Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Developer /Backend Developer

Hiring for the position of Backend Developer responsible for managing back-end services and the interchange of data between the server and the users.

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.

Role

●        Create and consume restful APIs

●        Design, develop, and maintain internal and external applications

●        Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules

●        Write high quality, structured application/interface code and documentation

●        Identify solutions through research and collaboration that resolves the root of problems as they arise

●        Define functional and technical requirements for application software to develop skills and knowledge

●        Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

●        Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Requirement

∙ Proficient in Node.JS

∙ 2+ years’ experience designing, querying, and updating databases in MySQL/nosql 

∙ Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas

∙ Good to have knowledge of AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch

Education: Min. Graduate in related discipline

Work experience: 2 years relevant experience

As Back end developer, we expect you to be motivated in solving real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our Resellers. Being a small company we have a culture of creative problem solving, intellectual design, fast-paced development, and passionate product delivery. Enhance or build Restful web services for our mobile app.

Responsibilities:

• Develop server-side components, REST APIs
• Assume ownership for existing and new modules including design, development, and unit testing for enhancements of existing modules and development of new modules.
• Analyse problems logically and exercise sound judgment in defining, evaluating, and solving difficult technical and operational problems where solutions may be of a precedent-establishing nature.
• Lead the design and architectural improvements
• Participate and collaborate with team members in design discussions, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, suggest enhancements to architecture, implement POCs, and enhance application.
• Reduce technical debt with quality coding

Requirements:

• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.
• Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr.
• Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back end systems.
• Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency
• Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.

Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; 

designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.

At least 1-2 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and Node.js(Node.js preferred).

Understanding of micro-services oriented architecture.

Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics

Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.

Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)

LearnApp's engineers are a small group of people who directly impact the daily lives of thousands of learners across the globe. 
As a software engineer, you are the architect, designer and coder and maintainer of your project. 
In addition, you work closely with the product team to make vision become reality. 
You are dynamic and able to work well both independently and as part of a team.

At LearnApp, we leave all egos at the door and concentrate on the job at hand. 
We value passionate, down to earth, “can do” people who enjoy fine-tuning small details, without losing sight of the big picture. 
We are looking for the type of person who feels uncomfortable when a day goes by without achieving something impactful. 
Someone who is driven to get things done and views obstacles as an exciting challenge that demands a creative solution. 
Above all else, this role requires someone who takes great pride in their work and is inspired and motivated by their role in improving the way thousands of learners receive financial literacy.

As a Backend Software Engineer, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience.

Responsibilities

- Analyze functional requirements and creation of software design
- Design and implement scalable and robust applications
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software
- Design, shape and implement authentication, authorization, auditing, reporting, and API infrastructure solutions

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in Object-Oriented Design and programming concepts
- A minimum of 3 years of working experience in a product oriented company
- Programming experience in NodeJS and Typescript or Javascript

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in building cloud (SaaS) applications, particularly using AWS technologies
- Experience in building serverless applications
- Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies
- Ability to learn other coding languages as needed
- Object-oriented, database design, and SQL skills

Perks

Responsibilities:

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic

• Implementation of security and data protection

• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack)

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture

• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance (depending on the specific project)

• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

• Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform

• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

• Strong unit test and debugging skills

• Basic knowledge of machine learning algorithm and libraries like keras, tensorflow, sklearn.

Objective of the Role:
We are here to build a world-class tech organization with elite engineers and change-agents who would spearhead this change. Currently, we are looking for engineers who are skilled, passionate, driven and a wee bit crazy (yes, crazy works!) to join our tribe. The current position is for the supply chain teams and our primary focus is on scale and cost optimization. The small tweaks you make, the processes you alter, experiments you run and the business decisions you drive will have reverberating effects on our ability to add value to our customers and keep them coming back for more.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design and build the system which enables the logistics team to store and deliver 15 million products per month to customers across 20 cities in India
• Work on the vision, roadmap, and processes that make customer delivery experience more delightful
• Work across teams to design a platform that scales and is flexible enough for various kinds of future scenarios
• Work on optimizing the whole logistics supply chain from warehouse to customer
• Innovate to improve the efficiency of the existing supply chain systems
  Desired skills & abilities:
• 3-6 years of experience in software development
• B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience
• Experience in architecture and system design 2Experience in running high performance distributed systems
• Understanding and implementation of security and data
• Highly experienced in back-end programming languages like Python, Java, JavaScript
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push
• Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN
• Solid experience in software development practices
• Ability to mentor and manage teams
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum and Design thinking approaches
  
  
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