
Backend Development- Part time job
at Australian based startup to democratise personal development
Company's mission is to democratise personal development. We do this by building the most effective and efficient path to wellness for those at the start of their personal development journey.
Company's main value proposition is to provide knowledge and application of all the core principles of wellbeing in one place at an accessible price. For our MVP (to be launched in mid 2022), we are prioritising exercise, nutrition, meditation and fasting as the first four pillars.
We’re looking for a personal development enthusiast to join our product development team (iOS app for the MVP, Android to follow later this year). Working closely with the co-founders, you’ll work across engineering, product and design to build a world class app for wellness and personal development based on proven first principles.
As the first batch of engineers to join the founders, you’ll help shape the company’s systems, culture, strategy, product and growth.
Job requirements
● Commercial experience as a Software Engineer with deep knowledge in: Typescript
● NestJs, github actions, firebase, heroku experience is a plus
● Experience with Object-Oriented programming
● At least 3 years of experience as a backend engineer
● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent;
● Fluent in spoken and written in English
● Experience working in a product development environment
● Strong problem-solving capabilities
● Ability to build scalable solutions
● Strong communication skills
● Eager to learn from and share knowledge with others
● Enjoys analysing complex problems to find simple solutions for our customers
● Excited to work closely with product, design, and users with empathy and kindness
Benefits
● Candidates will have unparalleled opportunities for learning and accelerated career growth working at a fast-paced, hyper-growth startup environment. As a member of the team, you’ll have opportunities to:
○ Learn from the best:
■ CEO: Previously, an early employee of leading online design and publishing tool
platform with millions of users, valued at $40 billion
○ Develop core competency in the area of healthcare and technology
○ Take on high-impact, challenging projects that push the company's technical boundaries.
○ Evaluate salary terms with high promotion opportunities at work.
○ Work in a young, dynamic environment, approaching new trends.
● Laptop/tools provided
● 30-day paid annual leave

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Experience - 4+ yrs
About Wekan Enterprise Solutions
Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.
Job Description
We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?
You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.
Location - Bangalore
Basic qualifications:
- Good problem solving skills
- Deep understanding of software development life cycle
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong focus on quality of work delivered
- Relevant experience of 4+ years building high-performance backend applications with, at least 2 or more projects implemented using the required technologies
Required Technical Skills:
- Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance web back-ends using Node.Js. Having 3+ hands-on experience in Node.JS and Javascript/Typescript and minimum
- Hands-on project experience with Nest.Js
- Strong experience with Express.Js framework
- Hands-on experience in data modeling and schema design in MongoDB
- Experience integrating with any 3rd party services such as cloud SDKs, payments, push notifications, authentication etc…
- Exposure into unit testing with frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest or others
- Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation
Good to have skills:
- Experience working with common services in any of the major cloud providers - AWS or GCP or Azure
- Experience with microservice architecture
- Experience working with other Relational and NoSQL Databases
- Experience with technologies such as Kafka and Redis
- Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies
Opportunity Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic engineer with experience building Salesforce AppExchange apps to lead the development of Salesforce connectors for our marketing technology products.
What would you do?
· Collaborate with stakeholders in establishing application requirements, determining features, creating customer-friendly solutions, and determining support needs and performance requirements.
· Plan, design, develop, test, and deploy software to satisfy these requirements.
· Work according to the agile programming application development methodology adhered to including test-first, iterative development, and continuous re-prioritization.
· Support the maintenance of our hosted technology solutions.
· Work with other team members in accomplishing group objectives and participating in code reviews.
· Ensure timely and robust implementation of the company’s development plans.
· Ensure that all relevant parties are kept up to date on progress of projects and give feedback on an ongoing basis.
· Contribute to the review, selection, and adoption of proprietary tools and technologies.
· Use specialist knowledge and experience of information technology to provide technical advice and vision.
Technical Skills
The following skills are needed for this role.
Experience
· 3+ years’ experience in web application design and development
· Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent experience
Primary Skills
· Strong background in Java development
· Experience working with databases and/or CRM systems.
· Experience with, or willingness to learn the Salesforce platform
Secondary Skills (nice to have)
· Experience with Salesforce APEX, VisualForce, SOQL, etc.
· Experience building and maintaining Salesforce AppExchange apps.
· AWS ecosystem and tools, developing for serverless environments.
· Front-end expertise: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
· Other languages such as JavaScript, Typescript, C#, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc. are all valuable.
Soft Skills
· Thrives collaborating in a team environment with a diverse range of people.
· Passionate about delivering an amazing customer experience.
· Able to have a change of mind, and able to change the minds of others.
· Writes clearly and concisely.
· Capable of working without a company office, with a fully remote team.
Growth Skills
· Possesses a good work ethic; a self-starter with a desire to grow.
· Always looking for better ways to get the job done.
• Testing and evaluating new programs
• Writing and implementing efficient code
• Identifying areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these modifications
• Working closely with other developers, business and systems analysts
• Drive an effective and efficient scrum process where all team members work in the same direction. Ensure efficiency and effectiveness of your team by continuously
improving processes
• Provide fact-based technical feedback on each squad member to managers as part of the evaluation cycle.
• Complete independently complex development tasks and actively contribute to pushing code to production. Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and deployment, respecting best practices and industry development standards.
• Be accountable for code quality, with the assistance of a QA Analyst, by conducting adequate testing Develop a deep understanding of the product roadmap for the squad, including future features to be developed.
• Contribute to high-level estimation and participate in laying out the development sequences, challenging the product roadmap and identifying areas where technical debt can be reduced or avoided.
• Contribute to solution designs, challenging other members on technical decisions and explaining the technical design to junior developers so they can write documentation for the rest of the team.
• Coordinate actively with the solution architect to ensure an appropriate level of validation. Be accountable for performance, reliability, scalability and resilience through SLAs and monitoring
• Raise the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft through code reviews and coaching. Actively contribute to the internal peer learning platform, to promote continuous learning. Participate in the onboarding of new developers.
• Conduct interviews, document outcomes and help raise the bar for recruits we hire, internal and external resources
• Team player with a high sense of accountability and ownership. Willing to try new things, not afraid to fail, learn from failures and grow. Verbal & non-verbal communication skills
Node.js Developer / NestJS Developer – Job Description
A Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science is preferred with excellent problem solving skills.
Job Type: Full-time
Job Location: Bengaluru (on site)
Preferred Skills: TypeScript / Nodejs, SQL/ MySQL
Experience: Min 2yrs in similar Role.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and Maintain Server-side Logic: Design, implement, and maintain the server-side logic using Node.js, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
- API Development: Build and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with front-end services and third-party applications.
- Database Management: Work with databases (such as MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL) to ensure data consistency, reliability, and optimal performance.
- Code Quality and Testing: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers, designers, and other team members to define and implement technical solutions that meet business requirements.
- Troubleshooting and Debugging: Identify issues, debug, and resolve bugs and other technical problems in a timely manner.
- Documentation: Create and maintain documentation related to application development, API usage, and system operations.
- Stay Updated: Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure the application remains modern and competitive.
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 2.5 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-base
As one of our Backend Software Engineers, you will be part of the team responsible for the development of all server-side logic, the definition and maintenance of the database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end developers.
What will you be engaged in?
Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to scalable design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs
Architect, develop and operate services deployed to millions of users
Collaborate with the DevOps team for the necessary infrastructure needed for services to run on the cloud platform
Write backend services and Restful APIs
Be in charge of data migration, transformation, and scripting
Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, scalability, and performant applications
Implement security and data protection
Manage web apps that impact millions of users
What do we expect from you?
3 + years of experience building large-scale backend systems
Knowledge of MVC concepts
Knowledge of web applications systems
A good understanding of data pipelines, data lakes, and data ingestion is Plus
Strong understanding of Database management (MSSQL, SQL)
Strong understanding of NoSQL Database (MongoDB)
Strong understanding of RESTful API
Understanding of JavaScript and Typescripts
Understanding of Node.js frameworks and Nest JS Framework
Passion for building high performance, high throughput, low latency frameworks
Problem-solving mindset
Understanding of GIT Source code
Good at JavaScript and passionate about solving challenges using JavaScript.
Good Understanding of Pub/SUB (Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.)
Fintech Industry experience is plus
-7+ years of industry experience in Enterprise Product Development
-Experience developing and testing data structures and algorithms
-Strong Experience in Java and Typescript including object-oriented design
-Experience in agile methodologies such as Scrum
-Experience using tools such as Visual Studio, JIRA, Confluence & Git
-Understanding of operational research (OR), optimization and heuristics algorithms a definite plus
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing Web Applications/ Rest Apis/ Automation Scripts.
- Design, Develop, Enhance and test Back End Web Modules using Nodejs, Nestjs Framework, Mongo DB.
- Research and explore existing solutions, competition to get a holistic understanding of the design and development.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with various teams for effective outcomes.
- Meet deadlines in a high intensity work environment.
- Write Highly scalable and stable code.
- Pick up any project & amp; suggest a solution for completing it.
- Write production ready code with minimal bugs.
- Review other engineers' code and provide constructive feedback.
- Help grow the engineering team through involvement in the technology community (conferences, meetups, blog posts, open-source projects, etc) and referrals.
- Monitor changes in production & amp; rollback if necessary.
- Pair often and provide some guidance to more junior engineers.
Requirements:
- 2-6 years of working experience in backend technologies.
- Proficient in NodeJs, NestJs, Js.
- Understanding of Backend End Technologies.
- Proficient in RESTful APIs and API Communications.
- Understanding of Sql and NoSql Databases.
- Good grasp of Asynchronous Programming and its work arounds.
- Database schema Creation for business process.
- Working knowledge in user authentication and authorization.
- Implementing data protection Error Handling skills
- Good at analyzing and solving problems.
- Passionate to work in a start-up.
- Knowledge of firebase authentication and analytics.
- Knowledge of AWS deployment tools and strategy.
- Should be good with the Low Level and High Level Design.
- Understanding of Different Design Patterns.


- Strong programming skills in Javascript/TypeScript, Python or Go.
- Hands-on experience in API development and frameworks such Express, Loopback, Hapi.
- Good Understanding of SQL and NoSQL database.
- Experience in test driven development. (writing unit test and API test).
- Understanding of basic cloud computing concepts and experience in using any of the major cloud service providers(AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Ability to build and deploy the application in a containerized environment.
- Understanding of application logging and monitoring systems like Prometheus or Kibana.
Qualification:
- B.E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S. from a reputed university with a good academic record.
- Curiosity to explore the cutting edge technologies and bake them in the products.
- Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.

