
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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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]
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Do you have what it takes?
· Proficient in C, C++ development, OS concepts, Data Structures, Distributed computing, and Algorithms.
· Actively engaged in projects related to architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
· Excellent problem-solving capability with strong fundamentals in Computer Science.
· Highly proficient in data structures and algorithms.
· Ability to pick up new technologies rapidly to convert specifications to low level design.
· Ability to clearly communicate the intent and approach when producing a code design document.
How can you contribute to our success?
· Develop frontend as well as backend components for delivering product on cloud platforms.
· Participate in activities that lead up to the code design. This may include activities such as developing prototypes, proof of concept, compare pros and cons of various implementation choices being considered and recommending the most appropriate one.
· Mentor and influence junior developers to adhere to good coding standards and become quality conscious.
· Review critical pieces of code that are developed as per this code design.
· Ensure that the code being delivered is of the highest quality.
· Ensure appropriate unit tests and functional as well as non-functional tests are considered.
· Conceptualize and work towards building processes, methodology, and tools to improve team’s ability to deliver high quality software.
Merchify is a one-stop solution for creators to start their merch store for zero investment. Our goal is to empower creators to monetize their content and grow their audience without the need for any upfront investment.
We’re in search of a back-end engineer that specializes in building highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems. As a part of the Core Backend team, you'll be working on some complex and interesting problems. With a lean team like ours, you'll have ample opportunities to work with various aspects of the application and build something meaningful.
What you'll do?
- Work closely with design, product management, and front-end teams to create REST APIs using NestJS
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Work on the implementation of security and data protection
- Review and optimize the app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively
Must haves
- 1+ years of experience in NodeJS-based frameworks like NestJS, and microservices-based architecture is a bonus.
- Understanding of OOPS concepts, persistence, threading, queuing, and caching.
- Thorough knowledge of designing, implementing and scaling relational and document-based databases
- A love for systems and an ability to think through and plan for their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes
- First principles thinking, Excellent problem-solving ability
- A good all-rounder with a can-do, startup mentality
Nice to haves
- Experience with ReactJS
- Cloud deployment and scaling experience
Why you should join today?
Merchify wants to make a change for the better in lifelong learning. By joining at the start of the adventure you will have an opportunity to make this your own baby and have fun shaping the future of the industry.

- Back-end development using Python/Django
- Front-end development using CSS, HTML and JS
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Implement security and data protection
- Use Amazon Relational Database Service
- Commit, push, pull and sync to Bitbucket, GitLab
- Deployment of code on MS Azure and AWS
- Build efficient scripts and cron jobs in GCP
- Connect apps and automate workflows using Integromat
- 3+ years of Professional Full time experience building and maintaining complex software on a cross-functional team. You'll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You'll write testable, quality code. You'll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
- Python and Django
- Strong database skills
- Basic systems administration
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering (or equivalent)
- Minimum product dev experience of 3+ years in web/mobile startups with expertise in designing and implementing high performance web applications.
- You're an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
- You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production env and finally monitoring.
- Sound working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS is an add-on
- Technical know-how of MS Azure, AWS and GCP are desirable
- Understand and keep the technical documentation up-to-date on Confluence
- Collaborate work using bug tracking and project management tools like Jira, Redmine


Roles & Responsibilities:
- Excellent problem-solving & analytical skills & OO principles
- Solid understanding of the data structure & algorithms.
- Expert knowledge with any one of the Javascript Framework such as Node Js.
- Any additional experience with Java or python, GoLang would be nice to have.
- Experience working with SQL database like MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience working with NoSQL databases like mongoDB, couchbase would be nice to have
- Working experience with cache like redis, mem cached or elasticache would be nice to have
- Working experience with Message Queues would be a great advantage.
- Experience with deployment & AWS would be nice to have
- Ability to do in depth analysis or problem statement or use case & Build robust & scalable architecture
- Logging & monitoring of the production system in real time
- Lead a team of 2-4 team members & make sure team practices defined coding practices across the project.

Roles and Responsibilities:
6+ Experience in Node.js, React Js
excellent written and verbal communication skill
- Healthy team and relationship building skills
- Hands-on experience delivering web applications in the cloud to on-demand production clients
- Experience in JavaScript, OOP Patterns, ES6, HTML, CSS, LESS
- Experience with MS Sql Server, Mongo DB
- Experience with SSO, SAML, OAuth, JWT for API and Web Session Authentication and Authorization
- Experience with Azure Devops platform will be an added advantage
- Experience with test and/or process automation, source control
- Possess solid debugging process and exhibit technical intuition
• Strong Nodejs experience with knowledge and understanding of ES6/7/8.
• Experience with DevOps.
• Understanding multi-threading concepts.
• Experience with NoSQL Databases.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools, such as Git, Github, Bitbucket.
• Experience working with common project management tools and Agile
development workflow
• Ingenuity, creativity, drive and determination are a must
Responsibilities:
- Should be able to write web services for the app.
- Manage projects from conceptualization, all the way through deployments by collaborating with everyone.
- Take initiatives to optimize.
- Keep up with the latest trends and tools and keep updating.
Our Tech Stack:
- On the backend, we use Node JS
- For the frontend, we use React
Skills
Mandatory:
Nodejs, Mongo DB, Express js, AWS Experience, Experience with mail, and phone authentication.
Must have exp in kafka and integrating with other data sources
- Exp- 3+ yrs
- Must be very good in Java- 2.5+ yrs
- At least 1 yr of working experience in any one DB of Neo4j, Cassandra, Elastic Search
- Should have good devops working knowledge - Knowledge of AWS, Ansibleetc is a necessity
- Experience in TDD/BDD is required
- Minimum 1 yr working experience in Samza& Kafka.
- Knowledge of Azure is added advantage
- Understanding of AKKA and Play framework




