Backend Engineer

Job Title: Backend Developer

Location: In-Office, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Developer with a minimum of 1 year of experience in product building to join our dynamic and innovative team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that drive our applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between frontend and backend components, and your expertise will be critical in architecting scalable, secure, and high-performance backend solutions.

Annual Compensation: 6-10 LPA

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient backend systems and APIs using NodeJS.
• Architect and implement complex backend solutions, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend developers, and other stakeholders to deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions.
• Design and optimize data storage solutions using relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Promoting a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Implement and enforce best practices for code quality, security, and performance optimization.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage, including unit testing, and implement various testing methodologies and tools to validate application functionality.
• Utilize cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) for infrastructure deployment, management, and optimization.
• Conduct system design reviews and contribute to architectural discussions.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation within the team.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms and ensure data encryption for sensitive information.
• Design and develop event-driven applications utilizing serverless computing principles to enhance scalability and efficiency.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 1 year of proven experience as a Backend Developer, with a strong portfolio of product-building projects.
• Extensive experience with JavaScript backend frameworks (e.g., Express, Socket) and a deep understanding of their ecosystems.
• Strong expertise in SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL and MongoDB) with a focus on data modeling and scalability.
• Practical experience with Redis and caching mechanisms to enhance application performance.
• Proficient in RESTful API design and development, with a strong understanding of API security best practices.
• In-depth knowledge of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.
• Familiarity with the entire web stack, including protocols, web server optimization techniques, and performance tuning.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is highly desirable.
• Proven experience working with cloud technologies (AWS/GCP/Azure) and understanding of cloud architecture principles.
• Strong understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable applications and microservices architecture.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment and lead projects to successful completion.

Skill set Key words

Java17, Java Spring Boot, Kubernetes/AKS/Docker(Knowledge), Microservices, (MongoDB/DynamoDB)

Role and Resposbilities :

•  Hands on experience in Java back-end development and skills with Spring-boot framework

•  Real life experience with Continuous Delivery principles and related tools (Kubernetes, AKS, Docker)

•  Expertise with Microservices design

•  Understanding of the Design Patterns, Architectural Blueprints, UML and Application Design

•  Experience in stateful application and web sessions

•  Experience with MongoDB, DynamoDB

•  Excellent communication skills and an ability to work in a team

Review requirements, design specifications and propose solution and have discussion before implementation

Work with team leads on the requirements and create estimates against those requirements

Deliver projects on time in an agile and continuous development environment

Writing tests in a client-side test framework such as Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, etc.

Work withQA team for resolving issues

Report status with tools like JIRA to stakeholders

• 3-5 years of work experience developing complex software
• Minimum 2years sound experience with back-end development in Java-script frameworks like loopback, Express, etc
• A solid understanding of core Javascript principles and its fundamentals
• Familiarity with popular Javascript tools, frameworks and design principles, and enjoy staying up to date with the changing Javascript ecosystem
• Strong communication skills across the board, with a passion for finding and sharing best practices and driving.

• Javascript • Node • Express • Loopback • OAuth • API Development
• Plus Points • Knowledge of Go, Ruby, Python, Closure or any other languages • Test Driven Development (TDD) • Knowledge of front-end development

Job title: Full Stack Developer

Location : Chandigarh

We are looking to hire a Full-time, Remote (India) Backend engineer with a flair for writing full stack code to help create a SAAS product from the ground up in a niche industry.
This will be the v2.0 of an existing legacy platform with paying customers. This position is within the first few hires in the founding team of the revamped company.
We are on a mission to build a truly world class product and deliver at high speeds with high quality.

Read on and apply for the job if you are a doer, likes no BS, think you're competent enough to get things done, wants some quiet time every day, wants to make a difference, values work life balance and enjoy life outside work.

Experience -

At least 3 to 4 years building scalable SAAS applications in the cloud. It would be great to showcase anything progressive. Education from premier institutions, git contributions, tech blogs, volunteering, pet projects, etc.

Responsibilities -
- Architect, write, deploy and own the (SAAS) product from a technical standpoint working closely with other devs on the team
- Create and deliver the product end-to-end all the way to the user
- Write highly performant code and continuously measure performance and make the application better based on benchmarks
- Debug production issues and keep the application quality high always
- Assist with hiring more people when the team grows
- Pick up any appropriate work as in any early-stage company

General Skills Needed -

- Should be able to build and deploy multi-tenant SAAS applications end to end
- Need to have a technology-agnostic mindset. Should be able to easily pick up any new technology based on the use case.
- Should be an expert software craftsman/craftswoman. Must own the code and be proud of what you build.
- Write well thought out, well-tested code with extensive unit tests and integration tests so that the addition of future features is easy.
- Must know cloud deployment concepts and be comfortable creating and maintaining cost-effective cloud deployment strategies. AWS experience highly preferred.
- Must be able to design and architect simple, market-tested yet highly scalable solutions
- Must be able to quickly iterate and produce working software at a high speed. Must not be shy to scrap and rebuild when there is a need
- Must be appreciative of documentation and write well-documented code and technical documentation alongside

Technical Skills Needed -
- Expert level knowledge in Python and Django. We are a Python/Django/Javascript/ReactJs/AWS shop.
- Must have good knowledge/experience in creating cost-efficient and scalable cloud deployments (AWS preferred)
- Must have good knowledge of industry-standard design patterns and tools
- Must have a good understanding of various frameworks on authentication and authorization, billing and metrics
- Some experience in data analytics and reporting - creating reports based on the data collected and deliver to the frontend
- Expertise with Frameworks

1. Django, or similar backend frameworks
2. PostgreSQL, MySQL, any NoSQL or other database technology

Perks -

- Opportunity to build a SAAS product from the ground up. Lots of challenges to tackle on
- Work remotely from anywhere within India
- Emphasis on work-life balance and professional development
- Flexible work hours and a lot of autonomy
- Work with a very informal team collaborating over slack. No meaningless meetings. Focus on getting things done and not hours put in
- Opportunity to grow the team with the company
- Market salary and a yearly bonus outside the salary based on company + individual performance
- Generous PTO plan