Fullstack Developer

Location: Bangalore 

About us 

RockED is the premier people development platform for the automotive industry, supporting the entire employee lifecycle from pre-hire and onboarding to upskilling and career transitions. With microlearning content, gamified delivery, and real-time feedback, RockED is educating the automotive workforce and solving the industry's greatest business challenges. 

The RockED Company Inc. is headquartered in Florida. Backed by top industry experts and investors, we’re a well-funded startup on an exciting growth journey. Our R&D team (Indian entity) is at the core of all product and technology innovation 

We partner with 10000+ dealerships, empower 60,000+ learners, complete 15000+ certifications, and have crossed 11 million lesson completions

Check out our website https://www.rocked.us/ 

Your Impact

We are looking for a Hands-on software developer with strong hands-on experience in backend technologies (Node.js) who can lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.

Engineers who can combine technical depth with strategic product thinking. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with modern backend stacks, brings strong critical thinking to the table, and can balance short-term delivery with long-term technical vision. 

• Stay updated with evolving AI technologies and encourage the team to leverage AI tools effectively to improve development efficiency and innovation.
• Build and provide technical direction and architectural guidance for backend services and APIs.
• Design, implement, and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity, security, and efficient retrieval. 
• Implement the core logic that makes applications work, handling data processing, user requests, and system operations. 
• Contribute actively to system architecture, proposing enhancements and leading design discussions for new features and services.
• Working closely with product managers and designers to turn ideas into reality and shape the product roadmap. 
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security 
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and frameworks, Drive planning, prioritization, and timely delivery of engineering initiatives.
• Drive code quality through writing unit tests, documentations and conducting code reviews.
• Take ownership of end-to-end feature development — from design to deployment and monitoring.

What skills do you need? 

• Extensive (Must have) hands-on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript, backend development using Node.js and Express.js, and database management with MySQL.
• Strong command of JavaScript and understanding of its quirks and best practices
• Exposure to system design and interest in building scalable, high-availability systems.
• Experience from a high-growth product-based startup is a must-have.
• Ability to think strategically when designing systems—not just how to build, but why
• Prior work on B2C applications with a focus on performance and user experience
• Knowledge of Sequelize, MongoDB, and AWS would be an advantage. 
• Curiosity and openness to adopt emerging AI technologies in engineering workflows and incorporate AI capabilities into products or internal tools.

Why choose a career at RockED? 

• Build from Day One: Work in small, fast-moving teams solving real problems and building products from the ground up.
• Learn from Industry Leaders: Collaborate directly with leaders who’ve held senior roles at global companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Walmart, and more.
• AI Expoure: We encourage engineers to leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to improve productivity, experimentation, and innovation.
• Global Exposure: Be part of a diverse, high-calibre team working closely across the US and India.
• People-First Benefits: ₹10 lakh health insurance coverage for you and your family—fully sponsored by RockED.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work on highly distributed and scalable system architecture

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software solutions

• Ensure performance, security, and maintainability of applications

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders

• Perform system testing and resolve technical issues

Required Skills:

• Strong experience in ASP.NET, C#, .NET Core, MVC

• Hands-on experience with SQL Server / PostgreSQL

• Experience in Angular / React (Frontend technologies)

• Knowledge of microservices architecture & RESTful APIs

• Familiarity with CQRS pattern

• Exposure to AWS / Docker / Kubernetes

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)

• Knowledge of Node.js is an added advantage

• Understanding of Agile methodology

• Good exposure to cybersecurity and compliance

Technology Stack:

• Microsoft .NET technologies (primary)

• Cloud platforms: AWS (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS)

• Databases: MSSQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

• Caching: Redis, Memcached

• Messaging queues: RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS

Beyond strong technical ability and cultural fit, we are looking for someone who demonstrates:

• Minimum 1 year of professional web development experience
• A portfolio showcasing real-world projects or contributions (personal or professional)
• Strong foundation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with working experience in modern frameworks
• Practical experience with React (mandatory)
• Ability to build responsive, user-friendly interfaces with attention to UX best practices
• Experience integrating APIs and working with JSON-based data
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git
• Basic understanding of backend concepts, preferably with exposure to Node.js, Java, or Python
• Ability to debug, troubleshoot, and improve existing codebases
• Good understanding of performance optimization and cross-browser compatibility
• Strong time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks effectively
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with a proactive and learning-oriented mindset

1. Design patterns- socket communication/ micro services architecture 

2. Caching - REDIS MEMCACHED etc

3. Database - MONGO, SQL etc. min 2yrs experience with these.

4. Features created for large concurrent requests.

5. Node Js, Go lang any asynchronous programming language min 2 yrs exp with any one of them.

6. Message Queues - RABBIT MQ, Kafka etc.

7. Logging and APM (application process manager) good to have.

8. DS ALGO good to have.

The tech stack looks like the below (expect this to change as we scale):

1. Typescript for APIs (REST and GraphQL)
2. Kafka, Spark, and data warehouses for ML pipelines (spark on python/scala)
3. Solidity + hardhat for smart contracts (in the future, rust, go and move)
4. AWS & Terraform
5. Full nodes

You can expect to do some or all of the following:

1. Read through protocols’ whitepapers and smart contracts to derive metrics and analyze risks
2. Architect the backend for APIs, async jobs, and blockchain integration
3. Build clean, concise APIs for customer integration, along with the documentation
4. Setup, run and maintain full and archive nodes across different chains
5. Integrate with multiple partners like exchanges and custody providers
6. Fool-proof security across the stack - encryption, hashing, privacy, VPC, etc.
7. Infrastructure as code - build terraform scripts and ensure easy replication of the infra across different regions
8. Research the top DeFi protocols to uncover better insights for our customers and evaluate their risk profiles, security, and historical returns
9. Manage production deployments, logging, and monitoring

We expect you to be fairly comfortable with working with both web3 and web2 stacks. We do not expect that you have web3 experience on day 1, but you should be willing to wear multiple hats, learn things quickly and move fast.

1. Generalist, a solid engineer who can learn things on your own and have an eye for clean, tested, and well-documented code
2. We don’t look at the number of years of work experience as a criterion, but rather see what you have done in your life so far (side projects, open-source contributions, blogs, etc.). We don’t care about degrees, the institutions you went to, or the companies you worked for before. We are open to talking as long as you have good judgment, great clarity, align with our values and have a strong track record of thoughtful work
3. Understand the fundamentals of building and integrating APIs and secure systems. Bonus if you know a bit about blockchains and protocols
4. You can be strong on the backend, front-end, or can dabble everywhere. We want you to play to your strengths and will provide enough opportunities to learn and do things outside of your comfort zone

Pay and benefits We offer a solid, competitive package (including early-stage equity) that is location agnostic. We give you the flexibility to choose the split between cash and equity.

About Apexon:

Apexon is a digital-first technology services firm specializing in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. For over 17 years, Apexon has been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation. Our reputation is built on a comprehensive suite of engineering services, a dedication to solving our clients’ toughest technology problems, and a commitment to continuous improvement. We focus on three broad areas of digital services: User Experience (UI/UX, Commerce); Engineering (QE/Automation, Cloud, Product/Platform); and Data (Foundation, Analytics, and AI/ML), and have deep expertise in BFSI, healthcare, and life sciences.

Apexon is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital.

To know more about us please visit: https://www.apexon.com/

About the role:

• Experience: 7+ years of experience building modern web applications working in the fullstack
• Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript with a thorough understanding of React.js or Vue.js and their core principles preferred
• Implementing RESTful APIs using .Net/C# preferred with experience with .Net Core, .Net 5 or 6 a bonus!
• Experience with SQL and relational database design with MS SQL Server experience is added advantage
• Experience with NoSQL/document database technologies
• Experience writing automated unit tests in the full stack environment
• Knowledge of modern authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Familiarity with modern front-end and backend build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Experience with modern responsive web application design & development Familiarity with Node.js
• Experience with microservice architecture
• Experience using Git version control
• Experience with VS Code, Visual Studio, or other relevant development tools
• Familiarity with Scrum/Agile principles
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
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Required skill set:

• Candidate must be good in JavaScript and have experience in at least one modern JavaScript framework such as Vue/Angular/React. But must be willing to work in Vue/React.
• Must have experience in .NET Framework. Good to have experience in .NET Core/.NET 5/6/7. But must be willing and capable enough to learn .NET Core.
• Should be able to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Must be good in programming concepts such as OOPS, Unit Tests, Web API, SQL, etc

Desired skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Computer Science.
• Ability to establish priorities, goals/objectives and timelines.
• Possess strong planning and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to delegate and oversee assignments to ensure successful and timely completion as well as to obtain the cooperation of others within and outside the unit. Works in a collaborative manner to achieve results.
• Ability to effectively present technical topics to internal groups with potentially varied levels of technical sophistication. Strong communicator with excellent ability to work in a team environment.

Preferred Experience:

• 2-3 years of industry experience in software development.
• Experience working with medical data
• Experience and familiarity working in development teams and team-based development practices including scrum/agile, code review, etc.
• Knowledge and experience working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, CouchDB, Raven DB, etc.
• Knowledge of RDBMS concepts and experience with Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, etc.
• Knowledge and experience working with Node.js and related frameworks such as Express.js.
• Knowledge and experience working with web application frameworks such as Angular, AngularJS, or React and related frameworks such as Ionic.
• Familiarity with FHIR APIs and experience working with REST APIs.
• Experience working on full-stack projects.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines

• 2+ years of experience participating in the delivery of technology services.
• A proven ability to learn new applications & innovate in technology
• Strong Experience in technologies like Node, Webservices and Microservices
• Experience with cloud components and services and containerization technologies is desirable
• Exposure to ReactJS desirable
• Experience working with multiple types of datastores: Mongo DB, SQL
• Experience in integrating, designing and developing solutions is desirable
• Experience with CI/CD and TDD is desirable
• Frameworks - Express , Hapi , feathers
• Strong knowledge in Javascript