Senior Java Developer

About Company:

Gevme is a Singapore based fast growing leading virtual & hybrid event and engagement platform for building unique experiences. It is used by event professionals worldwide to build, operate and monetise virtual events for some of the biggest brands. The flexibility of the platform provides them with limitless possibilities to turn any virtual event idea into reality. 

We have already powered hundreds of thousands of events around the world for clients like Facebook, Netflix, Starbucks, Forbes, MasterCard, Singapore Government.

We are a product company with a strong engineering and family culture; we are always looking for new ways to enhance the event experience and empower efficient event management. We’re on a mission to groom the next generation of event technology thought leaders as we grow.

Join us if you want to become part of a vibrant and fast moving ​product company ​that's on a mission to connect people around the world through events.

Location: Remote/Work from Home

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain both front-end and back-end components of web applications using the MERN stack.
• Build robust and secure RESTful APIs using Express.js and Node.js to serve data to the front-end.
• Design and manage MongoDB databases, ensuring data integrity and performance.
• Create responsive and user-friendly web interfaces using React.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and functionality.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers throughout the development lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in both front-end and back-end code.
• Optimize application performance for speed and scalability.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in web development.

Qualifications:

• Computer Science Graduate.
• Minimum of 2 years of proven experience on the implementation of large-scale web applications.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Extensive experience with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js).
• Solid understanding of front-end development principles and best practices.
• Experience with front-end tooling like Vite.js.
• Experience with Next.js for building performant React applications.
• Proficiency in building RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Git for version control.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks like Jest or Mocha.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Bonus Points (Optional):

• Experience with Fastify for building high-performance Node.js applications.
• Familiarity with NestJS for building scalable server-side applications.
• Experience with Electron.js for developing cross-platform desktop applications.
• Experience with compiler tools like Webpack or SWC.

Past experience in working with any product start-up is a plus.

● Proficiency in fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

● Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and others.

● Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express (recommended).

● Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX

● Understanding of REST Services.

● Experience with Redis.

● Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, MongoDB and Elasticsearch.

● Proficient understanding of serverless programming.

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

● Good problem-solving skills.

● Attention to detail.

Your responsibilities as a Full Stack Developer * Write clean codes with relevant test cases

Roles & Responsibilities-

• Prototype quickly and optimize iteratively
• Integrating front end with server-side logic
• Implement security and data protection measures
• Document the work properly
• Implement feedback received from end-users
• Deployment on cloud
• Understanding of code versioning tools like git

Experience-

• Must have at least 2-3 years of experience in MEAN Stack development i.e MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, and Node.js
• Extensive Experience in API integration and development.
• Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Experience with version control systems and repository management.
• Passionate about writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills and experience building consumer systems at scale.

Required skillset
Applicants must have knowledge and experience in the following:

• Backend frameworks like nodejs, expressjs
• Working with RDBMS
• Familiarity with MongoDB would be beneficial
• HTML, CSS & JavaScript
• Frontend frameworks like Angular, React / Svelte
• A web servers like Nginx
• Familiarity of working with WebSocket’s
• Docker understanding

Required Skills:

• 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• Spring Boot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) or MongoDB (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Good at problem solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 2+ years of experience in using Java
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentor ship/coaching is highly desirable.

Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure.

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

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.

Skills:

• 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

As a senior full-stack developer, you will contribute to our end-to-end supply chain platform. You'll work with all key stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable code and 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
• An agile - welcome change, do as little as possible and embrace continuous delivery
• Conscious about how quality is carried through from the UI to all layers underneath
• Passionate about design as a foundation of great user experience
• Opinionated, but flexible to accommodate the big picture

• Analyze 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 for a full-stack development
• 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
• 3-5 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 React.js and related ecosystem
• Experience with GraphQL and other modern JS ecosystems
• Expertise in common design patterns and anti-patterns Javascript
• Experience with 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
• Knowledge of AWS
• 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 CI/CD and setting up a monitoring infrastructure
• Experience with Flutter
• Interest in blockchain and computer vision-related ML systems
• Experience working on high traffic systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline