Senior Node Developer

Job Description

• Provide technical leadership and mentor a team of engineers to build Internet-scale applications where performance, reliability, and scalability, are critical design goals – not after-thoughts • Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to create solutions for our customers • Create intuitive, interactive, and easy-to-use web applications using rich client-side and REST based server-side code using Node, React and Typescript/Javascript • Implement the nuts and bolts of Microservices Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) in real-life applications • Use database technologies, ranging from traditional relational to the latest NoSQL products such as AWS DynamoDB and Couchbase • Work with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex Software as a Service (SaaS) based applications What You Will Need for this Position: You need to have a strong passion for software development and must take pride in designing and coding. You should also have great analytical skills and ability to handle complex, modular software development in a collaborative team-based environment. In addition to this, you will have a leg up if you also meet the following criteria: Educational Qualifications / Background: • Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science OR related technical discipline • Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals • Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with strong interpersonal skills Primary Skills: • 4 to 7 years of Software Development experience in developing and shipping software • Excellent troubleshooting skills • Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile environment and result oriented culture • Hands-on programming experience with Node, JavaScript and TypeScript • Experience with RESTful Web Services and API development • Experience in contributing to the architecture and design (Design Patterns, Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) including Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Security) • Experience with one or more of the databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Couchbase, Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL technologies • Experience of working with Queuing technologies such as SQS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Active MQ • Strong influence in technical discussions and building team’s technical vision • Experience in leading an engineering team Preferred Skills: • Experience in full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to backend systems • Experience/knowledge of React, Vue or Angular; Graph Query Language (GQL) • Experience of working with Elasticsearch/Solr • Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud • Experience using feature flags and trunk-based development