Backend Developer

Real people. Real service.

At SupplyHouse.com, we value every individual team member and cultivate a community where people come first. Led by our core values of Generosity, Respect, Innovation, Teamwork, and GRIT, we’re dedicated to maintaining a supportive work environment that celebrates diversity and empowers everyone to reach their full potential. As an industry-leading e-commerce company specializing in HVAC, plumbing, heating, and electrical supplies since 2004, we strive to foster growth while providing the best possible experience for our customers.

Through an Employer of Record (EOR), we are looking for a new, remote Backend Engineer in India to join our growing IT Team. This individual will report into our Full Stack Team Lead and have the opportunity to work on impactful projects that enhance our e-commerce platform and internal operations, while honing your skills in backend and full stack development. If you’re passionate about creating user-friendly interfaces, building scalable systems, and contributing to innovative solutions in a collaborative and fun environment, we’d love to hear from you! 

Role Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote from India

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 4:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time / 12:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Indian Standard Time to ensure effective collaboration 

Base Salary: $25,000 - $30,000 USD per year

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements, ensuring alignment with business needs.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable, high-performance software applications.
• Develop and enhance internal tools and applications to improve company operations.
• Ensure system reliability, optimize application performance, and implement best practices for scalability.
• Continuously improve existing codebases, conducting code reviews, and implementing modern practices.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in software development.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in backend and/or full-stack development with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software.

Back-End Skills:

• Proficiency in Java and experience with back-end frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Strong understanding of database design, RDBMS concepts, and experience with SQL.
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and integration.

Development Lifecycle: Proven ability to contribute across the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

Tools & Practices:

• Familiarity with version control systems, like Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with agile development methodologies.

Additional Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and debugging capabilities.
• Ability to create reusable code libraries and write clean, maintainable code.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within a team and across departments.
• High-level proficiency of written and verbal communication in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), and responsive design principles.
• Expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Experience with cross-browser compatibility and performance optimization techniques. 
• Experience working on Frontend responsibilities such as: 
• Designing and implementing reusable, maintainable UI components and templates.
• Working closely with Designers to ensure technical feasibility and adherence to UI/UX design standards.
• Managing and updating promotional banners and site-wide templates to ensure timely execution of marketing initiatives.

Why work with us: 

• We have awesome benefits – We offer a wide variety of benefits to help support you and your loved ones. These include: Comprehensive and affordable medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options; Competitive Provident Fund contributions; Paid casual and sick leave, plus country-specific holidays; Mental health support and wellbeing program; Company-provided equipment and one-time $250 USD work from home stipend; $750 USD annual professional development budget; Company rewards and recognition program; And more!
• We promote work-life balance – We value your time and encourage a healthy separation between your professional and personal life to feel refreshed and recharged. Look out for our 100% remote schedule and wellness initiatives! 
• We support growth– We strive to innovate every day. In an exciting and evolving industry, we provide potential for career growth through our hands-on training, access to the latest technologies and tools, diversity and inclusion initiatives, opportunities for internal mobility, and professional development budget. 
• We give back –We live and breathe our core value, Generosity, by giving back to the trades and organizations around the world. We make a difference through donation drives, employee-nominated contributions, support for DE&I organizations, and more.  
• We listen – We value hearing from our employees. Everyone has a voice, and we encourage you to use it! We actively elicit feedback through our monthly town halls, regular 1:1 check-ins, and company-wide ideas form to incorporate suggestions and ensure our team enjoys coming to work every day. 

Check us out and learn more at https://www.supplyhouse.com/our-company! 

Additional Details: 

• Remote employees are expected to work in a distraction-free environment. Personal devices, background noise, and other distractions should be kept to a minimum to avoid disrupting virtual meetings or business operations.   
• SupplyHouse.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer, strongly values inclusion, and encourages individuals of all backgrounds and experiences to apply for this position. 
• To ensure fairness, all application materials, assessments, and interview responses must reflect your own original work. The use of AI tools, plagiarism, or any uncredited assistance is not permitted at any stage of the hiring process and may result in disqualification. We appreciate your honesty and look forward to seeing your skills. 
• We are committed to providing a safe and secure work environment and conduct thorough background checks on all potential employees in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
• All emails from the SupplyHouse team will only be sent from an @supplyhouse.com email address. Please exercise caution if you receive an email from an alternate domain.

What is an Employer of Record (EOR)?

Through our partnership with Remote.com, a global Employer of Record (EOR), you can join SupplyHouse from home, while knowing your employment is handled compliantly and securely. Remote takes care of the behind-the-scenes details – like payroll, benefits, taxes, and local compliance – so you can focus on your work and career growth. Even though Remote manages these administrative functions, you’ll be a part of the SupplyHouse team: connected to our culture, collaborating with colleagues, and contributing to our shared success. This partnership allows us to welcome talented team members worldwide while ensuring you receive a best-in-class employee experience.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
2. Write well designed, testable, efficient code
3. Ensure designs comply with specifications
4. Prepare and produce releases of software components
5. Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
6. Ensure continual knowledge management
7. Adherence to the organizational guidelines and processes

Skills /Competencies: a. Bachelor/Master’s degree with good experience in computer programming b.4+ years working experience in application development using Java

Essential Skills:

1. Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
2. Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
3. Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Data structure, Algorithm and time complexity, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
4. Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
5. Experience in the Spring Framework
6. Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC) and UI technology (Angular/React JS)
7. Ability to operate independently while establishing strong working relationships with co-workers and cross-functional teams
8. Strong organizational and prioritization skills
9. Demonstrate critical attention to detail and deadlines, and are self-motivated
10. Ability to adapt to changes in direction and priorities in a project and deadline-oriented environment
11. Strong written and verbal English communication skills
12. Problem-solving attitude

Preferred skills Good to have –

1. Knowledge in any UI technology (Angular, React, JS)
2. Intermediate level knowledge of Unix environment (User commands, not System Admin commands)
3. Understanding of capital markets and middle/back office processes in the financial services space

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

The Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Technology Lead (Python or Node), who adopts a hands-on approach and loves to build scalable, distributed and large web / mobile products. You would be responsible for designing the architecture, reviewing the code, building the technology and deploying web/mobile applications.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product development from scratch.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Architect scalable software solutions and mentor a team of high performing developers.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, SCRUM ceremonies, and troubleshoot to ensure uptime for live systems etc.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field from a premier college.  
• Prior 4+ years of experience in back-end development (Python/ Golang) in a start-up or a dynamic work environment.
• Good exposure in writing and optimizing SQL for high-performance systems.
• Understanding of asyncio and eventloop/ uvloop concepts. Knowledge of frameworks such as Quart/ Fastapi/ Starlette is preferred.
• Knowledge of AWS; Caching technologies like Redis, Memcache; ELK; mySQL Databases, etc.
• Strong understanding of System Design, Microservice Architecture, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Message queues, and in-memory data stores etc.
• Customer oriented, responsive to changes, and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

• 10 + years of experience and expertise in database and systems architecture design, development and implementation;
• Expertise and experience in data structures, indexing, query, and retrieval;
• Excellent data management skills including ensuring data integrity, data access, security and archiving procedures;
• Knowledge of the language technology and video extraction research domains to be able to converse fluently with the research communities to transform research requirements into concrete formalisms.
• Experience in cross platform development for multiple variants of Unix, Linux including 32 and 64 bit
• Experience with NoSQL, SQL databases, statistics and algorithms
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Design, implement and test novel database architecture designs to accommodate the multimodal data types used in Client managed technology evaluations
• Administer and monitor database and address data security solutions as applicable
• Design and develop efficient techniques for fast, optimized data access and transfer of distributed or networked database systems
• Design, implement and test novel data structures, data search, query and retrieval solutions to enable access to and processing of the multimodal data types used in Client managed technology evaluations