
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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Key Responsibilities:
· Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable software solutions
· Work extensively with AWS Serverless services such as Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB
· Implement and optimize Elasticsearch for search and analytics
· Build backend services using NodeJS and develop front-end applications using Angular
· Design and develop robust REST APIs with a solid understanding of web services
· Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in JavaScript and TypeScript
· Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve performance issues in complex systems
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, end-to-end software solutions
Required Skills & Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
· 8+ years of experience in software development
· Strong hands-on expertise in AWS Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) or .NET with SQL
· Experience with Elasticsearch for efficient data retrieval and indexing
· Proficiency in NodeJS, Angular, JavaScript, and TypeScript
· Solid understanding of REST APIs and web services
· Strong UI development skills with CSS
· Proven experience designing solutions for complex technical requirements
· Excellent debugging, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
You will be working hands-on on a complex and compound product that has the potential to be used by millions of sales and marketing people around the world. Your contribution to delivering an excellent product platform that:
- enables quick iteration
- supports product customization
- and handles scale
What do we expect you to have?
- 2+ years of experience in backend engineering
- An intent to learn and an urge to build a product by learning different technologies
- Interest in writing complex, scalable, and maintainable backend applications
- Tech stack requirements:
Must haves
- Experience in building application server in Java (Spring / Spring boot) / NodeJS / Golang / Python
- Experience in using SQL databases and designing schemas based on application need
- Experience with container services and runtimes (docker / docker-compose / k8s)
- Experience with cloud paas (AWS / GCP / Azure cloud)
- Experience and familiarity with microservices’ concepts
- Experience with bash scripting
Good to have (Preferred)
- Preferred experience with org wide message queue (rabbitmq / aws sqs)
- Preferred experience with task orchestration services (apache airflow / aws step function)
- Preferred experience with infra as code (or system configuration) tools (terraform / chef / ansible)
- Preferred experience with build essential tools (make / makefile)
- Preferred experience with monitoring and tracing systems for performance / system / application monitoring (grafana + loki + prometheus / aws cloudwatch)
What will you learn?
- Building highly available, complex, compound, performant systems of microservices platform that acts as an API layer
- Industry-standard state-of-the-art tools + methodologies + frameworks + infra for building a product.
- Fable is not a trivial CRUD app. It requires a lot of consideration and care for building the API layer as the product is highly customizable per user.
- How different functions (sales, marketing, product, engineering) in a high-velocity product company work in synergy to deliver an iterative product in real life.
Who would you be working with?
- You would be directly working with the co-founder & CTO who has built multiple companies before and has built large teams in large-scale companies like ThoughtSpot, Unacademy, etc.
Position details
- Fully remote.
- 5 days/week (all public and government holidays will be non-working days).
- No specific work hours (we will sync over zoom over the course of the day).
Requirements:
- At least 4+ years of experience as a Node.js developer.
- Must have knowledge of at least one card game with rules.
- Must have experience in multiplayer games with Socket.io
- Must have good communication skills in English.
- Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
- Great organizational and time management skills.
- Knowledge of Game development life cycle.
- Must be willing to do hands-on coding where required and perform regular code reviews etc.
- Knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, NPMs, ExpressJS, MongoDB, Socket.io and Redis.
- Familiarity with AWS infrastructure.
- Basic knowledge of front-end technologies.
- Strong understanding of git.
· 3+ yrs of experience in product development (Preferring SaaS based)
· Must have experience in Java web-based application development
· Hands on development experience on Java/J2EE, Springboot, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, REST Services
· Experience on HTML, JavaScript, JQuery
· Hands on experience on database-writing queries/procedures
· Experience on SVN,GIT,
· Knowledge of Server configuration
· Knowledge of cloud preferably AWS
Good to Have Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
- Full stack development on cutting edge technology in Fintech domain.
- Ownership of complete backend code.
You should Have :
- Server Side languages knowledge: Node.js and express.js is the first choice, Python, Java
- Server-side programming experience. We prefer ability over experience
- Solid experience working with databases, especially relational DB.
- Solid experience with version control (Git or Bitbucket or SVN).
- B.E. in Computer Science or Graduate/PG degree in Computer Science (this is optional, as we are more interested in your abilities and experience over a paper degree).
- Any experience working with real-time projects in backend with node.js and express.js

- You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years
- You’re proficient in NodeJS, TypeScript, MySQL, and MongoDB
- You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
- Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
- You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experience with TDD (Test Driven Development)
- You have the ability to build RESTful APIs
- Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
- Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems
- Frontend experience; (Good to have) Angular
- Start-up experience, preferably a tech start-up
- Open-Source contributor
- You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g., Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, C, etc.
- Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
- You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
Qualifications
- BE/ B. Tech/ MSc/MTech
- Candidate should possess the degree from a recognized University/ Institution only
Job title: Full Stack Developer
Location : Chandigarh
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About the Role: We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility. Responsibilities
Requirements
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- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
- Integration of data storage solutions.
- Maintaining social media and admin panel accounts.
Skills And Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks.
- Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
- Understanding of MVC design patterns
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
- Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Website development and API integrations. Database and password security.











