Backend Engineer

About Us:We are BlackLight Games; we bring culturally relevant synchronous multiplayer games experience to mobile. Our games have been rocking the Play Stores since launch. We have built cutting-edge back-end technology; we take pride that our games are played by more than 1 million players daily. Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Other titles include – CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.Website link- [hidden] Developer Location: Noida Educational Qualification: B.Tech/ MCA / M.Tech / M.Sc  or relevant professional experience; preferably in Computer Science.Skills :Backend: NodeJSDatabases: MySQL/ MongoDB.Job Summary: What You Bring To The Team More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public cloud like Google Cloud/ AWSKnowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.Strong proficiency with JavaScriptUnderstanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliabilityUnderstanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable applicationExperience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks. It’s a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysisExperienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable componentsExperience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above servicesExperience building data processing pipelinesSolid understanding of code, design, and development practicesGeneral comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworksHigh levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all timesAdhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD toolsExtra Gems For Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as RedisDemonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps securityKnowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google StackdriverBroad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.Experience with Github and advanced Github features.Experience of working in Product industryOpen source contributions, interesting hobby projects.Why Us?High Growth Startup environment Company sponsored courses and education materialLots of learning opportunities Work with a super-talented team of professionalsInformal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and tripsPerformance Based BonusCompetitive SalaryMedical Insurance for you and your family Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all times