Backend Developer

• Develop, test, and maintain server-side applications using Node.js and related technologies.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices architecture to support frontend functionality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Optimize application performance, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Stay updated with emerging backend technologies and methodologies to improve development processes.

Mandatory

• SaaS experience of 2 years with total development experience of 4 years
• Must have worked in a smaller company of less than 100
• Should have built solutions/softwares end to end and not just as a part of bigger team
• Should see themselves going deeper into the same role even 5 years down the line
• Should have knowledge on Node.js, MongoDB, and AWS
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, event-driven architecture, and Node.js design patterns.
• Proficiency in working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or MySQL.
• Experience with API development, including RESTful services and microservices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex server-side issues.

Essential

• Proficiency with version control systems like Git.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Knowledge of system design and scalable architecture.
• Understanding of security best practices and implementing secure APIs.

Good to Have

• Experience with GraphQL and related backend technologies.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Experience with platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, or other e-commerce technologies.
• Exposure to frontend technologies such as React for better cross-functional collaboration.

• Software Engineering
  • Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry
  • Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team
  • Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services
  • Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence
• Product Delivery
  • Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap
  • Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
  • Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution
  • Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

• Software Engineering
  • Deep knowledge of one of the programming language they have experience in
  • Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus
  • Data modelling experience in Relational Databases
  • Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Product Delivery
  • Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.
  • Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development, code review, testing and release management
  • Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source code management tools
• Product Maintenance
  • Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks etc
  • Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design

Experience: 6 to 10 Years

Must have:

• Experience in leading teams and handling communication among engineers and product managers,and have worked with mobile teams and product teams.
• Experience working on RFC documentation.
• Experience in architecting the software, estimating tasks, breaking down into subtasks, prioritizing tasks as per need, and timely delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing mobile-first applications.
• Creating and maintaining clean and clear front-end code and backend APIs for our web and mobile applications.
• Automation and Deployments of builds - Frontend and Backend.
• Application Performance And Error Monitoring and Automation
• Maintaining excellent test coverage for our code base.
• Follow best practices while reviewing pull requests
• Working with our shared services and field teams to identify application bottlenecks and make relevant architectural decisions.
• Working with our front-end application developers to optimize performance across our system.
• Designing administrative tools for our shared services and business development teams
• Constantly optimizing our code bases with an eye for modularity and legibility.
• Writing documentation for our external and internal APIs.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of RESTful JSON web API design principles.
• Demonstrable experience with NodeJS, Express. JS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Familiarity with popular NodeJS packages (e. g. express, socket-io).
• Must have experience with test driven development(TDD).
• Experience in JavaScript development.
• Experience in backend web development.
• Containerisation experience working with Docker/ Kubernetes/ Docker Swarm
• Familiarity with multiple additional programming languages/stacks.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB.
• Experience with RDBMS databases like MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• An excellent understanding of distributed systems and their tradeoffs.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate technical problems, design and implementation choices to a broad range of stakeholders (e. g. sales team, users, security experts).
• Experience working with web sockets.
• Familiarity with the AWS stack.
• Experience in application security testing.
• Familiarity with client-side JavaScript frameworks and best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipeline.
• Contributions to open source communities.

Perks and Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Competitive salary and bonus program
• Annual company retreats to fantastic places
• Unlimited Vacation Policy
• Great healthcare coverage
• Professional development allowance
• Internet Allowance
• Customised CMMversary rewards on your 1,3,5,7 and 10-year work anniversaries
• Career Enablement – We meld your upskilling initiatives with organization’s strategic planning
• Take your Birthday Off

About our Client

Our client is a B2B2C tech firm backed by India’s largest retailer and tech venture capitalist founded by founders - IITB Graduates who are experienced in retail, ecommerce and fintech

It aims to become one app to manage all your brands loyalty points, cashback and coupons. It will have additional content and discovery layer for customers and brands for further engagement and commerce.

The company currently powers closed-loop loyalty programs for all different brands under its parent retail group. Currently, it has 20Mn+ registered customers and 3Mn MAU across 8 brands. Its vision is to be at the center of D2C Brands and the consumer consumption ecosystem

Job Location -Bangalore

Job  Location: Bangalore

Key Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• High volume of data and requests to be managed

Required Skills and Qualifications

• BE / MCA / B.Sc-IT / B.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.
• 3-5 years overall development experience.
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• 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

Prefer Immediate Joiners with Node experience only
Minimum 2 Years of experience in NodeJS. Minimum 1 Year experience in MongoDB Minimum 1 Year of experience in ElasticSearch.

Required Skills:

• 2+ years experience developing software using PaaS/APIs, Java, Docker, Bash, Json, Node js, sql / postgres, RestAPI, Swagger.
• Java 8 / Tomcat 8.5 / Jersey REST
• Spring MVC/Spring Boot/Microservices
• Hibernate
• Strong desire to learn
• Knowledge of cutting-edge technologies.
• Basic understanding of design patterns
• Comfortable working with Subversion, Git, or similar source control environments
• Must be willing to do Test Driven Development.
• Strong communication skills, must embrace working in a highly-collaborative environment

Preferred Skills:

• Good understanding of web-service technologies, Restful APIs
• Some exposure to a version control system such as Git or Subversion
• Proven understanding of software development techniques, concepts and processes
• Driven and self-motivated.
• Works creatively to solve challenging problems

Demonstrable experience in Core Java (8 or higher) and Spring framework (Core, AOP, Batch, JMS).

Multithreading, Data structure, Algorithm, Eceptional handling,OOPS Concepts, collections

• Excellent customer facing skills that include conducting compelling technical briefing & demonstrations. The person should have a technical aptitude to implement new technologies and articulate the solutions to the customer.
• Java, Spring with Database & Unix - Preferred with Scala or Spark(Hadoop) background
• Proven knowledge in OOPS & Data Structures
• Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application
• Demonstrated delivery experience of Micro services APIs using Springboot, Oracle PL/SQL development and activities like Performance tuning / Optimization.
• Experience of using Git/Bitbucket, Maven/Bamboo, & related tools.
• Good Understanding of Agile Delivery Methodology & experience in working with Scrum teams.