js, DynamoDB / Mongo DB

Roles:

• Design & implement Backend Services.
• Able to redesign the architecture.
• Designing & implementation of application in MVC & Microservice.
• 9+ years of experience developing service-based applications using Node.js.
• Expert-level skills in developing web applications using JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
• Experience working on teams that practice BDD (Business Driven Development).
• Understanding of micro-service architecture and RESTful API integration patterns.
• Experience using Node.js for automation and leveraging NPM for package management
• Solid Object Oriented design experience, and creating and leveraging design patterns.
• Experience working in a DevOps/Continuous Delivery environment and associated toolsets (i.e. Jenkins, Puppet etc.)
  
  
  

Desired/Preferred Qualifications :

1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
2. Strong problem solving and conceptual thinking abilities
3. Desire to work in a collaborative, fast-paced, start-up like environment
4. Experience leveraging node.js frameworks such as Express.
5. Experience with distributed source control management, i.e. Git

Introduction:

Tyroo’s Vidtech.ai is one of the largest independent marketing automation cloud built for the video first world. We build softwares and platforms that allow our partners to derive maximum yields on their marketing spends on various video first social platforms. We work on problems that involve building high availability, low latency solutions which require computing optimal decisions using various self-created modules as well as pre-available modules popular in the ML and Big Data world.

We are looking for a back-end developer who has at least 1 years professional experience in building systems on either Python or Node.js and is able to become an anchor/pillar for the team. The role will require you to architect and develop systems/features needed for our marketing automation products. Strong leadership and mentoring skills are also necessary so that the individual can train, educate and manage junior resources.

Key Requirements:

• Must be able to tackle complex business problems by breaking it down into set of simpler problems and architect solutions for the same
• Must exhibit thought leadership and should be committed towards mentoring and team building
• Must have excellent communication skills as the individual needs to collaborate with Business and Product team
• Must be proactive towards changing software development landscape and keep upskilling
• Must be able to contribute in setting up best practices and effective design patterns in complete development lifecycle.

Technical Requirements:

• Must have 1+ years’ experience in developing scalable systems on Python/Node.js with strong grasp on microservices and serverless architectural patterns
• Must have prior experience with databases like MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis
• Must be exposed to cloud platforms like AWS or GCP and containerization using Dockers
• Must have worked with RESTful APIs and WebSockets
• Must have deep understanding of HTTP, web browsers and token-based authentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT)
• Must be experienced on Version Control Tools (Git) and Package Managers (npm, yarn, pip)
• Must adhere to coding standards and have the habit of doing unit testing along with regular and rigorous code reviews
• Should know about microservices orchestration using Kubernetes, web servers like Nginx/Apache and queuing systems like Kafka/Kinesis

• Good experience in Javabackend/J2EE, Eclipse, Javascript, XML, Data Structures, Database 
• Should have good experience working in Springboot.
• Good experience in JSON / RESTful API / Web Services.
• Experience with Design Patterns.
• Experience in AWS and Queuing systems is an advantage
• Basic estimation experience
• Self starter and quick learner
• Should be able to work in a growing environment that is very dynamic and challenging
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Highly self motivated and directed
• Ability to work without a lot of supervision
• Experience in working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.

Job Description :

- We are a Fintech Company based in Pune, a B2B Trade Digitization platform for SMEs and Corporates to collaborate and work with Financial Institutions to raise short term fundings for payables and receivables financing.

- We are thus well placed to help Corporates and their Supply Chains to meet their GST needs.

Technologies :

- The platform is built using a polygot technology stack 

- Platform Backend : JVM 

- Web Layer : ReactJS and related ecosystem, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Bootstrap 

- API & Business Layer : Kotlin and functional programming 

- Client Apps and Customer Integrations: Kotlin, Jersey ReST Framework, home grown optimized HTTP and SQL libraries 

- Mobile Apps: Android, iOS 

- Database : MySQL - JVM - Hibernate & Exposed as ORM library - Python - SQLAlchemy as ORM library 

- Build Tools : Gradle, Shell Scripting, AWS Code Build, Jenkins

- Ops Automation : Ansible, Terraform 

- Servers : Ubuntu Linux 

- Version Control : GIT 

- Test Automation : Python - unittest, pyhamcrest, freshen, nose. JVM - Junit, Kotlin Test 

- Cloud Providers : Amazon AWS, Linode

Requirements :

- We are a self organized engineering team with a passion for programming and solving business problems for our customers.

- We are looking to add 2 members in our team having hands on technical experience of 2-6 years.

- We encourage our team to continuously learn new technologies and apply the learnings in the day to day work even if the new technologies are not adpopted.

- We strive to continuously improve our DevOps practices and expertise to form a solid backbone for the product, customer relationships and sales teams which enables them to add new customers every week to our financing network.

As an engineering team member, you will :

- Work collaboratively with product, customer support and DevOps team to build, enhance, maintain, deploy and operate our systems. 

- Continuously automate operational processes to improve efficiencies and productivity and enhance customer experience 

- Work closely with the architect to continuously refactor the system architecture and design to meet the changing landscape triggered by technology changes and business growth 

- Work with the DevOps team to build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. 

- Ensure that development processes and deliverables always adhere to the mandates laid down for various certifications (PCI and ISO 27001 in particular)

Skills required :

- Pre-requisites : Competent in Java, database, HTML, Javascript, CSS 

- Should be passionate about technology and ready to deep dive into programming 

- Should have sound expertise of writing testable code and appreciate defect free coding 

- Should be willing to handle Ops automation and production support 

- Should be able to reason/argue/discuss/suggest solutions and alternatives

- Should be able to decipher the core problem to be solved during discussions with product team and/or customers 

- Should have good communication skills and experience working in teams

- Knowledge of Python will be an added advantage

- Experience of working in financial domain will help but not a necessity

What/Why/How is Floworks?

Floworks (https://floworks.ai">https://floworks.ai) builds powerful business process tools that simplify business operations for the largest of e-commerce and logistics companies in India.

Floworks was founded by distinguished alums from IIT and BIT, with exemplary backgrounds in business and technology.

Floworks has raised two rounds of funding within just 6 months of existence.We are funded by London based Startup Incubator, Entrepreneur First whose investors include the likes of PayPal Cofounder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur_First">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur_First

Floworks in the press:

1. https://theprint.in/ani-press-releases/entrepreneur-first-announces-investment-in-six-indian-tech-start-ups/896694/

What will be your key responsibilities?

Although it’s an engineering role, you will have significant involvement in product, hiring and business as well. You may expect following key responsibilities:

Engineering: You’ll need to write code – a lot of code. At the end of the day, your most important responsibility is to get your company’s product to market and maximize the number of product experiments that can be run. You’ll make key architectural decisions that will be pillars of the engineering organization for years to come. At the same time, you’ll have to make serious trade-offs to balance speed of execution with quality.

Product: As a founding engineer, you’ll also have a significant amount of ownership over the product direction. You should expect to spend time talking to customers, teasing out use cases, and making prioritization decisions regarding both the short- and long-term roadmap. In many cases, you will be building features in the absence of any formal product requirement document.

Support: You should also expect to spend a fair amount of time in the trenches supporting customers. You’ll probably find yourself engaging with customers in shared Slack channels, WhatsApp groups etc.

Hiring: As a founding engineer, you will spend a ton of time sourcing, interviewing, and closing early team members. 

Business: Finally, you’ll gain exposure to all other aspects of the business – from fundraising, to sales, and beyond. Although you probably won’t be closing deals or making pitch decks, you will certainly be expected to sell your product and pitch the company’s vision.

How do you know you are right fit for the role?

• You have at least 2-4 years of experience. You are proficient with most of the following languages/frameworks:
• NodeJS
• AWS
• Databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
• You crave ownership. If you often find yourself raising your hand to own things end-to-end, you will likely really enjoy the ownership afforded to you as a founding engineer.
• You’re okay with ambiguity. You won’t get product requirement documents or designs for everything you’re expected to build. A stellar founding engineer will know when to ask for clarity and when to make educated assumptions. If you tend to gravitate towards more loosely scoped projects, that’s a good indicator that you’ll do well in this type of role.
• You’re multidisciplinary. A typical day might include anything from several hours of coding, to a few customer conversations, to a technical brainstorm or architecture discussion, to an interview or two. 

• You operate at light speed. A great founding engineer should welcome this challenge and thrive under the pressure of intense deadlines. 

What will be the hiring process?

• 2 round of technical interviews
• 2 round of behavioural interview

What will be your compensation?

• Fixed: INR 20L-30L
• Bonus: 10-30% of Fixed depending upon performance.

• Equity: 0.1%-0.2%

• Designing, coding, and debugging software using J2EE, Spring boot,Microservices ,AWS .
• Work closely with Solution architects to understand the architecture
  design and implement software designs accordingly.
• Improving the performance of existing software.
• Providing training to other engineers and code review.
• Maintaining and upgrading existing software.
• Recommending new technologies that can help increase productivity.
• Supervising and overseeing the technical aspects of projects.
• Investigating software-related complaints and making necessary adjustments to ensure optimal software performance.
• Regularly attending team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, and put forward solutions to any issues.
• Mentioning Software engineers on correct coding practices.

You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.

Your core responsibilities:

• Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
• Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
• Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
• Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
• Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
• Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
• Good in Database schema design.
• Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
• Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
• Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
• Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.

Whom you will be sharing your work day with? 

• We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

Ideal candidate must have :

- 2+ years of experience in writing code

- Ability to meet tight deadlines

- Can work independently and be a team contributor

- Must have good knowledge of Node, Python and Scripting languages

- Experience in one or more of RDBMS - PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle

- Experience with NoSQL and real-time DB - Firebase/Firestore or MongoDB

- Must be able to write concise and high-quality API

- Must be a quick learner, curious and ambitious