
• Develop and maintain all server-side network components
• Ensure optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests
• Collaborate with Frontend Developers on the integration of elements
• Working knowledge of socket programming
• Understand Facebook, Google, Twitter APIs
• Design customer-facing UI and backend services for various business processes
• Develop high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code
• Implement effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions
• Run diagnostic tests, repair defects, and provide technical support
• Document node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as prepare reports
• Recommend and implement improvements to processes and technologies
• Keep informed of advancements in the field of node.js development
• Extracting data from various social media and web via scraping or official API
Profile Requisites
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or similar
• At least 4 years' experience as a node.js developer
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks
• Knowledge of frontend technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3
• Should have extensive experience with MongoDB
• Experience with a caching layer like redis
• Familiarity with Facebook, Google & Twitter APIs
• Familiarity with social media login and extracting data from authentication
• Experience with AWS services like SNS, SQS, EC2 instances, and Lambda
• Experience with Jenkins and Docker
• Familiarity with scraping from web and social media
• Familiarity with creation and working with proxies
• Proficient in unit testing framework like Mocha
• Experience in integrating 3rd party APIs
• Experience with elastic search would be great
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude
• Should be able to think of optimized solutions and scalable solution

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We are looking to hire a Senior Backend Developer, with over 4+ years of experience, to directly work with the CTO and contribute in building and developing new products and feature sets for NostraGamus. The work will entail the opportunity to explore and utilise the latest developments in the world of technology, and formulate ways to incorporate them into day to day work to create stellar products. The candidate must have had significant exposure in building real products, including working with various stakeholders across product and marketing teams. Prior knowledge in building games at scale is highly desirable, but not necessarily.
The following skillsets are highly essential:
- Expertise in Node Js&Javascript, and hobbyist interest in few other languages like Python, Ruby, PHP. Must have done C/C++ programming in school/college
- Deep knowledge on Database systems, especially PostgreSQL, and any noSQL clones, including knowledge to optimise
- Awareness of Docker, virtualization, Redis or similar caching toolsets
- Absolute mastery in using Unix based systems and Bash. Ability to work in seamlessly in headless environments is a must.
- Disciplined in approaching problems, ability to maintain composure under catastrophic failures and propensity to work under deadlines
Bonus Points :
- Passionate about building new products - having done a few personal projects, regardless of success achieved or goals completed.
- Prior knowledge in building games at scale.
- Good understanding in AWS and its various services - EC2, ECS, RDS, SQS, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticache, Route53.
- Strong interest in Mathematics, Probability Theory, Statistics, Machine Learning and ability to apply math in real-world applications.
Backend Web Developer
Our client operates from 18 cities across 13 countries. Our investment personnel manage US $247 billion across a wide range of global, regional and country-specific strategies - both traditional and alternative - in listed equity and fixed income. At Lazard Asset Management, we pride ourselves in balancing the feel of a small firm with the scale of a large global organization. Our entrepreneurial culture and flat management structure foster an environment in which good ideas can take flight, no matter where they come from.
Our client is looking for an innovative software engineer to join our IT department. This individual will be working on the systems that support the global sales and marketing organization. This role will be responsible for building and supporting the backend services and API’s used in all of the applications. This role requires a highly motivated, organized and experienced developer with pride of ownership reflected through clean design, code quality and a disciplined software development approach.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement middle-tier web applications, and RESTful services.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic.
- Support existing software with quick troubleshooting and issue resolution.
- Be part of an empowered team following agile methodologies.
Desired Candidate Profile:
- 5+ year’s applications development experience with full-stack development and agile frameworks.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and service-oriented design.
- Work effectively both as a contributing team member and independently.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Creative problem solving with the ability to present multiple solutions and potential side effects.
- Fast paced programming mentality with quick turnaround.
Required Skills:
- Expertise with API creation and RESTful services.
- Expertise developing backend server components using Python, NodeJS, C#
- Expertise building micro service architecture.
- Experiencebuilding and supporting websites using CMS systems (Tridion, Drupal, AEM)
- Experience and proficiency with relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase).
- Experience and proficiency with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra).
Desired Skills:
- Experience running services on container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
- Amazon AWS or equivalent cloud architecture experience with a major cloud provider.
- Experience with Jira.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or TeamCity.
- Experience with CRM systems especially Salesforce is a plus.

- Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
- Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
- Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performant database queries
- Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
- A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
- Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
- Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions
Requirements
Candidate should have at least 4-6 years of experience in enterprise web application
development using NodeJS on server side along with MongoDB and Express.
Knowledge of RESTful API is a must.
Experience with NodeJS based frameworks (example - NestJS) is highly preferred.
Experience with code optimization as well as has in depth understanding about
asynchronous programming.
Strong analytical skills and can come up with out of the box solutions.
Experience in end to end web development.
Experience with No SQL (Mongo preferred) databases with data migration Strategies
Strong knowledge in Object-Oriented Programming Concepts and Data Structures along with
Node JS best practices.
Experience in Unit Testing in NodeJS (Chai and Mocha) is a must.
Exposure to continuous deployment and integration process.
Exposure with Docker and Orchestration software.
Experience with Redis is added advantage.
Experience with RabbitMQ and Kafka is added advantage
Experience with Nginx and HA Proxy is added advantage
Experience in scalable microservices is must.
Deep in depth understanding about design pattern.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
- Building big, robust. Scalable and maintainable Node JS application.
- Debugging, fixing bugs, Identifying Performance issues, and improving App performance.
- Developing, Deploying, and maintaining multistage, multi-tier applications.
- Provide scalable and secure solutions to large customer problems worldwide.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports
- Experience in building robust APIs
- Good problem-solving abilities
- Participate in architectural, design, and product sessions.
- Develop the system architecture and infrastructure for our point-of-contact real-time communication system.
- The complete development life cycle of the delivered capability
This role is at high growth startup providing secure video hosting to media and e-learning businesses and thus in high requirement in current market. Site is at www.vdocipher.com. Already in revenues , profitable with 2000+ business customers across 40+ countries. Serving Petabytes of online video content.
We use API-first approach to implement new features and create developer-friendly interfaces. We have a hybrid model between monolithic and micro-service system based on separation of concern and function.
Salary range - is 21 to 26 LPA (CTC=Gross), The wide range is to accommodate candidates based on actual experience and skill set. ESOPs will also be granted.
2 to 5+ yrs of work experience expected.
Responsibilities
- Developing new web services
- Implementing new features to API
- Provide secure authentication with role-based-access-controls.
- Ensuring inter-operability of API with diverse customer frameworks through SDKs
- Future-proofing of the API with unit testing and extensible design
- Write and maintain API documentation
- Choosing the right database and information flow for new features
- Designing and maintaining the Database schema
Required skills
* Thorough knowledge of Nodejs development ecosystem
* Understanding of security practices and exploits on the web
* Handling authentication frameworks with jwt, oauth and related technologies
* Experience with stateless server apps for horizontal scaling
* Database best practices for optimizing query performance
* Understanding applications of relational vs no-sql databases
* Understanding of version control (Git, SVN)
* Basic understanding of a front-end web environment (HTML5, CSS)
* Write clean and reusable code by following coding standards
* Understanding of writing tests and automation frameworks
Hiring Process
- Resume Shortlisting
- 15 min Short introductory phone call
- Tech Round Interview 1 (75 mins)
- 2nd Round Interview (Tech + HR , 1 hour 45 mins)






