
SDE 1/2/3 - Backend (NodeJS/Scala)
at India's leading sports platform

Understanding and solving real business needs at a large scale by applying your analytical problem-solving skills
Designing & building solutions for edge layers applications like GraphQL
Identifying and optimising performance bottlenecks
Architecting and building a robust, scalable, and highly available solutions for use cases like real time updates, data parsing and aggregation
Leading cross-functional initiatives and collaborating with engineers across teams
Must Have:
Hands on experience in Scala, NodeJs or Rust
A strong problem-solving skill and reasoning ability
Good to Have:
Experience in developing, performant & high throughput systems
Strong system designing skills, preferably in designing edge layer applications
Experience in functional programming, preferably with a working knowledge of type classes
Experience in writing testable programs.
Experience in working with the AWS stack
Prior experience with GraphQL
Experience in identifying and optimising hotspots and performance bottlenecks
An understanding of operating systems and networking fundamentals
Note: Applications accepted only from candidates who have worked in product based companies

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1 & 3 Saturday off
AWS Expertise: Minimum 2 years of experience working with AWS services like RDS, S3, EC2, and Lambda.
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Backend Development: Develop scalable and high-performance APIs and backend systems using Node.js. Write clean, modular, and reusable code following best practices. Debug, test, and optimize backend services for performance and scalability.
2. Database Management: Design and maintain relational databases using MySQL, PostgreSQL, or AWS RDS. Optimize database queries and ensure data integrity. Implement data backup and recovery plans.
3. AWS Cloud Services: Deploy, manage, and monitor applications using AWS infrastructure. Work with AWS services including RDS, S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch. Implement security best practices for AWS environments (IAM policies, encryption, etc.).
4. Integration and Microservices:Integrate third-party APIs and services. Develop and manage microservices architecture for modular application development.
5. Version Control and Collaboration: Use Git for code versioning and maintain repositories. Collaborate with front-end developers and project managers for end-to-end project delivery.
6. Troubleshooting and Debugging: Analyze and resolve technical issues and bugs. Provide maintenance and support for existing backend systems.
7. DevOps and CI/CD: Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines. Automate deployment processes and ensure zero-downtime releases.
8. Agile Development:
Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
Deliver tasks within defined timelines while maintaining high quality.
Required Skills
Strong proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript.
Expertise in working with relational databases like MySQL/PostgreSQL and AWS RDS.
Proficient with AWS services including Lambda, S3, EC2, and API Gateway.
Experience with RESTful API design and GraphQL (optional).
Knowledge of containerization using Docker is a plus.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Familiarity with tools like Git, Jenkins, and Jira.
BlackLight Gaming is looking for a top-notch, ambitious and driven Node. js developer who is confident of creating, maintaining and further optimising highly scalable backend supporting our multiplayer mobile games which are played by millions of players. If you're hard-working, enthusiastic, dedicated, have fire in the belly to accept challenges, then BlackLight Games is the place for you.
What You Bring to the team:
- More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public cloud like Google Cloud/ AWS
- Knowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliability
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Experience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks. It’s a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.
- Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysis
- Experienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable components
- Experience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above services
- Experience building data processing pipelines
- Solid understanding of code, design, and development practices
- General comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworks
- High levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all times
- Adhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD tools
Extra Gems for:
- Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.
- Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as Redis
- Demonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps security
- Knowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google Stackdriver
- Broad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.
- Experience with Github and advanced Github features.
- Experience of working in Product industry
- Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.
Why Us?
- High Growth Startup environment
- Company sponsored courses and education material
- Lots of learning opportunities
- Work with a super-talented team of professionals
- Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips
- Performance Based Bonus
- Competitive Salary
- Medical Insurance for you and your family
- Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all time
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.
Great opportunity to work in Roots Innovations Pvt.ltd., We simplify the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) platform with AI-powered Bots to manage business processes & compliance for all types of industry sectors.
Educational Qualification: BE/B.Tech/BCA/BCS/MSC/MCA/MCS/M.Tech(Certification course will be Advantage)
Experience - 4 to 10 years
Job Description:
· Implement a robust set of services and APIs to power the back-end application
· Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
· Implementation of security and data protection
· Follow and understand architecture design and implementation on
development, testing, implementation, and documentation.
· Conduct reviews and conduct team training on the complex features of NodeJS.
· Analyze business/functional requirements and translate them into
concrete tasks
· Manage Product releases
Skill Set Required:
· Experienced in NodeJs or any NodeJS frameworks
· Experienced & Good knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
· Exposure to Cloud Environments like AWS, MS Azure or Google Cloud
· Knowledge of an interest in Agile Methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum
· Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI)


**Requirements**
- 3-5 years experience in backend development, preferably on JavaScript
- Experience in JS based frameworks such as NodeJS, ReactJS, TypeScript
- Solid understanding of OOPS , RDBMS , NoSQl databases and concepts
- Familiar with building web applications and hosting.
- Should be aware of Unix based OSes, and be able to manage command line scripting and other shell commands.
- Exposure to cloud service SDKs and hosting on platforms such as AWS or Azure
- Conversant with standard enterprise Design patterns.
- Practices to keep the code DRY(dont repeat yourself) and readable.
- Experience working with third-party integration tools and platforms
- Strong familiarity with source control systems
Job Description :
We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the 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 will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Must-have skills for Node.js developers are:
- Socket.io - For chat applications
- Databases - MySQL and MongoDB
- AWS - Basic Knowledge
- Experience with Git and GitHub
- Ability to write tests
- Experience in your niche
- Efficiency in writing code




