Sr. Software Engineer - Node Js

Position: Lead Python Developer

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The Client company includes a team of experienced information services professionals who are passionate about growing and enhancing the value of information services businesses. They provide support with talent, technology, tools, infrastructure and expertise required to deliver across the Data ecosystem. Position Summary We are seeking a skilled and experienced Backend Developer with strong expertise in TypeScript, Python, and web scraping. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs that power our data-driven products. Your role will involve collaborating with cross functional teams, optimizing system performance, ensuring data integrity, and contributing to the design of efficient and secure architectures.

Job Responsibility

● Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Python and TypeScript.

● Develop and maintain web scraping solutions to extract, process, and manage large-scale data from multiple sources.

● Work with relational and non-relational

databases, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.

● Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices across services.

● Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices and coding standards.

● Collaborate with frontend engineers, data engineers, and DevOps teams to deliver robust solutions and troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications.

● Stay updated with backend development trends, tools, and frameworks to continuously improve processes.

● Utilize core crawling experience to design efficient strategies for scraping the data from different websites and applications.

● Collaborate with technology teams, data collection teams to build end to end technology-enabled ecosystems and partner in research projects to analyze the massive data inputs.

● Responsible for the design and development of web crawlers, able to independently solve various problems encountered in the actual development process.

● Stay updated with the latest web scraping techniques, tools, and industry trends to continuously improve the scraping processes.

Job Requirements

● 4+ years of professional experience in backend development with TypeScript and Python.

● Strong understanding of TypeScript-based server-side frameworks (e.g., Node.js, NestJS, Express) and Python frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django, Flask).

● Experience with tools and libraries for web scraping (e.g., Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Puppeteer)

● Hands-on experience with Temporal for creating and orchestrating workflows

● Proven hands-on experience in web scraping, including crawling, data extraction, deduplication, and handling dynamic websites.

● Proficient in implementing proxy solutions and handling bot-detection challenges (e.g., Cloudflare).

● Experience working with Docker, containerized deployments, and cloud environments (GCP or Azure).

● Proficiency with database systems such as MongoDB and Elastic Search.

● Hands-on experience with designing and maintaining scalable APIs.

● Knowledge of software testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end).

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).

● Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in agile environments.

● Great communication skills and ability to navigate in undirected situations.

Job Exposure:

● Opportunity to apply creative methods in acquiring and filtering the North American government, agencies data from various websites, sources

● In depth industry exposure on data harvesting techniques to build, scale the robust and sustainable model, using open-source applications ● Effectively collaboration with IT team to design the tailor-made solutions basis upon clients’ requirement

● Unique opportunity to research on various agencies, vendors, products as well as technology tools to compose a solution 

Job description

• Database Design & Development:
• Design, implement, and maintain PostgreSQL databases.
• Develop efficient schemas, indexes, and stored procedures to optimize data performance.
• Backend Development:
• Develop RESTful APIs and backend services using Node.js.
• Integrate databases with backend applications for seamless data flow.
• Query Optimization & Performance Tuning:
• Optimize SQL queries for performance and scalability.
• Monitor database health and troubleshoot slow queries or deadlocks.
• Security & Compliance:
• Implement database security best practices, including role-based access control (RBAC) and encryption.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards like GDPR, HIPAA, etc.
• Data Migration & Backup:
• Develop and maintain data migration scripts between different PostgreSQL versions or other databases like mongodb.
• Set up and manage database backup and recovery strategies.
• Write efficient SQL queries and manage database schemas using PostgreSQL.
• Build RESTful APIs and integrate third-party APIs/services.
• Optimize application performance and troubleshoot production issues.
• Ensure data security and protection practices are followed.
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.

Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.

Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, etc.).

Integration of User Interfaces developed by front end developers.

Skills and Qualifications:

· Must have a bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or in similar field.

· Minimum 4 years of experience in PHP web development.

· Strong knowledge of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

· Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (CodeIgniter, NodeJS)

· Experience in creating custom modules and themes.

· Expert knowledge in web architecture.

· Strong understanding of MVC design patterns and oops concept.

· Strong understanding of full synchronous behaviour of PHP.

· Experience with modern UI frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.js

· Experience in MySQL and the ability to write SQL queries.

· Proficient understanding of source control management such as Git, SVN.

· Proficient understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

· Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.

· Ability to create database schemes that represent and support business processes.

· Experience with Edu Tech companies will be preferred.

. Immediate Joiner Preferred.

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

You should primarily be a backend developer or full stack developer, very good at code reviews and code optimization. Our products depend on processing large amounts of data and having fast response times is absolutely essential.

You will have the opportunity to

• Take responsibility of building systems for scale
• Manage our backend systems and database optimizations
• Assist in key decisions and design architecture that drives development across products
• Define processes and help with efficient functioning of the team
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the products are scalable, maintainable and secure

What we expect from you:

• We work on Ruby on Rails but you can have 2+ years of experience as backend developer in any language
• Have a solid grasp of OOP, databases and automated testing methodologies.
• Know how to manage sprint and ensure tasks are completed within the timeline
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Strong understanding of SQL databases
• Proficient knowledge of various authentication methods like JWT, OAuth etc..
• Perform peer code reviews and Code audit - Analyze existing code and remediate performance issues within existing applications

Having seen over 10x growth in 2021 alone, we are expanding our scope of products to cater to the fast growing creator economy and help creators monetize in ways beyond influencer marketing. We are also looking at tremendous growth in the next few years, standing at the verge of building something huge!

Come join our team of developers if a fast learning environment in a high growth industry excites you.

About Winkl

Please check out our product before applying to this position -
* Website - https://winkl.co
* Team - https://winkl.co/about
* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.winkl.app&;amp;hl=en
* iOS App - https://www.winkl.co/app

Winkl is a technology company that is changing how influencer marketing is done. From a manual process earlier to an automated and data-driven process with Winkl. More on this here.

Leveraging data & technology helps Winkl scale influencer marketing to a level that wasn't possible earlier. This has helped Winkl power influencer campaigns for top brands in India like Flipkart, Amazon etc.

Culture & Expectations

* At Winkl, no one tells you what to do. We don't micromanage. We don't spoon feed. As long as you're willing to learn new things, are proactive, initiate activities on your own, make mistakes and learn from them, take responsibility, stick to your word of getting things done, we think you'd be a great fit at Winkl.
* On a day to day basis, you'll get to be an important part of a high growth startup as it scales.
* You'll receive all possible support from your team at Winkl to help you succeed. 
* Being highly accountable is a non-negotiable requirement

We’re looking for a Ruby on Rails Software Engineer/Shopify App Developer who has experience working with the Shopify platform and is able to work on a Shopify app.

Your Daily Challenges

When we welcome you aboard we’ll introduce you to your Team, which consists of a front-end developer, a Shopify App Marketer who grew 2 apps to million dollar annual revenue, and a product manager.

These are the people you’ll work closely with on Product development day-to-day. Once you get settled in and learn more about the team, your day to day activities will look something like this:

1. Own the end-to-end development cycle for the Shopify app you’ll be working on.
2. Coordinate with fellow developers to get things done on time. 
3. Implement high quality code in an agile, test driven development environment
4. Review exception reports to identify and fix bugs
5. Development of new apps and features
6. Maintenance of existing features
7. Collaboration with cross-functional teams
8. Contributions of ideas to improve the product

Your Experience

1. 3-5 years of experience with Ruby on Rails
2. Experience with Shopify app development
3. Familiar with Sidekiq, PostgreSQL
4. Good understanding of HTML and CSS (positioning and styling)
5. Excellent communication skills
6. Takes pride in writing clean, organized, efficient code
7. An eye for detail
8. Experience with vanilla JavaScript and React a plus
9. Experience working in an entrepreneurial/startup environment

Your Compensation

1. The compensation range for this role is INR 14-18 LPA (~25K USD) + up to 5% equity.
2. The compensation varies with experience and qualifications. 
3. This is a full-time remote/work from home position.

Thanks for the time you took to read about this opportunity.

• Web development using PHP & experience in coding on MVC architecture of Laravel
• REST API knowledge is a must with oAuth security
• Understanding of mobile apps with REST API integration, firebase & google analytics is important
• Need to have knowledge of querying MySQL & NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Experience with Node Js for our notification system

• Understanding of cloud services like Google cloud & AWS ec2 instance is a bonus for the profile