
As a Backend Developer for Amura, expect your days to be supercharged with challenges and excitement while building and mastering the core software with your own bare hands. You will be developing low-latency APIs and functions to exchange data between the server and the user ensuring high performance and responsiveness. You are going to work closely in developing challenging components like a chat application, event scheduler, and much more. We are looking for someone who comes alive while developing server-side application logic with good problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
- Have an eye for building, maintaining, and creating a schema for RDBS.
- Define and communicate technical and design requirements.
- Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future.
- Work seamlessly in any IDEs like VS Code, WebStorm, etc.
- Work collaboratively with BA teams to ensure the requirement
criteria are met.
- Participate in the creative process. Thinking out of the box.
- Writing time-efficient, space-efficient, and generic code.
- Oversee all technical challenges that might occur during development.
- Delivering user story development as per acceptance criteria.
- Preparing LLD (Low-level document) on a solution or a component for better understanding to another developer.
- Participate in the entire application life cycle focusing on coding and debugging.
- Learn about new technologies and stay up to date with current best practices.
Requirements-
- Hands-on backend web development experience.
- 7+ years of relevant experience
- Decent understanding of Git, and Bit Bucket.
- Excellent grip on node JS/express JS, like how nodeJS/expressJS works, behind the scenes.
- A person who thinks like a compiler.
- Good problem-solving skills through JavaScript /Typescript.
- Ability to resolve a real-time problem through code.
- Familiar with Agile software development.
- Good understanding of JSON.
- Matured enough to consume and make API calls.
- Experience with issue tracking, and bug tracking tools like JIRA, and Azure DevOps.
- Working on any cloud services like AWS, or Azure would be an added advantage.
- Good at estimating ETA and also good at delivering by ETA.
- Be up for anything. A can-do attitude.
- Not just restricted to the backend.
What is our technology stack?
We have used top-notch technologies to build our product. We use React JS for web apps and react native for mobile apps. Both the frameworks are coded in typescript. We use AWS lambdas, ECS, and API Gateway for hosting our backend services. All the services are written in Node JS/Express JS. We use a wide variety of AWS services like Dynamo DB, S3, Cognito, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, etc. We use Figma for UI/UX design and wireframing.
Are there any technologies you want me to be good with? Yes, we expect you to be good in node Js
Here are answers to some questions you may have:
Who is Amura?
We are a health start-up with a presence in multiple countries
How old are you?
5 years
What is special about you?
Our clients. The Amura protocol is an intensive health program to follow and execute and the clients who choose to go through the journey are the most special. Next comes our team. The Amura Team is one filled with brilliant minds, brimming with creativity be it in operations, medical, or marketing. You can be one among them. Come and explore.
What is special about working with you?
You will grow crazy fast. As a rule of thumb, you can expect 5 years of growth for every year you are with us. But beware, growth like that cannot be achieved with life as usual. / But beware, growth like that cannot be achieved by any ordinary person.
What kind of people are you looking to add to your team?
We are looking for people who, when allowed to have a measurable
impact on the world will take it. Who value human life and are willing to work tirelessly on not only improving themselves for their own sake but for the benefit of everyone in the world. We work on the edge of our own best, striving to find what could come next in our growth. Anyone who joins the team will not only find the challenges they need to push
them, but also will have Amura at their back for support and guidance.
Is this a WFH role?
If you are in a role where you keep pushing your envelope every day, you are going to be asked to come to the office. But if you are in a role that calls for doing stuff that you are already very proficient in, you will be required to be in the
Where is your office?
Chennai (ECR)
Do you have an online presence?
https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)
Perks I get when I join Amura?
Health is the hardware of success. Amura has a one-of-its-kind performance health program. It has helped thousands of people to grow and flourish in dimensions that are important to them. Everyone in Team Amura, and their dependents, get all of our medical knowledge and services at no cost. This is very unique to Amura. Until you speak with one of us, you can never know what an unbelievable power-up it can be.

About Amura Health
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Amura helps people reverse their chronic diseases using Natural Molecule Therapy (NMT) protocols built using evidence-based science.
Over the last five years, we successfully helped thousands of people to become healthier than they were years ago, slowed down their ageing, made them happier and more productive.
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