Backend Developer

About the Company:

Alyke, recognized as India's first friendship app, is revolutionizing the way people find friends online through its innovative matching algorithm. Alyke has quickly gained traction, surpassing 1 million users. This platform uniquely connects individuals based on shared interests and proximity, and stands out for its commitment to creating a secure environment that encourages users to express themselves freely. Joining Alyke offers the chance to be part of an innovative team dedicated to reshaping the landscape of social connections

Role Overview:

As a Senior Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and optimization of our backend systems. You will be instrumental in building scalable, high-performance applications that support our business's needs. This role demands a deep understanding of backend technologies, database design, cloud infrastructure, and the ability to integrate a wide range of services and APIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and robust backend services and APIs.
• Lead the development of microservices architecture, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
• Oversee the integration of third-party services and external APIs, including notification services like FCM.
• Develop and manage database schemas, optimizing for performance and scalability using MongoDB and Redis.
• Implement real-time data processing mechanisms for live updates and push notifications, utilizing technologies like Firebase.
• Manage cloud infrastructure and serverless functions on platforms such as AWS and GCP, ensuring efficient operations and cost management.
• Ensure the security of backend systems through robust authentication, authorization, data encryption, and adherence to best practices in data security and compliance.
• Work closely with the frontend team to integrate backend services and ensure a seamless user experience.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and frameworks to improve the backend infrastructure.
• Mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong portfolio of projects demonstrating expertise in NodeJS, ExpressJS, and asynchronous programming.
• Extensive experience with database design, optimization, and management using MongoDB and Redis.
• Proven track record in developing and managing REST APIs.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and real-time data processing.
• Solid experience with caching mechanisms and SQS management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of security principles, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption.
• Familiarity with compliance and data protection standards.
• Should have worked on scalable microservices architecture
• Experience with Lambda functions.
• Experience working with firebase
• Should have proven experience in mobile application development
• Should have working experience in sqs
• Have knowledge of elastic cache 
• Experience with cloud-native development and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead projects and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a passion for mentoring and driving technical excellence.
• Attach the link of mobile application worked on till date

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to lead a cutting-edge project impacting users globally.
• Work in an environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits.

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Skill Requirement:

• People working on implementation/support/development of enterprise reconciliations/cash & liquidity management/payment or core banking software in banks and financial institutions is a must
• Strong technical skills in MS SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Loader, Stored Procedures, (Reporting Service and Integration Service) is a must
• Expertise of any or all of these core areas (Payment systems, ATM, Credit Card, Cash & liquidity, Core Banking, Securities, Confirmations) is a must
• Solid analytical and technical skills with regard to Transaction Lifecycle Management and Fintech software applications
• Client facing experience and experience with international customers strongly preferred
• Self-motivating, able to assume responsibility and work autonomously in a professional manner
• Willingness to travel upto 60 percent
• Willing to join within 30-45 days
• Good organizational skills including the ability to meet deadlines

Broad Job Responsibilities:

• During the first year, focus will be on consultant’s training on the product (technical and functional capabilities) along with handling product support related activities.
• Once the consultant has demonstrated sound capabilities and understanding of the product and its functions, he/she will be engaged in implementation related activities.
• Implementation Consultants help ensure that Transaction Lifecycle Management software applications are implemented and configured in accordance with standard business processes and meet client requirements.
• Consultants work directly with our clients mostly banks and financial institutions and provide guidance, make suggestions on how to best implement the software to provide the most value.
• Implementation Consultants work with Project Managers and other functional departments during the implementation and configuration of software applications,
• Define, develop, and document business requirements to ensure customer needs are captured and delivered
• Author specifications based upon client requirements, including functional test cases, for use in configuring and developing solutions during implementation as well as in custom integrations with other products.
• Build productive customer relationships and take responsibility for customer satisfaction.
• Work independently to complete tasks on time and collaborate with others as part of a team.
• Maintain project deliverables and documentation that can be recreated and leveraged as intellectual capital.
• Support custom integrations to ensure final product meets customer requirements
• Support customer during user acceptance testing cycle by resolving issues, answering questions, and guiding them through the process
• Provide written and verbal status reports to management on project status
• Participate in internal initiatives, e.g., process improvement, product improvement, and identifying best practices
• Own a customer facing project

Additional Skills Preferred:

• Knowledge on technical skills like C, C++, Python Scripting, Web services would be an added advantage
• Familiarity on Shell scripting would be an advantage
• Knowledge on Scripting such as Perl is preferred.

Personal Characteristics:

• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Commitment to own personal development
• Self-motivated, approachable, patient and reliable
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment

Benefits:

• Excellent opportunity to hone banking process knowledge along with technical skills
• Opportunity to work with a global banking product
• Excellent career growth prospects
• Opportunities to travel

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree is a must

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• 3-5 years of work experience in the development background, with at least 2 years experience in Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, Hibernate or JPA, MySQL, Oracle, Spring MVC.
• B.E. degree in Computer Science, Graduate in Software Engineering or equivalent
• Experience in Core JAVA, Spring, Spring Boot Frameworks.
• Experience with ORM's like Hibernate.
• Good knowledge of developing RESTful web services using Spring Boot, Java1.x,Servlet2.4, JSP2.0, JDBC3.0, Java Mail, Struts2.x, HTML, HTML5, Angular7+, JavaScript, JSF, Bootstrap2.x-3.x, JQuery & CSS 3.x, Maven 3.x, Apache Tomcat7
• Knowledge of Cloud AWS.
• Experience in any Messaging Queue e.g. Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.
• Experience on Web services with REST and SOAP.
• Experience working on tool set like Eclipse IDE, SQL clients.
• Experience using application server like Jboss, TomCat, Wildfly, glassfish.
• Experience in using tools like SOAP UI, POSTMAN
• Ability to write SQL queries to fetch data.
• Knowledge of Micro services, Redis Cache and Mongo DB (or any other NoSQL) is good to have

Job description

Do you want to work with high traffic OLTP and OLAP systems that provide real value to retailers? Want to build real web applications that work across multiple channels and devices? In this critical role, the right candidate should have an entrepreneurial mind-set, have experience working across an application stack and a strong background in developing complex web experiences that are rich, responsive and interactive. The individual should have exhibited good technical leadership skills and be a highly motivated individual.

Role & Responsibility

• Exhibit strong technical knowledge, leadership skills and independent execution.
• A keen eye for good experiences. Understanding the experience from a customer perspective.
• Drive design discussion of complex features and own development of these modules across the application stack.
• Ability to adapt to changing business and product needs.
• Experience evolving the design and operation scale as new features are added to the product
• Mentor junior developers and ensure quality code output (via code reads, reading references, etc.) from them.
• Co-ordinate with internal teams and external partners in ensuring we build the best solution on time for the customer. Constantly looking at ways to innovate and improve the product.
• 8+ years of experience in Java & J2EE based Web Technologies & Frameworks with a focus in either Service Oriented Architecture or APIs. 
• Experience in designing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Strong knowledge of web technologies, common web frameworks, networking, SQL and database technologies
• Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
• Strong debugging / troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to propose and defend solutions.
• Ability to work closely with product management, customer support, and  other engineering teams to continuously evolve and innovate the enterprise-class Products.