Backend Developer

Senior Staff Engineer will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction and long-term architecture of the Albert platform. This role is responsible for driving scalable, reliable, and high- impact software engineering that align with business goals and customer needs. The position requires a strong balance of technical depth, execution excellence, and cross-functional leadership to accelerate product development while maintaining high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Drive the architectural vision for core product areas across the Albert platform.
• Own the technical roadmap for major product features, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term platform evolution.
• Lead the design and development of highly reliable, performant, and scalable applications using modern tech stack.
• Establish durable engineering patterns and frameworks that enable product teams to move quickly with high confidence.
• Provide mentorship to Staff, Senior, and Mid-level engineers to uplevel engineering capabilities across product teams

Execution Excellence

• Translate business goals and customer needs into scalable technical designs that accelerate product development.
• Solve complex, multi-system issues and guide teams through debugging, incident response, and performance improvements.
• Lead design reviews, define coding standards, and elevate system observability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Drive technical decisions involving tradeoffs between speed, quality, and scalability, bringing clarity to ambiguity.
• Identify, prioritise, and drive down technical debt that impacts product velocity and quality

Cross-Team Influence & Collaboration

• Work with senior technical leadership to establish and uphold company-wide architectural standards and engineering practices.
• Partner closely with PMs to shape feature requirements, estimate complexity, and define engineering milestones.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, ML, and infra teams to develop cohesive, well-integrated product experiences

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in senior technical leadership roles supporting product-oriented teams.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end product development at scale — from concept through production rollout.
• Deep expertise in modern backend technologies, including Node.js, RESTful API design, backend services, and distributed system fundamentals, with strong proficiency across multiple programming languages.
• Strong understanding of product architecture patterns: domain-driven design, modular monoliths, micro-services, event-driven systems.
• Proficiency with SQL & NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.).
• Significant experience with AWS services and modern cloud architectures.
• Strong product intuition — ability to understand user needs, evaluate tradeoffs, and craft solutions that balance speed with quality.
• Outstanding communication, collaboration, and organisational influence skills

Good to Have:

• Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React.
• Experience building AI- or ML-driven user experiences.
• Experience scaling a product engineering team from 1 to N

About Albert Invent

Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster.

Why Join Albert Invent

• Joining Albert Invent means becoming part of a mission-driven, fast-growing global team at the intersection of AI, data, and advanced materials science.
• You will collaborate with world-class scientists and technologists to redefine how new materials are discovered, developed, and brought to market.
• The culture is built on curiosity, collaboration, and ownership, with a strong focus on learning and impact.

Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and building highly scalable, reliable

backend systems that power our global Yoga & Fitness platform. You will own backend architecture, make

key technical decisions, and ensure our systems perform reliably at scale in production environments.

Responsibilities

● Design, build, and own scalable, high-performance backend systems and APIs.

● Make key architectural and technical decisions with long-term scalability and reliability in mind.

● Lead backend development from system design to production rollout.

● Own production systems including monitoring, performance tuning, and incident response.

● Handle scale, performance, and availability challenges across distributed systems.

● Ensure strong security, data protection, and compliance standards.

● Collaborate closely with product and frontend teams to deliver impactful features.

● Mentor engineers and lead knowledge-sharing sessions.

● Champion AI-assisted development and automation to improve engineering productivity.

Qualifications

● 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering with production-scale systems.

● Strong expertise in Go (Golang) and backend service development.

● Experience designing scalable, distributed system architectures.

● Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and performance optimization.

● Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and cloud-native architectures.

● Strong understanding of scalability, performance, and reliability engineering.

● Excellent communication and technical decision-making skills.

Required Skills

● Go (Golang)

● Backend system design and architecture

● Distributed systems and scalability

● Database design and optimization

● Cloud-native development

● Production debugging and performance tuning

Preferred Skills

● Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows

● Knowledge of agentic workflows or MCP

● Experience scaling consumer-facing or marketplace platforms

● Strong DevOps and observability experience

About the Company

● MyYogaTeacher is a fast-growing health-tech startup focused on improving physical and mental

well-being worldwide.

● We connect highly qualified Yoga and Fitness coaches with customers globally through personalized

1-on-1 live sessions.

● 200,000+ customers, 335,000+ 5-star reviews, and 95% sessions rated 5 stars.

● Headquartered in California with operations in Bangalore.

Job Description

We are hiring full-stack developers for luxury-commerce platform that is well-funded and is now ready for its next level of growth. It is backed by reputed investors and is already a leader in its space. The focus for the coming years will be heavily on scaling the platform through technology.  Market-driven competitive salary for the right candidate

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work with the Business Teams & Product Managers, understand the requirements and design the technical architecture and implement it
• Build the code independently according to the technical specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards
• Create a technical design from Functional Design Doc / Requirements Doc and be able to troubleshoot with debugging skills
• Own product and its features from conception to delivery.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Node JS, and React JS.
• Hands on experience in developing customer facing Node JS based applications is a must.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with datastores such as MySQL, Oracle, Redis, and Solr/Elasticsearch.
• Knowledge of logging frameworks such as fluentd, logstash etc.
• Knowledge of Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes etc.) will be an advantage
• Writing and utilizing RESTful API services and performance tuning web applications
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure etc.
• Passion for building & scaling consumer-facing products.
• Attention to detail, good communication and organizational skills

• Determine the appropriate approach for new software assignments
• Provide solutions to overcome complex problems using the latest technologies
• Developing high-quality and detailed designs, Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Proactively communicate with the client to get things done within the deadline.
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Provide high-level maintenance and update of an existing applications to improve functionality and process flow
• Oversee the maintenance of technical documentation of applications as architecture, code, and procedures

• 3+ Experience with RPA software (UiPath) (ONLY/MANDATORY)
• Experience in programming .NET (C# or VB), Java + Node.JS-based programming
• UiPath RPA Implementations and Working Knowledge: Studio, BOTs, Orchestrators, RE Framework and Three E2E Implementations as a Core RPA Developer.
• Skill with scripting languages such as VBA/VBS, Python, NodeJS and JavaScript
• Proficiency with Microsoft Power Platform, SQL and NoSQL database experiences
• Orchestrator configuration and component usage knowledge
• hands on experience of orchestrator queue and load distribution
• Proficiency with JIRA, Jenkins, Github, Artifactory and CI/CD development
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including business process expertise
• Experience developing design documents for automation processes

Key Responsibilities:

· You’ll be actively involved with development of server backend that support mobile apps.

· You’ll be architecting and implementing best-in-class complex ‘real time’ web software and/or messaging systems to power highly scalable apps for users.

· Translate high level business problems into scalable design and code. Create libraries & Utilities for larger consumption.

· Work closely with UI/UX designers to create exciting user experiences and ensure delivery of graphic assets as per modern web standards.

· You’ll be continuously keeping an eye on the latest cutting-edge technologies and leveraging these in one’s own and the team’s work as necessary.

· Care about the business results of what you build, not just the elegance of the technology you build.

· Work on the end to end stack (Platforms, UI, distributed systems, databases) rather than specialize in one area.

· And of course, get hands dirty by writing server-side code for mobile-based applications, create robust high-volume production applications, and develop prototypes quickly.

Eligibility

Desired Candidates Profile:

• 5+ years of experience on Node.js based web applications and systems development.
• Strong knowledge of MEAN, Linux/UNIX based development & client-side JavaScript/jQuery.
• Knowledgeable on ORMs, their utility and limitations.
• Knowledge of web services and serialization techniques like REST, SOAP, XML & JSON.
• Knowledgeable about caching mechanisms & tools like memcache, CDNs, nginx.
• Scripting experience in using Shell/Python for creating quick technology solutions to problems.
• Prior expertise of working with AWS Cloud, CDNs and other PAAS based services.
• A strong penchant for Object-Oriented Design.
• Experience of working with version control, bug tracking, continuous integration and other productivity enhancement software like SVN, Bugzilla, Jira etc.
• Prior experience in implementing Agile software methodologies.
• Passionate about software development & modern-day web technologies like:
• Server-Side JavaScript – Node.js, Backbone.js
• Web Sockets
• NoSQL based databases like MongoDB/Couchbase/Redis
• Big Data
• Taking responsibility and ownership in the team’s work.

Additional Requirements:

• B-Tech/BS/BE/BS/MS/M.Tech/MS in Electronics or Computer Science from a premier institute in India (IITs, BITS, NITs etc) or abroad.

Roles and Responsibilities:

6+ Experience in  Node.js, React Js

excellent written and verbal communication skill

• Healthy team and relationship building skills
• Hands-on experience delivering web applications in the cloud to on-demand production clients
• Experience in JavaScript, OOP Patterns, ES6, HTML, CSS, LESS
• Experience with  MS Sql Server, Mongo DB
• Experience with SSO, SAML, OAuth, JWT for API and Web Session Authentication and Authorization
• Experience with Azure Devops platform will be an added advantage
• Experience with test and/or process automation, source control
• Possess solid debugging process and exhibit technical intuition

Role and Responsibilities:

• As a backend developer, your primary focus will be the development of all server-side systems
• A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. You will test, secure and deploy your code
• Work experience on Node.js is a must along with a server-side framework like Express.js
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Experience and proficiency integrating with REST APIs
• Understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience in working with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
• AgileScrum development cycle understanding.

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.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB(Must) & any other MySQL Database.
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
• Knowledge and working experience in Cloud environment - AWS or Azure
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter without any fear of trying out new things