ChakraHQ - Software Development Engineer II - Backend - NodeJS

Role: CorePHP Developer 

Developer Requirements/Expectations:

• Experience: 4-5 Years
• Tech Stack: Core PHP, MySQL, Basic JavaScript, Oracle
• 3rd Party Integration: Payment Gateways (Apple Pay Wallet, Google Pay, Stripe)
• Tools: Trello, Slack, Github
• Soft Skills: Team Work, Excellent Client Communication. 

Engagement Type: Full Time, Dedicated

• Work Hours: 8 Hours per day, 160 hours per month
• Shift: 10 AM-7 AM IST (Including Lunch hour)
• Work shifts need to be flexible to accommodate client calls in EST.
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Location: Remote

• 5 + years of hands-on experience in .NET, Angular and related Web technologies.

• 2 - 3+ years of experience designing and supporting Azure environments, including IaaS and PaaS

• Past experience in cloud computing and technology systems, as well as experience in designing and transferring applications to the cloud.

• Proven experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) as well as DevOps principles to achieve SDLC goals of Global Banking Technology

• Hands on experience using the Azure/AWS administration portal.

• Knowledge of at least one other cloud hosting solution (e.g., Azure, Google, AWS, Helion Cloud).

• Good hands-on experience in SOA, XML, WSDL, XSD, WSDL XML schema and namespaces (J2EE and .NET), MS .NET Framework, C#, HTML, Javascript, Micro Services/ APIs, Messaging, Threading, IBM DB.

• Have experience on development of container applications.

• Good knowledge of IBM DB. Should be comfortable writing stored procedures and user defined functions.

• Strong business knowledge of wealth management industry.

• Component / business object modeling, services modeling.

• Experience in building high concurrency, low latency 247 availability applications.

• Strong programming skills with emphasis on writing efficient algorithms to handle large data sets and processing.

• Understanding of HTTP, IIS and how the browser works.

• Ability to coordinate with various teams to deliver projects successfully.

• Knowledge of UML design.

• Knowledge of source control (preferably Git) and continuous Integration tools.

• Have working Knowledge of DevOps and best practices. Understanding of Major DevOps Tools and implementation for Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, containers & Orchestration

• Experience in working in Agile framework.

• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Skills Desired:

• Financial markets, payment solutions or Wealth Management previous experience

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering preferred from an accredited college/university

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

• At least 1+ years’ experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers

Opportunity

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (1+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms

Job Responsibilities:

Support, maintain, and enhance existing and new product functionality for trading software in a real-time, multi-threaded, multi-tier server architecture environment to create high and low level design for concurrent high throughput, low latency software architecture.

• Provide software development plans that meet future needs of clients and markets
• Evolve the new software platform and architecture by introducing new components and integrating them with existing ones
• Perform memory, cpu and resource management
• Analyze stack traces, memory profiles and production incident reports from traders and support teams
• Propose fixes, and enhancements to existing trading systems
• Adhere to release and sprint planning with the Quality Assurance Group and Project Management
• Work on a team building new solutions based on requirements and features
• Attend and participate in daily scrum meetings

Required Skills:

•  JavaScript and Python
• Multi-threaded browser and server applications
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• REST

About the Backend Developer

We are looking at a diligent, driven, passionate person for our efforts on engagement and retention of our customers (schools) in a high growth environment. Backend Developer will be the face of the organisation for the schools that are using the platform on a day to day basis. The Developer will interact with the schools via the chat support and email requests and resolve any issues that the schools might be facing in using the platform or extend any support they might be needing to use the platform to its fullest.

• As a Backend Developer, you will play a major role in, developing and deploying high-quality web platforms. In this multifaceted role, you will get the opportunity to work along curriculum experts, teachers, and students, and user-test the product in real school settings.   
  
  Preferred Qualifications/Skills
  
  * Frameworks & Technologies: Node.js
  * Database: PostgreSQL, SQL
  * Tools: Git basics, Scripting basics
  * Soft Skills: Having a bias towards action, a good sense of design, empathy, and good communication skills 
  * Excellent written and oral communication skills
  * Great interpersonal skills
  
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