Responsibilities
- Build and Maintain Backend Services: Develop scalable and robust backend services and APIs using Node.js, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
- Optimise Database Performance: Design and optimise database schemas, queries, and indexes for efficient data storage and retrieval, with experience in PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Collaborate and Integrate: Work closely with frontend engineers to integrate APIs, ensuring seamless user experiences. Basic knowledge of frontend technologies like React or Angular is advantageous.
- Contribute to System Design: Engage in both low-level and high-level system design, focusing on scalability, security, and performance considerations.
- Leverage Cloud Infrastructure: Utilise AWS for application deployment, monitoring, and scaling. Experience with Redis for caching and optimising data retrieval is preferred.
- Maintain Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code. Actively participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding best practices.
- Testing and Debugging: Develop tests to cover edge cases, ensure backward compatibility, and debug issues related to functionality, integration, and scalability.
Requirements
- Have 2+ years of experience as a Backend Developer, with strong expertise in Node.js and relational databases.
- Are skilled in cloud services, particularly AWS, and have a solid grasp of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Bring knowledge of caching mechanisms like Redis and have experience in optimising backend performance.
- Value collaboration with frontend engineers and have a basic understanding of frontend frameworks.
- Are passionate about system design and adept at making technical trade-offs that balance current needs with future scalability.
- Have a keen eye for detail and a testing mindset, ensuring your code is robust, reliable, and scalable.
- Thrive in fast-paced environments where your work directly influences the product and team success.
This job was posted by Reena P from Vahan.
