Senior Node Js Developer

Job Title: Associate Backend Engineer

Job Summary:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Associate Backend Engineer with 1 to 2 years of experience to join our growing engineering team. Whether you're a recent graduate or have some industry experience, this role offers a strong foundation to grow your skills in real-world backend development. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend systems that power our products.

This position is ideal for individuals who are eager to learn, write production-grade code, and grow into a high-performing backend engineer.

Website: https://www.thealteroffice.com/about

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in building and maintaining backend services and APIs for web and mobile applications.
• Work with both relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) databases for data modeling and storage.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code under guidance.
• Contribute to authentication, authorization, and other core backend features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, frontend, and QA to deliver complete features.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback to improve code quality.
• Debug issues, write unit/integration tests, and help maintain service reliability and performance.
• Learn to work with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and deployment workflows.
• Use tools like Docker, basic cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), and optionally explore monitoring/logging tools.
• Explore new technologies such as GraphQL, WebSockets, or message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) when relevant.

Requirements:

• 1 to 2 years of backend development experience, including internships, academic projects, freelance, or open-source work.
• Familiarity with at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, etc.).
• Basic understanding of RESTful APIs, HTTP, databases, and server-side logic.
• Exposure to SQL and NoSQL databases and understanding of CRUD operations.
• Familiarity with Git and fundamental development workflows.
• Willingness to learn and apply best practices in scalability, security, and asynchronous programming.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and eagerness to take feedback and grow.
• Good communication and collaboration skills in a team environment.

Person should have strong knowledge in -

1. Core Java,

2. JSP

3. Spring Framework,

4. Spring Boot,

5. SOAP and REST Webservices

6. Application Security.

Person should have 4 to 6 Years of work experience in Java and the above-mentioned related technology.

Person should have good Oracle Database knowledge and have good communication skills.

Having work experience in BFSI domain will added advantage

Person needs to work from Mumbai location and also available to join the office

Technical Architect, Nodejs, , Restful APIs, Python,  NodeJS,  HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Bootstrap, JavaScript, AJAX, Postman, REST API, Express

What you need to have:

Requirements :

- 3+ years of professional software development experience

- 2+ years of object-oriented Java/J2EE hands-on development

- Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring

- REST web services

- Anyone of the messaging solutions like Kafka, RabbitMQ

Desirables :

- SQL, No SQL concepts

- Experience of Redis or/and Mongo DB

- Agile methodology

- Experience leading or working with cross geography teams

- Unix, shell scripting & Build Systems

Bonus :

- Microservice design and development experience

- Android application development experience

- Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage

- Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc.)

Responsibilities :

- You will be working with the Supply Chain Management team building a leading eCommerce platform for Asian markets

- Order Promising system, promising the order delivery promise date to customer by applying the constraints on current resource availability across different steps in the supply chain. This system needs to scale for thousands of requests per minute with few million seconds of response time

- Warehouse and Inventory Management system, this system needs to scale to processing huge number of orders across different warehouse.

- Transportation and Logistics Management, involves planning and delivery of huge number orders to end customer. This system has the workflows to manage first mile, line haul and last mile delivery to customer

- Inventory Planning, helps in tracking different selling behaviours of the items and triggers / helps planners to replenish, promote, markdown or place inventory at right place to cut down the on hand inventory requirements

- You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle. Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding review, coding, unit testing, end user feedback cycle changes and manging and scaling the system in production.

- Primary role in leading software development teams

- The customized solutions that you will be architecting and developing will also require knowledge and experience with spring / Hibernate, SOAP / REST, microservices and SQL.

- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and willingness to read and digest large existing source code and take ownership on complex component or subsystem to drive improvements and re-architecture

- Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the design and development of global platforms

- Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, cloud-based or hosted product platforms

- Drive the implementation of new technologies that improve our ability to build great customers products.

- Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.

Qualification :