Backend Engineer

Position: Backend Lead / Architect

Location: Pune

Position Overview : We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Lead / Architect to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend solutions for our multi-tenant SaaS products. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-based architectures, with a proven track record in handling production issues at scale. You will collaborate closely with the AI Lead and Frontend Lead to ensure seamless integration of backend services, AI/ML pipelines, and front-end functionalities, thereby

delivering a robust, secure, and feature-rich experience to our customers.

Key Responsibilities

1. System Architecture & Design

o Define and implement the overall backend architecture for multi-tenant SaaS applications, ensuring scalability, high availability, security, and compliance.

o Design microservices and RESTful/GraphQL APIs and Websockets in alignment with front-end and AI requirements.

o Establish design patterns and best practices for code modularity, performance optimization, and scalability.

2. Scalability & Performance

o Identify performance bottlenecks and oversee optimization strategies (caching, load balancing, message queues, etc.).

o Implement and maintain monitoring/observability solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK Stack) to ensure real-time system health insights and rapid incident response.

o Establish performance baselines, conduct stress tests, and implement disaster recovery strategies.

3. Production Stability & Issue Resolution

o Proactively monitor production environments, anticipating potential failures and bottlenecks.

o Triage, diagnose, and resolve production incidents with minimal downtime, using robust logging, tracing, and on-call rotation strategies.

o Drive root cause analysis and post-mortems for production incidents, implementing preventative measures.

4. Collaboration & Cross-Functional Coordination

o Work closely with the AI team to integrate MLOps pipelines, ensuring smooth data flow and secure model deployment.

o Collaborate with the Frontend team to provide well-defined API contracts, enabling efficient UI/UX development.

o Partner with DevOps to define CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) practices.

5. Team Leadership & Mentorship

o Lead and mentor a team of backend developers, setting clear goals and providing guidance on best practices.

o Perform code reviews to ensure high code quality, maintainability, and adherence to design standards.

o Foster a culture of continuous learning, encouraging the adoption of new technologies, tools, and methodologies.

6. Security & Compliance

o Implement secure coding practices and follow industry standards (e.g., OWASP Top 10).

o Work with compliance teams to ensure data privacy and regulatory requirements (HIPAA) are met.

o Oversee authentication/authorization frameworks (OAuth, JWT, etc.) and data encryption at rest and in transit(Encryption, SSL/TLS).

7. Documentation

o Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, APIs, database schemas, and operational runbooks.

o Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions and handovers to ensure smooth onboarding of new team members.

Qualifications

 Education:

o Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related

field.

 Experience:

o 8+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development, with 3+ years in a technical lead or architect role.

o Demonstrated history of leading and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production environments.

 Technical Expertise:

o Languages & Frameworks: Proficiency in modern backend languages (e.g., Python) and associated frameworks (Django/FastAPI, etc.).

o Database Systems: Strong knowledge of both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases, including data modeling and query optimization.

o Microservices & Architecture: Hands-on experience with microservices,containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and service mesh architectures.

o Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud providers like AWS and Azure for deployment, scaling, and monitoring.

o CI/CD & DevOps: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows,infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing.

o Monitoring & Observability: Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Loki for real-time monitoring and log analysis.

 Soft Skills:

o Leadership: Ability to lead teams, manage conflict, and drive a vision for the backend architecture.

o Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills to coordinate with cross-functional teams (AI, Frontend, QA, Product).

o Problem-Solving: Analytical mindset for troubleshooting complex issues in high- pressure environments.

o Collaboration: Demonstrated capability to work seamlessly across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

 Exposure to AI/ML Integrations: Understanding of MLOps practices for model deployment and monitoring.

 Knowledge of Healthcare or Highly Regulated Industries: Familiarity with HIPAA, or similar compliance standards.

 Certification(s) in AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Title: 

Node Js Developer

Ideal candidates will have 1-3 years of experience  in Node JS and AWS.

Responsibilities: 

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Node JS code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems, Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Triage and resolve complex + systemic issues reported on existing production systems
• Communicate effectively with  product owners, and development team members to facilitate understanding of deliverables, estimates, and prioritization
• Contribute to production deployments, including documentation of technical specifications and release notes
• Designs and develops quality software that conforms to department standards and code style
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code, create automated test cases following TDD/BDD best practices
• Maintain and enhance existing NodeJS codebase.
• Organize an agile development process that facilitates collaboration, provides transparency, empowers the project team, surfaces and resolves impediments,delivers high-quality software, focuses on delivering business value, and continuously looks to improve.
• Take on a championship role in on-time, high-quality delivery of products through the entire application lifecycle.

What will you work on?

• Architecting clever technical solutions
• Hands-on development using NodeJS and other Javascript frameworks
• Recommend technical frameworks and tech stacks
• Define REST, or GraphQL APIs, document APIs and develop the API handlers
• Design and develop with serverless and scalable systems
• Integrate with 3rd party systems
• Create architectural solution prototypes
• Lead the team, code reviews, and problem-solving

What Makes You A Great Fit?

• 1+ years of software experience with Node JS, Javascript frameworks related to webstack
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Experience with use of serverless functions from AWS
• Experience with architecture of technology systems having hands-on expertise in backend and cloud systems ( AWS, GCP)
• Expertise with NoSQL databases (Mongo, ElasticSearch, Redis) including design of schemas and development for these databases
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in Microservice architecture and development including REST-based APIs.
• Highly collaborative with an affinity for solving complex problems through dialogue with team members.
• Curious, always seeking the whys and hows in order to gain a deeper and more complete understanding of the business and technology.
• Comfortable with ambiguity can begin to explore and solve complex problems when the problem and solution are not well-defined.
• Ability to multitask, switching between various projects/tasks of different natures and complexity with ease
• Knowledge of git based workflows such as gitflow
• Experience with Python in addition to the core knowledge of Node JS is a plus
• Chatbot, Machine Learning, Data Science/Big Data experience will be a plus
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

Competencies & Behavior

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Implement design thinking for different strategieS
• Attention to detail and the ability to work to tight deadlines
• Strong experience in cloud server infrastructure
• Ability to work on complex applications, perform product analysis, development tasks of complex web
• Jumping on a call with clients to understand the requirement and profile them the right solution, helping formulate an effective solution and turning it into a working application
• Conducting website performance and unit tests
• Heavy involvement in the requirements gathering, development and operational stages of new projects
• Troubleshoot and debug related application defects with existing and new applications
• Work collaboratively with the team members and train them as and when required.

Job Brief

Primary Responsibilities:

• Obtaining in-depth understanding of design and implementation of existing software product
• Performing all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, design, estimation, and development & testing
• Applying innovation and creativity in design and implementation of features
• Designing reusable components, frameworks and libraries
• Troubleshooting production support issues post-deployment and come up with solutions as required
• Follow the processes defined by the project manager and the organization

General Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in full-stack development in python based technologies.
• Experienced in relational database technologies
• Good in data structures and algorithms
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Self motivated and willing to learn new technologies
• Experience in AWS cloud technologies is plus

Technologies

• Python, Django
• Angular
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS  technologies
• Must understand AJAX and REST

We are looking for a Senior Back-end Node.js Developer who is passionate about design, architecture, and programming. Responsibilities include implementing business logic and developing APIs and services. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of databases, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. If you are also passionate about Node.js and software design/architecture, we’d like to meet you.

• 2+ years working in back-end web development with Node.js
• 4+ years working with Javascript
• Experience with server-side templating languages
• Experience with Express.js
• Experience consuming and building robust RESTful APIs
• Experience with Relational Databases like MongoDB, MySQL
• Solid understanding and extensive experience with version control tools like Git
• Exceptional problem solving and ability to work independently
• Exceptional learning skills
• Fluency in both oral and written English
• Understanding of Agile methodologies

Required Skills

• As a Senior Core Java Developer, you will have a range of responsibilities from shaping and implementing strategic products to ensuring that company stays on the leading edge of technology
  • You will have generic capabilities across application development stack and strong technical expertise in one / two application layers
  • Excellent working knowledge of the following technologies:
  • Implementation exp (hands-on) on Server Side Java technologies (Core Java, Multithreading, Concurrent API’s, Executor services, collections, concurrent packages, DS/Algo, design patters/principles, basic data case, Junit/agile)
  • Design Patterns
  • SQL and Relational Databases such as DB2
  • Hands-on experience on Spring and Hibernate

Job Description: 

We are looking for a Java developer responsible for developing Web applications using Core Java and JDBC. Your primary responsibility will be to quickly learn to design and develop applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

• Excellent knowledge of object-oriented programming.
• Well-versed in Core Java (1.7 and above preferable, with knowledge of new features like Executor framework, Generics, etc.).
• Excellent experience of collections, HashMap, concurrency packages, Exception Handling and Array List, sorting algorithm.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of real-time, low-latency multi-threaded server-side java code.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns.
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries.
• Knack for writing clean, readable Java code.
• Experience with both external and embedded databases.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Basic understanding of the class loading mechanism in Java.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Should possess good communication skills (both oral and written).
• Must be completely hands-on and an individual contributor and a self-starter.
• Must be able to complete assignments (suitable to his/her experience) with minimal assistance.
• Very good at Analytical and Logical skills.
• Solid understanding of the web development lifecycle.
• Ability to learn quickly and deliver software on time.

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