Senior Backend Engineer

Position Overview:

We are seeking a Node.js Developer with 1-2 years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in backend development, a solid understanding of JavaScript, Express.js, and familiarity with databases. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining server-side applications, collaborating with front-end teams, and ensuring optimal performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backend Development: Build and maintain server-side applications using Node.js and Express.js.
• API Development: Design and implement RESTful APIs to support various functionalities.
• Database Management: Work with both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Code Quality & Testing: Write clean, reusable, and testable code while following best practices.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize applications for speed and scalability.
• Troubleshooting & Debugging: Identify and resolve application issues to ensure smooth operations.
• Security Implementation: Apply basic security measures to protect applications and data.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers to integrate UI components with backend logic.

Required Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience in Node.js backend development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and ES6+ concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Express.js or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React/Angular is a plus).
• Experience working with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Basic understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with Git for version control.
• Knowledge of basic cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus).
• Understanding of Docker and containerization is an advantage.
• Good problem-solving skills and willingness to learn.

Hands-on working knowledge and experience is required in:

a. JavaScript, Typescript, NodeJS (Express, NestJs, etc. )

b. Experience working in GCP or AWS or Azure

c. Experience working in Containers & Unix Platforms

d. Relational Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL, etc. )

e. Agile Methodologies (Scrum, TDD, BDD, etc. )

f. Understanding of Microservices Architecture, Domain Driver Design, Test Driven Development and Secure Design patterns and architecture is a must

g. Data Structures and Algorithms using Javascript, Typescript and/or other Programing Languages

h. Strong organizational skills i. Agile Methodologies (Scrum, TDD, BDD, etc. )

Experience with several of the following tools/technologies is desirable:

a. GIT (Bit Bucket, Gitlab, etc. ), Jira, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, SharePoint, Eclipse/IntelliJ.

b. Design Patterns and implementing the Design Patterns

c. Development of Complex Application and System Architectures

d. NoSQL Databases (Redis, Mongo, etc. ) e. Full stack development

f. Experience working with CI/CD pipelines with for example GitHub Actions.

Knowledge of the following technologies is a plus:

a. Other Programming Languages (Java, Python, etc. )

b. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Tools like Jenkins, Git, etc

The Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Technology Lead (Python or Node), who adopts a hands-on approach and loves to build scalable, distributed and large web / mobile products. You would be responsible for designing the architecture, reviewing the code, building the technology and deploying web/mobile applications.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product development from scratch.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Architect scalable software solutions and mentor a team of high performing developers.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, SCRUM ceremonies, and troubleshoot to ensure uptime for live systems etc.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field from a premier college.  
• Prior 4+ years of experience in back-end development (Python/ Golang) in a start-up or a dynamic work environment.
• Good exposure in writing and optimizing SQL for high-performance systems.
• Understanding of asyncio and eventloop/ uvloop concepts. Knowledge of frameworks such as Quart/ Fastapi/ Starlette is preferred.
• Knowledge of AWS; Caching technologies like Redis, Memcache; ELK; mySQL Databases, etc.
• Strong understanding of System Design, Microservice Architecture, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Message queues, and in-memory data stores etc.
• Customer oriented, responsive to changes, and able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

Backend - Software Development Engineer III

Experience - 7+ yrs

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.

Location - Chennai or Bangalore

• Relevant experience of 7+ years building high-performance back-end applications with at least 3 or more projects delivered using the required technologies
• Good problem solving skills
• Strong mentoring capabilities
• Good understanding of software development life cycle
• Strong experience in system design and architecture
• Strong focus on quality of work delivered
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance web back-ends using Node.Js and Javascript/Typescript
• Strong experience with Express.Js framework
• Working experience with Python web app development or python scripting
• Implementation experience in monolithic and microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases
• Experience integrating with any 3rd party services such as cloud SDKs (AWS, Azure) authentication, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ or any similar technologies.
• Exposure into unit testing with frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest or others
• Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

• Experience working with common services in any of the major cloud providers - AWS or GCP or Azure

Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

1. Experience in HTML, CSS and Bootstrap library is required.
2. Experience in Python Programming. Experience in Pandas and Numpy Libraries.
3. Experience with Django Framework & REST API.
4. Experience Flask, Microservices
5. Experience in FAST API would be added advantage.
6. Exposure in converting ML models to Microservices and exposing them as API
7.  GRPC development

Required Skills:

• Expert in Python and Django framework
• Expert in developing backend applications with RESTful APIs Using Django Rest Framework
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, ReactJS , HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Proficient understanding of GitHub
• Strong programming basics, with a clear understanding of Object-Oriented and Functional programming.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver on projects.

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for Backend Developer who can move fast, are capable of breaking down and solving complex problems, and have a strong will to get things done.

Experience & skills required:

• Bachelor’s Or Master’s in computer science
• 1-3 years proven work experience, or demonstrated ability
• Significant experience in building secure, scalable RESTful APIs in NodeJs
• Understanding of Web services
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills for all layers of a web application.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience with multiple technology stacks on web and mobile
• Experience in different types of integrations like POS, PMS, Payment gateway, SMS gateway is a plus.

• Owns team's output and E2E definition and execution of SDLC. Drives sprint planning, estimates & prioritizes tasks, Keeps key stakeholders updated on progress, milestones, and any potential slippages.
• Identifies pitfalls across codebases proactively. Writes model code that is looked up to. Understands internals of programming languages & runtimes. Creates common reusable components/libraries- Uses advanced data structures.
• Designs API contracts between large systems with end-to-end service design and active leadership towards long-term sustainability including versioning, complex migration plans, impact analysis across products.
• Owns NFRs and pushes the envelope on performance, scalability, and high availability with cognizance towards the cost of infra. Drives tech stack selection independently, mentors junior engineers. Evangelises of generic platform building across the organization.
• Troubleshoots unseen issues across codebases. Solves large end-to-end cross-cutting problems with elegant solutions with an eye on long-term sustainability.
• Partners with and influences product managers on “how”. Leads the pack on hiring and evangelizes steeper hiring standards towards building an A+ team. Represents company on external platforms/conferences.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• 7+ years relevant work experience in software engineering while leading teams.
• Proficiency in more than one modern programming language such as Python (preferred) associated tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered
• Should be strong with System Design and Database designing
• Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments with Strong object-oriented design skills
• Experience mentoring other software engineers.
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language

We are looking for a Node.js Developer who is proficient with writing API's, working with data, using AWS and capable of applying algorithms mainly machine learning-based to solve problems and create/modify features for our students. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Use of algorithms to drive data analytics and features.
• Ability to use AWS to solve scale issues.