Backend Developer

About Vijay Sales

Vijay Sales is a leading eCommerce and retail brand delivering exceptional experiences to customers across India. Leveraging technology to enhance shopping experiences, we are on a mission to create seamless omnichannel platforms and innovative solutions for our customers. Join our dynamic team to shape the future of retail technology.

Role Overview

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will drive the development and optimization of robust backend systems for our products built on the MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) stack. You'll lead a talented team of developers, design scalable architectures, and ensure the seamless integration of backend functionalities with our frontend systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of backend systems for Vijay Sales' products.
• Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance APIs and microservices.
• Mentor and guide a team of backend developers, ensuring best practices in coding, architecture, and DevOps.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, DevOps, and product managers, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Optimize database structures and queries for performance and scalability.
• Implement and oversee CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks, security issues, and other technical challenges.
• Stay updated on industry trends, tools, and technologies to continuously improve our stack.

Skills and Qualifications

Must-Have:

• Proven experience as a backend engineer with expertise in the MERN stack (Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB).
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Proficiency in database design, indexing, and optimization (MongoDB is preferred).
• Hands-on experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of authentication/authorization frameworks (JWT, OAuth2).
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficiency in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude toward innovation.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience in building scalable eCommerce platforms or omni-channel systems.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies (React.js) for seamless backend integration.
• Familiarity with message brokers.
• Serverless and Micro Architectures
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven applications for personalization and recommendation engines.

We are looking for a Node.js Developer to join our team.

In this role, you will be entrusted with developing JavaScript applications using Node.js.

Apply now for the role of a Node.js Developer at CodeBuddy that is opening doors for skilled, energetic developers looking for Mern Stack Developer Jobs.

If you can help us design and create multiple layers of applications while working cross-functionally across different infrastructures. You would fit perfectly if you love problem-solving, design, and creating quality offerings.

Technical Competency :

• Professional experience in Javascript Stack / Framework
• Development experience in Node.js
• Experience with backend using REST API.
• Proficiency in React.js concepts is a plus but not mandatory
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming
• Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to document their code.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• To translate storyboards and various use cases to create high-performing apps
• Write, execute, and maintain clean, reusable, and scalable code
• Integrate our various data storage solutions
• Ensure the responsiveness and boost the performance of our apps
• Find and address the various bottlenecks and bug-fixes
• Help in code automatization
• Proficient use of GIT.

Interpersonal skills :

• Must be comfortable working in a team and independently when required.
• Must be disciplined, proactive, and self-motivated
• Needs to have problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good to have previous experience of direct client interaction for project briefs and updates.

What You Need To Apply:

• Previous work experience as a Node.js developer for 1 year at least.
• Strong experience with Javascript
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently or jointly in a self-directed way.
• Demonstrated successful development of web or mobile-based applications
• Proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Keen attention to detail
• Strong work ethic and desire to build industry-leading products
• Proactive instead of reactive
• Looking for ways to improve self and projects.

If you have it all in you, we are happy to have you with us!!!

Perks and Benefits:

We at Codebuddy believe our team is our biggest strength and we believe in paying our team members fair remuneration because we respect everyone’s effort.

• Review in every 9-12 months
• Opportunity to learn new technologies at the company's expense
• On-time salary (7th of every month)
• Fair pay policy
• Easy leave structure
• Performance awards
• Festival gifts
• Annual picnic
• Monthly dinner parties

We will be even happier if you have:

• Proficiency in Nest.js or Express.js,
• Being an open-source contributor,
• Ability to discover functional and non-functional requirements of an app, based on various levels of inputs from clients,
• Ability to transform customer ideas to business model and scope understandable by technical experts,
• Having excellent stakeholder management and client-facing skills.

Joining Codebuddy Means:

• Working in a comfortable and stimulating environment that boosts creativity,
• Being involved in challenging projects,
• Taking part and initiating knowledge-sharing initiatives,
• Working with clients from around the world, 
• Having the opportunity to bounce your ideas off our experienced team,
• Enjoying flextime and flexplace: adjust your daily schedule to your individual needs!
• We decide together and value equality: there is no strong hierarchy in our teams, and every opinion is more than welcome,
• Processes based on Scrum and Agile methodologies,
• Dev-friendly processes such as Code Review,
• The constant development of your hard and soft skills 
• Having a smooth start: your leader and a buddy will support you and mentor you.

What will happen next?

• Fill out the form
• Give us some time to review your application
• Meet us for an interview
• Complete a recruitment task to see how we work
• Join our team!

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Location Preferences

• Candidates located in Kerala are preferred.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript, React, and Redux

• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it(particularly Express,Loopback)

• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

• Good understanding of server-side templating languages

• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding Cloud based application deployment.

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• 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 understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Key roles:

·       Develop backend application with clean code practices foe the application

·       Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic

·       Troubleshoot and debug application

·       Gather and address technical and design requirements

·       Build reusable code and libraries for future user-facing

·       Communicate with other third-party team for collaborations

Skillset:

·       Core Java - Hands on experience with Jdk 11 and above

·       Experience with code hosting and collaboration tools like Bitbucket/Github/GitLab

·       Microservice architecture - Rest API calls, inter-service exception handling

·       Non-relational DB - MongoDB basic DB commands to insert, update, delete, find records and Indexing

·       Springboot framework - Spring Data JPA, ORM

·       Event driven architecture - Kafka

·       Tools like Postman, Jenkins, Doppler, IDE, MongoDB atlas

Qualifications:

·       UG: B.Tech/B.E. in Any Specialization, B.Sc in Any Specialization, BCA in Any Specialization

·       PG: Any Postgraduate

You will be responsible for developing features on the application and integrations end to end. You will be working closely with the Technical Team to come up with high-quality, resilient, and highly performant applications.

• Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.
• Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
• API and Integrations.
• Designing and developing APIs for the front end to consume.
• Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical backlog.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
• Work on the front end with ReactJS is a plus point.

• An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.
• A subset of the below skills should be fine as long as you are good.
• OAuth, API Integrations.
• Overall 6+ yrs of experience.
• Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
• Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, DynamoDB, Clickhouse, Kafka.
• Backend exposure – good knowledge of building and integrating APIs.
• Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding skills on OAuth.
• Should have sound working experience with relational and columnar DB.
• Should be innovative and communicative in approach.
• Will be responsible for functional/technical track of a project.

You will closely work with the engineering team and support the Product Team of Plum.

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.