Senior Engineer/Principal Engineer - Node.js

Node.js Developer / NestJS Developer – Job Description

A Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science is preferred with excellent problem solving skills.

Job Type: Full-time

Job Location: Bengaluru (on site)

Preferred Skills: TypeScript / Nodejs, SQL/ MySQL

Experience: Min 2yrs in similar Role.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and Maintain Server-side Logic: Design, implement, and maintain the server-side logic using Node.js, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• API Development: Build and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with front-end services and third-party applications.
• Database Management: Work with databases (such as MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL) to ensure data consistency, reliability, and optimal performance.
• Code Quality and Testing: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers, designers, and other team members to define and implement technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Troubleshooting and Debugging: Identify issues, debug, and resolve bugs and other technical problems in a timely manner.
• Documentation: Create and maintain documentation related to application development, API usage, and system operations.
• Stay Updated: Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure the application remains modern and competitive.

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) – Credit Cards Platform

Experience required - 5+ years

Job Location - Hyderabad & Ahmedabad

What you'll do:

· Perform complex application programming activities with an emphasis on mobile development: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, RESTful APIs and related backend frameworks

· Assist in the definition of system architecture and detailed solution design that are scalable and extensible

· Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and other engineers on different permutations to find the best solution possible

· Own the quality of code and do your own testing. Write unit test and improve test coverage.

· Deliver amazing solutions to production that knock everyone’s socks off

· Mentor junior developers on the team

What we’re looking for:

· Amazing technical instincts. You know how to evaluate and choose the right technology and approach for the job. You have stories you could share about what problem you thought you were solving at first, but through testing and iteration, came to solve a much bigger and better problem that resulted in positive outcomes all-around.

· A love for learning. Technology is continually evolving around us, and you want to keep up to date to ensure we are using the right tech at the right time.

· A love for working in ambiguity—and making sense of it. You can take in a lot of disparate information and find common themes, recommend clear paths forward and iterate along the way. You don’t form an opinion and sell it as if it’s gospel; this is all about being flexible, agile, dependable, and responsive in the face of many moving parts.

· Flexible and willing to accept change in priorities, as necessary

· Demonstrable passion for technology (e.g., personal projects, open-source involvement)

· Enthusiastic embrace of DevOps culture and collaborative software engineering

· Ability and desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced, and agile team environment

· Enthusiasm for cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure

· Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience with Apache Cordova framework

· Demonstrable knowledge of native coding background in iOS, Android

· Experience developing and deploying applications within Kubernetes based containers

· Experience in Agile and SCRUM development techniques

BE/BTech from shortlisted institutes;
b) Work closely with business in identifying solution requirements and key case-studies/scenarios for the future solution
c) Design and prototype Azure solutions, create solution architecture document covering deep technical aspects of the implementation
d) Create a unified strategy for Azure cloud transformation governance, automation, security, implementation and operations
e) Analyze existing application portfolios, develop next-gen application architecture, transformation and modernization roadmap
f) Conduct Azure solutions architecture review/audit and create review/audit report
g) Lead implementation of the solution from establishing project requirements and goals to solution "go-live"
h) Oversee the development efforts and provide technical help as needed
i) Day-to-day lead the client through the technical and organizational challenges of Cloud transformation
j) Participate in the full cycle of pre-sale activities, including RFP processing, proposal development and direct communications with potential clients
k) Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends and best practices
l) Create thought leadership on Azure solutions and hybrid clouds
m) Serve as an Azure evangelist, consult and provide technical guidance on Azure solutions design, build, governance, security, operations and cost control best practices
What You Have
n) Large-scale software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in the following platform: .Net Core,.NET MVC, Azure, React.js, Angular
o) Designing and building applications using container and serverless technologies
p) Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
q) Deep expertise in solution architecture including web services, relational and non-relational databases, front-end and/or back-end technologies
r) Good exposure to Agile software development methodologies and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration (CI) and automated deployment
s) Experience working with highly scalable, performant and mission critical architectures
t) Avid technologist, with deep expertise in modern cloud architecture and history of successful implementation of complex Azure solution
u) Ability to suggest competitive and innovative technical decisions, get client buy-in and deliver commitments
v) Strong communication skills, ability to present technical ideas in business-friendly language
w) Analytical and problem-solving abilities
x) Azure certifications and Architecture Framework (TOGAF/IAF) are recommended

What/Why/How is Floworks?

Floworks (https://floworks.ai">https://floworks.ai) builds powerful business process tools that simplify business operations for the largest of e-commerce and logistics companies in India.

Floworks was founded by distinguished alums from IIT and BIT, with exemplary backgrounds in business and technology.

Floworks has raised two rounds of funding within just 6 months of existence.We are funded by London based Startup Incubator, Entrepreneur First whose investors include the likes of PayPal Cofounder Peter Thiel and LinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman.

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Floworks in the press:

1. https://theprint.in/ani-press-releases/entrepreneur-first-announces-investment-in-six-indian-tech-start-ups/896694/

What will be your key responsibilities?

Although it’s an engineering role, you will have significant involvement in product, hiring and business as well. You may expect following key responsibilities:

Engineering: You’ll need to write code – a lot of code. At the end of the day, your most important responsibility is to get your company’s product to market and maximize the number of product experiments that can be run. You’ll make key architectural decisions that will be pillars of the engineering organization for years to come. At the same time, you’ll have to make serious trade-offs to balance speed of execution with quality.

Product: As a founding engineer, you’ll also have a significant amount of ownership over the product direction. You should expect to spend time talking to customers, teasing out use cases, and making prioritization decisions regarding both the short- and long-term roadmap. In many cases, you will be building features in the absence of any formal product requirement document.

Support: You should also expect to spend a fair amount of time in the trenches supporting customers. You’ll probably find yourself engaging with customers in shared Slack channels, WhatsApp groups etc.

Hiring: As a founding engineer, you will spend a ton of time sourcing, interviewing, and closing early team members. 

Business: Finally, you’ll gain exposure to all other aspects of the business – from fundraising, to sales, and beyond. Although you probably won’t be closing deals or making pitch decks, you will certainly be expected to sell your product and pitch the company’s vision.

How do you know you are right fit for the role?

• You have at least 2-4 years of experience. You are proficient with most of the following languages/frameworks:
• NodeJS
• AWS
• Databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
• You crave ownership. If you often find yourself raising your hand to own things end-to-end, you will likely really enjoy the ownership afforded to you as a founding engineer.
• You’re okay with ambiguity. You won’t get product requirement documents or designs for everything you’re expected to build. A stellar founding engineer will know when to ask for clarity and when to make educated assumptions. If you tend to gravitate towards more loosely scoped projects, that’s a good indicator that you’ll do well in this type of role.
• You’re multidisciplinary. A typical day might include anything from several hours of coding, to a few customer conversations, to a technical brainstorm or architecture discussion, to an interview or two. 

• You operate at light speed. A great founding engineer should welcome this challenge and thrive under the pressure of intense deadlines. 

What will be the hiring process?

• 2 round of technical interviews
• 2 round of behavioural interview

What will be your compensation?

• Fixed: INR 20L-30L
• Bonus: 10-30% of Fixed depending upon performance.

• Equity: 0.1%-0.2%

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, service oriented web applications from scratch for technology products for European market.
• Maintain these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards
• Participate with founding, business and product teams in discussions on how to build and launch new modules.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Start as an individual contributor but stay ready to build and mentor a small team of up to 5 engineers over the coming months and years.
• Contribute in hiring highly ambitious engineers as the team grows.
• Being among the first people on the engineering team, be a culture driver.

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using different MVC frameworks.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable applications using Node.js/MEAN stack.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with non relational databases like MongoDB.
• Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Exposure in building polyglot applications.
• Exposure for devops and related processes, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of components in scalable solutions i. e. database partitions, message brokers, background processing.
• Exposure to basic frontend technologies to speed up collaboration with the frontend team.