Backend Developer - Node.JS - AirFi
AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.
AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!
Your key responsibilities
- Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.
- Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.
- You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.
- Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimisations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.
What we look for
- Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features
- You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders
- You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
- You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues.
- You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills
- Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.
- Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis
Must have technical skills
- MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 7+ years
- Experience NodeJS, MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB - 7+ years
- Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 5+ years
You get bonus point for
- Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)
- Experience in AngularJS, React, etc - 2+ years
- Linux skills (we run on embedded Linux)
- Expertise HTML5, CSS,
- Experience on Cloudant, AWS, GCP etc.
- Experience on eCommerce or payments related domains
What you can expect
We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We provide a great platform to take up multiple roles based on individual interests or skills and collaborate with different global teams. We boast of a professional, fun work environment with a flat hierarchy and super supportive people to work with. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!
What more do we offer?
Some of our benefits that our employees cherish:
- Flexible work timings, remote working and work from home options
- Liberal employee policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping the work culture non toxic
- A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves
- We provide Skill enhancement sponsorships
- Celebratory team events, regular team virtual GupShups and fun engagement activities including the annual team (destination) meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
- Meal coupons and random gift vouchers
- Career longevity perks and so on!
When we're in office some of the things that make AirFi an interesting place to work are - healthy breakfast, snacks and a fully loaded pantry (read: health alert!); we try to keep AirFi as a fun place to work at and have interesting team activities on Fridays with occasional beers.
You get the opportunity to work and socialise with our global team when they visit or when you visit our customer offices/hangers. Last but not the least, in case you are an aviation geek - the opportunity to be on test flights and learn how the aviation industry works!
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- http://airfi.aero/">Website

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Specific Knowledge/Skills
- 4-6 years of experience
- Proficiency in Python programming.
- Basic knowledge of front-end development.
- Basic knowledge of Data manipulation and analysis libraries
- Code versioning and collaboration. (Git)
- Knowledge for Libraries for extracting data from websites.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with Cloud (Azure /AWS) technologies
Job Description: We are looking for a talented and motivated Software Engineer with
expertise in both Windows and Linux operating systems and solid experience in Java
technologies. The ideal candidate should be proficient in data structures and algorithms, as
well as frameworks like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Hibernate. Hands-on experience
working with MySQL databases is also essential for this role.
Responsibilities:
● Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications using Java technologies.
● Implement robust solutions using Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Hibernate frameworks.
● Develop and optimize database operations with MySQL.
● Analyze and solve complex problems by applying knowledge of data structures and
algorithms.
● Work with both Windows and Linux environments to develop and deploy solutions.
● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time.
● Ensure application security, performance, and scalability.
● Maintain thorough documentation of technical solutions and processes.
● Debug, troubleshoot, and upgrade legacy systems when required.
Requirements:
● Operating Systems: Expertise in Windows and Linux environments.
● Programming Languages & Technologies: Strong knowledge of Java (Core Java, Java 8+).
● Frameworks: Proficiency in Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
● Algorithms and Data Structures: Good understanding and practical application of DSA
concepts.
● Databases: Experience with MySQL – writing queries, stored procedures, and performance
tuning.
● Version Control Systems: Experience with tools like Git.
● Deployment: Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, Docker (optional)
⌛️ Where will you spend your time?
- Early-stage AI SaaS product with the potential to disrupt the Product Analytics space
- Relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability on top of being responsible for entire products
- Owning the design process, implementation, and verification of framework components leveraging standard software engineering methodologies
- Translating functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
🤝 What makes you a good fit?
- 0-2 years of experience in product development, architecture, data structures, algorithms and design.
- Experience with API integrations, database design, and backend frameworks on NodeJS and/or Python
- Experienced with an agile team environment and you prefer being a self-starter.
👀 What process do we follow?
- The whole process is designed so that it can wrap within 2 weeks
- Application: We will keep it simple. You can apply directly through this link. All we ask for is a Resume and a couple of lines around the motivation for the position you are applying for. Additional Portfolio links such as Github, Medium or a Personal website are welcome but not mandatory.
- Screening: We will screen your profile and get back with a decision within 72 working hours.
- Interviews: We will have 3 rounds of technical interviews and 2 rounds of cultural fitment interviews.
- Offer Rollout: If all looks well, we will pop a bottle of champagne.
❤️ Well Being, compensation and how we behave when no one is watching?
We care about your well-being. Along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexibility to work how you want to. We push for physical well-being and in addition to internal health sessions, you get a complimentary annual gym membership.
We assign dedicated work hours exclusively to learning & development initiatives. We respect your weekends and in terms of work hours, we believe in deliverables over anything else. We regularly host team-building sessions, off-sites and encourage discussions around mental well-being and physical well-being over everything else. Most importantly, when our chips are down, we behave the way a family would.
We admire talent and believe in rewarding people for their input. We understand that compensation is an important factor. Our compensation will be respectful to your situation, and the whole process will be transparent from the very minute we speak to you.
Most of us have grown up in a meritocratic culture where actions speak louder. We grew up saying yes to a lot of things outside of our comfort zone and we want to maintain the same without any compromise. When actions speak, we love to celebrate and amplify bold moves. We don’t have answers to a lot of questions and when we falter, we will acknowledge our missteps. There are no closed doors in the way we work. At the end of the day, we are human beings and we will ensure that you can proudly call Crunchit your home.
🍰 What gives you brownie points?
You demonstrate learnability. The founders have spent their years building things mostly independently and at times relying on the collective hive mind of peers. If you are willing to learn and dare to say yes to things that lie out of your comfort zone, you’ll love the growth and transformation.
🏡 Where will you work from?
We are operating out of Central Indiranagar, Bangalore. We are firm believers in "when we sit together on a table, we move mountains". So you will be required to come to our office [WFO], which we have designed with a lot of love and affection :)
Backend - Principal IC/Lead SDE
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years development experience
- Solid Experience and knowledge of
- Coding and debugging using Object Oriented languages like Java, C++, Go or similar languages.
- Database design, Query optimizations, pitfalls (both SQL, NoSQL)
- Developing Scalable, distributed systems and patterns
- Developing REST and/or GraphQL based APIs
- Writing and driving Clean code in a team (via SOLID principles).
- Knowledge of writing unit tests
- NodeJS
Good to have
- Experience with GoLang/Python
- Experience with Microservices, designs and patterns
- Experience with Dockers/Kubernetes and orchestration
- Familiarity with Reactive programming and patterns like RxJs/RxJava, CQRS, Eventing systems
- Experience with automating DevOps lifecycle
- Proficiency with
Responsibilities
- Work with Product team and Drive design, development and deployment of the overall architecture and individual modules to support our Apps , website and internal tools
- Ensure the entire stack is designed and built for availability, speed, scalability, testability, debugging
- Design and development of our REST and GraphQL API
- implement and improve continuous integration and deployment
- Serve as a technical lead for the team
- Mentor team members
Role & responsibilities
- Senior Java developer with 6 to 10 years of experience having worked on Java, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Microservices, Redis, AWS S3
- Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle
- Design, implement, and maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency
- Analyze user requirements to define business objectives
- Envisioning system features and functionality
- Define application objectives and functionality
- Ensure application designs conform to business goals
- Develop and test software
- Should have good experience in Code Review
- Expecting to be 100% hands-on while working with the clients directly
- Performing requirement analysis
- Developing high-quality and detailed designs
- Conducting unit testing using automated unit test frameworks
- Identifying risk and conducting mitigation action planning
- Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback
- Using coding standards and best practices to ensure quality
- Communicating with customers to resolve issues
- Good Communication Skills

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.
We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.
To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.
We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.
Why you should join us:
- You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
- Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
- Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
- We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.
What you will do if you join us:
- Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
- Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
- Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
You should have:
- Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
- 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
- Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
- Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
- Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.
It’s a plus if you have:
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Worked on Micro-services architecture
- Writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code
- Understanding, analyzing, and implementing – Business needs, feature modification requests, conversion into software components
- Integration of user-oriented elements into different applications, data storage solutions
- Developing – Backend components to enhance performance and receptiveness, server-side logic, and platform, statistical learning models, highly responsive web applications
- Designing and implementing – High availability and low latency applications, data protection and security features
- Performance tuning and automation of application
- Working with Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, etc.
- Creating predictive models for AI and ML-based features
- Keeping abreast with the latest technology and trends
- Fine-tune and develop AI/ML-based algorithms based on results
Technical Skills-
Good proficiency in,
- Python frameworks like Django, etc.
- Web frameworks and RESTful APIs
- Core Python fundamentals and programming
- Code packaging, release, and deployment
- Database knowledge
- Circles, conditional and control statements
- Object-relational mapping
- Code versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket
Fundamental understanding of,
- Front-end technologies like JS, CSS3 and HTML5
- AI, ML, Deep Learning, Version Control, Neural networking
- Data visualization, statistics, data analytics
- Design principles that are executable for a scalable app
- Creating predictive models
- Libraries like Tensorflow, Scikit-learn, etc
- Multi-process architecture
- Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
- Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system
- Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
- Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system








