Backend Developer (Node.JS)

Role Overview

We are hiring a Principal Datacenter Backend Developer to architect and build highly scalable, reliable backend platforms for modern data centers. This role owns control-plane and data-plane services powering orchestration, monitoring, automation, and operational intelligence across large-scale on-prem, hybrid, and cloud data center environments.

This is a hands-on principal IC role with strong architectural ownership and technical leadership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end backend architecture for datacenter platforms (orchestration, monitoring, DCIM, automation).
• Design and build high-availability distributed systems at scale.
• Develop backend services using Java (Spring Boot / Micronaut / Quarkus) and/or Python (FastAPI / Flask / Django).
• Build microservices for resource orchestration, telemetry ingestion, capacity and asset management.
• Design REST/gRPC APIs and event-driven systems.
• Drive performance optimization, scalability, and reliability best practices.
• Embed SRE principles, observability, and security-by-design.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical roadmap decisions.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Java and/or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployments.
• Databases: PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL, time-series data.
• Messaging systems: Kafka / Pulsar / RabbitMQ.
• Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch.
• Secure backend design (OAuth2, RBAC, audit logging).

Nice to Have

• Experience with DCIM, NMS, or infrastructure automation platforms.
• Exposure to hyperscale or colocation data centers.
• AI/ML-based monitoring or capacity planning experience.

Why Join

• Architect mission-critical platforms for large-scale data centers.
• High-impact principal role with deep technical ownership.
• Work on complex, real-world distributed systems problems.

Python Developer 

Location: Hyderabad (Apple Office)

Experience: 8+ years (Retail / E-commerce preferred)

Budget- 1.9 lpm + GST

Contract: 1 Year + Extendable

Job Responsibilities / Requirements:

• 8+ years of proven experience, preferably in retail or e-commerce environments.
• Strong expertise in Python development.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams.
• Hands-on experience with Container & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker.
• Expertise in Infrastructure Automation via Kubernetes YAML configurations.
• Strong skills in Scripting & Automation: Python, Shell Scripts (Bash).
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines: GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Experience with Monitoring & Logging: Splunk, Grafana.
• Immediate Joiners Preferred – Urgent Support Required.

• 2 - 5 years of hands-on experience with Mongo DB as a Developer.
• Deploy and create MongoDB clusters with appropriate configuration once the machines are provisioned
• Be able to script, and have programming ability with MongoDB shell and/or other programming languages
• Configure and monitor replica sets and Sharded Clusters
• Ability and experience in working with applications that work with MongoDB such as Java, Node.js and/or others
• Experience with MongoDB security, managing roles and permissions
• Experience with MongoDB backups and restores, manually and using MongoDB and other tools
• Knowledge and experience in working with MongoDB Ops Manager and/or Cloud manager
• Knowledge and/or experience working with MongoDB Atlas
• Knowledge of at least one DevOps tool such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible or similar
• Experience with ORM tools such as spring data is preferred.

Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR) by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

Cogoport Leadership

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Life at Cogoport: It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

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Why Cogoport?

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

Areas of Impact for you

• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Develop large multi-tenant applications in Rails.
• Understand Rails best practices and religiously introduce those to codebase.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Loves coding.
• 4-6 years of experience managing technology teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build complex scalable technology products.
• Should have prior experience of working with ROR, React, PostgreSQL and cloud infra.
• Understanding scaling strategies for a high-traffic Rails applications.
• Understanding O-Auth2 or JWT (Json Web Token) authentication mechanisms.
• Experience in using ActiveRecordSerialize, RSpec and active interaction.Engin
• Knowledge about Asynchronous Networking in Ruby; Refactoring ActiveRecord Models; Background Job processing using Redis and Sidekiq; Writing automated Deployment Scripts using Capistrano, Ansible etc.
• Expertise in Data Science and Machine Learning is a plus.
• Expertise in Jenkins, Kubernetes, dockers and cloud technology is a plus.

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

• 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

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript & OOPS
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it 
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors 
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• 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
• Knowledge of AWS will be preferable

• Working knowledge of Node-Sync, callback hell and ways to control asynchronous behavior of Node functions.
• Strong command on ES6(EcmaScript) or Javascript and its concepts like prototypes, call back, closures etc
• Should have deep understanding of Native Node.js, Express.js, HAPI.js and middlewares.
• Candidates must have proper understanding and command on RESTful API development and consumptions.
• Candidates must know to use promises, async-await to control synchronization of business logic components.
• Candidates must have knowledge of JWT, oAuth and passport.js for user authentication.
• Candidates must have knowledge of GIT, Bit-bucket.
• Candidates must have knowledge of application deployment.
• Experience with NoSQL databases eg mongodb (preferred).