Web Developer

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain server-side logic using Node.js and Express.js.
• Write well-structured, efficient, and scalable TypeScript code.
• Design and manage relational databases with PostgreSQL.
• Implement caching strategies using Redis.
• Create and manage scheduled tasks using cron jobs.
• Ensure the security and integrity of applications by implementing best security practices.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints.
• Document APIs using Swagger for clear and concise API documentation.
• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards.
• Write and maintain test cases using testing frameworks (e.g., Mocha, Jest) to ensure code quality.
• Deploy and manage applications using AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, and other cloud technologies.
• Monitor application performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure we are using the best tools and practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 2-3 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Proficiency in Node.js and Express.js.
• Strong experience with TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience with Redis for caching and session management.
• Familiarity with cron jobs for task scheduling.
• Knowledge of best security practices for web applications.
• Experience with e-commerce platforms and understanding of common challenges in e-commerce backend development.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, S3, and RDS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience with Swagger for API documentation.
• Experience writing and running test cases using testing frameworks (e.g., Mocha, Jest).
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with other NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of Docker and container orchestration.
• Understanding of microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with serverless architecture.
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

What’s the opportunity?

Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?

We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers. We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers. 

If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.

About you:

● 3- 5 years of experience

● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol

● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products ○ Spring ○ PostgreSQL ○ Redis ○ Docker ○ Message brokers ○ GitHub

● These non-functional areas are familiar to you ○ Performance ○ Debugging ○ Log management

Nice to have:

● Familiarity with AWS

What’s in it for me?

● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.

● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.

● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.

● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.

● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.

● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

Responsibilities

• Determines technical feasibility of medium to low complexity features or solutions by evaluating problem, customer requirements, possible solutions and technology requirements.

• Exercises judgment in prioritizing tasks and selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

• Create a low-level design of modules of a software application through proper documentation and diagrams.

• Develops software solutions by studying requirements, clarifying customer/user needs, analyzing data and processes, and following established software development practices and processes.

• Develops proof of concepts for technical evaluation and early customer feedback.

• Updates and shares knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing technology; reading professional publications.

• Networks with internal and external personnel in their area of expertise.

Requirements

• B.Tech/B.S. or M.Tech/M.S. in Computer Science, IT or related field.

• 3-5 years of experience

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Mandatory Skills

• Should be proficient in the following areas of .NET (.NET 4.5 or above, .NET Core)

• Expert in C# and ASP.NET

• Knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript is a plus

• Development of Windows and Web services

• Parallel and Asynchronous programming

• Unit testing, Linq, ORM

• Debugging/troubleshooting in .Net

• Should be proficient in SQL Server 2012 and above in the following areas

• T-SQL Stored Procedures

• Transaction in SQL

• Should have the following design skills

• Expert in OOPs

• Proficiency in Design Patterns

• Proficiency in Unit testing Patterns

• Understanding of Algorithms and Data structures.

• Experience on Requirement/Design/Code Review & Inspections

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Desirable Skills

• Hands-on experience with using Git (handling branching and merging), any DevOps pipeline

• Experience with Agile methodologies

1. Good skill on NodeJS, Angular 4+, MongoDB, and MySQL
2. Having Good knowledge of AWS serverless technologies (Lambda) and other services like EC2, S3 SES, and others.
3. Must be passionate about writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
4. Self-starter with the ability to cope with sharp learning curves.
5. Primary: NodeJS, MySQL, MongoDB, AngularJS, ES6 Additional: Angular 2.x and Angular 4

About Us

Instavans is a Logistics tech startup focused on the development of SaaS products for the Road Trucking industry. Instavans has built and rolled out SmarTruck™, a SaaS based TMS with a private marketplace. SmarTruck has customers in India & the MENA region and is poised to enter Latam and Sub-saharan Africa.

The company’s innovative go-to-market plan involves working with large Shippers and 4PLs (Fourth Party Logistics Service Providers) to synergistically bring their Carriers on board.

We are looking for people to help us supercharge our growth, while we continue to embody the values that have got us so far already. As we are a rapidly growing company you will gain exposure to all areas of the platform, understanding the key success drivers at an engineering team and gaining invaluable experience for your future career. Success in this role will lead to opportunities for growth across the entire engineering team with significant scope for future development.

We have openings in Frontend (Angular 8+), Backend(Node.js), Android (Kotlin) and QA (Automation)

Why you should join us

- You will join the mission to create positive impact on millions of peoples lives

- You get to work on the latest technologies in a culture which encourages experimentation - You get to work with super humans (Psst: Look up these super human1, super human2, super human3, super human4)

- You get to work in an accelerated learning environment

What you will do

- You will provide deep technical expertise to your team in building future ready systems.

- You will collaborate in a highly cross functional team, providing engineering perspective to non technical members of the team

- You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring engineering operational excellence

- You will establish clean and optimised coding standards that are well documented

- You will author efficient, reliable and performant systems

- You will design systems, frameworks and libraries that work at scale, are easy to maintain and provide a great developer experience

- You will be agile and curious about customer problems and business objectives

- You will actively mentor and participate in knowledge sharing forums

- You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be ambitious and try new things :)

You should apply if

- You have a strong foundation in Computer Science concepts and programming fundamentals

- You have been working on backend web technologies since 8+ years

- You have built and maintained reliable systems that operate at high scale

- You’re experienced in building and running cloud-native platforms & distributed systems

- Extensive experience in any web stack (we use Typescript / AWS / DynamoDB / PostgreSQL)

- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good with handling ambiguity

- You are data driven, have customer empathy and enjoy building delightful applications

- You are curious, a quick learner and someone who loves to experiment

- You insist on highest standards of quality, maintainability and performance

- You work well in a team to enhance your impact