Junior Developer

 We are looking for skilled and motivated Software Engineers to join our growing team and work on cutting-edge projects with leading Japanese company in Japan. This role involves full-cycle system and application development across various domains including finance, healthcare, public systems, and web technologies. Candidates will be engaged in both frontend and backend development, database management, testing and end-to-end system integration from requirement gathering and analysis to deployment and maintenance.

Python Data Engineer

Job Description:

• Design, develop, and maintain database scripts and procedures to support

application requirements.

• Collaborate with software developers to integrate database scripts with

application code.

• Troubleshoot and resolve database issues in a timely manner.

• Perform database maintenance tasks, such as backups, restores, and migrations.

• Implement data security measures to protect sensitive information.

• Develop and maintain documentation for database scripts and procedures.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in database

management.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

• 3+ years of Proven experience as a Database Engineer or similar role with python

• Proficiency in SQL and scripting languages such as Python or Js.

• Strong understanding of database management systems, including relational

databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (e.g.,

MongoDB, Cassandra).

• Experience with database design principles and data modelling techniques.

• Knowledge of database optimisation techniques and performance tuning.

• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and continuous integration

tools.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

 Responsibilities: 

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging 
• Ability to design and document the product features, codes. 
• Self-driven and ability to take up ownership of things 
• Write clean code to develop functional applications, automation scripts, test cases 
• Troubleshoot and debug applications 
• Collaborate with developers, cross-functional teams to identify issue, new features and come up with solutions 
• Gather and address technical and design requirements 
• Provide training and support to internal teams 
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use 
• Ability to sync with other developers, designers to identify issues, new features and improvements 

**Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure**

Desired candidates must have 8+ years of total experience in backend development with good expertise in MEAN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, Node.js) and JavaScript, along with strong development and coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities :

What You'll Do

• Create the system architecture for any product from scratch as well as drive it for more than one development teams
• Design and deliver solutions that enable fast and efficient deployment of quality code to production
• Document the architectural blueprint and end to end design through flowcharts and diagrams.
• Set coding standards for development teams and ensure all released code is following standards
• Oversee the code review process, performing reviews when necessary
• Establish strong communication channels and relationships with the development teams, supporting them throughout the release cycle
• Continuously evaluate the existing software to identify areas of improvement and ensure architectural integrity as additional features are added.
• Lead DevOps and implement tooling and process improvements when you identify gaps
• Work with various stakeholders and identify the scope of the work, provide high level estimations, create a timeline and come up with the approach and design for the same.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Coach and mentor the development teams to improve the overall expertise and skills of the team.
• Take care of the development of critical components and POCs for new technologies to be used.
• Deliver high quality deliverables individually/as a team adhering to industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot any errors or issues that arise in the application/infrastructure components quickly and efficiently.

What You Bring

• 8+ years in software development or product engineering
• Proficient in MEAN Stack
• Good experience in backend development with Node.js
• Expertise in developing RESTful APIs
• Have created multi-transactional and highly redundant systems from ideation to production
• Customer-centric mindset
• Expertise in Agile SCRUM best practices
• Expertise in implementing front-end of applications using HTML5, Angular.js
• Proficient in MVC, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concepts, HTML, JSON, REST API development
• Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical concepts into something digestible by non-technical stakeholders

**Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure**

• Design and construction of platform with the best possible encryption and security mechanisms
• Compare different design options and take technology-driven design decision
• Define Data model/Information model
• Define services and convert functional requirements to design
• Define APIs and implement them
• Build front end based on user experience design
• Test and Debug as required
• Write Technical Documentation
• Optimize code and design for Performance
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines

Expected Qualifications and Key Skills

• Working experience in Spring, Spring-boot or equivalent, Hibernate or equivalent persistence framework.
• Working experience of No SQL databases such as MongoDB or equivalent
• Working experience of setting up Production environment including SSL certificates, logging, backup, archival, etc.
• Working experience of JavaScript frameworks such as React JS, JQuery, etc.
• Working experience of API gateways and Web services such as REST
• Working experience of using GIT
• Working experience of a dev-ops tool such as Jenkins
• Deployment experience on Azure/AWS
• Microservices design and development
• Excellent understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms
• Understanding of OOP and Design Patterns
• Works well in a team setting
• Can multitask, adapt to shifting priorities, detail-oriented
• Good work ethic, including a sense of individual responsibility
• Comfortable working on changing requirements in a growing company
• Must be analytical, flexible, innovative, and self-motivated
• Experience with payment platforms and processors would be a plus