Sr. Backend Developer

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

We’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building web services to join our engineering team to help architect, build and run our growing list of products. You should have prior experience being responsible for building sufficiently complex products/services and mentoring software engineers.

Responsibilities: 

• Lead a team of engineers working on our product roadmap. You are expected to contribute to feature development with hands-on development tasks
• Oversee software architecture, source control workflows, and CI/CD processes and perform code reviews to ensure exceptional code quality
• Improve the development experience and the quality of the codebase. You will define and uphold best practices and coding standards for the team
• Responsible for architecture and design decisions
• Own stability and performance of the service that you work on
• Work with the Engineering Manager to ship stable software on time
• Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your area of expertise

Requirements: 

• 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role designing and building complex backend systems
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Excellent knowledge of best practices and coding patterns
• Deep knowledge of backend programming languages like Python and web application frameworks like Django
• Solid experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Proficiency with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform or Azure
• Extensive experience with Linux/UNIX production environments
• Strong sense of quality in terms of both program architecture and code style
• Passion to dig into technically complex problems to troubleshoot and figure out a solution
• Desire to continuously improve and ship the best quality product
• Pragmatic approach to make sure technical decisions align with actual business needs. 
• Good understanding of the trade-offs when building for product value, reliability, or performance
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to discuss and explain your point of view clearly and effectively
• An engineering degree is a must(B.E. CS preferred)

• Two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.

About
we are building the next big thing in payments for Millennials. Payments are supposed to be simple, intuitive and fast, and we are ensuring that. As the indie creator economy grows, peer-to-peer payments and digital fulfilment will keep growing and a growing number of merchants are earning from direct payments for the digital creations. At Slash we are creating a platform for merchants to seamlessly connect and earn from their supporters and consumers, while also building a payment platform that Millennials will fall in love with.

Responsibilities

The platform that will drive payments at slash will be the social profiles and payment pages for the merchants. You will be responsible for building the social platform on which merchants can build their profiles, list items for sale, the APIs that power the entire UI experience for Slash.

• 3+ years of experience in NodeJS Backend development
• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms and system design
• Awareness of OOP paradigm, SOLID principles and design patterns
• Experience with TypeScript would be a bonus
• Experience with SQL and noSQL databases and ORMs like Sequelize and Mongoose
• Solid understanding of HTTP, Network principles, caching strategies
• Experience with authentication strategies like Oauth, JWT, passport.js
• Aptitude to work at early growing startup environment

Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Work with a performance oriented team driven by ownership and open to experiments.
• Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency and scalability.
• Help us make decisions to shape our REST APIs for developers worldwide
• Think outside the box, adapting the latest software technologies
• Contribute to open source
• Be involved and drive product & design discussions.
• Contribute to our technical innovation by learning and sharing your knowledge with our Engineering teams

Requirements

• Graduation in any technical stream
• A minimum of (3 to 5 ) years of relevant experience
• Ability to work at all levels of the stack, from Golang/NodeJS+NoSQL/SQL to React/+HTML+CSS+Azure/AWS
• Good architectural & design skills.
• Take full ownership and responsibility for building, shipping, and maintaining core LoginRadius features, end to end.
• Design and architect complex new systems, focusing not only on performance and scalability, but also on crafting a beautiful user experience.
• Experience in Docker/Kubernetes is a plus
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion
• A willingness to learn new technology, whatever lets you deliver the best product

• Have worked at a product company is a plus

What we look for:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Hands on programming work in Advance Java, Springs, Spring Boot framework,
• Ability to independently work on complex business requirements 
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely 

What will you do:

You will independently work on designing and developing solutions that solve customer’s business problems. You will own the assigned problem statements, evaluate multiple technical approaches and use design-thinking to take independent decisions while implementing the solution. You will also guide junior members of the team and participate in code and design review process.

Who should apply:

You have -

• a graduate degree in BE, BTech, MTech, MCA from a reputed institute
• 5 to 7 years of hands-on experience in programming Core Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Rest Template, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring JDBC Template
• Good to Have experience/knowledge on Docker, Oracle, MongoDB, Quartz Scheduler, Shell scripting
• Working experience with Windows, Linux environments

You Will:

• Lead, coach and mentor a team of 8-10 engineers so they all learn, grow, and succeed.
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with cross border teams.
• Provide oversight and accountability for technical decisions.
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.
• You will collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, QA and Devops Engineers in an agile development environment.
• Constantly learn and grow as an engineer and an engineering leader.
• Demonstrate a passion for customers and technology.


You must have:

• Experience in the design, development, and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications with multiple tiers
• Exposure on agile test-driven development for robustness, usability, reliability, security and performance.
• Strong technical aptitude for any programming language, preferred, Core JAVA and Spring Boot and other Spring libraries, Eureka, Hystrix etc.
• Experience of creating architecture or developing web services using Open source technologies and to integrate applications with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra
• Solid understanding of OOPS, algorithms and data structures.
• Experience on Kafka / Scala / Storm / Elastic Search and Web Services like RESTful.
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems
• Extensive experience with version control systems (Git is preferred) and issue tracking systems (JIRA is preferred)

Big Pluses if you:

• Have a strong focus on business outcomes
• Are comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Are self-motivated and can get things done
• Have the ability to communicate and defend your ideas clearly
• Have a strong knowledge of threading, concurrency, scaling, and high availability.
• Have a desire to build products that users love

• Stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education