NodeJS Developer

Viha Technosoft - building tech products that matter to people

At Viha Technosoft, we’re a happy family of 50+ young and experienced talents. We work in Media and Entertainment (M&E)t, Healthcare, and Payments domains.

We’re looking for a competent individual to help develop a scalable backend system for our project Cast India.With Cast India, We’re out to revolutionize the way people onboard, train, and get opportunity in M&E domain.

• Must-Have Skills

  • Strong knowledge of any PHP web framework Codeigniter, Laravel, CakePHP, Yii, Symfony, etc along with strength in OOPS
  • Understanding of MVC design patterns
  • Working experience with any Payment Gateways is desirable. Experience with REST-based API Development is a must
  • Experience with front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS frameworks along with Angular 6+ and ReactJS
  • Confident with Mysql database, framing complex queries for optimum performance
  • Good knowledge of Javascript, Json, Jquery, Ajax

  Additional Skills

  • Hands-on experience working on Microservices development
  • Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

  Build and hosting experience

  • Must have a strong DevOps experience
  • Exhibited CI/CD experience with Jenkins tools and plugins.
  • Strong experience in auto-deployment, deployment testing, and overall automated pipeline management.
  • Good to have knowledge of Cpanel, FileZilla, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Must have a strong experience with source control tools like GitHub

  Testing

  • Must have strong advanced Unit testing experience and Agile experience
  • Must have strong working experience in agile
  • Must have participated in SCRUM and must be well aware of the scrum ceremonies
  • Must be able to self-manage the pipeline and should be well prepared to meet challenging timelines

  MySQL competency

  • Must be able to write complex queries
  • Understanding and implementation level knowledge of key joins, constraints, and triggers
  • Able to analyze the query and perform query optimization
  • Independently handle the Table DDL and DML statements as part of the development
  • Ability to create ER diagrams and data mapping diagrams and document data entity chang

·        Should have 5 to 6 years of work experience as a Python Developer

·        Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)

·        Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)

·        Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)

·        Should have completed B.E/B.Tech. /MCA in any field.

·        Good problem-solving skills and Team spirit.

·        Writing scalable code using Python programming language.

·        Testing and debugging applications.

·        Developing back-end components.

·        Integrating user-facing elements using server-side logic.

·        Assessing and prioritizing client feature requests.

·        Integrating data storage solutions.

Backend Developer 

About Us

It is a stealth mode startup founded by IIT/NIT alumni who held leadership positions in companies like MindTickle and Browserstack. We have a grand vision of disrupting how companies buy and sell from each other. We are working with early customers to build an enterprise-grade product that will be GA this year. It is backed by tier 1 VCs and angel investors from India and Silicon Valley.

Job Description

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to work closely with the founding team. We are looking for a developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Responsibilities

1. Develop platform and infra stack from scratch
2. Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
3. Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
4. Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.
5. Implementation of security and data protection
6. Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
7. Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
8. Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.
9. Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new technologies, and better assist other team members.
10. Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Technology Skills

1. Proven work experience as a NodeJs Backend developer and frameworks available with it like Express, Apollo Graphql. Typescript knowledge is a plus
2. In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
3. Hands-on with various Infrastructure pieces like databases, message queues/brokers
4. Familiarity with Unit Testing Frameworks, UI Testing, Monorepos and Graphql principles
5. Knowledge of Alerting and Monitoring tools.
6. Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
7. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
8. Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
9. Prior experience of the AWS cloud, knowledge about the Salesforce environment is a plus.
10. Excellent project and time management skills.

Soft Skills

1. Obsessed with best practices, structuring, documentation and have an eye for detail.
2. Self starter with a high level of drive and commitment.
3. High energy and drive to work in a startup environment.
4. Conceptual thinking, flexibility and ability to juggle with multiple responsibilities.
5. Ability to work under pressure and confidence to deal with complex issues.
6. Good communication skills.
7. Hands-on and detail oriented.

Location: Pune

Candidate profile : 3-6 years of experience in Backend Development

Job Responsibilities:

• Create standard RESTful APIs
• Define API models
• Define Database models
• Communicate with other teams about breaking changes
• Maintain code quality
• Optimizing services for maximum performance

Requirements:  5+ years of work experience

• Advanced understanding of SQL ( NoSQL is a plus)
• Proficient understanding of Node.js
• Willingness to learn new ways of doing things
• Experience exposing functionality through RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Perform performance tuning and query optimization using native SQL Server tools
• Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases
• Should be familiar with the AWS ecosystem and services
• Experience in deployment of scalable, low-latency, and highly available distributed systems
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development

You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.

Your core responsibilities:

• Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
• Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
• Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
• Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
• Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
• Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
• Good in Database schema design.
• Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
• Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
• Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
• Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.

Whom you will be sharing your work day with? 

• We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

• 2+ years of experience participating in the delivery of technology services.
• A proven ability to learn new applications & innovate in technology
• Strong Experience in technologies like Node, Webservices and Microservices
• Experience with cloud components and services and containerization technologies is desirable
• Exposure to ReactJS desirable
• Experience working with multiple types of datastores: Mongo DB, SQL
• Experience in integrating, designing and developing solutions is desirable
• Experience with CI/CD and TDD is desirable
• Frameworks - Express , Hapi , feathers
• Strong knowledge in Javascript