Backend Developer

We are seeking a highly skilled Node.js Backend Developer with hands-on experience in DevOps, MongoDB, Socket.IO, REST APIs, and AI/ML integration. You will work on innovative and scalable backend systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate AI-driven solutions and manage infrastructure for product-based development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using Node.js and Express.js.
• Design and manage scalable RESTful APIs.
• Build and manage real-time communication using Socket.IO.
• Collaborate with the DevOps team to implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and cloud services (AWS/GCP).
• Work closely with data science and ML teams to integrate AI/ML models and APIs into backend systems.
• Optimize database interactions using MongoDB and Mongoose.
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code with strong focus on scalability and performance.
• Ensure backend security, monitoring, and logging are in place.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 2–4 years of hands-on experience in Node.js backend development.
• Strong knowledge of MongoDB and query optimization.
• Experience with DevOps tools like Docker, Jenkins, Git, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
• Proficiency in REST API development and integration.
• Experience with Socket.IO or other real-time communication libraries.
• Basic understanding of integrating AI/ML solutions, such as OpenAI APIs or custom ML models.
• Good grasp of data structures, algorithms, and backend architecture.
• Version control using Git and team collaboration through Agile methodologies.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to frontend technologies like Angular (MEAN Stack).
• Familiarity with chatbot or NLP integration.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience.
• Opportunity to work on AI-driven product innovations.
• Collaborative and growth-oriented work culture.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and scalable system design.

Location: Bangalore/ Mangalore

Experience required: 2-6 years.

Key skills: Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI

We are seeking a skilled Python Developer with 2–6 years of experience who can contribute as an individual performer while also supporting technical decision-making and mentoring junior developers. The role involves designing and building scalable backend systems using Django/Flask, FastAPI, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop robust, scalable, and efficient backend applications using Python (Django/Flask, FastAPI).

• Build and maintain RESTful APIs that are secure, performant, and easy to integrate.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless and impactful software solutions.

• Participate actively in all phases of the software development life cycle: requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that meets industry best practices.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing systems for performance and scalability.

• Contribute ideas for continuous improvement in development processes and team culture.

Requirements:

• 2–6 years of hands-on development experience in Python, with proficiency in frameworks like Django/Flask, FastAPI.

• Strong understanding of OOP concepts, design principles, and design patterns.

• Solid experience working with databases.

• Good knowledge of designing and consuming RESTful APIs.

• Comfortable working with version control systems like Git and collaborating in code reviews.

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is an added advantage.

• Familiarity with Docker and containerized application development is a plus.

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines is desirable.

• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills.

About the Company:

Pace Wisdom Solutions is a deep-tech Product engineering and consulting firm. We have offices in San Francisco, Bengaluru, and Singapore. We specialize in designing and developing bespoke software solutions that cater to solving niche business problems.

We engage with our clients at various stages:

• Right from the idea stage to scope out business requirements.

• Design & architect the right solution and define tangible milestones.

• Set up dedicated and on-demand tech teams for agile delivery.

• Take accountability for successful deployments to ensure efficient go-to-market Implementations.

Pace Wisdom has been working with Fortune 500 Enterprises and growth-stage startups/SMEs since 2012. We also work as an extended Tech team and at times we have played the role of a virtual CTO too. We believe in building lasting relationships and providing value-add every time and going beyond business

Description:

For over 10 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose-built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global data centers to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 3,900 companies and have detected 100 Million threats/day. 

We work in a fast-paced, dynamic and make it happen culture. Our people are some of the brightest and passionate in the industry that thrives on being the first to solve problems.  We are always looking to hire highly passionate, collaborative and humble people that want to make a difference.

About the role :

This is a senior staff backend engineer role in the engineering team that designs, implements and maintains our state of the art product IllusionBLACK. The team is responsible for designing and implementing secure, highly performant and maintainable product.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and maintain high performance, fault tolerant and scalable cloud hosted service using NodeJS
• End to end responsibility to continuously create and monitor the services you build
• Help design reusable and clean API's for our frontend React app
• Guide team members with handling complex issues
• You will also be responsible for database schema design and development of migration scripts
• Experiment with new technologies and ideas and help shape our stack and processes

Requirement:

• 10+ years professional SW development experience
• All our production applications are built with either Typescript or Python. You must have a strong understanding of NodeJS express apps written in Typescript and ES6
• Must have good experience with Python
• Solid experience with databases is a must. We use and love Postgres here at Smokescreen
• You should be able to design a complex database SQL schema normalized to 3NF on the back of a napkin at 3am in the morning
• Deep understanding and working knowledge of Redis cache
• Experience with Solr or Elasticsearch is a must. We use Solr for our event analytics exclusively
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP is a plus. We have a large distributed application running on AWS
• Experience with Docker/Swarm is a plus
• Experience in some stream processing platforms like Kafka/Redis stream is a plus

We are looking for a great Go developer who possesses a strong understanding of how best to leverage and exploit the language’s unique paradigms, idioms, and syntax. Your primary focus will be on developing Go packages and programs that are scalable and maintainable. You will ensure that these Go packages and programs are well documented and has a reasonable test coverage. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential.

• Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code

• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software

• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture
  
  
  

   
   

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, architect and develop advanced software solutions in a cross functional Agile team supporting multiple projects and initiatives
• Collaborate with product owners and/or the business on requirements definition, development of functional specifications, and design
• Collaborate on or lead development of technical design and specifications as required
• Code, test and document new applications as well as changes to existing system functionality and ensure successful completion
• Take on leadership roles as needed

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of software development experience using GoLang/Java programming language
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP/Pivotal Cloud Foundry/any private cloud) and containerization is required
• Experience with a micro-services architecture is a plus
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other Relational Databases
• Test-driven development mindset and a focus on quality, scalability and performance
• Strong programming fundamentals and ability to produce high quality code
• Solid understanding of Agile (SCRUM) Development Process required

Key Skills:

1. One or more of Python/PHP/Ruby/NodeJS/Java

2. Sound object-oriented skills, including strong design patterns knowledge

2. REST APIs

3. MVC architecture

4. MySQL/PostgreSQL

5. Exp with at least 1 NoSQL databases MongoDB/Memcache/Redis/

6. Exp with search technologies Elasticsearch/Solr

7. Exp building messaging based asynchrounous systems RabbitMQ/Kafka/SQS/Celery will be added advantage

8. Exp with Django/Flask frameworks will be added advantage

9. Knowledge of software best practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) will be added adnavtage

Requirements:

1. Developing software solutions in conjunction with Relational theory, Rest APIs and NoSQL database technologies

2. Knowledge of cloud based technologies in AWS or Azure will be added advantage

3. Understanding of RDBMS technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL.

4. Hands-on with Version control systems (GIT, SVN) and Unix/Ubuntu.

5. Experience in requirement analysis, HLD, LLD, unit & integration testing.

6. Good hands on experience in debugging application issues

TL;DR

1) Top performer in the company

2) Has worked with product based startup company

3) Ambitious and hardworking