
Sr. Backend Developer
We are a fast growing Chennai-based startup (with venture funding) and clients like Swiggy!
We are here for the long run and are led by strong engineers with experience at top tier firms
and authors of Java Standards at Sun Microsystems
We're building an awesome enterprise product that is already transforming businesses across
the globe
We have raised investment, so this role will not vanish in a few months
Our mentors include the Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies, Chairman of Singapore Airlines,
Senior leaders from LinkedIn etc.
Other background information
We're looking for strong, passionate developers who want to join our team and grow
We move fast, and will make you an offer in a few days for the right person
The job location will be in Chennai (it is the SaaS capital of India)
Please only apply if you are open to moving to Chennai (or are already here)
This won't be a 10 - 6 job, but you will be given amazing responsibilities
You will learn a ton, have a lot of flexibility, and have fun while doing it!
Responsibilities
1. Own major parts of our tech stack, but primarily the Javascript work
2. Build cutting edge applications in Node.JS, React/Angular etc.
3. Work on new tech that we are already some of the leading users of (like Firebase)
4. Work closely with mobile team, UX and PM team to construct creative solutions
5. Develop reusable custom components that can be used across application at run time
6. Optimize, improve efficiency, scalability, stability of application
7. MUST BE reliable, and be able to communicate clearly
8. MUST BE able to own and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
Bonus Points for experience using Firebase, NoSQL, or building high-scale applications.
Job Perks
Daily breakfast
Nice Friday team lunches
Macbook
Informal work environment - without hierarchy
Stock options (in lakhs)
Stipend to attend conferences
Potential travel to Singapore
Notice period: less than 45 days.
CTC :No bar for right candidate.
5+ relevant experience.
Candidates comfortable to relocate at Chennai can apply.

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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.
Qualifications
- 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

As a Backend Developer, you will work on the latest and greatest in high performance
web development, data science, community development and mobile technologies.
What you will do:
- Playing a part in defining software architectures – collaborate with leads to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity, uncover potential risks to successful implementation, and learn the applications’ capabilities.
- Implementing solutions as per technical design for new features and changes to existing components.
- Participating in the full development lifecycle of new functionality and enhancements to existing applications.
- Committing to producing high quality, highly performing and robust software within agreed time estimates and to agreed quality standards.
- Managing all stakeholder expectations.
- Working alongside global teams.
- Taking responsibility for successful delivery.
- Being able to work in a fast paced Agile/SCRUM environment.
- Following coding standards, building appropriate unit tests, integrating tests and deployment scripts.
- Assisting in defining software architectures – Collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of opportunities.
- Translating designs and style guides provided by the Design team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance.
- Contributing to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies.
What you need to have:
- Ability to fluently code in Java Spring or similar J2EE frameworks.
- Solid knowledge of application deployment in AWS cloud, Kubernetes, Docker.
- Ability to code in ReactJS or similar Javascript frameworks.
- Proven experience with responsive design, fullstack web development, consumption/creation of RESTful APIs.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related engineering field w/experience in software development.
- 3-7 years of experience developing customer facing web applications.
- 3-7 years of experience in Java Spring or similar J2EE frameworks.
- 3-7 years of experience in front-end development using JavaScript, knowledge of various JavaScript libraries and micro frameworks (React, Angular, Backbone), HTML and CSS.
- 3-7 years of experience coding using object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming, architecture and design patterns.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API principles.
- Strong understanding of security best practices.
- Strong experience with unit testing and end-to-end testing.
- Knowledge of : Programming languages Java 8, J2EE, Node.js, Design Patterns, HTML, CSS, JavaScript Web and cloud Technologies RESTful web services, Cloud functions, Amazon Web Services, SEO/ Sitemap, Serverless
- architecture, JSON Database Management MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Firebase realtime database, Hibernate, Liquibase, Percona, Redis, Memcached Frameworks, Libraries and Tools Dropwizard, Jersey,
- Expressjs, RabbitMQ Web / Application Server Nginx Other Tools and Utilities Eclipse, VS Code, Postman, Git, Gradle, Maven, Imagemagick, Jmeter Operating Systems Linux, Windows.
- Experience in implementing Material Design UI and UX for customer centric frontend.
- Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
- Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
- Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
- Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
- Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
- Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
- Full stack development on cutting edge technology in Fintech domain.
- Ownership of complete backend code.
You should Have :
- Server Side languages knowledge: Node.js and express.js is the first choice, Python, Java
- Server-side programming experience. We prefer ability over experience
- Solid experience working with databases, especially relational DB.
- Solid experience with version control (Git or Bitbucket or SVN).
- B.E. in Computer Science or Graduate/PG degree in Computer Science (this is optional, as we are more interested in your abilities and experience over a paper degree).
- Any experience working with real-time projects in backend with node.js and express.js
Synapsica is a growth stage HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective, while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don’t have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as diagnosis.
Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyze medical images and create 2.0 of advanced radiologist reporting.
We are backed by YCombinator and other marquee investors from India, US and Japan. We are proud to have GE, AIIMS, the Spinal Kinetics as our partners.
Join us, if you find this as exciting as we do!
Description:
Synapsica is looking for a Node.js/Python developer who is passionate about designing and implementing scalable solutions with highest quality. You will be responsible for creating high performance, responsive, and secure server-side programs to manage Synapsica platform. You will be responsible for designing, managing and supporting cloud platform and scaling our database. This role is ideal for you if you have a background in bakcned development and are looking for the next level of career growth in a fast paced, learning based and merit driven work environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design and development of our new platform modules from scratch.
- Hands on implementation of our APIs and integrations.
- Design, scaling and integration of new/existing databases.
- Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability
- Design and construction of our REST APIs with best secutiry mechanisms.
- Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines in tandem with the respective team members.
- Performance tuning and improvements in large scale systems.
- Ensuring responsiveness and cross-platform compatibility of applications.
- Owning and delivering end-to-end products, features, enhancements.
Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- At least 4+ years of experience with writing Python/NodeJS/PHP/Ruby on Rails.
- Prior experience of database design and management in MongoDB, including being up on the latest practices and associated versions.
- Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amount of data.
- Familiarity with AWS (or equivalent) ecosystem with end-to-end cloud deployment.
- Experience implementing code level unit tests.
- Proficiency with Git / Version control.
- Appreciation for clean and well documented code
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Very high sense of ownership.
- Deep interest and passion for technology

Required Skills
Excellent PHP skills
Good knowledge of relational databases with emphasis on MySQL
Good understanding of JavaScript including AJAX (using jQuery 2.x/1.x) and experience developing client-side JavaScript MVC applications (Backbone.js / AngularJS) is a plus.

What is the role?
You will be responsible for developing features on the application and integrations end to end. You will be working closely with the Technical Team to come up with high-quality, resilient, and highly performant applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture.
- Work on the core backend and ensure it meets the performance benchmarks.
- API and Integrations.
- Designing and developing APIs for the front end to consume.
- Constantly improve the architecture of the application by clearing the technical backlog.
- Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
- Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
- Work on the front end with ReactJS is a plus point.
What are we looking for?
- An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.
- A subset of the below skills should be fine as long as you are good.🙂
- OAuth, API Integrations.
- Agnostic/Polyglot with multiple tech stacks.
- Worked on open source technologies – NodeJS, ReactJS, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, DynamoDB, Clickhouse, Kafka
- Backend exposure – good knowledge of building and integrating APIs
- Efficient in building microservices in combining server & front-end.
- Knowledge of cloud architecture.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding skills on OAuth.
- Should have sound working experience with relational and columnar DB.
- Should be innovative and communicative in approach.
- Will be responsible for functional/technical track of a project.
Who will you work with?
You will closely work with the engineering team and support the Product Team of Compass.
What can you look for?
A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment will enable you to juggle between concepts yet maintain the quality of content, interact, share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.
We are
A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.
Way forward
We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. However, we assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

-Should be strong in complex problem solving, Data
Structure & Algorithms.
-Should be proficient in more than one Programming
language i.e Java, Node, Golang, etc.( Oops Languages & Concepts) and related frameworks.
-Should be comfortable with SQL, NOSQL databases.
-Should have comfortable writing Unit tests.

