Principal Engineer - Backend

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The Talent Enterprise is hiring experienced Node.js Architect in India.

Role Summary

As a Node.js Architect, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of backend applications and services, ensuring they are scalable, high-performing, and secure. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, DevOps, and project managers, to architect solutions that meet our business requirements. Your role will also involve mentoring and guiding the development team in best practices, code optimization, and design patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture Design: Define and implement the architecture for backend services using Node.js and related frameworks, ensuring scalability, flexibility, and robustness.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical leader on backend projects, providing mentorship and guidance on Node.js best practices, code standards, and design patterns.
• Code Reviews and Quality Assurance: Oversee code reviews and enforce quality standards, ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end teams, DevOps, and other stakeholders to deliver full-stack solutions that align with product and technical requirements.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring efficient data handling and high system performance.
• Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices to protect data and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
• Documentation: Develop comprehensive documentation for architecture, design, processes, and code to ensure ease of maintenance and scalability.
• Innovation and Research: Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in Node.js, microservices, and distributed systems, bringing innovative ideas to the team.

Requirements

• Experience: 7+ years in software development, with at least 4+ years focused on Node.js development.
• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Node.js, including Express.js, Nest.js, or similar frameworks. Strong understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, asynchronous programming, and event-driven architecture.
• Database Knowledge: Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Cloud Services: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including deploying and managing Node.js applications in a cloud environment.
• Microservices: Deep understanding of microservices architecture and experience designing RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with DevOps processes, CI/CD tools, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Agile Methodology: Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• Soft Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, effective communication, and a collaborative mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Frameworks: Knowledge of popular Node.js libraries and frameworks (NestJS, Koa, Hapi, etc.).
• Security Practices: Familiarity with security frameworks, data encryption, and access control.

You'll get:

• Competitive salary with health benefits
• An extremely energising, dynamic and fast paced entrepreneurial working culture and environment
• An opportunity to work on leading edge technology products and solutions that will be first movers in the market
• An opportunity to travel to international locations where our clients may be based
• Latest laptop, devices and technologies for your needs
• Unique and supportive opportunities to progress in your career
• On-going team and professional development

Where:

Remote

About Mercer Talent Enterprise

Mercer Talent Enterprise is a global leader in talent assessment, technology, and leadership development. As the world’s first and only company to pioneer the science of Behaviourmetrics®, we empower organizations to make critical people decisions by blending contemporary psychometric tools and assessment solutions with the latest advances in technology and data science.

• Position: Appian Tech Lead
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• Job Description:      
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• Extensive experience in Appian BPM application development
• Knowledge of Appian architecture and its objects best practices
• Participate in analysis, design, and new development of Appian based applications
• Mandatory Team leadership and provide technical leadership to Scrum teams Certification Mandatory- L1, L2 or L3
• Must be able to multi-task, work in a fast-paced environment and ability to resolve problems faced by team
• Build applications: interfaces, process flows, expressions, data types, sites, integrations,
• Proficient with SQL queries and with accessing data present in DB tables and views
• Experience in Analysis, Designing process models, Records, Reports, SAIL, forms, gateways, smart services, integration services and web services
• Experience working with different Appian Object types, query rules, constant rules and expression rules

 Qualifications:

• At least 6 years of experience in Implementing BPM solutions using Appian 19.x or higher
• Over 8 years in Implementing IT solutions using BPM or integration technologies
• Experience in Scrum/Agile methodologies with Enterprise level application development projects
• Good understanding of database concepts and strong working knowledge any one of the major databases e g Oracle SQL Server MySQL

Additional Information Skills Required

• Appian BPM application development on version 19.x or higher
• Experience of integrations using web services e g XML REST WSDL SOAP API JDBC JMS
• Good leadership skills and the ability to lead a team of software engineers technically
• Experience working in Agile Scrum teams
• Good Communication skills

Java Developer JD:

• Strong hands-on code development experience in JAVA 14+, Restful Service, Spring Boot, JDBC Template.
• Experience in SQL scripting
• Experienced in developing and deploying web applications using Spring MVC and Spring boot.
• Hands on experience in one of the IDE’s – Eclipse or IntelliJ
• Experience with Tools- Maven, Jenkins
• Experience in entire software development life cycle from analysis, coding, testing, debugging and publishing using GIT
• AWS Services will be an added advantage
• Experience Kafka, K8s and Containerswill be an added advantage

Excellent communication, interpersonal & analytical skills with proven abilities in resolving the complex software issues.

Job Description: 

We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise grade applications. You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Java developer roles and responsibilities include managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing. Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.

Software Engineer Responsibilities

 Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance

 Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle

 Writing well designed, testable, efficient code

 Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

 Write well designed, testable, efficient code

 Ensure designs are following specifications

 Prepare and produce releases of software components

 Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

Software Engineer Requirements

 A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or another related field.

 7+ years of proven hands-on Software Development experience

 Proven working experience in Java development 

 Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using 

Java EE platforms 

Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.

 Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Class loading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc.)

 Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate). Experience in the Spring Boot, Spring Framework.

 Excellent Communication Skills written and verbal

Additional Responsibilities: • Knowledge of more than one technology • Basics of Architecture and Design fundamentals • Knowledge of Testing tools • Knowledge of agile methodologies • Understanding of Project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects • Understanding of one or more Estimation methodologies, Knowledge of Quality processes • Basics of business domain to understand the business requirements • Analytical abilities, Strong Technical Skills, Good communication skills • Good understanding of the technology and domain • Ability to demonstrate a sound understanding of software quality assurance principles, SOLID design principles and modelling methods • Awareness of latest technologies and trends • Excellent problem solving, analytical and debugging skills Technical and Professional Requirements: • Primary skills: Java • Desirables: Java->Microservices, Java->Springboot Preferred Skills: Java Generic Skills: Java->Microservices Java->Springboot Educational Requirements Bachelor of Engineering Service Line Application Development and Maintenance * Location of posting is subject to business requirements.

You will get while working with us

• Opportunity to work on highly distributed systems with micro-services architecture and big-data volumes
• Solve challenging real-world problems by leveraging OOP & functional programming concepts
• Opportunity to incubate an open source project
• Get to work with cutting edge technologies to name a few Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Scala
• Developing scalable, sustainable and reliable enterprise systems
• Hands-on experience of working with TDD and BDD
• Develop environment using practices such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
• Learning opportunity on how to turn complex business requirements into a working product

Roles & Responsibilities

• Requirement understanding & analysis by interacting with client
• Carry out architectural and design discussions with fellow team members and come up with right approach
• Understand system domain, user’s perspective of system and use-cases
• Understand patterns in existing code and effectively leverage and improvise it 
• Develop backend involving Java8 based functional programming and REST services
• Ensure best practices of code reviews, automated testing and CI
• Research new tools & technologies required for the projects
• Mentor fellow team members and bring their level up

Must have

• Strong hold on written/verbal communication
• Strong core Java fundamentals
• Strong Analytical & problem solving skills
• Proactive and inherent nature of working with ownership
• Passion of writing clean code
• Experience in designing relational data model from business requirements

Good to have

• Knowledge of functional programming (Scala or Java 8 lambda)
• Knowledge of NOSQL
• Working knowledge of linux & networking
• Performance optimisation - Optimise/refactor queries, code, stored procedures to take performance next level

• Java 8, Spring Boot, Java Microservices
• REST API’s
• Angular 11, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap
• SQL DB
• Azure/AWS
• Kafka

Tech Stack:

Golang, Microservices (AWS ECS, App Mesh), Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, NATS.

Required Skills:

- 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails OR 2+ years of experience with Golang.

- 5+ years of experience with MySQL or Postgres and relational data modelling.

- Experience consuming and writing REST APIs.

- Focus on writing clear, maintainable, tested code.

- Experience with Git, continuous integration and regular deployments.

- Experience with complex Rails projects and design principles.

- Strong willingness to learn and use Golang at work.

- Experience with CI (continuous integration).

- Strong understanding of Linux.

- Strong understanding of Docker.

- You must be a strong communicator who can explain complex ideas to anyone regardless of background.

Preferred Skills:

- 2+ years of experience with Golang.

- Experience with Microservices deployed in Kubernetes.

- Experience with AWS ECS, App Mesh and Lambda.

- Ability and interest in mentoring junior engineers a plus.

- Excellent written communication skills and diligent ability to contribute to the team by performing code reviews.

- B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience