Senior Software Engineer

Unico Connect is a forward-thinking technology company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the digital world. We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Backend Developer to join our team. In this role, you will be primarily responsible for developing robust backend applications using Xano, a NoCode platform. 

Responsibilities

1. Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and RESTful APIs using Xano, a NoCode backend platform. Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of server-side applications.
2. Database Design: Work with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) to design, create, and optimize database structures, and implement data models.
3. API Development: Build and maintain REST APIs, integrating third-party services to enhance functionality and user experience.
4. Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and ensure the efficient use of resources.
5. Security: Implement best practices for data security and access control, including user authentication and authorization.
6. Documentation: Maintain detailed technical documentation, including API documentation and database schemas.
7. Code Reviews: Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers to ensure code quality and best practices are followed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4-6 years of proven experience in backend development using Java or PHP (Laravel) or Node.js.
• Solid experience with relational databases, including database design, managing optimization and performance at scale. 
• Skilled in building REST APIs and integrating with third-party services.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to NoCode tools such as Xano and others.
• Proficiency in cloud services (AWS/GCP), including setup and management of various cloud-based resources.
• Experience in implementing API caching using Redis or similar.  
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with NoCode platforms
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with batch processing and implementing queue management systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS.
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD practices.

As a Staff Full-stack engineer, you will work across the Acceldata platform products. We’re looking for people with a strong background or inclination towards data engineering and systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces and can work at the  intersection of Databases, API's and Frontends

You will:          

• Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions.
• Design, build and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, and services.
• Work closely with our customers and sales teams on a regular basis to carve out new features and use cases
• Work with MVC frameworks such as React or Angular 
• Work with database systems, RDBMS, Mongo, Elastic Search.
• Develop shared front-end components (JavaScript & CSS) for use across all of our products, enabling other UI engineers to build better products faster.

You need:      

• 8+ years of significant of web-application development experience in one or more JS frameworks. You care about building better products.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem-solving.
• You're as comfortable writing plain JavaScript as working with modern frameworks like Angular. You've built your own controls and widgets in JavaScript. 
• You write unit tests for your JavaScript (really, you do). You've probably used Node. You have built complex JS web applications.
• Organized, thorough, and detail-oriented 

Good to have:

• Contribution to open-source projects.
• Background in enterprise software
• JVM performance tuning and debugging

100ms is building a Platform-as-a-Service for developers integrating video-conferencing experiences into their apps. Our SDKs enable developers to add gold standard audio-video quality conferencing with much faster shipping times.

We are a team uniquely placed to work on this problem. We have built world-record scale live video infrastructure powering billions of live video minutes in a day. We are a remote-first global team with engineers who've built video teams at Facebook and Hotstar.

100ms' Platform-as-a-Service will reduce shipping live conferencing application time to days instead of months, allowing companies to focus on their core business.

We are looking for a few young software engineers to join our team, explore new technologies and solve cutting-edge technological problems.

Responsiblities:

As a software engineer(backend), you will be responsible for design, development and scalability of our backend platform. 

You will:

• Design and development of backend services
• Scalability, Reliability and Security of the applications
• End to end ownership of the features and modules
• Articulate complex architecture problems, drive engineering excellence and collaborate with a cross-functional team
• Help scale our platform to support billions of minutes a day across thousands devices around the world
• Share technical practices, build development teams, and improve workflows
• Contribute to open source as we set the standards for video conferencing
• Mentorship of other team members

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in (Computer Science/Information Technology) or equivalent practical experience
• At least 1-4 years of experience as Software Engineer/Developer
• Experience in building scalable applications
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, threading
• Experience in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics
• Proficient in Go or Python or any other server side programming language
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms

Good to have:

• Experience with video conferencing, Sockets, WebRTC, and realtime communication
• Experience with Video Streaming, HLS, Dash.
• Prior experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes
• Ability to take on complex and ambiguous problems
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically
• Strong inclination to keep up-to-date with latest trends, learn new concepts, or contribute to open-source projects and would be eager to talk about ideas in internal or external forums

Why 100ms:

• You'll be part of a small team at a fast-growing engineering-first startup
• You'll work with engineers across the globe with experience in video at places like Facebook and Hotstar
• You can grow as an individual contributor or as a team leader - freedom to set your own goals
• You'll work on problems at the cutting-edge of real-time video communication technology at massive scale

• Skills -
  • Core (Must understand and conversant to code on at least two of these technologies)
    • Java 8+/ Spring Boot/Microservices
    • Spark
    • Scala
    • Angular
    • Javascript
    • ElasticSearch
    • Graph Database (Tinkerpop/Janusgraph)
    • MySQL/Oracle
    • AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Secondary
    • Version Control - Jira/Bitbucket/Git
    • Build Tools - Maven/SBT/Gradle
    • Security
    • Agile/Scrum methodology
    • Should be able to create and review designs/documents
    • Must be able to clearly articulate situations, problems and communicate ideas and solutions

• Must understand System Analysis and Design with understanding of Algorithms (implementation in any language is okay)
• Design optimal and performant solutions for product backlog items spanning technologies
• Work with Product Owner/Project Manager and UX lead for providing LoE estimates for Jira backlog items
• Lead and own delivery or work items (for self and team)
• 80% hands-on work items (self), 20% team responsibility
• Must be willing to learn new technologies, processes, business functions, (we measure this by OKR’s)

Qualifications and Skills