Principal Engineer (node.js)

Requirements:

• At least 4+ years of experience as a Node.js developer.
• Must have knowledge of at least one card game with rules.
• Must have experience in multiplayer games with Socket.io
• Must have good communication skills in English.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Knowledge of Game development life cycle.
• Must be willing to do hands-on coding where required and perform regular code reviews etc.
• Knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, NPMs, ExpressJS, MongoDB, Socket.io and Redis.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure.
• Basic knowledge of front-end technologies.
• Strong understanding of git.

Our core customer-facing product today is a native Android application. In addition to this, we are building internal tools for customer support, investment management, marketing analytics and business management. In the future, we plan to hugely expand the features in our core product, build iOS and web products, and continuously improve our internal tools to better serve our customers.

For our back-end, we use Node.js / MySQL / AWS. We are currently a 3-member engineering team (1 back-end, 1 Android, 1 full stack) led by our founding engineer and advised by a senior technology executive from a leading fintech company.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software applications
• Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
• Set-up our technology infrastructure and integrate with 3rd party applications
• Contribute to internal discussions around product features, roadmap and technologies used
• Mentor & recruit engineers to the team
• Set up processes related to engineering & product

Skills / Required Experience:

• B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent, with solid foundational knowledge in at least two general programming languages, data structures, algorithms, system architecture, security and networking protocols.
• At least 6 years of back-end development experience in a software product company is required for this role.
• Exposure to modern software development processes, multiple front-end and back-end technologies, and open-source software.
• Proficiency with tools like Gitlab/Jira/Firebase, as well as AWS and commonly used database systems etc. is required
• Experience in an early-stage startup or having founded your own startup would be good to have (but not necessary).

Personality fit 

Looking to hire a Backend developer, who wakes up every day with the zeal of learning something new - a mind that is always curious. Not only this, he should be proud to have a good experience on algorithms and understand his technology at the atomic level.

Preliminary requirements for the role

1. Should understand the architecture of Node Js language, and must have had at least 1 year of solid experience in writing robust code in this language.
2. Should be well versed with basic algorithms on ( array, Linked list, stack, queue)- Yes, we do ask questions associated with time and space complexity for the above-mentioned algorithms
3. Thorough understanding of MySQL, in that, creating all types of joins ( inner, outer, left, and right) on multiple tables, views, and triggers are a piece of cake for you.
4. Further, you should have a decent understanding of database designs so that you can make quick decisions about normalization, inclusion/exclusion of foreign keys, etc
5. Should have a decent understanding of code repository tool such as GitHub
6. Should be well versed with the basics of AWS ( understanding of cloud architecture would be a plus)
7. Should be aware of the commonly used encryption techniques such as JWT, API encryption, Token management, etc
8. Exposure to working in E-commerce related applications as well as in a startup environment would be an add on. 

Responsibilities:

• Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
• Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
• Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performant database queries
• Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
• A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
• Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
• Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions

About the Role

The Engineering team in Bangalore, India is building products for the Martial Arts

fans across the world. As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have

deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products.

This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+

countries!

Responsibilities

Own architecture, design, development, and implementation of different

modules/features of the services

Design, develop, deploy and support web applications.

Discover opportunities for performance improvements

Recommend ways to improve reliability, efficiency and code quality

Focus on continuous delivery and reducing complexity

Carry out code reviews and manage pull requests

Build applications based on micro-services architecture.

Requirements

Overall 1~3 years of experience in Backend development.

B. E/B. Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute (IITs, NITs, BITs,

IIITs or equivalent)

Strong object oriented design skills & knowledge of design patterns

Experience designing & developing distributed systems involving multiple web

services, databases (both SQL and NoSQL), caches, queues, etc. taking into

consideration scalability, availability, fault tolerance, consistency, etc. of the

overall system

Well-aware of and enforces development best practices: Unit Tests, Code Reviews,

Integration Tests, CI/CD, Monitoring, Alerting, etc.