Software Developer

Company Overview: 

Softlink Global is a leading IT software company specializing in digitalizing logistics and freight forwarding operations. With a strong global presence across 50+ countries, our innovative, cutting edge ERP solutions empower businesses to streamline and optimize complex operations, enhance efficiency, and drive profitability for global clients. We operate from offices in Singapore, the USA, and the Philippines, and across major cities in India, including Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Hyderabad. 

Position Overview: 

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer (3–5 years) who can go beyond code to understand and solve real business problems. This role requires someone who is equally comfortable writing efficient, scalable software and articulating complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. A successful candidate will combine solid development skills with logical reasoning, solution-oriented thinking, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams. 

Job Description:

1. Application Development: 

∙ Design and develop scalable and maintainable web applications using C#, ASP.NET, MVC, and MS SQL. 

∙ Implement user interfaces with React and modern JavaScript to create intuitive user experiences. 

∙ Apply a solution-oriented approach to translate business requirements into clean, reliable code. 

2. Database Management: 

∙ Write, review, and optimize SQL queries for data-heavy operations with a focus on performance and accuracy. 

∙ Contribute to database design, ensuring consistency, security, and scalability.

3. Collaboration & Teamwork: 

∙ Work closely with product managers, designers, QA, and other developers to shape technical solutions that address real-world logistics challenges. 

∙ Actively participate in sprint planning, whiteboard discussions, and design sessions to drive clarity and alignment across teams. 

4. Code Quality & Debugging: 

∙ Follow best practices for clean code, version control, and documentation. 

∙ Diagnose complex bugs, conduct root cause analysis, and implement robust fixes. ∙ Technology Innovation: 

∙ Stay current with new technologies and development practices to continuously improve product quality.

∙ Contribute ideas for architectural improvements, refactoring opportunities, and better engineering processes. 

Ideal Candidate Requirements: 

∙ Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field 

∙ 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in software development using any of the following: C#, ASP.NET, React, JavaScript, SQL 

∙ Strong interest in building full-stack applications and working in a product-driven environment

∙ Logical reasoning and a proactive attitude toward learning and problem-solving

∙ Good communication skills and a willingness to learn from peers and mentors

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
• Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases
• Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
• Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well operate large-scale applications on AWS
• Give back to the open-source community through contributions on code and blog posts
• This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements

Some specific Requirements:

• Atleast 2+ years of Development Experience
• You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
• Hands-on experience in JavaScript. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good at any other language with experience in building web/app-based tech products
• Expertise in Node.JS and Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Express.js, Koa.js, Socket.io (http://socket.io/)
• Good knowledge of async programming using Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await
• Hands-on experience with Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and AJAX
• Working knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, MySQL
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
• You've worked with AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• Experience with Frontend Stack would be added advantage (HTML, CSS)
• You might not have experience with all the tools that we use but you can learn those given the guidance and resources
• Experience in Vue.js would be plus

Skills:

• .NET framework, VB, C#
• HTML 5, Bootstrap, CSS, Less .
• Communication Protocols like HTTP, TCP, WCF, Web API, Modbus.
• Databases- MS SQL Server 2008 R2, MySQL. Knowledge on Redis, MongoDB.
• Scripting language -Java-Script, jQuery, AngularJS, SignalR, Ajax.
• AWS SDK preferred, Cloud Migration., IIS, Self-hosting, window server,
• Other tools -Postman & Fiddler, Tortoise SVN, Mantis bug tracking, Redmine.

Key Strengths :

• Good debugging skills.
• A major responsibility includes planning development cycle, designing, module development, code merge, Unit / Integration testing etc.
• Highly motivated team player.
• Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Quick learning of any new technologies.
• Capable to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.

Key responsibilities:

• Involved into discussion of design and development of new feature enhancement.
• Involved in integration with the IoT devices over the TCP binary protocol.
• Involved in design and development of Web API to expose the data uploaded by devices to third party applications.
• Coordinating with the testing team for fixing bugs.
• Coordinating with firmware (Embedded) team for device integration.
• End to end design and development of modules.

Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include: 

Ship product, independently and/or as part of a small team 

Collaborate with other engineers to build new features 

Debugging using dev consoles, firebug, firecookie, or any of your favorite tools. 

Help troubleshoot production issues and resolve critical customer facing issues Provide top-notch support to our customers 

You Should Have: 

A strong body of prior front end work, including significant projects written in JavaScript. Mastery of JavaScript; expertise in most of the following technologies, and proficiency in all of them: jQuery, CSS, HTML5, AJAX. 

Deep understanding of closures, prototypal inheritance, DOM manipulation, HTTP, web security, cross browser compatibility challenges. 

Strong Experience with NodeJS and Express JS. 

Hands-on with a code management system like GIT, SVN. 

Experience with NoSQL databases, preferably CouchDB or CouchBase. 

Good to have: Experience with ReactJS and Typescript. 

Technical Roles and Responsibilities

-  Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architecture, system design and programming approach following a standard software development lifecycle

-  Meticulous attention to detail and strong focus on clear and practical documentation

-  Work closely with senior management, Development Manager, Project Manager, and a team of developers.

- Design, Code, Unit Test and support Software components

-  Deliver quality software in a time following standard software development processes

-  Analyze problems raised in software development or production environments and provide timely solutions

-  Develop, prepare and maintain system documentation, including program descriptions, operational procedures etc.

-  Act as the second line of support during production problems.

Mandatory Skills:

Software Engineering

u  Strong experience in agile methodologies and test driven development.

u  Experience in software development using open source technologies.

u  Experience in automated software testing.

u  Knowledge in domain-driven design, design patterns and enterprise integration patterns.

u  Must have experience in delivering software via complete Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Software Development

u  Must be able to code in Java (SpingBoot and Spring Cloud Services).

u  Experience in some of the technologies below:

o PaaS: Pivotal Cloud Foundy/Openshift/ AWS/ Azure/ Docker/ Kubernetes

o Data: MySQL/ Postgres/ Oracle/ MongoDB/ Elasticsearch

o Cache: Redis/ Memcached

o UI: HTML5,Bootstrap, CSS, Angular 4/ ReactJS/RxJS

 - Strong knowledge in CI/CD toolset such as Ansible, Artifactory, Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Fortify,  Flyway, Jira and Confluence.

-  Strong knowledge in automated testing toolset such as jUnit, Mockito, cucumber, Selenium etc.

-  Strong knowledge in scripting languages such as Groovy and Linux shell.