Backend Developer

Role Overview:

We are seeking a backend-focused Software Engineer with deep expertise in REST APIs,

real-time integrations, and cloud-based application services. The ideal candidate will build

scalable backend systems, integrate real-time data flows, and contribute to system design

and documentation. This is a hands-on role working with global teams in a fast-paced, Agile

environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain REST APIs and backend services using Python, FastAPI,

and SQLAlchemy.

• Build and support real-time integrations using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and

EventBridge.

• Develop and maintain Operational Data Stores (ODS) for real-time data access.

• Write performant SQL queries and work with dimensional data models in PostgreSQL.

• Contribute to cloud-based application logic and data orchestration.

• Containerize services using Docker and deploy via CI/CD pipelines.

• Implement automated testing using pytest, pydantic, and related tools.

• Collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams using tools like Jira.

• Document technical workflows, APIs, and system integrations with clarity and

consistency.

• Should have experience in team management

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of backend or integrations engineering experience.

• Expert-level knowledge of REST API development and real-time system design.

• Strong experience with: Python (FastAPI preferred), SQLAlchemy.

• PostgreSQL and advanced SQL.

• AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge.

• Operational Data Stores (ODS) and distributed system integration.

• Experience with Docker, Git, CI/CD tools, and automated testing frameworks.

• Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional

teams.

• Comfortable producing and maintaining clear technical documentation.

• Working knowledge of React is acceptable but not a focus.

• Hands-on experience working with Databricks or similar data platforms.

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (required).

• Master’s degree is a plus.

• Certifications in AWS (e.g., Developer Associate, Solutions Architect) or Python

frameworks are highly preferred.

Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices

Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)

Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D

Mandatory (Education) – Candidates from Tier - 1 engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, are highly preferred)

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software
• Take part in software and architectural development activities
• Debug application issues and helping support respond to client queries
• Participate in application development meetings
• Provide accurate estimates, clearly communicate status of tasks and identification of risks
• Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem
• Performance tuning of application code at different service levels
• Interact with customers of the application and help address issues reported

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 1-3 years of experience with Java and Spring frameworks.
• Having good knowledge in a scripting language like python is a plus
• Experience with Spring and Hibernate/ ORM
• Understanding of relational database and normal forms
• Understanding of NoSQL / RDBMS (Mongo or Postgres) and ability to write optimized and high performing queries
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
• Experience building RESTful web services
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience with GIT as a VCS, Unix based systems
• Experience with NoSQL Database is a plus
• Following are a set of 'good to have' skills React AWS Bitbucket, JIRA

Tasks:

·      You will take part in the design of the architecture and the development of modern software-based applications in the back-end (Node.JS, TypeScript, Nest.JS)

·      You support the technological conception, programming and implementation of new features

·      You help manage IoT-to-Cloud services, Microservices, Kubernetes and Docker on GCP

Requirements:

·      Bachelor or Master student in an IT-related field of study

·      Ability to holistically conceive applications in multiple technologies in the backend

·      Experience in agile software development with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.JS and ideally Nest.JS

·      First experiences in Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Docker

·       

Nice to Have:

·      Experience with GraphQL, Microservices, Kubernetes

·      Understanding of IoT device management and message brokers like AMQP or MQTT

Benefits:

·      A responsible position in a fast-growing and highly innovative start-up

·      An agile and diverse team with colleagues from all over the world

·      English speaking open work environment, with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths

·      Advanced technology stack leveraging cutting-edge IoT hardware and software

·      Creative freedom for own ideas, projects and personal development

·      Team building, learning and start-up events

Node.js Developer / NestJS Developer – Job Description

A Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science is preferred with excellent problem solving skills.

Job Type: Full-time

Job Location: Bengaluru (on site)

Preferred Skills: TypeScript / Nodejs, SQL/ MySQL

Experience: Min 2yrs in similar Role.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and Maintain Server-side Logic: Design, implement, and maintain the server-side logic using Node.js, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• API Development: Build and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless integration with front-end services and third-party applications.
• Database Management: Work with databases (such as MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL) to ensure data consistency, reliability, and optimal performance.
• Code Quality and Testing: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers, designers, and other team members to define and implement technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Troubleshooting and Debugging: Identify issues, debug, and resolve bugs and other technical problems in a timely manner.
• Documentation: Create and maintain documentation related to application development, API usage, and system operations.
• Stay Updated: Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure the application remains modern and competitive.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

BlackLight Gaming is looking for a top-notch, ambitious and driven Node. js developer who is confident of creating, maintaining and further optimising highly scalable backend supporting our multiplayer mobile games which are played by millions of players. If you're hard-working, enthusiastic, dedicated, have fire in the belly to accept challenges, then BlackLight Games is the place for you.

What You Bring to the team:

• More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public cloud like Google Cloud/ AWS
• Knowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliability
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Experience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks. It’s a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.
• Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysis
• Experienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable components
• Experience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above services
• Experience building data processing pipelines
• Solid understanding of code, design, and development practices
• General comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworks
• High levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all times
• Adhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD tools

Extra Gems for:

• Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.
• Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as Redis
• Demonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps security
• Knowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google Stackdriver
• Broad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.
• Experience with Github and advanced Github features.
• Experience of working in Product industry
• Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.

Why Us?

• High Growth Startup environment
• Company sponsored courses and education material
• Lots of learning opportunities
• Work with a super-talented team of professionals
• Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips
• Performance Based Bonus
• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance for you and your family
• Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all time

• Developing Simple to Complex Functionality for Websites and Applications
• Write reusable code preferably using classes and libraries.
• Programming databases specially MySQL.
• Establishing projects from scratch or working on accessible projects
• Developing front-end and back-end applications.
• Take on multiple projects varying in size and complexity.
• Manage projects on AWS and other servers.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
• 1 to 3 years of experience developing eCommerce web applications.
• Should be technically sound in OOPs Concepts.
• Programming databases specially MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of server side technologies like PHP 7/8, NodeJS, NUXT.
• Knowledge of client side technologies like Javascript, JQuery, VueJS.
• Experience in MVC Framework, especially laravel.
• Basic knowledge of HTML5, CSS, XML, JSON.
• Good command on PostgreSQL database and its optimization techniques.
• Exposure to database transactions, stored procedures and triggers.
• Experience working with third-party APIs and developing web services using REST/GRPC.
• Experience with SCM tools like svn/git.
• Ability to adapt and pick up new techniques and technology.
• Knowledge of web security and vulnerabilities.
• Ability to prioritize the work and multi-tasking.
• Excellent communication skills & self-motivated