Digit88 is looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hands on senior NodeJS platform engineer with great troubleshooting skills to join our engineering team. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product start-up or a product engineering services company in a senior engineer role, building and managing a high-performance real-time system is mandatory.
Applicants must have a passion for engineering with accuracy and efficiency, be highly motivated and organized, able to work as part of a team, and also possess the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
In this role, you will:
- Build robust and scalable software using Javascript
- Analyze challenging problems and successfully deliver results
- Increase test coverage via unit tests and integration tests
- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
- Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
To be successful in this role, you should possess:
- 6 years of experience as a Backend Engineer with fluency in Javascript
- At least 2 years of recent experience with Node.js
- Experience with Distributed systems and microservices
- Experience with databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB etc.
- Meaningful, real-world experience with any other of the following: Go, Python, Ruby, Java, or similar
- BA/BS degree, preferably in a technical field (Computer Science, IT, etc) or equivalent practical experience
- Excellent analytical and time management skills
- You find satisfaction in a job well done and want to solve head-scratching challenge
- Experience with messaging (RabbitMQ, Kafka) is a plus
- Experience with hapi.js is a plus
Additional Project/Soft Skills:
- Product from scratch experience: at least 2 products, should be able to work independently with India US based team members.
- Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.
- Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.
- Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.
- Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.
Benefits/Culture @ Digit88:
- Comprehensive Insurance (Health, Accident)
- Flexible Work Arrangements/Remote Work
- Profit Share Opportunities
- Accelerated learning non-linear growth
- Flat organisation structure
- Global Peers - Working with some of the best engineers/professionals globally from the likes of Apple, Amazon, IBM and other innovating product companies
- Ability to make a global impact with your work, leading innovations in Conversational AI, Tele-Medicine, Healthcare and more.