Principal Engineer

We are seeking a Sr. Backend Engineer to play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining our backend systems. This role is perfect for someone passionate about building high-performance applications and excited about working with cutting-edge technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop, and maintain backend services using Node.js and Nest.js.
• Design and optimize databases with PostgreSQL to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability.
• Collaborate closely with front-end developers, UX/UI designers, and other team members to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Integrate third-party APIs and build scalable microservices.
• Handled Database migrations to ensure data consistency
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with backend systems in a timely manner.
• Implement security best practices to protect user data and ensure compliance.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide code reviews to ensure high-quality software development.
• Contribute to architecture and infrastructure discussions, helping shape the future of the platform.
• Stay updated on the latest backend technologies, frameworks, and trends.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in backend development.
• Technical Skills:
• Strong proficiency in Node.js and Nest.js.
• Solid understanding of PostgreSQL and database design principles.
• Experience with RESTful and GraphQL API development.
• Knowledge of cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Database Migration.
• Additional Skills:
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with version control systems like Git.
• Knowledge of performance testing and optimization strategies.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and working in a collaborative team environment.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with other backend technologies like Python, Ruby, or Go.
• Familiarity with machine learning, AI models, or chatbot development.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases like MongoDB.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and innovative projects.
• Flexible work environment with remote options.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Professional growth opportunities through mentorship and learning.

Location: Mumbai, India (Remote/Hybrid options available)

About Us:

Brandlabs is a leading tech innovation company specializing in AI-powered apps, intelligent chatbots, responsive web applications, and automation solutions. We are at the forefront of building robust and scalable systems with innovative UI/UX. As we expand our solutions, we are inviting a Sr. Backend Engineer with expertise in Node.js, Nest.js, AWS, PostgreSQL & knowledge of DevOps to join our dynamic team.

About Prêtture

We are India’s coolest SaaS ERP for Fashion, Lifestyle and Home Decor brands. Currently working across 100 brands like House of Masaba, Rahul Mishra, Raw Mango, Anamika Khanna and many others across India, helping them organise their end to end business workflow through our application.

We are currently working on new development and enhancement in the application and are hence looking forward to senior software developers.

The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who understands the requirement and comes up with the solution keeping in mind the impact of the solution on existing code

Responsibilities

• Understand the problem statement and get the code done for the server side programming of our software including the database and other internal/external micro services communication
• Maintain the quality of code
• Impact analysis before actually writing any code
• Use the optimised SQL queries only

Qualifications

• At least 2-3 years' of experience using NodeJS and MySql/PostgreSQL (This is mandatory. Please do not apply in case of lesser experience in either NodeJS or MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science

Office Location

 Navi Mumbai

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