Backend Engineer

Senior Full Stack Developer (BE)

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Full Stack Developer with a strong backend orientation, particularly in Node.js. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in full-stack development, with a proven track record of designing and implementing robust backend systems. You will play a crucial role in building and maintaining scalable applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Frontend Development: Collaborate on frontend development when needed, utilizing modern frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue.js) to create seamless and responsive user interfaces.
• System Architecture: Contribute to the architectural design of scalable systems and applications, providing input on best practices and technology choices.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code. Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal application performance.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other developers to understand requirements, develop solutions, and deliver features on time.
• Troubleshooting & Debugging: Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring minimal disruption to end-users.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering their growth and development.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends, and advocate for their adoption when appropriate.

Requirements

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in full-stack development, with a strong emphasis on backend development using Node.js.
• Technical Skills:
• Proficient in Node.js and its ecosystem (Express.js, Koa, etc.).
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation.
• Experience with frontend frameworks/libraries (React, Angular, Vue.js) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL), such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Team Player: Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.

Java Developer

As a senior technical member of the team, you will be expected to lead the team in the design, architecture, and implementation of high-quality, well-architected software products with a specific focus on cloud, distributed systems, scalability, elasticity and SLA rollups into each component. In this role, you are expected to interact with Senior Architects, Product Managers, Solution Architects and occasionally, with Partners and customers to discuss and collaborate on strategies for enhancing features and coming up with next-generation products. Critical thinking and strong leadership skills are a must as the candidate will be involved in leading a team and making crucial road map decisions.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Java-based development projects using RESTful APIs, SpringBoot, horizontal scalability, microservices, high availability principles
• You master the entire life-cycle including research, design, application and deployment architecture, development, testing (dev owns quality), continuous deployment and continuous delivery up until to production.
• You will develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions, and maintain its high level of quality software.
• Solid background in OOP, object and data modelling using SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience using containers, Kubernetes and developing services on AWS
• Monitor resource allocation, consumption, and performance.
• Engage in service software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Challenge yourself to walk in a different path and to deliver quickly while maintaining a high quality
• Experience with automation tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Excellent communication skills essential

Experience: 2-5 Years experience

Skills:

Core PHP (Knowledge of functions, Methods, PHP OOPS Concept, Ajax, MySQL, Jquery), Javascript, Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, MVC Structure 

Skill Set Required:

• Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
• You will design Scalable and Fault-Tolerant systems
• You will help Maintain critical and auxiliary systems (databases, cache ...)
• You will build Experiments that help validate hypotheses for the product

Experience:

2+yrs In your first 3 months, you will…

• Successfully onboard and create strong bonds with the current team
• Participate in brainstorming and technical ideation for projects with product, growth, and engineering
• Contribute to existing product features and experimentation

In your first 6 months, you will…

• Develop prototypes of new features or products using rapid iteration and experimentation as we explore new ideas
• Partner across the engineering team to ship features

In your first year, you will...

• Champion best-in-class engineering practices and systems for an emerging engineer team
• Help build a suite of features for the product

Our Ideal Hire:

• Learned best practices and has experienced the challenges and joys working at a startup
• Managed and maintained production code at increasing scales
• Feels strongly motivated by our mission
• Communicates complex problems and proposes solutions, in writing and in conversation

Expertise:

• Proficiency in any one language (ex: NodeJS / Go / Python)
• MySQL (design / indices / optimizing queries)
• Redis (types/ functionality/ use cases)

Hands-on experience:

• Handled scaling issue
• Good at debugging

Good to have:

• Kafka (or other stream-processing software)
• AWS

Do not apply if you are not:

• Ownership driven
• Curious in general
• Able to explain things in simple terms
• Self-motivated
• Use to work in the chaotic environment
• Highly proactive
• Willing to Mentor and humble to ask for collaboration
• Most important, Learn & Grow yourself!
• Hungry to grow anymore

At BACQ, our mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable.

BACQ is founded by Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal to build consumer-centric and technology-driven businesses in the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance) space.

• Work on the development backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

• 2+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Good knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing multi-threaded programs

• Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events
• Know how to use test driven development as a design tool 
• Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation
• Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects
• Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools
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