
Backend - Software Development Engineer III
Experience - 7+ yrs
About Wekan Enterprise Solutions
Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.
Job Description
We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?
You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customers technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.
Location - Chennai or Bangalore
- Relevant experience of 7+ years building high-performance back-end applications with at least 3 or more projects delivered using the required technologies
- Good problem solving skills
- Strong mentoring capabilities
- Good understanding of software development life cycle
- Strong experience in system design and architecture
- Strong focus on quality of work delivered
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Required Technical Skills
- Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance web back-ends using Node.Js and Javascript/Typescript
- Min two years of hands-on experience in NestJs
- Strong experience with Express.Js framework
- Implementation experience in monolithic and microservices architecture
- Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases
- Experience integrating with any 3rd party services such as cloud SDKs (Preferable X), payments, push notifications, authentication etc…
- Hands-on experience with Redis, Kafka, or X
- Exposure into unit testing with frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest or others
- Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation
Good to have skills:
- Experience working with common services in any of the major cloud providers - AWS or GCP or Azure
- Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

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Cloud Adoption helps companies make better business decisions by allowing access to real-time data across the organization. Migration towards cloud solutions and modern technologies, allows these companies to reduce the TCO of their technology infrastructure and drive ROI improvements on their technology investments.
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Wekan helps companies grow by modernizing their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.
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