Principal Engineer (node.js)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Software Engineer

It is a fish and seafood supply chain platform.It is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry.Building the future of meat and seafood supply chain.We are building smart supply chain to deliver the highest quality seafood and meat for the Indian consumer. Our innovations in process management and workforce orchestration along with strong industry credentials are enabling us to deliver the fastest harvest-to-fork in the industry.Our endeavor is to leverage experience across various parts of the value chain – farming, production, delivery to marquee brands – to deliver similar value to the Indian consumers.

Role

As a senior software engineer, you will contribute to our end to end supply chain platform. You'll work with all key stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable backend code and work with frontend developers to deliver amazing user experiences. We are building a design and process-centric culture where you'll play a key role in the implementation of the foundation of all our systems. Up for a challenge?

You are:

• A self-starter with a sense of what it takes to be successful as a team
• Agile - welcome change, do as less as possible and embrace continuous delivery
• Conscious about how quality is carried through from the UI to all layers underneath
• Opinionated, but flexible to accommodate the big picture

Responsibilities

• Analyse requirements, provide estimates and deliver code in an agile setup
• Stay on top of all owned work and raise red flags as early as possible
• Define the architecture, best practices and coding standards
• Support continuous technical improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and present them for architectural review 
• Motivate team members, coach junior members and extend goodwill to other employees

Must have

• Prior startup experience, preferably with war stories to share
• 4-6 years of software industry experience
• Solid understanding of software design, development, testing, and problem-solving 
• Expertise in coding efficient, high quality and modularized software 
• Expertise in JavaScript, node.js based backend development
• Expertise in common design patterns and anti-patterns in Javascript
• Experience in building and scaling service-oriented architecture and microservices
• Expertise in relational and non-relational databases and expertise in at least one database system
• Experience with planning, execution and maintenance of test infrastructure for backend workflows
• Experience with CI/CD and setting up a monitoring infrastructure
• Knowledge of AWS, specifically building scalable cloud-native architectures using services like Lambda, AWS Gateway, Aurora, etc
• Knowledge of Unix shell and source control systems and tools such as git 
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Strong communication skills
• Technical mentoring skills

Great to have

• Experience with GraphQL, meteor.js and other modern JS ecosystems
• Experience with blockchain and interest in ML
• Experience working on high traffic systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

• Key Skills:
• Expert Proficiency in anyone the below programming language - Node JS, PHP or GoLang
• Expert Computer Science fundamentals like Data Structures, Algorithms, Time Complexity, and others
• Strong Microservices, REST API, Git source control, CI/CD, and other latest technology trends
• Strong System Design, DB Design proficiency
• Strong knowledge in Design Patterns, best software development practices
• Good exposure to working in Open Source stack, E-Commerce, or Fintech domain.

Strong proficiency with one of the Vue.js, Angular JS, React JS JavaScript Techologies
2. Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it , such as Express JS, Strong Loop, etc
3. Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and Promises and its quirks and workarounds
4. Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jade, EJS, etc depending on your technology stack)
5. Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as Styles, Less
6. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap
7. Understanding accessibility and security compliance
8. User authentication and authorization between multiple systems(Internal or Third party), servers, and environments
9. Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
10. Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
11. Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
12. Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
13. Proficient in code versioning tools, such as Git or TFS

• Minimum 4 years’ experience developing Node.js applications on top of RESTful APIs.
• Experience building single page applications using JavaScript frameworks and libraries (React)
• Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform and design constraints on the web.
• Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts.
• Have a passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well.
• Proficient in Git and familiarity with continuous integration.
• A team player who values collaboration, innovation, and inclusion
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills