Backend developer

Node.js Developer Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

Node.js Developer Requirements:

• 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 front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.

Roles and Responsibilities :-

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support changing business processes thereby
ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
Integrating multiple data sources & databases in one system
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing & implementing low-latency & high-performance applications by writing testable,
reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests. Running diagnostic tests, repairing
defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development

Desired Candidate Profile :-

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript & ES6
• Good Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as           Express, HapiJS, Mongoose,
   Sequelize, etc.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as           Handlebars, EJS, etc
• Good knowledge of MongoDB, its limitation and workarounds, replica     sets, sharding, clustering
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks     and workarounds
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as    mobile vs. desktop, and
optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Proficient understanding of API testing tools, such as Postman
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude

Introduction

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a part of the core team of Airbnb or Netflix when they were just starting out? Here’s your chance to try that path with Ohana!

We are looking for a founding engineer to join our team.

Who we are

Ohana is an E-learning platform for holistic learning. We are an angel-funded early stage startup backed by some of the marquee angel investors from India and Singapore. Our investors include Vivek HR (co-founder and CEO, Bounce), Tanushree Gupta (co-founder and CEO, Doubtnut), Jagmal Singh (CTO, Janio Asia) to name a few!

Check us out at https://ohana.academy!

Our Product

“Creativity is as important as literacy” - Sir Ken Robinson

With this belief, Ohana is building the world's largest holistic learning academy. Our product offering:

The Classroom: Offering live online classes on arts, crafts, linguistics, yoga, dance and many more subjects
The Playground: Enabling social learning - a community for kids to find peers with similar interests

Our mission

India has 250Mn kids in the K12 segment. However, except the top 0.1%, most parents can’t find high-quality and affordable holistic learning for their kids. Fortunately, 140Mn kids are now connected to the digital world with 4G access. We want to leverage this new connectivity and bridge the gap in children's overall development with Ohana.

Where are we in our journey

Team: We are a team of two co-founders (Saurabh and Suyash), both IIT Delhi alums with over a decade of experience each in leading consumer businesses. We have a total of 15 people team including 4 engineers (currently outsourced)

Customers: Over the last couple of months, we have grown to 5,000+ registered users and aim to reach 10K+ paid users and 1 Mn+ community strength in the next 12 months.

Young, inspired, and focused - We are ready for take-off!

Our Culture

• “Mission-driven” is not a buzzword for us. We care deeply about the impact we want to create on kid’s lives and we want to exemplify the value of “no child left behind”
• Be inclusive - We are creating a product that is accessible and affordable. We want to solve this not just for Bangalore and Mumbai, but for Indore, Jabalpur, Raipur as well
• Not just customer obsessed - we also care about their well-being. We are willing to compromise profits - but will not resort to unethical sales tactics or compromise on product quality
• Our team cares about a strong culture and respects our code of conduct

Why work for us

• We have global ambitions - Holistic education is a $75Bn global market, with India alone contributing more than $10Bn. Apart from salary compensation, you get a piece of the pie (equity) of a potentially billion-dollar organization
• You will have exposure to building large, scalable systems and will be mentored by people who have done the same for millions of users
• You will have exposure to starting up / entrepreneurship (ever feel like you want to build a startup?) owning end to end consumer tech product which impacts the life of thousands of students/parents on daily level

Job Location

We are based out of Bengaluru and work from an office. We encourage working from office, but are completely ok if you would like to work remotely until things return to normal.

Expectations from the role

• You will work closely with the founding team and a small team of engineers, currently outsourced, in a fast-paced environment.
• You will work as a tech lead and will be responsible for architecting the new features as well as improving the existing codebase. You will be expected to have a high degree of ownership and responsibility for deliverables.
• You will wear a product hat as and when required and help in shaping the product.
• You will provide technical mentorship to other engineers in the team and will lead a team of junior engineers.
• You should be able to deal with ambiguity, have strong bias towards action, ability to deep dive whenever required and quickly deliver to unblock the team

Preferred experience and competencies

• You are a software engineer with 4+ years of industry experience.
• Professional experience with at least one web dev framework (ReactJS or Django/Python)
• Professional experience with one or more (SQL or NoSQL) databases.
• A stint in a product company or a startup or any similar faced paced environment is preferable.
• Experience working with cloud infra providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) is preferable.
• Strong proficiency in REST API

• Min 5 years of software development experience, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficiency in a Go programming language
• Strong software development fundamentals (Data structures,  Algorithms, problem-solving,  OO  design,  systems architecture,  and development methods).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills. Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask, learn and thrive in a timeline-driven environment
• Good understanding of memory/SQL/NoSQL database concepts (key-value, schemas, indexing, etc)
• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high-performance software
• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient microservice distributed architecture

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
• Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:
• Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.

We are looking for someone with these skills?
▪ A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
▪ 2 years of Software Development experience
▪ Deep hands-on technical experience in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and
complexity analysis
▪ Experience with full software lifecycle methodology, including; coding standards, code reviews, source
control management, build processes, testing, and operations
▪ Ability to identify, empathize with and delight the customer
▪ While every product-line has its tech stack - different products have different technologies and it's
expected that you are comfortable working across all of them as and when needed.
▪ Some of the technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices , Node.js, MySQL, Postgress..

Responsibilities:

• Strong Technical Chops: You should know how to build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique rate-of-growth requirements.
• You should be on top of the latest architectural trends.
• Fast Learners: We are looking for folks who thrive on new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fit all solutions.
• You should be able to adapt easily to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment.

• You understand requirements beyond the written word.
• Whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.

 

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in Java and web technologies.
• Experience in any one scripting language like Python.
• Hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency.
• Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing and deployment.

Experience: 2 - 5 years

Talents from Product/eComm/Internet firms Only

Key Skills: Spring boot, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr, Design Patterns, Java, Distributed systems, AWS

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Looking for team members passionate about building platforms for next billion users and re-imagine the e-commerce for mobile-first users. You will be building solutions for personalization, logistics, search & discovery, payments, fraud prevention, and scalability that works and solve problems elegantly

Responsibilities:

• Develop server-side components, REST APIs

• Assume ownership for existing and new modules including design, development, and unit testing for enhancements of existing modules and development of new modules.

• Analyse problems logically and exercise sound judgment in defining, evaluating, and solving difficult technical and operational problems where solutions may be of a precedent-establishing nature.

• Lead the design and architectural improvements

• Participate and collaborate with team members in design discussions, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, suggest enhancements to architecture, implement POCs, and enhance application.

• Reduce technical debt with quality coding

 
Requirements:

• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.

• Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.

• Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr.

• Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back end systems.

• Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency

• Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.

• Experience level: 2-5 years of software development experience in Java with web architecture and scalable design

Required Skills:
• Strong experience as a Java/J2EE development is required
• Excellent working knowledge in SPRING MVC, SPRING BOOT,
• Strong background in developing and deploying software that runs in a real-time, multi-threaded environment
• Good knowledge and experience with concepts of MVC, JDBC and RESTful API Integration
• Experience with threaded and asynchronous environment
• Experience with any of the following Frameworks is Desired: Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate
• Fundamental understanding of design patterns
• Working knowledge of SOAP/XML/WSDL
• Proven experience in MongoDB
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting problems in a highly complex environment
• Familiar with agile / scrum development methodologies
• Proficient understanding of Code version tools like Git/ Bitbucket and SVN
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and tools such as Maven and Jenkins.

Role & Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for Java development and building large scale applications that are high performance, scalable, and resilient in an SOA environment
• Working closely with end-users and other members of the team to identify and employ the best solutions
• Developing and implementing strong algorithms/techniques for solving problems in a high-volume, high-availability environment
• Engaging end-users to identify new requirements, strategic direction and highlight issues
• Defining and building maintainable processes that provide resilient and stable platforms, which support end user’s business/technical demand
• Integrating new services and providing clean APIs and services for applications
• Understanding volume growth to ensure the systems

Job Description The role Our full stack developers are responsible to Take part in our product development/uplifting platform from ideation to deployment and beyond. Create data driven new features. Work with our data team to make our product smarter and more intuitive to use. Desired skills and experience: Proficiency in Node.js, MySQL and/or other RDBMS. Hands-on experience in writing modular code with proper routing with proper client/server setup and creating node modules Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS (Minimum expertise on jQuery and/or angular js / react js / d3 js / other front-end frameworks). Feel at home working in a test-driven, agile team. A strong problem-solver with an inquisitive and innovative mind.