Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall architecture of our backend services
• Lead the design and architecture discussions for new features
• Mentor and guide other developers with the feature implementation to make sure code quality is good and design principles are not compromised. Set high bar for code review
• Spend at least 50% of the time in hands-on coding activities directly own implementation of some hard features, do POCs, debug performance issues, improve scalability, etc.
• Work closely with other teams like Dev-Ops and Quality Assurance for stable and efficient deployments and releases.
• Closely partner with the product team to improve our overall product offering

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

Must have skills:

• Excellent understanding of node.js including limitations and workarounds.
• Knowledge of designing and using backend services which can scale horizontally using NodeJS and Express.
• Knowledge of performance tuning and the fundamental design principles behind building scalable applications.
• Experience with data modelling in RDBMS like Postgres/MySQL and nosql DB like mongodb
• On top of latest Architecture trends, Design Patterns used in javascript/node.js community and awareness of trade offs involved in building complex micro services based architecture.
• Familiarity with CI/CD using Jenkins and deploying docker containers with orchestration tools like kubernetes
• Working knowledge in DevOps like logging, horizontal and vertical scaling, cost reduction and optimisation
• Ability to lead a team of backend developers in-house and at vendor site, strong communication and inter-personal skills

Good to have:

• Knowledge of streaming and messaging platforms like KAFKA and RabbitMQ
• Knowledge of frontend development using react or react native