Sr. Node.js Engineer

Software Architect

Bangalore, India / Engineering/ Full-time

Job Overview:

As a Software Architect, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend solutions for our software applications. You will be responsible for making strategic technical decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality software products with scalable backend infrastructure. 

Responsibilities:

• System Architecture:
• Design and architect scalable, efficient, and maintainable backend systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Technical Leadership:
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, ensuring best practices and coding standards are followed.
• Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Backend Development:
• Lead the development of backend components, modules, and features primarily on Ruby on Rails tech stack and also be open to contribute in other tech stacks based on Java/Kotlin and Python.
• Implement and maintain APIs, data models, and database structures to support application functionality.
• Performance Optimization:
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal system response times and resource utilization.
• Implement caching strategies and other performance optimization techniques.
• Collaboration:
• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to integrate frontend and backend components seamlessly.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to standards, and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Security and Compliance:
• Implement and enforce security best practices to safeguard sensitive data.
• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure compliance and security standards are met.
• Documentation:
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for the backend architecture, APIs, and development processes.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and contribute to the evolution of development methodologies and practices.

Qualifications:

• Overall 10+ years of experience, with 2+ years as a Software Architect with a focus on backend development using Ruby on Rails.
• In-depth knowledge of Ruby on Rails framework, database design, and API development.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Experience with performance optimization, scalability, and security considerations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to mentor and guide development teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

Bonus points:

• Familiarity with front-end technologies and frameworks(ReactJs).
• Experience with other programming languages.(Kotlin/Python)
• Experience with cloud platforms and microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.(AWS, Kubernetes, )

Join us in revolutionizing the way software solutions are developed, and contribute to building cutting-edge applications that make a positive impact on our users and the industry.

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Background

• At least 1+ years’ experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python & Django Framework
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or other cloud providers

Opportunity

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (1+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms

Responsibilities :

- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it {such as NestJS, Express, StrongLoop, etc.}

- Experience in Database, Postgres Preferred.
- 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 
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript

Come be a part of one of the most exciting e-learning startup! A product based company building a B2C subscription product for kids around the world. Best understood as a combination of Netflix + Skillshare + Instagram for kids of ages 5 - 15, there is going to be something new every week to work on!

Already present in over 148 countries, kids of all backgrounds, languages and ages use DIY.org on website, iOS and Android. DIY is a place online where kids truly discover themselves.

We are looking for a Product Engineer - Senior Backend Engineer to join our early stage startup with experience in building B2C products.

If you have experience of working in product based companies (preferably startups), and are looking to build exciting things that children across the world will use - come talk to us!

What you get to do:

• Design and build advanced applications from scratch keeping scalability and performance in mind
• A good handle on both client and server architecture.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Comfortable in owning large scale products and continuously re-evaluating and innovating.

Who are we looking for:

• Experience of 7+ years across product based companies
• Should have worked on building B2C products. Having experience in building edtech products would be a major plus.
• Should be an avid programmer with great problem solving skills.
• Should have a great grasp over NodeJs/Typescript/ AWS microservices/DB design/System Design.
• Should have experience in building scalable server-side systems. Should have significant experience in cloud infrastructure and designing databases.
• Should have knowledge of software architecture, system thinking and design patterns.

• Experience in designing and developing applications using Node.js, RDBMS (preferably MySQL).
• Minimum 3 years of Node.Js, 3 years of Database experience required.
• Expertise in at least one of AWS, Google Compute platforms to build scalable solutions.
• Deep knowledge and experience in building complex cloud/enterprise-grade software in the area of IT infrastructure, virtualization, network, storage systems monitoring & manage mentor cloud solutions
• Expertise in writing async code (callbacks, promises, async/await, observables) and publish/ subscribe/ event.
• Experience in implementing and consuming SOAP and REST web APIs.
• Producing and maintaining automated testing, build, and deployment processes.
• Improve documentation of processes and systems
• Troubleshoot existing systems and applications
• Experience in data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Experience in RESTful APIs and knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Understanding of data structures and problem-solving approaches, and ability to articulate trade-offs
• Strong fundamentals OOPS concepts, SOLID principles, Data Structures/Algorithms, Exception Handling, Coding Standards, Logging
• Passionate about writing clean, modular and unit testable code
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with Agile development
• Good knowledge of Jenkins, SonarQube, Git.
• Proven problem solving skills including debugging skills, allowing you to determine source of issues in unfamiliar code or systems and the ability to recognize and solve repetitive problems rather than working around them.
• Collaborating with software engineers, QA engineers, UX and Design team and project managers

Responsibilities:

• Crawl the internet/intranet for issues people are facing and convert them in to stuctured data that would be consumed downstream.
• Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to deployment.
• Comply with coding standards and technical design.
• Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing, and maintainability of the code.
• Integrate the developed functionality and/or component into a fully functional system.
• Ensure unit and integration level verification plans are in place and adheres to the great quality of code at all times.
• Actively participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live system.
• Verify user feedback in making the system more stable and easy.
• Work closely with analysts, designers, and other peer developers.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
• Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
• A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.
• 6+ years of experience working on the server-side.
• Exposure to API designing, scalable architecture, and thorough understanding of systems.
• Great database modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of Databases, both relational (such as PostgreSQL) and in-memory database (such as Redis).
• Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
• Experience with open-source projects.
• Experience in designing interactive applications.