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Backend Engineer
Location
India
Posted
100 days ago
Salary
$70K - $120K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Backend Engineer
Insticator
• Collaborate effectively with the design, product, and engineering team on a variety of applications. • Generate clean, efficient, modular, and maintainable code on both front-end and back-end. • Audit existing codebase for performance enhancements. • Develop new products from the ground up aiding in architectural decisions. • Responsible and thorough testing of code before releasing to production. • Maintain design standards and integrity throughout product interfaces. • Stay abreast of programming trends and push the tech forward whenever project feasibility arises.
Job Requirements
- 3+ years of experience developing production code using either NodeJS, Java, GoLang etc using frameworks like Spring Boot, ExpressJS, Play Framework, NestJs, Gin etc.
- In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL).
- Experience using different techniques (PULL/PUSH) for communicating with a backend server (or a service) like REST APIs, Web sockets etc.
- Experience in integrating 3rd party API, libraries based on the documents.
- Experience working with Docker Containers and deploying systems on Cloud Providers like AWS / GCP / Azure etc
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, Gitlab, Jenkins etc.
- Fundamentals in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
- Experience with Test Driven Development.
- Extensive experience in web application architecture and development.
- Experience working with Caches, Queues & various other Cloud technologies.
- Great communication, solid collaboration skills, with a strong teamwork ethic.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Annual Performance Bonus
- Paid Time Off
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