Backend Developer

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Software Engineer with over 3 years of experience in designing and developing web-based applications using Node.js.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain web-based applications using Node.js.
• Build scalable, high-performance RESTful APIs using Express.js or Restify frameworks.
• Develop and maintain robust SQL database systems, leveraging Sequelize ORM.
• Ensure responsiveness of applications across various devices and platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams during the product development lifecycle, including prototyping, hardening, and testing phases.
• Work with real-time communication technologies and ensure seamless integration.
• Learn and adapt to alternative technologies as needed to meet project requirements.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in web application development using Node.js.
• Proficiency with frameworks such as Express.js or Restify.
• Strong expertise in SQL databases and experience with Sequelize ORM.
• In-depth understanding of JavaScript, browser technologies, and real-time communication.
• Hands-on experience in developing responsive web applications.
• Experience with React Native (a plus).
• Proficiency in Java.
• Familiarity with product development lifecycle, including prototyping, testing, and deployment.

Additional Skills & Experience

• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Cassandra.
• Knowledge of internationalization (i18n) and latest UI/UX design trends.
• Familiarity with JavaScript libraries/frameworks like ReactJS or VueJS.
• Experience integrating payment gateways for various countries.
• Strong communication skills and ability to facilitate group discussions effectively.
• Eagerness to contribute to product functionality and user experience designs.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python or Golang.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following best practices.
• Build and consume RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and product teams for smooth feature delivery.
• Participate in peer code reviews and technical discussions.
• Debug and fix issues, ensuring system stability and performance.
• Continuously learn and apply new technologies and tools in backend development.

Experience and Expertise:

• 0–2 years of software development experience (internships or projects acceptable).
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Python or Golang).
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and software fundamentals.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and database concepts.
• Familiarity with Linux-based development environments.
• Exposure to Git and version control workflows.

Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Willingness to learn, adapt, and take ownership.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.
• Curiosity for emerging technologies, including AI-driven development, backend technologies, distributed systems, and modern engineering practices.

• As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
• Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
• Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
• Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
• Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories

• Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
• Solid experience in building web-based products
• Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
• Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
• A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds

Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogues (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

Requirements:

1. Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework and their design principles.
2. Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.) .
3. Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters and viewsets completely according to needs.
4. Should have good experience in Class Based Views to write the backend API’s.
5. Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modelling them to Django models.
6. Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
7. Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
8. Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a code base that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
9. Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
10. Ability to write RAW sql queries and further database level coding will be a plus.
11. Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
12. Hands on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
13. Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
14. Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
15. Experience with open source will be a plus.
16. Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the ins and out of existing codebase and have a good grasp over it.
2. Write clean, stable and scalable code.
3. Write unit test cases for the APIs.
4. Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
5. Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for the business needs.

• 3-5 Years of experience in Backend Development.
• Must have experience in Python (FLASK framework).
• Have Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns that can work at scale.
• Sound knowledge of NoSQL/SQL Databases (Mongo DB preferred).
• Strong experience with at-Cloud technology, preferably AWS or GCP or Azure.
• Core experience in developing complex backend systems.
• Communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passionate about application scalability, availability, reliability, and security.

• Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
• Having strong experience in designing data intensive and scalable systems.
• Comfortable with microservices based architecture.
• Knowledge of software engineering processes and unit testing.
• Past experience of mentoring a team of at least two people.
• Prior experience with both relational and non-relational databases.
• Prior experience with caching.
• Ability to debug and hotfix a problem with production in a swift amount of time.
• Communication skills.