Backend Developer - Startup

Job Details

- Job Title: Staff Engineer

- Industry: Technology

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 9-12 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bengaluru

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at company, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities-

• Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with company’s technical strategy.
• Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
• Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen company’s technology foundation.
• Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong staff engineer profile
• Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
• Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
• Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
• Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
• Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
• Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
• Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
• Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
• Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges

We’re seeking a Back-End Developer with hands-on experience in Node.js or any other modern backend framework. You’ll be responsible for building robust, scalable APIs and server-side logic powering Zilo’s high-velocity quick commerce platform.

Key Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and optimize back-end applications and APIs.

Work on microservices, API integrations, and data modeling.

Ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance under high traffic.

Collaborate with front-end and mobile developers for seamless API integration.

Implement best practices in code quality, security, and database design.

Troubleshoot production issues and support deployment cycles.

Technical Skills Required

Strong proficiency in Node.js, Express.js, or similar backend frameworks.

Experience in MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.

Understanding of RESTful APIs, authentication (JWT/OAuth), and middleware.

Familiarity with AWS, Docker, or other deployment environments.

Hands-on experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

Knowledge of other programming languages like Python, Java, or Go is an added advantage.

• Proficient in .NET Framework, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, Entity Framework. Strong design capabilities with SOLID principles using C#. Working knowledge in WCF. Database knowledge in SQL Design, and deliver innovative software solutions in collaboration with Technology teams. Develop high-quality production code Experience in HTML, CSS, Javascript. Experience in React / Angular or Typescript preferred

• Proven experience in any high-level programming languages like Java (Preferably)
• Strong knowledge of data structure, algorithms and coding
• Experience with any Messaging technologies like Kafka or Rab-bitMQ, etc.
• Proven experience in database technologies like NoSQL
• Hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Security, Spring boot, and Hibernate framework.
• Working knowledge of developing Restful Micro services.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills.
• Attend team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, and put forward solutions to any issues.
• Ability to understand the Platform/domain of the business in detail & Ability to multi-task.
• Good communication and organizational skill

Backend Architect

Experience - 12+ yrs

Mandatory Skills - NodeJS & MongoDB(Data Modelling/ Complex Queries/ Aggregation pipeline )

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate architects eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customer's technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.

Location -Chennai or Bangalore

• Relevant experience of 12+ years building high-performance applications with at least 3+ years as an architect.
• Good problem solving skills
• Strong mentoring capabilities
• Good understanding of software development life cycle
• Strong experience in system design and architecture
• Strong focus on quality of work delivered
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

• Extensive hands-on experiencebuilding high-performance applications using Node. Js (Javascript/Typescript) and. NET/ Golang / Java / Python.
• Strong experience with appropriate framework(s).
• Well versed in monolithic and microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with data modeling onMongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases
• Experience working with 3rd party integrations ranging from authentication, cloud services, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and atleast 1 cloud provider - AWS / GCP / Azure
• Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

• Experience working with frontend technologies - React. Js or Vue. Js or Angular.
• Extensive experience consulting with customers directly for defining architecture or system design.
• Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCPor other relevant technologies

• Understanding of SDLC & OOPs concepts.

• Must have experience with ASP.NET with C#

• Good knowledge of SQL server / POSTGreSQL database

• Basic Knowledge of javascript, JQuery, CSS, HTML5, Bootstrap

• Ability to design Web architecture.

• Ability to bug fixing in existing projects.

• Knowledge of functions, procedure, triggers.

• Ability to write optimized sql query.

• Good knowledge of developing Desktop Application

• Knowledge of WCF, Web Services and file management.

• Knowledge of digital signature is preferred.

• Should be able to work in a team environment.

• Strong in Software Development and Problem Solving Skills.

• Design, Develop and Unit Test software independently.

• Also should be able to understand the existing applications and should be in position to reengineer the codes to latest .Net technologies.

• Freshers: Should have B.Tech background and should have strong in problem solving skills.

We are looking for a Developer who is proficient with Node and has at least 1-3 years of relevant experience. Your primary role will be on developing microservices, while ensuring good coding practices and architecture. You will have end to end ownership of the services you develop, to ensure it is robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, and quality product is important.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Integrating and maintaining Node micro services
• Proficient in RESTful APIs and API communications, especially to consume data from and/or push data into MongoDB for Web and mobile applications
• Proficient on modeling applications on NOSQL databases(preferably MongoDB)

Desired Candidate Profile

• Strong coding experience in Node JS.
• Should have experience with microservice architecture
• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement

Nice to have:

• Some experience with queues like like Redis,SQS,etc
• Experience with cloud solutions like Lambda, Docker etc
• Experience in DevOps and related practices to improve development lifecycle, continuous delivery with high quality is an advantage.
• Deploy server/related components to staging, live environments.
• Some exposure to React Frontend implementation, deeper JS skills

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Node.Js
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries.
• Expertise in common Cloud technologies, AWS/GCP Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows.
• Knowledge in one or more of the following: NoSQL (especially, but not only Redis), Queueing system experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ)
• Good stakeholder management skills, with an ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders
• It is good to have knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker and related deployment technologies.
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Write well-designed, testable, efficient, and high-quality code.
• Design (LLD & HLD) and architect technical solutions for the business problems of a large-scale system.
• Prepare and produce releases of software components.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• We believe leadership comes through ownership and so we love people who take ownership of their work and lead by example