Elastic search expert

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Backend Engineer with 2 to 4 years of professional experience to join our dynamic engineering team. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the backend systems that power our products. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions that align with business and user needs.

This role is ideal for engineers ready to take ownership of systems, contribute to architectural decisions, and solve complex backend challenges.

Website: https://www.thealteroffice.com/about

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain robust backend systems and APIs that are scalable and maintainable.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions.
• Model and manage data using SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis), incorporating caching where needed.
• Implement and manage authentication, authorization, and data security practices.
• Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code following best practices.
• Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) to deploy, monitor, and scale services effectively.
• Use tools like Docker (and optionally Kubernetes) for containerization and orchestration of backend services.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for faster and safer deployments.
• Monitor and debug production issues, using observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for root cause analysis.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to improving development standards, and provide support to less experienced engineers.
• Work with event-driven or microservices-based architecture, and optionally use technologies like GraphQL, WebSockets, or message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ when suitable for the solution.

Requirements:

• 2 to 4 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Ruby, etc.).
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, asynchronous programming, and scalable architecture patterns.
• Solid experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, including designing and optimizing data models.
• Familiarity with Docker, Git, and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment processes (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and performance profiling practices in production environments.
• A good understanding of security best practices in backend systems.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment with evolving priorities.

We are a fast-growing startup based in Gurgaon, and have just raised our Pre Series A! We are happy to offer the right compensation, the right ESOPs, and the right freedom and autonomy to the right candidate! 

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to take our product to the next level. 

* Development with NodeJS and front-end languages/frameworks (jQuery, ReactJS/AngularJS, CSS3, HTML5)
* 4+ years of SQL experience (MySQL preferred)
* Experience developing RESTful Web Services, Web APIs, and micro-services.
* Integrating with a third-party system via RESTful APIs.
* 4+ years of solid experience with SQL and NoSQL-based solutions.
* Experience with AWS deployments.
* Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production and non-production environments.
* Ability to write clean, modular, reusable code (using design patterns) and experience with a unit-test-driven approach to development.

* Familiarity with Elasticsearch is an advantage
* Experience with Redis is an advantage

Requirements:

• 3 -7 years of software development experience.
• Good grasp on programming fundamentals including OOP, Design Patterns and Data Structures.
• Excellent analytical, logical and problem-solving skills.
• Software Development Engineer.
• Good understanding of complexities involved in designing/developing large scale systems.
• Strong system design skills.
• Experience in technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka etc.
• Good knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with common machine learning algorithms. In-depth knowledge is a plus.
• Experience of working with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive is a big plus.
• Ability to understand business requirements and take ownership of the work.
• Exhibit passion and enthusiasm for building and maintaining large scale platforms.

Basic Qualifications

Candidates for this role must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• At least three years of experience writing production code of increasing complexity
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem solving, and object-oriented analysis and design
• Proficiency in at least one of the following: Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python
• Experience refactoring code and evolving architectures
• Experience crafting unit, integration, functional and regression tests

 Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Experience developing in a Linux environment
• Experience applying service-oriented architecture techniques to production use cases
• Experience in developing secure, multi-platform mobile applications

Key responsibilities

Write simple, understandable, testable, and efficient code with focus on solid technical stability and performance.

Drive technical improvement by applying software craftsmanship in everyday work as well as by identifying and executing larger refactoring/improvement initiatives.

Contribute in implementation of complex features and design work within the team.

Being part of cross team technical initiatives

Participate in and contribute to the team's Agile practices.

Take responsibility in maintaining high engineering standards, commitment to the product and respect and attitude towards others.

Skills:

Hands-on experience with modern Ruby on Rails practices and development. (1-2 years)

Experience with writing clean, maintainable and scalable code

Good awareness of the Ruby on Rails ecosystems and being in touch with the latest developments in this area

Experience in developing backend APIs/services, micro-service architecture.

Have a clear understanding of database technologies

Awareness/experience with testing methodologies like RSpec

A high-performance mindset to deliver good quality code and also an understanding of the product

Openness with working in a culture of inclusiveness and individual responsibility and experience with Agile methodologies.

Good communication skills – good knowledge of English, both written and oral

Good to have:

Working knowledge of react or other JS based frameworks.

Hands on experience with python, nodeJS, mongo db