Principal Backend Engineer-Node.JS

Education:

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise and leadership in the design, development, and deployment of multiple enterprise application projects. Offer guidance to other team members on best practices, architecture decisions, and code reviews.
• Design and develop highly scalable, flexible, efficient, and supportable backend solutions using technologies like JavaScript or any other programming language.
• Write high-quality, idempotent, testable, debuggable, intelligible, and well-documented code. Create comprehensive test cases to ensure the reliability and robustness of the applications.
• Collaborate effectively with other Developers, Program Managers, Testers, and Production Support engineers in an agile development environment. Foster teamwork and knowledge sharing.
• Continuously improve existing systems by integrating new technologies, optimizing performance, and enhancing the overall architecture.

Skills sets

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript.
• Extensive experience with Node.js and Express.
• Expertise in building APIs using Node.js.
• Strong proficiency in working with both RDBMS and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, SQS, AWS Lambda).
• In-depth understanding of event-driven and microservices architectures, as well as asynchronous programming concepts.
• Experience with implementing run-time architecture services such as caching and logging.
• Good to have knowledge in React.JS
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with team members and mentor junior developers.
• Previous experience in managing and leading a team is preferred.
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices is a plus.
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles is advantageous.
• Experience using Containers, such as Docker and Kubernetes & Kafka is a plus.
• Bonus points for experience working in AWS Cloud Environment.