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About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced and driven Lead Backend Engineer to oversee and elevate our backend architecture. This role will focus deeply on backend systems, collaborating closely with the founder and core team to turn strategic goals into reality through backend excellence. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise with leadership capabilities, driving backend development while ensuring system security, scalability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Backend Development Leadership

• Ownership of Backend Systems: Lead the backend development process, aligning it with the company's broader goals. Gain a full understanding of the existing backend infrastructure, especially in the initial phase.
• Roadmap Development: Within the first three months, build a detailed roadmap that addresses backend "must-do" tasks (e.g., major bugs, security vulnerabilities, data leakage prevention) alongside longer-term improvements. Continuously update the roadmap based on strategic directions from board meetings.

2. Strategic Planning and Execution

• Backend Strategy Implementation: Translate high-level strategies into backend tasks, ensuring clarity on how each piece fits into the company's larger goals.
• Sprint and Task Management: Lead the backend sprint planning process, break down tasks into manageable components, and ensure accurate estimations for efficient execution.

3. Team Leadership and Development

• Mentoring and Growth: Lead backend developers, nurturing their growth while ensuring a culture of responsibility and continuous improvement.
• Process Optimization: Regularly assess backend processes, identifying areas to streamline development and ensure adherence to best practices.

4. Security and Quality Assurance

• Security Oversight: Ensure the backend systems are fortified against potential threats, setting the highest standards for security in every aspect of development.
• Quality Assurance: Maintain top-tier backend development standards, ensuring the system remains resilient, scalable, and efficient under load.

5. Innovation and Continuous Learning

• Real-time Strategy Input: Offer insights during strategic discussions on backend challenges, providing quick, effective solutions when needed.
• Automation and Efficiency: Implement backend automation practices, from CI/CD pipelines to other efficiency-boosting tools that improve the backend workflow.

6. Research and Communication

• Technology Exploration: Stay ahead of backend trends and technologies, providing research and recommendations to stakeholders. Break down complex backend issues into understandable, actionable points.

7. Workplace Expectations

• Ownership Mentality: Embody a strong sense of ownership over the backend systems, with a proactive attitude that eliminates the need for close follow-up.
• On-site Work: Work from the office is required to foster close collaboration with the team.

Tech Stack & Skills

Must-Have:

• Programming Languages: Node.js & JavaScript (TypeScript or normal)
• Databases: Firestore, MongoDB, NoSQL
• Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS
• Microservices: Google Cloud Functions
• Containerization: Docker (creation, hosting, maintenance, etc.)
• Deployment & Orchestration: Google Cloud Run
• Messaging & Task Management: Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Tasks
• Security: GCP/AWS Security (IAMs)

Good-to-Have:

• Programming Languages: Python

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Lead Backend Engineer or similar role, focusing on backend systems.
• Expertise in the backend technologies specified.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and backend security best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to think critically about backend challenges.
• Strong leadership qualities with the ability to mentor and manage backend developers.
• A passion for continuous learning and applying new backend technologies.
• A high degree of ownership over backend systems, with the ability to work independently.

Role Objective:

The objective of the developer is to design and develop solutions while being responsible for the coding standards, security and compliance requirements. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Business Understanding
• Understands the business requirements clearly to a level that enables in making micro decisions. Involves in designing, developing, testing software solutions 
• Arch/Design Documentation
• Clear documentation of the workflows, maintains clean code and support in solution architecture/design documentations 
• Dev Testing & Solution
• Engages in identifying & troubleshooting various website issues and coding problems; Evaluates and implements new tools based on the requirement and ensures the high performance of all systems developed; Involves in performing the code review and refactor to ensure the code quality based on the best practices and code conventions. 
• Understanding Coding Standards, Compliance & Info-security, Non-functional Requirement
• Identifies security requirements of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and discovers the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/libraries used in the application and remediating vulnerabilities; Maintains updated knowledge of the development industry, advancements in technology, and its implementation. 
• Stakeholder Management
• Collaborates with members to consistently improve the functionality and client centric solutions; Collaborate with the peers and team members to create an intuitively easy to use solution for our end users; Assists the DevOps team to manage the environment and releases; Provides training and support to junior developers. 

Requirements

• Frameworks & Libraries:
• Dot net Core
• Entity Framework
• Backend languages: C#
• Database Concepts & Applications:
• Entity framework, ADO.Net, Dapper
• Should be familiar with any of the relational databases like Postgres, SQLServer, Oracle etc., or non relational databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.,
• Should be familiar with concepts: Normalization, Indexing, Joins
• Unit Testing: Should be familiar with NUnit
• Log frameworks: Should be familiar with any one of the logging libraries like Nlog or Log4Net
• Authorization & Authentication:
• Token Based Auth
• JWT with refresh token
• Claims & Identity
• SSO
• Basic Authentication
• OAuth
• Build Tools: dot net cli build commands
• Version Control: Experience in using GIT
• Other Development tools:
• Swagger Editor
• Postman/Flutter
• VSCode
• Application performance management: Nice to have basic knowledge in any of the APM Tools like AppDynamics, DataDog, NewRelic, Dynatrace, etc.,
• Vulnerability tests: Nice to have basic knowledge on security principles like OWASP Top Te etc.,
• Cloud Services: Nice to have experience in any one of the cloud services like GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.,
• CI/CD understanding: Basic understanding of pipelines and deployments
• Others:
• Common application/ web security and OWASP vulnerabilities
• Encryption algorithms to protect sensitive information
• PII, PCI, HIPPA, and GDPR compliance and how to implement
• Finding the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/ libraries
• Understanding security breaches of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and its implementation
• Behavioral Competencies:
• Accountability
• Adaptive to change
• Business communication
• Customer Focus
• Learning Agility
• Planning & organizing
• Problem solving

3+ years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS. Should be well versed with its asynchronous nature, event loop, promises, and callbacks.

Node expressProficient in Node.js and working knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML, CSS, and frameworks ( React.js)

Experience in Node JS MVC framework and Rest API frameworks like Express.

Experience developing desktops.

Experience in Mongo DB.

Familiarity with using AWS components.

Postman for documenting/testing APIs.

About OJ Commerce: 

OJ Commerce is a fast-growing, profitable online retailer based in Florida, USA with a full-fledged India office based in Chennai driven by a sophisticated, data-driven system to run the operations with virtually no human intervention. We strive to be the best-in-class ecommerce company delivering exceptional value to customers by leveraging technology, innovation and brand-partnerships to provide a seamless & enjoyable shopping of high-quality products at the best prices to our customers.

Responsibilities:

Work with business-stakeholders to understand requirements, prototype, build and deploy it.

CRUD the backend code you own keeping maintenance, performance and security in mind.

Keep up breast of latest technologies and its ecosystem and adopt ones that aid safe product delivery at speed.

Automate the boring and mundane stuff for you prefer to be productive than being busy.

We are flat. Be responsible for professional growth of self and the team. 

• Tune application for performance.
• Take initiatives and manage change to work towards business goals at speed without compromising safety.
• Coach full-stack developers on backend skills.
• Provides problem resolution support, specific to application issues, identifies and resolves problems in application software, determines symptoms and ensures accurate problem definition

Develop functional, architectural and other documentation as required for productive functioning of teams.

• Be the brand ambassador for OJ Commerce by speaking at meetups, conferences, etc.
• We are fluid. Be ready for changing dynamics in responsibilities from time to time. Exciting isn't?
• Take the lead in digital transformation of legacy applications.

What you need to shine?

• You have the prior experience in modernising legacy applications.
• You are a passionate hands-on developer with deep experience in building enterprise grade software in Microsoft ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, SOA, Micro-Services and RESTful Services with knowledge of SQL Server database.
• You have the ability to see and work on the big picture (Application Architecture) and devilish details (Complex Code).
• Strong experience in developing web applications using C#, VB.Net, .NET, LINQ, Net Framework 4.0, MVC 3/4/5, ASP.NET Web API, .Net Core etc.
• You are Cloud savvy, preferably Google Cloud.
• You have rich experience in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) with good knowledge of practical design-patterns and its applications.

Hands-on experience in building SOA or Micro-services preferably on .NET Core.

Proven Architectural skills with high standards in Code quality

Knowledge of ReactJS/Typescript would be added advantage.

Practical experience in Agile development methodologies of using CI/CD.

Extreme Programming (TDD) experience is sought after by us.

What we Offer

• Greenfield opportunity to transform legacy backend applications to latest technology stack.
• Fast-paced start-up environment: This is not for the faint hearted; you need grit and passion as much as you need the core skills.
• Work in an interdisciplinary team where learning from one another and developing solutions cross-functionally is a key part of our culture.
• Golden opportunity to make history by making big business impact.
• Competitive salary to take good care of self and family.
• Insurance Benefits: Medical and Accident cover.
• Flexible Working Hours