

You will be working on:
- As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
- Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
- Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
- Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
- Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
- Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
- Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories
We are looking for:
- Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
- Solid experience in building web-based products
- Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
- Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
- Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
- Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
- Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
- Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
- A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
- Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

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Job Title: Lead – Application Engineering
Remote | Chennai | Hyderabad | Bangalore
Tiger Analytics is a global AI and analytics consulting firm. With data and technology at the core of our solutions, our 2800+ tribe is solving problems that eventually impact the lives of millions globally. Our culture is modelled around expertise and respect with a team-first mindset. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, you’ll find our delivery centres across the globe and offices in multiple cities across India, the US, the UK, Canada, and Singapore, including a substantial remote global workforce.
We’re Great Place to Work-Certified™. Working at Tiger Analytics, you’ll be at the heart of an AI revolution. You’ll work with teams that push the boundaries of what is possible and build solutions that energize and inspire.
Curious about the role? What your typical day would look like?
We are looking for Tech Leads working with our Application Engineering team, designing, and developing a variety of applications. More specifically, you will:
- Determine the functional, non-functional requirements and scope working with the business analysts and engineering managers
- Design and develop multi-tier, cloud-native, high performance, and scalable solutions
- Apply software engineering principles, design patterns and best practices to build solutions that are testable, secure, and robust
- Lead cross functional agile teams across the software development lifecycle
- Evaluate design alternatives using proof of concepts and collaborate with architects to choose optimal solutions
- Performing design and code reviews
- Collaborate with project/program managers to estimate, plan, and mitigate technical risks at module/project level
- Mentor and groom developers to deliver high quality solutions
What do we expect?
- Years of Experience: 5+ years
- Relevant hands-on experience with one of more of the following:
- Programming Languages – Python with Django / Flask / Java / C#.net
- Web server technologies - Node.js / Nginx
- Database technologies - MySQL / Oracle / PostgreSQL / MongoDB
- Testing frameworks – Junit/ Selenium
- Cloud environments - AWS / Azure / GCP (Good to have)
- Good understanding of API design and development
You are important to us, let’s stay connected!
Every individual comes with a different set of skills and qualities so even if you don’t tick all the boxes for the role today, we urge you to apply as there might be a suitable/unique role for you tomorrow.
We are an equal opportunity employer. Our diverse and inclusive culture and values guide us to listen, trust, respect, and encourage people to grow the way they desire.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
- Building big, robust. Scalable and maintainable Node JS application.
- Debugging, fixing bugs, Identifying Performance issues, and improving App performance.
- Developing, Deploying, and maintaining multistage, multi-tier applications.
- Provide scalable and secure solutions to large customer problems worldwide.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports
- Experience in building robust APIs
- Good problem-solving abilities
- Participate in architectural, design, and product sessions.
- Develop the system architecture and infrastructure for our point-of-contact real-time communication system.
- The complete development life cycle of the delivered capability

Product-based Experience
TDD/BDD Experience
SQL Databases
Good to Have
Experience with Third-party Integrations
Queueing Systems
NoSQL Databases
Understanding of Rails Internals
Application Monitoring and Error Reporting Tools
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript
- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it
- A good understanding of the nature of asynchronous programming, its challenges, and workarounds
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages
- Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
- Experience in user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Proficiency in API integrations
- Understanding of fundamental design and architecture principles to scale an application
- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- A degree in any discipline
- Good communication and team skills
- Ability to listen to the requirements of team members and clients and translate them into great solutions
Our backend(NodeJS+PHP) team is passionate about technology, and we love building scalable web solutions keeping performance in mind.We're looking for a full stack developer that has experience developing a variety of Web Apps using the PHP and NodeJS stack.
Role + Responsibilities:
- Work with the team to design, develop and support scalable applications
- Developing API’s(REST), designing the database schema and implement same in web frameworks like Laravel and Express along with ORM(including migration script and seeds data)
- Very good end-to-end debugging skills in PHP and NodejS stack.
- Write, test, and release production-ready code.
- Work with our DevOps team to ensure continuous deployments of our applications
Person Specification and Qualifications:
- Experience developing highly scalable services and APIs(in NodejS and PHP frameworks)
- Knowledge of data modelling and database performance using NoSQL/SQL
- Strong experience with PHP framework like Laravel(PHP) and JS frameworks like Express, and other Framework In nodeJS.
- Good knowledge in code versioning(git or svn)
- Good knowledge in html templating, javascript, html and css.
- Good experience with code deployment on server like ubuntu, linux.
- Knowledge of SDK integration(social media sdk like Facebook, google, etc and cloud services sdk like AWS and Azure)
- Familiarity developing SaaS applications in AWS/Azure cloud services.
- In-depth knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architectures for multi-tier applications

Role and Responsibilities:
- As a backend developer, your primary focus will be the development of all server-side systems
- A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. You will test, secure and deploy your code
- Work experience on Node.js is a must along with a server-side framework like Express.js
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Experience and proficiency integrating with REST APIs
- Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience in working with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
- AgileScrum development cycle understanding.
Skills Required:
- At least 2 years of experience developing backends using NodeJS should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB(Must) & any other MySQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Knowledge and working experience in Cloud environment - AWS or Azure
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter without any fear of trying out new things






