
Sr. Backend Developer for a Product Based Company ( Node.js )
at Upskillist


Responsibilities:
- Resolve complex technical issues and make design decisions to meet the critical requirements of scalable, highly available, multi-tenant enablement of services in the cloud.
- Independently investigate, present options, review and implement completely new functionality OR re-architect an existing solution to meet growing needs
- You will work closely with other development teams, product management, UX, and QA to define and implement a new product offering while ensuring continued functionality.
- Work with various external (application) teams to integrate with the product and help guide the integration.
- You will implement solutions that include database schema, business logic, and some presentation layer work.
- You will use existing methods and best practices in the software industry to create features and platforms with the highest levels of security, reliability, efficiency, and scalability.
- Experience mentoring senior developers.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in software development experience with a proven track record of making technical decisions
- 8+ years of experience in coding in more than one programming language, e.g. Python, GoLang, node.js, etc
- Intimate working understanding of modern web applications from the database to browser
- Intimate understanding of MongoDB and extensive experience with database-driven applications
- Great problem-solving skills and ability to abstract functional requirements
- Excellent communicator in both technical and non-technical contexts
- Experience designing and improving complex software applications
- Experience coaching and mentoring developers at various levels of experience
- You have a sound understanding of programming fundamentals & their application to highly scalable web-based systems.
- You have successfully led a small agile team.

About Upskillist
About
Providing upskillists globally practical, quality education and learning so they can effect real world change in their lives. Providing employers the ability to upskill their employees so they can recruit and retain more staff and deliver real business ROI. Reach out to [email protected]
Connect with the team
Similar jobs
We Want To Power The Workforce Towards Financial Wellness
If you're an experienced back-end developer with experience using serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, DynamoDB) and microservices, this could be the ideal job for you!
Job Description:
You'll be at a senior position, developing & maintaining microservices, business logic, and optimization/maintenance of the global database(s) to ensure a high performance & responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
Language:
Node.js/Tyepscript
Resposibilities:
Building stable, testable, and reusable code libraries for future use.
Write & maintain REST APIs for front-end consumption.
Managing deployments, code pushes (CI/CD pipelines).
Ongoing optimization of backend applications for maximum speed and scalability.
Implementation of security and data protection.
Design and implementation of data storage solutions.
Ideal Candidate:
At least 3-4+ years of server-side programming experience.
Solid experience working with NoSQL databases & microservices architecture.
Solid experience with version control (we use Github).
Decent experience with serverless architecture, code deployment and cloud platforms like AWS.
GOOD TO HAVE: Any experience working with fintech projects.
Required Education:
B.Tech./ BE - Computer, IT, Electronics only
Required Skills:
- 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus



- 5-7+ years of commercial Java development experience
- Experience with well known Open Source frameworks/libraries, like Spring Boot
- Work experience with Docker
- Microservice experience
- Experience with AWS like ECS, Lambda, SQS, RDS, Kinesis streams
- Familiar with iterative development
- Upper-intermediate level of English
- Solid understanding of communication and network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP).
- At ease with Unix/Linux
- Excellent analytical and debugging skills
- Familiar with both SQL and noSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, Memcached, Redis)
- Practical experience with scaling applications to big user numbers is a plus
- Experience with other programming languages is a plus.
- The Architect/ Lead Backend Engineer will handle the digital experience from inception to go-live model.
- The role holder is expected to create a vision and roadmap for the digital experience to provide best in class customer experience for each of the product solutions handled. The role holder will play a critical role in leading the innovation and growth of our front end web and mobile platforms.
- Must be from Good Companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic
- Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise in either one of Java or Groovy or Go.
- 3+ years of experience building microservices.
- Strong experience in architecting and building distributed systems, scalability, and availability
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
- Strong knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure
- Good understanding of RxJava or Actors framework
- Proficient with RDBMS
- Strong knowledge on data stores, database design, data modelling and SQL queries
- Extensive experience building and owning large- scale distributed backend systems
- Experience working with three or more of : Unix/Linux environments, Distributed and parallel systems, Workflow automation, CI/CD Platform development, Cloud platforms development e.g. AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/Container platforms based development


- Write lots of bug-free, efficient, scalable and reusable code.
- Write unit tests and take responsibility for the quality of your own code.
- Coach, encourage and mentor your fellow software developers to do the same.
- Consult with product owners to define, scope and plan new features.
- Test, evaluate and recommend technologies to improve the overall product.
- Be a key participant in the Agile process.
- Produce excellent documentation.
- Undertake and implement processes for smoother and efficient deployment of code base
- Maintain code base as it grows bigger and scales
What we value
- 2-3 Years of experience building and shipping API’s using python based frameworks
- Proficiency with NoSql Databases (Elastic, Mongo) is a must
- Experience in working with Amazon Cloud Services like SNS, SQS, VPC, etc. is preferred
- Experience with databases migration and system re-architecture is valued
- Ability to write modular, reusable, and clean code
- Comfortable with ticket management and documentation
1. Rest Services using NodeJS & Express
2. Micro services based application development using Kubernetes, Dockers, WAF
4. Languages : Javascript is mandatory. Preferred if you are also hands-on with Typescript, Java.
5. Database : Working experience in one of these document databases- Dynamodb, Cosmos db, MangoDB. Preferred if you also have working experience in any of these RDBMS - MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server
6. Storage : Working experience in any one of these storage technologies - S3, Blob or any cloud storages
7. DevOps : JIRA, Jenkins, ELK, CI/CD, Git, AWS or Azure cloud compute

As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have
deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products.
This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+
countries!
Responsibilities
● Own architecture, design, development, and implementation of different modules/features of the services
● Design, develop, deploy and support web applications.
● Discover opportunities for performance improvements
● Recommend ways to improve reliability, efficiency and code quality
● Focus on continuous delivery and reducing complexity
● Carry out code reviews and manage pull requests
● Build applications based on micro-services architecture
Requirements
● Overall 1-3 years of experience in Backend development.
● B.E/B.Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute (IITs, NITs, BITs,
IIITs or equivalent)
● Strong object oriented design skills & knowledge of design patterns
● Experience designing & developing distributed systems involving multiple web services, databases (both SQL and NoSQL), caches, queues, etc. taking into consideration scalability, availability, fault tolerance, consistency, etc. of the overall system
● Well-aware of and enforces development best practices: Unit Tests, Code Reviews,
Integration Tests, CI/CD, Monitoring, Alerting, etc


- Consultant/freelancing role
- Design and build advanced high-quality applications in .Net,.Net Core, Azure or AWS. hands on programming on C#, Web API, NOSQL DB and Azure, AWS.
- Knowledge of software development life cycle.
- Able to handle and manage the projects independently.
- Should be hands on developer and write production level code flawlessly
- Will be involved in client interactions and gathering project requirements, suggest best solutions considering NFRs insights
- Someone with an ability to ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
- Ability to work within a rapidly evolving environment.
- Eager to learn and adapt to new technologies.
- Bring new ideas and technologies to the team that can improve our product or process.
- Help maintain code quality, unit test cases, documentation, etc



