Backend Engineer

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with XML-based web services (SOAP, REST).
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) for XML data storage.
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git, SVN).
• Understanding of JSON and other data interchange formats.
• Certifications in XML technologies are a plus.

Client: Dentsu Payroll: Quess corp

Location:Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai , Gurugram

Budget: Upto 40 LPA

Experience required: 12-15 years

Job Requirements

Must Have:

• Minimum 7 to 12 years of experience

• Strong MERN (Mongo DB + Mongoose, Express, React, Node JS) full stack experience

using Typescript.

• Experience in leading in code reviews.

• Demonstrate understanding of SOLID principles.

• Demonstrate understanding of TDD or BDD.

• Good knowledge and experience of writing good unit tests.

• Strong implementation design using cloud.

• Microservices architecture, GraphQL, RESTful Webservices, NoSQL & SQL

• Docker & containerization, CI/CD pipeline design & build

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• Event driven architecture, Kafka.

• Use of tools such as JIRA, Git, GitHub

• Strong communication skills

• Ability to lead discussion and solve problems for the dev team

• Ability to manage expectations of Product/Business teams in terms of prioritizing quality,

aligning to the strategic vision

• Provide guidance on inline technical documentation

Good to have:

• Experience in Azure cloud.

• Experience with Serverless.

• Experience in Terraform.

• Tools like Babel, Webpack, NestJS, Jest, Lint, Helm to support build of Node applications.

• Experience in orchestration tools such as Nodemation (N8n).

• Experience in GraphQL tools such as ApolloGraph or Wundergraph.

• Experience with troubleshooting using Grafana / Loki.

Position Overview:

We seek a talented and experienced professional to serve as the Head of Engineering and a Senior Backend Developer with expertise in Go (Golang). In this dual role, you will lead our engineering team and contribute hands-on to developing our B2B SaaS platform, which aims to revolutionize blue-collar worker training in India. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, set engineering standards, and ensure the successful execution of our technology initiatives.

As Head of Engineering:

• Oversee the recruitment, mentoring, and performance management of engineering team members.
• Define and maintain engineering best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies.
• Manage project timelines, resources, and budgets
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Drive technical decisions and architecture discussions to ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.

As Senior Backend Developer (Go):

• Design the architecture and implement high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services in Go.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while ensuring the security and integrity of the platform.
• Optimize and fine-tune the backend components for maximum speed and scalability.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with frontend and external systems.
• Implement asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture for handling concurrent requests efficiently.
• Work on data modelling and integration with databases for data storage and retrieval.
• Write unit tests and perform code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure robustness.

1. Hands on programming skills.
2. Monitoring application and infrastructure health by using monitoring tools
3. Build and deployment automation tools on AWS
4. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
5. Design and coding experience in Java/golang
6. Hands on exposure to GitLab or Github

Responsibilities

• Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Goprogramming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of Goroutine and channel patterns
• Experience with the full suite of Goframeworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
• Go’s templating language
• Go’s code generation tools, such as Stringer
• Popular Goweb frameworks, such as Revel,Gin
• Router packages, such as Gorilla Mux
• Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)
• Good Written and Verbal communications.

• Key expertise areas: Client Server realtime communication, MYSQL-POSTGRES database
• Web protocols like: HTTP, MQTT and Web Sockets, Deadlock detection and locking techniques for mutual exclusion, hyper thread and multi threading server model
• Cloud based application management and interfacing it with 3rd party services, Payment gateways and REST APIs.
• Candidates with experience in Golang will be preferred
• Working experience in a Product StartUp (Internet/E-commerce) building scalable applications.
• Hands on experience in system architecture and gaming apps
• Good spoken and written communication skills.
• Good team player.
• Sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills
• Able to think critically of the current system in terms of software development
• Expertise in Golang, AWS cloud computing, Frontend languages like HTML, CSS, Javascript