Backend Developer

hiring for the position of Backend Developer / Senior Backend Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users.

Your primary focus will be the development of all server side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

We are looking to recruit a candidate for a role that will require:

• Create and consume restful APIs
• Design, develop, and maintain internal and external applications
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules
• Write high quality, structured application/interface code and documentation
• Identify solutions through research and collaboration that resolves the root of problems as they arise
• Define functional and technical requirements for application software to develop skills and knowledge
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Requirement

∙ Proficient in Node.JS

∙ 2+ years’ experience designing, querying, and updating databases in MySQL/nosql 

∙ Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas

∙ Good to have knowledge of AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch

Education: Min. Graduate in related discipline

Work experience: 2 years relevant experience

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

Title: Senior Python Developer
Location:- Ahmedabad (Currently work from home)
Salary Range: upto 7.5lpa
Experience Range: 3+ years
Qualification: B.Sc. / B.Tech (CS / IT), MCA, BCA

Responsibility:

• You will work on large data sets
• You will provide data visualization for the platform
• Writes and executes complete testing plans, protocols, and documentation for assigned portion of application; identifies and debugs, and creates solutions for issues with code and integration into application architecture.
• Designs enhancements, updates, and programming changes for portions and subsystems of end-user applications software running on local, networked, and Internet- based platforms.
• Collaborates and communicates with management, internal, and outsourced development partners regarding software applications design status, project progress, and issue resolution.

Functional Knowledge:

• Expert in Python, Machine learning with knowledge of at least one Python web framework Flask, Django etc.
• Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic
• Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib
• Knowledge of mongo-db
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git
• Good understanding of Linux OS
• Knowledge on nltk, scikit, numpy would be an advantage

Compensation and Benefits:

• Excellent Salary Structure
• Employee friendly corporate work culture
• Exposure to interact with US people
• Flexible timings with Saturday and Sunday Off
• Lucrative Rewards and Recognition

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

1. Helping lead the software development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
2. Working with cross-functional teams effectively to enable business growth.
3. Proactively identifying engineering bottlenecks and initiating proposals to improve them.
4. Writing high-quality, well-tested code in alignment with industry-wide best practices.
5. Applying a product mindset to back-end systems.
6. 1.  

1. About five years of experience delivering product-quality code in an agile set-up
2. Experience with Node.js (Hapi, Restify, Express, Mongoose, Socket.IO, Mocha)
3. Experience with Elasticsearch
4. Experience building and deploying Docker containers
5. Strong general Linux experience
6. Extensive experience with REST APIs
7. Experience with microservice architecture
8. Experience with MongoDB
9. Expert knowledge of Redis and caching strategies
10. Strong knowledge of unit/integration testing, including the art of mocking and writing testable code

1. Passionate about technology and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative and works well in a team.

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 have 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.

We are on a quest to find a Senior Software Developer - Scala with several years of experience who will help us in extending and maintaining our platform

 You will join a cross functional team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels. The agile team is co-located including the Product Managers

You will collaborate with all team members in order to deliver the best solutions that enhance our platform

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If you are still wondering, why should you work with us. Here are 5 reasons why?

1. Springer Nature is one of the world's largest publishing company. Nobel laureates publish their research at Springer.
2. We are truly a digital organization and Springer Nature Pune is at the helm of this digitization.
3. We not only believe but preach providing good work life balance to our employees.
4. We are investing in building our products using machine learning and NLP.
5. We work in latest technologies like AWS and Scala.

About the team:

Backend - Adis – PV is a scientific analysis platform being built for extracting content from scientific articles and providing meaningful insights

Insights are then published in a structured way, so that they can be made accessible to end users, via feeds delivery or through the platform

Backend - Adis – PV will be a production system for all databases under one IT landscape and under one umbrella.

Job Type: Permanent    
                                   

Job Location: Magarpatta City, Pune - India  (Work from home until further notice)

Years of Experience 6 to 10 years

What we are looking for

Educational Qualification:

B.Sc., BCA, BCS, B.E., B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA and M.Sc.

Skill Matrix:

Primary Language Skills: Java 8, Scala

Framework: Play Framework

Messaging: Rabbit MQ

Ideologies: TDD / ATDD, Pair Programming

Database: SQL and NoSQL

Challenges

• You will help us continuously improving our platform
• Together we will create best in class services that support the needs of our customers
• Taking part of team ceremonies like grooming, planning and retrospective
• Develop new features
• Improve code quality by doing pair programming or code reviews
• Continuously improve and monitor our product
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Own and consistently deliver high quality end-to-end product features keeping in view technical & business expectations
• Add meaty features to the product which will deliver substantial business value
• Pioneer clean coding and continuous code refactoring
• Understands and appreciates existing design and architecture of the product
• Understands pros and cons of various technology options available
• Takes technical ownership of some of sub-systems of the product
• Makes changes in the product designs to achieve required business value / mileage
• Identify and addresses technical debts
• Understands technical vision and road-map of the product and expectations
• Understands purview of key pieces of deliverables and own few of these pieces

Day at work

• Pioneer proof of concepts of new technologies keeping in view product road-map and business priorities
• Self-study and share his / her learning within the team and across teams
• Provide required help to other team-members
• Pioneer in various team events and work towards objectives of these events
• Make meaningful suggestions to make ceremonies more effective
  
  

About You

• You have several years of experience with Software Development
• You have worked successfully with product teams in the past and ideally have some experience with mentoring junior developers
• You like working in a collaborative environment where there is collective ownership of the code
• You work in a Continuous Integration and always strive for Continuous Delivery
• You like to share and enable others to increase your whole team's performance

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development and unit testing of web applications including back-end (microservices), maintenance & level 3 support of the same
• Assist Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Tech Lead in project planning (provide estimates, risk analysis, requirements analysis, technical options)
• Software Architecture
• Involvement in full life cycle of projects (including requirement analysis and system design, development and support if required)
• Support and work collaboratively with teams across areas of design, development, quality assurance and operations
• Commit your knowledge and experience into team success
• A small amount of travel (when needed) to work with other offices
• Attend meetings to discuss and demonstrate solutions at both technical and business level

 REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                                                                                                           

• 5+ years web application development experience
• 3+ years developing with Python
• 3+ years developing with C# and .NET Framework 4.x
• Experience with ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebAPI 2, LINQ, and WCF
• Dependency Injection and other common ASP.NET MVC design patterns
• Experience with API design and development using REST
• Experience with performance optimization
• Experience integrating security best practices into the SDLC
• Experience with object-oriented programming (OOP) and OOP patterns
• Experience with Git
• 1+ years of Agile development experience
• Experience manipulating and working with data in a variety of forms: csv, xml, json, structured and unstructured                                                                                                
• Experience with SQL database schema design and querying. Microsoft SQL Server and PostGreSQL are used and preferred.

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                                           

• Knowledge of JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, or BitBucket is a plus.
• Experience with a JavaScript MVVM library such as Web Components, knockout.js, Angular, React, etc. is a plus (Web Components and knockout.js are used and preferred)
• Experience with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/ and AJAX is a plus
• SPA (Single Page Application) design and implementation is a plus
• Experience with any ORM such as Entity Framework or NHibernate is a plus (NHibernate is preferred)
• Experience with TypeScript is a plus
• Experience with MS Build is a plus
• Experience with CI/CD is a plus
• Experience with Object Mapping Frameworks (AutoMapper, etc) is a plus
• Understanding of OOD, DDD and TDD is a plus
• AWS-based development is a plus
• Knowledge of Flask is a plus.

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Clever personality
• Strong spirit skills set: conflict resistant, self -motivated, result-oriented, responsible, honest, “open”, courageous