NodeJS Developer

About Company: 

Snapsight is an AI-powered platform that delivers real-time event summaries in 75+ languages. We work with conferences worldwide and won the 2024 Skift Award for Most Innovative Event Tech. We're an early-stage startup scaling fast.

Join us if you want to become part of a vibrant and fast-moving product company that's on a mission to connect people around the world through events. 

Location: Remote/Work From Home 

What you'll be doing: 

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code in Node.js for back-end services. 
• Ensuring optimal and high-performance code logic for the data from/to the database. 
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integrations. 
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions. 
• Preparing technical specification documents for the developed features. 
• Providing technical recommendations and suggesting improvements to the product. 
• Writing unit test cases for APIs. 
• Documenting code standards and practicing it. 
• Staying updated on the advancements in the field of Node.js development. 
• Should be open to new challenges and be comfortable in taking up new exploration tasks. 

Skills: 

• 3-5 years of strong proficiency in Node.js and its core principles. 
• Experience in test-driven development. 
• Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB is required 
• Experience with MySQL database 
• RESTful/GraphQL API design and development 
• Docker and AWS experience is a plus
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, PHP, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks. 
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills. 
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude 
• Experience with a version control system like Git 
• Knowledge about the Software Development Life Cycle Model, secure development best practices and standards, source control, code review, build and deployment, continuous integration

• Discussing project aims with the client and development team.
• Designing and building web applications using Laravel.
• Troubleshooting issues in the implementation and debug builds.
• Working with front-end and back-end developers on projects.
• Testing functionality for users and the backend.
• Ensuring that integrations run smoothly.
• Scaling projects based on client feedback.
• Recording and reporting on work done in Laravel.
• Maintaining web-based applications.
• Presenting work in meetings with clients and management.

About the Role

Initiate and drive technical decisions on a multi-functional, Agile team alongside product management, product design, and engineering

Work closely with product to translate abstract business and product requirements into crisp technical specifications along with a delivery roadmap

Resolve blockers and help the team stay productive

Perform code and design reviews

Take part in building the team and iterating on hiring processes

Must have Requirements for the Role

8+ years of experience in a highly technical role at hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company and 2+ years of experience leading a team

Production level experience with Node.js or Go mandatory.

Experience building highly available and performant applications in any major programming language (e.g. Node.js, Go, Javascript)

In-depth knowledge and experience working with major cloud platform (e.g. AWS (must have experience))

Experience leading product teams

You are a good communicator who can explain technical concepts to product managers, designers, support and other engineers

Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team environment and with geographically distributed teamsIn-depth knowledge of database and web security

How We Define Success:

Ensure the projects are delivered within reasonable timelines that meet the acceptance criteria set by the stakeholders

Ensure technical debt is being measured and tackled

Ensure the non-functional requirements are being taken into account while delivering features: performance, security and testing

Nice To Have, but Not Required:

Good understanding of GCP, AzureWorked in a early-stage startup environmentGood understanding of micro services

We are hiring!!

JOB TITLE: Back-end Developer

EXPERIENCE: 3 - 7 years

LOCATION: Mumbai (Borivali East)

TIMINGS: Indian Shift Timings

TYPE OF WORKING: Work from office

NOTICE PERIOD: 1 month

Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Must have a clear understanding of Database
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

Requirements

• Proven work experience as a Back-end developer
• Experience in Node.js language
• Familiar with building REST API
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Hands on experience with programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP and Python
• Working knowledge of CMS framework
• Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude

We are looking to hire a talented ruby on rails developer to manage the interchange of data between our users and the server. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the server-side logic for the central database, testing performance, troubleshooting, and integrating front-end elements into the application.

To ensure success as a ruby on rails developer, you should have extensive experience working with ruby and back-end integration techniques. Ultimately, a top-level ruby on rails developer can create clean, functional code that perfectly suits the needs of the company.

• Designing and developing new web applications.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
• Writing and maintaining reliable Ruby code.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Creating back-end components.
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs.
• Integrating user-facing elements designed by the front-end team.
• Connecting applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Experience working with ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.
• Ability to write clean ruby code.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial.
• Experience with AngularJS or BackboneJS.
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim and Liquid.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

Responsibilities Include

You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.

Requirements

• B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
• Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
• Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive adoption within the extended technology team
• Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
• Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
• Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
• Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
• A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
• Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.
• Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
• Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would be a big plus.