Backend SDE-2

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer proficient in .NET, Node.js, and MS SQL Server to join our technical team. The candidate will be responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing scalable backend services and APIs, ensuring system reliability, performance, and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend applications and APIs using .NET (Core/ASP.NET) and Node.js.
• Develop and manage MS SQL Server databases, including schema design, stored procedures, indexing, and performance optimization.
• Integrate backend logic with various third-party systems and APIs.
• Ensure scalability, high performance, and security across backend systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices.
• Debug and resolve production issues, ensuring system stability and reliability.
• Collaborate with QA engineers, DevOps, and other backend developers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Participate in Agile development processes including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Stay updated with emerging backend technologies and contribute to continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3–4 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong hands-on experience with .NET Core / ASP.NET / C#.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js (Express.js or NestJS preferred).
• Proficiency in MS SQL Server (T-SQL, stored procedures, performance tuning, query optimization).
• Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of API security standards (JWT, OAuth2, etc.).
• Familiarity with Git or other version control systems.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum development environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud platforms like Azure or AWS.
• Familiarity with ORM frameworks (Entity Framework, Sequelize).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).
• Understanding of Redis or message queue systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka).

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• High sense of responsibility and ownership of assigned projects.
• Ability to work independently under minimal supervision.

Compensation

• Competitive salary based on experience and technical expertise.
• Performance-based bonuses and career growth opportunities.

Job Type: Full-time

• 3+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Review requirements, design specifications and propose solution and have discussion before implementation

Work with team leads on the requirements and create estimates against those requirements

Deliver projects on time in an agile and continuous development environment

Writing tests in a client-side test framework such as Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, etc.

Work withQA team for resolving issues

Report status with tools like JIRA to stakeholders

• 3-5 years of work experience developing complex software
• Minimum 2years sound experience with back-end development in Java-script frameworks like loopback, Express, etc
• A solid understanding of core Javascript principles and its fundamentals
• Familiarity with popular Javascript tools, frameworks and design principles, and enjoy staying up to date with the changing Javascript ecosystem
• Strong communication skills across the board, with a passion for finding and sharing best practices and driving.

• Javascript • Node • Express • Loopback • OAuth • API Development
• Plus Points • Knowledge of Go, Ruby, Python, Closure or any other languages • Test Driven Development (TDD) • Knowledge of front-end development

About Us

Instavans is a Logistics tech startup focused on the development of SaaS products for the Road Trucking industry. Instavans has built and rolled out SmarTruck™, a SaaS based TMS with a private marketplace. SmarTruck has customers in India & the MENA region and is poised to enter Latam and Sub-saharan Africa.

The company’s innovative go-to-market plan involves working with large Shippers and 4PLs (Fourth Party Logistics Service Providers) to synergistically bring their Carriers on board.

We are looking for people to help us supercharge our growth, while we continue to embody the values that have got us so far already. As we are a rapidly growing company you will gain exposure to all areas of the platform, understanding the key success drivers at an engineering team and gaining invaluable experience for your future career. Success in this role will lead to opportunities for growth across the entire engineering team with significant scope for future development.

We have openings in Frontend (Angular 8+), Backend(Node.js), Android (Kotlin) and QA (Automation)

You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.

Your core responsibilities:

• Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
• Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
• Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
• Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
• Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
• Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
• Good in Database schema design.
• Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
• Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
• Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
• Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.

Whom you will be sharing your work day with? 

• We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.