Software Engineer - Database (SQL)

We're looking for a Backend Lead Engineer to join our Engineering Team. The Engineering Team forms the backbone of our core business. We build and iterate over our core platform that handles orders, payments, delivery promises, order tracking, logistics integrations to name a few. Our products are actively used by Fynd users, Operations, Delights, and Finance teams. Our team consists of generalist engineers who work on building REST APIs, Internal tools, and Infrastructure for all these users.

What will you do at Fynd?

• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 2-5 engineers, Delegating tasks, and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
• Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases with the team.
• 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
• Write technical documentation

Some Specific Requirements

• Atleast 2+ years of Tech Lead Experience, 5+ years of Development Experience
• You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
• Hands-on experience in JavaScript / Python / Node.Js. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good at any other language with experience in building web-app based tech products
• Good knowledge of async programming using Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await
• Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Flask, Sanic, Fastapi would be plus
• Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Express.js, Koa.js, Socket.io
• Hands-on experience with Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and AJAX. Plus knowledge of Frontend Frameworks and Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - React.Js, Angular, Vue.js.
• Deep knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, or MySQL
• Basic knowledge of event-based systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• You should have experience with deploying and scaling Microservices.
• You've worked with AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• Deep Knowledge of Cloud-Native Application Architecture: Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices

Responsibilities

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Own & build new modules/features end-to-end independently.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Work in an agile environment to rapidly build high-quality and robust features.
• Participate in DevOps.
• Implementation of security and data protection.

Required Skills

• Master in Node.js and frameworks available for it. (Nest.js / Loopback / AdonisJS)
• Excellent understanding of ES6 and OOP.
• Good understanding of SQL & No-SQL Databases. (MySQL / PostgreSQL)
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Open Source and DevOps enthusiast.
• Comfortable with Test Driven Development.
• Can learn and adapt fast, as well as identify and solve problems.

Bonus Skills

• Hands-on with TypeScript

Job Perks

• Get to work with a highly passionate team of engineers.
• Open and embracing culture towards the latest hot technologies.
• A high level of freedom & responsibility.

About the team

Vakilsearch is on a mission to make Legal Simple. We are the leaders in Indian Legal, Tax and Compliance. Our mission is simplifying businesses to be in compliance with Government through end to end process and workflow automation. This is the key initiative of Vakilsearch as we look to revolutionize legal space in India.

We are a technology-driven platform, offering services that cover the legal needs of start-ups and established businesses. Some of our services include incorporation, government registrations & filings, accounting, documentation and annual compliances. In addition, we offer a wide range of services to individuals, such as property agreements and tax filings. Our mission is to provide one-click access to individuals and businesses for all their legal and professional needs.

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Strong knowledge in JavaScript Object Oriented Programming
• Strong Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express
• Good Understanding of the nature of asynchronous programming model
• Good Understanding of callbacks and event emitters
• Good Experience in Node.js Module/Library development
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Working experience with MongoDB or equivalent nosql data store

Required Candidate profile

• Basic knowledge of Oracle Forms and reports - (Must)
• Good experience on SQL*Loader.
• Should Knowledge on Agile / Scrum.
• Handled errors using Exception Handling extensively for the ease of debugging and displaying the error messages in the application.
• Using SQL developer tool we debugged the code and unit test
• Knowledge of oracle programming
• MySQL, Oracle,
• Knowledge of Unix platform
• PostgreSQL
• advance database knowledge.
• Writing PL/SQL and PL/MySQL
• Coding support
• Debugging & Project module management
• Deployment and fine-tuning as per team lead.

1. Should have experience in full life cycle of Web Application Development in Linux environment using Apache, PHP, MySQL/MSSQL/ Oracle.

2. Hands on experience in these technologies is a must (PHP 5, Ajax, CSS / HTML5 / XHTML , Web development)

3. Should have experience in template engine like smarty and at least one MVC frame work (Laravel / Zend / Symphony / Cake Php / Code Igniter).

4. Should have worked on any of the content management system (Joomla / Drupal / Simple CMS etc)

5. Should have worked on any of one of JS frameworks like YUI, JQuery , MooTools, ExtJS and AJAX

6. Hands on experience with the following PHP modules: PEAR, CURL, SoapClient (WSDL mode), libXML, Memcache, PCRE, SQLITE, etc

7. Ability to write and consume SOAP & REST web services.

8. Create requirement document and work with team members to deliver the application.

9. Knowledge of Version Control Software ;such as SVN/CVS will be preferable.

10. Experience in Architecture Design & Developed of Web Application.

11. Should have experience in web application optimization/caching/DB performance tuning

12. Extensive OOD / OOP experience

13. Ability to propose, advocate and critique design alternatives to determine solutions.

14. Hands-on experience with web application architecture and relational database design Interact with Client to understand business requirement.

15. Hands on knowledge of best practices for cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility.

16. Hands on knowledge of UI optimization techniques and experience of working with UI performance measurement tools like Yslow, Firebux, Fiddler, HTTPWatch, Page Speed, DynaTrace, etc.