Senior Backend (Node.js) Engineer

Key Responsibilities would include: 

1. Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-level Java applications. 

2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements, and implement solutions. 

3. Develop & customize the application using HTML5, CSS, and jQuery to create dynamic and responsive user interfaces. 

4. Integrate with relational databases (RDBMS) to manage and retrieve data efficiently. 

5. Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and coding standards. 

6. Participate in code reviews, debugging, and testing to ensure high-quality deliverables. 

7. Troubleshoot and resolve issues in existing applications and systems. 

Qualification requirement - 

1. 4 years of hands-on experience in Java / J2ee development, preferably with enterprise-level projects.

2. Spring Framework including - SOA, AoP and Spring security 

3. Proficiency in web technologies including HTML5, CSS, jQuery, and JavaScript.

4. Experience with RESTful APIs and web services.

5. Knowledge of build tools like Maven or Gradle

6. Strong knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and experience with SQL.

7. Experience with version control systems like Git.

8. Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) 

9. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to details.

Join the team of a fast-growing fintech organization that has recently raised $25M via equity and debt fund to rapidly increase the ever-growing space of Fintech World.

A financial technology platform made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. We recognize the power of financial services to break down barriers and make it easy for customers to avail banking, investments, and lending solutions – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work and to provide them the tools to do so.

Looking for motivated, highly driven, and hardworking Software Engineers for the Neobanking platform for a leading Fintech organization in a highly collaborative, fast-paced, high-energy environment. You will build the platform for user onboarding, profile management, banking, lending, risk mitigation, and analytics for driving intelligence from customer interaction patterns. It’s an exciting time to join the team as we’re setting about building the next generation of our platform.

• Design and implement scalable server-side solutions using Java.
• Write optimized front-end code using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Write unit, automation, and integration tests
• Implement quality application logging for operational monitoring at scale
• Investigate, debug and resolve production site issues
• Work with co-located teammates to deliver on common goals

• Professional experience in enterprise Java software development using Spring MVC frameworks, RESTful APIs, and SOA
• Proficiency in HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Microservices
• Experience with DevOps Technologies is plus
• Experience with Selenium for UI automated tests written in Cucumber or Scala
• Working knowledge of design patterns and CI/CD principles
• First-class communication skills in written and verbal form
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• A commitment to producing high-quality code with an attention to detail
• Dedication and a self-motivated desire to learn
• A collaborative, team-orientated attitude
• 3-8 years of professional experience in Java software development
• Experience working in the Cloud (AWS)
• API development experience
• Exposure to monitoring tools such as ELK, Splunk

Our front-end applications are written in React with TypeScript using Gatsby and Next.js. For our REST and GraphQL APIs we use TypeScript and NodeJS, with PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch behind the scenes.

All of our services are hosted on AWS using Elastic Kubernetes Service. CI/CD is handled by Jenkins, with automated Docker builds and deployments to staging. We use Github and JIRA to help us keep on top of our tasks, manage and host our code.

We have a strong culture for testing. We are individually responsible for our work and are immensely proud of the quality we produce. We try and automate as much of the testing as possible.

We have a learning and development budget for keeping up to date which can be spent on conferences, courses, and even books. We encourage sharing what we learn with the rest of the team and the wider community.

We are truly cross-functional: as well as designers and product managers, our teams include data analysts, mortgage advisers and marketing specialists. We’re focused on results: meetings are banned two days a week, and if you need to work from home to finish a project or leave early to manage your energy we encourage you to take it.

About the Role

• Develop scalable web applications for award-winning consumer-facing financial tools
• Develop quick internal admin tools for analysts to create and maintain critical rule sets around consumer financial data
• Integrate new external APIs from vendors or other teams into platform
• Work with UX and design team to transform wireframes into living products
• Build new REST and/or GraphQL endpoints for representing our data to consumer applications
• Own full development requirements and implementation, release management, QA regression scripts, and deployment to containerized production environments
• Communicate results and impact to business stakeholders

About You

• Experience with Node.js and a UI framework (React a plus)
• Experience with unit, integration and end to end testing tools and practices
• Experience with documenting, creating, and consuming REST APIs (GraphQL a plus)
• Keen eye for detail when translating design and requirements into working code
• Proficiency with security requirements, authentication and authorization layers (OAuth2, Google Sign-in)
• Aware of front-end performance implications and best practices
• Familiarity working in the cloud, especially as it pertains to the front end: (Amazon S3 or Azure Blob, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.)
• Familiarity with tag and event tracking libraries (e.g. Segment, Google Analytics)
• Fluent at using Git
• Excellent communication, collaboration and writing skills
• You feel comfortable that our values - being brave, investing in each other, making it simple, and owning it - reflect aspects of your personality and approach to work.

• Working with the product team to develop new features focused on improving the user experience
• Improving existing features and working on streamlining client implementations through improved tools
• Improving our technical architecture and building out a continuous integration pipeline
• Modernizing our front-end in new frameworks
• Everything else - our team is small and you'll likely be involved in almost every tech-related thing going on
  
  

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience building consumer-facing web apps
• You are interested in the full-stack opportunity and love building a feature from start to finish
• Self-starter with a deep interest in tech - we want someone who will come in with opinions, and shape our engineering practices and decisions for the better
• An eye for design - you'll have an important role in making the product look great
• Believe in our mission and love the idea of working in education to help students succeed
  
  

Technologies you'll work with:

• NodeJS, http://sails.js/">Sails.JS
• http://react.js/">React.js, Redux, Redux-Saga
• Kubernetes, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ
• Whatever else you decide - we're constantly re-evaluating our stack and tools
• Having prior experience with the technologies is a plus, but not mandatory for skilled candidates.

Benefits

• Remote Option - You can work from any location of your choice
• Reimbursement of Home Office Setup
• Competitive Salary
• Friendly atmosphere
• Flexible paid vacation policy

- Must have good hands-on experience on WordPress

- Should able to edit WordPress plugins

- Well versed with HTML, CSS, Java script, PHP

- experience in phpMyAdmin, MySQL, MariaDB

- SSO, oauth2 website integration will be added advantage

- Good communication skills, should able to demonstrate website features

- Good work ethics, professionalism, team player