Backend Developer

Roles & Responsibilities

What You'll Do

•    Design and build the core Node.js services and REST APIs from scratch, built to scale as we grow.

•    Own system design end to end: service boundaries, data flow, caching, queueing, failure modes, and scale.

•    Ship AI/ML-powered features, including LLM and agentic capabilities.

•    Use LLMs and agentic tooling across the SDLC, from design and code generation to testing and debugging.

•    Model data and optimize SQL/NoSQL queries for performance; integrate with third-party platforms.

•    Debug production issues, own reliability, and set the engineering standards the rest of the team will grow into.

Ideal Candidate

What You'll Bring

•     Experience: 6+ years building production backend systems in Node.js for B2C products at meaningful scale.

•     System Design: This one matters a lot to us. You can reason clearly about scalability, reliability, and trade-offs under real constraints.

•     Fundamentals: Strong grasp of API design, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean code.

•     Databases: Depth in SQL and/or NoSQL, data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.

•     AI-Native: You already use LLMs and agentic approaches to maximize your own efficiency as an engineer.

•     Mindset: You enjoy the pace and breadth of a small team, and you are happy picking up whatever moves the product forward.

Job Title: Backend Developer (Full Time)

Location: Remote

Interview: Virtual Interview

Experience Required: 3+ Years

Backend / API Development (About the Role)

• Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI) or Node.js (Express) (Python preferred).
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and integrating APIs for production-grade applications.
• Hands-on experience deploying to serverless platforms such as Cloudflare Workers, Firebase Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• Solid understanding of Google Cloud backend services (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Secret Manager, IAM roles).
• Expertise in API key and secrets management, ensuring compliance with security best practices.
• Skilled in secure API development, including HTTPS, authentication/authorization, input validation, and rate limiting.
• Track record of delivering scalable, high-quality backend systems through impactful projects in production environments.

Title: Sr Software Engineer, Backend

Level: L3 

Location: Hyderabad, India

Department: Engineering

Company

Talent Systems, LLC is the leading technology solution provider for casting and auditioning to the entertainment industry. Casting directors and agents worldwide use Talent Systems’ portfolio of products to source and manage talent across film, television, commercials, theater and digital projects, powering an unparalleled, global casting software ecosystem. 

We are headquartered in Los Angeles and operate in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and India. Our portfolio brands include Casting Networks, Spotlight, Cast It Systems, Cast It Talent, Casting Frontier, Staff Me Up, Cast It Reach & Tagmin.

Company Core Values

Job Description

We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our backend team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Node.js and TypeScript, with a solid understanding of backend development best practices. Experience with the AWS ecosystem and working knowledge of Elasticsearch or similar caching/search technologies is essential. Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and PostgreSQL is also required. Knowledge of React.js is a plus.

• Required:
• 5+ years of experience in backend software development.
• Strong proficiency with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting and implementing microservice architectures.
• Extensive experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or similar caching/search technologies.
• Proficient with Docker and container orchestration concepts.
• Expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

• Preferred:
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, including integration testing frameworks and best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems like Git.
• Familiarity with React.js is a plus but not mandatory.
• Ability to mentor and lead junior developers effectively.

• Soft skills:
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams from different cultures and geolocations. 
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a customer-first mindset.
• Design, and develop scalable and maintainable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Drive the design and implementation of microservice-based architectures to support our platform’s scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality, robust software solutions.
• Implement and optimize search and caching solutions using Elasticsearch or similar technologies.
• Build, maintain, and optimize containerized applications using Docker.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Utilize AWS services extensively to deploy, monitor, and scale backend applications.
• Design, optimize, and maintain PostgreSQL databases, including schema design and query performance tuning.
• Lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote best practices in software engineering and architecture.
• Deliver high-quality features on time by maintaining a balance between speed and precision.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily standups, and code reviews, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

As an employee of our company, you will collaborate with each department to create and deploy disruptive products. Come work at a growing company that offers great benefits with opportunities to move forward and learn alongside accomplished leaders. We're seeking an experienced and outstanding member of staff.

This position is both creative and rigorous by nature you need to think outside the box. We expect the candidate to be proactive and have a "get it done" spirit. To be successful, you will have solid solving problem skills.

Responsibilities

• Design & Develop Odoo Apps
• Translate requirements into clean and efficient code
• Analyze, diagnose and resolve errors relate to the applications.

Must Have

• Bachelor's Degree In Computers/MCA
• Object-oriented programming language
• Basics of Python/HTML/CSS/JS
• Highly creative and autonomous

Nice To Have

• Python/Javascript Knowledge
• Linux, Github
• Contribution in open source projects
• Strong communication skills

What's great in the job?

• Great team of smart people, in a friendly and open culture
• No dumb managers, no stupid tools to use, no rigid working hours
• No waste of time in enterprise processes, real responsibilities and autonomy
• Expand your knowledge of various business industries
• Create content that will help our users on a daily basis
• Real responsibilities and challenges in a fast evolving company

Roles and Responsibilities:

1.Build high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
2. Strong knowledge in Nodejs, Javascript & Typescript

3.Develop and maintain all server-side components.

4.Develop high-performance and scalable APIs to serve clients.

5.Collaborate with front-end developers on the integration of well written APIs.

6.Implement effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.

7.Investigate issues by reviewing/debugging code, provide fixes and workarounds, and review changes for operability to maintain existing software solutions.

8.Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

9.Run diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and provide technical support.

10.Be our NodeJS champion by keeping an eye out for emerging technologies and recommending improvements.

11. You will work within a team, collaborate and add value through participation in peer code reviews, provide comments and suggestions, and work with cross functional teams to achieve goals.

12. Design back end services for various business processes

13. You will assume technical accountability for your specific work products within an application and provide technical support during solution design for new requirements.

14. Design server side architecture

• Work with business analysts to estimate and design effective, scalable and maintainable solutions that meet business initiatives and objectives
• Develop and unit test software that meets business requirements and technical design
• Troubleshoot pre- and post-production implementations
• Propose new ideas when there is strong business value and stay up to date on the latest technology trends and techniques

Critical Skills & Experiences:

• At least 5+ years of experience developing in Java technologies with equivalent experience in systems analysis, OO design, OO programming and debugging skills
• At least 5 years of experience in Java Spring Boot Framework development
• 2 years of experience in any Cloud platform, preferably AWS.
• At least 3 years of web services and relational database experience (preferably Mysql)
• At least a year of Elastic search experience
• Experience developing RESTful web services (preferably micro services)
• Experience with UNIX/Linux command line and shell scripting
• Experience working in cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams
• Any level of experience with JIRA or any other issue tracking technology
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders
• Experience with Java application profiling and profiling tools
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Drive performance to accomplish team goals in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor’s degree or the above equivalent skills and years of experience

Keywords:

Experience: +5 Years

Technical skills: Java, Spring boot and Node JS  

Job Description :

You're going to be at the core of our development team. You'll mainly be coding in Node.js. You'll be doing a little bit of everything from writing backend code that communicates with other internal services, to working with APIs, to writing code that controls EC2 instances and so on.

Requirements :

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and functional programming  and design concepts like - dependency injection, abstract classes, interfaces, data, providers, factories, middlewares, interceptors, orm
• Strong understanding of database architecture and design principles MySQL, mongo-DB. Understanding of MongoDB’s aggregation framework is a bonus.
• Excellent knowledge of Node.js frameworks (NestJs preferred) and experience in integrating libraries, authentication, queues, jobs, logger services. Past experience in working on multi-tenant SAAS product is a bonus.
• Experience with AWS, Architecture Design, and Web development. 
• 1+ years of relevant experience
• Passionate about working in a startup and creating a great product
• Must be able to show us projects and or websites that you have created. Bonus points if you’ve created these projects/websites outside of your work (we love seeing proof of how much you love technology and coding).
• Must love to program, must be willing to learn, and must be creative. If you are the type of person who finds learning a new technology or language an exhilarating experience, this is the place for you.

Responsibilities : 

• Working alongside front end developers, designers, and other backend developers creating cutting edge applications
• Delivering programming solutions for a variety of challenging and exciting projects
• Testing applications to ensure they meet users' expectations
• Integrating third-party APIs
• Deliver outstanding projects within tight deadlines

EXPERIENCE: 7 to 9 years in Java 2 Enterprise server side development. Must have applied knowledge of design patterns needed for building REST APIs and services for performance and scale.

SKILLS:

- Problem Solving and application of Object Oriented principles to development

- REST API development using Java, JAX-RPC,

- Server side development using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js

- Concurrent programming with Java

- Database programming in SQL with Oracle, MySQL or other RDBMs.

- Deployment to AWS and Kubernetes and building with Maven

- Affinity towards server side development

- Ability to understand existing code and re-engineer/re-factor/redesign.

- Written and spoken English communication and articulation.

NICE TO HAVE:

 - Working knowledge of GO Lang and Python scripting

- AWS Certifications

- Working knowledge of Elastic Search based persistence and search

- Secure coding practices

EDUCATION: Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology or related disciplines.