
We are looking to hire a Senior Backend Developer, with over 4+ years of experience, to directly work with the CTO and contribute in building and developing new products and feature sets for NostraGamus. The work will entail the opportunity to explore and utilise the latest developments in the world of technology, and formulate ways to incorporate them into day to day work to create stellar products. The candidate must have had significant exposure in building real products, including working with various stakeholders across product and marketing teams. Prior knowledge in building games at scale is highly desirable, but not necessarily.
The following skillsets are highly essential:
- Expertise in Node Js&Javascript, and hobbyist interest in few other languages like Python, Ruby, PHP. Must have done C/C++ programming in school/college
- Deep knowledge on Database systems, especially PostgreSQL, and any noSQL clones, including knowledge to optimise
- Awareness of Docker, virtualization, Redis or similar caching toolsets
- Absolute mastery in using Unix based systems and Bash. Ability to work in seamlessly in headless environments is a must.
- Disciplined in approaching problems, ability to maintain composure under catastrophic failures and propensity to work under deadlines
Bonus Points :
- Passionate about building new products - having done a few personal projects, regardless of success achieved or goals completed.
- Prior knowledge in building games at scale.
- Good understanding in AWS and its various services - EC2, ECS, RDS, SQS, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticache, Route53.
- Strong interest in Mathematics, Probability Theory, Statistics, Machine Learning and ability to apply math in real-world applications.

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- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
- Experience in Agile development using JIRA, GIT, Confluence.
- 3+ years of Experience in node.js + Express.
- Experience in profiling, debugging & troubleshooting Node.js processes.
- Strong Experience as a backend developer for REST API design.
- Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQLdatabases like PostgreSQL / MySQL or MongoDB
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
- Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
- Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
- Write unit tests for API Testing.
- Automate the code testing and deployment process.
Skills Required:
- At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
- Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
- Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.



- 4+ years of experience with Node.js
- Expertise in Typescript, AWS, Firebase, MongoDB, and Express
You will be bringing:
- Hands-on experience in writing applications using Node.js (including Socket.io and Express or similar)
- Excellent knowledge of a few of the available databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
- Proficiency in application deployment on Linux or Ubuntu environments
- Proficiency in JavaScript languages like React and/or Angular, along with a comprehensive experience in open-source frameworks
- Experience in server-client architecture project(s)
- Ability to prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
- An open, growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback


JD - Senior Dev with more than 5 years relevant experience
1. Working experience on web development using Python/Django
2. Comfortable with using Django framework.
3. Understanding of web servers
4. Knowledge in PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other database queries
5. Experience in using Redis cache.
6. Understanding of web technologies
7. Experience in REST API development using Django.
8. Strong hold on Apache
9. Integration of data storage solutions
10. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
11. Understanding of JavaScript, and front-end JS frameworks like VueJS, React JS and Angular JS
12. Good communication skill
13. .net/.NET core will be an added advantage

- Relevant industry experience in developing performant and scalable backend systems using Node.js.
- Solid understanding of Core Computer Science, Systems Design and Data Structures & Algorithms.
- Knowledge and experience in the best practices of design and architecture.
- Experience in developing extensible and scalable solutions.
- Experience in implementing automatic assessments associated with the front-end layer, both integration and unit.
- A love for beautiful, clean and maintainable code.

- Good experience on RESTful services
- .Hands on experience on NodeJs
- .Should have previous working experience on Sql and Postgresql
- Must have relevant experience in NodeJS from 3-5years.




