Backend Engineer

[Senior NodeJS Developer] JP Funware & Technologies

Our Vision

JP Funware & Technologies is a new India-based online gaming company foraying into real money gaming with a portfolio that spans skill games (RummyXL) and many more upcoming ultimate games. The company specializes in technology and artificial intelligence to provide amazing game-playing experiences across its platforms. The Company for a future where the platform can deliver a culturally relevant and enjoyable experience in the Indian gaming environment, with features like easy payment withdrawal, less commission, and much more

The Role

JP Funware & Technologies is looking for a Senior NodeJS Developer passionate about working on core system architecture and cutting-edge technology with the experience and knack for real-money gaming. The ideal candidate should have experience in developing high-performance, scalable and secure applications using Node.js. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining server-side applications, implementing new features and fixing bugs, and collaborating with other team members to ensure the success of the project.

Key Responsibilities

·       Creating and maintaining server-side application logic.

·       Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.

·       Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.

·       Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.

·       Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.

·       Collaborate with front-end developers on combining their front-end elements and components with the server side.

·       Work on security and data protection.

·       Incorporate data storage solutions (MongoDB).

·       Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.

·       Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.

·       Design and optimize applications for high performance, high availability, and low latency

·       Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

·       Troubleshoot and debug applications.

·       Familiarity with how to create scalable Node.js applications.

Key skills and Experience Required

·       At least 6 years of experience in developing Node.js applications.

·       Strong understanding of JavaScript and Node.js.

·       Experience with popular Node.js frameworks such as Express, Koa, or NestJS.

·       Strong knowledge of database technologies such as MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.

·       Experience with Git and version control.

·       Extensive knowledge of socket.io libraries, and frameworks (Express).

·       Working knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.

·       Familiarity with how to create scalable Node.js applications.

·       Great organizational and time management skills.

·       Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

·       Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

·       Master's degree in computer science, information science, or related field (preferred)

Why Explore a Career at JPFT

·      Disproportionate Learning

All you need to bring to the table is a passion for Real Money Games and/or Tech. The responsibility for your growth and managing your learning curve is totally ours. Real money games are one of the most challenging businesses from a Tech & Operations point of view and we intend to expose our employees to various facets of their domain to make them rich with hands-on experience.

·      Work-Life Balance

We do not glorify working overtime in the name of "startup hustle / hyper growth mindset". Efficiency is best driven when there is a solid work-life balance for our team members and we swear by this principle.

·      Wealth Creation

Attractive compensation way above the market along with our generous bonus policy helps us in helping our younger and more passionate team members focus on wealth creation at the very stage of joining the organization.

·      Peace of Mind

Flexible work culture and openness have been an integral part of our company structure from the beginning. We believe in taking care of your mental, physical, and emotional well-being.

It is a golden opportunity to be a part of the team and embark on a two-fold journey - enhancing the sports engagement of an average Indian and being the best RMG tech organization in the country. If you love sports and are passionate about technology and RMG, THIS IS THE PLACE for you!

Benefits at JPFT

Competitive Pay Packages || Swanky & vibrant workspace in Gurgaon || Investment in Learning & Development / Training || Employee Friendly Work Practices || Flexible Leave Policy || Company Laptop || Annual Offsite || Solve Challenging Problems|| High Scope of Innovation

Interview Process JPFT

· Exploratory Call by the HR Team

 The uniqueness of the hiring process at JPFT is that at least ONE Founder will be present in all your interviews. This ensures the candidate gets a very strategic view of where the company aims to be in the medium/long term.

· One Technical Round – The technical round is to gauge & understand competence on the desired skill set and alignment from a technical standpoint.

· Final Round with the Founding Team to understand alignment on the vision and long-term plans of the organization.

JPFT's Tech Stack

NodeJS

Redis

Socet.io

MongoDB

AWS

Unity, C#

Required Education:

B.Tech./ BE - Computer, IT, Electronics only

Required Skills:

• 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology and springboot
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

As an engineer, you will help with the implementation, and launch of many key product features. You will get an opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies (including Spring, AWS Elastic Search, Lambda, ECS, Redis, Spark, Kafka etc.) and apply new technologies for solving problems. You will have an influence on defining product features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will get to work with skilled and motivated engineers who are already contributing to building high-scale and high-available systems.

If you are looking for an opportunity to work on leading technologies and would like to build product technology that can cater millions of customers inclined towards providing them the best experience, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!

What You'll Do:

• Creating detailed design, working on development and performing code reviews.
• Implementing validation and support activities in line with architecture requirements
• Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks.
• Designing, building, and implementation of the product; participating in requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation and review of high and low level design, assigning and reviewing tasks for product implementation.
• Work closely with product managers, UX designers and end users and integrating software components into a fully functional system
• Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production.
• Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns.
• Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
• Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent.
• Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.

The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/she should be able to commit and own the deliveries end-to-end.

What You'll Need:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 2-3+ years of Software Development experience with proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA
• Fluency with Java, and Spring is good.
• Experience in JEE applications and frameworks like struts, spring, mybatis, maven, gradle
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and CS fundamentals.
• Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and data modeling skills
• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
• Ability to learn new domains and deliver output
• Hands on Experience with the core AWS services
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, GitLab, TeamCity, GoCD, etc.)

• Expertise in at least one of the following:

    - Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology

    - Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached

    - Distributed column store databases like Snowflake, Cassandra, or HBase

    - Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks

• Proficient with writing and reviewing Python and other object-oriented language(s) are a plus
• Experience building automations and CICD pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
• Experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.
• Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile: Scrum, Kanban
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams

We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Java developer roles and responsibilities include managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.

Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.

• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven hands-on Software Development experience (Microservices & Springboot)
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (Spring MVC)
• Experience with test-driven development

Position Responsibilities:
1.     Design, implementation, and deployment of applications
2.     Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
3.     Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
4.     Work extensively with cross-functional teams across.
5.     Work with the business team and project managers to convert functional requirements into detailed technical specifications.
6.     The ideal candidate will be a leader, builder, and operator. He/she should be able to operate in a very fast-paced environment where time to hit the market is supercritical.

Desired Candidate profile: 
1.     A Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education from Elite College or institution and work experience.
2.     4+ years of Software Development experience.
3.     Excellent object-oriented design and coding skills (Java, C++ on a UNIX or Linux platform).
4.     Very strong software development background including design patterns, data structures, test-driven development.
5.     Ability to design and implement systems end to end on your own while maintaining highest coding standards.
6.     Excellent knowledge of design patterns and ability to reflect it in their code.
7.     Ability to lead projects and mentor junior engineers on the same.
8.     Mandatory work experience in skills sets: REST API, JDBC, RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
9.     Solid Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
10.  Software development experience in Servlet, JSP, Spring, AWS, S3, SQS, building web services and highly scalable applications or Google Cloud Suite.
11.  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Build large scale enterprise applications.
• Responsible for providing deep technical expertise in designing and delivering end to end high performance, scalable & flexible solutions using Java and Open Stack technologies including Mobility/Responsive Web apps, APIs, application & data Integration, scalable databases, DevOps, Cloud Computing.
• He/ She would be also responsible to experiment, explore and demonstrate application of new technologies by means of conducting quick prototypes to solve business problems. Work with the direction from Solution Architect/ Enterprise Architect and co-create solutions with rest of the IT delivery teams

Applicant must have a min of 4 years of experience as a Java Developer and a Min of 2 years on Spring boot, Augular knowledge must, having an experience in Angular would be an added advantage.

Detailed JD

Resources with below skill sets :

- Angular JS

- Spring MVC

- Spring Boot

- Hibernate

- PostgreSQL

- Drools

- SVN

- Jenkins

- SonarQube

- Foresighted & good judgement in problem solving.

- Capable of paying attention to detail.

- Good analytical and logical thinking.

- Prioritizing and organizing

- Team Player with positive attitude.

- Process knowledge/Technical expertise

- Good Written and Verbal communication Skills

- Analyse & understanding of the SRS.

- Report queries on the SRS/Requirement.

- Prepare low level design document

- Prepare Unit test cases

1. 2+ years of experience building REST APIs with Java
2. 1+ years of experience in maintaining REST APIs documentation.
3. 2+ years of experience programming and delivering in a production environment
4. Expertise working with data structures and algorithms
5. Proficiency in object-oriented programming and experience applying modern design patterns.