Backend Tech Lead - NodeJS

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master’s in Computer Science or related field
• 5–8 years of backend development experience
• Strong in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
• Hands-on experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams

Preferred Traits

• Proactive mindset with a knack for identifying and fixing bottlenecks
• Detail-oriented with a passion for clean, maintainable code

Team-oriented with a drive for continuous learning and improvement

Position Requirements

• Expert in front-end development using Javascript, CSS, and Java.

• Hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, Hibernate, Springboot.

• Deep knowledge & working experience with Database, JSP, Javascript frameworks.

Technical Skills

• 4 years of experience in the software industry experience.

• Strong self-initiative to strive for both personal & technical excellence.

• Coordinate efforts across the Product development team and Business Analyst team.

• Strong business and data analysis skills.

• Should be strong on coordinating with onshore resources on the development.

Your tool box :

 Exp: 4+ Strong C/C++/C#/.net Core development skills with a good understanding of object-

oriented and multi-threaded design.

 Strong background of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)

 Passionate to learn and explore new technologies and demonstrates good analysis and

problem-solving skills.

 Good written and verbal communication skills, should be a quick learner and a team player.

 B.E. /B-Tech (CS/IT) • MCA/M.E./M-Tech (CS/IT)

Big Plus [ Mastering one or more of below ]:

 Network troubleshooting skills [ TCP/IP, SSH, HTTPS ]

 Hands on Kubernetes and Cloud environment

 Hands On experience on UNIX or LINUX operating systems.

 Strong with VoIP technologies [ SIP and RTP ]

 Good understating of SOA architecture

At Ocean Friends, we are looking to positively impact the lives of families dealing with chronic health conditions through technology. We are looking for self-driven, and motivated Software Engineers with intent and ability to work across a variety of technology problems, including, but not limited to Mobile app development, AI/ML, and User experience.

Desired Experience

3+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
• The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis

What you bring to the table

• 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Python & Go / Java & Node / Rust
• Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Great communication skills

Bonus if you have…

• Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
• Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
• Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
• Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency

Roles & Responsibilities

As a member of our fast-growing engineering team, your responsibility will be to get involved in day-to-day development operations and solve complex problems of digitization to meet the demands of business.

To be successful, you must have a self-driven mindset, go getter attitude.

The responsibilities include:

• Writing the clean quality code & Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analyzing the requirements in the context of the product
• Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks
• Determining and implementing design methodologies and tool sets
• Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities
• Being able to lead/support UAT and production roll outs
• Creating, understanding and validating estimated effort for given module/task, and being able to justify it
• Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks and challenges with a mindset of continuous improvement
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations
• Helping the team in troubleshooting and resolving complex bugs
• Coming up with solutions to any issue that is raised during code/design review and being able to justify the decision taken
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements
• Carrying out DevOps activities which includes creating Jenkins pipeline

Key Skills

Should possess hands-on full life-cycle development experience (architect, design, code, test, release) be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, client/server-side development frameworks and third-party libraries.

• Should be strong in data structures and algorithms. Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Work with cutting edge technologies like Java 8, Scala, React, Akka, Docker, Puppet, and Salt
• Hands-on knowledge of Spring core, MVC, JPA. Working knowledge of Spring Boot
• Should have strong hands-on on one of the JavaScript frameworks: jQuery, AngularJS, ReactJS, and Vue.js.
• Willing to working with latest Cloud and Container technologies like AWS
• Experience with both external and embedded databases. NoSQL DB experience is good to have
• Implementing unit testing using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, etc.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with Maven (Other building tools Ant and Gradle are good to have)
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Good understanding of Agile practices

Responsibilities : 

• Design and develop scalable, high performance, and reliable API driven services/applications in Java language that operate whole day.
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Interact with both business, financial research, and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meets/exceeds business, customer, and technical requirements.
• Own products and code from cradle to grave including production quality/performance monitoring.

Required Skills :

• Experience building and running high performance enterprise applications developed in Java language.
• Hands on experience developing Java web applications built with modern standards-based APIs including Java based REST APIs and implementations. 
• Experience in Java language APIs, Spring technologies, Hibernate, JDBC, RDBMS and NoSQL based data persistence.
• Experience developing solutions on AWS Cloud leveraging AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Cloud Formation, and other related AWS technologies. 
• Solid understanding of Domain Modeling with Relational and Non-Relational Databases.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills, including ability to diagnose and fix performance and scalability issues.
• Experience working in an agile methodology-based development environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• BS/B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• You will design and develop large scale distributed services
• You will analyse and improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of the platform as a whole.
• You will act as the primary owner of one or more components while driving innovation in your area of ownership
• You will proactively research & evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system.
• You will work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex development issues.
• You will work independently and handle dependencies with very minimal oversight
• You will take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the back-end.
• You will help identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and work on design/architect improvements.

Requirements

• You have 1 - 9 years of experience in software development.
• You have designed and scaled up the system.
• You have a strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
• You are an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
• You have strong command in any one or more of the following languages: Python and Django
• You understand the business impact of your decisions.

Good To Have

• You have prior experience in fintech companies

Traits We Are Looking For

• Experience in a specific tech stack doesn't matter for us.
• The general engineering mindset and aptitude is what matters more.
• Technically strong and curious.
• Should have a hacker mindset and should love exploring new technologies.

Desired Skills and Experience

Java, Python, Data Structures, Algorithms

Minimum 5-7years of professional experience building web-applications
Strong experience in backend development
Strong experience in AI/Machine Learning development, Data Analysis/Processing
Experience in creating robust and secure REST APIs
Hands-on exposure to RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB etc.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, Node/JavaScript
Solid familiarity working with cloud and related technologies, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud environments
Ability to do very quick research in unknown technologies
Startup mindset, comfort with chaos and multi-tasking ability
Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms
An eye for writing performance optimum code in any tool set