Node.js Developer | 3+ years

About SmartQ

A leading B2B Food-Tech company built on 4 pillars-great people, great food, great experience, and greater good. Solving complex business problems with our heart and analyzing possible solutions with our mind lie in our DNA. We are on the perpetual route of serving our clients wholeheartedly. Armed with the stability of an MNC and the agility of a start-up, we have spread across 17 countries, having collaborated and executed successfully with 600 clients. We have grown from strength to strength with a blend of exuberant youth and exceptional experience. Bengaluru, being our headquarters, is known as the innovation hub and we have grown up to be the global leader in the institutional food tech space. We were recently acquired by the world's largest foodservice company – Compass group which has an annual turnover of 20 billion USD.  

In this role, you will:

1. Collaborate with Product & Design Teams Work closely with the Product team to ensure that we are building a scalable, bug-free platform. You will actively participate in product and design discussions, offering valuable insights from a backend perspective to align technology with business goals.

2. Drive Adoption of New Technologies

You will lead brainstorming sessions and define a clear direction for the backend team to incorporate the latest technologies into day-to-day development,continuously optimizing for performance, scalability, and efficiency.

3. RESTful API Design & Development:You will ensure that the APIs you design and develop are well-structured, following best practices, and are suitable for consumption by frontend teams across multiple platforms. A key part of your role is making sure these APIs are scalable and maintainable.

4. Third-Party Integration Support:As we sometimes partner with third-party providers to expedite our market entry,you’ll work closely with these partners to integrate their solutions into our system.This involves participating in calls, finding the best integration methods, and providing ongoing support.

5. AI and Prompt Engineering:With AI becoming more integral to backend development, you’ll leverage AI to speed up development processes and maintain best practices. Familiarity with prompt engineering and AI-driven problem-solving is a significant plus in our team.

Must-Have Requirements:

• Strong expertise in Python, microservices, backend development and scalable architectures.
• Proficiency in designing and building REST APIs.
• Experience with unit testing in any testing framework and maintaining 100% code coverage.
• Experience in working with NoSQL DB.
• Strong understanding of any Cloud platforms such as - GCP/AWS/Azure.
• Profound knowledge in Serverless design pattern .
• Familiarity with Django or Webapp2 or Flask or similar web app frameworks.
• Experience in writing unit test using any testing framework.
• Experience collaborating with product and design teams.
• Familiarity with integrating third-party solutions.

Good-to-Have Requirements:

• Educational background includes a degree (B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech) in ComputerScience, Engineering, or a related field.  
• 4+ years’ experience as a backend/cloud developer.
• Good understanding of google cloud platform.
• Knowledge of AI and how to leverage it for day-to-day tasks in backend development.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering to enhance productivity.
• Prior experience working with global or regional teams.
• Experience with agile methodologies and working within cross-functional teams.

About the Role-

Thinking big and executing beyond what is expected. The challenges cut across algorithmic problem solving, systems engineering, machine learning and infrastructure at a massive scale.

Reason to Join-

An opportunity for innovators, problem solvers & learners.  Working will be Innovative, empowering, rewarding & fun. Amazing Office, competitive pay along with excellent benefits package.

Requiremets and Responsibilities- (please read carefully before applying)

• The overall experience of 3-6 years in Java/Python Framework and Machine Learning.
• Develop Web Services, REST, XSD, XML technologies, Java, Python, AWS, API.
• Experience on Elastic Search or SOLR or Lucene -Search Engine, Text Mining, Indexing.
• Experience in highly scalable tools like Kafka, Spark, Aerospike, etc.
• Hands on experience in Design, Architecture, Implementation, Performance & Scalability, and Distributed Systems.
• Design, implement, and deploy highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Troubleshoot Solr indexing process and querying engine.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from Tier 1 Institutions

At least 3 years' experience as a Node.js developer.

Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.

Mandatory experience in MongoDB and MySql.

Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.

Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.

Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.

What you need to have:

Who We are

At e6data (https://e6x.io/">https://e6data.io) we’re building core algorithms that makes querying 25 - 200X more performant (i.e. faster and/or cheaper) than every other analytics platform in the world. This results in billions of dollars of value unlocked across faster analytics, savings on compute / infra, and new use cases becoming possible.

Our core team has 100+ years of combined experience and 10+ patents across diverse but complementary disciplines like real time databases, time series databases, SQL OLAP engines, distributed computing platforms, stream processing, and log analytics. Two of the founding team are second time founders with past exits.

We are passionate about solving the deepest and most important problems in computer science, and believe in making our technology available to customers regardless of their location, size, or budget. Our vision is for e6data to power every analytical workload in the world - regardless of deployment scenario (cloud, on-premise, edge), across every use case (end user queries, ETL / data pipelines), and every latency requirement (batch, streaming / real time).

What you'll do?

• Write awesome code
• The focus will be on performance of our data platform
• Identify tactical and long-term product improvements (could be code, script, etc.)
• Responsible for Planning and executing Metadata and Governance tool supports
• Build our internal Data Platform using exdata
• Adding scalable functionality to the system for new features like UDF's, sql functions etc

What are we looking for?

• Worked with Python for a minimum of 2 years
• Well versed with Django REST framework
• Knowledge of document based data stores like MongoDB
• Strong team player
• A passion for continuous learning and growth (both at a personal and team level)
• Experience (or enjoys) working in a startup will be an added advantage

• Must have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with Python/Node.JS/Typescript
• At least 2+ years as back-end software developer
• A deep understanding of the benefits of the Microservice and serverless paradigms
• Prepared technical documentation, and understand why it’s important
• Understanding of database principals: SQL and NoSQL
• Collaboration and communication skills (you’ll be working with clients and internal teams)
• An understanding of programming fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms)
• Familiarity and comfort with REST API, Postman
• The ability to work independently or within a team structure.
• A “lead by example” attitude, and motivation to deliver work you’re proud of

Desired candidates must have 3-7 years of experience as NodeJs Developer.

If the candidate cannot relocate to Gurgaon, we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus