Software Developer

Company: BigThinkCode Technologies

URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/

Experience required: 3-4 years

Work location: Chennai

Joining time: Immediate – 2 weeks

Work Mode: Work from office / Hybrid

About the Role

We're looking for a skilled Node.js Developer with 3+ years of experience building scalable applications using event-driven architecture within distributed systems. The ideal candidate is comfortable working on high-performance backend services and has a strong understanding of asynchronous programming patterns. Exposure to knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques is a strong plus, especially for modern data-driven or AI-powered systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications using Node.js
• Build and optimize scalable, event-driven systems in distributed environments
• Implement asynchronous workflows, message queues, and pub/sub architectures
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver backend solutions

Required Skills

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Node.js
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and non-blocking I/O
• Experience working with distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
• Experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

Good to Have

• Experience with knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques
• Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS)
• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Why Join Us:

• Collaborative work environment.
• Exposure to modern tools and scalable application architectures.
• Medical cover for employee and eligible dependents.
• Tax beneficial salary structure.
• Comprehensive leave policy
• Competency development training programs.

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

·         Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.

·         A sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.

·         Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems. 

·         Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.

·         Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

·         BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field. 

·         5+ years of professional production and development experience with leading-edge server and database technologies (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js, Scala, Spring Boot, MySQL, and NoSQL databases).

KEY SKILLS

·         Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns Experience with professional production cloud (AWS preferred).

·         Experience with RESTful Services and APIs.

Key Responsibilities:

Backend Ownership

• Own the design, evolution, and reliability of mission-critical backend systems.
• Ensure scalability, performance, maintainability, and overall system health.
• Lead technical initiatives to address scaling challenges, technical debt, and architectural improvements.

System Design & Architecture

• Drive both High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD).
• Design scalable APIs, data models, service boundaries, and asynchronous workflows.
• Make sound engineering trade-offs balancing delivery speed with long-term system health.

Code Quality & Engineering Excellence

• Improve backend code quality through architecture reviews, code reviews, and refactoring.
• Simplify complex codebases and establish maintainable engineering patterns.
• Introduce best practices and guardrails to improve long-term maintainability.

Database & Performance Optimization

• Optimize PostgreSQL performance through schema design, indexing, query optimization, and tuning.
• Improve application performance using caching strategies and asynchronous processing.
• Design and operate analytics pipelines using ClickHouse or similar large-scale data systems.
• Work with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or equivalent.

Technical Leadership

• Mentor backend engineers on architecture, debugging, and engineering best practices.
• Influence technical direction through thoughtful design discussions and strong technical reasoning.
• Raise overall engineering standards across teams.

Production Ownership

• Own production stability, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Improve observability, monitoring, debugging, and operational excellence.
• Drive long-term reduction in production incidents and operational overhead.

Required Skills & Experience

Must Have

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Node.js.
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience designing and operating distributed backend systems.
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and microservices architecture.
• Experience owning backend services end-to-end—from architecture to production support.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience improving code quality, maintainability, and engineering standards.

Good to Have

• Experience with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or large-scale analytics platforms.
• Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and production reliability.

What We're Looking For

Engineering Mindset

• Passion for improving existing systems rather than simply building new ones.
• Ability to simplify complex architectures and create maintainable solutions.
• Strong focus on writing clean, readable, and scalable code.
• Testing mindset with emphasis on reliability and long-term quality.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and design for future scalability.

Leadership Without Authority

• Influence technical decisions through expertise and clear reasoning.
• Challenge scope or timelines when necessary to protect system health.
• Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering standards.
• Lead by example through hands-on technical excellence.

Why Join Vahan?

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance
• Monthly Wellness Leaves
• Competitive Compensation
• Opportunity to solve large-scale engineering challenges impacting millions of users
• Ownership-driven engineering culture with significant technical autonomy
• Work alongside exceptional engineers building products that create meaningful social impact

Experience in Python (Only Backend), Data structures, Oops, Algorithms, Django, NumPy etc.

• Good understanding of writing Unit Tests using PYTest.

• Good understanding of parsing XML’s and handling files using Python.

• Good understanding with Databases/SQL, procedures and query tuning.

• Service Design Concepts, OO and Functional Development concepts.

• Agile Development Methodologies.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach Skills desired.

Job Description:  

As a L3 analyst, you will play a key role within the Application Management team, leading services for its customer(s). This service has responsibility for the smooth daily operational running of the Client platform both in the cloud and on-premises. The Client application is business critical and centrally manages data for trading, settlement, risk, client and regulatory reporting systems. As a L3 analyst, you will be responsible for supporting complex infrastructure and application issues raised by L1/L2 support teams, and business analysts. You would also be working on client requests for enhancements, fixes, maintaining custom code, and following the best practices such as Agile, DevOps, etc.

The role is a technical role requiring a good technical knowledge of SQL/PLSQ, Core Java along with good debugging skill while supporting client implementations. You should have basic understanding on Unix system and commands. The ability to troubleshoot issues, assist users and help write specifications is essential. This position also works with product management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments.

• Accountability and primary responsibility/duties:
• A typical day would look like as follows: -
  • 40% support issues.
  • 40% configuration/development work.
  • 20% continuous improvement, automation, CICD, so on.
• Activities would range across the lifecycle from discovery to post-implementation support.
• Understanding client’s requirement, replicate the problem and providing the solution
• Understanding and developing new requirements coming in from BAs (Business Analysts) and customers.
• Update the existing functionality based on client needs.
• Develop changes that cater to enhancing the product and/or fixing production issues
• Prepare product releases of software components. (Java/SQL-PLSQL)
• Contribute in all phases of the development cycle. (development/Deployment/Testing, peer review)
• Create technical document for all changes made.

Required Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong basics and working experience in following technologies: -
  • Core Java.
  • SQL / PLSQL coding.
  • Object Oriented Programming concepts and data structures.
• Working knowledge on Unix platform
• Working knowledge on XSLT and XML handling
• Basic understanding App & web server working knowledge (JBOSS, WebLogic and WebSphere) and debugging skills.
• Advantageous to have:
  • Working understanding on CICD, Dev-ops technologies.
  • Queuing technologies including Kafka, MQ, Solace.
  • Scripting including Python, Unix, java.
• Hands on knowledge of Dev ops processes and tools Good interpersonal and communication skills.
  
  

Requirements:

• Expert in Python, with good knowledge in Django technology.
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Experience in Flask will be an add-on
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.
• Good communication skills.

• 3 years experience working on Python, Django and DRF (must have projects)
• Back-end Development, Third Party SDK Implementation, CI/CD
• Pipeline with AWS, Containerization of Server, Caching, Micro-service Implementation
• Architecture design of the web applications.
• Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs to power the web application.
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
• Implementation of security and data protection.
• Translation of UI/UX wireframes to visual elements

Backend Engineer (GO Developer)

Remote Working | Engineering Team | Full-time
Candidates from Product development background only will be taken ahead.

The Impact you will create in the Job:

Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute.

Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients.

Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds.

Leverage the power of Kubernetes to maintain clusters running inside VPC's across the world.

Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data.

Use cloud-based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability.

You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.

As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.

You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.

Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.

Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

What we look for?

3-6 years experience in developing high scale internet applications/API based services.

Worked with GoLang as a primary language

Experience with High scale real time architectures

Experience with queueing systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc

Experience with Elasticsearch would be a plus

Having hands on experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.

Understanding of SMTP protocol would be a plus

Experience with MTA will be an added advantage.

Very strong analytic and problem-solving skills.

Enjoys working at solving challenges that come with developing real time high scale applications.