Node.js Back end Developer

What kind of work will you get?

We are looking for a Nodejs developer.

Examples of technical tasks:

Working on our backend SDK to implement APIs that will be consumed by the frontend widgets

Designing APIs for different auth recipes

Architecting auth flows

You will also be given non technical tasks like product brain storming, competitor analysis and writing documentation.

Note: Compensation is as per the applicant's geography

Requirements

Well versed in nodejs with 2+ years of professional experience

Familiar with and comfortable working with Web frameworks like FastAPI, Django and Flask

Familiar with HTTP networking in nodejs

Strong understanding of async and sync modes in nodejs

Bonus:

Contributed to open source, or have your own open source repo with a community and many github stars

Built an in-house authentication or authorization solution or worked with solutions such as Keycloak, Auth0, Ory, Okta etc

Our backend (NodeJS) team is passionate about technology, and we love building scalable web and mobile solutions keeping performance in mind. We're looking for a full stack developer that has experience developing a variety of Web Apps and REST API using the NodeJS stack. 

(Along with strong backend expertise, needs good understanding on frontend tech stack to give support to frontend developer) 

Role + Responsibilities:   

• Review PR’s and provide appropriate comments. 
• Help team in debugging the issues and provide proper solution. 
• Participate in architecture, design and sprint planning of the projects. 
• Write reusable, testable, maintainable and scalable code with Unit Testing. 
• Implementation of security and data protection throughout the project. 
• Implementation on Design Patterns like TDD & BDD. 

Person Specification and Qualifications: 

• Fluency in written and verbal communication. 
• Experience developing highly scalable services and APIs in multiple protocols. 
• Knowledge of data modelling and database performance optimization in SQL & No SQL databases. 
• Must have worked with PostgreSQL and MongoDB using TypeORM, Sequalize or Knex. 
• Strong experience with core concepts of JS & TS. 
• Experience working with Frameworks like NestJS, LoopBack, Express, and other Framework in Typescript. 
• Must have worked with unit testing libraries like Jest, Mocha and Chai. 
• Good knowledge of code versioning (git or bitbucket).                    
• Hands on experience with Docker for building micro service. 

Plus, points if you're familiar with the following:  

• Experience with deployment and CI/CD.                
• Knowledge of GraphQL and its libraries like Apollo and Prisma. 
• Knowledge of SDK integration (social media SDK like Facebook, Google, etc. and Cloud services like AWS, Azure and Google). 
• Good experience with Linux commands and basic server configuration. 
• Knowledge of document, key/value or other non-relational database systems such as Elastic Search, Redis, DynamoDB. 
• Experience with queuing protocols.

• 2 - 5 years of hands-on experience with Mongo DB as a Developer.
• Deploy and create MongoDB clusters with appropriate configuration once the machines are provisioned
• Be able to script, and have programming ability with MongoDB shell and/or other programming languages
• Configure and monitor replica sets and Sharded Clusters
• Ability and experience in working with applications that work with MongoDB such as Java, Node.js and/or others
• Experience with MongoDB security, managing roles and permissions
• Experience with MongoDB backups and restores, manually and using MongoDB and other tools
• Knowledge and experience in working with MongoDB Ops Manager and/or Cloud manager
• Knowledge and/or experience working with MongoDB Atlas
• Knowledge of at least one DevOps tool such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible or similar
• Experience with ORM tools such as spring data is preferred.

As a senior software engineer, you'll be the brain behind crafting, developing, testing, going live and maintaining the system. You are passionate in understanding the business context for features built to drive better customer experience and adoption.

Responsibilities

Participate in code reviews and make sure quality code gets shipped to production.

Design and develop architecture of new features.

Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to deployment.

Comply with coding standards and technical design.

Believes in systematic approach to developing the system through clear documentation (flowcharts, layouts, etc) of functionality, address every use case through creative solutions.

Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing and maintainability of the code.

Integrate the developed functionality and/or component into a fully functional system.

Ensure unit and integration level verification plan are in place and adheres to great quality of code at all time.

Active participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live system.

Verify user feedback in making system more stable and easy.

Work closely with analysts, designers and other peer developers.

Preparing technical training documents for onboarding new engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.

3+ years of experience as Software Engineer or Software Developer or in a relevant role.

Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.

Proficient in JavaScript and Node JS based frameworks.

Hands-on with SQL.

Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.

Experience with open-source projects is preferred.

A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.

Prior experience with AWS will be a plus.

Desired Skills and Experience

Node.js,PostgreSQL

Good to have skills

Express.js,JavaScript,Typescript

Company Profile

We have been helping the world's leading companies like Atlan Data, Accryl, Chronosphere, Benlabs, Sprinto, MindsDB, TestRigor in scaling customer support, engineering escalations and IT helpdesk on Slack.

We were founded by experienced managers and second-time entrepreneurs and are based out of Bangalore, India.

"Company" converts Slack channels into a single queue of requests, uses AI to flag requests that need a response, allows responders to update status of requests and assign ownership and make sure all requests are closed out. Integrations with tools like Zendesk, Jira, Freshdesk, Salesforce et al allow agents to handover or link Slack requests to other enterprise tools and close the loop back on Slack when issues are solved therein.

Funding

8VC and Angels*

*Angels Investors: Anoop Dawar, Dilip Khandelwal, Gaurav Bubna and Marcy Campbell

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means a million people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. This is where you come in — to help us forge a performant and reliable path forward to the future.

• Write clean, secure, tested, and documented code.
• Design & enhance the Notion platform with new capabilities, as and when the need arises.
• Contribute to monitoring & scaling the architecture of the platform and the infrastructure.
• Write technical documentation, and contribute to determining internal processes.
• Contribute to recruiting of new backend employees

• 6+ years of experience building scalable platforms. 
• Good understanding of database (Relational Or Nosql) internals like transactions, indexes. Experience in schema design.
• 2+ years of experience working on the AWS platform, and acquaintance with technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, Elastic Load Balancer.
• Good understanding of docker internals.
• Good communication skills, good leadership skills, attention to detail, a sound understanding of algorithms, and object-oriented programming.

• You're proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Memcached, Postgres, Docker, and Elasticsearch.
• You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work.
• You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Notion.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, service oriented web applications from scratch for technology products for European market.
• Maintain these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards
• Participate with founding, business and product teams in discussions on how to build and launch new modules.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Start as an individual contributor but stay ready to build and mentor a small team of up to 5 engineers over the coming months and years.
• Contribute in hiring highly ambitious engineers as the team grows.
• Being among the first people on the engineering team, be a culture driver.

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using different MVC frameworks.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable applications using Node.js/MEAN stack.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with non relational databases like MongoDB.
• Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Exposure in building polyglot applications.
• Exposure for devops and related processes, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of components in scalable solutions i. e. database partitions, message brokers, background processing.
• Exposure to basic frontend technologies to speed up collaboration with the frontend team.

Job description

Do you want to work with high traffic OLTP and OLAP systems that provide real value to retailers? Want to build real web applications that work across multiple channels and devices? In this critical role, the right candidate should have an entrepreneurial mind-set, have experience working across an application stack and a strong background in developing complex web experiences that are rich, responsive and interactive. The individual should have exhibited good technical leadership skills and be a highly motivated individual.

Role & Responsibility

• Exhibit strong technical knowledge, leadership skills and independent execution.
• A keen eye for good experiences. Understanding the experience from a customer perspective.
• Drive design discussion of complex features and own development of these modules across the application stack.
• Ability to adapt to changing business and product needs.
• Experience evolving the design and operation scale as new features are added to the product
• Mentor junior developers and ensure quality code output (via code reads, reading references, etc.) from them.
• Co-ordinate with internal teams and external partners in ensuring we build the best solution on time for the customer. Constantly looking at ways to innovate and improve the product.
• 8+ years of experience in Java & J2EE based Web Technologies & Frameworks with a focus in either Service Oriented Architecture or APIs. 
• Experience in designing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Strong knowledge of web technologies, common web frameworks, networking, SQL and database technologies
• Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
• Strong debugging / troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to propose and defend solutions.
• Ability to work closely with product management, customer support, and  other engineering teams to continuously evolve and innovate the enterprise-class Products.