Backend Developer

We are looking for a customer-obsessed, analytical Sr. Staff Engineer to lead the development and growth of our Tax Compliance product suite. In this role, you’ll shape innovative digital solutions that simplify and automate tax filing, reconciliation, and compliance workflows for businesses of all sizes. You will join a fast-growing company where you’ll work in a dynamic and competitive market, impacting how businesses meet their statutory obligations with speed, accuracy, and confidence.

As the Sr. Staff Engineer, you’ll work closely with product, DevOps, and data teams to architect reliable systems, drive engineering excellence, and ensure high availability across our platform. We’re looking for a technical leader who’s not just an expert in building scalable systems, but also passionate about mentoring engineers and shaping the future of fintech.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team (or operate as a hands-on technical lead).
• Drive the design and development of scalable backend services using Python.
• Experience in Django, FastAPI, Task Orchestration Systems.
• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, ensuring fast, safe, and reliable deployments.
• Architect and manage infrastructure using AWS and Terraform with a DevOps-first mindset.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and compliance experts to deliver features that make tax compliance seamless for our users.
• Set and enforce engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advocate for continuous improvement in engineering processes.
• Experience in fintech, tax, or compliance industries.
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Background in security, observability, or compliance automation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or principal-level role.
• Deep expertise in Python, including API development, performance optimization, and testing.
• Experience in Event-driven architecture, Kafka/RabbitMQ-like systems.
• Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch).
• Solid understanding of Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Proficiency with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tooling.
• Comfortable balancing technical leadership with hands-on coding and problem-solving.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

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 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.

3+ years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS. Should be well versed with its asynchronous nature, event loop, promises, and callbacks.

Node expressProficient in Node.js and working knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML, CSS, and frameworks ( React.js)

Experience in Node JS MVC framework and Rest API frameworks like Express.

Experience developing desktops.

Experience in Mongo DB.

Familiarity with using AWS components.

Postman for documenting/testing APIs.

2.       Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS.

3.       Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.

4.       Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python / Ruby / Java / PHP/ .Net.

5.       Good Understand with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.

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• Expertise in nodeJS and javascript frameworks and languages.
• Good knowledge of npm, Git, MongodB, noSQL, GraphQL, Docker, Webpack,
• Ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies

• Good knowledge of software design patterns and software architecture and design principles
• Processes, Methodology and Tools (Agile),
• Digital Asset Development / Application Development, Support and Maintenance / CICD tools / versioning tools
• Security/Information and Application Protection, Business Analysis
• Experience with CMS platforms
• Knowledge of the Apostrophe platform
• Writing unit tests (mocha, chai, sinon)

•  Development of advanced digital solutions, the Lead Backend developer implements complex technical solutions to conceive custom-tailored applications or to adapt those which already exist. He/she checks the functional quality of the developments and works with the product owner to create or redefine functional specifications. He/she is operational and support the technical team by providing help, and solutions to move forward.

Minimum 5-7years of professional experience building web-applications
Strong experience in backend development
Strong experience in AI/Machine Learning development, Data Analysis/Processing
Experience in creating robust and secure REST APIs
Hands-on exposure to RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB etc.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, Node/JavaScript
Solid familiarity working with cloud and related technologies, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud environments
Ability to do very quick research in unknown technologies
Startup mindset, comfort with chaos and multi-tasking ability
Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms
An eye for writing performance optimum code in any tool set

About Vymo

Vymo is a Sanfrancisco-based next-generation Sales productivity SaaS company with offices in 7 locations. Vymo is funded by top tier VC firms like Emergence Capital and Sequoia Capital. Vymo is a category creator, an intelligent Personal Sales Assistant who captures sales activities automatically, learns from top performers, and predicts ‘next best actions’ contextually. Vymo has 100,000 users in 60+ large enterprises such as AXA, Allianz, Generali.Vymo has seen 3x annual growth over the last few years and aspires to do even better this year by building up the team globally.

What is the Personal Sales Assistant

A game-changer! We thrive in the CRM space where every company is struggling to deliver meaningful engagement to their Sales teams and IT systems. Vymo was engineered with a mobile-first philosophy. The platform through AI/ML detects, predicts, and learns how to make Sales Representatives more productive through nudges and suggestions on a mobile device. Explore Vymo https://getvymo.com/">https://getvymo.com/

What you will do at Vymo

From young open source enthusiasts to experienced Googlers, this team develops products like Lead Management System, Intelligent Allocations & Route mapping, Intelligent Interventions, that help improve the effectiveness of the sales teams manifold. These products power the "Personal Assistant" app that automates the sales force activities, leveraging our cutting edge location based technology and intelligent routing algorithms.

A Day in your Life 

• Design, develop and maintain robust data platforms on top of Kafka, Spark, ES etc.
• Provide leadership to a group of engineers in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Manage and drive complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
  
  

What you would have done  

• B.E (or equivalent) in Computer Sciences
• 6-9 years of experience building enterprise class products/platforms.
• Knowledge of Big data systems and/or Data pipeline building experience is preferred.
• 2-3 years of relevant work experience as technical lead or technical management experience.
• Excellent coding skills in one of Core Java or NodeJS
• Demonstrated problem solving skills in previous roles.
• Good communication skills.