
Company Overview-
A venture-backed funded startup valued at 30.5 Million Dollars.
The team co-founders are both IIT-IIM Alumni with a strong professional background and are backed by some of the leading global and Indian funds and entrepreneurs.
Role Overview
As a Backend Engineer, you will be working closely with our core team in building products from scratch into large-scale platforms and solving business problems leveraging new and innovative technology. More than anything, we are looking for engineers that are eager to learn and build a meaningful company. We are a small team and encourage engineers to wear many hats
Responsibilities
- Design and build highly reliable and performant applications that deliver a great user experience.
- Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner. - Take accountability for the overall health of the applications you build. - Platform components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
- Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly
Skills & Requirements
▪ Work Experience between 1-3 years in large scale applications with the desire to work in fast-paced startups
▪ Experience/Knowledge of Node.JS, Express.JS, AWS, MongoDB.
Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, systems.
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Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's/Master’s in Computer Science or related field
- 5–8 years of backend development experience
- Strong in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
- Hands-on experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams
Preferred Traits
- Proactive mindset with a knack for identifying and fixing bottlenecks
- Detail-oriented with a passion for clean, maintainable code
Team-oriented with a drive for continuous learning and improvement
About Quantela
We are a technology company that offers outcomes business models. We empower our customers with the right digital infrastructure to deliver greater economic, social, and environmental outcomes for their constituents.
When the company was founded in 2015, we specialized in smart cities technology alone. Today, working with cities and towns; utilities, and public venues, our team of 280+ experts offer a vast array of outcomes business models through technologies like digital advertising, smart lighting, smart traffic, and digitized citizen services.
We pride ourselves on our agility, innovation, and passion to use technology for a higher purpose. Unlike other technology companies, we tailor our offerings (what we can digitize) and the business model (how we partner with our customer to deliver that digitization) to drive measurable impact where our customers need it most. Over the last several months alone, we have served customers to deliver outcomes like increased medical response times to save lives; reduced traffic congestion to keep cities moving and created new revenue streams to tackle societal issues like homelessness.
We are headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts in the United States with offices across Europe, and Asia.
The company has been recognized with the World Economic Forum’s ‘Technology Pioneers’ award in 2019 and CRN’s IoT Innovation Award in 2020.
For latest news and updates please visit us at www.quantela.com
Overview of the Role
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and build performant modern web applications and services. Build high quality web applications and services by writing clean and modular code
Must have Skills
- 10+ years of experience in leading teams and delivering product, write unit and integration tests to ensure robustness and reliability of web applications and services.
- Measure and improve performance of microservices.
- Catalyze growth within the team through code reviews and pair programming to maintain high development standards Investigate operational issues to find the root cause and propose improvements Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams.
- Expert level of experience in design and development of Web Applications, highly scalable distributed systems.
- Should have experience in development skills using latest technologies including NodeJS, Microservices, Elastic search, Timescale DB, Kafka, Redis, etc.
- Should have exposure in NoSQL and SQL development.
- Comprehensive knowledge of physical and logical data modelling, performance tuning.
- Should possess excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively and productively with globally dispersed teams
- Build high performance teams and Coach team for successful career growth
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query optimization, and designing schema
Desired Background
Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or Computer Applications
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· 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer · Deep understanding of server-side code, with experience of developing in Node.js · Must have good knowledge of Express, Rest API, WebSocket, OAuth, OpenID and Node.JS best practices · Must be able to create separate micro-service for each business domain · Experienced in unit testing and should be able to achieve code coverage of 90% plus · Can write complex algorithm with multi-threading as a part of the feature · Experience in writing asynchronous programming · Knowledge of cloud applications like in AWS · Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial · Practical experience of delivering in an agile environment · Practical experience of knowledge of developing real-world solutions and platforms · Good understanding of security and performance considerations · Understanding of architectural and design patterns · Deep understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases |
Responsibilities
- Plan, develop and implement large-scale projects from conception to completion.
- Interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives.
- Translate clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
- Understand and evaluate complex data models.
- Design, develop and implement new integration.
- Execute system development and maintenance activities.
- Develop solutions to improvise performance and scalability of systems.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
Minimum Requirements
- 3-5 years of relevant experience, working in Java related technologies.
- A Good Engineering or Masters degree from a reputed university
- Should have strong technical skills with a good grasp of OO concepts and design patterns
- Good knowledge of SQL database ( MySQL, Oracle, etc )
- Good understanding of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, etc.
- Good understanding of spring boot and microservices.
- Exposure to AWS services - S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.
Good to have
- Knowledge of No-SQL DBs like mongo, dynamoDB, etc.
- Knowledge of message brokers/queuing services like SQL, rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.
To ensure success as a Node.js developer, you should possess extensive knowledge of Node.Js based services and experience in a similar role. An accomplished Node.js developer will be someone whose expertise results in the stable, fast, and secure exchange of data between servers and end-users.
We are looking for a Software Engineer responsible for the development of backend APIs, services. Your primary focus will be the development of REST APIs and Unit-tests for code. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products are essential.
Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
- Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
- Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
- Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
- Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
Requirements:
- Sound knowledge in web application development using Node, JavaScript.
- Designing and creating RESTful APIs.
- 3-4 years of experience in node and javascript.
- Experience with databases like Elasticsearch, Redis.
- Experience using best coding practices, design patterns.
- Must have very good analytical skills.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Familiarity with continuous integration.
- Basic Knowledge in JIRA.
- Good to have familiarity with Docker.
- Good to have knowledge in Kafka, WSO2 Siddhi.
Location: Remote
Reporting to: Product Manager
Principal Accountabilities:
● Develop, Enhance, and Modify Applications for a Global Market Environment.
● Design, Code, Test, Debug, and Document programs for corporate systems architecture.
● Work closely with Business stakeholders to define requirements for system applications
Work Dimensions:
● API integration, Application deployment, Test Driven Development & Agile methodologies
● Database designing ; (Knowledge of NoSQL databases is a plus).
● Familiarity in Unix/Linux development environments & tools including scripting.
● Designing system architecture for solving complex problems with a sound understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns.
Work Context:
● A fast moving, high growth, entrepreneurial environment.
● Need to work on Git and work in a highly collaborative environment.
● Timely reporting is required.
● Must typically have in-depth knowledge of development tools and languages
● Ensure full legal and ethical compliance and conduct of business at all times and under all circumstances
● Attention to detail needed to maintain a global standard of work output
● Supervise, mentor, coach a small team of associates on a day to day basis for better
management of their performance.
Role requirements:
● 2 to 6 years of experience in the IT industry
● 2+ years of experience in NodeJS
● Graduate degree (B.Tech/ BSc. IT) in IT/Engineering/Computer Science
● Strong problem-solving abilities
● Good communication skills.
● A good team player
- Working knowledge of Node-Sync, callback hell and ways to control asynchronous behavior of Node functions.
- Strong command on ES6(EcmaScript) or Javascript and its concepts like prototypes, call back, closures etc
- Should have deep understanding of Native Node.js, Express.js, HAPI.js and middlewares.
- Candidates must have proper understanding and command on RESTful API development and consumptions.
- Candidates must know to use promises, async-await to control synchronization of business logic components.
- Candidates must have knowledge of JWT, oAuth and passport.js for user authentication.
- Candidates must have knowledge of GIT, Bit-bucket.
- Candidates must have knowledge of application deployment.
- Experience with NoSQL databases eg mongodb (preferred).
Server Side skills:
Should have handson experience on JS technologies more than 3+ years
Building interactive dasboards from multiple systems and RESTfully
abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend
In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS and Restify
Knowledge of authentication using PassportJS, AuthO or JWT.
Knowledge of media content uploading using any cloud
Should have good understanding of request validation, schema
validation and Error handling
Good understanding of Promises, Async/Await and Callbacks
Should have knowledge of Socket, Pubsub.
Payment gateways integration using Braintree, Stripe or any other
would be a good skills to have.
Should have good understanding of scheduled tasks in NodeJS and
CronJobs
In depth knowledge of ORM like Mongoose, Sequalize or KnexJS.
Hands on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript Development on
server side.










