Fullstack Developer

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Springboard engineering team is looking for software engineers with strong backend & frontend technical expertise. In this role, you would be responsible for building exciting features aimed at improving our student experience and expanding our student base, using the latest technologies like GenAI, as relevant. You would also contribute to making our platform more robust, flexible and scalable. This is a great opportunity to create a meaningful impact as well as grow in your career.

We are looking for engineers with different levels of experience and expertise. Depending on your proficiency levels, you will join our team as a Software Engineer II, Senior Software Engineer or Lead Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features for the Springboard platform, which enriches the learning experience of thousands through human guided learning at scale
• Own quality and reliability of the product by getting hands on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues and so on
• Contribute to the platform architecture through redesign of complex features based on evolving business needs
• Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools
• Provide technical mentoring to team members

You

• You have experience with web application development, on both, backend and frontend.
• You have a solid understanding of software design principles and best practices.
• You have hands-on experience in,
• Coding and debugging complex systems, with frontend integration.
• Code review, responsible for production deployments.
• Building scalable and fault-tolerant applications.
• Re-architecting / re-designing complex systems / features (i.e. managing technical debt).
• Defining and following best practices for frontend and backend systems.
• You have excellent problem solving skills and are comfortable handling ambiguity.
• You are able to analyze various alternatives and reach optimal decisions. 
• You are willing to challenge the status quo, express your opinion and drive change.
• You are able to plan reasonably complex pieces of work and can handle changing priorities, unknowns and challenges with support. You want to contribute to the platform roadmap, aligning with the organization priorities and goals.
• You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner. You are able to communicate with various stakeholders to understand their requirements.
• You are a proponent of quality - building best practices, introducing new processes and improvements to make the team more efficient.

Non-negotiables

Must have

• Expertise in Backend development (Python & Django experience preferred)
• Expertise in Frontend development (AngularJS / ReactJS / VueJS experience preferred)
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Experience building multiple significant features for web applications

Good to have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (or any cloud platform)
• Experience working with any Learning Management System (LMS), such as Canvas
• Experience working with GenAI ecosystem, including usage of AI tools such as code completion
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and applications deployed on Kubernetes
• Experience with refactoring (redesigning complex systems / features, breaking monolith into services)
• Experience working with NoSQL databases
• Experience with Web performance optimization, SEO, Gatsby and FE Analytics
• Delivery skills, specifically planning open ended projects
• Mentoring skills

Expectations

• Able to work with open ended problems and come up with efficient solutions
• Able to communicate effectively with business stakeholders to clarify requirements for small to medium tasks and own end to end delivery
• Able to communicate estimations, plan deviations and blockers in an efficient and timely manner to all project stakeholders

Founded in 2016, they are one of the leading online scheduling software companies in the world, with over 200,000 customers globally. They are a profitable, high-growth bootstrapped platform-as-a-product company with 50+ team members looking to grow to $50M in revenue in the next 3 years. 

Role: SSE- Backend [Golang]

Location: Remote (India)

CTC: 22-26 LPA

NP: 30 days or less

Note: Other Backend Language /Frameworks like Python, NodeJS and Java Springboot and willingness to learn Golang can also be considered

Skillset Requirements:

- Strong experience with backend programming languages and technologies like

- Golang (minimum 2-year experience)

- Protobuf and gRPC

- RESTful APIs

- Docker and Kubernetes

- Medium-level experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL database concepts.

- Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean code.

- Proven ability to work with multiple teams, multitask and prioritize.

- Experience with Git, JIRA, and Agile working methodology.

- Experience with design patterns, Event-Driven architecture, and Domain Driven Designs.

Responsibilities:

- Write code that meets standard and delivery guidelines.

- Mentor fellow engineers in the team to develop high-quality software and perform code

reviews.

- Work with the team to break user stories into tasks and delegate them to the team

members.

- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient

microservices distributed architecture.

- Analyze solutions and help implement engineering best practices.

- Work with Project Managers for timely delivery and forecast.

- Lead and mentor junior engineers on technical issues. Perform blameless RCAs when

issues occur and take ownership to resolve issues.

#remotejobs #bootstrapped #platformasaproduct #highgrowth

Key Skill :

- JavaScript with Dom Manipulation

- Good understanding on AJAX concepts

- Know jQuery implementation with its libraries

- Front-End Framework - Bootstrap knowledge

- In-Depth knowledge of PHP and its framework CodeIgniter

- In-Depth knowledge of Relational Database - MySQL

- Integration of Third Party Code Snippets.

- Knowledge of deployment the project on the production server

- Restful API Design and Development with CRUD Functionality

- Git/Github Knowledge

- Must be open to learn new technologies and frameworks as per the project's requirements

- Must have ability to work under pressure while performing priority tasks

- Must have critical and analytical skills

- Must be a quick and self-learner

Add on Benefits :

- Knowledge of Jira, Git and Digital Ocean are the key benefits.

 2+ years experience as a developer with a proven track record in on-time and successful deliveries.

- Must be highly proficient in NodeJS, Javascript and MySQL with Microservices (REST web services )

- Work end to end on micro-services and SPAs built on cutting-edge technologies like Nodejs (Strong practical experience preferred)

- Strong knowledge of database & web applications.

- Preferred : grunt, wagner, npm, passport, redix, chai

- Excellent problem solving and communication skills, so that you are able to articulate technical concepts to the team, also excellent development, and debugging skills

- Ability to learn, act, and thrive in a fast-paced environment with a distributed team

Duties & Responsibilities :

- Should be taking requirements to design and building reusable modules.

- Building, scaling and performance tuning.

- Advance understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5 and CSS3.

- Advance understanding in AWS, NPM (Node JS Package Manager), GIT and Unit testing.

- Strong work experience in Design Patterns and Algorithms.

- Experience with debugging, troubleshooting and problem-solving issues.

- Must have strong communication skills.

We focus on client adoption of disruptive technologies, technology architecture and providing specialized skills related to integration, custom software engineering, testing, application modernization, agile and more. We help our clients with the most complex projects including working in open web platforms, DevOps platforms as well as intelligent Computing and Architecture enhancement.

We are looking for hands on, smart thinking Applications developer to join our fast-growing team of talented professionals. You will have the opportunity to work on large enterprise solutions and deliver solutions that deliver business performance for our customers.

WORK YOU’LL DO

• Design and develop microservices/APIs using either Java/Spring boot, ISTIO, Kubernetes, Docker, CI / CD Pipelines
• You would scale micro services using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
• Collaborate with clients, architects, and application architectures to understand the operational objectives and purpose of the future system integration.
• Understand the points of integration between the different systems and highlight the potential risks associated with the delivery of solutions
• Collaborate with Functional Designers and Developers in order to find best solutions
• Produce detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Assist in producing solutions with threat assessments and associated security awareness.
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WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 5- 8 years of hands-on experience designing and developing microservices using either Java/Spring Boot
• 3-5 years of experience with system integration
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience with API concepts and technologies such as REST, JSON, XML, SOAP, YAML, GraphQL, and Swagger
• Experience developing within agile methodology using CI/CD pipeline
• Experienced in 3-tier, n-tier, cloud computing, microservices architectures and SOA.
• Good knowledge of integration architectures
• Experience supporting and/or implementing complex integration projects
• Excellent client management skills
• Experience with Data modelling would be an asset

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience of working in an Agile Environment
• Ability to drive design from Stories and Requirements
• Adept at UML, Design Patterns, Reusable Services Development,
• Knowledge on Scaling Microservices

As technical lead, you will be responsible for complete product development including 

1. Identification of technology
2. Shaping engineering practices
3. Hiring engineering team
4. Shaping up the product

We believe that great change begins with individuals who are given the freedom to make a difference, and we champion this in all that we do here at Vamstar. Hence we are urgently looking to hire a senior person to fill in for a Full Stack Engineer

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications along with designing and implementing testable and highly scalable codes. If you have a gig towards Java, Node, AWS, Javascript and Typescript and have worked extensively in web application development; we are looking for you.

Responsibilities

• Managing team(s)
• Develop quality software and web applications
• Analyze and maintain existing software applications
• Design highly scalable, testable code
• Discover and fix programming bugs

Qualifications

• B.Tech - CS from a Tier 1/2 college
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Great communication skills

Key Benefits 

• Performance Bonus on a Quarterly basis on performance 
• 25 days paid holidays each year including your accrued leaves, sick leaves, fixated and optional holidays. 
• Flexible working hours 
• Permanent Work from home 
• Yearly virtual cross-tribe pollinations (we have another engineering team in UK, US and Vietnam) 
• Wholesome development experience with MacBook Pro and extra monitor(s) post completion of Probation period/ machine bonuses 
• Regular and transparent appraisals based on performance. 

More about our Team: As an engineering team, we are dedicated, hardworking and always looking to learn and improve our craft. This happens in regular knowledge sharing sessions with both Full Stack and Machine Learning teams, and we are always keen to collaborate when a challenging problem comes up. In our work, we use industry best practices like Github. AWS, Ally, Trello, Slack, TDD, CI/CD and code reviews as part of building every feature. We also continually evaluate new technologies to see if they can help improve our platform.