Principal Engineer - Backend
at Corporate Finance and Alternate Asset Management.
common man. We are on a mission to deliver institutional-grade financial advice through
technology – no more missed opportunities and no more regrets.
The division has, within a tenure of less than 2 years, built the capability to manage as much as
200 Crores and is now en-route to triple it by the end of this year.
Thrive is therefore fulfilling the company’s vision to use Creativity and innovation to bring simple
solutions to complex problems of the common people.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
We are inviting extraordinary people to solve ordinary problems, by breaking from routine and
building innovative products for our customers. An ideal candidate will:
● have mastered NodeJS (TypeScript), with at least 5 years of experience
● have good experience building large scale products on a No SQL database (MongoDB
preferred)
● know about building and scaling a product to handle large volumes of financial data and
transactions using Microservices architecture
● have experience working with and integrating 3rd party applications using RESTful APIs
● have seen the startup journey through business pivots and be willing to partner with the
business teams to drive engineering and product decisions
● have worked with large teams of engineering and product team members
● be able to advise the engineering team and enforce good coding and collaboration
practices making use of Object Oriented Programming, while ensuring the highest code
quality
● constantly strive to optimize the application from an efficiency, scalability and security
perspective and actively own the code reviews for the team
● conform to the agile development framework and own up to quality and reliability of the
deliverables
● have some exposure to front end technologies like React
● have worked with multiple hosting and service infrastructures including Azure and have
dabbled with the infra using Kubernetes, Docker,Pager Duty, New Relic, Data Dog, etc.
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• Experience in Core Java and Spring Boot.
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale applications and systems. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client facing applications.
• Good development experience with RDBMS.
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and high-performance server-side development.
• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Excellent problem solving and coding skills.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.
Years of Experience:6-8 Years
Notice: Immediate-15 Days
Work Location: Bangalore
Looking for candidates anywhere in south India who can relocate to Bangalore.
POSITION SUMMARY
Developers will be responsible for Designing and integrating software applications running on multiple platform types into the overall architecture.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
C#, .Net 3.5+, ASP.Net, WebAPI, MVC, jQuery, Angular, JavaScript, React, SQL Server 2008+
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
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Minimum 6+ years of solid experience in C# development.
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Ability to write clean code
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strong knowledge of SOLID principles
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Experienced in source control and collaboration tools TFS, Azure DevOPS
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continuous hands-on experience in unit testing
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Understanding of agile development, and scrum methodology is desirable
Key Skills :
- Good understanding and experience of HTML / CSS / JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience with ES6 / ES7 / ES8 features.
- Thorough understanding of the Request Lifecycle (including Event Queue, Event Loop, Worker Threads, etc).
- Familiarity with security principles including SSL protocols, data encryption, XSS, CSRF.
- Expertise in Web Services / REST APIs will be beneficial.
- Proficiency in Linux and deployment on Linux are valuable.
- Knowledge about ORM like Sequelize and ODM like Mongoose and the ability to handle DB transactions is a necessity.
- Experience with Angular JS / React JS will be an added advantage.
- Expertise with RDBMS like MySQL / PostgreSQL will be a plus.
- Knowledge of AWS services like S3, EC2 will be helpful.
- Understanding of Agile and CI/CD will be of value.
1. As a founding backend engineer, design, build and evolve the backend architecture
of our product to support customer-facing and internal features to serve 1000s of
customers and millions of data requests per hour
2. You will engage in technical decisions from choosing the optimal database design to
best-practice infrastructure decisions
3. You will proactively incorporate best practices for security, analytics, and monitoring
4. You will contribute to DevOps by building procedures for deployment,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
5. You will work directly with the CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have 4+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying production-level
large-scale web applications
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS and other programming languages
(Ruby, Go, Python)
3. You have worked previously on PostgreSQL, SQL, and Message Queue 4. Practical
knowledge and experience in deploying and managing big data applications on a cloud
platform like AWS or Google Cloud.
5. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility.
6. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
7. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects
● Should have 6+ years of experience as a software developer
● Good experience with Nodejs & Express js.
● Good with MySQL
● Experience with Linux Scripting
● Experience with elastic search and Logstash
● Experience with cyber security
● Great interpersonal and communication skills candidate can work independently
● Agile project methodology experience preferred.
● Excellent communication skills.
● Critical thinker and good problem-solver.
● Good time-management skills
● Great interpersonal skills
Working Timings: 3:00 pm to 12:00 am (midnight)IST
Responsibilities:
- Hand on experience in Golang/Python/Ruby on Rails /Node.Js
- Must have at least 1+ years of experience in Team Handling
- Good Analytical and Communication skills.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript - Knowledge of Nodejs and frameworks available for it such as Express, etc.
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Jade, EJS, etc.
- Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as SCSS, Stylus, Less, etc.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments - Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests - Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Responsibilities / Requirements:
● Be hands-on implicated in the design and implementation of NestJs REST APIs.
● Work with DevOps engineers to scale and optimise NestJs micro-services.
● Must have an excellent understanding of how the web works.
● Extensive knowledge of OOP, Design Patterns, and SOLID Principles.
● Familiar with modern engineering practices: coding standards, code reviews, continuous deployment, automated testing.
● Must be willing to constantly learn new things.
● Knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
Technologies:- • Nestjs • TypeScript 3. MySQL • Docker • Kafka
Knowledge of NestJS would be preferable.