Backend Engineer

Position Overview:

We are seeking a Node.js Developer with 1-2 years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in backend development, a solid understanding of JavaScript, Express.js, and familiarity with databases. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining server-side applications, collaborating with front-end teams, and ensuring optimal performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backend Development: Build and maintain server-side applications using Node.js and Express.js.
• API Development: Design and implement RESTful APIs to support various functionalities.
• Database Management: Work with both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Code Quality & Testing: Write clean, reusable, and testable code while following best practices.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize applications for speed and scalability.
• Troubleshooting & Debugging: Identify and resolve application issues to ensure smooth operations.
• Security Implementation: Apply basic security measures to protect applications and data.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers to integrate UI components with backend logic.

Required Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience in Node.js backend development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and ES6+ concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Express.js or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React/Angular is a plus).
• Experience working with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Basic understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with Git for version control.
• Knowledge of basic cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus).
• Understanding of Docker and containerization is an advantage.
• Good problem-solving skills and willingness to learn.

Role & Responsibilities

work with peers in Product, QA, and other Engineering departments;

coach and mentor team members;

cautiously drive adoption of new technologies and processes;

preserve our engineering values of quality, scalability, and maintainability;

“see around corners” — identify blind spots and prioritize work across teams;

work with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery; and

own the overall architecture and systems engineering for your products.

About the Role:

As a part of the Tech team, you will be involved in solving technical challenges, working with modern databases and systems, design and architecture of components/services, and handling highly critical secure data.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll be working on our P2P and cryptocurrency exchange platforms to build more features around it.
• Understand the way current users interact with the chatbot and how to optimize the existing content.
• WazirX being a financial product, you’ll be involved in building tools to make our user’s data more secure.
• You will be working on blockchain technologies
• You will help maintain code quality and organization.
• We expect you to learn about new software technologies, and proactively look for ways to make WazirX better.

You'll be a good fit if:

• You’ve got 3 to 6 years of development experience.
• You’re an expert in writing background tasks, test-driven development.
• You’re an expert in Golang 
• You’re good at understanding and implementing multithreaded environments to improve the speed of the execution
• You enjoy collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• You’re committed to quality, and your code solves more problems than it creates ;)

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Hood has recently raised $3.2Mn seed funding and is backed by top VCs, 16+ unicorn founders including Vijay Shekhar Sharma - PayTM CEO, Ritesh Agarwal- OYO CEO, Kunal Shah - Cred CEO and outstanding management team.

Role & Responsibilities

• Execute full lifecycle software development
• Architect and conceptualize the product from initiation
• Program well-designed, testable, efficient code Develop flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system

Qualifications: -

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 2-4 years of experience in software design and development.
• Strong coding skills (JavaScript/Typescript, Node.js).
• Strong database design (MySQL/DynamoDB) and query writing skills with a commitment to performance and efficiency.
• Working knowledge of RESTful API paradigms.
• Experience building distributed domain-driven microservices.
• Strong understanding of database and storage fundamentals.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
• Knowledge of React.js is a plus.
• Startup experience is a plus.

What you can expect from us

1.Learning Budget: If there's a workshop, book, or event you think will help you learn, we'll cover your bill.

2.Health insurance for you and your family.

What happens after you apply?

Step 1: Within 7 days of your application our wholesome, original & expressive - our People Team will reach out to you for a quick chat.

Step 2: Within 4-6 days of chatting with the People Team, you will get a call from someone from your future team to discuss the job role.

Step 3: If all goes well, we’ll schedule a call with your future manager to deep dive into the role with you and for you to show off your skills through a small task.

Step 4: After a quick interaction with the People Team, If our vibes match, a quick call with our Founders.

If we mutually enjoy the 4 steps, we onboard you with a big smile :)

NOTE

At any step, if things don't work out, we will proactively send out an email. You are welcome to

ask for detailed feedback and re-apply in the future.

We prefer [Passion>Skills>Education]

Responsibilities for Staff Engineer role:

• Having experience in Java/Python/Golang along with Springboot, Micorservices, RDBMS
• Experience required: 10yrs to 15 yrs.

As an SDE, you will develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with development teams and own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of software components.

Requirements:

• Exp: 3 - 8 years.
• 4 + years' experience building successful production software systems.
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field).
• The ability to take convert raw requirements into good design while exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs.
• Expertise in System design (design patterns, LLD, HLD, Solid principle, OOAD, Distributed systems etc. ), Architecture (MVC/Micro services).
• Excellence in technical communication.
• Has experience in mentoring other software developers.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience developing service oriented architectures and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative application.
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Strong organisational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail.
• Ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work with teams and ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects.
• Experience building highly scalable, high availability services.
• The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator.
• He/she should have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives.
• He/she needs to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
• He/she needs to be constantly striving for simplicity, and at the same time demonstrate significant creativity, innovation and judgme.
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language.
• Experience in SQL or Non-SQL database.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good understanding of at least some of the modern programming languages (Java) and open-source technologies

Job Description:

• Expert level knowledge of JavaScript
• We use Airbnb style to code
• Should be strong in Problem solving skills, data structure and algorithms
• Strong Proficiency in Node.js with detailed experience in Express, loopback, swagger, PM2
• Should have well understanding on Asynchronous Programming
• Experience with Socket.io, engine.io (Preferred)
• Working knowledge of Promise, Callback hell and ways to avoid it
• Solid experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL)
• Experience with Redis, MongoDB (Preferred)
• Understanding of the design Principles of a scalable system
• Exposure to GCP/ AWS is must
• Excellence in Programming, Debugging and Maintaining the code
• A strong ability to quickly learn new technologies and to keep yourself updated with the latest in tech
• A go-getter attitude with oceans of optimism, humility, and self-motivation
• Passion for code quality and attention to detail
• Experience with Code versioning tool like Git, SVN is preferred