Sr. Backend Engineer (NodeJS)

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for the development of new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Requirements

you’ll be responsible for —

• The development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable code.
• The entire lifecycle of stories : development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Develop a highly scalable and performant backend based on event driven architecture.
• Building robust, secure and scalable microservices.
• Splitting features into tasks and for the backend architecture and its evolution.
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards. This includes collaborating with QAs, PMs to ensure timely delivery of high-quality apps.
• Participating in, designing and driving the code review process.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible to implement relational, document, key, object or graph data-stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
• Tracking defects and working with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog.
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
• A strong portfolio showcasing your technical expertise and leadership capabilities.
• Working with database Technologies such as Mysql, Postgresql, MongoDB, Caching
• Performance profiling, debugging, and benchmarking.
• Server-side services like Redis, ElasticSearch, AWS Services, etc.
• DevOps practices and tools like CI / CD (GOCD, Harness, Github action)
• Strong problem solving, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively drive solutions to closure.

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Benefits

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about us—

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