Backend/Fullstack Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Experience: 3-10 years

Required Skills and Qualifications 

Backend: 

• Strong programming skills in Core Java, Java 8+ 

• Experience with Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Microservices architecture 

• Good understanding of JPA/Hibernate, and SQL/NoSQL databases 

Frontend: 

• Proficient in React.js, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3 

• Experience with Redux, React Hooks, and component-based architecture 

• Familiarity with front-end build tools (Webpack, Babel, NPM)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable backend services using Core Java / Spring Boot 

• Design and implement responsive, high-quality front-end interfaces using React.js 

• Integrate backend APIs with frontend components seamlessly 

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and QA to deliver quality software 

• Ensure code quality through unit testing, code reviews, and performance tuning 

• Troubleshoot and debug production issues as needed

• Good knowledge of ASP.NET, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and C#/VB.NET.
• Design, code and test new Windows and web software applications
• Enhance existing systems by analyzing business objectives, preparing an action
• Plan and identifying areas for modification and improvement
• Maintain existing software systems by identifying and correcting software defects
• Investigate and develop skills in new technologies
• Create technical specifications and test
• Tech/BS in computer science or a related field.

• Can write reliable, scalable, testable and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and clean code.
• Design and/or contribute to client-side and server-side architecture.
• Well versed with fundamentals of REST.
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.
• Knowledge of one or more front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML / CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, Typescript) JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Redux, Vue.js)
• Knowledge of one or more back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python, Go, Node.js and frameworks like SpringBoot, .NET Core) 
• Well versed with fundamentals of database design.
• Familiarity with databases - RDBMS like MySQL, Postgres & NoSQL like MongoDB, DynamoDB.
• Well versed with one or more cloud platforms like - AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation & Terraform & deployment tools like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions.
• Unit testing tools like Junit, Mockito, Chai, Mocha, Jest

About PrepBytes(A CollegeDekho company)

PrepBytes(A CollegeDekho company) is a Gurgaon-based ed-tech startup focused on helping students improve their coding skills. PrepBytes offers India’s only Mentorship driven personalized coding programs.

In a short span of time , we have achieved a reach in 1000+ engineering colleges and established a brand among 100k+ students. 

PrepBytes was started by two IIT/NIT Alumnus having work experience in fast paced startups & tech giants like Amazon and Samsung. Since then, the startup has grown into a team of individuals working towards revolutionizing the way students learn coding and making them successful in their tech career. 

To fulfill the vision to be one of the largest personalised coding platforms , we are looking for passionate folks to join our team & contribute to success stories of thousands of students and be part of the next big revolution in the edtech industry.

Job Description

• Working with the founders to implement innovative ideas and improvising the existing backend.
• Development and implementation of cutting-edge Educational Technology with the aim of revolutionizing the sector.
• Work on innovative features of the Learning Management System, Coding Platforms, Hiring Platforms, Assessment Platforms, and many more new products.
• Building scalable and secured backend for smooth learning of users
• Get involved and mentor in System, Architecture, and Database Design discussions with the team
• Maintain high-quality code by getting involved in code reviews

What are we looking for?

• Overall 4+ years of technical experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• A keen learner who will develop & own cutting-edge consumer-facing product 
• Experience in building projects from scratch.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• High-level proficiency in Javascript and web development technologies-JS/Node JS/MongoDB.

We are building a team whose area of focus will be web GUI development. This will be a horizontal team that will specialize in GUI development and will build GUIs for all our products. Our GUI development platform is a proprietary tool. It has an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which comes with a rich library of widgets. It allows you to design the web page without having to go into details of the HTML/CSS, by using a drag and drop philosophy. Once a widget is in place on a page, one can define the database interactions of the widgets by defining the underlying table structure and SQL queries. In addition to SQL & database knowledge, the work also involves data manipulation using Java programming. Query performance and Java code performance and optimization will be very essential for work. So we are looking for good programmers with UI + Java + SQL background who are keen to take up GUI development as a specialization.

• Responsible for design and architecture of functional prototypes and production ready systems
• Uses open source frameworks as appropriate Django Preferred
• Develops Python and JavaScript code as necessary
• Python development to support middleware for REST API
• Communicate technical concepts with trade offs, risks, and benefits
• Evaluate and resolve product related issues

• Demonstrable experience writing clean, thoughtfully crafted Python or PHP that scales
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS3
• Good understanding of REST API's and experience in building them.
• Experience on asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / Mercurial / SVN
• Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance

Do you want to develop products and experiences that mean the world to your clients and their users? Do you want to work on transformative projects as opposed to minor tweaks to a product? Do you want to be exposed to work ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises to global non-profits?

We are Finiteloop, a growing design and technology studio in Bangalore. We work hard to build grounded and exhilarating experiences for our customers and their users. Our design work dives deep into Design Thinking, Experience design, and Service design. On the technology side, we work on Solution architecture of large enterprise applications and, cutting-edge explorations on new technologies like Machine Learning and Blockchain.

We strive for client success and push our clients into thinking and doing more for their customer's experiences. All of us are self-driven individuals passionate about building products that deliver great experiences at scale. Our team is currently working on a wide variety of projects: communication design for safety culture on board cargo ships, mobile app for seafarer community, transforming how public radio can integrate with the digital world and, simplifying the user experience of oil and gas explorers.

We are looking for a person with excellent visual sensibilities with an ability to code jaw-dropping designs that make people feel like a part of the future. We want to look towards you as our Usability champion, especially when designing for accessibility. You will have to be self-driven, understand your brief and think more on it before executing it as per schedule. You will juggle couple of projects at the same time and we will create a space you follow your creative processes within these project constraints.

We have an extremely open culture that promotes questioning, honest critique and, quirky thinking. Over and above everything, we only can work with people who will do anything to follow the highest ethics of business and teamwork and a dedication to their craft.

Applications we want to work with you on:

• Digital applications and media (web or Mobile)
• Detailed component-level reusable UI libraries
• Applying micro interactions and creating components for the same.
• Developing user friendly, interactive, responsive web and mobile apps.

Things we would love to surprise us with:

• Independently design & develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimise application for maximum speed and scalability on front-end side
• Collaborate with team members and key stakeholders
• Ensures latest technology standards, guidelines are utilized for development
• Assess & analyse web performance, come with resolution & causes and guide the team in implementation
• Guide and mentor team members
• Image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image
• Enable and use automation tools to fast track development

Technologies & Tools we would want you to work on:

• ReactJS
• Angular
• HTML, CSS, CSS Pre-Processors
• NodeJS
• SEO, Accessibility
• Automated Unit & End-End tests
• React Native, Flutter

Some of our projects which you will get to work on: COVID-19 response | Service design exercise for reorganizing a $200mil company | Creating UX experience for products using Blockchain technology | Speculative design exercises for imagining the future | Creating an award-winning marketing website | Reimagining public radio digital experience

Write to us with any samples of work and a small note on why you would be interested to work with us.