Senior Backend Engineer/Tech Lead - NodeJS

Net Developer & API Expert

Position Summary:

We are looking for .Net Developers who are also Experts in API Integrations to join our development team and participate in different established projects.

We are looking for proactive, team players who are passionate about programming in this language and focused on providing the best experience to the end user.

This is an excellent opportunity for those professionals looking to develop in one of the fastest growing companies in the industry! These developers will face numerous technical challenges.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

·      Work on projects in the C#, .NET CORE and entity frameworks

·      Validate data with Postman, JSON, and basic SQL queries

·      Unit Testing

·      Write RESTful APIs (Core Web API)

·      Writing clean/maintainable code

·      MSSQL Server (Familiar with MongoDB, preferred but not required)

·      Understand best practices and commit to follow them

·      Work on new and difficult topics and contribute to libraries when needed

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

·      Fluent in English

·      Strong knowledge of OOPs concepts

·      Knowledge of the Linux Operating System

·      Strong problem-solving, design, coding and debugging skills.

·      Knowledge about Git and Version Control

·      Preferred to have knowledge of Microservices Architecture (Not mandatory)

Core Competency:

• Extensiveexperiencewith C# and ASP.net/.NETCore 2.0 / .NET WebAPI core framework framework • concept's and fundamentals/ MVC and EF. • REST Web services&API Experience • Strong architectural knowledge with two or more of - MicroServices, 12 FactorApplications and • EventDriven architectures • Messaging knowledge(Topics, Queues & Publish Subscribe) • Knowledge of AWS, Docker and Kubernetes • Experience with database development including relational database design, SQL, and ORM • Agile Delivery experience • Deploying .Net Core web application/API in Windows and Linux • Experience with web developmenttechnologiesincludingASP.NET, MVC3, EF, HTML, JavaScript, • JQuery, AJAX and CSS, LINQ. • Experience with core Microsoft.Net technologies including WCF, LINQ, and EF • Experience designing and developing enterprise-grade software • Experience with source control management systems and deployment environment • Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization. • Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented applicationdevelopment,techniques and theories • Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment • Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders • Experience with user interface design and prototyping

Overview: 

We are seeking an experienced Node.js developer with a passion for esports to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of building and maintaining web applications using Node.js and a proven ability to work effectively in a team environment. Experience in the esports industry is a plus. 

Responsibilities: 

• Develop and maintain web applications using Node.js and related technologies 
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code 
• Collaborate with the design and product management teams to implement new features and functionality 
• Work with the DevOps team to ensure proper deployment and monitoring of applications 

• Troubleshoot and debug issues as they arise 
• Write and maintain comprehensive documentation 

Requirements: 

• Strong professional experience with JavaScript and Node.js 
• Experience with building and deploying web applications 

• Familiarity with web development frameworks such as Express or Koa 
• Experience with Git and version control 
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills 

Preferred: 

• Experience in the esports industry 

• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure 
• Familiarity with front-end development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and React 
• Experience with data persistence technologies such as MongoDB or MySQL 
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha 

About the role

Checking quality is one of the most important tasks at Anakin. Our clients are pricing their products based on our data, and minor errors on our end can lead to our client's losses of millions of dollars. You would work with multiple tools and with people across various departments to ensure the accuracy of the data being crawled. You would setup manual and automated processes and make sure they run to ensure the highest possible data quality.

You are the engineer other engineers can count on. You embrace every problem with enthusiasm. You remove hurdles, are a self-starter, team player. You have the hunger to venture into unknown areas and make the system work.

Your Responsibilities would be to:

• Understand customer web scraping and data requirements; translate these into test approaches that include exploratory manual/visual testing and any additional automated tests deemed appropriate
• Take ownership of the end-to-end QA process in newly-started projects
• Draw conclusions about data quality by producing basic descriptive statistics, summaries, and visualisations
• Proactively suggest and take ownership of improvements to QA processes and methodologies by employing other technologies and tools, including but not limited to: browser add-ons, Excel add-ons, UI-based test automation tools etc.
• Ensure that project requirements are testable; work with project managers and/or clients to clarify ambiguities before QA begins
• Drive innovation and advanced validation and analytics techniques to ensure data quality for Anakin's customers
• Optimize data quality codebases and systems to monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Configure and optimize the automated and manual testing and deployment systems used to check the quality of billions of data points of over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a backend or a full-stack software engineer
• Web scraping experience with Python or Node.js
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Should be paranoid about data quality

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

Additional Requirements:

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

• 5 years experience with the Django framework
• Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL) 
• Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
• React.js knowledge would be an added bonus 
• Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.

Experience:

• Min 5 year experience
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote developer

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• NoSQL DB (MongoDB, CouchDB), PostgreSQL
• Mocha test environment
• Should JS testing framework
• Experience implementing mock services
• Nock API mocking
• NPM, Redis
• Typescript / Coffee script experience will be an added advantage
• Experience working with opensource JS projects
• Experience in developing REST API
• Source code management tool - Git / GitHub
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking and client/server web programming model
• Good communication skills
• Should be able to work with the cross-geo client team