Senior Software Engineer

 About us:

http://www.productsup.com">Productsup provides an award-winning platform for feed management, product content syndication, marketplace integration, and seller onboarding. The platform empowers businesses to take complete control of their product data and break through the digital walls that hinder growth. With Productsup, businesses can syndicate content to digital marketing, shopping, or business channels, including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart, and more. 

We are headquartered in Berlin, Germany, have entities in 5 different countries, and are in the process of setting up our Indian entity. Productsup is trusted by more than 800 businesses worldwide, including 5 Fortune 20 companies and market leaders like IKEA, Walmart, Superdry, and Rakuten.

We are proud that we have recently raised an additional 20 Million dollars in funding and that our employees enjoy working at Productsup, which is also shown by our Glassdoor and Kununu ratings.

About the role:

We’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead/Managing Architect for our API/Backend Development team. In this role, you’ll lead the effort to develop channels and APIs for our marketplace channels and scalable data pipelines, which process over 5 billion products a day.

In your first 6 months and beyond, you will:

• Learn the ins and outs of our platform, our codebase and our engineering processes
• Help build features for software that works with large data sets
• Play a key cross-functional role within our team of highly talented Javascript and PHP developers
• Develop solutions for high availability software
• Receive customer requests from the Product Team and develop solutions in the form of new features or products
• Debug and maintain APIs
• Work closely within the Platform team and with the API team to develop internal APIs and client-facing interfaces.

What you bring to the team:

• 2+ years of demonstrated Tech leadership experience.
• 7+ years of experience in PHP (good knowledge of Slim, Silex, or Symfony frameworks) and MySQL
• Some knowledge of integration architecture patterns such as scalable microservices, API gateways, API scalability
• Deep knowledge in APIs, web services, command-line programs, TDD, and SOLID design principles
• Good understanding of B2B SaaS products and experience dealing with big data
• Knowledge of developing and securing APIs
• Extended database experience in Elasticsearch, MongoDB or Couchbase
• Outstanding communication skills in English
• Educational background in IT or Computer Science is a plus

Benefits & Perks:

• Attractive Salary and benefits
• MacBook (latest version) for our new joiners
• A unique and thorough onboarding program where you’ll learn the ins and outs of our company and product
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• Employee referral bonuses
• High level of personal responsibility and impact

Explore more here

https://www.linkedin.com/company/productsup/">LinkedIn 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olqMdYTBjHc">Life at Productsup

Do you have what it takes? We'd love to hear from you!

We know CVs don't always tell the whole story, so in addition to submitting your CV feel free to let us know why you're interested in this role in a short cover letter (:100 words).

• 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 customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• 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.

Node.js Developer Requirements:

• 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.

Required Skills:

● Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least Django (More web frameworks are a plus)

● Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries

● Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

● Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture

● Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)

● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 (is a plus)

● Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

● Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

● Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

● Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

● Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform

● Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

● Strong unit test and debugging skills

● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

● Knowledge of application deployment process and server set up

● Integration of data storage solutions

Responsibilities:

● Owning one or more of the web services; adding new features, resolving bugs, and refactoring/ improving code base.

● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

● Translating product requirements into functional, maintainable, extensible software that is in-line with company objectives.

● Good knowledge of software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, troubleshooting, & agile development.

● Work on cutting-edge web technologies to make a powerful impact on 1M+ enterprise users

● Be part of a growing team that will design, develop, and test software and cross-product applications which span across different Planview products

● Work in an agile engineering team writing maintainable and scalable code for software components and influencing team decisions

● Contribute to the product’s architecture vision and execution, working closely with cross-product teams and other leaders within the R&D department

● Collaborate with stakeholders to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that impacts our customers and inspires your peers

● Drive continuous improvement of software quality, CX and maintainability of features

● Continuous learning of technology trends, tools, and approaches, including sharing this knowledge with your team

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

• Spent at least 3 yrs in a solid back end role
• Experience taking a problem to a product solution (module/product)
• Prior experience working with startups and understand the fast-paced, dynamic nature of work

• Javascript, NodeJS
• Client-server architecture
• OOP concepts, including design patterns
• Understanding of RDBMS (MySQL, Postgresql)
• Understanding of REST API
• Familiarity with frameworks such as ExpressJs

• Knowledge of TDD frameworks mocha, chai, jest, etc
• Knowledge of AWS (Lambda, RDS, EC2, SQS, S3, ECS, etc)
• Basic knowledge of Typescript, NextJs
• Prior experience in fin-tech

6 days working -Remote working would do

JOB DES RIPTION

Founded by experienced founders and funded by Tier-1 VCs, It's a solution for democratizing the shopping experience on e-commerce platforms. Our aim is to provide a superior shopping experience for all our partners and improve both customer satisfaction and their GMV.Being an early-stage company, we are looking for self-driven, motivated people who want to build something exciting and are always looking out for the next big thing. We plan to build this company remotely, which brings freedom but also an added sense of responsibility. If all this sounds interesting to you read on

Responsibilities

• Writing testable and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

• Implementation of security and data protection
• implementing business logic and developing APIs and services
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

Skills And Qualifications

• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in back-end development with Node.js.
• Knowledge of Node.js frameworks such Resitfy
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Expertise with Linux based systems
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Have worked in any of the cloud based platform AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.

Traits we value

• Independent, resourceful, analytical, and able to solve problems effectively
• Ability to be flexible, agile, and thrive in chaos
• Excellent oral and written communication skills