Fullstack Developer

A niche, specialist position in an interdisciplinary team focused on end-to-end solutions. Nature of projects range from proof-of-concept innovative applications, parallel implementations per end user requests, scaling up and continuous monitoring for improvements. Majority of the projects will be focused on providing automation solutions via both custom solutions and adapting machine learning generic standards to specific use cases/domains.

Clientele includes major publishers from the US and Europe, pharmaceutical bigwigs and government funded projects.

As a Senior Fullstack Developer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable and performant web applications using modern technologies. You will work with cutting-edge tools and cloud infrastructure (primarily Google Cloud) and implement robust back-end services with React JS with Typescript, Koa.js, MongoDB, and Redis, while ensuring reliable and efficient monitoring with OpenTelemetry and logging with Bunyan. Your expertise in CI/CD pipelines and modern testing frameworks will be key to maintaining a smooth and efficient software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Fullstack Development: Design, develop, and maintain web applications using JavaScript (Node.js for back-end and React.js with Typescript for front-end).
• Cloud Infrastructure: Leverage Google Cloud services (like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, etc.) to build scalable and resilient cloud solutions.
• API Development: Implement RESTful APIs and microservices with Koa.js, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability.
• Database Management: Manage MongoDB databases for storing and retrieving application data, and use Redis for caching and session management.
• Logging and Monitoring: Utilize Bunyan for structured logging and OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and monitoring to ensure system health and performance.
• CI/CD: Design, implement, and maintain efficient CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment, ensuring fast and reliable code delivery.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Write unit and integration tests using Jest, Mocha, and React Testing Library to ensure code reliability and maintainability.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end and back-end engineers to deliver high-quality software solutions, following agile development practices.
• Optimization & Scaling: Identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot production issues, and scale the system as needed.
• Code Reviews & Mentorship: Conduct peer code reviews, share best practices, and mentor junior developers to improve team efficiency and code quality.

Must-Have Skills:

• Google Cloud (GCP): Hands-on experience with various Google Cloud services (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Firestore, etc.) for building scalable applications.
• React.js: Strong experience in building modern, responsive user interfaces with React.js and Typescript
• Koa.js: Strong experience in building web servers and APIs with Koa.js.
• MongoDB & Redis: Proficiency in working with MongoDB (NoSQL databases) and Redis for caching and session management.
• Bunyan: Experience using Bunyan for structured logging and tracking application events.
• OpenTelemetry Ecosystem: Hands-on experience with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem for monitoring and distributed tracing.
• CI/CD: Proficient in setting up CI/CD pipelines using tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Testing Frameworks: Solid understanding and experience with Jest, Mocha, and React Testing Library for testing both back-end and front-end applications.
• JavaScript & Node.js: Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), and experience working with Node.js for back-end services.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Experience with other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with TypeScript.
• Knowledge of other logging and monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management tools (JIRA, Trello, etc.).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5-10 years of hands-on experience as a Fullstack Developer.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex systems.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

About the Role

• Architects and design the organization’s digital product(s) from the ground up using modern tools, technologies (Core Java), frameworks (Spring), and systems.
• Build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa.
• Apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software.
• Work with IT Business Analysts, Technical Leads and Product Managers to effectively translate requirements into solutions that can be implemented by the software development teams across multiple locations.

What Would You Do at ALTRES?

A comprehensive role like this one calls for taking up the following responsibilities:

• Act as an authority in software best practices and be relied upon to propagate these in the broader organization, beyond their individual team.
• Frequently advise others on complex engineering matters. Be a partner and execute with business leaders.
• Build foundation to translate strategy into challenging and meaningful goals
• Expert ability to view the organization as a whole and work with various internal teams, and other groups as needed.
• Leverage and influence key stakeholders.
• Occasional travel to Hawaii will be needed to collaborate with the technical team in the company Headquarters

What Do You Need For The Job?

As a potential candidate, you are expected to have the following skills (technical):

9+years’ experience required in:

• Lead architecting of authenticated multi-role enterprise web applications with a strong understanding of user flows and interactions
• Advanced ability to influence leadership
• Expert commination skills and ability to shift narrative to different stakeholders
• Technical skills required: Java, SQL DB, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery. ReactJs and Infrastructure Knowledge.
• Experience with Agile software and test-driven development, as well as the ability to find fulfillment in building innovative products a plus
• A clear IT Support Background, Testing background, and a solution design mindset is required.
• Prior experience of architecting software from a problem statement to a fully developed solution.

What’s In It for You?

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Opportunity to work for both front end and backend development
• Great learning and development opportunities
• Working with an organisation that keeps up to date with industry best benchmarking in every aspect

Key Qualifications

1) BS/MS in Computer Science or relevant field and 6+ years of experience in building backend services with

Python 3.7.x using Django >= 2.2.1, Django REST framework >= 3.13.1, Flask >=1.1.2 and relational databases

design and maintenance.

2) At least 4 years of solid experience in working with front-end MVC framework React and caching strategies

(memcached, Redis).

3) Expertise in building microservices-based and cloud-based architectures including development and deployment

in AWS.

4) At least 3 years of experience with Web Application technologies: REST, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, AWS

Lambda, API Gateway and web servers Apache, Nginx.

5) Follows coding best practices to produce tested, scalable, reliable and maintainable code.

6) Hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and releasing large-scale applications.

Responsibilities

1) Understand complex requirements, scope and architect major features and perform API technical design for

junior developers to enhance the product at all layers.

2) Think in terms of future possibility of features, backward compatibility, and application performance.

3) Build cloud-based Python Django software products and implement UI components in React.js framework.

4) Write quality code (with comments, unit tests & documentation), design, implement and manage data pipelines

at enterprise scale with data migration and production data maintenance.

5) Collaborate with different teams to conceptualize, design, and build highly scalable and reliable software

solutions with REST APIs following SDLC best practices and DevOps principles.

6) Work closely with product, project and business teams to translate user feedback and company vision into

technical roadmap.

7) Possess strong product-centric mindset. You should be interested in the way software products are built and

comfortable to be proactive with your ideas and opinions.

 Must Have: BE/BTech/ME/MTech in Computer Science or Information Technology

Our Stack

Back-end: Python, Django REST, MySQL, Celery, Rabbitmq, Sqlalchemy, RDS

Front-end: JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

Ops: Docker, AWS, RDS, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS Route53, AWS cloudwatch

Role :

We are building one of the world's best tech platforms for online giving, where we provide opportunities for people to donate to any cause, non-profit or geography that they care about, in the most simple, personalized and effective manner. We scale our impact on the lives of millions of underprivileged people every year through our workplace giving, subscription giving and crowdfunding products.

At Give, we are looking for top-talent for our engineering team - software engineers who want to solve complex problems, continually learn, and most importantly, make a real impact in the lives of others.

Responsibilities :

- Work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate

- Think through complex architecture to build robust and scalable solutions

- Build well-abstracted modules and services

- Provide design reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability

- Follow scrum methodology to iterate and deploy fast

- Mentor other team members and colleagues

- Contribute to documentation, process and procedures

Requirements :

- 7+ years of experience

- Expertise in various Javascript frameworks/libraries including, but not limited to NodeJS and React.js

- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript

- Understanding of the fundamental principles of asynchronous code

-The ability to write efficient, scalable, reusable code

- The ability to conceptualize, diagnose, architect, iterate and build systems, sub-systems and services that are complex and enterprise scale

- Advanced knowledge and experience in web and server-side technologies

- Experience in both NoSQL and relational databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL or similar databases) and an advanced understanding of data modeling

- Experience in one or more OO language like Python/Flask (preferable), Java, Ruby, etc.

- Identity Management and Security (SSL protocols, data encryption, user authentication, authorization services)

- Expertise in Git

- The ability to work across all software platforms at a high level - frontend and backend, server management, CI/CD, administrate third party tools/services/integrations

- An advanced understanding of open source libraries/frameworks and integration with third party

- APIs - with a focus on Payments, Notifications and Analytics

- Advanced knowledge of client/server-side caching mechanisms across multiple layers

- Proven track record of technical leadership, software delivery, ownership and mentorship

- Superb understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures and algorithms

- Deep understanding of service-oriented and microservice architectures

- Expertise in AWS and its related services (EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, Elastic Beanstalk and more) or an equivalent cloud provider, Linux and shell scripting

- Knowledge of Nginx, Docker, gunicorn is a plus

- The ability and the experience to proactively account for the edge cases rather than diagnosing them after the fact

• understanding of the front-end and back-end processes;
• ability to work with HTML / CSS;
• ability to work with databases;
• understanding of programming templates and architecture design guidelines;
• profiling and optimizing applications.

What you’ll do - 

1. Design and implementation of the overall web architecture.
2. Design and deployment of database.
3. Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability.
4. Design and construction of our REST API
5. Integrating our front-end UI with the constructed API
6. Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment.
7. Work remotely with our global clients and teams across the US

What you should have - 

1. Should have 5+ years of experience expertise in developing applications using any of the frameworks and programming languages
2. 5-8 years’ experience Fluent in CSS (Foundation or Bootstrap), JavaScript and HTML, with an understanding of CSS, React.JS
3. Experience working with server technologies Node.js
4. Experience in API design and development.
5. Understanding of SQL / NoSQL databases MongoDB.
6. Strong knowledge of data structures, system design, and algorithms.
7. Great organizational and time-management skills.
8. Great interpersonal and communication skills.

• Design and develop solutions to complex technical problems spanning the development of product features, quality validation, and deployment to customers
• Build highly scalable web applications that are designed for high performance
• Lead design and code reviews
• Work closely with senior management, Product Manager, and our team of developers.
• Contribute visibly to product quality, innovation, and customer-centric design across the engineering organization
• Lead, motivate and direct team members to build high-quality software in a fast-paced agile environment
• Actively hire the engineering & product team, & develop the existing team
• Share experiences and skills to aid team members in enhancing their professional skills and career

• 4+ years of experience building large scalable systems
• Strong experience in agile methodologies and test-driven development (TDD)
• Experience in software development using open source technologies
• Knowledge in domain-driven design, design patterns, and enterprise integration patterns
• Must have experience in delivering software via complete Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline

• A history of working on side/hobby projects or contributing to open source projects is a plus
• You have worked in a startup before

Most importantly: Be excited to learn what you don’t already know!