Backend Engineer

About Company: 

Snapsight is an AI-powered platform that delivers real-time event summaries in 75+ languages. We work with conferences worldwide and won the 2024 Skift Award for Most Innovative Event Tech. We're an early-stage startup scaling fast.

Join us if you want to become part of a vibrant and fast-moving product company that's on a mission to connect people around the world through events. 

Location: Remote/Work From Home 

What you'll be doing: 

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code in Node.js for back-end services. 
• Ensuring optimal and high-performance code logic for the data from/to the database. 
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integrations. 
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions. 
• Preparing technical specification documents for the developed features. 
• Providing technical recommendations and suggesting improvements to the product. 
• Writing unit test cases for APIs. 
• Documenting code standards and practicing it. 
• Staying updated on the advancements in the field of Node.js development. 
• Should be open to new challenges and be comfortable in taking up new exploration tasks. 

Skills: 

• 3-5 years of strong proficiency in Node.js and its core principles. 
• Experience in test-driven development. 
• Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB is required 
• Experience with MySQL database 
• RESTful/GraphQL API design and development 
• Docker and AWS experience is a plus
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, PHP, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks. 
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills. 
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude 
• Experience with a version control system like Git 
• Knowledge about the Software Development Life Cycle Model, secure development best practices and standards, source control, code review, build and deployment, continuous integration

Strong Full stack/Backend engineer profile

Mandatory (Experience): Must have 2+ years of hands-on experience as a full stack developer (backend-heavy)

Mandatory (Backend Skills): Must have 1.5+ strong experience in Python, building REST APIs, and microservices-based architectures

Mandatory (Frontend Skills): Must have hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React or Vue) and JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Mandatory (Database Skills): Must have solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis

Mandatory (Cloud & Infra): Must have hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and SNS

Mandatory (DevOps & Infra): Must have working experience with Linux environments, Apache, CI/CD pipelines, and application monitoring

Mandatory (CS Fundamentals): Must have strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, OS concepts, and system design

Mandatory (Company) : Product companies (B2B SaaS preferred)

At LambdaTest, We help developers and testers fix their applications across a combination of 2000+ browsers and Operating Systems by providing a complete cross-browser ecosystem on the cloud. As Backend Developer You will work with other Developers throughout the Software Development Life Cycle.

You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll out product that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

What’s the Opportunity?

• As a hands-on engineering professional, you'll stay on top of the details and will be more focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating the best user experience and 
• Support and collaborate with our service engineers in getting to the bottom of issues and come up with robust solutions.
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people.
• Design distributed systems using micro services architecture would be plus.
• Implementing high performance and non-blocking systems to serve traffic heavy SaaS based product.

Requirements and qualifications-

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education with 2-4 Years of work experience.
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to:Python, Golang, NodeJs 
• A solid understanding of software construction
• The ability to naturally follow good development practices like test automation, CI/CD, source version control, etc.

Senior Web Backend Developer

 Company Overview:

It is a US based startup founded in 2018 to build an edge data platform for the autonomous world.Rich data in large volumes is getting collected at the edge (outside a data center) in use cases like autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, satellite imagery, smart retail, smart agriculture etc.These datasets are characterized by being unstructured (images/videos), large size (Petabytes per month), distributed (across edge, on-prem and cloud) and form the input for training AI models to get to higher degrees of automation. It is engaged with building products that solve these unique challenges and be at the forefront of this edge data revolution.

The company is backed by prominent VCs and has it’s entire software engineering team based out of India and provides ample opportunities for from-scratch design and development.

Role:

This role is an individual contributor role with key responsibilities in developing web server backends for Akridata management plane software that provides a ‘single pane of glass’ for users to manage assets, specify and monitor large volume data pipelines at scale involving 10s of petabytes of data.

This role involves:

1. Working with tech leads and the rest of the team on the feature design activities and picking appropriate tools and techniques for implementation.
2. Be a hands-on developer able to independently make correct implement choices, follow sound development practices to ensure an enterprise grade application.
3. Guide and mentor junior team members.

 What we are looking for:

1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science with strong CS fundamentals and problem-solving.
2. 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development with 3+ years on web backend development.
3. A good understanding of backend application interactions with relational databases like MySQL, Postgres etc
4. Knowledge of web server development frameworks preferably on Python.
5. Enthusiastic to work in a dynamic, fast paced startup environment.

Good to have:

1. Hands-on experience with designing database schema and implementing and debugging SQL queries for optimal performance for large datasets
2. Experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
3. Experience with working on a product from early stages of it’s development typically in a startup environment.

• Required Skills, Qualifications, and Benefits:

  • Core Knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS3, MySQL & JavaScript.

  • Basic understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

  • Ability to communicate effectively with the team and clients.

  • Proficient logical ability and flexibility to learn new technology.

  • Good in designing and problem-solving abilities

  • Overall Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

  Good to have:

  • Familiar with React, Redux

  • Knowledge of backend for any CMSs like WordPress, Joomla, Magento etc

  Qualifications:

  • B.Tech, MCA

  Experience:

  • 0 - 2 years.

  Job Type:

  Full-Time (Immediate Joiner)

  Interview Type:

  Walk-in, Google Meet (for remote location)

  Work Salary:

  Decent hike on current salary.

You have 5 years or more of Backend end development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance applications.

Worked with and built high-performance products using Node Js/GoLang/ Python and have seen the product evolution cycle from PoC to Production

You have a deep understanding of design principles and can rightly judge/implement solutions to complex problems

You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a particular language/framework.

You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.

You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production environment, and finally monitoring.

Previous work experience in product-based startups

Experience building for products that have scaled and have seen the product evolution