Senior Backend Developer at Gobillion Services Private Limited · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 4 - 7 years · ₹20L - ₹40L / yr (ESOP available) · Raised funding · Posted 24 Feb 2023

About Gobillion
Gobillion is a YCombinator backed IIM-NIT alumni co-founded social commerce startup headquartered in San Francisco, USA with offices in New Delhi, Bangalore and Guwahati. We are bringing e-commerce 2.0 to the next 400 million online customers across India, through a community and social driven approach. Our co-founding has diversified experience with prestigious organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe and SAP Labs.
Gobillion has been rapidly scaling and is backed by some of the world’s most prestigious investors from US, Europe, SE Asia and India including - YCombinator, Justin Mateen (Founder - Tinder), Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, Venture Souq, Goodwater Capital, LetsVenture, Vikalp Sahni (Co-Founder- Gobibibo) amongst others.
We have been selected for and globally validated by the world’s leading investors/accelerators including YCombinator, Founder Institute Silicon Valley, NASSCOM 10000 Startups - India and Assam Startup. We have been named as the Top 10 Global startup for YCombinator S21 by Alex Mitchell.
Summary of role: As a Developer, you will be working alongside our product team in the conceptualization, design and development of server side components. You will be doing the following on the job
- Write clean, manageable code and maintain proper documentation
- Create, test and deploy and maintain the applications on production servers
- Continuously discover, analyze, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
- Lead team in crafting solutions in different areas and ensure timely delivery
- Ensure secure architecture for Servers
Why Join Us?
- You will have a chance to be a leader and have the responsibility to scale Gobillon across India's most fast growing cities
- The opportunity to join one of India’s fastest growing companies at an early stage - We are giving our early team members to benefit from a strong ESOP pool and be part of our growth journey
- Joining an amazing team of Gobillion rockstars from colleges like IIMs, IITs, NITs etc. and from organizations including McKinsey & Company, Deloitte US, EY, Adobe, SAP Labs, Urban Company, Udaan, Amazon, Delivery, Ninjacart, Accenture etc.
- Wear the Gobillion badge with pride - We are looking for owners with a founder’s mindset - not just employees. If you are passionate about our mission about making e-commerce social for the next 400M customers in India and serve as culture carriers - we are the right place for you!
Key Responsibilities of this Role:
- Experience with DevOps and writing REST APIs & Micro services architecture
- Strong programming expertise in Node js, Nest Js
- Good understanding of Mongo databases and other NoSql Databases and SQL Database
- Solid hold on Data structures and Algorithm
- Good understanding of System Design
- Development expertise in AWS services like Lambda, SQS, SNS
- Good understanding of DevOps and Server security
- Exposure to Cloud Platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure or Google Cloud
- Unix command line experience
- Well-versed with Software Development Life Cycle
- Demonstrate the ability to be a self-starter and learn quickly
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Passion for learning and implementing new technologies
- Excellent understanding of software Architectures

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Responsibilities:
Review requirements, design specifications and propose a solution and have a discussion before implementation
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Writing tests in a client-side test framework such as Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, etc.
Work with QA team for resolving issues
Report status with tools like JIRA to stakeholders
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3-5 years of work experience developing complex software
Minimum 2years sound experience with back-end development in Java-script frameworks like loopback, Express, etc.
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Experience using Version Control (GitHub/Gitlab).
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Express
Loopback
OAuth
API Development
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Knowledge of Go, Ruby, Python, Closure or any other languages
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