Senior Backend Engineer Nodejs

Role: Java Developer

Location: Bengaluru - Hybrid

Mode: Full Time

Job Description: We are looking for a talented and motivated Software Engineer with expertise in both Windows and Linux operating systems and solid experience in Java technologies. The ideal candidate should be proficient in data structures and algorithms, as well as frameworks like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Hibernate. Hands-on experience working with MySQL databases is also essential for this role.

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications using Java technologies.

● Implement robust solutions using Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Hibernate frameworks.

● Develop and optimize database operations with MySQL.

● Analyze and solve complex problems by applying knowledge of data structures and algorithms.

● Work with both Windows and Linux environments to develop and deploy solutions.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time.

● Ensure application security, performance, and scalability.

● Maintain thorough documentation of technical solutions and processes.

● Debug, troubleshoot, and upgrade legacy systems when required.

Requirements:

● Operating Systems: Expertise in Windows and Linux environments.

● Programming Languages & Technologies: Strong knowledge of Java (Core Java, Java 8+).

● Frameworks: Proficiency in Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Hibernate. ● Algorithms and Data Structures: Good understanding and practical application of DSA concepts.

● Databases: Experience with MySQL – writing queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.

● Version Control Systems: Experience with tools like Git.

● Deployment: Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, Docker (optional)

Responsibilities:

• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support

• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.

• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions

• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable

• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions

• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage

• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.

• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Requirements:

• Experience: 3+ years

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science

• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms

• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications

• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus

• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms

• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python

• Language: GO or Python

• Strong expertise in DS and Algo

• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.

• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.

• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code

• Both HLD and LLD

Experience of atleast 9 + years in developing Java Solutions and Architecture

Mandatory Experience of working on AWS, Microservices architecture, Dockers, Kubernetes

Experience in creating architecture for Cloud Applications in AWS

Should have worked on large scale Saas application for atleast 3 years

Knowledge and experience in any of the following

Javascript, AngularJS, Python, Ruby, PHP

Driving DevOps best practices by using Docker, Kubernetes.

Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

Location Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad,

• Overall 2+ years’ experience developing web applications
• Experience with
  • C#
  • NET Core
  • Entity Framework
  • At least one of the following two databases
    • Microsoft SQL Server
    • PostgreSQL Server
  • Docker
  • Google Cloud

• Hands on coding, systems analysis, design and delivery of projects assigned.
• Completes assigned projects in a timely manner.
• Keeps management informed of project progress and problems, particularly as to needed changes in schedule, resources, or product.
• Responds to problems in a timely, effective manner.

• Familiar with CI/CD pipeline
• Experience working with something other than the Microsoft stack (Python, Java, Scala, Go etc.)

Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)

4+ years of experience 

Zepto 

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 40-55 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

• Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
  • DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
  • CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
• Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
  • You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
• Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
  • You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
    • Extract APIs, if any
    • Database choices
    • Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to system architecture and database design.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
• Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Your Superpowers

• 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
• Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
• Experience building at least one application from scratch.
• Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

• Experience working with Lamp Stack/PHP code
• Proficiency in Magento and/or WordPress is strongly preferred
• Involved in requirement analysis, design and development
• Involved in sending form data to restful API using Ajax calls
• Have experience in CSS, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Jquery Mobile, Bootstrap
• Design, population, updating & editing of relational databases and RDBMS like SQL, MySql.
• Experience with using server like XAMPP is a Plus
• Known with usage of web technology like Ajax with PHP
• Having an experience with building Responsive UI Design with industry standard frameworks
• Work in a team environment creating and supporting enterprise grade applications
• Help architect, design new applications and support existing applications

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with the Tech/Team Lead, and the rest of the engineering team to build and scale a data-driven platform.

This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Lead level role.

Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, building new services and APIs, developing UI components, supporting the maintenance of current APIs, reviewing work, and improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization

• An effective Senior Software Engineer will be a self-motivated learner; a highly creative engineer having obsessive attention towards detail and thoroughness.
• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years
• You’re proficient in NodeJS, TypeScript, MySQL, and MongoDB
• You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experience with TDD (Test Driven Development)
• You’ve got the ability to build RESTful APIs
• Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
• Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems
• FrontEnd experience; (Good to have) Angular
• Startup experience, preferably a tech startup
• Open Source contributor
• You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g. Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, C, etc.
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Must haves 

• At least 3 years of professional programming experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Solid fundamentals with software development, systems, troubleshooting, and teamwork
• Strong testing habits, passionate towards unit testing and TDD. 
• Good understanding of RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL 
• Strong knowledge of git 
• Good understanding of data structures 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

Good to have 

• Experience with Javascript

Job Description:

Skills Required:

• Backend developer with hands-on programming experience in Node Js / Python / Golang
• Expertise in developing REST APIs with any backend framework using above languages.
• Expertise in system design & architecture patterns.
• Experience in building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Experience in optimising application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Strong fundamentals in computer programming, data structure & algorithms.
• Exposure to AWS services like S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, lambda & API gateway.
• Good understanding for SQL & NoSQL dB’s, preferably work experience with MongoDB.