NodeJS Developer

Job description

Opportunity

We are looking for a young and enthusiastic personality who loves coding. Who is passionate and ready to tackle some of the most difficult problems in the laundry industry. We believe that user-centric design ultimately leads to the best products, so we listen closely to our users, both external and internal. As an engineer on our close-knit, cross-functional team, you'll be an active voice in shaping our product. 

You will play a role in product planning, drive the implementation and release of major features, and be a champion of best practices for writing well-tested, well-organized code.

Tech Stack

Our tech stack is http://asp.net/">ASP.NET, MVC, Webform, WebAPI, MSSQL Server, JQuery, Javascript, Angular 2 and microservices architecture. Our platform is hosted on Google Cloud. 

Responsibilities

• Work with internal business teams and management to define requirements and develop technical specifications.
• You will be creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Developing and integrating RESTful API services.
• Convert legacy code to new tech stack single-page web applications.
• You will be working with payment gateway, barcodes, QR codes, biometrics, integrating different hardware (printer, scanner, cash register, POS terminal, laundry and drycleaning machines, conveyor belt etc), map routing and distance algorithms.

What you can expect in the next 12 months

Within 1 month

• You should have acquired a good knowledge of the domain, product and process that we follow.
• Setup the dev environment and push your first small piece of code to production.
• You will start attending daily stand up.
• Dive into technology by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by your peers.
• Have a one-one chat with every member of the Quick Dry Cleaning team so you get to know everyone well and understand each other.

Within 3 months

• You'll start developing your first module all by yourself. (With some guidance)
• Write your first set of unit test cases and work with the quality engineer to set up functional testing workflows.
• Conduct your first review of a peer's code.
• Participate in several release planning sessions to get a deep understanding of the new features we're working on.
• Participate in your first production release cycle.
• Start providing support for bugs, issues, small improvements on production.
• Take over one tool (JIRA, Build Deployment, CI/CD, Git or any other)

Within 6 months

• You'll launch your first two or three modules to production.
• Take architectural and infrastructure decisions that will impact the entire product.
• Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new services.

Within 12 months

• You'll launch at least 3 to 4 core modules to production and completely own scaling for some more.
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth.
• Mentor Ship - Should do code reviews for juniors, spend time and show a willingness to teach juniors, and share expertise with new team members.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, sales and customer success leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.
• You will start owning an important workflow/ section of the product. 

Required Candidate profile

What an ideal candidate looks like

• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, databases, networking, and distributed systems.
• 3-4 years of experience with product development (.ASP.Net, C#.Net, WCF, MVC, SQL Server development applications, version control, CI/CD pipelines).
• Should have a strong online presence on different forums like stack overflow etc, Github etc.
• Excellent verbal and written skills. The ability to explain sophisticated architectures to engineers, product managers, and support & operation executives. You should also be able to write a proposal for your idea/solutions and take feedback from the team.
• Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.

Personality traits we really admire 

• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Pays great attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
• Gives equal importance to planning, coding, code reviews, documentation, and testing.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follows release cycles and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Role Software Developer

Industry Type IT Services & Consulting

Functional Area IT Software - Application Programming, Maintenance

Employment Type 

Role Category Programming & Design

What you need to have:

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

Why Work with Us:

• Get an opportunity to contribute to an exciting, forward-thinking and fast-moving Start-Up.

• Shape-Up your career by working with young and supportive teams and peers!

• Innovation and Creativity is all what matters!

• Friendly Policies, good competitive salaries, team outings and what not!
  
  

Job Description:

We're looking for an enthusiast Back End Developer who will be an integral part of the early StoryXpress team and can produce scalable solutions. The creativity and intelligence are much more essential to us than the experience with our stack.Thus, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment, in order to strive for excellence!

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you :)

Job Responsibilities:

Building and scaling web products that directly impact our customers or partners.

Translate several RESTful data sources to be used in a front-end application.

Dig into bugs and feature requests.

Monitor reliability and performance through dashboards and tools to ensure availability.

Help other engineers on the team and across StoryXpress.

Work with our team to engineer new growth initiatives.

Job Requirements:

• Skills: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, Express.js, MySQL, Git, Go
• Proficiency JavaScript developer.
• Should have a good understanding of micro-server architecture and REST API.
• Thorough understanding of MVC principles and JS design patterns. *Node.js, Express.js, MySQL should be thoroughly worked upon
• GIT, GitOps and standard versioning management tools should be known.
• Knowledge of User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

Brownie Points For:

• Knowledge of Go will be a big plus
• Experience with Redis and TypeScript would fetch you a brownie point

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

You should primarily be a backend developer or full stack developer, very good at code reviews and code optimization. Our products depend on processing large amounts of data and having fast response times is absolutely essential.

You will have the opportunity to

• Take responsibility of building systems for scale
• Manage our backend systems and database optimizations
• Assist in key decisions and design architecture that drives development across products
• Define processes and help with efficient functioning of the team
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the products are scalable, maintainable and secure

What we expect from you:

• We work on Ruby on Rails but you can have 2+ years of experience as backend developer in any language
• Have a solid grasp of OOP, databases and automated testing methodologies.
• Know how to manage sprint and ensure tasks are completed within the timeline
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Strong understanding of SQL databases
• Proficient knowledge of various authentication methods like JWT, OAuth etc..
• Perform peer code reviews and Code audit - Analyze existing code and remediate performance issues within existing applications

Having seen over 10x growth in 2021 alone, we are expanding our scope of products to cater to the fast growing creator economy and help creators monetize in ways beyond influencer marketing. We are also looking at tremendous growth in the next few years, standing at the verge of building something huge!

Come join our team of developers if a fast learning environment in a high growth industry excites you.

About Winkl

Please check out our product before applying to this position -
* Website - https://winkl.co
* Team - https://winkl.co/about
* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.winkl.app&;amp;hl=en
* iOS App - https://www.winkl.co/app

Winkl is a technology company that is changing how influencer marketing is done. From a manual process earlier to an automated and data-driven process with Winkl. More on this here.

Leveraging data & technology helps Winkl scale influencer marketing to a level that wasn't possible earlier. This has helped Winkl power influencer campaigns for top brands in India like Flipkart, Amazon etc.

Culture & Expectations

* At Winkl, no one tells you what to do. We don't micromanage. We don't spoon feed. As long as you're willing to learn new things, are proactive, initiate activities on your own, make mistakes and learn from them, take responsibility, stick to your word of getting things done, we think you'd be a great fit at Winkl.
* On a day to day basis, you'll get to be an important part of a high growth startup as it scales.
* You'll receive all possible support from your team at Winkl to help you succeed. 
* Being highly accountable is a non-negotiable requirement

• B.Tech/B.E (preferably in Computer Science Engineering) 
• 7+ years of hands-on programming experience in building data-driven REST APIs, services & platforms using advanced Java frameworks like Spring, Redis, Node.js etc. with deep focus on integration & scale.
• We also look for hands-on experience with Mysql, Elasticsearch (or Solr) and Nosql stores.
• Our evaluation starts with focus on computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• You will have been learning new technologies every week and prefer folks who can use golang/rust for backend development and are familiar with equivalent data stores, index stores and pub-sub technologies.

We’re looking for a Ruby on Rails Software Engineer/Shopify App Developer who has experience working with the Shopify platform and is able to work on a Shopify app.

Your Daily Challenges

When we welcome you aboard we’ll introduce you to your Team, which consists of a front-end developer, a Shopify App Marketer who grew 2 apps to million dollar annual revenue, and a product manager.

These are the people you’ll work closely with on Product development day-to-day. Once you get settled in and learn more about the team, your day to day activities will look something like this:

1. Own the end-to-end development cycle for the Shopify app you’ll be working on.
2. Coordinate with fellow developers to get things done on time. 
3. Implement high quality code in an agile, test driven development environment
4. Review exception reports to identify and fix bugs
5. Development of new apps and features
6. Maintenance of existing features
7. Collaboration with cross-functional teams
8. Contributions of ideas to improve the product

Your Experience

1. 3-5 years of experience with Ruby on Rails
2. Experience with Shopify app development
3. Familiar with Sidekiq, PostgreSQL
4. Good understanding of HTML and CSS (positioning and styling)
5. Excellent communication skills
6. Takes pride in writing clean, organized, efficient code
7. An eye for detail
8. Experience with vanilla JavaScript and React a plus
9. Experience working in an entrepreneurial/startup environment

Your Compensation

1. The compensation range for this role is INR 14-18 LPA (~25K USD) + up to 5% equity.
2. The compensation varies with experience and qualifications. 
3. This is a full-time remote/work from home position.

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