
Backend Architect
Experience - 12+ yrs
About Wekan Enterprise Solutions
Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.
Job Description
We are looking for passionate architects eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?
You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer’s technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.
Location - Chennai or Bangalore
● Relevant experience of 12+ years building high-performance applications with at least 3+ years as an architect.
● Good problem solving skills
● Strong mentoring capabilities
● Good understanding of software development life cycle
● Strong experience in system design and architecture
● Strong focus on quality of work delivered
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Required Technical Skills
● Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance applications primarily using Node.Js ,(Javascript/Typescript) along with Nest.Js, Express.JS, MongoDB.
● Hands-on experience with other languages such as .NET/C# or Java or Golang or Python.
● Strong experience with appropriate framework(s).
● Well versed in monolithic and microservices architecture and System design experience.
● Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB (NoSQL) and Relational or NoSQL databases
● Experience working with 3rd party integrations ranging from authentication, cloud services, etc.
● Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.
● Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and atleast 1 cloud provider - AWS / GCP / Azure
● Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation
Good to have skills:
● Experience working with frontend technologies - React.Js or Vue.Js or Angular.
● Extensive experience consulting with customers directly for defining architecture or system design.
● Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions
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Cloud Adoption helps companies make better business decisions by allowing access to real-time data across the organization. Migration towards cloud solutions and modern technologies, allows these companies to reduce the TCO of their technology infrastructure and drive ROI improvements on their technology investments.
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Wekan helps companies grow by modernizing their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.
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Minimum 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise
Experience building scalable systems from scratch
Expert-level proficiency in Node.js
Deep understanding of distributed systems
Strong NoSQL design skills
Hands-on AWS cloud experience
Proven leadership and mentoring capability
Preferred candidates from SAAS/Software/IT Services based startups or scaleup companies

Mandatory Criteria :
- Candidate must have Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments.
- Candidate should have Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI).
- Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
- Candidate should have strong Backend experience.
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Backend Engineer with 4–7 years of experience, who has worked extensively on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI). Experience with multiple cloud providers is a strong plus. As a Senior Development Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling backend services and infrastructure on cloud-native platforms.
# Experience with Kubernetes is mandatory.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, reliable backend services and cloud-native applications.
- Build and manage RESTful APIs, microservices, and asynchronous data processing systems.
- Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes with best practices in availability, monitoring, and cost-efficiency.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and product teams in an agile environment.
- Ensure high code quality through testing, reviews, and documentation.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments (mandatory).
- Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI].
- Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes-native deployment workflows.
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working across multiple cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring).
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases or event-driven/message-based architectures.
- Experience with serverless services, managed data pipelines, or data lake platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
- Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
- Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
- Write unit tests for API Testing.
- Automate the code testing and deployment process.
Skills Required:
- At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
- Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
- Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a skilled PHP Laravel Developer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining web applications using Laravel framework.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop high-quality web applications using PHP, Laravel framework, and related technologies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Write clean, secure, and scalable code that meets coding standards and best practices.
- Conduct code reviews and maintain code quality standards.
- Troubleshoot and debug complex issues and provide timely solutions.
- Develop and maintain API integrations with third-party services.
- Perform unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing.
- Participate in project planning and estimation.
- Keep up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in web development.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- Minimum 1-3 years of experience in PHP development, with a focus on Laravel framework.
- Proficient in PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and Ajax.
- Experience with RESTful API development and integration.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, MVC design patterns, and software development principles.
- Familiarity with Git version control and Agile development methodology.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
If you are a self-motivated individual with a passion for product development and want to work in a challenging environment, we encourage you to apply for this position.
If you are a technology enthusiast, we have the perfect job for you! We are looking for Node.Js Developers to join our agile team of professionals.
Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
- Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
- Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
- Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
- Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
- Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
- Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
- At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
- Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
- Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
- Great organizational and time management skills.
- Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.
- Full stack development on cutting edge technology in Fintech domain.
- Ownership of complete backend code.
You should Have :
- Server Side languages knowledge: Node.js and express.js is the first choice, Python, Java
- Server-side programming experience. We prefer ability over experience
- Solid experience working with databases, especially relational DB.
- Solid experience with version control (Git or Bitbucket or SVN).
- B.E. in Computer Science or Graduate/PG degree in Computer Science (this is optional, as we are more interested in your abilities and experience over a paper degree).
- Any experience working with real-time projects in backend with node.js and express.js
1. Work experience between 3 years to 9 years in building large scale high user traffic consumer facing applications with desire to work in a fast paced startup.
2. Knowledge on reactive and asynchronous programming is preferable. If you have worked with coroutines, goroutines, high concurrency or optimized number of threads for processing on your backend server you could be a good fit.
3. Extremely proficient at writing performant, scalable and production ready code in Kotlin, Java (8 or above, comfortable with concepts like lambda, streams, multithreading etc), Elixir, Rust, or Golang. Should be familiar with static code analysis, code coverage and code reviews.
4. Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis or Aerospike is required. Knowledge of graph DBs like Neo4j is preferred.
5. Strong in algorithms, problem solving and data structures.
6. Knowledge of TDD and experience with building applications integrated with CI-CD pipelines (automated build, tests and deployments).
7. Exposure to micro-services with good understanding of containers, kubernetes, logging, alerting and monitoring. Inter services communication. Should know how to handle multiple versions of APIs.
- Analyzing complex object-oriented programming structure
- MVC model
- Relational database
- Database join clause
- API integration
- Other requirements
- Passionate about effective programming
- Responsibility for major tasks and chores
- Good to have Javascript knowledge
- Willing to resolve technical debt in the early step
- Good understanding of sprint cycle in agile
- Can communicate with developers and non-developers
- Can work independently but a great collaborator
- Good to have an experience with Node and MySQL
- Serverless API experience is not counted
- Good to have Git workflow knowledge
- Good to have Github collaboration experience











