Backend Developer - XMPP Engineer

What you will do?

Project Management

• Work with the product management team to create an engineering roadmap that aligns with the product roadmap. 
• Translate engineering roadmap into executable internal projects, and own the end-to-end execution of these projects.
• Plan, execute and deliver projects as per schedule, content, and quality metrics.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team using Agile practices.
• Keep stakeholders continually updated on the progress of projects and operations.
• Track and report engineering health metrics (such as bugs by severity, production incidents etc.)

People Management

•  Hire and mentor a team of engineers
•  Manage learning and development, and performance of your team.
•  Own, Conceptualize and Build a tech-focused team

Technical Work

•  Core stakeholder to all technical design and architecture of team.
•  Review code, test plans, and deployment plans.
•  Focus and Strengthen all aspects of reliability

What we look for?

Must Haves

• Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
• Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
• Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress.

Good to Have

• Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
• Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
• Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress

Key Responsibilities: 

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS. 
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture. 
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible. 
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability. 
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

• At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds. 
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases. 
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j. 
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs. 
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks. 
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks. 
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications. 
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git. 
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms. 
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences. 
• Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.

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

Qualification & Experience

Increasingly is an award-winning, fast-growing retail technology company focused specifically on the automation of cross-selling for online retailers.

Our clients include large global corporations like Samsung, Motorola & Canon to several small to medium size retailers across the globe. Our AI-based algorithms help a customer buying a TV on Samsung to find the matching sound bar & purchase both together.

Increasingly is headquartered in London with offices in Lisbon & Bangalore. We work with clients in over 30 countries & 20 languages.

We are looking to rapidly expand our technology & product development operations in India. And we need smart, ambitious people like you who enjoy a fun yet challenging work environment.

We believe strongly that diversity & inclusion are the foundations for a lasting, incredible culture. We also believe that it’s important to get the balance right between work & life.

• You possess an appetite for problem-solving and critical thinking
• Back-end development is an inherently collaborative task. It can be made very difficult if there isn’t clear and concise communication within a dev team. You are a great communicator and a great developer
• You are always looking for new ways to be a better developer. You put an effort into learning and exploring the world of back-end development in your own time
• The back-end development sphere is as changeable and unpredictable as any in tech. You are someone who achieves comfort in You are aware of the tools and new technologies that are being introduced.
• You possess good technical communication skills: Can effectively communicate project needs with both front and back-end teammates
• High emotional intelligence: Self-aware and attuned to their peers’needs
• Be the best back-end developer by sheer discipline, motivation, and effort

• 2-3.5 years’ experience in back end Java/J2EE application development with clear understanding of Microservices
• Experience in developing internet web applications using Java/J2EE technologies
• Experience in different modules of Spring framework like Dependency Injection (IoC), Spring MVC, Spring ORM along with JPA
• Experience in Java Version 0+. Good experience with JMS, Spring & Hibernate
• Experience in identifying database solutions for a given problem, preferably MySQL (good to have)
• Develop well-structured, maintainable code, delivered on time, with automated tests. We are an XP/Agile development team
• Hands on experience in using Application/Web servers like JBoss and Tomcat servers. Worked on databases like Oracle & MYSQL
• Experience with e-commerce, retail, analytics, advertising, or media would be an

• You'll get to work in one of the hottest & fastest growing retail technologies in Europe right now
• You'll get paid a competitive salary & be working directly with a super experienced team of people
• You'll get a great place to come to work every day. Varied, complex, challenging & with a great culture that you can shape & change

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GlobalShaala aims to build a decentralised learning system for children that enables garnering inspiration for learning from educators and industry leaders alike. A personalised platform that grows with the child and helps him/her to engage in experiences that unravels his/her competences and interests. 

We are building India's first platform where children of K-12 can engage in:

* Destination-based educational experiences, which involves curriculum mapped experiences at global destinations where kids can apply their learning.

* Virtual educational experiences by interacting directly with industry leaders. Children get to discuss the ‘Why?’, ‘How?’ and ‘Where?’ of current classroom topics directly with industry leaders and understand how the fundamentals they are dealing with are being used to solve problems with real world applications.

Qualifications:

- B.Sc/B.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.

- Strong coding, data structures and algorithms.

- 1+ year experience in PHP (Laravel).

- Experience or keen interest to take ownership of code deployment in Linux based servers, Docker, Jenkins.

- Hands-on experience with relational databases like MySQL, Postgres.

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop software for given requirements.

- Involvement in the full software development lifecycle within broadly defined parameters and providing software solutions keeping into consideration the software quality needs.

- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimisation and functionality.

- Communicate cross-functionally, collaborate with business teams, engineers to plan, own and deliver solutions on time.