Node.JS Developer

About POSHN:

POSHN is a new and exciting India-based ag-fintech venture founded in 2020 and supported by leading marquee financial institutions.

We’re on a mission to organize and digitally transform the global agri-supply chain market. We are applying first principles thinking and re-imagining the solutions with a tech-product-first mindset.

The agri-supply chain space is gigantic, complex and has been largely un-organized. So we are taking the hassle out of it by creating a platform that empowers our products and facilitates a better, more efficient and seamless experience between each stakeholder.

About TEAM:

The core team holds together alumni of BITS Pilani, IIM & XLRI with each having decade-long experience in the fields of the supply chain, technology and product. Previously, we have built several highly impactful tech-product startups from the ground up.

About the role:

• You will work closely with the team, help define the product roadmap, and have a lot of room for flexibility. You are expected to gradually take responsibility of the full mobile engineering stack at Poshn.
• You will use lean experimentation principles and techniques to develop digital experiments where you will help accelerate evidence-based decision-making to inform product, business and commercial decisions.
• You will work with the team of UX, Data engineering to ensure that product & service solutions truly address important customer needs and thus deliver superior customer and business value.
• You will take initiative to improve the system both at the design and implementation levels. As Poshn grows, you may also help with recruiting and training the mobile engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development
• Ability to analyze the core business needs and to suggest the best approach
• Capturing and clearly articulating requirements: work closely with end customers to prioritize different working items
• Designing, building and configuring applications to meet business process and application requirements
• Execute, and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Writing testable, scalable and efficient code and leading code reviews
• Carrying out solution testing: ensure efficient on-boarding processes for new clients; carry out root-cause analysis to develop logical conclusions and suggest alternatives
• Overall ownership of solution implementation: be in charge of assigned product, ensuring timely and efficient communication and solutions are delivered to plan
• Mentoring junior team members and ensuring they adhere to determining software quality standards

Career Experience we'd love to see:

• You have 3+ years of experience in building web & mobile-based backend applications preferably using a microservices architecture.
• You have made major contributions to 3 or more complex backend application projects from zero to one. You have experience designing and shipping fully functional applications.
• You understand the core engineering principles and agile methodologies and are also able to adapt them to a face pace working environment.

Technical Experience we’d love to see:

• Experience with building up scalable backend microservices architecture
• Proficient in languages such as NodeJS, Go or Python
• Expertise in Database modeling, NoSQL and SQL; spotting DB bottlenecks and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common AWS Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Experience with performance and memory tuning 
• Experience with modern software engineering practices: agile development cycle, coding style, engineering documentation, unit & integration testing, code review, git version control, etc..

Bonus Points/Nice to have:

• Published mobile apps on the app store and play store.
• Experience with engineering hiring & training of engineers Interfacing and collaborating with B2B clients
• Any experience or knowledge of the e-commerce & supply chain industry

About you:

• We want you to come with creativity, expertise, flexibility and drive, but above all a desire to learn and keep learning
• You enjoy designing and building complex software systems with multiple components and code bases.
• You enjoy taking responsibility and ownership of tasks.
• Curious and a continuous hunger for learning and staying up to date with the latest solutions on the market
• Analytical mind Creativity, open-minded attitude
• Intuitive about how an idea can be turned to an actual working application that delivers value and meets customer needs.

Benefits:

• We offer a competitive salary and ESOPs to make sure you are rewarded for your best work
• Flexible hours and work arrangements either fully remote or a hybrid remote and in-office, suiting your home commitments.
• Generous leave
• Become one of the key team members of an exciting startup changing the agri-supply chain industry
• Open, fun and collaborative work culture
• Training and development to the areas of growth you’d like to uncover
• Autonomy at work

FirstFiling is a FinTech startup that is managed, operated, and driven by Chartered Accountants, Company secretaries, IT engineers, and Lawyers. We provide registration and financial compliance services to businesses and individuals across India.

Our aim is to simplify the lives of people by helping individuals and businesses with mandatory compliances, filings, and statutory requirements while promoting financial literacy among the masses. 

Role: Backend Developer (2 openings)

• Experience in Spring Boot, Jenkins, Git, Hibernate, Kubernetes, and Docker

• Experience in the development of scalable and extensible systems using Java

• Proficiency in Database technology such as MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB

• Routines Sync & Async

• Solid and fluent understanding of algorithm and data structures

• Excellent software design, problem-solving and debugging skills

• Demonstrated high ownership in previous projects

• Excellent Communication Skills

• Good understanding of Elastic Search, Redis

• Experience working in the cloud environment, preferably AWS*.

• Write unit tests and run automated tests through CI/CD

• Ability to learn new and existing technologies

• Experience in building cloud SaaS or PaaS solutions/products

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Node JS.
• Minimum 1 years of experience in Mongo DB (optional)
• Good Hands-on experience in Angular or React.
• Experience in designing and building large-scale, high availability, secure web applications and REST-full API using Node.js in an agile methodology.
• Good Hands-on experience in Node Js frameworks like Express, .
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript and Node.JS
• Knowledge and understanding of Event Loop architecture.
• Knowledge and understanding of promises and (async or await)
• Implementation of security like oauth 2.0, JWT and data protection.
• Good Hands-on experience on cache server.
• Knowledge and understanding of Request, Axios, proficiency in REST-ful APIs.
• Knowledge of data structures and Algorithms, Node Global variables and In-built libraries
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and Workarounds
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

Job description

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application.

Responsibilities:

Have the passion and experience for building responsive, elegant and engaging experiences with future friendly web technologies

Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic

Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code with proper documentation

Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications

Implementation of security and data protection

Integration of data storage solutions

Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards

Requirements

1+ years Experience

Strong proficiency with JavaScript

Knowledge of Node.js, Express.js and other frameworks required to create a scalable and effective application

Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

Good understanding of basics of SQL and/or NoSQL databases

Very strong understanding of working with at least one SQL or NoSQL database in node js(Without ORM preferably)

Understanding of commonly used node modules

Good understanding of server-side templating languages

Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as SASS, LESS, etc.

Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3

Understanding accessibility and security compliance

User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments using OpenID, OAuth2.0, etc.

Creating secure and scalable APIs using standards like REST API, GraphQL, etc.

Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimising output to match the specific platform

Creating database schemes that represent and support business processes

Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT Critical thinker and problem-solving skills Team player Good time-management skills Great interpersonal and communication skills.