Senior Backend Engineer/Tech Lead - NodeJS

Role & Responsibilities

work with peers in Product, QA, and other Engineering departments;

coach and mentor team members;

cautiously drive adoption of new technologies and processes;

preserve our engineering values of quality, scalability, and maintainability;

“see around corners” — identify blind spots and prioritize work across teams;

work with international teams to ensure successful product development and delivery; and

own the overall architecture and systems engineering for your products.

Job Description: Software Engineer - Backend ( 3-5 Years)

Location: Bangalore

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives

through AI and investment intelligence powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

●Grow at the Edge: We embrace personal growth by stepping out of our comfort zones to

discover our genius zones, driven by self-awareness and integrity. No excuses.

●Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth: Transparency, radical candor,

and authenticity define our communication. We challenge ideas, but once decisions are

made, we commit fully.

●I Win for Teamwin: We operate within our genius zones, taking ownership of our work

and inspiring our team with energy and attitude to win together.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business needs and architectural improvements.

• Review code for quality and implementation of best practices.

• Promote coding, testing, and deployment best practices through hands-on research and demonstration.

• Write testable code that enables extremely high levels of code coverage.

• Ability to review frameworks and design principles toward suitability in the project context.

• Candidates who will demonstrate an ability to identify an opportunity lay out a rational plan for pursuing that opportunity, and see it through to completion.

Requirements:

• Engineering graduate with 3+ years of experience in software product development.

• Proficient in Python, Django, Pandas, GitHub, and AWS.

• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

• Strong Experience in designing REST APIs.

• Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications.

• A clear understanding of software design constructs and their implementation.

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

• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.

• Good understanding of Test Driven Development.

• Unit and Integration testing.

• Preferred exposure to Finance domain.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Are you passionate in coding and blockchain? Do you wish to face challenges ahead, develop and deliver features that will be extraordinary towards users? We are looking for experienced talents (React JS / Node JS / MongoDB / Web3.js / Solidity developers) to join our team and start a revolution!

Key Responsibilities and Scope

• Framework development and integration
• Prototype and Proof of concept development
• Creation, configuration, and monitoring Shards sets. Architecture and capacity planning for MongoDB clusters. 
• Assisting senior developers in detecting performance issues in the system by deploying MMS and MongoDB profilers
• Implementation of MongoDB advanced concepts like locking, transactions, indexes, Sharding, replication, schema design. 
• Maintain MongoDB replication with replica set factors, arbiters, voting, priority, server distribution, slave delays. 

Technical Skills

- Database & Languages:  MongoDB, B-tree, MongoDB Profiler, Javascript, MongoDB Compass, Mongo Booster

- Others: Elastic Stack, MMS, MongoDB Management service

Qualifications and Experience location GMT+8 or GMT+5:30

• Ability to work remotely or on-site (if Malaysia)
• Executing elastic stack in production scale Passion for best design, developing, and coding practices
• Creating servers and databases for functionality
• Maximizing application performance, uptime, and scalability, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Unit/integration testing experience
• Experience in analyzing and visualizing the data along with data modeling
• Experience in upgrading different databases and also migration of data among multiple databases. 
• Experience in MongoDB installation, patching, troubleshooting, performance, tracking/tuning, backup, and recovery in dynamic environments. 
• Experience in managing the life cycle of MongoDB including sizing, automation, monitoring, and tuning
• Experience in working with MongoDB ops Manager, Cloud Manager, and Atlas Manager
• Experience in analyzing chunk migrations, splitting, and balancing across the clusters.

Desired candidates must have 3-6 years of experience as NodeJs Developers.

If the candidate cannot relocate to Gurgaon, we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus

Responsibilities:

• Strong Technical Chops: You should know how to build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique rate-of-growth requirements.
• You should be on top of the latest architectural trends.
• Fast Learners: We are looking for folks who thrive on new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fit all solutions.
• You should be able to adapt easily to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment.

• You understand requirements beyond the written word.
• Whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch.
• Experience in Java and web technologies.
• Experience in any one scripting language like Python.
• Hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency.
• Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing and deployment.