Backend Engineer at BlackLight Studio Works Pvt Ltd · Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad · 3 - 7 years · ₹6L - ₹12L / yr · Profitable · Posted 3 Jan 2024

About Us:
We are BlackLight Games; we bring culturally relevant synchronous multiplayer games experience to mobile. Our games have been rocking the Play Stores since launch. We have built cutting-edge back-end technology; we take pride that our games are played by more than 1 million players daily. Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Other titles include – CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.
Website link- https://blacklightsw.com/
Position: Backend Developer
Location: Noida
Educational Qualification: B.Tech/ MCA / M.Tech / M.Sc or relevant professional experience; preferably in Computer Science.
Skills :
- Backend: NodeJS
- Databases: MySQL/ MongoDB.
Job Summary:
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 times

About BlackLight Studio Works Pvt Ltd
About
About BlackLight Studio Works : We are BlackLight and we bring classic game experience to Mobile .Our games have been rocking the Play Store India since launch.
Our real time multiplayer games are a piece of cutting-edge technology, we take pride that they are played by more than 1 million players daily.
Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 50 million times. Other titles include - CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.
Why Should you Join us ?.
• Lot of learning opportunity-free Books / Courses.
• Competitive Salary
• Free Medical Insurance for you and your family!
• Lunch on all day you order we pay 60%.
• Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee on the house at all time.
• Work with super-talented team of engineers and designers.
• Casual Dress Code.
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URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/
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· Any programming: Typescript or nodeJS or Golang
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Experience or exposure to knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques is a strong plus, especially in the context of modern data-driven or AI-powered systems.
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· 5+ years of hands-on experience with Node.js
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· Experience working with distributed systems and microservices architecture
· Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation
· Experience with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
· Experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
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· Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications using Node.js
· Build and optimize scalable, event-driven systems in distributed environments
· Implement asynchronous workflows, message queues, and pub/sub architectures
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Good to Have
· Experience with knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques
· Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS)
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Why Join Us:
· Collaborative work environment.
· Exposure to modern tools and scalable application architectures.
· Medical cover for employee and eligible dependents.
· Tax beneficial salary structure.
· Comprehensive leave policy
· Competency development training programs.
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We are looking for a skilled Backend Developer with strong Node.js experience to join our development team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend applications and APIs.
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- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Node.js.
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- Write clean, reusable, maintainable, and efficient code.
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- Integrate third-party APIs and external services.
- Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices.
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Identify and resolve bugs, performance issues, and production problems.
- Write unit and integration tests to ensure application quality.
- Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate APIs with web/mobile applications.
- Participate in code reviews and follow development best practices.
- Work with Git and standard CI/CD and deployment processes.
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Required Skills
- 2–6 years of professional experience in backend development.
- Strong hands-on experience with Node.js.
- Good knowledge of JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, and API design.
- Experience with Express.js, NestJS, or similar Node.js frameworks.
- Good understanding of relational or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Knowledge of SQL and database design.
- Experience with Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket.
- Understanding of authentication mechanisms such as JWT/OAuth.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, and backend architecture.
Good to Have
- Experience with TypeScript.
- Knowledge of AWS / Azure / GCP.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other caching/message queue technologies.
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
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Company: Appmaker by StarApps
Location: Kochi, Kerala (On-Site)
Experience: 3–6 Years
Employment Type: Full-time
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Location : Pune
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Working Hours : 03:00 PM to 11:00 PM OR 03:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Time Zone : Minimum 4-hour overlap with Eastern Time (ET)
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Node.js, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, SQL, Prisma / TypeORM / Sequelize, AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), Airbyte / dbt / Airflow / AWS Glue, Data Warehousing, Event-Driven Architecture, Message Queues, CI/CD, Automated Testing, Backend Architecture, Scalability & Performance.
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- Design and develop scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Build and optimize REST and GraphQL APIs.
- Work with PostgreSQL, SQL, and ORMs such as Prisma / TypeORM / Sequelize.
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- Implement CI/CD, automated testing, event-driven architectures, and message queues.
- Optimize API performance, scalability, reliability, and data warehouse solutions.
- Own features end-to-end from design to production.
- Participate in code reviews, on-call support, and production troubleshooting.
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