Backend Engineer - ll

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 2 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.

We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Full stack developers will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

• Developing front end website and back-end website applications.

• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.

• Designing and developing integrations with 3rd party apps.

• Working on Next JS and Node JS .

• Design, build and maintain SaaS-based products.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

• Web services and Integration with Business applications and various softwares

• Work with outside data sources and API’s, REST API's

• Unit-test code for robustness

• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

Requirements:

• Experience of 1-3 years.

• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Proficiency with languages such as React JS, Next JS, Node JS, PHP Laravel, Angular, WordPress, REST API's

• Excellent verbal communication skills.

• Good problem-solving skills.

• Knowledge of software development principles and design patterns.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Job Type: Full-Time, 9 am to 6:30 pm (Monday to Friday)

• Managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
• Development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end Integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection.

• Should have worked on the Django REST framework.
• Familiarity with some Pandas, Numpy, text parsing/mining and ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages
• Worked on Amazon cloud solutions
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Should know about HDL and LLD.
• Should know about making python packages
• Should have worked on microservice-based Architecture

We're looking for someone to join a team dedicated to building performant APIs and backend services that deal with large volumes of data for the company's flagship, global consumer product. Small, high-impact teams require conscious planning and decision-making when it comes to design, architecture, and product features. So, it's essential that you enjoy working in such an environment.

We're a team that cares about simplicity and being able to build reliable, deterministic systems and platforms. Hence, our choice of tooling is usually battle-tested reliable software with a robust test suite.

How we work

1. You won't deal with the hustle culture. We're focused on building well-thought-out, stable and reliable software and we try our best to ensure everyone understands the big picture and the immediate goals.
2. We work a solid 6-8 hour days and don't slave away 24/7.
3. We're a remote engineering team. This makes effective communication extremely important. Our teams have benefitted greatly from good written communication. This includes everything from the product specification to the API spec. We spend a lot of time writing READMEs. As a result our engineers work with greater clarity and planning.
4. We deploy several times a day and rely on a good test suite to ensure we're not making life hard for our colleagues.
5. We don't expect anyone to know everything, but we are curious and learn along the way.
6. We learn about the fitness space and what it means to really be fit and not just Instagram fit.

The Python Backend Engineer position may be a good fit for you if:

1. You have 3 (or more) years of experience building and maintaining cloud applications.
2. You have built APIs with Python, Flask, Django or FastAPI before.
3. You have experience working with relational databases like PostgresSQL or MySQL and have spent time writing SQL queries for large datasets.
4. Experience in writing Unit tests with pytest.
5. You have worked with Docker, docker-compose.
6. Familiarity with the AWS ECS stack.

We want you to care about

1. Good object oriented design
2. Performant APIs
3. Analysing why queries are slow and how to go about improving them.
4. Understanding DNS, Load balancing, Caching and Hashing.
5. Customer data and privacy.

Our API Stack services use:

1. Python 3.8+, Typescript
2. FastAPI, Flask, HapiJs
3. PostgresSQL, MySQL
4. Redis
5. Celery
6. Pytest, Jest for unit testing.
7. Gitlab CI/CD
8. Amazon ECS container services

We are looking for motivated individuals who are keen to work on Cloud or Big Data services or have worked on Cloud and Big Data. If you want to work in a start-up culture and are ready for the challenge, then join us on our exciting journey.

Responsibilities:

• Design, code and debug cloud-native applications.
• Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
• Serve as a subject matter expert

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software development

• Deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or Google)

• Experience with large scale distributed systems

• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems

• Prior experience with data encryption, TLS/SSL is a strong plus

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus

• Deep experience with Java

• Excellent communication (writing, conversation, presentation) skills, consensus building, Quick learner
  Good to have experience in Production support - Tier 4
  
  Experience with these technologies are a plus: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudera, Snowflake, Mongo DB, Oracle, Databricks, Datastax, Confluent