Software Development Engineer(Backend)

Who are we?Merchify is a one-stop solution for creators to start their merch store for zero investment. Our goal is to empower creators to monetize their content and grow their audience without the need for any upfront investment.We’re in search of a back-end engineer that specializes in building highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems. As a part of the Core Backend team, you'll be working on some complex and interesting problems. With a lean team like ours, you'll have ample opportunities to work with various aspects of the application and build something meaningful.What you'll do?

Work closely with design, product management, and front-end teams to create REST APIs using NestJS

Write reusable, testable, and efficient code

Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

Work on the implementation of security and data protection

Review and optimize the app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively

Must haves

1+ years of experience in NodeJS-based frameworks like NestJS, and microservices-based architecture is a bonus.

Understanding of OOPS concepts, persistence, threading, queuing, and caching.

Thorough knowledge of designing, implementing and scaling relational and document-based databases

A love for systems and an ability to think through and plan for their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes

First principles thinking, Excellent problem-solving ability

A good all-rounder with a can-do, startup mentality

Nice to haves

Experience with ReactJS

Cloud deployment and scaling experience

Why you should join today?Merchify wants to make a change for the better in lifelong learning. By joining at the start of the adventure you will have an opportunity to make this your own baby and have fun shaping the future of the industry.