Jr. Backend Developer

Job Description for Backend Developer TSB Media Venture is looking for a Backend Developer for our flagship, ConsCent. The ideal candidate should not only be proficient with NodeJS, MongoDB, and optionally AWS or other cloud platforms. He should be a good team player who doesn’t shy away from solving problems. The candidate will take responsibility for translating design and business needs into websites without sacrificing code health. You need to be an excellent communicator, passionate about new technologies and scalable services. You should love taking up challenges like a leader, think like an innovator, and be curious enough to solve problems using technology. 

Your Responsibilities

• Iteratively build and develop APIs for ConsCent (a SaaS-based payment product)
• Review code and establish best practices
• Work on the backend NodeJS code (NestJS framework)
• Collaborate with the frontend team to integrate elements
• Work with devOps to ensure stability and scalability of deployments
• Handle the database schema and write efficient queries (MongoDB)
• Maintain a good knowledge of website architectures, stacks and suggest technological improvements where applicable

Basic Qualifications

• 1-2 years of relevant development experience.
• 1+ years of working with NodeJS
• Experience with databases, preferably MongoDB - devising schemas and writing queries.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficiency with JavaScript and belief in the superiority of TypeScript
• Working knowledge of version control.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MongoDB, NodeJS and AWS.
• Proficiency in web application architecture - monoliths and microservice based architectures.
• Working knowledge of devOps and various AWS tools geared towards web development.
• Experience with CI/CD.
• Excellent knowledge of various tools used in web applications - caches (Redis), databases (SQL and NoSQL, elasticsearch), message queues (RMQ/ Kafka).
• Knowledge of how the web works: REST APIs, browser APIs, storage mechanisms, cookies.
• Experience with unit testing tools, Jest, Mocha.
• Working knowledge of JIRA/Trello.
• Start-up experience.
• Experience with linux and the shell.
• Experience in making SAAS or B2B2C products.