Senior Backend Developer

Job Title: Node.js Developer

Experience: 4+ Years

Salary: Up to ₹12 LPA

Joining: Immediate

Gender Preference: Male candidates only

Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience in Node.js development.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), RESTful APIs, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience with databases like MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with Git and version control workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

• At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
• Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.

Backend Developer - Node.JS - AirFi

AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.

AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!

Your key responsibilities

• Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.
• Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.
• You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.
• Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimisations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.

What we look for

• Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features
• You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders
• You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
• You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues.
• You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills
• Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.
• Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis

Must have technical skills

• MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 7+ years
• Experience NodeJS, MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB - 7+ years
• Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 5+ years

You get bonus point for

• Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)
• Experience in AngularJS, React, etc - 2+ years
• Linux skills (we run on embedded Linux)
• Expertise HTML5, CSS,
• Experience on Cloudant, AWS, GCP etc.

• Experience on eCommerce or payments related domains

We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We provide a great platform to take up multiple roles based on individual interests or skills and collaborate with different global teams. We boast of a professional, fun work environment with a flat hierarchy and super supportive people to work with. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!

Some of our benefits that our employees cherish:

• Flexible work timings, remote working and work from home options
• Liberal employee policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping the work culture non toxic
• A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves
• We provide Skill enhancement sponsorships
• Celebratory team events, regular team virtual GupShups and fun engagement activities including the annual team (destination) meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
• Meal coupons and random gift vouchers
• Career longevity perks and so on!

When we're in office some of the things that make AirFi an interesting place to work are - healthy breakfast, snacks and a fully loaded pantry (read: health alert!); we try to keep AirFi as a fun place to work at and have interesting team activities on Fridays with occasional beers. 

You get the opportunity to work and socialise with our global team when they visit or when you visit our customer offices/hangers. Last but not the least, in case you are an aviation geek - the opportunity to be on test flights and learn how the aviation industry works!

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/airfi">LinkedIn
• https://www.facebook.com/AirFi.aero">Facebook
• https://twitter.com/airfi_aero">Twitter
• http://airfi.aero/">Website

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs 
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc. 

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter. We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred. 
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.