
Principal Engineer (node.js)
at FinTech Product Development Firm
Your Responsibilities:
- Own the backend stack – Node.Js based, that powers our product
- Collaborate with Backend Developers (Python), Front-end developers, DevOps, and Data Scientists to design and implement new features
- Build and maintain several REST’ful Services/Endpoints which will be used both internally and externally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
- Deploy and monitor the Services/Endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X traffic)
- Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.
Skills that you bring Along:
- A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Node.Js and related frameworks – particularly Express.Js.
- Extensive experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
- Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
- Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
- Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
- Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
- Good experience with design patterns
- Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
- Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
- Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
- Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner

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Company Profile
Teknobuilt is an innovative construction technology company accelerating Digital and AI platforms to help all aspects of program management and execution for workflow automation, collaborative manual tasks and siloed systems. Our platform has received innovation awards and grants in Canada, the UK and South Korea, and we are at the frontiers of solving key challenges in the built environment and digital health, safety and quality.
Teknobuilt’s vision is to help the world build better – safely, smartly and sustainably. We are on a mission to modernize construction by bringing Digitally Integrated Project Execution System – PACE and expert services for midsize to large construction and infrastructure projects. PACE is an end-to-end digital solution that helps in Real-Time Project Execution, Health and Safety, Quality and Field management for greater visibility and cost savings. PACE enables digital workflows, remote working and AI-based analytics to bring speed, flow and surety in project delivery.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced developer in python and python application framework to join our team. You will be developing and mentoring team to develop next micro service application to server global clients for PACE-OS platform. Overall, you’ll strive for efficiency by aligning data systems and application with business goals.
To succeed in this position, you should have good understanding micro service-based architecture to support global traffic and million hits payload, and the ability to database scaling, software design patterns principles and REST Full API development for web application. Developer skills also include familiarity with several python framework like Django or Django-REST or Flask framework.
If you are detail-oriented, love programing challenges with excellent organizational skills and experience in this field, we’d like to hear from you.
Roles & Responsibilities
· Developing intelligent, AI driven, and scalable engineering solutions from scratch, partnering with the business to share product vision and goals.
· Working on high/low-level product designs & roadmaps along with a team of ace developers.
· Server-side component designing, detailed technical designing, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance.
· Strong focus on quality by enforcing the code reviews & development best practices/processes.
· Familiar with Test Driven Development (TDD), will be added advantage to perform the job.
· Responsible for providing expertise in the software development life cycle, from concept, architecture, design, implementation, & testing.
· Leading & mentoring scrum teams on a product.
- Responsible for planning the end-to-end technical scope of the product, planning sprint & deliveries.
- Estimates efforts, identify risks & provide technical support whenever needed.
- Demonstrates the ability to multitask & re-prioritize responsibilities based on dynamic requirements.
· Demonstrated experience in B2B web application development for large enterprises.
· Good understanding of browser development tools and performance optimization
· Understanding of Sonar and Code Quality Metrics, Strong focus on quality by enforcing the code reviews & development best practices/processes.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in software system design & development.
- Extensive development experience in Python programming.
- Passionate about learning new technology, domain, and frameworks.
- Should have experience in any of the Python framework like Django or Django-REST or Flask.
- Good have experience in JavaScript technologies. (e.g., ReactJS/Angular/Node/Express etc.).
- Strong fundamentals in Object-Oriented Design and Data Structures.
- Experience in developing RESTful Web services using any framework.
- Experience with working on Agile Software development methodology.
- Prior experience in the leading/mentoring team is preferred.
- Should possess excellent oral, written, problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Understanding of Sonar and Code Quality Metrics
- Education: B.E, B.Tech, MCA Computer/IT
We appreciate your interest in Teknobuilt



Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
- Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family


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JD For Node (backend):
Hands-on technologists, who will help us architect and design large-scale, multi-tiered, microservice based distributed software systems and services using object-oriented design, distributed programming, PHP, NodeJS, Python etc.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with cross functional teams, gathering business and functional requirements, to solve complex problems by building high volume transactional systems that handle massive data and high traffic.
Be a part of the full development life cycle, end-to-end from scoping, effort estimation, risk identification, implementation and testing, while meeting project schedules and timelines.
Work on (and recommend) the best technologies, components on server side tech. Proactively identify architectural weaknesses, design issues, performance and scalability issues, and recommend solutions.
Complete ownership of problem-free execution of owned modules and solutions, with focus on code optimisation, code quality, maintainability etc.
Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.
Requirements:
BE/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college, with 3-6 years of hands-on experience in design/development of building massively large scale, microservice based, high traffic Node.js applications (including Socket.io and Express or similar)
Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills, full-stack knowledge and (preferred) application architectural experience and/or understanding
Proficiency in multiple programming languages, both dynamic and strongly typed object oriented languages. Knowledge of one or more of: PHP, Python, Couchbase, DynamoDB, NoSQL, Terraform, Cassandra, Redis, AWS etc.
End user-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and be able to multitask while enjoying challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
Familiarity with Agile development, Scrums, continuous integration, and test driven development processes.
Prior startup experience of large scale B2C product company background is preferred.



Requirement:
- Min 2-3 Year Experience. Preferably in the E-commerce domain.
- Proficient with both MySQL and NoSql Databases (Elastic, Mongo)
- Strong hold on PHP and preferably good knowledge of Python
- Experience with JavaScript/JQuery
- Ability to do software design for a enterprise web application
- Working knowledge of a MVC front-end framework
- Proficient in HTTP protocol, REST APIs, JSON
- Ability to do database design and modeling
- Proficient in OOPS concepts and writing code using classes
- Ability to write modular and clean code
Role:
- Software Development of various product line
- Creation web-services and optimization for existing and new feature rollouts
- Collaborate with Product Managers and design solutions
- Develop very high sense of ownership, the zeal to build scalable applications
- Build customer facing technology product
- Individual Contributor

● You’ve been building scalable backend solutions for web applications.
● You have experience with any of these backend programming languages -- Python,
NodeJS or Java.
● You write an understandable, very high quality, testable code with an eye towards
maintainability.
● You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers,
support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
● You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms,
programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
● You have completed a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related
field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.




- Understands detailed requirements and demonstrates excellent problem solving skills
- Deep understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
- Excellent programming skills in ROR, Golang, NodeJS, Python or Java
- Strong communication skills
- Strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to deliver results
- 2+ years of experience in product driven organization



