
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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What You'll Do:
- Creating detailed design, working on development and performing code reviews.
- Implementing validation and support activities in line with architecture requirements
- Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks.
- Designing, building, and implementation of the product; participating in requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation and review of high and low level design, assigning and reviewing tasks for product implementation.
- Work closely with product managers, UX designers and end users and integrating software components into a fully functional system
- Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production.
- Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns.
- Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation.
- Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
- Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent.
- Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.
The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/she should be able to commit and own the deliveries end-to-end.
What You'll Need:
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- 2-3+ years of Software Development experience with proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA
- Fluency with Java, and Spring is good.
- Experience in JEE applications and frameworks like struts, spring, mybatis, maven, gradle
- Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and CS fundamentals.
- Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and data modeling skills
- Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
- Ability to learn new domains and deliver output
- Hands on Experience with the core AWS services
- Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, GitLab, TeamCity, GoCD, etc.)
- Expertise in at least one of the following:
- Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology
- Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached
- Distributed column store databases like Snowflake, Cassandra, or HBase
- Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks
- Proficient with writing and reviewing Python and other object-oriented language(s) are a plus
- Experience building automations and CICD pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
- Experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.
- Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile: Scrum, Kanban
- Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams
● Proven work experience as a Back-end developer.
● In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment).
● Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
● Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
● Ability to decide when to use relational vs NoSQL databases and must be experienced with at least one of
the relational databases (MySQL) as well as experience with ElasticSearch will be good to have
● Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful
● Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC
● Experience in CI/CD and Cloud technologies
● Expertise in developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs using MicroServices, with
demonstrable production-scale experience
● Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS) - Not mandatory
● Participation in coding competitions such as hackathon, hackerrank will be added advantage.
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Required Candidate profile
Primary Skills:
- Strong working knowledge of Typescript, MongoDB, Express
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Javascript including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model, ES6
- Strong understanding of NodeJS fundamentals
- Knowledge and experience working with PostgreSQL is a major plus
- Experience with ORM libraries
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
- Experience in troubleshooting and RCA of Production issues Analyze logs in Kibana Elastic Search
- Knowledge of tools like Git, Github, JIRA, Cucumber, Jasmine, and others that make coding more efficient and easier to share
- Familiarity of working in either the AWS Cloud or Azure including Docker + Kubernetes based microservice deployment
▪ A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
▪ 2 years of Software Development experience
▪ Deep hands-on technical experience in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and
complexity analysis
▪ Experience with full software lifecycle methodology, including; coding standards, code reviews, source
control management, build processes, testing, and operations
▪ Ability to identify, empathize with and delight the customer
▪ While every product-line has its tech stack - different products have different technologies and it's
expected that you are comfortable working across all of them as and when needed.
▪ Some of the technologies/frameworks that we work on - Microservices , Node.js, MySQL, Postgress..
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions and Database structure
• Experience integration of data storage solutions like MongoDB and NoSQL cloud data store.
1. Technical skills include Java/JDK 6 and above, web services SOAP, REST, Micro Webservice, XML Parsing and schema design skills, JDBC, ORM, Multi-Threading.
2. Hands-on experience in design (HLD/LLD) and design patterns and Design principles is mandatory.
3. Excellent communication and client handling skills are required.
4. Server-side component design, detailed technical design, development, implementation and maintenance
5. In depth knowledge of core java. Solid on coding fundamentals e.g. Object-Oriented design, data structures and dependency injection
6. Hands-on experience in widely used third party frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate)
7. Experience with Java Script framework like EXTJS, Jquery , Angular etc.
8. Strong background Object Oriented analysis and design
9. Hands on experience with Databases technologies preferably MS SQL Server.
10.Knowledge of deployment platforms Jboss/ Wildfly/Tomcat.
11.Experience working in high performing development teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools (eg.Agile,Jira)
12 Experience with automated code review tools and build process.
13.Experience in performance optimization by code optimization, profiling, detecting bottle neck and finding contended locks in system
14.Proven track record of being a successful developer and lead and mentor by accomplishing tasks on schedule with strong initiative, commitment to quality, team blending and leadership skills.
15.The candidate must be highly self-motivated confident and mature, well developed analytical and problem-solving skills with the aptitude to learn as well as a flexibility to adapt to change.
16. Candidate should have worked on end-to-end life cycle of the project (ideation to go-live)
The right candidate will be offered ESOPs as well in their compensation.











