Senior Backend Engineer

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About Us

Binocs.co empowers institutional lenders with next-generation loan management software, streamlining the entire loan lifecycle and facilitating seamless interaction among stakeholders.

Team: Binocs.co is led by a passionate team with extensive experience in financial technology, lending, AI, and software development.

Investors: Our journey is backed by renowned investors who share our vision for transforming the loan management landscape: Beenext, Arkam Ventures, Accel, Saison Capital, Blume Ventures, Premji Invest, and Better Capital.

What we're looking for

We seek a motivated, talented, and intelligent individual who shares our vision of being a changemaker. We value individuals dissatisfied with the status quo, strive to make improvements, and envision making significant contributions. We look for those who embrace challenges and dedicate themselves to solutions. We seek individuals who push for data-driven decisions, are unconstrained by titles, and value collaboration. We are building a fast-paced team to shape various business and technology aspects.

Responsibilities

• Be a part of the initial team to define and set up a best-in-class digital platform for the Private Credit industry, and take full ownership of the components of the digital platform
• You will build robust and scalable web-based applications and need to think of platforms & reuse
• Driving and active contribution to High-Level Designs(HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Mentor team members in adopting effective coding practices. Conduct comprehensive code reviews, focusing on both functional and non-functional aspects.
• Ensure the security, performance, and reliability of backend systems through proper testing, monitoring, and optimization.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and agile development processes to maintain code quality and project timelines.
• Simply, be an owner of the platform and do whatever it takes to get the required output for customers
• Be curious about product problems and have an open mind to dive into new domains eg: gen-AI.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest development trends, tools, and technologies.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in backend development, with a strong track record of successfully architecting and implementing scalable and high-performance backend systems.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g.,Python, Golang, Node.js, Java) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
• Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc)
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
• 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 of cloud computing platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development

Good to have

• Experience with microservices architecture
• Knowledge of serverless computing and event-driven architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
• Understanding of DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in developer communities.
• Experience working LLMs and AI technologies

Benefits

By joining Binocs, you’ll become part of a vibrant and dynamic team dedicated to disrupting the fintech space with cutting-edge solutions. We offer a stimulating work environment where innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Our competitive compensation package, inclusive of equity, is designed to reward your contributions to our success.

• Clarify feature requirements with the product team
• Design end to end feature flow
• Write scalable and bug-free code
• Take care of test and deployment pipeline
• Maintaining the existing products

 JD / Skills Sets

1. Good knowledge on Python

2. Good knowledge on My-Sql, mongodb 

3. Design Pattern

4. OOPs

5. Automation

6. Web scraping

7. Redis queue

8. Basic idea of Finance Domain will be beneficial.

9. Git10. AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)

Experience: 6 to 10 Years

Must have:

• Experience in leading teams and handling communication among engineers and product managers,and have worked with mobile teams and product teams.
• Experience working on RFC documentation.
• Experience in architecting the software, estimating tasks, breaking down into subtasks, prioritizing tasks as per need, and timely delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing mobile-first applications.
• Creating and maintaining clean and clear front-end code and backend APIs for our web and mobile applications.
• Automation and Deployments of builds - Frontend and Backend.
• Application Performance And Error Monitoring and Automation
• Maintaining excellent test coverage for our code base.
• Follow best practices while reviewing pull requests
• Working with our shared services and field teams to identify application bottlenecks and make relevant architectural decisions.
• Working with our front-end application developers to optimize performance across our system.
• Designing administrative tools for our shared services and business development teams
• Constantly optimizing our code bases with an eye for modularity and legibility.
• Writing documentation for our external and internal APIs.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of RESTful JSON web API design principles.
• Demonstrable experience with NodeJS, Express. JS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Familiarity with popular NodeJS packages (e. g. express, socket-io).
• Must have experience with test driven development(TDD).
• Experience in JavaScript development.
• Experience in backend web development.
• Containerisation experience working with Docker/ Kubernetes/ Docker Swarm
• Familiarity with multiple additional programming languages/stacks.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB.
• Experience with RDBMS databases like MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• An excellent understanding of distributed systems and their tradeoffs.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate technical problems, design and implementation choices to a broad range of stakeholders (e. g. sales team, users, security experts).
• Experience working with web sockets.
• Familiarity with the AWS stack.
• Experience in application security testing.
• Familiarity with client-side JavaScript frameworks and best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipeline.
• Contributions to open source communities.

Perks and Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Competitive salary and bonus program
• Annual company retreats to fantastic places
• Unlimited Vacation Policy
• Great healthcare coverage
• Professional development allowance
• Internet Allowance
• Customised CMMversary rewards on your 1,3,5,7 and 10-year work anniversaries
• Career Enablement – We meld your upskilling initiatives with organization’s strategic planning
• Take your Birthday Off

• Research, design and build highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms.
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead by example, mentor, and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
• Working with a cross-discipline team (Design, Product, Engineer, Operations, Sales, Marketing).
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team. 
• Lead-out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
• Writing bug-free code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high-quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
• Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better.
• Researching new technologies and adapting them to BeyondSkool’s requirements
• Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
• Using and understanding code from Open-Source projects
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people
• Produce highly reliable systems that are thoroughly tested and benchmarked.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric infrastructure that operates 24x7
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, and deliver with speediness and quality.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field.
• Experience of 5 - 7 years as a back-end engineer preferably in a microservice environment.
• Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express.js
• Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript

• Must have worked building 2+ backend system using node.js and Express.js
• Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design.
• Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
• Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
• Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
• Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Curiosity to explore the cutting-edge technologies and bake them in the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.

Looking for enthusiastic tech driven individuals who can architect a web application, push pixels, design a web API, design a UI and optimize the backend for scalability. Should be thrilled to deep dive into the field of Location Intelligence. 

Hiring for the role of  Backend Developer for our Development team. Apply if you are keen to explore how data-tech is changing the decision intelligence landscape.

Sociometrik is a geospatial data intelligence start-up based out of New Delhi, India - founded in 2019 with the mission of redefining data-backed executive decision making. We measure and quantify physical earth, built structures and human activity using multi-channel data sources like satellite imagery, smartphone mobility, web records and administrative data to power alternative data-based decision support systems for our clients.

• Write effective, scalable and reusable code
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions
• Collaborate with Product Owner to identify optimal ways to implement new features & product enhancements.
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions.
• Create UI mock-ups and transform them into quality product features consistent with the Product Owner’s vision.

• Minimum 3 years of work experience as a backend developer
• Minimum 3 years experience in Node.js
• Must have Experience working in a Typescript codebase
• Experience with Leaflet.JS, Google Maps API, or Geospatial projects are a "Nice to Have"
• Exposure to deck.gl is “Good to Have”.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery
• Must have Experience collaborating in a team environment

• An analytical bent of mind
• Good time management skills
• Curiosity for learning
• Creative vision
• Team spirit and good problem-solving skills

Hiring Process

Below is our hiring process for this position. We will reach out or send a rejection notice to most candidates within 1-5 business days of applying. Sociometrik promises to value your time and professionalism in every step of the process.

• Quick Screening 
• Interview with Technical Lead

• Final Interview with Leadership

Greetings from Ellixtra Technologies Private Limited!

Ellixtra technologies is a bunch of young, self- motivated individuals that came together to create something significant for our society. A start up where we develop new business models for the pharmacy industry to keep our customers engaged on the right track. Our key components are authenticity and affordability, and we continue to look forward to a society in which access to affordable healthcare is no longer an issue.

We are looking to hire a Backend Engineer with outstanding organizational and research skills with 2 years experience,

About The Role

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software and new user-facing features across Ellixtras products and services.
• 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.
• Stay engaged with the latest technologies and evaluate strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date.
  
  

Requirements for the Role

• 2+ years experience in a highly technical role at a hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company.
• Extensive background in designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving the software.
• Good understanding of Node.js & Javascript ecosystem.
• 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.
• Understanding of system design and architecture.
• Interest in engaging with the 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.

• • Key Result Areas
  
  
  1. Develop and lead desktop and mobile web Back end development. 
  2. Work on Node JS platform.
  3. Strong focus on UI Performance: optimize page load, rendering, caching, leveraging CDNs.
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  1. Technology Skills:
  
  
  • Advanced Javascript, CSS, HTML 5, D/XHTML, XML, JSON, DOM Concepts
  • Must have worked on a SPA frameworks:Nodejs, AngularJS or InfernoJS
  • Familiarity with common Javascript Libraries such as jQuery.
  • Fluent in responsive design and mobile / tablet UI / UX
  • Knowledge about UI testing automation
  • Web mobile (touch devices: mobiles and tablets) experience is expected
  • UI or API Performance: should have hands-on experience of optimizing page load, rendering,caching.
  • Good understanding of AJAX and its UI implications
  • Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective