Fullstack Developer

About the role

You'll work on cloud software that helps technical teams collaborate and move faster: an established, in-production product that real customers rely on every day. You'll work directly with leadership who built products at Meta and Apple, on a team where you own meaningful work and your decisions have direct impact.

Location: On-site, Financial District, Hyderabad

What you'll do

• Lead the engineering team day to day, owning delivery and technical direction
• Architect projects end to end and make the high-leverage technical decisions across the stack, in ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• Set up the engineering processes, standards, and rituals that let the team ship fast without breaking things
• Mentor and grow engineers, raising the bar across the team
• Break complex, ambiguous problems into clear plans and drive them to done
• Make deliberate tradeoffs between creating tech debt and delivering business requirements

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of full stack engineering experience (strong senior engineers ready to step into a lead role are welcome)
• Deep, hands-on command of ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• A track record of technical leadership: architecting systems, mentoring engineers, and setting up engineering processes
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Excellent communication and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Bonus if you know: TypeScript, SQL, ExpressJS

Who you are

• You have serious work ethic. You get a high from checking things off and seeing results.
• You're curious, resourceful, and self-learning.
• You take ownership and bring the hustle.
• You lead by example and bring momentum to everything and everyone you work with.

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Job Overview: We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Node.js Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in developing scalable, high-performance backend applications using Node.js and related technologies. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy robust solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

· Develop, maintain, and optimize server-side applications using VueJs, Node.js and Express.js.

· Design and implement scalable RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs.

· Work with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.

· Ensure the security, performance, and responsiveness of applications.

· Collaborate with front-end developers, UX designers, and product managers.

· Implement automated testing and continuous integration.

· Debug and optimize existing code for performance improvements.

·  Stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in Node.js development.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

· 5+ years of experience in backend development using Node.js.

· Proficiency in JavaScript & TypeScript.

· Strong knowledge of Express.js, Nest.js, or similar frameworks.

· Experience with microservices architecture and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

· Expertise in database technologies such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.

· Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

· Experience with authentication and security best practices (JWT, OAuth, etc.).

· Strong debugging and performance optimization skills.

·  Ability to work in an agile environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.).

· Knowledge of DevOps practices and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).

· Familiarity with front-end technologies such as VueJs or React.

· Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub portfolio.

About Actionboard

https://www.myactionboard.com">Actionboard is comprehensive suite of tools designed to provide actionable insights to entrepreneurs and business people proactively and on demand. Apart from this, Actionboard also provides extensive automation tools to accountants that lets them save time and improve the quality of their work.

What you will do:

• Implement features from end-to-end across the stack
• Work with product managers to understand business requirements and choose appropriate solutions
• Participate and actively contribute to the technical and product discussions

Our tech stack:

1. Ruby on Rails
2. Sidekiq
3. Vue.js
4. PostgreSQL
5. Google Cloud Platform

We handle problems that involve huge amounts of data and apply a lot of machine learning techniques in addition to regular web development work.

Why work on Actionboard:

• Challenging work: Actionboard handles a large volume of data which turns boring day-to-days tasks into interesting challenges. There is also a huge scope for applying machine learning and data science techniques if that sort of thing interests you.
• Work culture: We are serious but we like to have fun. We work hard but not to the point of burnout nor do we ever do all-nighters. Our team is filled with smart, hard-working, diligent types with a can-do attitude when presented with challenges. We are an intentionally small and agile team.
• Growth potentail: We have a half-yearly review process where we make it clear what objectives are needed to be achieved in order to advance to the next level. Promotions and pay increases are based on skills acquired and work performed.

Technical skills are we looking for:

• HTML/CSS/JavaScript experience
• At least a year of experience working with Rails
• Working knowledge in SQL
• Experience in a Test Driven Development approach

How your growth trajectory will look like at Actionboard:

We are a small company with no bureaucracy where rewards follow results very quickly. Below is the ladder a new developer in our team climbs.

Programmer in Training ( 0 - 6 months experience)

• Learn fundamentals of developing a web application with rails
• No ownership expected. No work related initiatives expected.
• Work will be extensively reviewed. And detailed feedback will be given.
• Works on simple routine problems

Junior Programmer (6m to 12m)

• Strengthen fundamentals of ruby, javascript, sql, html, css
• No ownership expected. No work related initiatives expected.
• Work will be heavily reviewed. And detailed feedback will be given.
• Works on simple routine problems but turns around much faster than person in training

Programmer (12m to 18m):

• Work is reviewed with the occasional need for significant direction or implementation changes.
• Follows established patterns and approaches within existing code bases with ease.
• Co-owns a feature along with a Sr. Programmer
• Works mostly on clearly defined and scoped individual features or problems.

Senior Programmer (18 months to 3 years)

• Work doesn't need to be reviewed, but general direction may be.
• Fully capable of taking substantial features from concept to shipping as the sole programmer (alongside a designer).
• Can provide feedback on the work of junior programmers and programmers.
• Deep expertise within at least one programming environment.
• Basic proficiency in at least one additional programming environment.

Lead Programmer (3 years to 5 years)

• Work happens completely autonomously with no regular need for review.
• Fully capable of owning and running entire subsystems of work (e.g. entire inbound/outbound Tally Sync worklow).
• Helps set and maintain professional standards for the entire organization.
• Deep, substantial expertise in multiple domains. e.g. Design
• Capable of running and directing small teams for substantial projects.

Principal Programmer (5 years to 8 years)

• Fully capable of designing, owning, and running entirely new, novel systems (design user activity tracking systems)
• Capable of running and directing larger teams for large, long-running projects.
• Invents new concepts, pushes the whole organization forward regularly. (e.g. Report Builder)

1. Full Stack developer (Java/JavaScript): (experience 3 to 6 years) 

• Experience in designing multithreaded/concurrent/distributed systems.
• Experience in Java/Kotlin or JavaScript is required (3+ years).
• Experience in working on scalable non-blocking server side frameworks like Spring stack(2+ years)
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases, Message brokers. ex: Postgres/MySQL, MongoDB/DynamoDB/Redis/Neo4j, Kafka (2 +years)
• Experience in Front end language and frameworks. JavaScript, must be an expert in one of the front end frameworks (ex: React) (2+)
• Understand cloud technologies and should have deployed applications or products in popular cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, MS Azure, etc (2+ years).

Optional:

• Experience with BigData is a big plus
• Knowledge of functional programming principles is a plus.

• Experience in HTML5 and CSS3