Backend Engineer

About the company:

Spinach Experience Design is a leading Mumbai-based UI UX product design and development company that partners with an entire gamut of clients ranging from global Fortune 500 companies, and listed MNCs to brave new funded or 0-1 startups. Our cutting-edge work features across 8 world markets showcasing our expertise across diverse sectors like travel, e-commerce, education, media-tech, healthcare, telecom, BFSI - insurance, mutual funds, wealth-tech and pharma.

Our core services include Design Thinking workshops, Customer Experience(CX) Design, UX UI Research, Strategy and Design, Design Systems, Product Management, Mobile App Development and Web Development and more.

About the role:

We're looking for a seasoned Backend Engineer with at least 4 years of experience to join our team and help build scalable, secure, and high-performing backend systems. You'll design and develop microservices using Node.js and Python, work with SQL and NoSQL databases, and deploy services on AWS. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams, writing clean and reusable code, integrating third-party tools, and maintaining robust backend infrastructure. If you're passionate about backend architecture, security best practices, and continuous learning, we'd love to connect.

Must have qualifications:

- Must have at least 4 years of experience as a Backend Engineer
- Design and build applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents
- Design and develop logical and physical data models to meet application requirements.
- Design and build Microservices in NodeJS and Python and integrate them with the rest of the applications
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Design tables and write optimal queries for SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and No-SQL (Redis, DynamoDB) databases.
- Work on AWS Services like API Gateway, AWS Lambdas, DynamoDB EC2 and RDS.
- Write reusable, easy-to-maintain, versioned code using DRY principles
- Develop and maintain backend with a strong emphasis on security, ensuring applications are protected against vulnerabilities and adhere to industry best practices.
- Integrate existing tools and business systems (in-house tools or business tools like Ticketing software, communication tools) with external services
- Coordinate with the Project Manager, development team data team

Nice to have qualifications:

- Good experience with Git
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs integration
- Familiarity with testing frameworks
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery tools
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
- Excellent communication skills

Key Responsibilities:

- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- Strong proficiency in using TDD on Python/NodeJS
- Thorough understanding of Python/NodeJS and its core principles
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and design patterns
- Troubleshoot and debug issues in existing applications and provide solutions to fix them
- Participate in hiring and onboarding new team members, and contribute to the overall growth and development of the team.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in mobile development and share knowledge with the team.

You can also directly apply to us by dropping in your resume at careers@spinachexperience.design

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