NodeJS Developer

ABOUT UNRAVEL CARBON

Unravel Carbon enables companies to assess their carbon footprint by tracking their digital financial footprint with its proprietary carbon emission factor model; making it easy, fast and convenient to become climate positive.

We aim to accelerate the participation of all companies, big and small, in the global fight against climate change. And we want to do it the 21st century way—autonomous, painless, and beautiful.

Unravel Carbon consists of a team of software engineers, data scientists, founders and climate experts with a passion to solve the world’s most pressing issue—climate change. Collectively, our leadership team has launched and invested in multiple companies, and are now combining their experience and knowledge here at Unravel.

We are backed by some of the world’s best funds and investors and are part of Y Combinator’s W22 batch.

Unravel Carbon was founded in 2021 with headquarters in Singapore.

Unravel Carbon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unravelcarbon/

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for early members of our India team. You will be part of the team that establishes our India product development team. We are looking for candidates who have high potential, are excited about tackling the climate change problem and are excited to grow in a high-growth environment while working with the Singapore HQ.

A junior/mid-level backend software engineer. Must be comfortable to work in a small development team and have the initiative to work alone on smaller problem sets. Must be passionate about climate-tech for a better future.

• Build backend server applications using Flask/DJango framework
• Collaborate with the data team to integrate data pipelines into our backend system.
• Collaborate with the front end team.
• Analyze processes and code to troubleshoot problems and identify areas of improvement.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• Take lead on projects, as needed.

ABOUT YOU

• Willingness to learn, be a self-starter, and thrive in uncertainty; you would be one of the first few employees at an early stage startup, be prepared to venture into unknown territory, collaborate and learn
• Meticulous and detail-oriented
• Required skills:
• Python Backend Development Frameworks (Flask, Django). Backend development in other languages/frameworks can be considered too
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
• SQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, DuckDB)
• Running/managing Linux servers on Cloud services (AWS/GCS/Azure)
• Optional skills:
• Front End Web development (ReactJS)
• Python data science tools (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy)
• Python NLP tools

YOUR WORK STYLE

• An understanding of agile product development
• Self exploration and self learning of the latest technologies and applying them to solving the technical challenges our team face
• Self­-starter (proactive and independent) with an ability to prioritize different assignments and tasks to meet deadlines
• Comfortable working in a collaborative environment
• Eager to think outside of the box and creatively problem-solve

YOUR PREFERRED BACKGROUND

A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related discipline AND 1+ years working experience in the IT industry. 

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

We offer an exciting challenge for a purpose-driven person who thoroughly enjoys learning and takes up responsibilities in a multi-cultural, primarily virtual, and pioneering organization.  

We nurture a culture that allows you to thrive, where your skills can be honed and your ideas will be heard, and where collaboration across teams and with global partners is the default.

It was nice talking with you

As discussed please find below the job description and other needed details

“Squadcast is an incident-management platform for software teams of all sizes and shapes”

Our product helps global organizations adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices to improve their incident resolution metrics and ultimately, the reliability of their systems. If you're excited about engaging user experiences, snappy interfaces, and trustworthy systems, we should talk!

We ideate fast, embrace change, and take risks. From scaling our business model to expanding our offerings, the day-to-day at Squadcast offers endless professional growth opportunities. Our engineers work on state-of-the-art tech stacks with a high degree of autonomy.

Position : Backend SDE3

Experience : 8 to 11 Years

Work Mode: Remote work

Location : Bangalore

Role & Responsibilities :

• Work with a team of skilled engineers to improve the Squadcast product.
• Control what you work on, how you deliver and the roadmap of the product.
• Solve service reliability problems for teams and companies worldwide.
• Build delightful experiences and scalable, reliable systems for fellow engineers, the end users of our platform.
• Plan & develop tooling, processes and technical improvements to improve the multiple codebases.
• Work closely with the product team to plan, spec and deliver features, bugfixes and documentation.
• Work with the SRE and Customer Success teams to help customers and troubleshoot issues during our paid on-call rotations.
• Build, deploy and manage services and Backend Coding using Go/Node.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Are passionate about building products for fellow engineers.
• Are you a full-stack engineer, or a frontend/backend engineer interested in expanding to other areas of the stack?
• Either has experience in our tech stack or wants to work on it. We care about your general engineering skills and learning abilities more than your current tech stack.
• Communicate proactively and work autonomously, requiring minimal supervision or follow-up.
• I like to collaborate and pair with other engineers.
• Want to own features end-to-end: bring your ideas to the stakeholders, build consensus, plan, implement, deploy and release.

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Kind Regards,

Lakshmi Kumari. S

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About the role: We’re looking for a Node.Js Developer who can adapt to new tech stacks and innovate with cutting-edge technology solutions, to build eCommerce platforms that are unique, disruptive, and powerful.

What you'll do:
● Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
● Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
● Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
● Implement security and data protection integrations
● Integrate data storage solutions such as databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
● Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
● Ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

What you'll need:
● Bachelor's degree with minimum 3 years of work experience as a Node Js.
● Strong proficiency in JavaScript or Typescript
● Understanding of Node.js and its frameworks such as Express or StrongLoop
● Understanding of the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
● Understanding of accessibility, security compliance, user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
● Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
● Understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile and desktop and its optimization output
● Knowledge on creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Knowledge on implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

Who Should Consider Joining:
● If you like challenges and think from a first principle basis,
● If you are driven to take ownership and are adept at rolling with the punches,
● If you have the aspiration to grow fast in the dynamic environment of a start-up,
● If you are a collaborative team member, who believes in collective success,
● If you are someone who makes objective, fact-based decisions

Who should not consider joining:
● If the role description does not excite you, then you should not join us
● We are a startup and things will move fast. If you are not comfortable in a fast-paced environment, then you should not join us
● If you are not a self-starter who is willing to learn & experiment more, then you should not join us.

What We Offer:
● Limitless growth and learning opportunities
● Exposure to cutting edge technology solutions and upcoming stacks in the market
● In house technical training on GIT, Automated Testing, Code Coverage, Language Training and much more
● A collaborative and positive culture — Your team will be as smart and driven as you.
● Guidance and mentorship from industry experts and renowned IIT Alumnus
● An opportunity to make an impact — Your work will contribute directly to our strategy and growth

Role and Responsibilities:

• As a backend developer, your primary focus will be the development of all server-side systems
• A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. You will test, secure and deploy your code
• Work experience on Node.js is a must along with a server-side framework like Express.js
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Experience and proficiency integrating with REST APIs
• Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience in working with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
• AgileScrum development cycle understanding.

Skills Required:

• At least 2 years of experience developing backends using NodeJS should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB(Must) & any other MySQL Database.
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
• Knowledge and working experience in Cloud environment - AWS or Azure
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter without any fear of trying out new things

• Experience in PHP & MySQLi, various open source frameworks,
• Strong knowledge in JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, SQL,
• Strong Knowledge in Frameworks like Laravel
• Strong skills of APIs Creation & integration
• Knowledge of Cloud Servers like AWS, Digital ocean
• Know how to Secure the PHP Scripts from attacks or injections,