Tech Lead

At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for talented back-end (node.JS) engineer to join our at Chennai.

Please find below our job description, if interested apply / reply sharing your profile to connect and discuss.

Company: BigThinkCode Technologies

URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/

Experience required: 1-2 years

Work location: Chennai

Joining time: Immediate – 4 weeks

Work Mode: Work from office / Hybrid

A skilled Node.js Developer with 1-2 years of experience in building scalable applications using event-driven architecture (EDA) within distributed systems. The ideal candidate should be comfortable in high-performance backend services and have a strong understanding of asynchronous programming patterns.

Experience or exposure to knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques is a strong plus, especially in the context of modern data-driven or AI-powered systems.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 1-2 years of hands-on experience with Node.js
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and non-blocking I/O
• Experience working with distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications using Node.js
• Build and optimize scalable, event-driven systems in distributed environments
• Implement asynchronous workflows, message queues, and pub/sub architectures

Good to Have 

• Experience with knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques.
• Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone).
• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Why Join Us:

• Collaborative work environment.
• Exposure to modern tools and scalable application architectures.
• Medical cover for employee and eligible dependents.
• Comprehensive leave policy.
• Competency development training programs.

Programming skills in PHP  Yii / CakePHP / Zend PHP / Codeigniter / Laravel along MySQL
• Strong Knowledge in Responsive Web Design
• Excellent knowledge on HTML5, CSS3 bootstrap, JavaScript , CSS, AJAX, HTML4/5 & JQUERY

Location : Mumbai
Work from office.

Responsibilities

• Take product ideas from ideation to implementation
• Design and develop backend services that expand the capabilities of the product
• Write high quality, structured application/interface code and tests
• Lead engineering discussions to ensure the best practices, maintainability and security of the application
• Participate in design and code reviews

We are looking for

• 3+ years of experience building quality applications
• Proficient in Node JS, NoSQL databases
• Strong working knowledge of Web technologies and APIs
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
• Experience in planning, designing architecture and working with teams
• Experience with SaaS product or an early stage startup is a plus

About the Company:

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Role Overview:

As a Senior Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and optimization of our backend systems. You will be instrumental in building scalable, high-performance applications that support our business's needs. This role demands a deep understanding of backend technologies, database design, cloud infrastructure, and the ability to integrate a wide range of services and APIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and robust backend services and APIs.
• Lead the development of microservices architecture, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
• Oversee the integration of third-party services and external APIs, including notification services like FCM.
• Develop and manage database schemas, optimizing for performance and scalability using MongoDB and Redis.
• Implement real-time data processing mechanisms for live updates and push notifications, utilizing technologies like Firebase.
• Manage cloud infrastructure and serverless functions on platforms such as AWS and GCP, ensuring efficient operations and cost management.
• Ensure the security of backend systems through robust authentication, authorization, data encryption, and adherence to best practices in data security and compliance.
• Work closely with the frontend team to integrate backend services and ensure a seamless user experience.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and frameworks to improve the backend infrastructure.
• Mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong portfolio of projects demonstrating expertise in NodeJS, ExpressJS, and asynchronous programming.
• Extensive experience with database design, optimization, and management using MongoDB and Redis.
• Proven track record in developing and managing REST APIs.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and real-time data processing.
• Solid experience with caching mechanisms and SQS management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of security principles, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption.
• Familiarity with compliance and data protection standards.
• Should have worked on scalable microservices architecture
• Experience with Lambda functions.
• Experience working with firebase
• Should have proven experience in mobile application development
• Should have working experience in sqs
• Have knowledge of elastic cache 
• Experience with cloud-native development and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead projects and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a passion for mentoring and driving technical excellence.
• Attach the link of mobile application worked on till date

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to lead a cutting-edge project impacting users globally.
• Work in an environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits.

Envoy combines technology and global immigration services to offer the only immigration management platform that makes it seamless for companies to hire and manage an international workforce. We empower companies to acquire the best talent regardless of where they are in the world; helps mobilize employees around the world to take advantage of business opportunities; and enables the management of entire global workforces, providing a strategic, proactive view into workforce and financial forecasting and compliance. We are a fast-growing, award-winning technology company, a leader in our space, and are backed by some of the country’s leading venture capital and growth equity firms.

Our Engineering Team

We have a passionate product engineering team that works on complex technical challenges, employs creativity, and constantly learns a variety of frameworks, tools, and technologies. While we are dedicated to delivering excellent product, we also believe having fun along the way motivates us to pour our heart into what we do. Our team has mastered development and delivery process, allowing the team to focus on designing, architecting, and crafting masterpieces.

We are growing rapidly and expanding our team in India, join our product engineering team to be part of this exciting journey.

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler

Skills Required

• 5+ years of strong programming experience on .NET platform
• Expertise in C#, ASP.NET Web API / Typescript / Angular (or any front-end framework or passion to learn Angular)
• Hands on experience with SQL
• Azure experience is a plus but not a deal breaker
• Knowledge and experience with Html, CSS, JavaScript
• Experience designing high-level and low-level design of the system
• Experience with microservices architecture is a plus

Expectations

• Contribute to tech grooming backlog items providing design, architecture, and implementation details
• Quality is the key driver to successful delivery, ensure highly testable and quality deliverables
• Leverage troubleshooting and analytical skills to analyze issues
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization 

• Back-end software development
• Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
• Working together with engineers and product teams
• Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
• Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
• Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team

What we are looking for:

• 2+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle. 
• Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
• Experience with Databases.
• Experience with writing REST-APIs.
• Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
• Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
• Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
• A positive attitude, and a growth mindset

Bonus:

• Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Requests, sklearn, Selenium
• Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
• Good Humor

• • Key Result Areas
  
  
  1. Develop and lead desktop and mobile web Back end development. 
  2. Work on Node JS platform.
  3. Strong focus on UI Performance: optimize page load, rendering, caching, leveraging CDNs.
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  1. Technology Skills:
  
  
  • Advanced Javascript, CSS, HTML 5, D/XHTML, XML, JSON, DOM Concepts
  • Must have worked on a SPA frameworks:Nodejs, AngularJS or InfernoJS
  • Familiarity with common Javascript Libraries such as jQuery.
  • Fluent in responsive design and mobile / tablet UI / UX
  • Knowledge about UI testing automation
  • Web mobile (touch devices: mobiles and tablets) experience is expected
  • UI or API Performance: should have hands-on experience of optimizing page load, rendering,caching.
  • Good understanding of AJAX and its UI implications
  • Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective

• B.Tech/B.E (preferably in Computer Science Engineering) 
• 7+ years of hands-on programming experience in building data-driven REST APIs, services & platforms using advanced Java frameworks like Spring, Redis, Node.js etc. with deep focus on integration & scale.
• We also look for hands-on experience with Mysql, Elasticsearch (or Solr) and Nosql stores.
• Our evaluation starts with focus on computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• You will have been learning new technologies every week and prefer folks who can use golang/rust for backend development and are familiar with equivalent data stores, index stores and pub-sub technologies.

• Total of 3-5 years of experience building cutting-edge products.
• Must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency, and fundamentals of computer science.

• Technically Hands-on, prior experience with scalable Architecture.
• Bring 3-5 years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms.
• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithm Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing
• Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Python preferred with Django framework).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with web technologies Java/Python, Linux, Apache, MySQL, solr, memcache, redis.
• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications.
• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus.

• Java/ Python, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Problem Solving, Scalability, Design Patterns, Distributed System

• Develop complex software products that include scale, algorithmic complexity, and a huge amount of data.
• Build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• Code, develop, design, and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
• Contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores, and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and release products
• Take responsibility for performance and stability for all server functions
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

We are looking for a Python Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions