Senior Node.js Developer

Cashflo
Software Engineer - Backend
Job Description
Introduction
Cashflo, true to its name, is on a mission to unlock $100+ billion of trapped working
capital in the economy by creating India’s largest marketplace for invoice discounting
to solve the day-to-day cashflow problems faced by businesses. Founded by ex-BCG
and ISB / IIM alumni, and backed by SAIF Partners, Cashflo helps democratize access
to credit in a fair and transparent manner. Awarded Supply Chain Finance solution of
the year in 2019, Cashflo creates a win-win ecosystem for Buyers, suppliers and
financiers through its unique platform model. Cashflo shares its parentage with HCS
Ltd., a 25-year-old, highly reputed financial services company has raised over Rs.
15,000 Crores in the market till date, for over 200 corporate clients.
Our leadership team consists of ex-BCG, ISB / IIM alumni with a team of industry
veterans from financial services serving as the advisory board. We bring to the table
deep insights in the SME lending space, based on 100+ years of combined experience
in Financial Services. We are a team of passionate problem solvers, and are looking for
like-minded people to join our team.
The challenge
▪ Solve a complex $300+ billion problem at the cutting edge of Fintech
innovation, and make a tangible difference to the small business landscape
in India.
▪ Find innovative solutions for problems in a yet to be discovered market.
Key Responsibilities
▪ As an early team member, you will get a chance to set the foundations of our
engineering culture. You will help articulate our engineering principles and
help set the long-term roadmap.
▪ Making decisions on the evolution of Cashflo's technical architecture
▪ Building new features end to end, from talking to customers to writing code
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have
▪ 3+ years of full-time software engineering experience
▪ Experience building scalable backend platforms (you've owned & built
features from start to finish before)
▪ Thorough knowledge of SDLC
▪ Extensive knowledge of any of Python, Go, NodeJS
▪ Expertise on any RDBMS or NoSQL databases
▪ Understanding of messaging systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka and protocols
▪ Understands CI/CD pipelines
▪ Exposure to cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure
▪ Seen extensive scale and understands the evolutionary technical challenges
About You
Product-minded. You have a sense for great user experience and feel for when
something is off. You love understanding customer pain points and solving for them.
Get a lot done. You enjoy all aspects of building a product and are comfortable
moving across the stack when necessary. You problem solve independently and enjoy
figuring stuff out.
High conviction. When you commit to something, you're in all the way. You're
opinionated, but you know when to disagree and commit. Mediocrity is the worst of all
possible outcomes.
What’s in it for me
▪ Gain exposure to the Fintech space - one of the largest and fastest growing
markets in India and globally
▪ Shape India’s B2B Payments landscape through cutting edge technology
innovation
▪ Be directly responsible for driving company’s success
▪ Join a high performance, dynamic and collaborative work environment
that throws new challenges on a daily basis
▪ Fast track your career with trainings, mentoring, growth opportunities
on both IC and management track
▪ Work-life balance and fun team events

Responsibilities: 
Developing and maintaining all server-side network components. 
Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests. 

Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements. 

Designing back-end services for various business processes.ses. 

Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code. 

Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions. 

Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support. 

Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports. 

Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies. 

Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development. 

Skills: 

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar. 

At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer. 

Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks. 

Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. 

Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills. 

Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude. 

Great organizational and time management skills. 

Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours. 

Architectural:

Design and implement a software architecture

Select a technology stack

Design and configure infrastructure

Select a development toolkit (IDE, etc.)

Design and implement a database design

Improve and optimise the application architecture

Ensure scalability of the application

Ensure scalability of the infrastructure

Explore new technologies and decide whether to implement them

 

Strategy, planning, and design:

• Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify technology requirements, define the future product vision, create preliminary design concepts for add-on modules and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founders, business development, and marketing team.
• Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback.

 

Implementation and deployment:

• Manage Product Release, QA cycles, feature implementation and on time delivery through in-house team and vendors.
• Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases.
• Creation of wireframes/prototypes, site maps and user-flows for web and mobile platforms.

 

Operational management :

• Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics.
• Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing.
• Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed.
• Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage.
• Set-up data collection and analysis system in collaboration with CEO to track key performance.

metrics.

Strong fundamentals in computer science/engineering and algorithm design.

Practical knowledge of computer software algorithms in machine/deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision etc.

 

Personal Requirements:

• Min of 7+ years of Hands on experience in Web app development, payment gateways implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.
• Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.
• Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and utilise emerging technologies.
• Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant

MVC architecture

Ruby and Rails

Creating JSON based web services from Ruby on Rails (RoR) apps

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Ajax, lodash/underscore.js

A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design

Good to have knowledge in any front end framework, Angular or above versions, Backbonejs, Ember.js

Should have extensive experience in Agile software development principles, practice, and process

Should have worked on enterprise-cl applications

RoR Performance tuning and scaling

Proficiency in English strongly preferred

A proactive and resourceful person who achieves with minimal oversight

Team player with the ability and desire to become an integral part of a fast-paced team

Good knowledge of relational databases MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2 or similar

Hands-on experience with at least one of the NoSQL environments like MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra

Experience with text search systems like elastic, solr or similar

Hands-on experience in integrating with third-party REST APIs

Managing code with Git and other version control tools

Good to have knowledge of Nginx  

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IT Experience in Front end and backend application development • Good experience in developing using various JS frameworks (Nodejs, Angularjs, Reactjs, with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap). • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with good interpersonal and communication skills. • Strong proficiency with JavaScript. • Good working knowledge with database MongoDB. • Angualr JS, Node JS, React JS, Mongo DB • Database Design and query optimization • Third party API integration (payment gateway, SMS API, Id verification service), Laravel, Code igniter and web service • Agile Scrum Development • Knowledge of various AWS Cloud Services etc. • Experience in Window Azure development which include developing backend for IOT application using Azure IOT Hub, Azure Event Hubs. • Knowledge on IoT application / Projects. • Excellent hands-on experience dealing with the onsite – offshore model and client interaction. • Client engagement to get more business for the organization. • Well versed with Quality Processes & Procedures. Experience in Planning, Estimation and Project management. Led and managed teams towards successful releases in the past. • Understanding and implementation of security and data protection. • Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds. • Web fundamentals like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Competencies  Requirement Analysis.  Task Break Down and Delegation to Team Members.  Coding.  Estimation  Code Review and Technical suggestions.  Client Communication.  Functional Test Case Preparation.  Testing and Debugging old code  Code reuse & Performance Improvement.  Professional documentation skills.  Ability to adapt to any environment and gain the required knowledge in short time.  Optimize and improve code structure

Responsibilities: ● Setup the Eatery technology team over the course of time as the app scales. ● Will be initially responsible for development related fixes which can be later delegated to the team once hired. ● Should be able to do QC for work executed from third party vendors. ● Responsible for design, architecture and delivery for a feature/component/product with the highest quality ● Mentor and coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership ● Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products & features ● Demonstrate the ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities based on changing requirements ● Estimate efforts, identify risks, device and meet project schedules & deadlines ● Runs review meetings effectively and drive the closure of all open issues on time ● Provide functional, design, and code reviews in relate d areas of expertise within team and cross-team ● Inculcate best software engineering practices, standards of code and help t he team deal with complexity and ambiguity ● Keep abreast with & provide guidance on the latest & emerging trends in web, mobile & associated spaces Requirements : ● 7 to 8 years of design and development experience buil ding highly scalable & distributed systems, performance benchmarking & tuning. ● 2 to 5 years of experience in building Tech Products with user focus ● 2 to 4 years of experience in managing small teams ● Development experience and proficiency in one or more languages/frameworks such as Java, Angularjs, Hibernate, JPA and a strong understanding of web fundamentals ● Understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3 ● Active knowledge of web technologies (like AngularJS), DOM Components and Stylesheets ● Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks like Express. ● Knowledge of MongoDB ● Familiarity with core programming concepts and knowledge in Data Structures, Database management system(DBMS), Operating System and software development life cycle(SDLC) ● Experience with NoSQL and distributed database like Cassandra or Redis ● Strong understanding/expertise in building REST APIs/ Microservices architecture ● Familiar writing automated test cases for iOS providing adequate code coverage. ● Familiarity with Android application development & combined programming experience such as Objective C and/or Swift. ● Strong understanding of Android framework design patterns Who you are: ● You’re an active participant in the innovation & evolution of products in that you actively think about ways to improve things ● Thinking of problems & seeking plausible solutions comes naturally to you ● You set your own deadlines & don’t stop until you’ve smashed them ● You prefer to roll-up your sleeves & get down to business rather than stand back & orchestrate ● You hold a passion for products, empathy for users and aspire to make a big impact

The Company - ShawAcademy.com Design and technology are at the forefront of our focus to deliver the best, live, online education on the planet. As the largest provider, we must deploy complex engineering solutions, while being in a groundbreaking sector of education requires innovation in UI/UX, graphical and interaction design. We're always looking for the best candidates and love to work with the most technically strong and most creatively minded individuals.   The Position We are building the next generation platform for delivering education and training on-line. Hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), this platform needs to offer webinar capabilities that can scale at a global level.    This role will suit an ambitious, hardworking and highly driven individual who has a proven track record of delivering high quality products. Come and be part of this dynamic team we are building in Bangalore with a great opportunity to work with the latest technology and a great deal of creative freedom.   We like to work in small teams so any work you do will have a massive impact on the business!     Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities: We're looking for passionate, creative developers who are excited about solving new problems. As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the full stack of development; you'll work with everything from front-end HTML, CSS and JS (AngularJS) to server-side PHP and several different data stores including MongoDB and Elasticsearch, as well as take on agile project management responsibilities.     What you'll do: Lead an agile team of 5-7 software developers and QA engineers Work with the team and the product owner to define a prioritised backlog of stories that the team will tackle during a given sprint Work closely together with other teams to ensure a stable and reliable product Be fully hands-on in terms of writing code and participating in software development projects Play an active role in developing new features for a high performance, scalable web platform Assess and communicate how your work impacts business and other systems Monitor teams progress and take ownership of removing any impediments that slow the team down Mentor people on the team and help them improve their game   Skills & Experience Required: A recognised third-level degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar  You have a minimum of 8 years of hands-on software development experience You have experience with coding in more than one programming language, e.g. Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Ruby, JavaScript or PHP Experience with AngularJS, MongoDB and PHP (Laravel 4) is a plus but not required You are an open source fanatic You have a sound understanding of programming fundamentals and their application to highly scalable web based systems You have successfully led a small agile team   Salary / Remuneration: Competitive basic salary in addition to a generous, uncapped commission structure Opportunity to join a rapidly expanding technology-based firm with a foundation of real talent, and work with real innovators whilst achieving ones own goals.

If you're up for a challenge and willing to dive deep into fast paced and robust technologies driving every facet of our world. Shoot a mail and join us. [email protected]