
Responsibilities :
- Lead the development of the backend systems for our client's first product.
- Build reliable, secure, and performant backend systems.
- Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team.
- Mentor and provide feedback to teammates.
- You should have a min of 8 years of software development experience and management.
- Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
- Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests, good intuition for REST API design
- Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling.
- Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems.
- Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries.
Desired Skills :
- Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.

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At BACQ, our mission is to build financial services that are simple, accessible and affordable.
BACQ is founded by Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal to build consumer-centric and technology-driven businesses in the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance) space.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain web-based applications using Node.js.
- Build scalable, high-performance RESTful APIs using Express.js or Restify frameworks.
- Develop and maintain robust SQL database systems, leveraging Sequelize ORM.
- Ensure responsiveness of applications across various devices and platforms.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams during the product development lifecycle, including prototyping, hardening, and testing phases.
- Work with real-time communication technologies and ensure seamless integration.
- Learn and adapt to alternative technologies as needed to meet project requirements.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3+ years of experience in web application development using Node.js.
- Proficiency with frameworks such as Express.js or Restify.
- Strong expertise in SQL databases and experience with Sequelize ORM.
- In-depth understanding of JavaScript, browser technologies, and real-time communication.
- Hands-on experience in developing responsive web applications.
- Experience with React Native (a plus).
- Proficiency in Java.
- Familiarity with product development lifecycle, including prototyping, testing, and deployment.
Additional Skills & Experience
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Cassandra.
- Knowledge of internationalization (i18n) and latest UI/UX design trends.
- Familiarity with JavaScript libraries/frameworks like ReactJS or VueJS.
- Experience integrating payment gateways for various countries.
- Strong communication skills and ability to facilitate group discussions effectively.
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Education Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Java 8/12• Frameworks - Spring MVC, REST, Spring Boot, Hibernate, (Optional – Play)• Oracle DB• Elastic Search (Optional but good to have)
• Junit, Mockito• Messaging – Should have knowledge of how RabbitMQ works
• Agile / TDD
• Good Experience in Core-Java concepts
• Experience of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery frameworks – Jenkins• Apache, Tomcat
• Good to have basic knowledge in AWS
• Good communication abilities & team-working skills
About the Role
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software and new user-facing features across Novo’s products and services.
- Drive technical decisions on a multi-functional, Agile team alongside product management, product design, and engineering.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability and analyze feedback from customers and internal teams to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
- Champion a passion for engineering best practices such as code quality, linting, and testing.
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- Mentor junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing.
- Stay engaged with latest technologies and evaluate strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
Requirements for the Role
- 5+ years experience in a highly technical role at a hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company.
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- Proficiently work with at least one cloud technology, preferably AWS, to deploy and manage applications in the cloud environment.
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Benefits
100% Remote
Insurance
1. Cloud Backend Design along with data storage and backup solutions. 2. Backend APIs and System Design and Integration with IoT Devices, web and mobile applications.
3. Building reusable code and libraries for future use
4. Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
5. Implementation of security and data protection
6. Design and implementation of data storage solutions
Required Skills:
1. Demonstrated history of designing and implementing Cloud-based Microservices Applications using AWS or GCP.
2. 5+ years of hands-on experience using core Java and SpringBoot framework.
3. Good Understanding of Serverless Architecture and Event-Driven Systems.
4. Understanding Product requirements and translating them into technical specifications and development using Agile methodology.
5. Understanding accessibility and security compliance on AWS/GCP and Spring Boot and Flask.
6. Good understanding of Data structures and Algorithms.
7. AWS Skills Required: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, S3, IoT Core, Kinesis Streams, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, IAM, Elastic Cache, API Gateway.
Good To have:
1. Knowledge of Kubernetes or other container orchestration tools.
2. Python and Flask.
3. Google Cloud Platform and Firebase
A quick overview of our stack:
Python, MySQL, NoSQL, Memcache, Bigquery, Microservices.
Responsibilities
As a backend developer, you would be responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining the multiple modules, encompassing - external integration, API management, building business and operation processes, designing and defining microservices, designing multi-input/output state machines
You will be given complete ownership of modules and processes. You will work with business, product, and UI teams to work on new features and products. You are expected to drive the services/modules to maximize its business impact and customer delight.
- Acumen for good, secure API design
- Write clear and effective API documentation
- Write/review test cases for code and process coverage
- Stickler for good, clear, secure coding, both oneself and team members by code review
- Reviewing designs, code, and processes from a system security standpoint
- Defining and building micro-services
- Building systems with positive business impact Tracking module health, usage, behavior tracking, measure and improve code and processes
Requirement
You will be working on multiple projects/modules. You are expected to write code to integrate - external providers, internal business and process tools, customer-facing applications, and partner-facing applications.
- At least 1-3 years of working experience in web services, preferably in Python
- Should have built and released APIs in production
- Experience working with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
- Designing thoughtful, extensible data models
- Knowledge of identifying, defining and building micro-services
- Working knowledge of GCS, AWS, Azure or any other cloud provider
- Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
- Good communication skills - written and spoken
Good to have
- Focus on constant improvement of developer experience
- Building or Working knowledge of CI/CD
- Basic know-how of front-end technologies like AngularJS/React
- Have worked on additional languages like Javascript/Ruby
Job Location - Bangalore
Primary Responsibilities
- Design, architect and develop advanced software solutions in a cross functional Agile team supporting multiple projects and initiatives
- Collaborate with product owners and/or the business on requirements definition, development of functional specifications, and design
- Collaborate on or lead development of technical design and specifications as required
- Code, test and document new applications as well as changes to existing system functionality and ensure successful completion
- Take on leadership roles as needed
Skills & Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related field
- 3+ years of software development experience using GoLang/Java programming language
- Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP/Pivotal Cloud Foundry/any private cloud) and containerization is required
- Experience with a micro-services architecture is a plus
- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other Relational Databases
- Test-driven development mindset and a focus on quality, scalability and performance
- Strong programming fundamentals and ability to produce high quality code
- Solid understanding of Agile (SCRUM) Development Process required
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the tools, services, and applications that will enable us to be the planet’s most patient-focused pharmacy. You will work on projects ranging from greenfield initiatives to matured products with an active user base.
What you’ll do:
- Collaborate with engineering team to design and implement products using event driven micro-services architecture.
- Interact with Product Managers and key stake-holders on regular basis to understand and execute Product vision.
- Take charge of end-to-end feature development, right from proof-of-concept to production deployment and support
- Brainstorm and lead continuous improvement projects for product
- Providing feedback to peer developers on code quality and development standards.
- Mentoring team on strong coding and design standards.
- Setting the bar high for development practises while striking the right balance between pragmatism and perfection for code and processes.
- Effectively document API's and services using Swagger/OpenAPI, visualize flow and dependencies using diagrams, and create technical documents on engineering wikis.
- Present crisp and clear feature demos to stakeholders.
Some of our opensource projects- https://meet.google.com/linkredirect?authuser=0&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmedly">https://github.com/medly
Your tool-belt:
We don’t expect anybody to be an expert on all of these, but you should be deeply familiar with some, and a self-starting learner who isn’t afraid to ask for help:
- Polyglot Development (at least 1 more lang apart from Java and JavaScript)
- At least one JVM language
- Functional Programming,
- OO Design, Clean Code, SOLID principles
- Solid grasp on HTTP, and REST
- Web based SaaS product development
- Deployment to AWS or any cloud
- Test Driven Development,
- Security Compliance like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC2
- Git, Linux, CI/CD, Gradle, IDEA
- Security based on OAuth2 / OIDC
- SQL and NoSQL DBs like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch
- Docker
- SQL Migration tools like Liquibase, Flyway
- Semantic Versioning, Feature Toggles, PR, Feature Branches
What you`ll need:
- 3+ Years of experience mainly on Backend Development using any two languages (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Ruby etc.)
- Minimum a bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or any related field.
You will work on the following:
- Develop service/APIs using Kotlin/Micronaut Node/Serverless
- Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL DB
- AWS, Lambda, API Gateway, Amplify, Cognito, Okta
- Github, Github Actions, SonarCloud
- Database versioning using tools like Liquibase
- Terraform to manage infra
- Cloudwatch/AWS X-Ray to monitor the infra
- Opportunity to make Open Source Contribution
development of which at least 1 year should be team management experience.
You should be knowledgeable about programming languages - specifically Java,
Python, operating systems, networks, databases and SQL, algorithms, advanced
architecture, code design, system design, design patterns, project and people
management.
An aptitude for product thinking is preferred. You should also hands-on experience on
mobile app development. Knowledge of Python is a plus.







