Fullstack Developer

About the Company:

Alyke, recognized as India's first friendship app, is revolutionizing the way people find friends online through its innovative matching algorithm. Alyke has quickly gained traction, surpassing 1 million users. This platform uniquely connects individuals based on shared interests and proximity, and stands out for its commitment to creating a secure environment that encourages users to express themselves freely. Joining Alyke offers the chance to be part of an innovative team dedicated to reshaping the landscape of social connections

Role Overview:

As a Senior Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and optimization of our backend systems. You will be instrumental in building scalable, high-performance applications that support our business's needs. This role demands a deep understanding of backend technologies, database design, cloud infrastructure, and the ability to integrate a wide range of services and APIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and robust backend services and APIs.
• Lead the development of microservices architecture, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
• Oversee the integration of third-party services and external APIs, including notification services like FCM.
• Develop and manage database schemas, optimizing for performance and scalability using MongoDB and Redis.
• Implement real-time data processing mechanisms for live updates and push notifications, utilizing technologies like Firebase.
• Manage cloud infrastructure and serverless functions on platforms such as AWS and GCP, ensuring efficient operations and cost management.
• Ensure the security of backend systems through robust authentication, authorization, data encryption, and adherence to best practices in data security and compliance.
• Work closely with the frontend team to integrate backend services and ensure a seamless user experience.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and frameworks to improve the backend infrastructure.
• Mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong portfolio of projects demonstrating expertise in NodeJS, ExpressJS, and asynchronous programming.
• Extensive experience with database design, optimization, and management using MongoDB and Redis.
• Proven track record in developing and managing REST APIs.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and real-time data processing.
• Solid experience with caching mechanisms and SQS management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of security principles, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption.
• Familiarity with compliance and data protection standards.
• Should have worked on scalable microservices architecture
• Experience with Lambda functions.
• Experience working with firebase
• Should have proven experience in mobile application development
• Should have working experience in sqs
• Have knowledge of elastic cache 
• Experience with cloud-native development and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead projects and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a passion for mentoring and driving technical excellence.
• Attach the link of mobile application worked on till date

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to lead a cutting-edge project impacting users globally.
• Work in an environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits.

Requirement

1. 2+ Years of development experience in the full stack development (preferred MERN technology stack).
2. should be proficient in working with technologies like JavaScript, CSS, and JS with framework like NodeJs and ReactJS.
3. Strong skills and experience with programming, design, and architecture, and familiarity/experience with AWS and other cloud technologies.
4. Good Knowledge of APIs is a must.
5. Should have good knowledge of databases like Linux.
6. Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
7. Keen interest in emerging technologies with an aptitude to learn and adapt.
8. A basic understanding in  Java is a plus.

Responsibilities:

1. Should be able to work independently once proper guidance is provided.
2. Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
3. Ensure timely completion of development activity.
4. Prepare training documents and provide training to internal teams on tools.
5. Consult, design, and develop well-structured, scalable in-house tools.
6. Should be able to write optimized business logic for business functions.

We are looking for an experienced full-stack engineer (with a path to becoming CTO) to join our founding team! We're a B2B SaaS startup with a young vibrant culture taking this idea from inception to impact.

About the job

We want to talk to you if:

• You've built multiple, kick-ass Chrome extensions
• You've built commercial apps using chat frameworks (e.g. Chat 21/Getstream.io etc.)
• You are a React.JS, Node.JS, Javascript, & Postgres wiz
• You have experience building multi-platform apps (Web + mobile web)
• Have built or implemented integration frameworks at scale (or experience with iPaaS frameworks)
• You are obsessive about clean, optimized & scalable code with copious documentation
• You are excited about building out a team and have aspirations to become a CTO

Having B2B SaaS Startup experience is preferred and a big plus

About Us

SmartCue wants to make product demos more effective and as a result help sales teams optimize their sales cycles. Our fundamental belief is that everything we build must eliminate or reduce friction for a salesperson.

Fast Track Your Application

• Think about the Ideal Customer for SmartCue
• Download the trial for SmartCue, sign up, download, experience the product, and provide feedback on how to overhaul the current experience of the product to add immediate value to the customer

• We don't need you to fully code any feature in its entirety and are not looking for free work.

The idea is to identify folks who get what we are trying to do with SmartCue and find faster alignment with the right candidate.

Here is a video walkthrough for additional context - https://www.loom.com/share/9609cf1855e64926b71a1ff840bd7347" target="_blank">https://www.loom.com/share/9609cf1855e64926b71a1ff840bd7347

The Opportunity

• In this position, you must be ready for a fast-paced startup environment.
• Our ideal candidate is willing to be flexible and able to wear many hats.
• Must have experience engineering and scaling technologies & teams with a proven track record of success.
• Our perfect candidate is well-versed in Chrome Extensions, creating delightful front-end experiences for users, enjoys building and scaling the backend infrastructure, and has an itch to adopt the newest technologies.
• Remote forever, if you like!

Duties Include

• Develop + understand the technological roadmap
• Develop feature rollout systems and processes
• Develop strategies and solutions from customer discovery sessions
• Hire + manage outside/contracted engineering talent
• Scale while staying lean through the early stages up to fundraising
• Oversee ClickUp for project and product management, roadmap, bugs, and backlog grooming
• Collaborate with marketing to optimize user experience, onboarding and reduce churn
• Oversee security + compliance strategies
• Help field support desk inquiries
• And more...

We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to be committed to diversity and inclusiveness. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or age.

1. Strong fundamentals OOPS concepts, Exception Handling, Coding Standards, Logging

2. Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular. 

3. Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments

4. Communicating with external web services and processing data

5. Experience with offline storage threading and performance tuning

6. Review code and maintain the code quality and suggest best practices

7. Knowledge and experience on data science and programming languages

8. Demonstrable abilities to optimize code. Strong analytical skills for effective problem solving

• Demonstrated skills in development of apps where you have performed some role in UI – APIs - DB 
• You have experience with coding in more than one programming language, preferably Java
• Experience with Angular (4 & above), ReactJS, Vue, MongoDB, APIs/Microservices. 
• Experience on building APIs
• You have a sound understanding of programming fundamentals
• Passion for developing robust software and writing maintainable code. 
• Keen interest in new technologies and their timely adoption. 
• Willingness to work extended hours as required to deliver projects. 
• Ability to work well in a team to deliver on team goals. 
• Flexibility under changing conditions and ability to multi-task between projects. 
• Fluent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge/Experience of Python based stack will be an added advantage