Senior Software Developer (Node Js)

About the role

We are looking for talented Senior Backend Engineers (5+ years of experience) to join our team and take ownership of different parts of our stack. You will be working alongside a team of Engineers locally and directly with the U.S. Engineering team on all aspects of product/application development. You will leverage your experiences and abilities to inform decisions across product development and technology. You will help us build the foundation of our 2nd Headquarters in Pune: its culture, its processes, and its practices. There are a ton of interesting problems to solve, so come hungry. If your colleagues describe you as curious, driven, kind, and creative you are a culture fit.

What Success Looks Like

• You write, review and ship code in production. Your employer or client's success depends on the software you build
• You use Generative AI tools on a daily basis to enhance the quality and efficacy of your software and non-software deliverables
• You are a self-starter and enjoy working with minimal supervision
• You evaluate and make technical architecture decisions with a long-term view, optimizing for speed, quality, and safety
• You take pride in the product you create and the code that you write
• Your team can rely on you to get them out of a sticky situation in production
• You can work well on a team of sales executives, designers and engineers in an in-person environment
• You are passionate about the enterprise software development lifecycle and feel strongly about improving it
• You are a first principles engineer who exercises curiosity about the technologies you work with
• You can learn quickly about technologies, software and code that you are not familiar with, often from rudimentary documentation
• You take ownership of the code that you write, and you help the team operate with everything that you build, throughout its lifecycle
• You communicate openly and solicit feedback on important decisions, keeping the team aligned on your rationale
• You exercise an optimistic mindset and are willing to go the extra mile to make things work

Areas of Ownership

Our hiring process is designed for you to demonstrate a generalist set of capabilities, with a specialization in Backend Technologies.

Required Technical Experience (MUST HAVE):

• Expertise in Python -
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform -
• Proficiency in Kubernetes -
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP strongly preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable) -

Additional experience with some of the following:

• Backend Frameworks and Technologies (Node.js, NuxtJS, Express.js)
• Programming languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, Go)
• RPCs (REST, gRPC or GraphQL)
• Databases (SQL, NoSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, or Firebase)
• CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab or similar)
• Source code versioning tools such as Git or Perforce
• Microservices architecture

Ways to stand out

• Familiarity with AI Platforms
• Extensive experience with building enterprise-scale applications with >99% SLAs
• Deep expertise across the full required stack: Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, and GCP

You'll Get...

• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance Benefits
• Employer Provident Fund contributions with Gratuity after 5 years of service
• Company-sponsored US onsite trips for high performers, based on business requirements
• Potential international transfer support for top performers, based on business requirements
• Technology (hardware, software, trainings, etc.) equipment and/or allowance
• The opportunity to re-shape an entire industry
• Beautiful office environment
• Meal allowance and/or food provision on site

Culture

Who we are: Our Co-Founder and CTO is a Serial Gen AI Inventor who grew up in Pune, India, is a BITS Pilani graduate, and worked at NVIDIA's Pune office for 6 years. There, he was promoted 5 times in 6 years and was transferred to the NVIDIA Headquarters in Santa Clara, California. After making significant contributions to NVIDIA, he proceeded to attend Harvard for his dual Masters in Engineering and MBA from HBS. Our other Co-Founder/CEO is a successful Serial Entrepreneur who has built multiple companies. As a team, we work very hard, have a curious mind-set, and believe in a low-ego high output approach.

·    What you’ll be doing:

  Architecting and delivering mid to large scale Enterprise Applications on Microsoft Platform.

·      Recommending and participating in activities related to the design, development and maintenance of the Enterprise Application Architecture.

Delivering projects on time with quality.

·      Provide technical leadership regarding technology or project to customers and team members

·      Shares best practices, lessons learned and constantly updates the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.

·      Participate in technical forums and discussion within the team and with clients.

·      Guides and mentors’ team in terms of technical solutioning.

What you’ll bring to the team:

·      You have 15+ years of experience in Strong design & coding experience in Dot net framework using design patterns & OOPs concepts.

·      You have practical knowledge & good understanding of cross technology and functional domains, programming concepts and logical approach for problem solving.

You hold rich experience on web development technologies including ASP.NET, MVC5, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, AJAX, XML and CSS.

·      You have experience in web application Architecture and Development with hands on expertise in delivering solutions, customizing C#, ASP.Net applications using development tools like Visual Studio 2010/2012.

What will we be building together?

1K Kirana Bazaar (1K) is building Bharat's first hyperlocal offline-online distribution platform. Our aim is to provide the benefits of technology and scale to the underserved first time internet users of Bharat. We use the efficiencies of the existing kirana store network and empower them with a full technology stack to fulfill all needs of our consumers.

Over the next 2 years our goal is to transform the lives of millions of new age consumers of Bharat and at the same time make the lives of thousands of retailers more fulfilling! With our end to end integrated supply chain and technology stack, we are already disrupting the traditional supply chain and bringing in innovation and gamification to the traditional shopping and consumption process. The growth process will demand exploration of technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IPFS, Distributed Computing, and IOT to name a few to fuel the idealistic model design for the making of an evolved #bharat. We visualise seamless access to every consumer or a mom & pop store in the deepest rooted corners of India.

What will you be driving with the team?

To build full-stack solutions for retail & supply chain from managing purchases to selling products to end consumers. You will work on solving some of the complex problems of the retail industry.

Your core responsibilities:

• Solve complex problems and follow good coding practices and complying with existing quality standards.
• Evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.
• Setup high-quality standards in production running code by performing diligent code reviews and rigorous unit test coverage.
• Brainstorm (sometimes, even prototype) features with the rest of the team based on your knowledge of the codebase.
• And of course, there's always bugs to fix, based on your personal experience or feedback from the team and the 1K community.

What will help you thrive in this role? 

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• 6 month+ experience in software development.
• Knowledge of programming languages.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, data structures, and software design.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and distributed systems is a plus.
• Highly developed attention to detail.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.

Whom you will be sharing your workday with?

We are a language-agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are: 

• We are at the forefront of disrupting the traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of the open-source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data-driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office every day.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

Mentor To Go is an android and web based platform to help students improve their work readiness through self-learning sessions, personalised mentorship provided by mentor professionals from a range of careers, and work experience opportunities.

The technology platform implements  functionalities such as: screening surveys of mentors and mentees, training content for mentors, matching through an algorithm, and mentorship through the delivery of structured activities. 

The application technology architecture comprises of the following:

o   a Python Django web application with NGinx and Gunicorn

o   PostgreSQL database

o   A React Android and Web app

o   Rest APIs which interact between the Android app and the Django webserver

Our vision at Mentor To Go is to provide career mentorship to young people anywhere, anytime across the length and breadth of India.

We are looking for a backend software developer who is passionate about using web technologies to solve social problems and creating experiences that are elegant and effective. You will own the back end development of features of the Mentor To Go platform from conceptualisation through design and testing, working closely with other developers, the technical project manager, and the program operations team. You are user-centric, continuously demonstrate strategic & analytical abilities, and are laser focused on executing at speed. You must have the ability to succeed in a fast paced environment, where success is dependent on your ability to collaborate with cross-functional team members in a positive, productive, and transparent way.

Minimum requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferably  CS  or related discipline  
• 3+ years experience working in Unix/Linux environments building web and mobile applications
• Proficiency in developing and deploying cloud based Python/Postgresql applications preferably using frameworks such as Django
• Experience with design and development of moderately complex software projects
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with version control software such as Git

Desired  requirements 

• 5+ years of overall relevant work experience
• Experience building apps using React/React-Native
• Basic understanding of AWS cloud
• Ability to participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs

About Mentor Together

https://mentortogether.org/">Mentor Together is India’s first and largest youth mentoring  non-profit organization with a mission to facilitate empowering mentoring relationships and networks that help young people break the inequalities of opportunity and actualise their potential.

http://bit.ly/mentortogo">Mentor To Go is the world’s first mobile mentoring platform created by Mentor Together with the support of Cisco India, LinkedIn Social Impact, British Telecom and Sterlite Technologies.

1. Interfacing with the customer, tech team members, project managers and other relevant product people for a thorough understanding of the product, use case and business objective, detailed specification and data flow for the requirement, demonstration of the solution and clarification of queries at appropriate times during the life-cycle of the product
2. Preparing test cases, setting up CI/CD and integration with logging and monitoring systems for the products or platforms by the end of 6 months
3. Seeking customer feedback to continuously optimize the product for great customer experience and high technical performance in areas such as hardware efficiency, latency and throughput
4. Delivering a robust backend platform for the products and platforms by incorporating important considerations regarding minimal downtime, high availability, data redundancy, tight security, etc. into the design

Analytical and Problem Solving Skills

• Has high grasping power. Able to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb qualitative or quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions from it. Exhibits a probing mind and achieves penetrating insights. Attention to detail. Does not let important details slip through the cracks and derail a project. Generates new and innovative approaches to problems.

Efficiency and Execution

• Able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort in a timely manner. Focuses on key priorities.

Hard Work and Persistence

• Possesses a strong willingness to work hard and sometimes long hours to get the job done.
• Demonstrates determination and willingness to go the distance to get something done.

Flexibility and Adaptability

• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Demonstrates ability to learn new things.

Calm under Pressure

• Maintains stable performance when under heavy pressure or stress.

Team Player

• Reaches out to peers and cooperates with supervisors to establish an overall collaborative working relationship. Works proactively without always being told what to do.