Backend Developer

Role overview

1) Overall 5 to 7 years of experience. Node.js experience is must.

2) At least 3+ years of experience or couple of large-scale products delivered on microservices.

3) Strong design skills on microservices and AWS platform infrastructure.

4) Excellent programming skill in Python, Node.js and Java.

5) Hands on development in rest API’s.

6) Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability.

Oister Global (www.oisterglobal.com) is India’s premier Alternative Assets Manager. We combine robust diligence, deep domain expertise, and an extensive network to create high quality private market opportunities for our investors.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who will be pivotal in architecting and developing scalable, reliable backend systems from scratch. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build new products, design backend architectures, and ensure high performance and responsiveness of the systems. This role requires strong backend fundamentals, cloud experience, a deep understanding of databases, and a passion for system design and architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

● Product Development: Architect, design, develop, test, and deploy new backend products and features from scratch.

● System Design: Take ownership of system design and architecture decisions for new modules, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. ● API Development: Build efficient and reusable APIs and backend services using Node.js.

● Database Management: Design data models, optimize queries, and manage MongoDB clusters efficiently.

● Cloud Management: Deploy, maintain, and optimize services on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.

● Best Practices: Maintain coding standards, ensure code reviews, and champion best practices in security, testing, and maintainability.

● Collaboration: Work closely with frontend developers, product managers, QA, and other cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

● Performance Optimization: Monitor system performance and ensure system uptime and responsiveness.

● Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers as required.

● Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of systems, processes, and best practices. Must-Have

Qualifications:

● Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

● Experience: 4–5+ years of hands-on backend development experience.

● Expertise in: Node.js (Express.js, Nest.js or similar frameworks) MongoDB (including indexing, replication, sharding concepts) AWS Services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM, etc.) Proficient in: System design principles Microservices architecture Event-driven architecture Strong understanding of: RESTful APIs.Authentication and authorization best practices (OAuth, JWT) Experience with: CI/CD pipelines Docker and containerization principles Hands-on experience in: Building scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems Good knowledge of : Logging, monitoring, and debugging distributed applications

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
2. 3-5 years of professional experience in web development with a strong focus on JavaScript stack technologies.
3. Proven experience in integrating blockchain technology into web applications, with a deep understanding of blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and decentralized applications (dApps).
4. Proficiency in multisignature, multiparty computation and 3rd party Node provider integration
5. Experience with public blockchain platforms such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.
6. Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
7. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
8. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
9. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and adapt to changing priorities.
10. Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines is a plus.
11. Experience in setting up Bitcoin core, and Geth node is a plus

• Clarify feature requirements with product team
• Design end to end feature flow
• Write scalable and bug free code
• Take care of test and deployment pipeline
• Maintaining the existing products

• Must have experience with any scripting language (Javascript/NodeJS preferred)
• Experience with API-driven and highly scalable application is a plus
• Good knowledge of non relational DB (MongoDB preferred)
• Good with data structure and algorithms
• Good to have an experience with testing framework and CI/CD pipeline

Mandatory Skills - 4 years in Nodejs, JavaScript, Express.js, MongoDB, Data Structures, Algorithms

"Expertise in Node.js Web frameworks like Meteor, Express, and Kraken.JS

Expertise in building highly scalable web services using Node.js, Create REST API with the help of Node middleware

Deep understanding of REST and API design

Experience designing APIs for consistency, simplicity, and extensibility.

Expertise with JavaScript testing frameworks like Jasmine, Quit, Mocha, Sinnon and Chai.

Expertise with building tools like Web pack, gulp, and grunt.

Integration of various application components

Experience in various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as requirements

analysis, design, and implementation in an agile environment, etc.

• 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 3 yrs in a solid back end role
• Experience taking a problem to a product solution (module/product)
• Prior experience working with startups and understand 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

Synapsica is a growth stage HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective, while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don’t have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as diagnosis.

Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyze medical images and create 2.0 of advanced radiologist reporting.

We are backed by YCombinator and other marquee investors from India, US and Japan. We are proud to have GE, AIIMS, the Spinal Kinetics as our partners.

Join us, if you find this as exciting as we do!

Description:

Synapsica is looking for a Node.js/Python developer who is passionate about designing and implementing scalable solutions with highest quality. You will be responsible for creating high performance, responsive, and secure server-side programs to manage Synapsica platform. You will be responsible for designing, managing and supporting cloud platform and scaling our database. This role is ideal for you if you have a background in bakcned development and are looking for the next level of career growth in a fast paced, learning based and merit driven work environment.

Responsibilities:
- Design and development of our new platform modules from scratch. 
- Hands on implementation of our APIs and integrations. 
- Design, scaling and integration of new/existing databases.
- Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
- Design and construction of our REST APIs with best secutiry mechanisms.
- Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines in tandem with the respective team members.
- Performance tuning and improvements in large scale systems.
- Ensuring responsiveness and cross-platform compatibility of applications.
- Owning and delivering end-to-end products, features, enhancements.

Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- At least 4+ years of experience with writing Python/NodeJS/PHP/Ruby on Rails. 
- Prior experience of database design and management in MongoDB, including being up on the latest practices and associated versions.
- Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amount of data.
- Familiarity with AWS (or equivalent) ecosystem with end-to-end cloud deployment.
- Experience implementing code level unit tests.
- Proficiency with Git / Version control.
- Appreciation for clean and well documented code
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Very high sense of ownership.
- Deep interest and passion for technology

Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; 

designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.

At least 1-2 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and Node.js(Node.js preferred).

Understanding of micro-services oriented architecture.

Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics

Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.

Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)

Position: Software Development Engineer, NodeJs

Experience: 3-7 Years

Responsibilities:

 Work with product team / business / architects to understand the requirement

and develop and maintain back end application logic

 Work with front end developers to ensure seamless integration with the back

end logic

 Design and optimize application for high performance and high availability

Develop Secure, testable and scalable application

Experience Required:

 Engineering Graduate with 3 to 7 years of experience in software development.

 Strong proficiency with JavaScript and ES6 or ECMA 2015 on Node.js platform.

 Knowledge of frameworks such as Express, KOA is desirable.

 Knowledge and understanding of async non-blocking architecture

 Knowledge of creating REST-ful APIs.

 Knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms, Node Global variables and In built libraries.

 Experience in building high-volume transactional customer facing systems desirable
Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

 Knowledge of packages BABEL, Webpack

 Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3

 Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code