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We're looking for team players with natural product intuition who can help us build solutions
for our world-class Learning & Assessment platform (edulastic.com).
As a Backend Developer you will be responsible for the server-side of our web applications
and you will work closely with our engineers to ensure the system consistency and improving
user experience.
Role and Responsibilities
- As an experienced backend developer, your primary focus will be the development of all
server-side systems
- A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. You will test, secure
and deploy your code
- Knowledge of Node.js is a must along with a server-sideframework
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Experience and proficiency integrating with RESTAPIs
- Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures,
and algorithms
- Experience in working with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Should be willing to work in a very fluid startup environment and take complete ownership of
the assigned responsibility
Skills Required:
- At least 2 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS should be well versed
with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL
Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience developing and deploying REST
APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- BS in CS or EE or equivalent
- Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments
- Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Solid programming skills; preferred experience in Java, and/or Python
- Experience with modern web frameworks, advanced algorithms/data intelligence, public
- cloud platforms and streaming data pipelines
- Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, and delivery
- 5+ years’ experience preferred
The candidate’s primary focus will be developing new features for our
modern web application. They will get exposure to an ‘agile-centric’
delivery model, while leveraging modern / innovative JavaScript
approaches. A candidate who is driven, innovative and has passion for
elegant technical solutions will thrive in this role.
- You should have deep understanding of NodeJS
- You should be strong in Javascript and TypeScript
- You should be capable of writing complex queries
- ES6, Express, Apollo Server, Send Grid Email, Twilio SMS, Payment
- Gateway,
- Error Loggin, API Developement, API Security,
- PostGreSQL/MSSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/CouchDB
- Very good knowledge on REST API
- Good experience in Agile methodologies
- Ability to design and write code complying with coding standards
- and other factors like performance, scalability, reliability,
- reusability, modularity in mind
- You should have strong logical and problem solving skills
- Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills
- AWS certification is nice to have
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and good to have
- ES6(Typescript) knowledge
- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express, Restify
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its
- quirks and workarounds
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems,
- servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one
- system
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable
- application
- Competencies and Skills Required
- equires excellent analytical, problem solving, and good
- communications skills
- Must be able to work effectively with business stakeholders
- Strong passion for delivering technical solutions to business
- problems
- Understanding and mindset of Agile software delivery (Ability to
- adapt to continually changing priorities)
- Team player who understands the importance of teamwork and
- collaboration
- Passion for delivering new approaches and challenging the ‘statusquo’
- Hungry to learn and always in search of continuous improvement
Profile:
We are looking for a Backend Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.You'll be working alongside other engineers and developers, collaborating on the various layers of the infrastructure.
Job Responsibilities:
- Understand the lifecycle of a web app fully - browser-side, server-side, scalability, performance.
- Design, develop and own components of the product.
- Programming - ability to read/write enterprise quality code and make the right decision.
- Collaborate with the team and communicate effectively, to solve the problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture.
- Generalist programmer with the ability to quickly learn and use new languages.
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases.
- At ease working with a Unix based system.
- Has worked with AWS/AmazonSES/EC2/Beanstalk/S3 storage.
Key Skills:
- Strong understanding of AWS, NodeJS, MySql, ExpressJS, Angular 2.
- Strong Programming background with an understanding of the flow of the product.
- Understanding of adaptive and responsive design, and the combination of them.
- A clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, and databases.
- Has completely built a product before including deployment and connecting with the front-end.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving.
- Can write maintainable, clean code and enforce it through code reviews.
- Maintains good documentation with the code written each day.
- A capability for a great learning curve.
- Working in high paced competitive stock trading environment with core web app development, scripting, data interpretation and manipulation skills
- Designing, creating and maintaining our in-house software for business requirements
- Work on innovative ideas to improve the user experience of our internal systems and applications which are used by the trading teams
- Improve on existing tools to make trade monitoring systems robust and more reliable
Ideal candidate should have:
- Engineering degree in Computer Science (preferred) or any other discipline
- Experience on Python web app development (Preferably Django)
- Ability to work as a full stack developer
- Experience in Shell/Perl or Python scripting
- Prior experience of Linux or Unix based operating systems
- Ability to create automation scripts
- Experience/Knowledge of financial industry
- Ability to work in fast paced environment under pressure and manage multiple high priority projects
- Willingness to learn and work on new technologies
- Excellent communication skills
Advanced proficiency in MEAN Stack (NodeJS, MongoDB, Express, Angular JS)
Proficiency and hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Backbone / Knockout JS / Ember JS / React JS
Knowledge of JQuery would be an added advantage
Thorough knowledge of software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, continuous integration and continuous delivery
Thorough knowledge of Node.JS, MongoDB, Angular JS, Express JS and JavaScript
Ability to plan core architecture, and to enhance it from time to time
Strong analytical mindset to derive actionable analytics from data