Node.js Developer

Job Description

We are looking for a Software engineer to join our cutting-edge development team as it grows. We want someone who is comfortable asking “why?” The ideal candidate is a divergent thinker who understands industry best practices and has experience with multiple coding languages. They are a team player possessing strong analytical as well as technical skills, and are able to communicate the logic behind technical decisions to non-tech stakeholders. They must be comfortable working in an agile environment and have the ability to “take the wheel” when necessary. They will work with multiple technologies and develop a keen sense of evaluating and using the appropriate technology to derive the best solution.

What you'll do

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write and test code to ensure compatibility and stability: refine and rewrite as necessary
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Follow the spec and its requirement and develop the features/project
• Providing written knowledge transfer material as documents

Must have

• 1+ years experience coding in a modern programming language like Java, GoLang, Node JS, Python or RoR 
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, good design principles like SOLID 
• Problem solving & analytical aptitude 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Experience in source code control with git/svn
• Should be flexible to work on a variety of programming languages like NodeJS, Python, etc. and on XML technologies like XSLT, XML Pipelines, etc

Good to have

• Experience working in the Node JS stack 
• Unit testing and automation frameworks 
• Experience working in a public cloud environment (AWS preferred) 
• Working with distributed microservice architectures 
• Agile product development life cycle

Eligibility Criteria 

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related fields from a reputed institution
• Any internship experience is a plus
• Experience: 1-4 years 
• Location: Chennai. Work from office (Mon to Fri)

Our core customer-facing product today is a native Android application. In addition to this, we are building internal tools for customer support, investment management, marketing analytics and business management. In the future, we plan to hugely expand the features in our core product, build iOS and web products, and continuously improve our internal tools to better serve our customers.

For our back-end, we use Node.js / MySQL / AWS. We are currently a 3-member engineering team (1 back-end, 1 Android, 1 full stack) led by our founding engineer and advised by a senior technology executive from a leading fintech company.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software applications
• Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
• Set-up our technology infrastructure and integrate with 3rd party applications
• Contribute to internal discussions around product features, roadmap and technologies used
• Mentor & recruit engineers to the team
• Set up processes related to engineering & product

Skills / Required Experience:

• B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent, with solid foundational knowledge in at least two general programming languages, data structures, algorithms, system architecture, security and networking protocols.
• At least 6 years of back-end development experience in a software product company is required for this role.
• Exposure to modern software development processes, multiple front-end and back-end technologies, and open-source software.
• Proficiency with tools like Gitlab/Jira/Firebase, as well as AWS and commonly used database systems etc. is required
• Experience in an early-stage startup or having founded your own startup would be good to have (but not necessary).

Desired candidates must have 3-6 years of experience as NodeJs Developers.

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