Software Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead product feature design, implementation, validation, and delivery across backend and frontend layers.
• Provide technical direction, review code, guide implementation, and mentor junior engineers.
• Follow development and security processes, ensure unit-test coverage and technical quality, and identify security vulnerabilities.
• Handle customer escalations and be available for on-call support.
• Propose and evaluate technical solutions through proofs of concept and contribute to improvements in performance, scalability, and developer productivity.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics and Communication, or a related discipline.
• 4–5+ years of application development experience, including hands-on Node full-stack development.
• The posting lists NestJS, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, graph databases, Kafka, React 18, Vite, TypeScript, JavaScript, CI/CD, Docker, and Datadog as mandatory experience.
• Experience with REST APIs, microservices, databases, cloud-native patterns, TypeScript, UI integration, and responsive web development.
• Strong backend experience using Node.js, NestJS, and REST APIs; React frontend experience is mandatory, with React or Angular listed for frontend engineering.
• Knowledge of data structures, object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, and common design patterns.
• Working exposure to a cloud stack such as GCP or AWS; adaptability across languages, frameworks, and platforms.

Preferred and advantageous experience

• AI use in routine work or personal proofs of concept is an added advantage.
• Cloud and Kubernetes-based application exposure is noted as an important factor.
• Python experience, unit testing, and automation or BDD frameworks are described as advantageous or nice to have.
• Microservices and Docker exposure are also described as an advantage in the qualifications, while the role requirements separately list them as mandatory experience.

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