Senior Backend Developer

Technical Skill Set:

1. ASP. NET Development – Strong expertise in C#, ASP.NET, WPF, and solid understanding of SOLID principles, API development, and databases.

2. Cloud Technologies – Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

3. Software Development & Architecture – Proficiency in SDLC, Agile, Scrum, and DevOps frameworks.

4. Project Planning & Management – Experience in task allocation, tracking, estimations, and deliverables management.

5. Repository & Version Control – Familiarity with Git, SVN, or similar tools, along with basic networking concepts.

6. Product Lifecycle Management – Knowledge of requirement analysis, documentation, testing, and release management.

7. Project Planning Tools – Experience with tools like Microsoft Project Plan, JIRA, Redmine, or HP ALM/Quality Centre.

Leadership & Soft Skills:

1. Team Leadership – Ability to guide, mentor, and manage a team while ensuring high-quality deliverables within tight deadlines.

2. Client Engagement & Requirement Gathering – Skilled in collaborating with stakeholders to enhance and refine project requirements.

3. Strong Communication & Problem-Solving – Effective at handling challenges, making decisions, and ensuring smooth project execution.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join Upland India as a Senior Software Engineer I (Backend) for our Panviva product. The individual will work with our global development team.

What would you do?

• Develop, Review, test and maintain application code
• Collaborating with other developers and product to fulfil objectives
• Troubleshoot and diagnose issues
• Take lead on tasks as needed
• Jump in and help the team deliver features when it is required

What are we looking for?

Experience

• 5 + years of experience in Designing and implementing application architecture
• Back-end developer who enjoys solving problems
• Demonstrated experience with the .NET ecosystem (.NET Framework, ASP.NET, .NET Core) & SQL server
• Experience in building cloud-native applications (Azure)
• Must be skilled at writing Quality, scalable, maintainable, testable code

Leadership Skills

• Strong communication skills
• Ability to mentor/lead junior developers

Primary Skills: The candidate must possess the following primary skills:

• Strong Back-end developer who enjoys solving problems
• Solid experience NET Core, SQL Server, and .Net Design patterns such as Strong Understanding of OOPs Principles, .net specific implementation (DI/CQRS/Repository etc., patterns) & Knowing Architectural Solid principles, Unit testing tools, Debugging techniques
• Applying patterns to improve scalability and reduce technical debt
• Experience with refactoring legacy codebases using design patterns
• Real-World Problem Solving
• Ability to analyze a problem and choose the most suitable design pattern
• Experience balancing performance, readability, and maintainability
• Experience building modern, scalable, reliable applications on the MS Azure cloud including services such as:
• App Services
• Azure Service Bus/ Event Hubs
• Azure API Management Service Azure Bot Service
• Function/Logic Apps
• Azure key vault & Azure Configuration Service
• CosmosDB, Mongo DB
• Azure Search
• Azure Cognitive Services

Understanding Agile Methodology and Tool Familiarity

• Solid understanding of Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming
• Familiarity with Agile tools such as JIRA for tracking tasks, managing workflows, and collaborating across teams
• Experience working in cross-functional Agile teams and contributing to iterative development cycles

Secondary Skills: It would be advantageous if the candidate also has the following secondary skills:

• Experience with front-end React/Jquery/Javascript, HTML and CSS Frameworks
• APM tools - Worked on any tools such as Grafana, NR, Cloudwatch etc.,
• Basic Understanding of AI models
• Python

About Upland

Upland Software (Nasdaq: UPLD) helps global businesses accelerate digital transformation with a powerful cloud software library that provides choice, flexibility, and value. Upland India is a fully owned subsidiary of Upland Software and headquartered in Bangalore. We are a remote-first company. Interviews and on-boarding are conducted virtually.

We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content creators together to scale up content creation processes across 50+ content verticals and 150+ industries. Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve worked with companies like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Paisabazaar, IndiGo Airlines, Apollo Hospitals, Infoedge, Times Group, Digit, BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, YourStory, and 350+ other brands.

We are creating high-quality remote talent workforces across Content Writers, Graphic Designers, Video Makers, Content Strategists, Audio Artists, and eventually aim to cover each and every creative professional involved in the marketing domain. Imagine us being able to build virtual marketing teams for any company globally, by providing them a product that solves for content operations and gives the customer the ability to strategize, create, distribute and manage all their content projects at one place. At the same time, they have the ability to be able to extend their team by being matched with high-quality creators from our talent marketplace for different projects that they have. It isn’t long before content becomes so fundamental to individuals and brands alike, that there is a need for buying and selling content on-demand. We want to be that force of change!

Responsibilities: -

• We are looking for solid senior back-end developers who are well-versed with NodeJs.
• The tech stack on the back end side - MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Node, TypeScript, Express, Knex.
• We are looking at folks who have a minimum of 6-7 years of experience in back-end development and have been strong experience.
• The mindset is very different and we are looking for folks who have evolved fast in terms of skills and in terms of working on their own projects.

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

• 2+ years of experience participating in the delivery of technology services.
• A proven ability to learn new applications & innovate in technology
• Strong Experience in technologies like Node, Webservices and Microservices
• Experience with cloud components and services and containerization technologies is desirable
• Exposure to ReactJS desirable
• Experience working with multiple types of datastores: Mongo DB, SQL
• Experience in integrating, designing and developing solutions is desirable
• Experience with CI/CD and TDD is desirable
• Frameworks - Express , Hapi , feathers
• Strong knowledge in Javascript