
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.

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Backend Developer
Role : Backend Developer
Department : Technology Team
Experience : 2 - 3 Years of working experience in Backend
Experience in a related position from Gaming Industry would be preferred
Location : South Delhi; 5 Day Working
Qualification : Bachelor’s degree in Technology
Major Skills : Java, NodeJs, Microservices, Data Structures, etc
Ideal Candidate Requirements :
- Experience in development of Java and NodeJs based applications.
- Experience in building microservices from scratch to production level.
- Strong experience in Core Java and MultiThreading
- Good Knowledge of Data Structures
- Worked on Oracle, REDIS and DYNOMITE
- Good Knowledge of Telecom Protocol SIP
Ideal Candidate Skills Requirements :-
- Distributed systems - Microservices - Algorithm design, System Design
- Performance Engineering, Scalability and Architecture
- Gaming Models, Matching and Allocation Algorithms
- Spring Boot, Hibernate, Java reactive, JPA
- Relational Databases - MSSQL,
- Design Patterns : MVC, Singleton, Adapter, Factory, Builder, Strategy
- Messaging Queues - Apache Kafka
- Cache - Redis
- Search - Elastic Search
- Java
- NoSQL - Mongo, Cassandra
- Jenkins, GIT, BitBucket, JIRA







