Backend Developer
at A platform of digital first health clinics owned and operate
Role
As one of the senior members of the backend development team you will be
responsible for architecting and setting the standards for building our core
backend/microservices. Also, you will be responsible for shaping up the entire system for scale
and collaborating extensively with the frontend and design teams to create the best consumer
experiences.
Responsibilities
● Develop microservices that will be used by the frontend through API endpoints.
● Translate business requirements into high quality code.
● Ensure that the code is deployed in a secure and scalable fashion.
● Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.
● Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.
● Enhance Analytics and overall backend architecture for better performance.
Requirements
● 4+ years of backend/full-stack development experience
● 1+ years of experience on NodeJS
● 1+ years experience in building APIs in a microservice architecture
● Has experience managing other developers, recruiting and training.
● Experience in PHP is a plus
● Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront
● Has experience in code reviewing/being the gatekeeper for an entire project
● Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system
● Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins
● Good knowledge of working with Git
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
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Senior Backend Developer
Job Overview: We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Backend Developer who excels in building robust, scalable backend systems using multiple frameworks and languages. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience working with at least two backend frameworks and be proficient in at least two programming languages such as Python, Node.js, or Go. As an Sr. Backend Developer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, ensuring seamless real-time communication with WebSockets, and optimizing system performance with tools like Redis, Celery, and Docker.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend systems using multiple frameworks and languages (Python, Node.js, Go).
- Build and integrate APIs, microservices, and other backend components.
- Implement real-time features using WebSockets and ensure efficient server-client communication.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, providing efficient and scalable solutions.
- Work with caching systems like Redis to enhance performance and manage data.
- Utilize task queues and background job processing tools like Celery.
- Develop and deploy applications using containerization tools like Docker.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality.
- Mentor junior developers, sharing best practices and promoting a culture of continuous learning.
- Stay updated with the latest backend development trends and technologies to keep our solutions cutting-edge.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 4+ years of professional experience as a Backend Developer.
- Proficiency in at least two programming languages: Python, Node.js, or Go.
- Experience working with multiple backend frameworks (e.g., Express, Flask, Gin, Fiber, FastAPI).
- Strong understanding of WebSockets and real-time communication.
- Hands-on experience with Redis for caching and data management.
- Familiarity with task queues like Celery for background job processing.
- Experience with Docker for containerizing applications and services.
- Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation.
- Understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience with GraphQL and other modern API paradigms.
- Familiarity with task queues, caching, or message brokers (e.g., Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ).
- Understanding of security best practices in backend development.
- Knowledge of automated testing frameworks for backend services.
- Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git.
Responsibilities :
● Designing and developing robust and scalable server-side applications using Python, Flask, Django, or other relevant frameworks and technologies.
● Collaborating with other developers, data scientists, and data engineers to design and implement RESTful APIs, web services, and microservices architectures.
● Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and reviewing the code of other team members to ensure consistency and adherence to best practices.
● Participating in code reviews, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure the quality and reliability of applications.
● Optimizing applications for performance, scalability, and security, and monitoring the production environment to ensure uptime and availability. ● Staying up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development, and evaluating and recommending new tools and frameworks as needed.
● Mentoring and coaching junior developers to ensure they grow and develop their skills and knowledge in line with the needs of the team and the organization.
● Communicating and collaborating effectively with other stakeholders, including product owners, project managers, and other development teams, to ensure projects are delivered on time and to specification.
You are a perfect match, if you have these qualification :
● Strong experience in Python and server-side development frameworks such as Flask or Django.
● Experience in building RESTful APIs, web services, and microservices architectures.
● Experience in using database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
● Familiarity with cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
● Knowledge of software development best practices such as Agile methodologies, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
● Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
● Strong communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work effectively with other stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- 2-5 years of experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related
frameworks
- Expert level understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
- Expert level understanding of Javascript concepts on callbacks and closures
- Experience with Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, and Firebase real-time database
- Experience with AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Lambda,
API Gateway, SQS, etc
- Understanding of patterns and techniques for building scalable back-end
infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization
schemes.
- Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with
millisecond response times
- Experience working in a collaborative team environment
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Willingness to learn and pick up new technology along with patience to mentor
Bonus skills -
- Experience with ElasticSearch, Puppeteer
- Experience writing unit tests
- Design, implement, and maintain API-based applications and REST services.
- Proficiency with Node JS.
- Must have experience in cloud services Azure Cloud/AWS.
- Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
- Develop high-quality, efficient, and scalable code.
- Understanding of Agile methodologies and SCRUM framework Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Provide technical support during implementation efforts, working with technical team members and with business users as required to provide troubleshooting and solutions to technical issues.
We are looking for an experienced NodeJS/ExpressJS/TypeScript developer. You will work on the most
critical software development team in a fast-growing data-centric software company. You will develop high performance, highly available REST and GraphQL APIs that will deliver data to our suite of web and mobile
apps.
Duties and Responsibilities
Software Development: You will work with the engineering lead to design and develop REST and
GraphQL APIs that will serve data from MongoDB and ElasticSearch.
Automated Test Scripts: You will write automated test scripts for all of your code. You will work with
the QA manager to determine optimal code coverage.
Code Reviews: You will assist in reviewing PRs raised by other team members. You will be
responsible for ensuring that the code satisfies the documented requirements, includes the necessary
automated tests and follows our documented coding standards and best practices.
API Support: API issues will be reported manually and automatically (via alerts) to a series of Slack
channels. You will monitor these channels and create Jira tickets to diagnose and fix these issues. You
will ensure that affected API consumers are informed regularly as to the status of the open issues.
API Documentation: You (and the rest of the API team) will be responsible for keeping the API
documentation up to date.
Skills and Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
Great organizational and time management skills.
Extensive knowledge of NodeJS libraries and frameworks.
REST APIs: 3+ years required.
GraphQL APIs: 1+ years desired.
ExpressJS or Fastify: 2+ years required
Advanced TypeScript: 1+ years required
NodeJS: 2+ years required
Node Streams: 1+ years desired
AWS High-Availability Clusters: 1+ years desired
MongoDB: 2+ years desired
Search Engines (ES or Solr): 2+ years desired
Big Data: 1+ years’ experience querying datasets with hundreds of millions of rows desired
Mocha/Chai: 1+ years desired
Bitbucket or GitHub: 1+ years required
We are looking for a dedicated backend developer (PHP) who loves programming and writes code that he/she is proud of.
As part of your job, you will constantly seek the latest technologies, be committed to using state-of-the-art solutions and never accept any performance on an ad-hoc basis.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent expertise).
- PHP - you should have at least 4 years experience in PHP and in OOP development. Can use PHP to supplement and extend existing product.
- PHP Framework - At least 3 years experience in one of the following frameworks: Symfony, Laravel, Yii or Zend.
- MySQL - Can perform SQL queries and build data-driven applications. Knows basic of relational database design.
- Problem Solver - Can effectively debug issues using tools like xdebug or chrome's console. Is familiar with stack overflow and other community resources.
- Version control systems - Can use Git and understand basic commands
- HTML, CSS and JS - Basic knowledge in HTML, CSS and JS, familier with one of JS frameworks is needed as well.
- Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge of APIs, such as twitter, Facebook, Google maps, Instagram, etc.
- Knowledge of NoSQL with some experience is plus.
- Knowledge of AWS, RabbitMQ, Redis, and ElasticSearch is a plus.
- 5+ years PHP development experience required with PHP, MVC, CMS, HTML, CSS, AJAX, MySQL
- Development
- PHP, MVC Architecture
- Hands-on experience in any of the php frameworks (Laravel / Cakephp / Yii / Codeignitor / Zend)
- Hands-on experience in RESTful API design and development
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Jquery
- Databases
- Must be able to design and manage the database using MySQL
- Strong knowledge on MySQL queries and optimization
- Version Control System
- Bitbucket or GitHub Source Control
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Flexible, team player, “get-it-done” personality
- Design, Develop, Implement, Test, Document and Maintain high quality Web Application Software
- Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and teams
Our client is a revolutionary Educational services platform, that brings in innovation and expertise in their ways of learning. Awarded as one of the best Google apps of 2017, the app provides students with a variety of online courses that cover K12 subjects, Entrance exams, Engineering and FInance stream topics, as well as Self-help notes.
Their unique and simple AI based site and app feature 500+ courses, nearly a lakh videos and tests, and also imparts strength and weakness analysis for the students to improve their knowledge base. The 5yr old organisation is one of the most loved ed-tech platforms that reaches more than 4.5Mn registered users.
- Planning and implementing company's application and data model structures for scalability.
- Maintaining central databases, ensuring high performance, and responding to requests from the front-end.
- Developing reusable code and libraries for future use. Building for new features and maintaining the present ones.
- Implementing comprehensive security and data protection.
- Has 2-5 years of experience working on a growth stage product, where they first scaled from 0 to 1 and then 1 to n.
- You have studied Computer science (or a similar degree) from a Tier 1 college OR have a great set of experiences working at products that scaled massively.
- You understand product and database architecture like you understand basic Maths and have worked on it for 3 to 7 years. Further, you know how to optimise AWS/ GCP for both efficiency and cost.
- You have experience in managing a team and setting up the best processes / practices (1yr+ Engineering Manager experience)
- You are deeply driven for creating an impact. You obsess over doing things the right way, and you enjoy writing beautiful code.
- Though technology stack is not the primary concern, we would value some experience in C#/ Visual Studio, RDS/ MySQL, ElasticSearch, System Architecture and general AWS solutions.
- Ownership: Absolute ownership of the product and your code, with relentlessness to deliver with speed and precision.
- Dynamic & Resourceful: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of changes in a fast paced environment. Super willing to learn new technologies and systems. And resourceful and inventive in the face of every problem.
- Deep Love for coding: You write code because you love doing it and not just because it's a job for you.
- Perfection/ Obsession/ Hygiene: You deeply understand & achieve perfection in even the 'small' features. And you deeply care about the quality of your code.
- Good eye for usability & design and willing to put-in extra effort for delivering the best user experience.
- Creating Algorithms that can change the game: Should understand requirements and design algorithms accordingly.
- Driven by Data: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills leveraging/finding all data available.
- Team player: Keeps the team over themselves. Has a knack for influencing without being authoritative. Goes out of the way to help wherever the team needs them.