Backend Developer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services using Core Java and Spring Boot
• Develop and optimize queries in MongoDB, including aggregation and indexing
• Build RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code following best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and implement requirements

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in Core Java
• Strong expertise in Spring Boot (REST APIs, Security, Data)
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB (CRUD operations, schema design)
• Experience with Microservices architecture

Job description for Backend Developer:

Responsibilities
• Hands-on experience in Springboot and good knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB
• Hands-on experience in building RESTful based APIs
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability•
• Implementation of security and data protection

Skills And Qualifications
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on a specific project)
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Outputting data in different formats
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language (Java 8 and above and Spring Boot)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles
• Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment

Required qualification:

*)  Any degree from a reputed university

*) Proven software development experience and Java/J2EE skills development. 

• 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.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
• At least two years' 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.

Introduction

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a part of the core team of Airbnb or Netflix when they were just starting out? Here’s your chance to try that path with Ohana!

We are looking for a founding engineer to join our team.

Who we are

Ohana is an E-learning platform for holistic learning. We are an angel-funded early stage startup backed by some of the marquee angel investors from India and Singapore. Our investors include Vivek HR (co-founder and CEO, Bounce), Tanushree Gupta (co-founder and CEO, Doubtnut), Jagmal Singh (CTO, Janio Asia) to name a few!

Check us out at https://ohana.academy!

Our Product

“Creativity is as important as literacy” - Sir Ken Robinson

With this belief, Ohana is building the world's largest holistic learning academy. Our product offering:

The Classroom: Offering live online classes on arts, crafts, linguistics, yoga, dance and many more subjects
The Playground: Enabling social learning - a community for kids to find peers with similar interests

Our mission

India has 250Mn kids in the K12 segment. However, except the top 0.1%, most parents can’t find high-quality and affordable holistic learning for their kids. Fortunately, 140Mn kids are now connected to the digital world with 4G access. We want to leverage this new connectivity and bridge the gap in children's overall development with Ohana.

Where are we in our journey

Team: We are a team of two co-founders (Saurabh and Suyash), both IIT Delhi alums with over a decade of experience each in leading consumer businesses. We have a total of 15 people team including 4 engineers (currently outsourced)

Customers: Over the last couple of months, we have grown to 5,000+ registered users and aim to reach 10K+ paid users and 1 Mn+ community strength in the next 12 months.

Young, inspired, and focused - We are ready for take-off!

Our Culture

• “Mission-driven” is not a buzzword for us. We care deeply about the impact we want to create on kid’s lives and we want to exemplify the value of “no child left behind”
• Be inclusive - We are creating a product that is accessible and affordable. We want to solve this not just for Bangalore and Mumbai, but for Indore, Jabalpur, Raipur as well
• Not just customer obsessed - we also care about their well-being. We are willing to compromise profits - but will not resort to unethical sales tactics or compromise on product quality
• Our team cares about a strong culture and respects our code of conduct

Why work for us

• We have global ambitions - Holistic education is a $75Bn global market, with India alone contributing more than $10Bn. Apart from salary compensation, you get a piece of the pie (equity) of a potentially billion-dollar organization
• You will have exposure to building large, scalable systems and will be mentored by people who have done the same for millions of users
• You will have exposure to starting up / entrepreneurship (ever feel like you want to build a startup?) owning end to end consumer tech product which impacts the life of thousands of students/parents on daily level

Job Location

We are based out of Bengaluru and work from an office. We encourage working from office, but are completely ok if you would like to work remotely until things return to normal.

Expectations from the role

• You will work closely with the founding team and a small team of engineers, currently outsourced, in a fast-paced environment.
• You will work as a tech lead and will be responsible for architecting the new features as well as improving the existing codebase. You will be expected to have a high degree of ownership and responsibility for deliverables.
• You will wear a product hat as and when required and help in shaping the product.
• You will provide technical mentorship to other engineers in the team and will lead a team of junior engineers.
• You should be able to deal with ambiguity, have strong bias towards action, ability to deep dive whenever required and quickly deliver to unblock the team

Preferred experience and competencies

• You are a software engineer with 4+ years of industry experience.
• Professional experience with at least one web dev framework (ReactJS or Django/Python)
• Professional experience with one or more (SQL or NoSQL) databases.
• A stint in a product company or a startup or any similar faced paced environment is preferable.
• Experience working with cloud infra providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) is preferable.
• Strong proficiency in REST API

Key Skills

• In depth knowledge of Node.js
• Knowledge of integration with front-end JavaScript libraries and frameworks like react js
• Should be experienced with Micro-services.
• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB
• Working experience of Git preferably bitbucket.
• Good knowledge of CI/CD preferably using bitbucket pipelines and Jenkins.
• Working knowledge of agile methodologies and techniques

• 10 + years of experience and expertise in database and systems architecture design, development and implementation;
• Expertise and experience in data structures, indexing, query, and retrieval;
• Excellent data management skills including ensuring data integrity, data access, security and archiving procedures;
• Knowledge of the language technology and video extraction research domains to be able to converse fluently with the research communities to transform research requirements into concrete formalisms.
• Experience in cross platform development for multiple variants of Unix, Linux including 32 and 64 bit
• Experience with NoSQL, SQL databases, statistics and algorithms
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Design, implement and test novel database architecture designs to accommodate the multimodal data types used in Client managed technology evaluations
• Administer and monitor database and address data security solutions as applicable
• Design and develop efficient techniques for fast, optimized data access and transfer of distributed or networked database systems
• Design, implement and test novel data structures, data search, query and retrieval solutions to enable access to and processing of the multimodal data types used in Client managed technology evaluations