Lead Product Engineer – Node.js at AskSid · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 5 - 7 years · ₹7L - ₹14L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 8 Nov 2021
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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Technical skills:
- Well documented experience with .NET framework and C#
• Well documented experience with http://asp.net/">ASP.NET MVC
• Experience with JavaScript libraries (for example jQuery)
• Experience with HTML, JavaScript and CSS
• Experience with integrating and developing web services (REST, WCF)
• Experience with Unit and Integration testing
• Experience with system design and requirement analysis
• Knowledge about ORM frameworks (for example Entity Framework)
• Good understanding on how to develop stable, high performing and maintainable high scale systems
Bonus:
- Experience with Test Driven Development
• Experience with Domain Driven Design
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (for example AngularJS)
• Experience with UI frameworks (for example Twitter Bootstrap)
• Experience with mobile application development
- Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
- Write clean, well-designed code.
- Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.
- Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
- Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
- Integrating data storage solutions.
- Troubleshoot and fix any issues relating to PHP programs.
- Ensure smooth operations of web processes and infrastructure.
- 3+ years of Professional Full time experience building and maintaining complex software on a cross-functional team. You'll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You'll write testable, quality code. You'll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
- Strong database skills
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering (or equivalent)
- Minimum product dev experience of 3+ years in web/mobile startups with expertise in designing and implementing high performance web applications.
- You're an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
- You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production env and finally monitoring.
- Understanding of MVC design patterns.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
- Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming.
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, BitBucket.
- Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools, and developing web services.
Job Description :
You're going to be at the core of our development team. You'll mainly be coding in Node.js. You'll be doing a little bit of everything from writing backend code that communicates with other internal services, to working with APIs, to writing code that controls EC2 instances and so on.
Requirements :
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and functional programming and design concepts like - dependency injection, abstract classes, interfaces, data, providers, factories, middlewares, interceptors, orm
- Strong understanding of database architecture and design principles MySQL, mongo-DB. Understanding of MongoDB’s aggregation framework is a bonus.
- Excellent knowledge of Node.js frameworks (NestJs preferred) and experience in integrating libraries, authentication, queues, jobs, logger services. Past experience in working on multi-tenant SAAS product is a bonus.
- Experience with AWS, Architecture Design, and Web development.
- 1+ years of relevant experience
- Passionate about working in a startup and creating a great product
- Must be able to show us projects and or websites that you have created. Bonus points if you’ve created these projects/websites outside of your work (we love seeing proof of how much you love technology and coding).
- Must love to program, must be willing to learn, and must be creative. If you are the type of person who finds learning a new technology or language an exhilarating experience, this is the place for you.
Responsibilities :
- Working alongside front end developers, designers, and other backend developers creating cutting edge applications
- Delivering programming solutions for a variety of challenging and exciting projects
- Testing applications to ensure they meet users' expectations
- Integrating third-party APIs
- Deliver outstanding projects within tight deadlines
1. Work completely independently in the end to end system/solution.
2. Quality focused developer, uses best practices of design, coding and
testing within the team.
3. A good problem solver, able to analyse technical issues in a production
environment.
4. Take initiatives and provide innovative ideas/suggestions to Senior
Developers, Technical Leaders, Product Manager to improve overall
product/solution.
5. Maintain a highly positive attitude and conducive working environment
at all times for the team members and peers.
6. Always keep himself/herself updated about technology advancements,
new trends. Share the knowledge with team members regularly.
Candidate Attributes
1. Expertise in Node.js, Javascript, Express.js, Mysql, MongoDB, GraphQL
2. Should be able to understand the requirements and implement them
independently. Knowledge of the Agile methodology for Software
Development Good understanding of the software development life
cycle.
3. Strong analytical skills, excellent problem solver and self-starter
4. Working experience in Linux development environment
5. Analyze the current implementations and enhance them with Strong
Debugging and Analytical skills
6. Willingness to innovate, explore new ideas and acquire new skills and
knowledge
7. Attention to detail and a commitment to excellence.








