Backend Developer

Role overview

1) Overall 5 to 7 years of experience. Node.js experience is must.

2) At least 3+ years of experience or couple of large-scale products delivered on microservices.

3) Strong design skills on microservices and AWS platform infrastructure.

4) Excellent programming skill in Python, Node.js and Java.

5) Hands on development in rest API’s.

6) Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability.

We're looking for team players with natural product intuition who can help us build solutions

for our world-class Learning & Assessment platform (edulastic.com).

As a Backend Developer you will be responsible for the server-side of our web applications

and you will work closely with our engineers to ensure the system consistency and improving

user experience.

Role and Responsibilities

• As an experienced backend developer, your primary focus will be the development of all

server-side systems

• A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. You will test, secure

and deploy your code

• Knowledge of Node.js is a must along with a server-sideframework
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Experience and proficiency integrating with RESTAPIs
• Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures,

and algorithms

• Experience in working with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Should be willing to work in a very fluid startup environment and take complete ownership of

the assigned responsibility

Skills Required:

• At least 2 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS should be well versed

with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.

• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL

Database.

• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience developing and deploying REST

APIs.

• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.

We are looking for engineers who love to build SaaS products to join our team.

This position is for a product we have been building for 4 years now, for a long term customer of ours. The Codebase is well maintained, with a rails backend and a react frontend. 

If you are someone who has invested time into writing reusable rails or nodejs modules, who has written ruby gems or npm packages, you feel at home working with us.

Required Knowledge:

1. How Web backends or Rails works
2. Mastery over ORMs or Active Record Migrations, Validations
3. Good knowledge of writing encapsulated business logic

Great to Have

• Open source npm packages or ruby gems
• Performance tuning for Apps
• Ruby Metaprogramming knowledge
• Functional JS

Interview Format

Two coding rounds of 45 mins each.

If you crack both the rounds, you get the job, and incase you decline the offer any reason we will give you a gift voucher for spenidng your valuable time with us.

In case you dont crack the question, we will tell you what to learn so that next time you will have a good chance :)

• Looking for a highly capable Node.js developer to optimize our web-based application performance.
• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Qualification: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
• Should have 4 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.
• Salary is negotiable for right fit.

Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role:

• Document all technical requirements and design technical solutions utilizing enterprise architecture standards including documenting all solution components and configurations
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
• Ensure designs follow specifications.
• Ability to work independently.
• Persistent problem solver but know when to ask for help.
• Open-minded, transparent and able to learn and adapt.
• Good communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude.