Senior Backend Engineer

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

·         Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.

·         A sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.

·         Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems. 

·         Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.

·         Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

·         BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field. 

·         5+ years of professional production and development experience with leading-edge server and database technologies (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js, Scala, Spring Boot, MySQL, and NoSQL databases).

KEY SKILLS

·         Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns Experience with professional production cloud (AWS preferred).

·         Experience with RESTful Services and APIs.

Need candidates from Growing startups or Product based companies only

1. 6+ years experience in backend engineering

2. Minimum 2+ years hands-on experience with:

TypeScript

Express.js / Nest.js

3. Strong experience with MongoDB (or MySQL / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB)

4. Strong understanding of system design & scalable architecture

5. Hands-on experience in:

Event-driven architecture / Domain-driven design

MVC / Microservices

6. Strong in automated testing (especially integration tests)

7. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)

8. Experience managing production systems

9. Solid understanding of performance, reliability, observability

10. Cloud experience (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable)

11. Strong coding standards — Clean Code, code reviews, refactoring

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.

·        Confidence, not ego. You have an ability to collaborate with others and see all sides of the coin to come to the best solution for everyone.

·        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

Basic Qualifications: 

·        Minimum B.S. / M.S. Computer Science or related discipline from accredited college or University

·        At least 4 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering backend applications with Node.js, TypeScript

·        At least 2 years of experience building internet facing services

·        At least 2 years of experience with AWS and/or OpenShift

·        Exposure to some of the following concepts: object-oriented programming, software engineering techniques, quality engineering, parallel programming, databases, etc.

·        Experience integrating APIs with front-end and/or mobile-specific frameworks

·        Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs

·        Ability to manage multiple tasks and consistently meet established timelines  

·        Strong collaboration skills

·        Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

·        Experience with Apache Cordova framework

• Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS, Android

·        Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers

Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques

At least 3 years' experience as a Node.js developer.

Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.

Mandatory experience in MongoDB and MySql.

Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.

Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.

Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.

Job Description

• Designing system architecture, develop and maintain high performing & scalable services using Node.js frameworks.
• Extensively engage in iterative development model right from requirement analysis, estimation, development, testing & production support
• Mentor, groom junior developers and participate in code reviews
• Contribute towards building company’s coding culture

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience in Node.js
• A deep understanding of JavaScript
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with Unit and Integration tests
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with MathJax/Latex
• Experience with large scale video streaming
• Experience with ReactJS is a bonus

It was nice talking with you

As discussed please find below the job description and other needed details

“Squadcast is an incident-management platform for software teams of all sizes and shapes”

Our product helps global organizations adopt Site Reliability Engineering practices to improve their incident resolution metrics and ultimately, the reliability of their systems. If you're excited about engaging user experiences, snappy interfaces, and trustworthy systems, we should talk!

We ideate fast, embrace change, and take risks. From scaling our business model to expanding our offerings, the day-to-day at Squadcast offers endless professional growth opportunities. Our engineers work on state-of-the-art tech stacks with a high degree of autonomy.

Position : Backend SDE3

Experience : 8 to 11 Years

Work Mode: Remote work

Location : Bangalore

Role & Responsibilities :

• Work with a team of skilled engineers to improve the Squadcast product.
• Control what you work on, how you deliver and the roadmap of the product.
• Solve service reliability problems for teams and companies worldwide.
• Build delightful experiences and scalable, reliable systems for fellow engineers, the end users of our platform.
• Plan & develop tooling, processes and technical improvements to improve the multiple codebases.
• Work closely with the product team to plan, spec and deliver features, bugfixes and documentation.
• Work with the SRE and Customer Success teams to help customers and troubleshoot issues during our paid on-call rotations.
• Build, deploy and manage services and Backend Coding using Go/Node.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Are passionate about building products for fellow engineers.
• Are you a full-stack engineer, or a frontend/backend engineer interested in expanding to other areas of the stack?
• Either has experience in our tech stack or wants to work on it. We care about your general engineering skills and learning abilities more than your current tech stack.
• Communicate proactively and work autonomously, requiring minimal supervision or follow-up.
• I like to collaborate and pair with other engineers.
• Want to own features end-to-end: bring your ideas to the stakeholders, build consensus, plan, implement, deploy and release.

 Your Response is acknowledged!

Kind Regards,

Lakshmi Kumari. S

(Associate - TA )

• Experience in Web and Mobile Applications
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
• Experience in Java, Python.
• Deep understanding of data structures and microservices.
• Knowledge of Node.js
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Familiarity with front-end technologies
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Interaction with multiple data sources
• Good understanding of SQL
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git .