
Your Impact
- Build scalable backend services.
- Design, implement, and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity, security, and efficient retrieval.
- Implement the core logic that makes applications work, handling data processing, user requests, and system operations
- Contribute to the architecture and design of new product features
- Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security
- Stay up-to-date with new technologies and frameworks, contributing to the advancement of software development practices
- Working closely with product managers and designers to turn ideas into reality and shape the product roadmap.
What skills do you need?
- 4+ years of experience in backend development, especially building robust APIS using Node.js, Express.js, MYSQL
- Strong command of JavaScript and understanding of its quirks and best practices
- Ability to think strategically when designing systems—not just how to build, but why
- Exposure to system design and interest in building scalable, high-availability systems
- Prior work on B2C applications with a focus on performance and user experience
- Ensure that applications can handle increasing loads and maintain performance, even under heavy traffic
- Work with complex queries for performing sophisticated data manipulation, analysis, and reporting.
- Knowledge of Sequelize, MongoDB and AWS would be an advantage.
- Experience in optimizing backend systems for speed and scalability.

About RockED
About
RockED is the premier people development platform for the automotive industry, supporting the entire employee lifecycle from pre-hire and onboarding to upskilling and career transitions. With micro-learning content, gamified delivery, and real-time feedback, RockED is educating the automotive workforce and solving the industry's greatest business challenges.
The RockED Company Inc. is headquartered in Florida. Backed by top industry experts and investors, we’re a well-funded startup on an exciting growth journey. Our R&D team (Indian entity) is at the core of all product and technology innovation.
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Candid answers by the company
RockED is educating the automotive workforce and solving the industry's greatest business challenges.
An EdTech company with micro-learning content, gamified delivery, and real-time feedback.
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Job Profile:-
We’re in search of a Back-End Software Engineer that specializes in server-side components. In this role, you’ll primarily work on Node JS, Mongo DB, Redis, building scalable products and will bring a depth of knowledge on algorithms and data structures. As a Back-End Software Engineer, on any given day you might be architecting new features for our customers, refactoring existing code to be more scalable, and seeing changes through to completion in a live environment.
Key Attributes you need to possess: -
- Prioritization- Should have a strong work ethics and show up on time at sessions with excellent skills in predicting the amount of time needed to plan, coordinate, and perform on a task or managing their clients as and when required.
- Quick Learning Ability- You should be an amazing self-learner who has the ability to learn new technology on their own and are not threatened by new technologies. Someone who has an ability to pull various bits of information and to process information on the fly with good logical and analytical skills.
- Deep and Broad Technical Experience- Someone who is able to hit the ground because they already know the right technology.They should be able to meet coding principles and write code that is readable and commented-on where appropriate.Through incorporating their cognitive abilities and extensive industry experience, they are able to find optimal solutions easily.
- High-End User Focus-A good programmer does what they are asked to do, while a great programmer thinks of the end user of the software and works to solve problems within the organization’s
capabilities.Someone who knows the functionality they’re creating is of high value.
-Business Acumen- Should have a great eye for Business acumen as the product build will be exposed to millions of customers on-brand digital assets hence giving you exposure for handling a large user base in a live environment.
-Teamplayer- Someone who is able to work in a challenging environment and requires complete devotion, persistence and learning new things every day. As they will be involved in every fact of the product development starting from product ideation, Interface design, user experience, analytics, and engineering.
Typical work week look like:-
- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Design and implementation of scalable applications by using asynchronous programming with low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
-Integration of data storage solutions by creating database schemas that represent and support business processes and also Integrating multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Explore technical innovation and propose new solutions as and when required.
- Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every month.
Our ideal candidate should have:-
- 4+ years of relevant experience in a Tech Startup
- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Information Technologies/Computer Science)
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and knowledge of Node.js and frameworks.
- Strong hands on MongoDB and ability to write aggregation queries.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.
- Hands-on on code versioning tools, such as Git, Redis, AWS, Sockets
Role: Backend Developer
Role & Responsibilities / What you will do?
- Participate in design and implementation of the overallBackend architecture.
- Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective Design, Development,
- In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJs. (plus point if having knowledge of GOLang)
- In depth knowledge of Databases like MongoDB, MySQL, CouchBase, Cassandra and search engine like elastic
- OTT Streaming platform knowledge includes functional areas such as - Media Processing ,Content Management system
- Problem Solving – Ownership, Proactive and Systematic approach.
- Enable absorption of latest technologies in the product line.
- Ensure best practices in software development are institutionalized.
- Problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
- Validation, Testing and Performance, monitoring etc
Requirements / What you should have?
- Understanding and knowledge of Front end is plus point.
- Continuous integration (Jenkins) and version control (Git) etc.
- Good Error and Exceptional Handling Skills.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs and recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development.
- Contributing to team meetings, troubleshooting development and production
1. Need to have an understanding of Elastic Search, Kafka, mongo DB, etc.
2. Should have experience of Jupter noobooks, data bricks
3. Java, Pythons
4. Senior level, 5-10 years of experience
5. It is important they have those skills so that they can take over current work. There are codes written in both Java as well as Python. (Java is legacy but that is the main search engine code). So it will be counter-productive if engineers hired have experience in both.
6. Excellent communication, analytical, research, grasping skills
● Take responsibility for developing product features
● Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your
priorities and deliver awesome product features to keep the platform ahead
of market scenarios.
● Design and develop using Node.js/Feather.js, React, AWS ML stack
● Develop and utilize your skills as a mentor and leader. Grow your team’s capacity by mentoring other engineers and interviewing candidates.
Must-haves
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Strong proficiency in NodeJS and JavaScript.
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Strong proficiency in top NodeJS frameworks like Express.JS (Simply Express), Feathers.JS, StrongLoop, Koa.JS, or Hapi.
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Good knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases. Ability to develop services with polyglot persistence.
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Basic working knowledge of front-end technologies like HTML5 and CSS3.
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A strong presence of mind, excellent language, and communication skills.
Job description
Strong experience with Laravel Framework
Experience in databases like MySQL
Experience in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Angular/ReactJS/VUEJS, JQuery, Bootstrap, JSON
Requirement
Minimum 3+ years of Laravel Experience - building database-driven applications
Knowledge of Event Driven Architecture, Microservices, etc
Basic knowledge of Dev-ops - AWS, Github- Familiarity
Skills:
- Expertise in Python 3 on AWS serverless
- Experience in AWS serverless stack Appsync, Lambda, Cognito, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, SQS, S3, Code commit & Code Deploy.
- Proficient in modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies.
- Experience in a database technology, preferably No-SQL such as AWS DynamoDB.
- Build human-centric UX with us using technologies like React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and CSS-in-JS.
- Experience building data processing pipelines (SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, or similar)
- Deep technical hands-on experience developing in REST/JSON or SOAP/XML, combined with strong knowledge of concepts such as CORs (Cross Origins Resources), headers, security, JSON and http concept.
- Experience with Github and advanced Github features (good to have).
- Must have worked as a part of Agile Teams and DevOps practices such as continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins), code repository, creating CI/CD pipelines is required.
- Exp- 3+ yrs
- Must be very good in Java- 2.5+ yrs
- At least 1 yr of working experience in any one DB of Neo4j, Cassandra, Elastic Search
- Should have good devops working knowledge - Knowledge of AWS, Ansibleetc is a necessity
- Experience in TDD/BDD is required
- Minimum 1 yr working experience in Samza& Kafka.
- Knowledge of Azure is added advantage
- Understanding of AKKA and Play framework
Experience with Node.js (Loopback / Express)
Understanding design principles behind a scalable application
Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
Write, debug, and deploy code to production
Strong experience with object-oriented programing
Strong fundamentals in Data Structures and Algorithms.
Responsible for analysis of current tasks, analyze, design and develop the code
We are sensitive for timely delivery of different sprint development milestones.
Proficient knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN.







