Node.js Backend Developer

About Shiprocket

Shiprocket is India’s leading tech-enabled logistics and fulfillment platform, simplifying ecommerce for sellers across the country. We’re scaling fast and looking for dynamic individuals to join our team and lead innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop scalable and high-performance solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and Play Framework.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, ensuring technical excellence and high-quality deliverables.
• Work with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra) to build efficient data pipelines and systems.
• Optimize search and indexing systems using Elasticsearch.
• Work with queuing and streaming systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ to build resilient systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions capable of handling millions of transactions at scale.
• Contribute to system architecture discussions and provide input on cloud infrastructure (GCP and AWS).
• Ensure team adherence to best practices, coding standards, and agile methodologies.
• Take ownership of critical components, resolve bottlenecks, and identify areas of improvement in existing systems.

Good to Have

• Knowledge of GoLang, PHP, and Python (Celery).
• Experience with GenAI technologies and their applications.
• Exposure to system design for large-scale distributed systems.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on high-impact projects in a fast-paced and innovative environment.
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture with ownership of end-to-end solutions.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions
• Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time
• Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions
• Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them.
• Drives people to solve engineering challenges
• Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams
• Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and

internal/external clients as necessary.

• Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them
• Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards

• Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
• Must have experience in cloud computing
• Operates independently with almost no oversight
• Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the

team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.

• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership
• Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
• 7+ years of experience in product driven organization
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably

About us:-

Zupee is India's hottest Real Money Gaming Platform

With in 1 yr of start, we just had an initial team of around 30 people, these 30 were successful to bring 10 Million+ users and an overall consumer spend of 1.5 Billion USD on the platform, the journey which needed years to be covered was covered with in 1yr. As we speak today, Zupee has been profitable for almost an year now and has ended the year 2020 with a team size of 70+ and over all growth rate was mapped around 20X.

Our user base has significantly gone up and we have invested highly in technology and have got best in class tech stack, it's time to add the backend developers who can help us scale up the platform so that we can drive profitable growth and become the market leader in our space.

Backend Developer :- (3 - 12 yrs)

What You'll Need?

• Knowledge of languages (JavaScript, Python) and frameworks/systems (nodejs)
• Strong analytical skills and aptitude
• Understanding of data architecture, software design and best coding practices
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts and technologies
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies
• Experience with databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Working knowledge of Linux

• NoSQL DB (MongoDB, CouchDB), PostgreSQL
• Mocha test environment
• Should JS testing framework
• Experience implementing mock services
• Nock API mocking
• NPM, Redis
• Typescript / Coffee script experience will be an added advantage
• Experience working with opensource JS projects
• Experience in developing REST API
• Source code management tool - Git / GitHub
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking and client/server web programming model
• Good communication skills
• Should be able to work with the cross-geo client team