NODE JS DEVELOPER

Job Description:

You will be working with a team of highly-motivated, young & dynamic teams of engineers & reporting to the Engineering Lead.

• Be honest, reliable & consistent
• Write efficient & clean code
• Have a strong sense of ownership
• Be a part of development & maintenance of Pluang web app, Operations dashboard and other 3rd party products we own
• Contribute to improving the quality of engineering process & engineering culture

• Strong in data structure and algorithms
• Experience in Node.js, Express, API Design & DOM
• Understanding of component based design or other design patterns
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing & continuous integration
• RDBMS and NoSQL databases preferably PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Good to have passion for investing

• Attractive compensation package - competitive salary, flexible bonus scheme.
• We are always looking for ways to promote and inspire innovation.
• Individual career path - management and technical career growth, enhanced by learning and development program, regular performance assessment, teams of multi-national IT professionals.
• Healthy work environment - company-sponsored medical program, food, and beverage program, open communication.
• Friendly policies to support Work-life balance, team building, and celebrations.

About Us:

We are BlackLight Games; we bring culturally relevant synchronous multiplayer games experience to mobile. Our games have been rocking the Play Stores since launch. We have built cutting-edge back-end technology; we take pride that our games are played by more than 1 million players daily. Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Other titles include – CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.

Website link- https://blacklightsw.com/

Position: Backend Developer

Location: Noida

Educational Qualification: B.Tech/ MCA / M.Tech / M.Sc  or relevant professional experience; preferably in Computer Science.

Skills :

• Backend: NodeJS
• Databases: MySQL/ MongoDB.

Job Summary:

What You Bring To The Team

• More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public cloud like Google Cloud/ AWS
• Knowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliability
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Experience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks. It’s a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.
• Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysis
• Experienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable components
• Experience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above services
• Experience building data processing pipelines
• Solid understanding of code, design, and development practices
• General comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworks
• High levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all times
• Adhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD tools

Extra Gems For

• Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.
• Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as Redis
• Demonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps security
• Knowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google Stackdriver
• Broad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.
• Experience with Github and advanced Github features.
• Experience of working in Product industry
• Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.

Why Us?

• High Growth Startup environment 
• Company sponsored courses and education material
• Lots of learning opportunities 
• Work with a super-talented team of professionals
• Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips
• Performance Based Bonus
• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance for you and your family 
• Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all times

• Design, implement, and maintain API-based applications and REST services.
• Proficiency with Node JS.
• Must have experience in cloud services Azure Cloud/AWS.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Develop high-quality, efficient, and scalable code.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and SCRUM framework Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Provide technical support during implementation efforts, working with technical team members and with business users as required to provide troubleshooting and solutions to technical issues.

• Challenge technical decisions and web service designs and provide inputs for improvement
• Provide qualified code (tested and documented)
• Fix issues that arise from testing/customers
• Create or update all the relevant and required technical documents (design, architecture, )
• Follow quality development rules and recommendations (unitary test, change management, build management, Software factory…)
• Perform code reviews and suggest improvements
• Work in Agile mode and Test Driven development process
• Collaborate and work closely with all stakeholders

• Hardcore developers who can write performance-based quality code and drive code
• Preferred: Java1.8, Junit, Springboot, Dropwizard, RabbitMQ, Jenkins jobs, NoSQL DB (MongoDB, Neo4j), Docker, and DevOps (Optional: Python, AWS)
• Knowledge about Secure coding guidelines, Sonarqube, Configuration Management (Perforce), Jira
• MUST have experience in Scrum/Agile SDLC
• Value Add – experience on the server side in IPTV/OTT/STB

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and build solutions for complex business workflows
• Understanding the user persona and deliver a slick experience
• Take end to end ownership of components and be responsible for the subsystems that you work on from
• design, code, testing, integration, deployment, enhancements, etc.
• Write high-quality code and taking responsibility for their task
• Solve performance bottlenecks
• Mentor junior engineers
• Deliver with quality, on-time in a fast-paced start-up environment

Required Skills:

• Bachelor/Master's in computer science or relevant fields
• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Strong sense of ownership
• Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills
• Experience in building and scaling microservices
• Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting and diagnosing
• Expected to be a role model for young engineers, have a strong sense of code quality and enforce code
• quality within the team
• Strong knowledge in RDBMS and NOSQL technologies
• Experience in developing backends for enterprise systems like eCommerce / manufacturing / supply chain etc
• Excellent understanding of Debugging performance and optimization techniques
• Experience in Java, Mongo, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, Kafka
• Experience in developing any large scale Experience in cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

Following are the things that we are looking for in our NodeJS developer:

• Full SDLC knowledge, preferably in an agile environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Strong critical thinking & problem solving skills.
• Understanding of Unix / Linux based systems.
• Hands-on exposure to deeply linked relational databases – preferably in MySQL
• Ability to take a feature or product through the full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to both collaborate well and also the ability to convey technical ideas and concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify the interaction needs and how the API. must be developed based on design comps, product specs, etc.
• Continuously evaluate and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Address and prioritize production level bugs and application performance improvements.
• An adaptable attitude and understanding of the agile methodology.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and release new features.

Why you should join us

- You will join the mission to create positive impact on millions of peoples lives

- You get to work on the latest technologies in a culture which encourages experimentation - You get to work with super humans (Psst: Look up these super human1, super human2, super human3, super human4)

- You get to work in an accelerated learning environment

What you will do

- You will provide deep technical expertise to your team in building future ready systems.

- You will collaborate in a highly cross functional team, providing engineering perspective to non technical members of the team

- You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring engineering operational excellence

- You will establish clean and optimised coding standards that are well documented

- You will author efficient, reliable and performant systems

- You will design systems, frameworks and libraries that work at scale, are easy to maintain and provide a great developer experience

- You will be agile and curious about customer problems and business objectives

- You will actively mentor and participate in knowledge sharing forums

- You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be ambitious and try new things :)

You should apply if

- You have a strong foundation in Computer Science concepts and programming fundamentals

- You have been working on backend web technologies since 8+ years

- You have built and maintained reliable systems that operate at high scale

- You’re experienced in building and running cloud-native platforms & distributed systems

- Extensive experience in any web stack (we use Typescript / AWS / DynamoDB / PostgreSQL)

- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good with handling ambiguity

- You are data driven, have customer empathy and enjoy building delightful applications

- You are curious, a quick learner and someone who loves to experiment

- You insist on highest standards of quality, maintainability and performance

- You work well in a team to enhance your impact

Description

• Responsible for developing Web Applications.
• Design, Develop, enhance and test front-end, back-end web modules using Node.js, Express framework, My Sql and Mongo DB.
• Research and explore existing solutions, competition, to get a holistic understanding of the Design and development.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with various teams for effective outcomes.
• Meet deadlines in a high intensity work environment 

Primary Skills :

• Proficient in Nodejs
• Understanding of Front-End Technologies
• Good Knowledge of Node
• Proficient in RESTful APIs and API Communications
• Good Grasp of Asynchronous Programming and Its Workarounds
• Database Schema Creation for Business Processes
• Working Knowledge in User Authentication and Authorization
• Write Efficient Code
• Implementing Data Protection
• Error-Handling Skills