Backend Developer - Node.js

Who You Are:

• You’ve built scalable, production-ready APIs in fast-paced environments, and are comfortable with the challenges that come with a growing startup.
• You understand event-driven architectures and have hands-on experience building real-time applications.
• You are fully capable of taking ownership of backend systems, from designing the database schema to writing efficient, maintainable code.
• You think beyond the code: optimizing performance, scalability, and security are as important as building new features.
• You’re comfortable troubleshooting complex issues, whether that’s API bottlenecks, database performance, or production issues.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage a NestJS backend with a modular, scalable architecture that can easily handle real-time events and communication.
• Develop and maintain WebSocket services for real-time event-driven updates and ensure seamless communication across the system.
• Integrate RabbitMQ for reliable internal messaging, handling queues and ensuring event-driven workflows are efficient and fault-tolerant.
• Implement database management strategies using MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch, ensuring efficient data handling, indexing, and optimization.
• Integrate with external APIs (JSON-RPC, XML-RPC, REST) to enhance system capabilities.
• Ensure high performance of the system by optimizing database queries, implementing caching strategies using Redis, and ensuring optimal indexing and data flow.
• Implement role-based authentication and authorization mechanisms using JWT, OAuth, and RBAC patterns within NestJS.
• Follow security best practices to ensure sensitive data is protected, credentials are stored securely, and the system is resilient to common vulnerabilities.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between different services and technologies.

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Node.js and NestJS with TypeScript.
• Solid experience with MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch for data storage and real-time data handling.
• In-depth knowledge of WebSockets and Socket.IO in NestJS Gateways, enabling real-time communication and updates.
• Experience with RabbitMQ for message queuing and asynchronous task handling.
• Strong understanding of authentication & authorization systems using JWT, OAuth, and RBAC (Role-Based Access Control).
• Expertise in optimizing APIs, including techniques for caching, improving database performance, and reducing latency.
• Familiar with API security best practices, including secure storage of credentials, encryption, and safeguarding sensitive data.

Key Skills:

• TypeScript, NestJS, WebSockets, Socket.io
• Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ
• API Optimization, JWT, OAuth, RBAC
• Real-time communication, Event-driven architecture

We are looking for a Jr. Laravel developer to join our Backend team at Achieveee.

You will find all the details regarding the position on this page, let’s start first by introducing ourselves.

About Achieveee

Achieveee Design and Development Pvt. Ltd. is an independent product development company established in 2011. We are a team of designers, developers and project managers. We work with businesses to build portals and applications. We have a decade of experience in building quality digital products for our clients. Companies like Red Bull, Adidas Lead, Godrej, PayTM Insider, Lokmat, PayU and many more have trusted us to develop for them.

What will you be doing?

You will be building software products for our clients. We are a service company. Our clients require custom product development either to grow their business or solve their existing problems with help of technology. You will be involved throughout the whole project lifecycle.

• Work on interesting products from early stage planning to deployment
• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of client’s products
• Get clear instructions from Senior Developers
• Collaborate with frontend developers and designers
• Ensure the best possible performance and quality for the projects you are working on
• Learn new things on job and also share your learnings with other members of the team

We select our clients and projects well to make sure our days at work are always bright🔅 Once you are on a client project, you will learn about their whole business soon :)

You should apply if you have

• Industry experience in developing software applications
• Proficiency in web technologies like PHP 7, HTML5
• Working experience on Laravel 6 or higher
• Experience working with RDBMS like MySQL
• Experience in building web services – Rest, would be preferred
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming languages and design patterns.
• Familiarity with Git
• Practice of writing clean, stable, unit-tested code and provide accompanying documentation
• Indian nationality

Skills You'll Need to Bring

Good work is not always about writing code, it is much more than that. Below are the skills you need to have to be able to work with us. We know you can’t be perfect at these, but you need to have a keen interest in always polishing in these skills.

• Passion for problem solving
• Being able to estimate time required for executing tasks and respecting timelines
• Friendly and open communication with team members
• Enthusiasm to learn new ways to solve problems for yourself and share with the team
• Should be proactive and capable of executing effective action when required.

Your package

Your CTA will be INR 3.6-4 lakhs per annum, depending on your expertise.

How is life at Achieveee?

• We're small... and we like it that way. We are currently a team of 7 and hiring to be a pack of perfect 10. All remote for now.
• We are all about real people, good ideas, and honest hard work
• We’re proud of the clients and projects that keep us excited
• The team is fun and helpful pack
• You will work with people from whom you can learn a lot. About work, about life!
• We work 5 days a week.
• We encourage you to have good family time, have hobbies and even fun side projects
• For the same, we strongly encourage you to be resourceful and disciplined during work hours
• We encourage discussion around books, movies, travel and current events
• We hope to regular team outings this year after last one in lockdowns

Hiring Process

• Apply by sending your details, projects you have worked on and resume
• We will have a 30 minute video interview if you are shortlisted
• Technical screening which requires you to complete a short task within a week
• Final decision within 2 weeks of your application

How will your growth be?

Your performance as Laravel developer will be assessed every 3 months to keep a record. We have an annual appraisal process for remuneration. It ranges between 15-30% raise. After 2-3 years, you will have an opportunity to accept responsibilities as Senior Developer or a Manage depending on your skills. This will be based on your hold over project planning, collaboration with other stakeholders of the project and communication skills.

If you have been reading this far, you seem to be interested :) We should have a chat.

Navin Kulkarni.

Co-founder at Achieveee.

Duties And Responsibilities

Coding backend for a stock analysis platform in Nodejs. You don’t.t need any experience or understanding of stocks for this position.
Nodejs - candidate must have good experience working with Nodejs and have a deep understanding of space -time complexity for writing optimized code in typescript
Typescript- candidate must know typescript and have good experience with it.
MongoDB and PostgreSQL - candidate must have experience working with both technologies. understanding of both technologies and designing scalable and optimized database structures

Eximius is a micro-VC fund which invests into early-stage startups. One of our portfolio startup iTribe is looking for "Hustlers", "First Principle Thinkers", "Crazy and trips on creating products out of the box from scratch", "Outspoken", "unafraid of users ripping your product".

About iTribe: 
iTribe is on a mission to make discussing finance from being a taboo topic to a dinner table topic, which means making "Bharat" financially literate and independent. iTribe is a social network which allows anyone to discover, discuss, vet ideas and seek advice from like-minded iTribe aims at making Finance simple, witty and fun for everyone

Founded in 2021 by IIT Kharagpur alumni to convert their own journey of becoming investors into a product to help billion users. An emerging startup backed by some of the most respected investors around the world.

Responsibilities

• Craft clean, manageable code, maintain proper documentation and code integrity
• Maintain quality and ensure 100% uptime
• Create, test and deploy the applications on production servers
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
• Responsible for security and data protection.

• Working alongside Product managers to architect and design new features.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to launch new features.
• Unblock peers and keep all the internal and external teams informed about the progress of development

Requirements

• 2 - 5 years of experience in designing and developing Server side component (REST APIs, Micro service Architecture)
• Good understanding and strong in data structures and algorithms (Degree in computer science is an added advantage)
• OOP implementation experience with back-end programming languages (Ex: JavaScript, Python, Java, etc).
• Good to have experience with event driven architecture.
• Good understanding of databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
• Well-versed with Software Development Life Cycle
• Demonstrate the ability to be a self-starter, learn and implement new technologies/ frameworks
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Why you should join iTribe? 

• Building a product which is not done in decades.
• Be a part of the founding team and work directly with the founders.
• Competitive Salary
• ESOPs - ownership in the company
• Medical Insurances
• Subscriptions to premium platforms for learning
• Books that you ask for
• Friendly leave policy

We want a MEAN stack developer who is definitely not mean but is enthusiastic, quick at grasping, and has experience in handling multiple projects and codebases.

You should be energetic, authoritative, focused, and experimental at work.

We are looking for experienced backend engineers only.

Apply only if you have 8 YES out of the following 10 qualifying criteria :

-Strong grip over HTML, CSS, and Angular 9+

-Good with CSS styling and theming

-Expert at API development using NodeJS

-Experienced with MongoDB DB

-Self-starter with good communication skills

-At least 2+ years of experience

-Must be willing to work from Bangalore (HSR)

-Have than 2 years of experience with multiple frontend projects in MEAN Stack?

-HAVE worked in a B2C Startup for at least a year?

-CAN join in within 30-45 days?

Out of many tools and technologies, we use Java, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, Twem, Netty extensively for our back-end development.

• Leading the entire Backend platform for a product portfolio.
• End to end delivery new features.
• Evolving the architecture for performance and scalability.
• Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web services platform.
• Constantly strive to improve software development process and team productivity.
• Mentor and train team members
• Lead module development independently

Required background, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 5.5+/ 7+ Years of experience in a scalable product/ecommerce organization·       
• Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach
• Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
• Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms
• Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services
• Experience with prevalent design patterns and advanced system designing
• Good experiences with databases and Schema design. We heavily use NoSQL databases
• Strong Problem Solving skills

• 3-5 Years of experience in Backend Development.
• Must have experience in Python (FLASK framework).
• Have a Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns that can work at scale.
• Sound knowledge of NoSQL/SQL Databases (Mongo DB preferred).
• Strong experience with at-Cloud technology, preferably AWS or GCP, or Azure.
• Core experience in developing complex backend systems.
• Communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passionate about application scalability, availability, reliability, and security.