Backend Developer

Technical Evaluation Engineer

Experience: 8+ years (3+ in leadership)

Location: [Add location]

Description:

We’re looking for a Head of Technical Recruiting with a strong understanding of software development to lead and scale our tech hiring. You will partner with engineering leadership to define hiring needs, build efficient interview processes, and deliver high-quality hires across backend, frontend, data, platform, and product engineering roles.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead end-to-end technical hiring strategy

Partner with CTO/Engineering leaders on workforce planning

Manage and mentor technical recruiters

Design and improve technical interview processes

Drive senior and critical tech hires

Track and improve hiring metrics (time-to-hire, quality, funnel)

Requirements:

6+ years in recruiting, primarily technical hiring

3+ years leading recruiting teams

Strong understanding of software development and tech stacks

Experience hiring across engineering roles (BE/FE/FS/Data/DevOps, etc.)

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Nice to Have:

Engineering or technical background

Experience in fast-growing tech companies

Responsibilities

Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges

Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Build efficient, testable, and reusable Node JS modules

End-to-end ownership of modules, including designing, development, validation, deployment

Specifications:

Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of NODE JS.

Familiarity with One OOPS language

Familiarity with Workers/child processes & performance tuning

Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages (MySQL, and Mongo dB)

Strong knowledge of the common NODE JS or web server exploits and their solutions

Experience -

2-6 Year Qualifications Desired Skills NodeJS, HTML, CSS, Angular/React, JavaScript, Web Application Development, SQL/NoSQL

• Developing and maintaining server-side network components.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

• At least two years of experience as a Node.js developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.

What are we looking for?

A passionate backend developer Node.js specifically.

Who Should apply?

Apply only If you

● Think you are atleast 8 on 10 in Node.js

● And have been coding in Node.js for 3+ years

● Are super enthusiastic about building something that adds immense value to the lives of atleast 10Mn people

● Have built things single handedly

● Have immense hunger to learn, grow and prove yourself

Shortlisting Criteria

You will have to do a coding test.

We respect your time and are in no way doubting your skills, but that’s how you would like to hire someone in your team, right?

Why work with us?

Infinite freedom & ownership.

Work directly with the founders.

Zerodha the most profitable startup in the country, only has a 30 member tech team. We’re presently a 4 member tech team, you will be number 5.

Like you, we too love solving for time and space complexities.

What is the company about?

We are creating a stock market of creators.

Where Social Media Influencers can get funded by their fans and in return issue them coins which represent a stake in their future income.Imagine if you had invested in Tanmay Bhatt or CarryMinati 5 years back

It is India’s only B2B Construction Materials Supply Chain Company. Construction & Infrastructure is  one of the industries, with the most complex problems in Supply Chain and we are fundamentally reengineering the  way construction materials get procured. Our Clients include the biggest names in India & the World– The  LafargeHolcim Group, JSW Group, The Tatas and many others. We are backed by some of the world’s top marquee  funds in our journey to create transparency and standardization to an otherwise opaque industry. 

Your responsibilities: 

• Understand the business context and build high quality code using proven design patterns Develop, test and deploy integrations required to meet business requirements 
• Carry out unit tests and other quality control mechanisms to inform and validate the code and design 
• Utilizing and monitoring cloud infrastructure resources (such as AWS, Azure) efficiently 
• Participate in a highly fluid environment applying agile software development principles 
• Ensure the coding standards are on-par with the best in the industry 

Educational Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science).  

Must have skills: 

• 3+ years of work experience with mobile/web development 
• Experience in working with either of languages: Go, Java, Scala 
• Strong understanding of relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra) 
• Strong understanding of Message brokers 
• Must have hands on experience in Restful APIs 
• Must have a strong foundation of Data structures and Algorithms 
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems 
• Ability to deploy features on a daily basis: should be good at time management and prioritization 
• Hands-on experience in CI/CD principles and TDD 
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills 

Good to have skills: 

• Experience in event-driven & asynchronous I/O frameworks 
• Exposure to business process and workflow automation 
• Working experience in process driven and data intensive business applications 
• Experience in working on web infrastructure with React.js and React Native 

Professional traits: 

• Self-motivated, persistent and “Never Give Up” attitude 
• Passion for innovation and adaptability to a lean startup culture 
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, independently and / or as a member of a team 
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made,  asking questions as appropriate

Job Description:

Skills Required:

• Backend developer with hands-on programming experience in Node Js / Python / Golang
• Expertise in developing REST APIs with any backend framework using above languages.
• Expertise in system design & architecture patterns.
• Experience in building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Experience in optimising application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Strong fundamentals in computer programming, data structure & algorithms.
• Exposure to AWS services like S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, lambda & API gateway.
• Good understanding for SQL & NoSQL dB’s, preferably work experience with MongoDB.