Senior Backend Developer — Node.js
Role: Senior Backend Developer
Total Experience: 6–9 years
Relevant Node.js Experience: 5+ years
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Developer with 6–9 years of professional software development experience, including at least 5 years of strong hands-on experience with Node.js. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of backend architecture, API development, databases, cloud technologies, and scalable distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and high-performance backend applications using Node.js.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Develop clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested code.
- Work with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis.
- Design efficient database schemas, queries, indexing, and data-access layers.
- Implement authentication, authorization, security, and data protection best practices.
- Optimize application performance, reliability, scalability, and resource utilization.
- Integrate third-party APIs and external services.
- Work with message queues/event-driven systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS.
- Deploy and manage backend services using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and architectural decisions.
- Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
- Mentor junior and mid-level developers and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Collaborate closely with frontend developers, QA engineers, DevOps, product managers, and other stakeholders.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 6–9 years of overall experience in backend/software development.
- 5+ years of professional experience with Node.js.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
- Strong experience with Express.js, NestJS, or similar Node.js frameworks.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, authentication, and authorization.
- Good knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience designing scalable and distributed backend systems.
- Strong understanding of microservices and event-driven architecture.
- Experience with Git and modern software development practices.
- Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
- Good understanding of cloud services, preferably AWS.
- Experience writing unit, integration, and API tests.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Good communication and team-collaboration skills.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have
- Experience with TypeScript.
- Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, and SQS.
- Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Experience with system design and high-availability architectures.
- Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
Pay: ₹600,000.00 - ₹1,000,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
