Shopify App Developer

Job Title: Mid-Level Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time or Project Basis

About Us:

At Tese, we are committed to advancing sustainability through innovative technology. Our platform helps SMEs and financial institutions manage their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals using AI, IoT, and data-driven insights. We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer with mid-level experience to join our dynamic team and contribute to building scalable, robust backend systems.

Role Overview:

As a Mid-Level Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining backend services that power our core platform. You will work closely with our frontend developers, product team, and data scientists to implement solutions that are scalable, secure, and efficient. You will focus on building APIs, managing databases, and optimizing the performance of our services.

Key Responsibilities:

• API Development:
• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs that serve our frontend applications and third-party integrations.
• Ensure high-performance and responsiveness of APIs, while following best practices for security and scalability.
• Database Management:
• Work with both NoSQL (MongoDB) , SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and databases, ensuring efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Optimize database queries and manage migrations, ensuring data integrity and consistency across the platform.
• Microservices and Cloud Infrastructure:
• Develop microservices architecture using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring that services are scalable and maintainable (Good to have).
• Work with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) to deploy and manage backend services, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Collaboration and Documentation:
• Collaborate with frontend developers, data scientists, and product managers to gather requirements and develop backend solutions.
• Write clear, maintainable code with proper documentation, including technical designs, API specifications, and test cases.
• Performance and Security:
• Monitor backend services to ensure optimal performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements.
• Implement security best practices for APIs, databases, and backend systems, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 3-5 years of experience in backend development, with a strong focus on building scalable and efficient systems.
• Technical Skills:
• Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Node.js, Python.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control (e.g., Git).
• Soft Skills:
• Strong problem-solving abilities and the capacity to work independently as well as in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A strong passion for sustainability and a desire to contribute to impactful projects that drive positive environmental change.

Preferred Qualifications:

The following qualifications are bonus, but not strictly necessary:

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerisation and orchestration (Good to have).
• Experience working with microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) metrics and sustainability (Good to have).
• Familiarity with serverless architectures and API gateways.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package and performance bonuses.
• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology with a focus on sustainability.
• Professional development opportunities, including access to conferences and training.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should submit their CV and a cover letter detailing their experience and passion for backend development and sustainability here.

Join Us:

Be a part of a forward-thinking team that is making a real difference in the world. At Tese, you'll have the opportunity to innovate, grow, and contribute to a more sustainable future through technology.

• At least 4 years of experience as a Node.js developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Mandatory experience in MongoDB and MySql.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.

Job Description:

We are looking for Tech geeks having hands-on experience and in love with building scalable, distributed and large web/mobile products and tech solutions. He/She must be an excellent problem solver with passion to self-learn and implement web technologies (frontend + backend). He/She would be responsible for the architecture design, code review, and technology build and deployment activities of the product. 

    Responsibilities:-

• Own the product development from scratch.
• Architect scalable, distributed and large-scale web and mobile solutions from scratch.
• Code for fresh development and to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Able to learn & implement new technology/framework/library at God Speed.
• Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and be able to multitask.
• Experience and knowledge of open-source tools and frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development. 

   Desired Candidate Profile:-

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field(or combined with related experience)
• Strong Expertise in Node.js/Javascript
• Hands-on experience in writing Node.js applications
• Deep knowledge of Restful APIs, Web Services, command-line programs and solid design principles.
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks like Express.js,Sails.js,StrongLoop, Meteor,Loopback.js, etc
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database(MongoDB)
• Knowledge of tools like Docker, Git, Postman, JSdocs, etc.
• Well versed with front-end technologies - HTML5, and CSS3, AWS, GCP, Azure, Good hold on CLI command, OS
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, both dynamic(Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc.) and strongly typed object-oriented language.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a high energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Task:

• Develop, record, and maintain cutting-edge web-based PHP applications.
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications.
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools.
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API.
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support.
• Refactor, optimize, and improve the existing codebase for maintenance and scale.
• Use test driven development and acceptance tests to ensure feature quality
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues.
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as a liaison between development staff and project manager.
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development.

We wish:

• Previous working experience as a PHP Developer for 4 year(s)
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Proficient in PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery Expert
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Symfony, Laravel, Yii, CodeIgniter, Zend, etc.)
• Excellent relational database skills with MySQL
• Experience with building restful JSON web services
• Knowledge of API’s, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google maps, Instagram, etc.
• Understanding of responsive design frameworks such as bootstrap

Desirable:

• Should have problem-solving skills
• Good experience in oops concept
• Good experience  in MVC
• Good experience in jQuery & JavaScript
• Learn & work on new technologies/ frameworks.
• Knowledge of bootstrap

We Offer:

• Freedom to realize your ideas & individual career & development opportunities.
• A motivating work environment, flat hierarchical structure, numerous company events that cannot be forgotten, and fun at the workplace with flexibilities.
• Professional challenges and career development opportunities.

About the role

Checking quality is one of the most important tasks at Anakin. Our clients are pricing their products based on our data, and minor errors on our end can lead to our client's losses of millions of dollars. You would work with multiple tools and with people across various departments to ensure the accuracy of the data being crawled. You would setup manual and automated processes and make sure they run to ensure the highest possible data quality.

You are the engineer other engineers can count on. You embrace every problem with enthusiasm. You remove hurdles, are a self-starter, team player. You have the hunger to venture into unknown areas and make the system work.

Your Responsibilities would be to:

• Understand customer web scraping and data requirements; translate these into test approaches that include exploratory manual/visual testing and any additional automated tests deemed appropriate
• Take ownership of the end-to-end QA process in newly-started projects
• Draw conclusions about data quality by producing basic descriptive statistics, summaries, and visualisations
• Proactively suggest and take ownership of improvements to QA processes and methodologies by employing other technologies and tools, including but not limited to: browser add-ons, Excel add-ons, UI-based test automation tools etc.
• Ensure that project requirements are testable; work with project managers and/or clients to clarify ambiguities before QA begins
• Drive innovation and advanced validation and analytics techniques to ensure data quality for Anakin's customers
• Optimize data quality codebases and systems to monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Configure and optimize the automated and manual testing and deployment systems used to check the quality of billions of data points of over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience as a backend or a full-stack software engineer
• Web scraping experience with Python or Node.js
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Should be paranoid about data quality

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity
• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

Additional Requirements:

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.

• • Key Result Areas
  
  
  1. Develop and lead desktop and mobile web Back end development. 
  2. Work on Node JS platform.
  3. Strong focus on UI Performance: optimize page load, rendering, caching, leveraging CDNs.
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  1. Technology Skills:
  
  
  • Advanced Javascript, CSS, HTML 5, D/XHTML, XML, JSON, DOM Concepts
  • Must have worked on a SPA frameworks:Nodejs, AngularJS or InfernoJS
  • Familiarity with common Javascript Libraries such as jQuery.
  • Fluent in responsive design and mobile / tablet UI / UX
  • Knowledge about UI testing automation
  • Web mobile (touch devices: mobiles and tablets) experience is expected
  • UI or API Performance: should have hands-on experience of optimizing page load, rendering,caching.
  • Good understanding of AJAX and its UI implications
  • Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective

• 10 + years of experience and expertise in database and systems architecture design, development and implementation;
• Expertise and experience in data structures, indexing, query, and retrieval;
• Excellent data management skills including ensuring data integrity, data access, security and archiving procedures;
• Knowledge of the language technology and video extraction research domains to be able to converse fluently with the research communities to transform research requirements into concrete formalisms.
• Experience in cross platform development for multiple variants of Unix, Linux including 32 and 64 bit
• Experience with NoSQL, SQL databases, statistics and algorithms
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Design, implement and test novel database architecture designs to accommodate the multimodal data types used in Client managed technology evaluations
• Administer and monitor database and address data security solutions as applicable
• Design and develop efficient techniques for fast, optimized data access and transfer of distributed or networked database systems
• Design, implement and test novel data structures, data search, query and retrieval solutions to enable access to and processing of the multimodal data types used in Client managed technology evaluations