Backend Engineer

🚀 We’re Hiring: Node.js Developer (5+ Years Experience) | Walk-In Interview | Gurugram

Are you a passionate Node.js Developer looking for your next big opportunity? Join a fast-growing team where your expertise will directly impact scalable and high-performance applications.

Location: Gurugram

Experience Required: 5+ Years

Interview Mode: Walk-In Interview

Employment Type: Full-Time

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain scalable backend applications using Node.js

• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices

• Work with databases such as MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL

• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and stakeholders

• Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and security

• Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance existing systems

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and Express.js

• Experience with REST APIs and microservices architecture

• Knowledge of MongoDB or other relational/non-relational databases

• Understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture

• Familiarity with Git and version control

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) is a plus

Eligibility:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant Node.js development experience

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

• Immediate joiners or short notice candidates preferred

About the role

We are looking for talented Senior Backend Engineers (5+ years of experience) to join our team and take ownership of different parts of our stack. You will be working alongside a team of Engineers locally and directly with the U.S. Engineering team on all aspects of product/application development. You will leverage your experiences and abilities to inform decisions across product development and technology. You will help us build the foundation of our 2nd Headquarters in Pune: its culture, its processes, and its practices. There are a ton of interesting problems to solve, so come hungry. If your colleagues describe you as curious, driven, kind, and creative you are a culture fit.

What Success Looks Like

• You write, review and ship code in production. Your employer or client's success depends on the software you build
• You use Generative AI tools on a daily basis to enhance the quality and efficacy of your software and non-software deliverables
• You are a self-starter and enjoy working with minimal supervision
• You evaluate and make technical architecture decisions with a long-term view, optimizing for speed, quality, and safety
• You take pride in the product you create and the code that you write
• Your team can rely on you to get them out of a sticky situation in production
• You can work well on a team of sales executives, designers and engineers in an in-person environment
• You are passionate about the enterprise software development lifecycle and feel strongly about improving it
• You are a first principles engineer who exercises curiosity about the technologies you work with
• You can learn quickly about technologies, software and code that you are not familiar with, often from rudimentary documentation
• You take ownership of the code that you write, and you help the team operate with everything that you build, throughout its lifecycle
• You communicate openly and solicit feedback on important decisions, keeping the team aligned on your rationale
• You exercise an optimistic mindset and are willing to go the extra mile to make things work

Areas of Ownership

Our hiring process is designed for you to demonstrate a generalist set of capabilities, with a specialization in Backend Technologies.

Required Technical Experience (MUST HAVE):

• Expertise in Python -
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform -
• Proficiency in Kubernetes -
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP strongly preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable) -

Additional experience with some of the following:

• Backend Frameworks and Technologies (Node.js, NuxtJS, Express.js)
• Programming languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, Go)
• RPCs (REST, gRPC or GraphQL)
• Databases (SQL, NoSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, or Firebase)
• CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab or similar)
• Source code versioning tools such as Git or Perforce
• Microservices architecture

Ways to stand out

• Familiarity with AI Platforms
• Extensive experience with building enterprise-scale applications with >99% SLAs
• Deep expertise across the full required stack: Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, and GCP

You'll Get...

• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance Benefits
• Employer Provident Fund contributions with Gratuity after 5 years of service
• Company-sponsored US onsite trips for high performers, based on business requirements
• Potential international transfer support for top performers, based on business requirements
• Technology (hardware, software, trainings, etc.) equipment and/or allowance
• The opportunity to re-shape an entire industry
• Beautiful office environment
• Meal allowance and/or food provision on site

Culture

Who we are: Our Co-Founder and CTO is a Serial Gen AI Inventor who grew up in Pune, India, is a BITS Pilani graduate, and worked at NVIDIA's Pune office for 6 years. There, he was promoted 5 times in 6 years and was transferred to the NVIDIA Headquarters in Santa Clara, California. After making significant contributions to NVIDIA, he proceeded to attend Harvard for his dual Masters in Engineering and MBA from HBS. Our other Co-Founder/CEO is a successful Serial Entrepreneur who has built multiple companies. As a team, we work very hard, have a curious mind-set, and believe in a low-ego high output approach.

You have 3 to 14 yrs of software engineering & product delivery experience with strong

background in datastructures & algorithms

• You’ve proven software development credentials having successfully built complex

products

• You are experienced with one or more general programming languages (e.g. Java, C/C++,

Go). Ability to learn other coding languages as needed.

• You’ve proven software development credentials having successfully built complex

products

• You have a strong foundation in the fundamentals of computer science, with familiarity in

data structures, algorithms and a strong command of object-oriented principles.

• You have experience in one or more of the following areas: Server Backend, Distributed

and Parallel Systems, Full Stack Development (frontend and backend), Scalable Enterprise

Platforms and Applications, Application Security and Incident Management, Android,

iOS, and Machine Learning.

• You have a spark that separates you from the crowd and ability to think out of the box and

on your feet

• You possess multi-dimensional skills that make you a valuable co-worker in a fast,

changing and ambiguous environment

• You have the ability to learn other coding languages as needed real quick

• You are comfortable in working with a team that deals with ambiguity every day

Desired Candidate Profile

Position Title: Lead Product Engineer – Node.js

Company Overview:

AskSid was founded by two ex-Mindtree employees, who dreamt of bridging the communication gap in online retail consumer service at a global level. In a span of 4 years, AskSid has been repeatedly recognized and celebrated as a gamechanger in the retail space. From Nasscom declaring us as the No. 1 emerging SaaS company in India in 2019, to being named the “Most Innovative AI company” by CII and Accenture Ventures, we have carved out a definitive niche for ourselves. In 2021, AskSid officially became a Techstars Hub71 Accelerator portfolio company.

We are specialists when it comes to vertical AI for the retail domain and continually work towards innovating to make our customer’s lives easier through AI. We are looking for Engineers with a passion to build world-class technology products of internet-scale SaaS products.

Job purpose: 

Design, engineer, and maintain our proprietary framework, APIs, and technology components of a SaaS software product with the ability to scale it to millions of requests and thousands of concurrent users. 

Responsibilities

• Covert product feature requirements to software design that meets defined quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance KPIs
• Full stack engineering i.e. design, engineer, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain software components to QA and Production environments
• Conform, maintain, and improve continuous integration and delivery lifecycle processes
• Automation of engineering and production activities

Knowledge and skills

• JavaScript (ES6) / TypeScript
• Node.js - RESTful services and frameworks development
• Microsoft Bot Framework 
• Dependency Management using NPM / Yarn
• Databases : MongoDB / Elastic Search
• Version Control : Git
• Engineering – CI, CD

• JavaScript (ES6) / TypeScript
• Node.js - RESTful services and frameworks development
• Microsoft Bot Framework 
• Dependency Management using NPM / Yarn
• Databases : MongoDB / Elastic Search
• Version Control : Git
• Engineering – CI, CD

• Cache frameworks – Hibernate / Redis
• Stream / Queue processing platforms: Kafka / Fluentd
• Cloud Computing – Azure / AWS, Dockerization

Job Description

• Develop p2p infrastructure systems to support blockchain interoperability
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Coding with concurrency, efficiency and scalability as primary motive
• Rigor on Unit testing, coverage and best practices
• Document systems, build runbooks, and automate those processes
• Being hands on by writing, testing, and deploying high-performance networking code.

Required qualifications

1+ years of experience in Golang, Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms, willingness to learn on the go, ability to write clean code, a strong sense of responsibility.

Tech Stack

Go, git, linux, bash, ability to work with Docker.

Nice to have

Experience developing in c++, cryptography and system software development experience,understanding of design patterns, understanding of operating systems, networks.