Senior Software Development Engineer - Node.JS-AWS Backend (SDE-2) (Remote will be considered)

Crimson Interactive Pvt. Ltd; Mumbai Suburban; Remote; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Dynamic work environment

Competitive compensation

Job summary

A leading editorial services company is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer with expertise in Node.js and AWS. This role involves working on backend projects, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and collaborating with a dynamic engineering team. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in backend development and a DevOps mindset. Competitive compensation and remote work options available.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Node.js/JavaScript/TypeScript environment.
• Hands-on AWS experience with services like Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB.
• Experience with unit and integration testing.

Responsibilities

• Architect solution and build features on backend projects.
• Write performant and testable code following design patterns.
• Maintain quality through code reviews and optimize cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Node.js

AWS

DevOps mindset

Backend frameworks

Testing (unit and integration)

HTML/CSS

Docker

Serverless technologies

Tools

AWS Lambda

Postgres/MySQL

MongoDB

Docker Compose

Job description

Senior Software Development Engineer - Node.JS-AWS Backend (SDE-2) (Remote will be considered)

As a Senior Software Development Engineer - SDE-II (full-time) you will be working on highly challenging backend projects and AWS cloud infrastructure design, optimization, and maintenance projects. You are expected to have minimum of 3 years of strong backend experience (Node.js) and minimum 3 years of strong AWS optimization experience (with emphasis on Serverless architecture design).

Responsibilities

• On a typical day, you may build a feature, collaborate on a design, architect a solution, break down an epic, estimate deadlines for the projects, tune a data pipeline, plan a technology migration, help diagnose a customer issue, drive consensus on a new practice, or collaborate with another engineer.
• You will be responsible for writing highly performant, testable code with following strong software design patterns.
• You will help in maintaining the quality of product and codebase by actively participating in code-review processes.
• Review approaches created by your peers and juniors and collaborate with them to find the optimal solutions to the problems.
• Our engineers are involved in all development stages, with an eye toward rapid, agile iteration. Youll collaborate with other engineers to develop new capabilities in our platform.
• You will be working with some junior developers to execute end to end features/projects.
• Optimizing, updating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure and associated cost (AWS)

Experience

• You have 3+ years of experience working with Node/JavaScript/TypeScript environment
• You are comfortable working with AWS and Linux and believe in a DevOps mindset.
• You have hands on AWS experience with Technologies like Lambda functions, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB etc.
• You have proven experience working with relational (Postgres/MySQL) and document (MongoDB) databases.
• You have sound judgment across back-end frameworks and are familiar with various databases. You are pragmatic, not dogmatic, and are aware of the strengths & weaknesses of your tools.
• You enjoy breaking down complex problems into small tasks and PRs to deliver value safely and incrementally.
• You have a growth mindset that applies to yourself and your team. You are excited to learn and show how to improve team standards, practices, and tools.
• You consider testing, monitoring, and observability first-order priorities. Until your code runs in production and returns the results and metrics you expect, you know your work isn't complete.
• You are energized by working in a highly collaborative environment at a customer-driven startup. You see software engineering as a team sport and like collaborating with fellow engineers, product managers, and others to deliver customer value.
• You have experience with unit and integration testing. You believe in testing your work and seek to automate your testing whenever possible.
• Good understanding of HTML, CSS, CSS processors, CSS framework
• Basic understanding of front-end JS framework (eg. Vue.js / React.js)
• Good understanding of serverless technologies.
• You have working knowledge of Docker, Docker Compose
• Added advantage: Elasticsearch sever cluster optimization; Apache Spark; Redis/memcache; Kafka/RabbitMQ

About the Company

Crimson Interactive Pvt. Ltd. provides Editorial Services to individual clients and corporate customers worldwide. We have over 40,000+ clients spanning more than 89 countries. Under the brands Enago, Voxtab, and Ulatus, Crimson works with a pool of highly skilled freelance professionals and a dynamic and growing in-house team.

Crimson is a recognized provider of services to researchers, journals, and information specialists from various fields including medicine, biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and humanities.