About Us :

We are BlackLight Games; we bring culturally relevant synchronous multiplayer games experience to mobile. Our games have been rocking the Play Stores since launch. We have built cutting-edge back-end technology; we take pride that our games are played by more than 1 million players daily. Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Other titles include - CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.

Position : Backend Developer

Location : Noida

Educational Qualification : B.Tech/ MCA / M.Tech / M.Sc or relevant professional experience; preferably in Computer Science.

Skills :

- Backend : NodeJS

- Databases : MySQL/ MongoDB.

Job Summary :

What You Bring To The Team :

- More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public cloud like Google Cloud/ AWS

- Knowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.

- Strong proficiency with JavaScript

- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.

- Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliability

- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

- Experience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks. It's a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.

- Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.

- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

- Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysis

- Experienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable components

- Experience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above services

- Experience building data processing pipelines

- Solid understanding of code, design, and development practices

- General comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworks

- High levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all times

- Adhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD tools

Extra Gems For :

- Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.

- Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as Redis

- Demonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps security

- Knowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google Stackdriver

- Broad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.

- Experience with Github and advanced Github features.

- Experience of working in Product industry

- Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.

Why Us?

- High Growth Startup environment

- Company sponsored courses and education material

- Lots of learning opportunities

- Work with a super-talented team of professionals

- Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips

- Performance Based Bonus

- Competitive Salary

- Medical Insurance for you and your family

- Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all times