Backend Engineer

About Company:

Our client is a luxury home decor brand. It's nothing less than a revolution in the home decor industry- where technology enables world-class home interior design. We use technology combined with internationally trained designers to help our customers achieve the style they want to express.

Our services include unique technology-driven processes and analytics, consulting, execution, and supervision – all within schedule and planned budget, so they can relax and enjoy their space transformation with peace of mind.

We encourage our consumers to explore and discover their own self-expression while amazing their senses with new cultures and design techniques, tasteful décor, and ambiance.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks

• Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients

• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud

• Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability

• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing

 • Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

• Write clean code to develop functional web applications

• Troubleshoot and debug applications

• Perform UI tests to optimize performance

• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications

• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server[1]side logic

. • Gather and address technical and design requirements

• Provide training and support to internal teams

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

Skills:

• Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap

 • Curious and progressive mind to Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs

 • Good technical knowledge to Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed

 • Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.

Requirements.

• Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies

• Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out-of-the-box ideas

• Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps

• Computer science degree or equivalent experience

• Experience leading a team is a bonus.

• 3+ Years of relevant experience.

• PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.

•Proficient in MySQL. MongoDB knowledge is plus.

•APIs, REST API, API Security.

• Laravel Events, Queue, Observers.

• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design

• Experience writing highly secure web applications.

Requirements

• Design and implement a full-stack web application using Python Django framework and ReactJS.
• 1+ years of experience in building and deploying web applications.
• Experience in designing and using RESTful APIs.
• Basic knowledge in front-end technologies such as JavaScript, , ReactJS, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Understanding of databases, SQL and non-relational, plus the Django ORM.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Experience in web mark-up like HTML and CSS.
• Experience with data structure libraries.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• A knack for bench marking and optimization.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as NPM etc.
• Strong knowledge of Git version control.
• Experience deploying Python applications into production.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) knowledge is a plus.
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Responsibilities

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications using Django framework in Python.
• Create and use the REST APIs for communicating with other apps.
• Assess and prioritize feature requests and work in Agile framework.
• Implementation of security and data protection algorithms.
• Integration of data storage solutions like databases, key-value stores, blob stores, S3 etc.
• Improve the functionality of existing systems and applications.
• High commitment to work and taking ownership of deliverables.
• Help to research and influence our path forward with strategic technology initiatives.

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.

Knowledge & Experience required:

·        Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent degree.

·        7 years of development experience as a seasoned Java developer

·        7 years of experience in developing enterprise applications using enterprise Java 8 and has worked both on Web and Server side technologies.

·        A strong Java Backend Developer with Core Java 8, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, REST Web-services.

·        Expertise in Java Unit Testing Frameworks and tools such as JUnit, TestNG, Mockito etc.

·        As a Senior developer, must be comfortable switching tasks between Web Services, APIs, Batch Job engine or Web Development.

·        Passionate Java developer who is also a problem solver and has a very good understanding of core and advanced Java concepts.

·        Good understanding of database and data fundamentals in SQL Server 2017, Oracle and NoSql databases.

·        Good understanding of Web Service concepts and experience building RESTful services is required.

Must skills:

Hands- on in the following:

• Java 8/J2EE
• Spring boot
• Gradle/Maven
• REST API
• ORM- hibernate/ JPA
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing- Junit/ TestNG

Good to have:

Hands-on in the following:

• CI/CD pipeline deployment
• Messaging- ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ/MQ
• DB2
• Kafka
• NoSQL framework exposure

Job Summary

• Ability to handle multiple responsibilities and prioritize in a dynamic environment.
• Should be able to manage the whole project solely or in a team.
• To develop and deploy new features, modules and write bug free code for the web-based applications.
• To optimize pre-written PHP Code and MySQL queries bringing efficiency to the overall project.
• Test, debug, clean the code and review the code written by other team members.Required Candidate profile:

• Must have good working knowledge of MVC Structure like Codeigniter and Laravel
• Must have good knowledge of technologies like AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML / CSS
• Must have good understanding of MySQL / MySQLi, Should be able to write MySQL queries, joins, optimization etc.
• Must be comfortable working with WAMP/LAMP Environment.
• Must have experience with GIT / GITHUB.

Optional skills:

• Clarity on OOPs Concepts.
• Create, implement and maintainence of Web Services using both REST and SOAP API.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Ability to handle multiple responsibilities and prioritize in a dynamic environment.
• Should be able to manage the whole project solely or in a team.
• To develop and deploy new features, modules and write bug free code for the web-based applications.
• To optimize pre-written PHP Code and MySQL queries bringing efficiency to the overall project.
• Test, debug, clean the code and review the code written by other team members

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• Must have good working knowledge of MVC Structure like Codeigniter and Laravel
• Must have good knowledge of technologies like AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML / CSS
• Must have good understanding of MySQL / MySQLi, Should be able to write MySQL queries, joins, optimization etc.
• Must be comfortable working with WAMP/LAMP Environment.
• Must have experience with GIT / GITHUB.