We are looking for an experienced Node.js Developer with at least 3-years of experience. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining server-side applications and building scalable applications using Node.js. It is a WFH/Remote, full-time position.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop RESTful APIs using Node.js
- Build and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable code
- Write unit and integration tests for all code changes
- Developing and maintaining all server-side network components
- Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Optimize application performance and ensure scalability and reliability
- Troubleshoot and debug issues in the application codebase
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience designing and/or developing applications using node.js
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks
- Strong experience with ExpressJS or Restify frameworks
- Very well understanding of Javascript, Browsers, real time communication
- Experience with ReactJS & MongoDB is a plus
- Strong fundamentals in OOPS, Data structured and Design Patterns
- Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3
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Node.js Developer Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
- Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
- Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
- Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
- Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
- Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
Node.js Developer Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
- At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
- Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
- Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
- Great organizational and time management skills.
- Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.
About Beyondskool:
BeyondSkool aims to be the No.1 destination for BeyondSkool courses for kids aged 4-15yrs by building knowledge and skills in areas that are not typically covered by school to constantly expand learning and stay ahead. We do this through our programs, which are designed by experts covering both breadth and depth of expertise, delivered by certified and trained teachers through LIVE online classes on our engaging and interactive platform. Mission of BeyondSkool is that just like a school, to build a community of highly motivated BeyondSkoolers who have an infinite hunger of learning, which goes beyond school curriculum for continuously expanding knowledge and skills to excel and stay ahead.
Founded by experienced professionals and alumni of prestigious institutes namely Kellogg and MDI with 20+ years of experience in various industries handling leadership roles across business functions. We are at a stage of hiring our core team members who are young, passionate individuals with keen interest in making a difference in the education sector.
Role and Responsibilities
- Research, design and build highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms.
- Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
- Lead by example, mentor, and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
- Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
- Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
- Working with a cross-discipline team (Design, Product, Engineer, Operations, Sales, Marketing).
- Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team.
- Lead-out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
- Writing bug-free code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high-quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
- Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better.
- Researching new technologies and adapting them to BeyondSkool’s requirements
- Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
- Using and understanding code from Open-Source projects
- Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people
- Produce highly reliable systems that are thoroughly tested and benchmarked.
- Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric infrastructure that operates 24x7
- Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, and deliver with speediness and quality.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field.
- Experience of 5 - 7 years as a back-end engineer preferably in a microservice environment.
- Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express.js
- Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript
Preferred Skills
- Must have worked building 2+ backend system using node.js and Express.js
- Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design.
- Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
- Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
- Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
- Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
- Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Curiosity to explore the cutting-edge technologies and bake them in the products.
- Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.
Opportunity :
We are looking for Backend Developers who are passionate about solving problems. We offer a result-driven, fun, and dynamic environment. So far, we've built a reasonably-sized, high-powered team and are always striving to be the best place to work we can be.
Our Tech Deck :
- Architecture
- Linux
- Docker
- HAProxy
- Nagios
- Munin
- Backend & Servers
- PHP
- MySql
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Memcached
- Frontend
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Sass/Less
- GruntJs
- Bower
- NPM
- Repositories
- Git
- Collaboration
- Slack
- Evernote
- Google Drive
Your Part :
- You shall be part of our design and development team. You shall be assigned one or multiple modules, wherein you shall:
- Write backend code and APIs, maintain the database and cache.
- Rapidly develop next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems.
- Act as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical people.
- Collaborate with the team to prioritize projects and ensure on-time completion.
Preferred Qualification & Experience :
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience/knowledge
- 5+ Years of hardcore development experience in one or more backend frameworks and languages like JavaScript (NodeJS, Express), PHP (and other languages and frameworks).
- Working knowledge of both Unix and Windows in a software development setting prefer strength in Unix (all flavors) environment.
- Strong HTTP fundamentals.
- Basic networking knowledge.
- Familiarity with relational database concepts and RDBMS systems such as MySQL etc.
- A solid understanding of REST principles, and experience writing backend code to change or design APIs.
- Worked on NoSQL databases like Memcache, Redis, MongoDB etc.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Preferred Skills & Abilities :
- As a Developer:
- Write clean, manageable code and maintain proper documentation
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximise development efficiency
- Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms
- Familiarity with continuous integration
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Knack for benchmarking and optimization
- Passion for quality and innovation
- An eye for detail
- As a team player
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Ability to manage and drive small teams
- Ability to work independently in small teams
- Estimate timelines and deliver as per schedule
- Responsible and capable of meeting tight deadlines
- Thrive in a variable and demanding startup environment
- Collaborate with multiple disciplines like product, engineering, marketing, research and support, and enjoy working in a collaborative environment
- Understand technical and business needs and fulfil them
EXPERIENCE: 2 to 5 years
LOCATION: Bangalore
TIMINGS: Indian Shift Timings
TYPE OF WORKING: work from office
NOTICE PERIOD: 1 month
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Write maintainable, scalable, and efficient code.
• Follow coding standards, unit-testing, code reviews etc.
• Follow release cycles and commitment to deadlines.
• Collaborate with the team and communicate effectively.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup.
CANDIDATE MUST HAVE
• Nodejs
• Data structure & Algorithms
DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
• BE/BTech in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Good knowledge of JavaScript, JSON, Relational/NoSQL DB,
• Experience in writing modular/reusable code using JavaScript frameworks like Node JS,
• Express JS etc.
• Knowledge of Restful Web Services
• Understanding of OOPS, Data Structure, and Algorithms
• Knowledge of Python will be a plus point.
• Good Analytical and Problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of source control tools, preferably GIT
• Familiar with Agile methodologies
Architects are responsible for driving Technology & Best Practices in Engineering. We are a rapidly growing & constantly improving organisation. We seek very high levels of ownership in all individuals, especially leadership roles like this - Ownership of your team, your product. Going beyond your role & contributing to make the organisation & business better is an expectation.
Responsibilities:
- Actively participate in development along with team members for as much as 50% of their time, creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
- Participating in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
- Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the team
- Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly thinking about improving the technology use are your responsibilities.
- Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team and influence them for the entire organisation are also expectations from you.
- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create
- Collaborate with Product Management and Product Development leaders in developing product visions and strategies.
- Define & drive implementation of long term technology vision for your product & team
- You will be the primary owner of the architecture of your product and will also be responsible for getting it reviewed, and making sure the system is built accordingly.
- Be an evangelist for technology & represent in external forums.
- Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces
- Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
Requirements:
- Quick & Excellent Problem solving skills for complex & large scale problems
- Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies
- Very Strong System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction
- Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise & improve coding standards across large code bases
- Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures.
- Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions
- Deep understanding & experience of high performance web scale & real-time response systems with experience & expertise in a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases
- Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures the Principle architects should have seen it all and ideally in multiple cycles.
- Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 5 years
- Must have worked in a small setup (either a startup or a small & reasonably independent team)
- 8+ years of overall experience
- B Tech or higher in Computer Science or equivalent required
- 4+ years of experience with Node.js
- Expertise in Typescript, AWS, Firebase, MongoDB, and Express
You will be bringing:
- Hands-on experience in writing applications using Node.js (including Socket.io and Express or similar)
- Excellent knowledge of a few of the available databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
- Proficiency in application deployment on Linux or Ubuntu environments
- Proficiency in JavaScript languages like React and/or Angular, along with a comprehensive experience in open-source frameworks
- Experience in server-client architecture project(s)
- Ability to prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
- An open, growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback
- Min 5 years of software development experience, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Proficiency in a Go programming language
- Strong software development fundamentals (Data structures, Algorithms, problem-solving, OO design, systems architecture, and development methods).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills. Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask, learn and thrive in a timeline-driven environment
- Good understanding of memory/SQL/NoSQL database concepts (key-value, schemas, indexing, etc)
- Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
- Translating software requirements into stable, working, high-performance software
- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient microservice distributed architecture
Skills
- Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
- Knowledge of common Goroutine and channel patterns
- Experience with the full site of Go frameworks and tools, including:
- Dependency management tools such as Godep, Sltr, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Crawl the internet/intranet for issues people are facing and convert them in to stuctured data that would be consumed downstream.
- Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to deployment.
- Comply with coding standards and technical design.
- 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 plans are in place and adheres to the great quality of code at all times.
- Actively participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live system.
- Verify user feedback in making the system more stable and easy.
- Work closely with analysts, designers, and other peer developers.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
- Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
- Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
- Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
- A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.
- 6+ years of experience working on the server-side.
- Exposure to API designing, scalable architecture, and thorough understanding of systems.
- Great database modeling skills.
- Working knowledge of Databases, both relational (such as PostgreSQL) and in-memory database (such as Redis).
- Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
- Experience with open-source projects.
- Experience in designing interactive applications.