Backend Engineer

What You'll Bring

• Experience: 6+ years building production backend systems in Node.js for B2C products at meaningful scale.

• System Design: This one matters a lot to us. You can reason clearly about scalability, reliability, and trade-offs under real constraints.

• Fundamentals: Strong grasp of API design, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean code.

• Databases: Depth in SQL and/or NoSQL, data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.

• AI-Native: You already use LLMs and agentic approaches to maximize your own efficiency as an engineer.

• Mindset: You enjoy the pace and breadth of a small team, and you are happy picking up whatever moves the product

1. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
2. Experience in Agile development using JIRA, GIT,  Confluence.
3. 3+ years of Experience in  node.js + Express.
4. Experience in profiling, debugging & troubleshooting Node.js processes.
5. Strong Experience as a backend developer for REST API design.
6. Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQLdatabases like  PostgreSQL / MySQL or MongoDB
7. Understanding accessibility and security compliance
8. Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
9. User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

Need Immediate Joiners only (4-5 days)

Overall experience 6+ years and relevant at least 2+ years in Golang with Java

● Strong design and architectural experience in building various highly-scalable and

highly-available products

● Strong understanding of the SDLC Activities which include Analysis, Design, Development,

Testing, Deployment and Post-Production Support etc.

● Proficiency in at least one server side framework for languages preferably Go Lang

● Experience working on NoSQL & SQL Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,

Redis etc

● Deep Dive, problem-solving, RCA and systematic thinking to reach the cause of issues

● Able to work independently and multi-task effectively

● Program at a system level and able to manage service stability

● Excellent experience maintaining, scalable, extensible code

● Methodical in maintaining up to date documentation

● Metric-driven mindset and obsessive about ensuring clean coding practices

● Preferred experience in product development

● Preferred working experience on microservices platforms

● Proficiency in at least one modern web front-end development framework such as React JS

will be a bonus

Good to Have Skills:

● Preferred experience in Elasticsearch and Kibana (ELK Stack)

● Preferred experience with messaging systems like RabbitMQ

You’ll be responsible for building APIs for a progressive web app. You must know Node.js, Express.js, Mongo.db, and basic Github.

Expectations:

• Design and develop REST API modules.
• Good experience in building and testing API’s and integrating them.
• Assuring the complete stack is designed and built for speed and scalability.

Your Requirement:

• Must know Node.js, Express.js, Mongo.db, and basic Github.
• 1-3 years of backend experience.
• Previously worked on similar projects (e commerce, food delivery, etc).
• Logical and problem solver.
• Optimized and clean code

Good to have:

• Worked on Payment Gateways
• Worked with food tech or similar projects

Hiring Process:

• Round 1 - Task based on backend technologies
• Round 2 - Task review and technical round

Responsibility:

• Complete the goal without missing any deadlines.
• Compensated on feature or hourly basis.

About Menu Cart Private Limited

We are a high growth startup currently experimenting in stealth. We are solving food delivery related problem with gamification features.

At Arcana we are building a privacy centric decentralised data store that allows developers to build more secure and privacy preserving apps for their users.

We are looking to onboard an experienced Golang developer to work on the core protocol we are building. You must:

• Have 3+ years of development experience
• Have 3+ years of Golang development experience in production
• Have worked on distributed systems in production
• Have experience with Goroutine and channels
• Have experience with applied cryptography
• Write clean code and documentation
• Have clear bias for TDD
• Find Git very easy to use
• Have knowledge of Unix/Linux fundamentals - shell scripting, CLI tools etc.
• Have some knowledge of devops
• Have some blockchain experience

Job Description :

• 3 or more years of experience of server side web systems engineering and middleware in a project services or product engineering organisation
• Hands-on development experience using JavaScript on the Server Side with Node.js and associated frameworks
• Published sites/systems that are now online
• Self motivation and ability to manage your own time to get the job done at the high international quality levels we expect
• An engineering Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• A solid understanding of networking, storage, operating/browser systems engineering as well as application/software systems performance optimisation and third party systems integration
• Hands on experience with Amazon Web Services
• Prior experience working within the Media, E-commerce, Telecommunications or similar large scale consumer facing industry

Responsibilities:

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Own & build new modules/features end-to-end independently.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Thorough understanding of Node.js, JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds.
• Excellence in at least one framework like strongloop loopback, express.js, sail.js etc.
• Excellence in at least one Javascript framework like Angular, vue.js, Ember, React or Backbone.
• Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications.
• Diligence for coding standards.
• Must be good with git and git workflow.
• Experience of external integrations is a plus.
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCC, Azure.
• Expertise with linux based systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.
• Experience with testing and automation frameworks.
• Extensive understanding of RDBMS systems.
• Interpersonal Go-getter attitude and a passion for making killer web applications.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a high pressure environment.
• Ability to quickly understand complex problems and devise effective solutions.
• Knowledge of D3/NodeJS/AngularJS/lodash etc.
• Experience on Cloud as a platform or Infrastructure.
• Inclination to application design standards.