Backend Developer - Node.js | MySQL at StoryXpress · Remote, Gurugram · 1 - 3 years · ₹4L - ₹10L / yr · Raised funding · Remote friendly · Posted 7 Nov 2022

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.
Why Work with Us:
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Get an opportunity to contribute to an exciting, forward-thinking and fast-moving Start-Up.
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Shape-Up your career by working with young and supportive teams and peers!
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Innovation and Creativity is all what matters!
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Friendly Policies, good competitive salaries, team outings and what not!
Job Description:
We're looking for an enthusiast Back End Developer who will be an integral part of the early StoryXpress team and can produce scalable solutions. The creativity and intelligence are much more essential to us than the experience with our stack.Thus, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment, in order to strive for excellence!
If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you :)
Job Responsibilities:
Building and scaling web products that directly impact our customers or partners.
Translate several RESTful data sources to be used in a front-end application.
Dig into bugs and feature requests.
Monitor reliability and performance through dashboards and tools to ensure availability.
Help other engineers on the team and across StoryXpress.
Work with our team to engineer new growth initiatives.
Job Requirements:
- Skills: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, Express.js, MySQL, Git, Go
- Proficiency JavaScript developer.
- Should have a good understanding of micro-server architecture and REST API.
- Thorough understanding of MVC principles and JS design patterns. *Node.js, Express.js, MySQL should be thoroughly worked upon
- GIT, GitOps and standard versioning management tools should be known.
- Knowledge of User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
Brownie Points For:
- Knowledge of Go will be a big plus
- Experience with Redis and TypeScript would fetch you a brownie point

About StoryXpress
About
StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.
Why Join us?
- Get an opportunity to contribute to an exciting, forward-thinking and fast-moving Start-Up.
- Shape-Up your career by working with young and supportive teams and peers!
- Innovation and Creativity is all what matters!
- Friendly Policies, good competitive salaries, team outings and what not!
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- Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
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- efficient, testable, and reusable code
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- Knowledge of MySQL
- Ability to work on different backend technologies
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We are looking for Self motivated, Passionate Technology enthusiasts seasoned PHP Developer (Laravel + Wordpress ) to join our team.
Job Description:
· Design, Develop, Implement, Test, Document and Maintain high quality Web Application Software.
· Understanding and implementing of project management practices.
· MVC compliant Development (Laravel/YII / CodeIgniter / Zend Framework) in at least any one of these frameworks.
· Experience with CMS framework i.e. Wordpress.
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· Identify opportunities for process improvement and make constructive suggestions for change.
· Improve the technical competence of the team through training & development of existing and new team members.
· Provide accurate effort estimates for deliverable and be committed to the deadlines through follow-up of tasks with team members.
· Research and actively learn about new technologies and introduce them into the infrastructure.
Eligibility criteria :
· Minimum experience if 2 years in laravel and wordpress. both
· Excellent problem-solving skills and love technical challenges.
· Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
· Ability to manage priorities and work in a fast pace environment.
· Strong database skills, proven experience with MySQL 5 having knowledge of indexes, fulltext searches, usage of Regular Expressions in queries and more.
· Excellent knowledge of Applications Architecture and how to work with Frameworks with MVC architecture.
· Excellent Knowledge of HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript, jQuery/Sencha etc.
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● Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data
Structures, Algorithms
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- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript
- Knowledge of Node.js and loopback 4 frameworks
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as React
- 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
- 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
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- Working knowledge of Node-Sync, callback hell and ways to control asynchronous behavior of Node functions.
- Strong command on ES6(EcmaScript) or Javascript and its concepts like prototypes, call back, closures etc
- Should have deep understanding of Native Node.js, Express.js, HAPI.js and middlewares.
- Candidates must have proper understanding and command on RESTful API development and consumptions.
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- Candidates must have knowledge of GIT, Bit-bucket.
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- Experience with NoSQL databases eg mongodb (preferred).
Profile:
We are looking for a Backend Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be 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'll be working alongside other engineers and developers, collaborating on the various layers of the infrastructure.
Job Responsibilities:
- Understand the lifecycle of a web app fully - browser-side, server-side, scalability, performance.
- Design, develop and own components of the product.
- Programming - ability to read/write enterprise quality code and make the right decision.
- Collaborate with the team and communicate effectively, to solve the problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture.
- Generalist programmer with the ability to quickly learn and use new languages.
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases.
- At ease working with a Unix based system.
- Has worked with AWS/AmazonSES/EC2/Beanstalk/S3 storage.
Key Skills:
- Strong understanding of AWS, NodeJS, MySql, ExpressJS, Angular 2.
- Strong Programming background with an understanding of the flow of the product.
- Understanding of adaptive and responsive design, and the combination of them.
- A clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, and databases.
- Has completely built a product before including deployment and connecting with the front-end.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving.
- Can write maintainable, clean code and enforce it through code reviews.
- Maintains good documentation with the code written each day.
- A capability for a great learning curve.
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- Design, create and maintain databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to production systems
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes, monitor system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
- Convert complex business requirements into technical specifcations to build scalable and reliable data solutions
- Apply data modelling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
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- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
- Develop complex query, performance tuning, stored procedures and triggers, scheduled jobs, schema refinement.
- Flexibility to work after office hours for any production issue or production deployment.
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
- Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.
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- 4+ years of database and backend development experience
- Good understanding of database systems and architectures
- Expertise in writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures
- Hands on experience with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores like MySQL and MongoDB
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