Backend Engineer

About Us: Hoop Konsulting is an IT consulting and software development company focused on delivering custom software solutions to clients globally. Our core values of integrity, trust, respect, hard work, and mutual growth are the foundation of everything we do.  

Job Description: 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing complex web applications using the MEAN (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js) stack. As a Senior Developer, you will be responsible for developing, and maintaining web applications, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop, and maintain scalable web applications using the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js). 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. 
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications. 
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. 
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation. 
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members. 
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies. 
• Mentor and guide junior developers. 

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience in web development, with a focus on the MEAN stack. 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript. 
• Extensive experience with Angular and Node.js. 
• Proficiency with MongoDB and Express.js. 
• Experience with RESTful API design and implementation. 
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks. 
• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git. 
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills. 
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. 
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies. 

What We Offer: 

• Competitive salary and benefits package. 
• Health and accidental insurance 
• Opportunities for professional growth and development. 
• A collaborative and innovative work environment. 
• A chance to work on exciting and challenging projects with international clients. 

If you are a passionate and experienced MEAN Stack Senior Software Engineer, looking to be a part of a professional, conducive, growth oriented environment,  we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our talented team at Hoop Konsulting! 

Company Description

Hubler is a NoCode platform located in Bangalore Urban that helps businesses digitally transform and manage every aspect of their business onto a single platform. Our clutter-free app-building platform offers ready-to-deploy apps and app canvas to digitize any business process into mobile and web apps overnight, as well as actionable insights in real-time.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Senior Software Engineer (Python) at Hubler. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software applications while working within a team of developers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and develop software solutions that meet client needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in developing, and maintaining high-quality software applications using Python
• Must enjoy Coding with Passion
• Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, algorithms, data structures and design patterns
• Experience working with Django, Flask, Python-based web frameworks and Restful APIs
• Experience in database design and management with MongoDB
• Experience in distributed source control, such as Git
• Experience with scrum development methodology
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related field
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, to facilitate clear communication with team members and stakeholders
• The ability to work in a collaborative team environment with willingness to share skills and knowledge

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

We’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building web services to join our engineering team to help architect, build and run our growing list of products. You should have prior experience being responsible for building sufficiently complex products/services and mentoring software engineers.

Responsibilities: 

• Lead a team of engineers working on our product roadmap. You are expected to contribute to feature development with hands-on development tasks
• Oversee software architecture, source control workflows, and CI/CD processes and perform code reviews to ensure exceptional code quality
• Improve the development experience and the quality of the codebase. You will define and uphold best practices and coding standards for the team
• Responsible for architecture and design decisions
• Own stability and performance of the service that you work on
• Work with the Engineering Manager to ship stable software on time
• Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your area of expertise

Requirements: 

• 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role designing and building complex backend systems
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Excellent knowledge of best practices and coding patterns
• Deep knowledge of backend programming languages like Python and web application frameworks like Django
• Solid experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Proficiency with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform or Azure
• Extensive experience with Linux/UNIX production environments
• Strong sense of quality in terms of both program architecture and code style
• Passion to dig into technically complex problems to troubleshoot and figure out a solution
• Desire to continuously improve and ship the best quality product
• Pragmatic approach to make sure technical decisions align with actual business needs. 
• Good understanding of the trade-offs when building for product value, reliability, or performance
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to discuss and explain your point of view clearly and effectively
• An engineering degree is a must(B.E. CS preferred)

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 3 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-based app.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus