Backend Developer

Benefits:

• Dollar pegged salary
• Performance-based bonuses
• A yearly appraisal based on performance
• Medical IPD 400k, Maternity 85K, OPD 25K, Life insurance 2,500,000
• Leaves: Sick 10, Casual 10, Manger’s discretion 10, 05 paternity leaves, 6 weeks maternity leaves after 2 years of service
• WFH: 5 days a month (for the engineering team) For non-engineering, they can regularly work from home on flexible hours other than the days their manager calls them for a meeting in the office
• Excellent learning and growth opportunities
• Excellent working environment
• Interest-free loan

About the Role:

We are looking for an engineer who loves developing excellent customer experiences. The successful candidate will be working alongside other engineers and developers, along with the project manager and product owner, to facilitate the development and delivery of products.

We are seeking a person that thrives at working in a fast-paced, high-energy environment and possesses excellent communication skills. Qualified candidates will be results-oriented, self-driven, and possess the ability to successfully prioritize and execute several tasks at any given time.

Responsibilities:

• ​​Be part of a tight-knit global team in an energetic startup environment
• Work closely with talented designers, product managers, marketers, and product owners
• Work with a global team of engineers in the organization to raise the bar for best practices, code quality, and medical device documentation
• Work with the application development team in delivering the project and deliverables within time and with good quality
• Develop new and modify existing code to ensure that digital products operate effectively to meet requirements while also adhering to accessibility and security
• Maintain high-quality engineering standards throughout your work, ship user-friendly, secure, and scalable products
• Build features and functionality for a user-facing product that is expected to scale quickly
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Design and implementation of data storage solutions
• Perform unit testing, and oversee quality assurance of applications through system testing and code review
• Participate in gathering business requirements and assessing existing architectures and resources
• Actively maintain project and code documentation
• Manage and mentor junior members of the team on good coding practice
• Understand the relationship between perfection and urgency, make sensible decisions in iterative improvement cycles
• Introduce new ideas that accelerate organization-wide initiatives

Skills & Requirements:

• Positive attitude, self-motivated, and excited to be part of a growing, innovative startup environment
• Ability to write optimized & maintainable code to develop scalable customer-facing web and software applications
• Experience architecting, designing, and deploying applications in AWS or Azure
• Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web applications
• Hands-on programming experience with Javascript technologies e.g. MEAN, MERN, Node, Angular, Express React, etc
• Experience with Relational and Non-relational databases like MongoDB, Couchbase, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
• Hands-on development of applications with persistent connections (web socket, server-side events, etc)
• Development experience in defining, developing, and maintaining RESTful API
• Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of next-generation web applications
• Experience with version control like Git
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Knowledge of web standards and compliance standards
• Strong analytical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Keen attention to detail
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent
• 3+ years of professional web development experience
• Expertise with front-end technologies would be a plus

About Citrusbits:

CitrusBits leads the field in mobile app development, design innovation, and digital development. It has been recognized as a Top Los Angeles Mobile App Development Company and Custom Software Development Company by Clutch, a ratings and review platform out of Washington, D.C., in their annual research. We are an equal-opportunity employer that offers market-competitive salaries along with healthcare and other benefits.