Senior Backend Developer

Job Title: Senior Backend Developer

Job Location: Noida

Position Summary:

We are seeking highly accomplished Senior Backend Developer who can be the part of the GEDU IT Engineering Team at GEDU Noida. The person should preferably have worked as a Backend Developer in any Software Product development organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• As a backend developer, the candidate will participate in the design / development / customization and maintenance of software applications.


• The candidate will also be maintaining a close working relationship with the other application stakeholders. Work closely with tech (backend, web), product, design, and customer teams to rapidly develop and ship features to production, through 2-3 week sprints


• Experience of developing secured and high-performance backend solution(s)


• Knowledge of software development life-cycle methodologies e.g. Iterative, Waterfall, Agile, etc.


• Produce well-designed, testable, efficient, and fully functional code


• Build features & API integrations that easily scale to millions of users


• Design database schema that allows read/ write operations at the scale of billions of rows per table


• Design and build RESTful APIs to be used in a front-end web app


• Optimize code & database queries to maintain strict performance constraints.


• Participating in troubleshooting application issues.


• Jointly working with other teams and partners handling different aspects of the platform creation.


• Tracking advancements in software development technologies and applying them judiciously in the solution roadmap.


• Ensuring all quality controls and processes are adhered to.


• Planning the major and minor releases of the solution.


• Ensuring robust configuration management.


• Working closely with the Engineering Manager on different aspects of product lifecycle management.


• Demonstrate the ability to independently work in a fast-paced environment requiring multitasking and efficient time management.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience of developing secured and high-performance web application(s).


• 5-7 Years experience in Backend development.


• Knowledge of software development life-cycle methodologies e.g. Iterative, Waterfall, Agile, etc.


• Experience in Microsoft .NET Core / 6.0 / 7.0 framework.


• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft ASP.Net, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET API, C#


• Experience building robust REST API endpoints and a sound understanding of backend concepts.


• Good knowledge of relational database technologies such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MYSQL


• Good in nosql database like mongo db etc.


• Sound knowledge and hands on design principles.


• Experience on OOPS, Design Pattern and n-tier architecture application.


• Good in TDD, DDD, FDD and BDD


• Good in writing unit testcase using Xunit / Nunit


• A high bar for writing clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code.


• Should have knowledge of ORM, API Gateway, API management.


• Knowledge and experience on working cloud services integration


• Experience of programming in LINQ (Language Integrated Query) and Lambda expression


• Experience of code review and code refactoring with best industry practices.


• Must have basic knowledge of integrating applications with single sign-on services (e.g.: Active directory/LDAP authentication/SSO)

Educational Qualification(s):

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent