Backend Developer

At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for talented back end (node.JS) engineer to join our at Chennai.

Please find below our job description, if interested drop your profile to connect and disucss.

Company: BigThinkCode Technologies

URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/

Experience required: 2-3 years

Work location: Chennai

Joining time: Immediate – 2 weeks

Work Mode: Work from office / Hybrid

A skilled Node.js Developer with 2–3 years of experience in building scalable applications using event-driven architecture within distributed systems. The ideal candidate should be comfortable in high-performance backend services and have a strong understanding of asynchronous programming patterns.

Experience or exposure to knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques is a strong plus, especially in the context of modern data-driven or AI-powered systems.

Must have skills:

• Hands on expertise in OOJS, node.js, distributed systems.
• Hands on experience using RabbitMQ, Kafka / Redis and PostgreSQL.
• Event drive architecture (EDA) microservices project experience MUST
• Any programming: Typescript or nodeJS or Golang.
• Hands on experience using docket containers and Kubernetes.
• Aware about Asynchronous and Loose Coupling.
• Familiar with API’s gateway and microservice design patterns.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and non-blocking I/O.
• Experience working with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications using Node.js
• Build and optimize scalable, event-driven systems in distributed environments.
• Implement asynchronous workflows, message queues, and pub/sub architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver backend solutions.

Good to Have:

• Experience with knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques.
• Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS).
• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Why Join Us:

• Collaborative work environment.
• Exposure to modern tools and scalable application architectures.
• Medical cover for employee and eligible dependents.
• Tax beneficial salary structure.
• Comprehensive leave policy
• Competency development training programs.

Strong Full stack/Backend engineer profile

Mandatory (Experience): Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience as a full stack developer (backend-heavy)

Mandatory (Backend Skills): Must have 1.5+ strong experience in Python, building REST APIs, and microservices-based architectures

Mandatory (Frontend Skills): Must have hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue) and JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Mandatory (Database Skills): Must have solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis

Mandatory (Cloud & Infra): Must have hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and SNS

Mandatory (DevOps & Infra): Must have working experience with Linux environments, Apache, CI/CD pipelines, and application monitoring

Mandatory (CS Fundamentals): Must have strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, OS concepts, and system design

Mandatory (Company) : Product companies (B2B SaaS preferred)

A tick against the following skill sets would surely strengthen the candidature

• Strong PHP, JS fundamentals
• PHP frameworks: PHP Laravel
• JS frameworks: Vue.JS
• RDBMS: MySQL, Mongo DB

1. 5-7 years hands-on working experience in Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices
2. Data processing capability
3. Hands-on working experience with GCP/AWS/Azure
4. Hands-on working experience with Junit, Git, Jenkins, Maven
5. Excellent communication skill
6. Experience on Google cloud data flow would be an added advantage

Java, SpringBoot, Problem Solving skill, Apache Beam, AWS/GCP,

Quoality- A Modern Operating Infrastructure for Hospitality Businesses to help them improve the guest experience and generate additional revenue.

Launched in 2021, Quoality is a Hospitality Tech company backed by a US-based Newchip Accelerator. Our mission is to equip businesses with the tools they need to grow. 

By providing tools, insights, and education with minimal effort on the business's part, the barrier to making actionable business decisions is lowered dramatically. Everything we do is driven by this mission. Everything we do needs to positively answer the question, "Does this help businesses grow?"

Product Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKklkRYKkC4&;t" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKklkRYKkC4

Quoality Blogosphere: https://medium.com/quoality" target="_blank">https://medium.com/quoality

Oh, this is our favorite part. We’ve seen companies that write 'templatized' BS for this section; stuff that’s never followed in reality.

Not us. Here are some of our core values to give you a sense of who we are as a team:

• First and foremost, we’re super transparent. We all know what everyone’s working on, how’s the company doing, and the whole shebang.
• We’re all super chill. 
• Work time ain’t playtime. We take our work very seriously. We’re a small bunch on a mission to change the guest experience in the hospitality industry, once and for all.
• Deadlines are a thing for us. We are super punctual.
• We know what we are working on and aren’t clueless.
• We’re more friends than colleagues.
• Monthly 1:1s with the founders where you can directly share & receive feedback.

Not convinced yet? Okay, here’s the fun stuff:

• Flexible leave policy. Yeah, it’s truly flexible. We trust you.
• We have a flexible remote work policy in India.  Work from the beautiful beaches of Goa or the stunning mountains of Manali, we’re all good.
• Annual workstations at exotic destinations. Subject to change and hitting milestones.
• Allowances to choose your coworking space (if you want), courses & any tool that you think is beneficial to succeed in this role.

• Write code that will impact the businesses of thousands of hotels, hostels, and vacation homes across the globe.
• Collaborate with Frontend to spec, write, test, and deploy API endpoints.
• Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs that work on our data pipelines.
• Build all support infrastructure to scale our data delivery pipelines - endpoints, security, logging, messaging.
• Product development activity includes data querying from our various stores, real-time analytics, ML algorithms.
• Developing & Integrating of the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Brainstorm features with the product team and guides decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase.
• Take full ownership of the module starting from architectural and design decisions to shipping.
• Like the work you do, enjoy collaborating with your coworkers, communicate as much as you can, and have fun. 
  
  

• Upto years of relevant work experience.
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• You have a good understanding of multi-process architecture and the threading limitations of NodeJs and Express frameworks.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• You have basic understanding of relational databases as well as key-value databases and are capable of designing scalable database models based on the product requirements.
• Familiarity with REST API development standards, protocols (HTTP, WebSockets and more)
• You’re comfortable picking up new stacks and choosing the right tool to get the job done.
• You are open to learning new stuff and avoid internal politics. (super important).
• You are humble, kind, and are open to feedback.(super duper important).

• Entrepreneurial spirit, Product Thinker, and ‘Can-Do' attitude.
• Passionate about leveraging technology for supporting product delivery in the Hospitality space.
• Operating style suited to working in a startup environment, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued.
• Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to manage multiple assignments at a time.

Yes, we do have a process, and it’s simple.

• Step 1: You apply for the job.
• Step 2: Quick intro call with the founders.
• Step 3: Solve an assignment.
• Step 4: A round where we evaluate your assignment along with you.
• Step 5: One round of interviews to gauge if you are a good culture fit.
• Step 6: Job Offer (contingent on the above steps).
• Step 7: Welcome to the Quoality! 🙂

Desired candidates must have 2-7 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus

• You will own a functional area - from product conception to its delivery to customers
• You will be designing and coding independently in multiple tech components related to your functional area
• You will also need to develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly
• You will also be actively mentoring our junior engineers. You need to someone who owns the codebase quality
• We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not just coders
• Engineers get to significantly amplify the impact of their efficient work or creations with the scale that startups operates at
• Love the Startup Hustle? You have come to the right place!

Requirements:

• 2+ years of deep expertise with JavaScript (Node.js) and any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs
• Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions
• Strong problem solving skills
• Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities
• Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals
• Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform
• Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Experience in Consumer facing apps - Analytics SDKs integrations, Marketing SDKs integrations, Performance optimisation, SQL databases
• Should have developed and delivered successful mobile app projects
• Experience with Devops including Docker, AWS, Serverless

Perks

• Opportunity to start from scratch
• Flexible and cool work environment - Startup work culture
• Young and dynamic team
• Offsites
• Regular game and hangout sessions every week

We're looking for Senior Node js backend developers with over 2+ years of experience and strong expertise in Javascript based development using Node js and Express. We are looking for cadidates who are go-getters and are leaning towards leadership positions. Candidates must have a proven history of building, scaling, optimising and securing Node js based backends and APIs using a microservice architecture.

Bonus Skill : Experience with ReactJs, Postgres

We would prefer candidates who can join immediately or are currently serving their notice period.

Key Skills Required

1. A passion for Javascript based solutions and an extremely strong understanding of JavaScript

2. Proficiency in Node js and Express based development

3. Stong experience in building scalable REST APIs

4. Experience in implenting API security using tokens, encryptions keys and other methods

5. A proved history of building scalable and secure web applications and APIs with Node js using a microservice architecture

6. Working experience with API Gateways

7. Experience with Docker

8. Experience in maintaining code via Git workflows

9. Ability to work independantly or as a part of a team

10. Ability to work in an Agile environment

Responsibilities

1. Understanding requirement and congributing to engineering solutions at a conceptual stage to provide the best possible solution to the task/challenge

2. Building high quality code using coding standards based on the SRS/Documentation

3. Building component based, maintainable, scalable and reusable backend libraries/modules.

4. Building & documenting scalable APIs on the Open Spec standard

5. Unit testing development modules and APIs

6. Conducting code reviews to ensure that the highest quality standard are maintained

7. Securing backend applications and APIs using industry best practices

8. Troubleshooting issues and fixing bugs raised by the QA team efficiently.

9. Optimizing code

10. Building and deploying the applications