Senior Backend Engineer - Node.js/Next.js

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated multitasker and a demonstrated team player. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks, and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities :

- Translate requirements and implement product features to perfection.

- Work directly with developers as a team lead and manage products to conceptualise, build, test, and realise products.

- Deliver best-in-class code across a broad array of interactive web and mobile products.

- Work on continuous improvement of the products through innovation and learning.

- A knack for benchmarking and optimization.

- Developing features for highly complex, distributed transaction processing systems.

- Implement functionality for automated tests that will successfully pass and meet coding standards.

- Debug production issues and create subsequent mitigation plans.

- Optimize the performance of existing implementations.

- Stay abreast of new innovations and the latest technology trends, and explore ways of leveraging these to improve the product in alignment with the business.

Requirements :

- 5-7 years of experience as a Backend developer.

- Experience in Node. JS and NestJS with GraphQL is a must, and experience in any of these is good to have - JavaScript, TypeScript.

- Database architecture and design on SQL (like Postgres) and NoSQL (like MongoDB) systems.

- Experience in any message bus like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ for event-driven architectures.

- Unit-testing and a strong emphasis on TDD.

- Debug moderately complex problems, analyze logs in production systems, and read existing code.

- Various data storage options, such as Relational, NoSQL.

- Object-oriented design, data structures, and complexity analysis CI/CD environment with GitlabCI/ArgoCD/Jenkins.

- Agile Development (SCRUM methodology, JIRA).

- Code versioning tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Mercurial, SVN, etc.

- Elasticsearch ELK stack- Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash.

- Have the ability to deal with ambiguity.

- Critical Thinker, Problem Solver, and team player.

Good to have :

- Prior experience working on high-visibility, high-traffic web applications will be an advantage.

- Experience working in a startup.