NodeJS Developer

As a Tech Lead I (Backend) at Gocomet, you will be pivotal in driving backend development initiatives. Your role will involve leading the design and implementation of robust backend systems, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

You will work closely with other team leads and departments to define and meet the technical and business requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Backend vision & ownership: Architect and implement scalable and efficient backend solutions, contributing significantly to the design and overall architecture, keeping in mind a long term vision of the product & scale.
• Optimize Performance: Focus on optimizing the application for maximum speed and scalability, including database optimization, effective caching strategies, improving code health, code design & refactoring, etc.
• Technical Innovation: Suggest innovative solutions wherever required for problems related to new product requirements & scale related issues. Stay abreast of emerging backend technologies and trends, advocating and leading the adoption of technologies that will give a competitive edge to our products.
• Mentor and Guide: Provide mentorship and guidance to backend development team members, ensuring the dissemination of best practices and efficient use of technology stacks. Take ownership of hiring & building a high quality backend team.
• Quality Assurance: Uphold high standards in code quality, including rigorous code review processes, and ensure adherence to industry best practices in backend development.

Experience & Skills:

• Backend Expertise: 4-6 years of experience in backend development, with a deep understanding of server-side logic, architecture design & handling scalability issues.
• Cloud & DevOps exposure: Experience with Cloud (GCP or AWS) with a deep understanding of different services, resources utilisations, CI/CD pipelines, Observability tools (Sentry, New Relic / Datadog, etc.) and an ability to debug infra related issues.
• Strong Technical Skills: Strong expertise in a Backend development framework (preferably Ruby on Rails but not mandatory), SQL & NoSQL database technologies.

(like Postgresql and MongoDB), Caching (Redis), Async job frameworks (like Sidekiq), etc.

• Problem-Solving Ability: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, research ability with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated experience in mentoring backend development teams and taking complete tech ownership.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical challenges and solutions to both technical and non-technical team members.
• Continuous Learning: A commitment to continuous learning and staying current with the latest backend development trends and technologies.

Benefits:

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Dynamic & high-performing team that thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Cutting-edge technology stack and tools.
• Make a significant impact on our products and the user experience.
• Join a team of passionate, creative, and driven individuals.
• 5 Days working.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Experience good work culture with regular fun activities.
• Health medical insurance coverage with Family, etc.

Job Location: Bangalore

Why Gocomet?

GoComet is a dynamic SaaS start-up that provides AI-powered transportation visibility solutions to revolutionize the trillion-dollar logistics sector. At GoComet, we are revolutionizing the logistics sector one day at a time, and every team member is committed to making it a reality.

We're seeking individuals who embody our core values, character, and attitude. While we recognize that skills can be developed with the right mindset and learnability, we prioritize those who share our philosophy. Our recruitment processes reflect this belief.

Look no further if you're looking for a diverse, talented, and vibrant workplace that recognizes and rewards hard work. We're ambitious, fast-paced, and unafraid to experiment, fail, learn, and ultimately succeed. This is us! Join our team if you share our culture and values.

We're an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome qualified applicants from all races, colors, religions, sexes, nationalities, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities.

We are hiring for multiple positions.

For any queries, feel free to write to Know more about us:

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Job Brief:

- Proficient in object-oriented programming and distributed systems

- Some experience with Web Programming and TypeScript

- Ability to speak and write in English fluently

- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

- Experience with TypeScript and NodeJS

- Experience with the language server protocol

- Experience with JavaScript

- Experience with the Pub-Sub pattern

Description

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable with both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility. If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. PHP, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field

 2+ years experience as a developer with a proven track record in on-time and successful deliveries.

- Must be highly proficient in NodeJS, Javascript and MySQL with Microservices (REST web services )

- Work end to end on micro-services and SPAs built on cutting-edge technologies like Nodejs (Strong practical experience preferred)

- Strong knowledge of database & web applications.

- Preferred : grunt, wagner, npm, passport, redix, chai

- Excellent problem solving and communication skills, so that you are able to articulate technical concepts to the team, also excellent development, and debugging skills

- Ability to learn, act, and thrive in a fast-paced environment with a distributed team

Duties & Responsibilities :

- Should be taking requirements to design and building reusable modules.

- Building, scaling and performance tuning.

- Advance understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5 and CSS3.

- Advance understanding in AWS, NPM (Node JS Package Manager), GIT and Unit testing.

- Strong work experience in Design Patterns and Algorithms.

- Experience with debugging, troubleshooting and problem-solving issues.

- Must have strong communication skills.

As an Associate Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to collaborate on the creation and maintenance of scalable, high-quality software as we grow. You'll work closely with the CTO and quickly gain skills and responsibilities as the team and the technical requirements grow.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop RESTful APIs leveraging Django classes, ORM and Postgres Database
• Develop solutions that meet business objectives while leveraging industry best practices
• Write high-quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines
• Troubleshoot and debug applications

Technical Competencies

• Expertise with Python language
• Experience with Django: maintaining APIs
• Familiarity using Git, code repositories, branching and merging strategies
• Ability to break down complex concepts, tasks, or problems into more simple, understandable language and action plans
• Excellent communication skills, and attention to detail
• Good Documentation skills

Perks

• Work from home
• Flexible work schedule
• Flexible standup meetings

Interview Process

• Two technical rounds with Senior Developer and CTO
• Cultural Fit interview with Project Manager

Please do not apply if you don't have professional Django work experience.

Role Description:

As a Lead Backend Engineer , you will be responsible for designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems for Radiusagent. Experience as a Tech Lead, managing tasks with back-end engineers while coding themselves will be a bonus point for the ideal candidate.

Responsibilities will include-

• You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
• You will build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
• You will ensure compliance with the build/release and configuration management process.

Skills needed:

• be able to design and build modules from ground up
• proficient in any one programming language out of php/golang/node/python/javascript/java/ruby and ability to pick up others
• experience with mysql/postgres/mongodb/couchdb
• experience  with redis/memcached
• experience with rabbitmq / kafka
• experience in having written cron jobs, troubleshooting downtime
• ability to work with ambiguous requirements
• good understanding of OS concepts

Nice to haves:

• experience with managing VMs' on aws/gcp/digitalocean 
• experience with docker/kubernetes
• experience elasticsearch or lucene