PocketPills - Senior Backend Engineer - Node.js/Express.js (4-6 yrs)

Responsibilities :

- Responsible for mentoring a team of 4-6 Junior engineers.

- Participate in all agile rituals including daily stand-ups, iteration planning, story huddles, retrospectives, and creation of burn-up charts.

- Ensure that all work is captured in Jira.

- Supports and develops software developers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.

Requirements :

- B. Eng/ B. Tech from an engineering stream from a good engineering institute.

- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and other related technologies

- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5 and CSS3

- Hands-on experience with Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express

- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

- Good understanding of server-side templating languages

- Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors

- Knowledge of Databases such as MySQL

- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

- Understanding of messaging systems like Kafka etc.

- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

- Understanding of fundamental design principles for building scalable applications.

- Understanding the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile and desktop, and optimizing output accordingly.

- Experience with creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.