
Backend Developer
About Us
It is a stealth mode startup founded by IIT/NIT alumni who held leadership positions in companies like MindTickle and Browserstack. We have a grand vision of disrupting how companies buy and sell from each other. We are working with early customers to build an enterprise-grade product that will be GA this year. It is backed by tier 1 VCs and angel investors from India and Silicon Valley.
Job Description
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to work closely with the founding team. We are looking for a 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.
Responsibilities
- Develop platform and infra stack from scratch
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
- Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
- Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new technologies, and better assist other team members.
- Taking lead on projects, as needed.
Technology Skills
- Proven work experience as a NodeJs Backend developer and frameworks available with it like Express, Apollo Graphql. Typescript knowledge is a plus
- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
- Hands-on with various Infrastructure pieces like databases, message queues/brokers
- Familiarity with Unit Testing Frameworks, UI Testing, Monorepos and Graphql principles
- Knowledge of Alerting and Monitoring tools.
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Prior experience of the AWS cloud, knowledge about the Salesforce environment is a plus.
- Excellent project and time management skills.
Soft Skills
- Obsessed with best practices, structuring, documentation and have an eye for detail.
- Self starter with a high level of drive and commitment.
- High energy and drive to work in a startup environment.
- Conceptual thinking, flexibility and ability to juggle with multiple responsibilities.
- Ability to work under pressure and confidence to deal with complex issues.
- Good communication skills.
- Hands-on and detail oriented.
Location: Pune
Candidate profile : 3-6 years of experience in Backend Development

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Currently hiring for the position of Backend Developer responsible for managing back-end services and 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.
We are looking to recruit a candidate for a role that will require:
- Create and consume restful APIs
- Design, develop, and maintain internal and external applications
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules
- Write high quality, structured application/interface code and documentation
- Identify solutions through research and collaboration that resolves the root of problems as they arise
- Define functional and technical requirements for application software to develop skills and knowledge
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
Requirement
∙ Proficient in Node.JS
∙ 5+ years’ experience designing, querying, and updating databases in MySQL/nosql
∙ Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
∙ Good to have knowledge of AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch
Education: Min. Graduate in related discipline
Work experience: 5years relevant experience
As a Senior Software Engineer, you need to have:
● Advanced knowledge of PHP, Nodejs, MySQL, HTML/CSS, Javascript etc.
● Some experience in managing engineering teams of 5-20 people.
Work Details:
● Your work will involve managing software development team via web and mobile
technologies like PHP/Laravel, MySQL, Node.js, MongoDB, React, Angular, Ionic, AWS
etc.
● Lead, Coach and mentor a strong and passionate team of web and mobile Engineers and Designers
● Drive new features and improve performance
● Define or Review architectural standards and processes
● Drive performance analysis and optimization efforts
● Help set and fulfil the engineering hiring plan for the team including sourcing, screening
and interviewing
● Represent the team in engineering and product meetings
● Work with teams across Squareboat to ensure a seamless user experience for our
client's customers
● Champion continuous improvement to help raise the bar on quality, performance and
maintainability
● Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and
development processes within the team
You need to have:
● 5+ years of relevant software development experience
● Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related
technical discipline
● A good understanding of the software development lifecycle
● Some interesting side projects you have done or a Github profile with real open source
contributions will be a big plus
Benefits:
● Working with the latest web technologies in an early-stage product startup, with plenty of
opportunities to learn
● You will work directly under the mentorship of other senior designers/developers and the
startup's founders
Skills:
● PHP, Javascript, MySQL, AngularJS, React.js
The Role:
You are a Backend Engineer passionate about building world-class mobile and web applications with performant backend and glitch-free experience. You will be part of a team which will be delivering technology that enhances the in-app experience for our users and enables our development teams to build mobile apps easier, faster and more efficient. You will build compelling and engaging applications for Web and Mobile platforms. Employing your experience in latest Nodejs frameworks like Express.js,Hapi.js, Yarn, PM2 and proficiency in Elasticsearch, in building RESTful APIs, in integrating with databases like MongoDB and MySQL/Postgres with discipline in collaboration and pair programming. Our clientele majorly comprises of BFSI companies, so experience in Financial Applications and enterprise data security will be a big-plus.
Responsibilities:
• Contribute to an Agile team to build web and mobile applications, APIs, SDKs and other tools as required
• Collaborate with various teams within IORTA to realize the requirements for the project and Rapidly deliver iterative solutions
• Provide task plans and follow trends in technology and suggest new approaches to application design and development
• Review and evaluate designs for compliance with development guidelines
•. Implement best practices and methods to improve the development process within the
team and organization
MomentSnap is US based mature startup founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneurs of Indian Origin. We are looking for exciting young talent like yourself to join our Noida Development Centre and work on cutting edge tech. At MomentSnap we believe in making amazing things happen while having fun, and the work is challenging yet exciting and salary and perks are really cool.
Below are the requirements in brief :
General Requirement :
1. Help with defining product requirements, analysis, designing.
2. Research & Development on new requirements.
3. Help create and maintain product documentation.
4. Mentor and provide regular feedback/updates across the TEAM.
5. Be aware and plan for potential pitfalls, solve production/ customer issues quickly, and help roadmap a feature-rich solution.
6. Team player with strong listening, good communication and soft-skills
7. Experience working with agile methodologies (Design Sprints, Scrum, Lean Startup, Kanban, XP) and cross-functional teams (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Designers, Test Engineers)
8. Ideally familiar with Design Thinking, Behaviour and Test-Driven Development
9. Awareness and exposure to tools - GIT, JIRA, Confluence, Hangout etc
10. Looking for a long term opportunity to work with the one of the fastest growing and mature US based startup -
Technology Requirement :
- NodeJS (mandatory), NoSQL DynamoDB/MongoDB/Cassandra etc. (mandatory), AWS serverless experience with API GW/Lambda (great to have), Microservices/Serverless computing exposure (preferred to have), Responsive design with HTML5/CSS3 exposure (good to have)
- Software developer with 2-4 years of experience in developing cloud-hosted, backend applications using NodeJS, API Gateway+AWS Lambda
- High proficiency with server side frameworks (preferably NodeJS), experience with NoSQL databases (preferably DynamoDB)
- Able to integrate with and manage APIs exposed via microservices/serverless (REST, Serverless framework etc.) including development and support of NodeJS
- Exposure to NodeJS backend libraries - aws-sdk, jsonwebtoken, bluebird, loadash, moment etc.
- Active usage of optimizing CI/CD process and tools, testing frameworks and practices (preferably GitHub, Jenkins/Bamboo, Mocha/Karma, etc)
- Exposure to AWS (or any cloud) services Interested to explore? If yes please contact me or apply for this profile and I shall be happy to introduce you to our great team and product.







