Junior Full Stack Developer

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Become an expert in our technology and platforms
• Provide top-tier, highly skilled and attentive support to our consumer app teams.
• Perform production support, troubleshooting and maintenance tasks with a focus on quality and timeliness
• Work with the Implementations and Delivery Teams on defect resolution and solution delivery
• As an active member of the backend team you would utilize and promote best practices and standards
• You’ll develop new technical skills and gain industry knowledge
• You’ll provide occasional “after-hours” incident response and support
• Maintain software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Build tools to reduce occurence of errors and improve customer experience
• Manage system troubleshooting and maintenance.

Required skills and qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience supporting Web and Backend based application software and environments preferred

• Ability to prioritize effectively and handle shifting priorities professionally

• Experience with version management systems like GIT, Subversion

• Knowledge on Payment gateways (Razorpay, Juspay)

• Experience with web application servers, basic idea on AWS and Azure

• Databases (SQL and NoSQL) and SQL query language.

• Good understanding of Networking principles.

• An understanding and background with Object Oriented Programming languages

• Required Full stack development knowledge.

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, or relevant field

Position Name: Full Stack Developer

Department: Engineering

Industry: Digital Marketing

Location: Hyderabad

Employment Type: Full-time

Reporting Manager: Staff Software Engineer

TapClicks is looking for a Full Stack Developer to strengthen our team as well as build an industry-leading product suite and great culture. The ideal candidate is highly motivated and goal-driven with excellent problem-solving skills.

In this position, you will have the opportunity to fill a crucial role in our talented engineering organization: architecting, implementing, and maintaining vital parts of our products. Strong communication skills are key, as you will regularly collaborate cross-functionally with other engineers as well as the Product, Design, and QA teams to spec, build, test, and deploy features.

If you have a passion for building great products for customers, working in a fast-paced environment, and challenging yourself to become better at your craft, there’s a place for you here at TapClicks.

• Write clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Take ownership for significant functionality within our products, from implementation to iteration based on feedback and beyond
• Comfortably switch between frontend and backend development as needed
• Work with enormous amounts of data
• Participate in code reviews
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams

Technical Competencies

• Effective use of debugging, unit testing, and integration testing tools
• Strong frontend development experience with a JavaScript framework
• Must have working experience with RESTful  API
• Willing to work with MongoDB, PHP 7, MySQL, Node, Typescript / Javascript
• Good to have knowledge on Vue JS
• Strong understanding of OOPS concepts
• Experience with agile software development practices

Non-Technical Competencies

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Self-motivated, with a passion for learning and continuous self-improvement

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or similar degree
• 2-4 years of professional experience as a software developer

Preferred Qualifications

• Backend development experience 
• Experience with JavaScript unit testing frameworks, e.g.  Mocha
• Experience with Restful API 
• Experience with building responsive web applications

Benefits of Working For TapClicks

• The opportunity to work in an entrepreneurial, fast-growing, and successful business environment
• Health Insurance coverage
• Competitive employee benefits
• Paid Time Off (Earned leaves, Public Holidays and others)

TapClicks understands that Diversity and Inclusion is a powerful enabler for business performance. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. 

Required Experience and Skills:

• Hands-on experience in ReactJS 6.x+, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, Node js
• 1+ years of experience in cross-browser compatible responsive web application development using React.
• Good knowledge about Reactive programming using RxJS and Redux.
• Knowledge and use of Restful web services, Gulp / Grunt.
• Experience working with debugging/testing tools like Firebug Lite, Chrome or Safari web inspectors.
• Version Control – GIT
• Servers / Application frameworks – Apache / Nginx / ExpressJS
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

Responsibilities:

• Ability to translate Wireframes and PSD to high quality designs and functional web apps using HTML5, ReactJS, Node.js, and Mongo
• Develop interactive, user-friendly applications using the ReactJS
• Binding of UI elements to JavaScript object models
• Creating RESTful services with Node.js
• Architect scalable web architectures
• Developing for Back-end Web Applications using NodeJS and Express
• Creating servers and databases for functionality
• API design, creation and integrations
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications, app development and programming languages
• Effective communication with different stakeholders.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.