Java Backend Developer

You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.

WordPress Developer duties and responsibilities :-

- Designing and implementing new features and functionality

- Establishing and guiding the website's architecture

- Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS

- Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

- Generating WordPress themes and plugins.

- Conducting website performance tests.

- Troubleshooting content issues.

- Conducting WordPress training with the client.

- Monitoring the performance of the live website

- WordPress Developer requirements and qualifications :-

- Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery

- Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications

- Experience designing and developing responsive design websites

- Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.

- Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers

- Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages

- Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial

- Strong understanding of PHP back-end development

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

Position Overview:

We seek a talented and experienced professional to serve as the Head of Engineering and a Senior Backend Developer with expertise in Go (Golang). In this dual role, you will lead our engineering team and contribute hands-on to developing our B2B SaaS platform, which aims to revolutionize blue-collar worker training in India. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, set engineering standards, and ensure the successful execution of our technology initiatives.

As Head of Engineering:

• Oversee the recruitment, mentoring, and performance management of engineering team members.
• Define and maintain engineering best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies.
• Manage project timelines, resources, and budgets
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Drive technical decisions and architecture discussions to ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.

As Senior Backend Developer (Go):

• Design the architecture and implement high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services in Go.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while ensuring the security and integrity of the platform.
• Optimize and fine-tune the backend components for maximum speed and scalability.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with frontend and external systems.
• Implement asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture for handling concurrent requests efficiently.
• Work on data modelling and integration with databases for data storage and retrieval.
• Write unit tests and perform code reviews to maintain code quality and ensure robustness.

Must-Have Technology Skills:

• OOP Concept, Java 8+, Spring Boot, API development, Agile Scrum knowledge, Strong Databases design concepts of RDBMS, and capable of writing and optimizing complex queries.
  Good understanding of any Database tool e.g. Postgres, MySQL, etc.,
• DevOps basic knowledge e.g. implementation of logging in the code, Application Performance Management.
• Basic API & Application security, and Basics of tuning application performance.
• Basic Understanding of DevOps concepts e.g. CI & CD, Deployment lifecycle, Basic understanding of unit testing concepts e.g. TDD (test-driven development).
• A basic understanding of Microservices patterns
• A basic understanding of Java scripting.
• Good understanding of UI Frameworks like Angular 8+

Must-Have Soft Skills:

• Verbal & Written English communication, Good Problem-solving skills,
• Good Planning skills,
• Team Player,
• Good leadership skills
• Good written and verbal communication

Job Description

• Good experience as a full-stack developer in DB-centric applications and should be able to write and optimize complex database queries
• Requirement gathering & understanding, effort estimation, technical design, project planning, and monitoring in an Agile environment.
• Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks.
• Providing expertise in technical analysis and solving technical issues during project delivery.
• Customer interfacing - understand customer requirements, and propose technical solutions.
• Full Software Development Lifecycle (Agile).
• Code reviews, test case reviews and ensure code developed meets the requirements.
• Component Design/ Coding/ Unit Testing/ Debugging / Test Driven Development / Continuous Integration.
• Carry out adaptive changes necessitated by changes in Business Requirements and Technology

Desired candidates must have 2-6 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus

About the company:

💰 Early-stage, funded, growing, growing fast, profitable!

🎯 Mission Driven: To help small & large Indian businesses grow faster

Min. Experience: 3+ years in Full Stack Development

Skillset:

• You primarily identify as a full-stack engineer and are comfortable working on the server-side as well as UI side.
• You have shipped code to production recently and regularly
• You are driven and care about doing a good job and improving your craft.
• You have high integrity, and you are reliable
• You have excellent coding, programming, and problem-solving skills.
• You have experience with implementing modern architectural patterns.
• You have good debugging skills and coding practices
• You are fluent in using the tools of the trade: Editors, Git, Command line, Slack, Jira
• You should have relevant experience in the Ruby on Rails stack.
• You have experience with multiple ORMs
• You have experience in Postgres / MySQL
• You have experience in ReactJS

What you can expect from us:

• Mentorship, growth, great work culture
• We are a people-first team. Mentorship and continuous improvement are a part of the team’s DNA
• We believe in solving problems from first principles
• A good balance between deep focussed work and collaborative work, we won't bother you with unnecessary meetings

What we ask from you:

• Bring your software engineering — both individual brilliance and collaborative skills.
• Bring your good nature — we're building a team that supports each other.
• Be vested or interested in the company vision
• Take ownership of your product
• Should be capable of handling one complete product end-to-end - with minimal oversight

Bonus:

• If you have DevOps expertise: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
• If you have amazing frontend skills
• If you have created or contributed to an open-source component or library, we will love to see the code
• If you have given a talk or spoken in a meetup/conference
• If you have a hobby project, we will love to hear about it
• If you have previously worked in startups

Required Skills:

• 2+ years experience developing software using PaaS/APIs, Java, Docker, Bash, Json, Node js, sql / postgres, RestAPI, Swagger.
• Java 8 / Tomcat 8.5 / Jersey REST
• Spring MVC/Spring Boot/Microservices
• Hibernate
• Strong desire to learn
• Knowledge of cutting-edge technologies.
• Basic understanding of design patterns
• Comfortable working with Subversion, Git, or similar source control environments
• Must be willing to do Test Driven Development.
• Strong communication skills, must embrace working in a highly-collaborative environment

Preferred Skills:

• Good understanding of web-service technologies, Restful APIs
• Some exposure to a version control system such as Git or Subversion
• Proven understanding of software development techniques, concepts and processes
• Driven and self-motivated.
• Works creatively to solve challenging problems