Backend Engineer (Node.js) We are looking for a Backend Engineer to help design, scale, and continuously improve the platform.
What You'll Do
- Engage in fast-paced agile application development teams in terms of organizing, managing and executing your work with minimal supervision.
- Participate with the team and stakeholders on requirements understanding, design and solutions in line with the product architecture.
- Build and maintain high performing, high quality backend services and APIs with end-to-end responsibility from development to technical QA (unit tests) by applying technology and best practices.
- Design and manage scalable data pipelines, integrations, and microservices that power the platform.
- Provide necessary technical documentation to enable visibility and maintainability of designs and code.
- Play an integral role in acquiring and learning technology trends, expertise, and best practices to keep the team's collective knowledge up to date.
What We're Looking For - Education
- Masters/Bachelor Degree in Engineering from a reputed university with an excellent academic record.
- Any relevant certifications on technology from reputed sources is a plus.
Work Experience
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience. Experience working in Energy, Oil & Gas or Engineering domain is a definite plus.
- Experience working in distributed agile developments. Experience working in international teams is relevant.
Technical Skills
- Hands-on experience building scalable backend services and REST/GraphQL APIs using Node.js and TypeScript. Further hands-on experience with NestJS or Express.js is a plus.
- Strong understanding of databases including relational (PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) systems, including query optimization and data modeling.
- Good understanding of event-driven architecture and messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Azure Service Bus.
- Good understanding of the concepts and application of unit and integration tests in backend development. Hands-on experience using Jest or Mocha is a plus.
- It is an advantage if you have hands-on experience working in Cloud (Azure) applications especially in areas of DevOps, CI/CD, and Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- It will be a valuable addition if you have experience and knowledge working for energy, oil & gas or engineering industries.
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