About the Role
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software and new user-facing features across Novo’s products and services.
- Drive technical decisions on a multi-functional, Agile team alongside product management, product design, and engineering.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability and analyze feedback from customers and internal teams to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
- Champion a passion for engineering best practices such as code quality, linting, and testing.
- Ensure our software is reliable, extensible, maintainable, debuggable, secure, well-tested and performs well under load.
- Mentor junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing.
- Stay engaged with latest technologies and evaluate strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
Requirements for the Role
- 5+ years experience in a highly technical role at a hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company.
- Extensive background designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving software.
- Good understanding of Node.js & Javascript.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business goals and initiatives into technical requirements.
- Strong understanding of SQL database.
- Demonstrable experience architecting scalable and cost effective solutions to ensure and support customer growth.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing.
- Strong understanding of system design and architecture.
- Interest in engaging with latest technologies and evaluating strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams effectively.

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Specific Knowledge/Skills
- 4-6 years of experience
- Proficiency in Python programming.
- Basic knowledge of front-end development.
- Basic knowledge of Data manipulation and analysis libraries
- Code versioning and collaboration. (Git)
- Knowledge for Libraries for extracting data from websites.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with Cloud (Azure /AWS) technologies
Backend Developer (4.5 – 7.5 Years Experience)
Company Description:
Idea Elan LLC is a product based company that provides comprehensive software solutionsfor
research facilities in Universities and Institutions worldwide.
Please visit www.IdeaElan.com for more information.
Key Responsibilities:
● Design and develop high-performance,scalable, and secure backend APIs and services
using .NET Core.
● Work withrelational (MS-SQL) andNoSQL (CosmosDB, MongoDB) databases to create
optimized data models and ensure data consistency and performance.
● Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
● Collaborate with front-end developers and other teams to deliver high-quality software.
● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while ensuring quality standards.
● Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, optimizing code for maximum performance and scalability.
● Stay updated with the latest trends in backend development and cloud technologies to drive innovation.
● Optimize database performance and ensure data integrity.
Required Experience:
● 4.5 -7.5 years of experience in backend development.
● Strong experience with .NET Core and building RESTful APIs.
● Proficient with MS-SQL and experience working with NoSQL databases like Cosmos DB and MongoDB.
● Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud services (e.g., Azure Functions, Azure Storage, API Management, Azure SQL Database,etc.).
● Understanding of software development principles such as object-oriented programming (OOP), design patterns, and SOLID principles.
● Experience with version control systems such as Git.
● Strong knowledge of asynchronous programming, microservices architecture, and cloud-native application design.
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and deployment automation is a plus.
● Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
● Ability to work in an Agile development environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
● Good communication and collaboration skills.
What you'll do:
· Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, RESTful APIs and related backend frameworks
· Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible
· Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible
· Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Write unit test and improve test coverage.
· Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off
· Mentor junior developers on the team
What we’re looking for:
· Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.
· A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.
· A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.
· Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary
· Demonstrable passion for technology (e.g., personal projects, open-source involvement)
· Enthusiastic embrace of DevOps culture and collaborative software engineering
· Ability and desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced, and agile team environment
· Enthusiasm for cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure
· Excellent written and verbal communications skills
· What you’ll be doing:
Architecting and delivering mid to large scale Enterprise Applications on Microsoft Platform.
· Recommending and participating in activities related to the design, development and maintenance of the Enterprise Application Architecture.
Delivering projects on time with quality.
· Provide technical leadership regarding technology or project to customers and team members
· Shares best practices, lessons learned and constantly updates the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.
· Participate in technical forums and discussion within the team and with clients.
· Guides and mentors’ team in terms of technical solutioning.
What you’ll bring to the team:
· You have 15+ years of experience in Strong design & coding experience in Dot net framework using design patterns & OOPs concepts.
· You have practical knowledge & good understanding of cross technology and functional domains, programming concepts and logical approach for problem solving.
You hold rich experience on web development technologies including ASP.NET, MVC5, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, AJAX, XML and CSS.
· You have experience in web application Architecture and Development with hands on expertise in delivering solutions, customizing C#, ASP.Net applications using development tools like Visual Studio 2010/2012.
- 3+ years of SDE work experience from Product based companies
- Experience in Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Kafka, Hbase, AWS
- Experience in Multi threading, distributed systems, Best practices of coding, scaling
The key aspects of this role:
• Candidate with exceptional programming skills, problem-solving abilities and strong work
ethic.
• The candidate has to work on custom programming and web application development for
Drupal.
• Testing, maintenance and troubleshooting of existing company sites and resolving issues if
any.
• Contributing ideas and efforts towards internal projects and working as part of a team to
find solutions on various problems.
• Communicate technical ideas to business users and other teams (design, QA).
• Collaborate with team members and to work independently when needed.
• Eager to embrace current and emerging web technologies.
To be the right fit, you'll need:
• Experience of total 4+ years working on PHP and Drupal 7,8 Development (at least 2+ years
in Drupal 8)
• Strong knowledge of MySQL, jQuery, HTML5, CSS
• Experience with Drupal architecture, best practices and coding standards
• Knowledge on Views, Services etc.
• Experience in custom module and theme creation
• Familiar with sub version control systems such as Git or SVN
• Basic knowledge of environment setup for Linux distribution.








