
Position Title: Lead Product Engineer – Node.js
Company Overview:
AskSid was founded by two ex-Mindtree employees, who dreamt of bridging the communication gap in online retail consumer service at a global level. In a span of 4 years, AskSid has been repeatedly recognized and celebrated as a gamechanger in the retail space. From Nasscom declaring us as the No. 1 emerging SaaS company in India in 2019, to being named the “Most Innovative AI company” by CII and Accenture Ventures, we have carved out a definitive niche for ourselves. In 2021, AskSid officially became a Techstars Hub71 Accelerator portfolio company.
We are specialists when it comes to vertical AI for the retail domain and continually work towards innovating to make our customer’s lives easier through AI. We are looking for Engineers with a passion to build world-class technology products of internet-scale SaaS products.
Job purpose:
Design, engineer, and maintain our proprietary framework, APIs, and technology components of a SaaS software product with the ability to scale it to millions of requests and thousands of concurrent users.
Responsibilities
- Covert product feature requirements to software design that meets defined quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance KPIs
- Full stack engineering i.e. design, engineer, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain software components to QA and Production environments
- Conform, maintain, and improve continuous integration and delivery lifecycle processes
- Automation of engineering and production activities
Knowledge and skills
Education and Experience- JavaScript (ES6) / TypeScript
- Node.js - RESTful services and frameworks development
- Microsoft Bot Framework
- Dependency Management using NPM / Yarn
- Databases : MongoDB / Elastic Search
- Version Control : Git
- Engineering – CI, CD
- JavaScript (ES6) / TypeScript
- Node.js - RESTful services and frameworks development
- Microsoft Bot Framework
- Dependency Management using NPM / Yarn
- Databases : MongoDB / Elastic Search
- Version Control : Git
- Engineering – CI, CD
- Cache frameworks – Hibernate / Redis
- Stream / Queue processing platforms: Kafka / Fluentd
- Cloud Computing – Azure / AWS, Dockerization

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Join our backend team as an intern and get hands-on experience building scalable, real-world applications with Node.js, Firebase, and AWS.
📍 Remote / Onsite
📍 📅 Duration: 2 Months
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Firebase, SQL & NoSQL database management
RESTful API integration
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What you will do:
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- Implementing solutions as per technical design for new features and changes to existing components.
- Participating in the full development lifecycle of new functionality and enhancements to existing applications.
- Committing to producing high quality, highly performing and robust software within agreed time estimates and to agreed quality standards.
- Managing all stakeholder expectations.
- Working alongside global teams.
- Taking responsibility for successful delivery.
- Being able to work in a fast paced Agile/SCRUM environment.
- Following coding standards, building appropriate unit tests, integrating tests and deployment scripts.
- Assisting in defining software architectures – Collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of opportunities.
- Translating designs and style guides provided by the Design team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance.
- Contributing to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies.
Key Objectives/Responsibilities of this Role:
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- Backend development in NodeJs 12 & above, ExpressJs, NestJs, RESTful web services, Docker, MongoDB, Azure AKS or Kubernetes
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Secondary Skill: Load & performance testing, testing REST Web services, Basic shell commands, Linux, Good written, verbal and presentation skills, Soft spoken, Pro-active

● Experience in design, development, and deployment of the
application.
● Knowledge of Restful Web-Services, JSON, HTTP, Networking
protocols
● Knowledge of MVC architecture.
● Mandatory Tech Skills: PHP, NodeJS, JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL,
GIT.
● Good to Have: Laravel, Express, AWS
● Basic understanding of HTML, CSS
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- You measure your results & automate when possible
- You get 10% better at something every week
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- Redis, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch
- AWS, Docker, Terraform
- React, Keras, Tensorflow
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Nice to have: python
Must frameworks and technologies: Springboot, kafka, MQTT, docker/kubernetes, REST APIs
Persistence layer: MongoDB, Elastic Search, Any GraphDB (Neo4j/Arango), SQL, HBase
Must have: Exposure in large scale architecture (Concept of queues, micro services, functional programming)
Must have: Strong Data structure and design principles
Expert in developing Node.js applications, Strong understanding of NPM and modular application development skills building, Proficiency and hands-on experience with Node.js, Express, Sockets, MongoDB/Elasticsearch/Redis/MySQL, Apache Kafka/Google PubSub, Experience of working in MEAN Stack is a plus)




