Backend Developer

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Developing and maintaining server-side network components.
• 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.

• At least two years of experience as a Node.js developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.

Node JS Developer

Position Type: Full time

Job Description:     

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the databases, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. Will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by the UI team into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is a bonus.

Responsibilities:

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions

 

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding of Relational Databases
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• 8-15 years relevant progressive experience.

SDE-2
Key Responsibilities
● Work closely with principal engineers and product manager to deliver quality technology solutions.
● The SDE 2 core responsibilities include working on highly-maintainable and unit tested software components/systems that address the problems and guiding junior developers for the same.
● Will be working in a fast paced and agile work environment delivering quality solutions that have immediate business impact.
● Complete ownership of the projects you deliver while collaborating with technical and non-technical people in charge .
● A self-motivated learner and builder with strong customer focus and quality delivery.
● Ensure the process is being followed and quality code is being maintained by doing proper code review and testing if needed.


BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
● Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and min of 2 years of Software Development in MERN .
● Familiar with MERN Stack (React for frontend role and Express Node Mongo for backend role).
● Proven track record of building large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality distributed systems and software products
● Possess an extremely sound understanding of basic areas of Computer Science such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented , Databases.
● Excellent coding skills .
● Great problem solving skills and propensity to learn and develop tech talent.
● Ability to think big about problem statements, recommend alternative technical approaches and build optimal solutions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

● Bar raising tech skills in building next gen customer experiences using technology .
● Sound understanding of putting in place and leading engineering excellence initiatives across team(s) such as code review , quality coding and unit test .
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile:
1. Work experience between 3 years to 9 years in building large scale high user traffic consumer facing applications with desire to work in a fast paced startup.
2. Knowledge on reactive and asynchronous programming is preferable. If you have worked with coroutines, goroutines, high concurrency or optimized number of threads for processing on your backend server you could be a good fit.
3. Extremely proficient at writing performant, scalable and production ready code in Kotlin, Java (8 or above, comfortable with concepts like lambda, streams, multithreading etc), Elixir, Rust, or Golang. Should be familiar with static code analysis, code coverage and code reviews.
4. Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis or Aerospike is required. Knowledge of graph DBs like Neo4j is preferred.
5. Strong in algorithms, problem solving and data structures.
6. Knowledge of TDD and experience with building applications integrated with CI-CD pipelines (automated build, tests and deployments).
7. Exposure to micro-services with good understanding of containers, kubernetes, logging, alerting and monitoring. Inter services communication. Should know how to handle multiple versions of APIs.

- Knowledgable on Shopify API's
- Should have created Public/Private/Custom Apps
- Proficient in Design & theme customization in Shopify
- Proficient in HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Liquid templates
- Proficient in developing custom/private apps using languages like NodeJS or Java or PHP
- Working on different platforms like WooCommerce or Magento or Wix would be a plus
- Min of 3-4 years of experience on Shopify App would be preferred

Responsibilities:
- Design and develop highly scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant systems for one of India's fastest-growing product startup
- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.
- Pair with team members on functional and non-functional requirements and spread design philosophy and goals across the team.
- Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA, etc.) on planning and execution.
- Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight.
- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, charges, and dependencies.
- Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across distributed teams
- An innate desire to deliver and a strong sense of accountability for your work.
- Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.
- Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems.

Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in software development or a serious open source track record
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying large scale applications in any language or stack
- Proficiency in OOP concepts, including design patterns. Experience with functional programming is a plus.
- Data modelling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.
- Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
- Well versed with Lean methodologies, and Test Engineering and Automation.- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services.
- Experience in troubleshooting server performance memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks, etc.
- Continuously refactor applications and architectures to maintain high-quality levels.
- Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.
- We primarily use Node JS, MongoDB, AngularJS & AWS

**About VComply :**
- VComply is a fast-growing SaaS GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) platform that helps organizations manage their compliance controls and risk in an intuitive manner. VComply brings a contextual understanding of GRC to compliance officers enabling them to achieve organization objectives while maintaining the integrity and managing risk.

- VComply was founded in 2019 and is backed by Accel. We already have 25+ marquee customers across North America and Australia & New Zealand in our short existence. We provide organizations with configurable, yet plug and play GRC applications that need zero development effort and infrastructure.

**Why VComply :**
- Opportunity to have direct impact on the growth of a fast growing & dynamic company
- Challenging work environment with End- to-end ownership of your role
- Incredible growth opportunities - we are a meritocracy, and the best will always have room for growth in the company
- Opportunity to work directly with senior leadership
- Accelerated learning environment with a high performing team surrounding you
- Culture that promotes challenging oneself & continuous improvement.
- Perks & Employee friendly policies.

Location: Mumbai
Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development

Responsibilities:
 Review requirements, design specifications and propose a solution and have a discussion before implementation
 Work with team leads on the requirements and create estimates against those requirements
 Deliver projects on time in an agile and continuous development environment
 Writing tests in a client-side test framework such as Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, etc.
 Work with QA team for resolving issues
 Report status with tools like JIRA to stakeholders

Requirements:
 3-5 years of work experience developing complex software
 Minimum 2years sound experience with back-end development in Java-script frameworks like loopback, Express, etc.
 A solid understanding of core JavaScript principles and its fundamentals
 Familiarity with popular JavaScript tools, frameworks, and design principles, and enjoy staying up to date with the changing JavaScript ecosystem
 Strong communication skills across the board, with a passion for finding and sharing best practices and driving greater discipline
 Experience using Version Control (GitHub/Gitlab).
 Passionate about code quality, extensibility, and simple architecture design

Skills:
 JavaScript
 Node
 Express
 Loopback
 OAuth
 API Development

Plus Points:
 Knowledge of Go, Ruby, Python, Closure or any other languages
 Test Driven Development (TDD)
 Knowledge of front-end development