NodeJS Developer

Position :Principal Engineer

Location : Remote

EGNYTE YOUR CAREER. SPARK YOUR PASSION. 

Egnyte is a place where we spark opportunities for amazing people. We believe that every role has meaning, and every Egnyter should be respected. With 17,000 customers worldwide and growing, you can make an impact by protecting their valuable data. When joining Egnyte, you’re not just landing a new career, you become part of a team of Egnyters who doers, thinkers, and collaborators are who embrace and live by our values:

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ABOUT EGNYTE

Egnyte is the secure multi-cloud platform for content security and governance that enables organizations to better protect and collaborate on their most valuable content. Established in 2008, Egnyte has democratized cloud content security for more than 22,000 organizations, helping customers improve data security, maintain compliance, prevent and detect ransomware threats, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere. For more information, visit 

www.egnyte.com.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

Egnyte is seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our Engineering department. The Engineering department builds large distributed components and services that run Egnyte's Cloud Platform. Our code serves billions of requests per day with sub-second latency in a fault-tolerant environment. We process and analyze millions of files and events on a daily basis. Some of the responsibilities for this department include Egnyte's Cloud File System, Content Classification, Content Lifecycle Management, User Behavior Analysis, Object Store, Metadata Stores, Search Systems, Recommendations Systems, Synchronization, and intelligent caching of multi-petabyte datasets. We are looking for candidates with a shared passion for building large-scale distributed systems and a keen sense for tackling complexities that come with scaling through multiple orders of magnitude.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Design and develop highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates with on-premises systems
• Drive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that make Egnyte’s cloud platform more efficient
• Effectively communicate complex design and architecture details
• Understand company and industry-wide trends to help develop new technologies
• Conceptualize, develop, and implement changes that prevent key systems from becoming unreliable, under-utilized, or unsupported
• Own all aspects of critical software projects from design to implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring

Qualifications 

• BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8-15 years of professional experience in engineering with history of technical innovation
• Experience providing technical leadership to engineers

Bonus Qualifications (Good to Have) 

• Breadth of knowledge across infrastructure domains, with the ability to reason about everything from data center machine software to database solutions to machine learning infrastructure to front-end web or mobile applications
• Demonstrated success in designing and developing large scale, complex systems
• Expertise with multi-tenant, highly complex, cloud solutions; experience with Hybrid and/or on-premises solutions desired

BENEFITS 

• Competitive salaries
• Medical insurance and healthcare benefits for you and your family
• Fully paid premiums for life insurance
• Flexible hours and PTO
• Gym reimbursement
• Childcare reimbursement
• Group term life insurance

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION: 

At Egnyte, we celebrate our differences and thrive on our diversity for our employees, our products, our customers, our investors, and our communities. Egnyters are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work and to appreciate the many differences that collectively make Egnyte a higher-performing company and a great place to be.

Key Responsibilities:

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

1. At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
2. Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
3. Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
4. Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
5. Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
6. Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
7. Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
8. Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
9. Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
10. Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
11. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
12. Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
13. Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
14. Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.

• Previous working experience as a MEAN Stack Developer for 1+ years
• BSc degree in Computer Science or similar relevant field 
• In-depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify
• Experience implementing applications using Angular 1 or React
• Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with MEAN Fullstack paradigm
• Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage:
• Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications
• Experience with cloud technologies also a plus
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, Javascript, JQuery
• Continuous integration (Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (SVN, Git).

• Determine the appropriate approach for new software assignments
• Provide solutions to overcome complex problems using the latest technologies
• Developing high-quality and detailed designs, Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Proactively communicate with the client to get things done within the deadline.
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Provide high-level maintenance and update of an existing applications to improve functionality and process flow
• Oversee the maintenance of technical documentation of applications as architecture, code, and procedures

• 3+ Experience with RPA software (UiPath) (ONLY/MANDATORY)
• Experience in programming .NET (C# or VB), Java + Node.JS-based programming
• UiPath RPA Implementations and Working Knowledge: Studio, BOTs, Orchestrators, RE Framework and Three E2E Implementations as a Core RPA Developer.
• Skill with scripting languages such as VBA/VBS, Python, NodeJS and JavaScript
• Proficiency with Microsoft Power Platform, SQL and NoSQL database experiences
• Orchestrator configuration and component usage knowledge
• hands on experience of orchestrator queue and load distribution
• Proficiency with JIRA, Jenkins, Github, Artifactory and CI/CD development
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including business process expertise
• Experience developing design documents for automation processes