Backend Developer

Key Responsibilities:

Backend Ownership

• Own the design, evolution, and reliability of mission-critical backend systems.
• Ensure scalability, performance, maintainability, and overall system health.
• Lead technical initiatives to address scaling challenges, technical debt, and architectural improvements.

System Design & Architecture

• Drive both High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD).
• Design scalable APIs, data models, service boundaries, and asynchronous workflows.
• Make sound engineering trade-offs balancing delivery speed with long-term system health.

Code Quality & Engineering Excellence

• Improve backend code quality through architecture reviews, code reviews, and refactoring.
• Simplify complex codebases and establish maintainable engineering patterns.
• Introduce best practices and guardrails to improve long-term maintainability.

Database & Performance Optimization

• Optimize PostgreSQL performance through schema design, indexing, query optimization, and tuning.
• Improve application performance using caching strategies and asynchronous processing.
• Design and operate analytics pipelines using ClickHouse or similar large-scale data systems.
• Work with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or equivalent.

Technical Leadership

• Mentor backend engineers on architecture, debugging, and engineering best practices.
• Influence technical direction through thoughtful design discussions and strong technical reasoning.
• Raise overall engineering standards across teams.

Production Ownership

• Own production stability, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Improve observability, monitoring, debugging, and operational excellence.
• Drive long-term reduction in production incidents and operational overhead.

Required Skills & Experience

Must Have

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Node.js.
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience designing and operating distributed backend systems.
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and microservices architecture.
• Experience owning backend services end-to-end—from architecture to production support.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience improving code quality, maintainability, and engineering standards.

Good to Have

• Experience with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or large-scale analytics platforms.
• Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and production reliability.

What We're Looking For

Engineering Mindset

• Passion for improving existing systems rather than simply building new ones.
• Ability to simplify complex architectures and create maintainable solutions.
• Strong focus on writing clean, readable, and scalable code.
• Testing mindset with emphasis on reliability and long-term quality.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and design for future scalability.

Leadership Without Authority

• Influence technical decisions through expertise and clear reasoning.
• Challenge scope or timelines when necessary to protect system health.
• Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering standards.
• Lead by example through hands-on technical excellence.

Why Join Vahan?

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance
• Monthly Wellness Leaves
• Competitive Compensation
• Opportunity to solve large-scale engineering challenges impacting millions of users
• Ownership-driven engineering culture with significant technical autonomy
• Work alongside exceptional engineers building products that create meaningful social impact

NodeJS DeveloperResponsibilities:

• Develop high quality Javascript (ES6) code for our Node.js applications.

• Coordinate with the engineering team to accomplish tasks on agile processes.

• Optimize application for maximum speed and compatibility.

• Multitask seamlessly, always maintaining a positive attitude and a client-first mentality.

• Incorporate engineering best practices, methodologies & standards in all deliverables.

• Build customer facing technology products for global customers.

• Work with a performance oriented team driven by ownership and open to experiments.

• Develop a deep understanding of the start-up ecosystem.

Requirement:

• Must have 1+ years of experience in web application development

• Excellent working knowledge of JavaScript including depth understanding of Node.JS,

Express.JS.

• Demonstrated experiences in Node.js end to end development.

• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience

with MEAN Full stack paradigm.

• Hands-on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side.

• Comprehensive knowledge of best practices and design patterns for SaaS.

• Good Experience working on Web development, Web Services and Micro services

architecture.

• Work experience in Mongodb / Mysql / No sql db / Any transactional DB.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.

• Experience with version control tools (Git)

• Deep understanding of data structures, data flow, Ajax and CRUD.

• Excellent spoken and written English.

Job Brief:

- Proficient in object-oriented programming and distributed systems

- Some experience with Web Programming and TypeScript

- Ability to speak and write in English fluently

- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

- Experience with TypeScript and NodeJS

- Experience with the language server protocol

- Experience with JavaScript

- Experience with the Pub-Sub pattern

What we expect of you:

• 4+ years of experience building scalable backends using Nodejs
• In-depth knowledge of any framework of Nodejs (i.e. Express, Hapi, Koa.js)
• Hands on experience with developing REST APIs using Node.js and any of the above framework
• Good understanding of standard authentication systems such as OAuth2 and JWT
• Should have experience with Socket.IO
• Should have understanding of Model, Caching, Async mechanisms
• Knowledge of server-side templating (e.g. Jade, Handlebars.js, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with implementing Role based User authentication and authorization system
• Understanding of Caching, Database Interactions, Middlewares
• Able to engineer the best performing solutions and always keeping scalability in mind

Must haves:

• Strong problem solving skills
• Passion for building robust systems that are engineered to handle failure scenarios, an attitude to maintain coding standards
• Strong advocate for producing quality software who makes sure issues are raised and resolved

What makes you a great fit for Aubergine:

• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Hungry for more responsibility and knowledge
• Experience with at least one of the cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean etc. (docker, Kubernetes, microservice good to have)

Skills: NodeJs

Experience required: 4+ years

Job Type: Full time/ Permanent

Perks and Benefits:

• Flexible shift timings
• Company-sponsored certifications.
• Team friendly culture
• Flat hierarchy
• Carrom, Table tennis games, Cricket Tournament Participation for interested employees
• Snack-filled pantry for team members
• Group Medical Insurance (*)
• 5 days working.

Full-time

Node JS Developer

Position Type: Full time

Job Description:     

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the databases, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. Will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by the UI team into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is a bonus.

Responsibilities:

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding of Relational Databases
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• 8-15 years relevant progressive experience.