Senior Backend Developer at BlackLight Studio Works Pvt Ltd · Noida · 3 - 8 years · ₹6L - ₹15L / yr · Profitable · Posted 8 Dec 2021

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

About BlackLight Studio Works Pvt Ltd
About
About BlackLight Studio Works : We are BlackLight and we bring classic game experience to Mobile .Our games have been rocking the Play Store India since launch.
Our real time multiplayer games are a piece of cutting-edge technology, we take pride that they are played by more than 1 million players daily.
Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 50 million times. Other titles include - CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.
Why Should you Join us ?.
• Lot of learning opportunity-free Books / Courses.
• Competitive Salary
• Free Medical Insurance for you and your family!
• Lunch on all day you order we pay 60%.
• Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee on the house at all time.
• Work with super-talented team of engineers and designers.
• Casual Dress Code.
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