Full stack developer

Job description

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge tech pieces & build from scratch

Ensure seamless performance while handling large volumes of data without system slowdowns

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet business goals

Required Skills:

Frontend: ReactJS (Next.js must)

Backend: Exp in Node.js, Python, or Java

Databases: SQL (must), MongoDB (nice to have)

Caching & Messaging: Redis, Kafka, or Cassandra exp

Cloud certification is a bonus

Job Overview:

We are seeking a skilled Senior Python Full Stack Developer with a strong background in application architecture and design. The ideal candidate will be proficient in Python, with extensive experience in web frameworks such as Django or Flask along with front-end technologies- React, JavaScript. You'll play a key role in designing scalable applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and leveraging cloud technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backend Development:
• - Architect, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Python or Golang.
• - Build and optimize APIs and microservices that power innovative, user-focused features.
• - Implement security and data protection measures that are scalable from day one.
• - Collaborate closely with DevOps to deploy and manage applications seamlessly in dynamic    cloud environments.
• Frontend Development:
• - Work hand-in-hand with front-end developers to integrate and harmonize backend systems with React-based applications.
• - Contribute to the UI/UX design process, ensuring an intuitive, frictionless user experience that aligns with the startup’s vision.
• - Continuously optimize web applications to ensure they are fast, responsive, and scalable as the user base grows.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in backend development, with proficiency in Python and/or Golang.
• Strong experience in front-end technologies, particularly React.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Apache Spark is highly preferred.
• Solid understanding of database technologies, both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude toward tackling challenges

• Expertise with NodeJS (extensively using ExpressJS), AngularJS and MySQL
• Rich user interface development experience with HTML5, JQuery, w3css/bootstrap etc and JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS and Angular 
• Expertise in building real-time web applications using MQTT, Websocket, Socket.IO, and EventSource frameworks
• Comfortable with developing MVC architecture-based code
• Comfortable in using at least one of the Graph/Chart libraries
• Ability with report generation from HTML contents
• Skilled in implementing security features across the applications and components
• Experience with tools usage - Code quality, Memory/CPU profiling tools
• Skilled with code optimization techniques
• Experience with docker container usage
• Experience with LDAP is a plus
• Strong troubleshooting techniques
• The strong defect resolution process for minimized latency
• Familiarity with confluence management (JIRA)
• Good to have a basic understanding of PHP frameworks like Yii, Codeigniter and databases like  MongoDB
• Good to have strong networking fundamentals, prior working experience in network technologies and protocols
• Ability to build supportability features to reduce the defects in software components
• Knowledge of GNU tools, revision control software (SVN, Git, etc.) and development lifecycle is a plus

You’ll be joining the engineering team responsible for delivering SaaS and on-premise solutions that orchestrate case data workflows and provide data driven legal insights for our clients. You will be leading the development, maintenance and scaling of our strategic initiatives - using a variety of distributed systems and cloud-technology stacks, driving our next level of growth. As an early member of our small team, you will have ample opportunity to lead and scale the product and the team. 

Responsibilities

• Work with product management to understand customers' case data workflows to translate their pain points to requirements.
• Gain a solid understanding of customer backend pipelines and integration surfaces.
• Breakdown large projects into potentially shippable incremental units within a timeframe.
• Understand the current system architecture and design sub systems.
• Be hands-on and build end-to-end new features and support existing features.
• Engage in all stages of the product development life cycle.
• Adopt a customer-centric and iterative mindset.
• Promote engineering best practices such as API design standards, coding standards, code test coverage, code reviews, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Work with lead engineers and mentor junior engineers to deliver on large initiatives.
• Our tech stack is varied - you will start with Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, Heroku, AWS, and more.

Required Skills: 

• Exposure to a variety of stacks building SaaS platforms and/or on-premise solutions.
• Experience with building sub-systems or services in a distributed system.
• Exposure to one or more backend architectures such as event-driven, micro services, and cloud architectures.
• Experience troubleshooting performance and/or scale issues.
• Strong in RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases.
• Proficient in one or more scripting languages - experience in Ruby/Rails and JavaScript/React is a plus.
• Strong in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and design patterns.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with both technical and nontechnical team members.
• Prior experience in the legal tech industry is a plus.

Years of Experience : 5+ years

Educational Qualification: BE or BCA or MCA OR Msc IT

Ideal skills:

1) 2-5 years of professional JavaScript development experience

2) Understanding of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

3) Comfortable working through the entire stack from the user interface through systems levels

4) Understanding accessibility and security compliance

5) Strong Logical and Analytical Skills

6) Experience in consuming web services (REST) and processing data (JSON)

7) Experience with SQLite, NoSQL, Redis or other databases

8) Proven experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks

9) Good understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime

10) Good understanding of JS concepts on callbacks and closures

11) Experience in debugging issues related to memory leaks

12) Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub-second response times

13) Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr

14) Experience working in a collaborative team environment

15) Ability to understand and analyse issues across multiple vendors and interfaces

16) Experience with NoSQL queries

17) Experience with AWS

18) Experience with Android Development

19) Experience in managing/mentoring small teams

In depth knowledge of all of the above is not mandatory but the nature of the work will involve learning and getting involved with all of the above. You would be working directly with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy.

Experience in the mobile space is mandatory. Please only apply if you have been part of building a mobile product. Since our product is mobile only, it is essential that you understand implications on the front end.