Sr. Backend Software Engineer(MERN Stack)

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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Overall 6+ yrs of experience.
• 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.

You will closely work with the engineering team and support the Product Team of Plum.

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 in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.

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. We however 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.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new and enhance existing micro-services, libraries, and features that form our B2B KYC platform.
• Create and document APIs, Queue Contracts to be consumed by other services.
• Work closely with the Product and Engineering Leads to implement features following best design principles and patterns.
• Participate in all phases of the development cycle - plan, design, implement, review, test, deploy, document, and training.
• Help junior developers with best practices like TDD etc. and make sure their code meets the standards.
• Educate them continuously to improve overall team performance and work quality.

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, software design principles, algorithms & design patterns.
• Development experience (> 3 to 6 years ) - preferably on languages such as GoLang / NodeJS and scripting skills.
• Interest and ability to quickly learn and ramp-up on new languages and technologies.
• Ability to write understandable, reliable and testable code with minimum supervision.
• Distributed, Highly-available systems running at large scale.
• Distributed platforms which use Kafka, Elasticsearch, Cassandra or similar systems.
• Cloud environments (e. g., Docker, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes etc., ).
• Asynchronous programming patterns (e. g., GO Routines/Channels, NodeJS Async Programming).
• Experience in CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Delivery), AGILE work environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve issues on distributed systems.

Your Responsibilities:

• Own the backend stack – Node.Js based, that powers our product
• Collaborate with Backend Developers (Python), Front-end developers, DevOps, and Data Scientists to design and implement new features
• Build and maintain several REST’ful Services/Endpoints which will be used both internally and externally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
• Deploy and monitor the Services/Endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X traffic)
• Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.

Skills that you bring Along:

• A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Node.Js and related frameworks – particularly Express.Js.
• Extensive experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
• Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
• Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
• Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
• Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
• Good experience with design patterns
• Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
• Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
• Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
• Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner

• Required Skills, Qualifications, and Benefits:

  • Core Knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS3, MySQL & JavaScript.

  • Basic understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

  • Ability to communicate effectively with the team and clients.

  • Proficient logical ability and flexibility to learn new technology.

  • Good in designing and problem-solving abilities

  • Overall Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

  Good to have:

  • Familiar with React, Redux

  • Knowledge of backend for any CMSs like WordPress, Joomla, Magento etc

  Qualifications:

  • B.Tech, MCA

  Experience:

  • 0 - 2 years.

  Job Type:

  Full-Time (Immediate Joiner)

  Interview Type:

  Walk-in, Google Meet (for remote location)

  Work Salary:

  Decent hike on current salary.

Responsibilities:

• Writes high quality code & unit tests, builds, tests as per agreed timelines
• Participates in technical design and provides estimation
• Owns one or more small to medium features
• Becomes a go-to person in at least one area
• Communicates clearly and gets clarification upfront to minimize rework. Knows when to ask for help to unblock.
• Consistently follows and promotes SDLC best practices: Coding standard, testing, code reviews, code comments etc.
• Exhibit strong problem solving skills, helps other developers and demonstrates teamwork

Requirements:

• Understands detailed requirements and demonstrates excellent problem solving skills
• Deep understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• Excellent programming skills in ROR, Golang, NodeJS, Python
• Strong communication skills
• Strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to deliver results
• 4+ years of experience in product driven organization
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute
• Experience in Golang, RoR, Unity, ML or Python will be an added advantage