Lead and Senior Software Engineer - Backend
at Edu-tech startup, listed as Top 25 Linkedin Startup.
Years of Exp : 4 - 8yrs
Job Location: Mumbai/Bangalore
Job description:
We are looking for a Sr. Back end web developer/Lead passionate towards building high
performance web applications which can scale for B2C businesses. We are looking for
self-driven individuals who love to find innovative solutions and can perform under pressure. An eye for details and being proud of produced code are the must have attributes for this job.
Responsibilities.
●You will be responsible for converting Product team requirements to modular, testable and efficient code.
●You will be required to design and implement data storage solutions (Databases, caching
layers etc).
●You will also be required to cater to NFRs related to security and performance.
Skills
●At least 5 years of experience in working on NodeJS/Java/Ruby
●Proficiency in RDBMS such as MySQL/PostgreSQL.
●Experience of building/deploying applications on AWS is a definite advantage.
●Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries like Sequelize is required.
●Experience in some NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB/Elasticsearch/Redis Cache etc) is a definite plus.
●Good understanding on architectural patterns (e.g. MVC) is required.
●Good communication and analytical skills are the basic needs for this role.
●An urge to create awesome applications that people will enjoy using is a must.
●Other technologies : MySQL , Redis, AWS, Microservices, REST API .
●Knowledge of Javascript is preferable.
●AWS or some cloud experience.
●Should have built web application technology.
●Should have understanding of DevOps and Database.
●Should have done application performance tuning.
Qualification:
●Engineering graduates from Tier I or II institutes.
●B.E/ B.Tech/ MCA/ ME/ M.Tech
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Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based J2EE, JAVA applications.
Experience on Java Spring Framework is required.
Experience on Hibernate is required.
Experience on REST Services is required.
Object-oriented programming, design, and patterns.
Strong proficiency with:Relational database concepts and data modeling.
Good communication skills to interact with customer, understand their requirement, effectively record the requirement and implement the same.
Context for the Candidates:
Blockchain engineers are tasked with building secure, scalable, and high-performance decentralized applications. This discussion focuses on how to utilize key technologies—Node.js, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat—in smart contract and blockchain system development, while addressing the practical challenges that arise in such projects.
Key Discussion Points:
• How do you integrate Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript in blockchain-backed applications?
• Discuss the trade-offs between using Rust or Go for performance-critical blockchain services.
• What are the key challenges in ensuring the security and scalability of smart contracts using tools like Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat?
• How do you approach testing, debugging, and deploying smart contracts in a decentralized environment?
• Share best practices for gas optimization, contract upgradability, and backend scalability.
Evaluation Criteria:
1. Technical Knowledge:
• Strong knowledge of Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript with practical experience in blockchain development.
• Proficiency in Ethers.js, viem, Hardhat, and smart contract lifecycle (development, testing, deployment).
• Understanding of security best practices, performance optimizations, and scalability in decentralized systems.
2. Problem-Solving and Integration Skills:
• How candidates approach integrating smart contract solutions with backend services using Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript.
• Solutions proposed for common challenges in blockchain projects such as gas fees, security vulnerabilities, and system bottlenecks.
3. Experience and Expertise:
• Minimum of 2 years of IT experience, including hands-on development with the specified technologies.
• Practical knowledge of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and decentralized application deployment.
4. Innovation and Critical Thinking:
• Candidates’ ability to think creatively about system architecture, proposing scalable and secure solutions for blockchain-based applications.
• Discussion on the future potential of blockchain technology and how the tech stack can evolve.
5. Communication and Team Collaboration:
• Clear articulation of technical challenges and how to address them in a team setting.
• Ability to lead or contribute to discussions in a way that encourages collaboration and team-driven problem-solving.
relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
● Sound knowledge and application of algorithms and data structures.
● Proficient in Java, Springboot and Mysql.
● Able to efficiently diagnose bugs and issues.
● Understanding of when to escalate questions/issues that arise during development.
● Work with other developers, QA, DevOps and business staff to efficiently launch features
and resolve issues.
● Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
● A willingness to dive deep, experiment rapidly and get things done.
● Provide input to how we can continually improve our development process and knowledge.
● Define and participate in establishing better engineering practices.
● Love being challenged by learning and experimenting with new technologies
● Experience with ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, Kakfa, AWS is a plus.
● Prior experience in building microservices, have worked on architectures and designs
independently is a plus.
● Prior product building experience or from a startup background would be a plus.
Job Responsibilities
✓ Perform the role of Technical Lead on assigned projects to drive solution design (especially backend) and API services development.
✓ Be the thought leader and champion for above mentioned technologies.
✓ Drive technical analysis for new projects including planning and driving proof-of-concepts, if needed.
✓ Drive tasks related to backend development by providing architectural and technical leadership to mid-tier and database developers.
✓ Conduct peer reviews as the lead into Git to confirmed that developed code meets acceptable standards and guidelines.
✓ Work closely with the rest of the leads, mid-tier development, front-end developers, database developers, etc. to ensure end-to-end integrity of the solution being developed.
✓ Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure reuse where applicable to increase productivity and throughput.
✓ Conduct technical interview to staff open positions in the backend team.
✓ Delegate work and assignments to team members
✓ Collaborate with their team to identify and fix technical problems
✓ Analyze users' needs and then finding applications to serve them
✓ Drive assigned tasks related to SOC 2 certification and ensure compliance to defined controls for areas under lead’s purview.
✓ Guiding their team through technical issues and challenges
✓ Prepare Technical design documents which would help the team to understand the technical flow
✓ Active participation in customer calls especially discussions related to Technical/Architectural and provide inputs.
Required Experience:
✓ Backend Lead around 14 years of experience
✓ Server less Computing Architecture
✓ NodeJS, MySQL, Jenkins, Python, GitLab Technologies
✓ Good knowledge of AWS Cloud
✓ Full cycle AWS implementation experience
✓ Project experience in development and maintenance support for AWS web service and Cloudbased implementations
✓ Experience leading teams of up to 10 + professionals
Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects in a fast-moving environment
Educational Qualifications:
Engineering graduate or B. Tech/MCA with relevant major subjects like Computer Science
Skills:
- Proficient in Go programming language with experience in building high-performance, scalable applications
- Experience with Java development a plus
- Familiarity with Git version control systems (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, SVN)
- Solid understanding of RESTful web services APIs
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins
- Experience with NoSQL databases
- Experience working with PostgreSQL databases
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain robust and efficient Go code
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and deploy new features
- Participate in code reviews and ensure high code quality
- Troubleshoot and debug complex technical problems
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in Go and related technologies
Java with cloud
Core Java, SpringBoot, MicroServices |
- DB2 or any RDBMS database application development |
- Linux OS, shell scripting, Batch Processing |
- Troubleshooting Large Scale application |
- Experience in automation and unit test framework is a must |
- AWS Cloud experience desirable |
- Agile Development Experience |
- Complete Development Cycle ( Dev, QA, UAT, Staging) |
- Good Oral and Written Communication Skills |
1: proficient in python, flask, pandas, GitHub and AWS
2: good knowledge of databases both SQL and NoSQL
3:Strong experience in REST and SOAP APIs
4: Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications
5:Basic knowledge of JavaScript and Html
6: Automation and crawling tools and modules
7: Multithreading and Multiprocessing
8:Good Understanding of test-driven Development
9: Preferred exposure to finance domain
Job Responsibilities
Design and build from cloud-based products and services with massive scale and reliability Write clean and modular code primarily in Python to create multi tenant microservices Terabyte scale data per month with SLA end to end latency and tenant fairness
Build CICD based software development model with end-to-end ownership of code delivery - starting from design/architecture, coding, automated functional/integration testing and operating/monitoring the service in production.
Use relevant technologies and cloud services like Kafka, Redis, Mongo, RDS, Spark Streaming, Redshift, Airflow to build highly performant and scalable distributed systems
Design and develop data schema and access layer to optimally store and retrieve data
Stay up to date with the latest developments in cloud computing and incorporate relevant learnings to both product features and product architecture.
Preferred Qualifications
BS/Btech (Btech Preferred) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology
Preferred Technical Skills:
2- 6 years of software development experience with enterprise-grade software. Must have experience in building scalable, high-performance cloud services Expert coding skills in Python, Django
In Depth experience in AWS is mandatory
Expertise in building scalable event based asynchronous systems based on the microservices architecture
Experience working with docker and kubernetes
Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, RDS, RDF, Graph DB, SPARQL etc. Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, SQS
Must have expertise in building REST APIs
Strong object-oriented designing and programming experience Experience in cloud object stores: S3, Cloud Storage, Blobs, etc. Desired Technical Skills:
Open source committer in related areas like cloud technologies, kubernetes, database etc Additional Skills
Great written and verbal communication
Ability to work geo distributed cross functional group
Proficient in Java, J2EE and related technologies.
• Experienced in using spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, messaging systems.
• Good understanding of relational database performance concepts and usage of ORM frameworks such as Hibernate
• Expert understanding of the object-oriented design and programming concepts
• Strong working experience on Data Structures, Algorithms and Collections.
• Solid experience building applications on top of RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge/experience with Spring MVC
• Stroing knowledge in developing and executing automated unit, functional and integration tests
• Good communication and analytical skills.
• Strong trouble shooting skills
Responsibilities
1-Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
2-Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
3-Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
4-Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
Skills and Qualifications
1-Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Code igniter, Core PHP depending on your technology stack).
2-Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.
3-Understanding of MVC design patterns.
4-Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, Jquery, Ajax, HTML5, and CSS3.
5-Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming.
6-Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)
7-Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.
8-User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
9-Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
10-Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.
11-Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
12-Familiarity with SQL/MySQL databases and their declarative query languages