
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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Experience - 12+ yrs
About Wekan Enterprise Solutions
Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.
Job Description
We are looking for passionate architects eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?
You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.
Location - Chennai or Bangalore
● Relevant experience of 12+ years building high-performance applications with at least 3+ years as an architect.
● Good problem solving skills
● Strong mentoring capabilities
● Good understanding of software development life cycle
● Strong experience in system design and architecture
● Strong focus on quality of work delivered
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Required Technical Skills
● Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance applications primarily using Node.Js ,(Javascript/Typescript) along with Nest.Js, Express.JS, MongoDB.
● Hands-on experience with other languages such as .NET/C# or Java or Golang or Python.
● Strong experience with appropriate framework(s).
● Well versed in monolithic and microservices architecture and System design experience.
● Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB (NoSQL) and Relational or NoSQL databases
● Experience working with 3rd party integrations ranging from authentication, cloud services, etc.
● Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.
● Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and atleast 1 cloud provider - AWS / GCP / Azure
● Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation
Good to have skills:
● Experience working with frontend technologies - React.Js or Vue.Js or Angular.
● Extensive experience consulting with customers directly for defining architecture or system design.
● Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

The business is creating a family of purposeful brands with products that solve a particular problem for a small segment of people. Each brand provides the essentials to make an individual segment of people lead a graceful life full of purpose and wellbeing. Each brand offers high quality, responsibly-made products that are inviting and easy to use, paired with access to ongoing guidance and support.
Role
You will be responsible for architecting and setting the standards for building our core backend/microservices. Also, you will be responsible for shaping up the entire system for scale and collaborating intensively with the frontend and design teams to create the best consumer experiences.
Responsibilities
● Develop microservices that will be used by the frontend through API endpoints.
● Translate business requirements into high quality code.
● Ensure that the code is deployed in a secure and scalable fashion.
● Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.
● Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.
● Enhance Analytics and overall backend architecture for better performance.
Requirements
● At least 1 years of experience on NodeJS
● Practical experience in building APIs
● Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system
● Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins
● Practical experience with Git
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
● Experience with AWS services is a plus
***Client works for 6 days a week***
Desired candidates must have 2-6 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
- Provide support till deployment of code into production.
- Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
- Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
- Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
- Conduct peer code review.
What candidate should know about:
- Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
- Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
- Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
- Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
- Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
- Self-learning abilities are required
- Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus

- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Participating in all phases of the development and maintenance lifecycle, focusing on speed and efficiency
- Planning and implementing model data structures for scalability
- Working on the maintenance or enhancement of existing data structures
- Designing REST APIs which will be used by multiple clients
What you need to have:
- B.E./ B.Tech/ MCA
- Have experience of building large scale & complex systems with low latency and high availability.
- Have strong experience of working with design patterns & REST APIs.
- Have strong experience of working with Go routines.
- Knowledge of static code analysis tools.
- Must have strong experience with Build and Release management, Agile processes and Estimations.
- Strong understanding of implementing server-side code and designing the data architecture using modern web frameworks.
- Strong understanding of designing database schema.
- Should know about micro-services.
- Writing highly optimised code on server.
- Should be a fast learner and go-getter without any fear of failing.
- Willingness to learn new technologies.
- Experience with popular Golang frameworks like Revel.
- Know how of HTML / PHP.






