TECHNICAL MANAGER

Job Title: Back-End Developer

Department: IT

Experience: 3.5 Years+

Location: Mohali

Shift: Rotational Shifts

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Overview:

The Senior Backend Developer will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our backend services, focusing on architecture, security, and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Core API Development & Logic: Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure RESTful/ GraphQL APIs using Node.js and Python to serve both internal and external consumers.
• System Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of application components, focusing on microservices architecture, ensuring services are loosely coupled and highly available.
• Database Management: Expertly manage and optimize complex database schemas and queries for both SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB/Redis) systems, ensuring data integrity and high performance.
• Performance and Scalability: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, implement caching strategies, and optimize server-side code and architecture for maximum speed and scalability.
• Code Quality and Standards: Write clean, efficient, well-documented, and testable code. Conduct thorough code reviews and mentor junior developers on best practices, design patterns, and coding standards.
• Security Implementation: Implement security and data protection settings,including authentication, authorization, and encryption protocols.
• DevOps and Deployment: Work with DevOps pipelines (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes) for smooth and automated deployment of services to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams (Frontend, Product, QA) to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications and deliver high-quality features.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Programming Expertise: Deep, demonstrable expertise in Node.js and Python.
• Node.js: Strong command of asynchronous programming, event loops, and related frameworks (e.g., Express.js).
• Python: Extensive experience with web frameworks (e.g., Django, Django Rest Framework, Flask).
• API Design: Proven ability to design and implement highly performant and secure RESTful APIs. Experience with GraphQL is a strong advantage.
• Databases: Expert knowledge of both Relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra). Proficiency in query optimization and schema design.
• Cloud & Tools: Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP). Proficiency with Docker and Git.
• Testing: Strong experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks.

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of troubleshooting complex production issues.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical decisions and collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
• Ownership: Proven ability to take ownership of complex projects, drive them to completion, and manage technical debt.

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Role Overview:

We are looking for an Engineering Lead to take end-to-end ownership of technical delivery, design, architecture, and quality for our multi-customer SaaS product. You will lead and mentor the engineering team, drive scalable design and high-quality delivery, manage releases across customer environments, and ensure the stability and performance of the product in production.

Key Responsibilities:

·        Delivery & Release Management: Plan and deliver product features and customer-specific releases on time with high quality, ensuring operational readiness and stability across environments.

·        Technical Design & Architecture: Lead technical design and high-scale architecture for new and existing modules, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.

·        Team Management: Mentor and guide engineers, ensure clarity in priorities, unblock challenges, and foster a culture of ownership and quality within the team.

·        Requirement to Delivery: Work with product and customer teams to understand requirements, translate them into designs and implementation plans, and track them through to delivery.

·        Product Quality: Establish and maintain engineering best practices, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure high product quality and reliability.

·        Troubleshooting & Support: Lead the team in debugging complex issues in development and production, ensuring minimal downtime and strong customer satisfaction.

·        Hands-on Contribution: Actively contribute technically where needed, providing architectural guidance and coding support aligned with the team’s stack.

Requirements:

·        Experience: 8–12 years in software engineering with at least 3+ years in a lead role.

·        Proven experience in designing scalable, high-performance architectures and technical solutions.

·        Experience delivering multi-customer SaaS product releases, including phased and customer-specific configurations.

·        Strong track record of ensuring product quality and stability through structured processes, testing, and monitoring.

·        Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and guide teams towards resolution.

·        Experience in mentoring and managing engineering teams to drive aligned delivery and high performance.

·        Hands-on experience with your relevant tech stack (e.g., Python, Django, Angular, AWS, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ).

·        Excellent communication and collaboration skills with Product, QA, and Customer Support teams.

·        Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related field.

About us:

Zethic Technologies is one of the leading creative tech studios based in Bangalore. Zethic’s team members have years of experience in software development. Zethic specializes in Custom software development, Mobile Applications development, chatbot development, web application development, UI/UX designing, and consulting. 

Your Responsibilities:

• Develop, record, and maintain cutting-edge web-based PHP applications on portal plus premium service platforms
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from the concept stage to delivery and post-launch support
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development

Requirements and Qualifications:

• In-depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and Laravel PHP Framework
• Hands-on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design
• Software testing (PHPUnit)
• MySQL profiling and query optimization
• Creative and efficient problem solver
• Proficient in frontend frameworks like Vue, React

Why join us?

• We’re growing rapidly and the sky’s the limit
• Work with a talented team you’ll learn a lot from them 
• We care about delivering value to our excellent customers
• We are flexible in our opinions and always open to new ideas 
• We know it takes people with different ideas, strengths, backgrounds, cultures, beliefs, and interests to make our Company succeed. We celebrate and respect all our employees equally.

Zethic ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, marital status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

• Own and drive business features into tech requirements
• Design & develop large scale real time server side systems
• Quickly create quality prototypes
• Staying updated on emerging technologies
• Ensuring that all deliverables adhere to our world class standards
• Promote coding best practices
• Mentor and develop junior developers in the team

• 4+ years of relevant experience as described below
• Excellent grasp of Core Java, Multi Threading and OO design patterns 
• Experience with Scala, functional, reactive programming and Akka/Play is a plus
• Excellent understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Solid grasp of large scale distributed real time systems

• Prior experience on building a scalable and resilient micro service

• Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL databases and Caching systems
• Good understanding of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop is a plus
• Experience on one of AWS, Azure or GCP 

• You have excellent and effective communication and collaborative skills
• You love problem solving
• You stay up to date with the latest technologies and then apply them in real life
• You love paying attention to detail
• You thrive in meeting tight deadlines and prioritising workloads
• Ability to collaborate across multiple functions

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience within the field