NodeJS Developer

Role overview

1) Overall 5 to 7 years of experience. Node.js experience is must.

2) At least 3+ years of experience or couple of large-scale products delivered on microservices.

3) Strong design skills on microservices and AWS platform infrastructure.

4) Excellent programming skill in Python, Node.js and Java.

5) Hands on development in rest API’s.

6) Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability.

Sr. Software Developer

Work Experience: 8+ Years

The Number of Vacancies: 2

Location:  

CTC: As per industry standards

About the Job Description

Senior software developers are responsible for designing, testing, and implementing new and updated software programs. They take on a managerial role and lead the development team with all software development tasks. Their job is to ensure all projects are completed on time and to company specifications.

What We Are Seeking

• Hands-on experience in Core Java and Advanced Java.
• Hands-on Java Framework-Architecture and Advanced Concepts Understanding and Implementation in Real-Time Projects
• Knowledge of Weblogic, Microservices
• Experience in developing APIs and RESTful services using Node JS.
• Strong understanding of the usage and implementation of JWT tokens and access control API development.
• Knowledge of AWS, SSL integration, Docker, Postman
• Extensive knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, and Oracle.
• Understanding of how to integrate third-party APIs such as Payment Gateway
• Knowledge of code versioning tools such as GIT
• Must have good analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality code and experience with security implementations.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Work with the QA Team to develop testing protocols to identify and correct challenges.

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.

Job Description – Sr. Magento Developer

We are looking to hire an experienced Magento Developer to build and maintain E-commerce websites for our clients. As a Sr. Magento Developer, you will be responsible for liaising with the design team, setting up Magento 2.x sites, building modules and customizing extensions, testing the performance of each site, and maintaining security and feature updates after the installation is complete.

Role Responsibilities:

• Architect and propose Magento solutions as per client requirements
• Review business requirements working with other team members
• Perform a technical analysis of requirements
• Produce a solid, detailed technical design
• Write clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements with little or no supervision
• Work with the QA and Customer Support teams to triage and fix bugs with rapid turnaround
• Contribute ideas for making the application better and easier to use
• Train the subordinate team of developers
• Create reusable components, which can be configured for different projects
• Create test plans and perform thorough quality analysis on the code before go live
• Research on new integration and plug-in capabilities
• Be actively involved in the pre-sales activities by demonstrating technical capabilities through POCs

Technical & Professional Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experienced in Magento (E-commerce CMS) 3-6 years (Familiar with Zend Framework)
• Strong experience with the LAMP stack, MVC or Zend framework
• Strong HTML, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, Ajax skills
• Strong experience with various API technologies including REST, SOAP
• Knowledge of Agile development methodology
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage and work under strict deadlines
• Ability to work in a team environment

Service Line/Domain: Information Technology

Preferred Skills: 

We want to really emphasize Spring Boot (2+ years although 1+ if candidate particularly strong) Using Redis as a caching technology with Spring Boot would be a strong plus 

Using Redisson (a particular java client library that can be easily configured with Spring Boot) would be a strong plus 

Knowledge of event based messaging systems (Amazon SNS, Amazon MQ, or Kafka (in AWS) Data Cleaning tools and techniques in CSV and Excel 

Strong Knowledge of Spring Boot Dependency Injection and Configuration 

Experience with APIs for popular e-commerce platforms (Magento, Shopify, Big Commerce, etc.) 

SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) Tools in the context of AWS. (Tools classified under DevOps) 

Experience with managing AWS EC2 VM instances and using AWS managed Services (like S3, MySQL, VPC/Networking, Lambda, etc) 

Performance Analysis Tools (Code Profiling) on Java VM and particularly Spring Boot 

Nice to Have: 

Experience with Cassandra or MongoDB with Spring Boot 

Horizontal Scaling with Spring Boot (considerations running multiple instances of Spring Boot instances) 

Experience with placing Spring Boot applications in Docker/Kubernetes container ecosystems (especially in AWS) 

Desired candidates must have 2-7 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus