This role is at high growth startup providing secure video hosting to media and e-learning businesses and thus in high requirement in current market. Site is at www.vdocipher.com. Already in revenues , profitable with 2000+ business customers across 40+ countries. Serving Petabytes of online video content.
We use API-first approach to implement new features and create developer-friendly interfaces. We have a hybrid model between monolithic and micro-service system based on separation of concern and function.
Salary range - is 21 to 26 LPA (CTC=Gross), The wide range is to accommodate candidates based on actual experience and skill set. ESOPs will also be granted.
2 to 5+ yrs of work experience expected.
Responsibilities
- Developing new web services
- Implementing new features to API
- Provide secure authentication with role-based-access-controls.
- Ensuring inter-operability of API with diverse customer frameworks through SDKs
- Future-proofing of the API with unit testing and extensible design
- Write and maintain API documentation
- Choosing the right database and information flow for new features
- Designing and maintaining the Database schema
Required skills
* Thorough knowledge of Nodejs development ecosystem
* Understanding of security practices and exploits on the web
* Handling authentication frameworks with jwt, oauth and related technologies
* Experience with stateless server apps for horizontal scaling
* Database best practices for optimizing query performance
* Understanding applications of relational vs no-sql databases
* Understanding of version control (Git, SVN)
* Basic understanding of a front-end web environment (HTML5, CSS)
* Write clean and reusable code by following coding standards
* Understanding of writing tests and automation frameworks
Hiring Process
- Resume Shortlisting
- 15 min Short introductory phone call
- Tech Round Interview 1 (75 mins)
- 2nd Round Interview (Tech + HR , 1 hour 45 mins)

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Senior Software Engineer
It is a fish and seafood supply chain platform.It is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry.Building the future of meat and seafood supply chain.We are building smart supply chain to deliver the highest quality seafood and meat for the Indian consumer. Our innovations in process management and workforce orchestration along with strong industry credentials are enabling us to deliver the fastest harvest-to-fork in the industry.Our endeavor is to leverage experience across various parts of the value chain – farming, production, delivery to marquee brands – to deliver similar value to the Indian consumers.
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As a senior software engineer, you will contribute to our end to end supply chain platform. You'll work with all key stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable backend code and work with frontend developers to deliver amazing user experiences. We are building a design and process-centric culture where you'll play a key role in the implementation of the foundation of all our systems. Up for a challenge?
You are:
- A self-starter with a sense of what it takes to be successful as a team
- Agile - welcome change, do as less as possible and embrace continuous delivery
- Conscious about how quality is carried through from the UI to all layers underneath
- Opinionated, but flexible to accommodate the big picture
Responsibilities
- Analyse requirements, provide estimates and deliver code in an agile setup
- Stay on top of all owned work and raise red flags as early as possible
- Define the architecture, best practices and coding standards
- Support continuous technical improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and present them for architectural review
- Motivate team members, coach junior members and extend goodwill to other employees
Must have
- Prior startup experience, preferably with war stories to share
- 4-6 years of software industry experience
- Solid understanding of software design, development, testing, and problem-solving
- Expertise in coding efficient, high quality and modularized software
- Expertise in JavaScript, node.js based backend development
- Expertise in common design patterns and anti-patterns in Javascript
- Experience in building and scaling service-oriented architecture and microservices
- Expertise in relational and non-relational databases and expertise in at least one database system
- Experience with planning, execution and maintenance of test infrastructure for backend workflows
- Experience with CI/CD and setting up a monitoring infrastructure
- Knowledge of AWS, specifically building scalable cloud-native architectures using services like Lambda, AWS Gateway, Aurora, etc
- Knowledge of Unix shell and source control systems and tools such as git
- Strong technical leadership skills
- Strong communication skills
- Technical mentoring skills
Great to have
- Experience with GraphQL, meteor.js and other modern JS ecosystems
- Experience with blockchain and interest in ML
- Experience working on high traffic systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
We are looking for a Backend Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be 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. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your coworkers into the application. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.
* Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
* Building reusable code and libraries for future use
* Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
* Implementation of security and data protection
* Design and implementation of data storage solutions
Skills:
* Good experience with backend languages PHP , NodeJS, Python.
* Knowledge with PHP framework CodeIgniter or similar.
* Knowledge with MySQL database and well-versed with writing complex queries.
* Version control, such as Git, CVS or SVN
* Knowledge of REST web services
● Experience in design, development, and deployment of the
application.
● Knowledge of Restful Web-Services, JSON, HTTP, Networking
protocols
● Knowledge of MVC architecture.
● Mandatory Tech Skills: PHP, NodeJS, JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL,
GIT.
● Good to Have: Laravel, Express, AWS
● Basic understanding of HTML, CSS
- You will own a functional area - from product conception to its delivery to customers
- You will be designing and coding independently in multiple tech components related to your functional area
- You will also need to develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly
- You will also be actively mentoring our junior engineers. You need to someone who owns the codebase quality
- We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not just coders
- Engineers get to significantly amplify the impact of their efficient work or creations with the scale that startups operates at
- Love the Startup Hustle? You have come to the right place!
Requirements:
- 2+ years of deep expertise with JavaScript (Node.js) and any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs
- Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions
- Strong problem solving skills
- Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities
- Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals
- Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform
- Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
- Experience in Consumer facing apps - Analytics SDKs integrations, Marketing SDKs integrations, Performance optimisation, SQL databases
- Should have developed and delivered successful mobile app projects
- Experience with Devops including Docker, AWS, Serverless
Perks
- Opportunity to start from scratch
- Flexible and cool work environment - Startup work culture
- Young and dynamic team
- Offsites
- Regular game and hangout sessions every week

