Why this role?
Help build the future of sales: At Nektar, you will help redefine the way people sell. Across countries and industries. There are few startups with this kind of market potential.
A team with decades of domain expertise: Between them, the founders have nearly two decades of experience founding and growing startups and building and selling SaaS products globally.
Tackle our most impactful problems: Our team is still small, and people wear many hats. You’ll jump between product, design, engineering, devops and growth. You will not be bored.
Join us at a magical time: Founded and headquartered in Singapore, Nektar raised a substantial seed round from great SaaS VCs in less than 4 weeks of starting the company, giving us a massive jump start and room to focus on our product and users.
What do we do?
Nektar’s mission is to help people work smarter. Our first product is an assistant for sales teams that will help close more deals faster.
Sales organizations have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on systems of record to collect vast amounts of data. This data might produce pretty graphs on managers’ reports but it hardly ever helps the salesperson in the field move their deals forward. This is why, in 2019, less than 30% of salespeople used their organization’s CRM as intended, and 57% of the sales teams globally missed their sales quota.
This is where we’re different — we are laser-focused on the specific actions that help salespeople close deals. We’re building a real system of growth, a first of it’s kind to help salespeople become better salespeople by helping our users build productive habits, adopting best practices and eliminating friction from the sales process.
What we’re looking for?
- We’re looking for engineers who can hit the ground running, with at least a year’s experience building production servers using Node.js. Experience with the frontend is positive but not required.
- As an all-remote team, we require great communication skills, particularly in writing. You must be a self-motivated manager of one with the ability to work independently, take ownership and proactively seek help when required. Prior experience working remotely will be positive but is not required.
- As a startup, we prefer generalists over specialists and product-focused engineers who can empathize with users. Experience working at a fast-growing startup would be positive but is not required.
- Experience in sales tech will be a strong positive but is not a must.
How do we work?
We’re an all-remote engineering team from the beginning (yes, since before the pandemic!), and we’ve built a fantastic remote-friendly culture. We support every team member to set up a great personal workspace that fits them — whether that’s a home office, a co-working space or just hanging out at a coffee shop. We are location agnostic and you can literally choose a location that works for you . Our distributed team currently sits in Singapore, India, Vietnam, Australia and Indonesia.
We do weekly team activities, like online gaming and coffee chat to ensure that physical distance doesn’t keep us from being a close-knit team.
Nektar is a small team, and everyone’s involved in shaping the product we build. We’re still iterating and figuring out the product-market fit, so we’re not averse to throwing away code. We’d rather build a few powerful features that solve important needs than lots of features that are not as valuable.
In line with our mission — helping people work smarter — we’re always thinking about how we can work smarter ourselves. We try to avoid large and long meetings and prefer ad-hoc collaboration with one or two other people instead. We invest in continuous integration and deployment, automated testing and other tooling to eliminate friction from our engineering processes. We aim for clear written documentation and communication.

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Required Skills - DSA + Java/Node/Python
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- Degree: B.Tech/BE/BCA/MCA/M.Tech
- Graduation Year: 2023, 2024, and 2025
- Branch: All Branches
- Work Location: Hyderabad
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- Internship stipend: 20- 25k
- Internship duration: 3 months
- CTC:- 4.5-6 LPA
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- Assessment at the AccioJob Skill Centre in Hyderabad
- 2 Technical Interviews at Gaian Solutions India Office (Hyderabad)
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You will be working hands-on on a complex and compound product that has the potential to be used by millions of sales and marketing people around the world. Your contribution to delivering an excellent product platform that:
- enables quick iteration
- supports product customization
- and handles scale
What do we expect you to have?
- 2+ years of experience in backend engineering
- An intent to learn and an urge to build a product by learning different technologies
- Interest in writing complex, scalable, and maintainable backend applications
- Tech stack requirements:
Must haves
- Experience in building application server in Java (Spring / Spring boot) / NodeJS / Golang / Python
- Experience in using SQL databases and designing schemas based on application need
- Experience with container services and runtimes (docker / docker-compose / k8s)
- Experience with cloud paas (AWS / GCP / Azure cloud)
- Experience and familiarity with microservices’ concepts
- Experience with bash scripting
Good to have (Preferred)
- Preferred experience with org wide message queue (rabbitmq / aws sqs)
- Preferred experience with task orchestration services (apache airflow / aws step function)
- Preferred experience with infra as code (or system configuration) tools (terraform / chef / ansible)
- Preferred experience with build essential tools (make / makefile)
- Preferred experience with monitoring and tracing systems for performance / system / application monitoring (grafana + loki + prometheus / aws cloudwatch)
What will you learn?
- Building highly available, complex, compound, performant systems of microservices platform that acts as an API layer
- Industry-standard state-of-the-art tools + methodologies + frameworks + infra for building a product.
- Fable is not a trivial CRUD app. It requires a lot of consideration and care for building the API layer as the product is highly customizable per user.
- How different functions (sales, marketing, product, engineering) in a high-velocity product company work in synergy to deliver an iterative product in real life.
Who would you be working with?
- You would be directly working with the co-founder & CTO who has built multiple companies before and has built large teams in large-scale companies like ThoughtSpot, Unacademy, etc.
Position details
- Fully remote.
- 5 days/week (all public and government holidays will be non-working days).
- No specific work hours (we will sync over zoom over the course of the day).
The tech stack looks like the below (expect this to change as we scale):
- Typescript for APIs (REST and GraphQL)
- Kafka, Spark, and data warehouses for ML pipelines (spark on python/scala)
- Solidity + hardhat for smart contracts (in the future, rust, go and move)
- AWS & Terraform
- Full nodes
You can expect to do some or all of the following:
- Read through protocols’ whitepapers and smart contracts to derive metrics and analyze risks
- Architect the backend for APIs, async jobs, and blockchain integration
- Build clean, concise APIs for customer integration, along with the documentation
- Setup, run and maintain full and archive nodes across different chains
- Integrate with multiple partners like exchanges and custody providers
- Fool-proof security across the stack - encryption, hashing, privacy, VPC, etc.
- Infrastructure as code - build terraform scripts and ensure easy replication of the infra across different regions
- Research the top DeFi protocols to uncover better insights for our customers and evaluate their risk profiles, security, and historical returns
- Manage production deployments, logging, and monitoring
We expect you to be fairly comfortable with working with both web3 and web2 stacks. We do not expect that you have web3 experience on day 1, but you should be willing to wear multiple hats, learn things quickly and move fast.
About you
- Generalist, a solid engineer who can learn things on your own and have an eye for clean, tested, and well-documented code
- We don’t look at the number of years of work experience as a criterion, but rather see what you have done in your life so far (side projects, open-source contributions, blogs, etc.). We don’t care about degrees, the institutions you went to, or the companies you worked for before. We are open to talking as long as you have good judgment, great clarity, align with our values and have a strong track record of thoughtful work
- Understand the fundamentals of building and integrating APIs and secure systems. Bonus if you know a bit about blockchains and protocols
- You can be strong on the backend, front-end, or can dabble everywhere. We want you to play to your strengths and will provide enough opportunities to learn and do things outside of your comfort zone
Pay and benefits We offer a solid, competitive package (including early-stage equity) that is location agnostic. We give you the flexibility to choose the split between cash and equity.

quality delivery
● Estimate engineering effort during multiple stages of the product life cycle
● Coach engineering teams in accomplishing architecture, design and implementation
goals Focus on details of software development, design, implementation and
debugging
● Have high technical competence, strong technical background with track record of
individual technical accomplishments
● Ability to play the role of the architect for the team
● Strong sense of ownership/ can do attitude and high attention to detail
● Work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and
plan projects in an Agile environment
Skills & Experience:
● Hands-on experience in developing, designing & scaling complex
systems Backend: Primarily Node.js and Python
● Databases: Elastic search, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL and Redis
(cache) Web: React, Vue
● Strong Experience in REST API based Microservices development & integration that
includes long running orchestration services
● Preferred AWS Services experience across - S3, DynamoDB, EC2, AWS Lambda, ECS,
ElasticSearch Service, Route 53, API Gateway, CloudFront, CloudFormation, etc.
● Experience with continuous integration and deployment automation tools such as
Jenkins, Salt, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Travis CI etc
● Experience with gRPC protocol and graphQL frameworks
● The ideal candidate should be willing to commit fully to the company and drive the
company forward
Responsibilities:
Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
Designing back-end services for various business processes.ses.
Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
Skills:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
Great organizational and time management skills.
Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.


Roles & Responsibilities:
- Excellent problem-solving & analytical skills & OO principles
- Solid understanding of the data structure & algorithms.
- Expert knowledge with any one of the Javascript Framework such as Node Js.
- Any additional experience with Java or python, GoLang would be nice to have.
- Experience working with SQL database like MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience working with NoSQL databases like mongoDB, couchbase would be nice to have
- Working experience with cache like redis, mem cached or elasticache would be nice to have
- Working experience with Message Queues would be a great advantage.
- Experience with deployment & AWS would be nice to have
- Ability to do in depth analysis or problem statement or use case & Build robust & scalable architecture
- Logging & monitoring of the production system in real time
- Lead a team of 2-4 team members & make sure team practices defined coding practices across the project.

4 years+ experience in full stack development
Highly proficient in JavaScript, Node.js and Vue.js
- Good foundation in CS fundamentals – algorithms, data structures
- Strong design and data modeling skills
- Good understanding of SQL and NOSQL databases
- Good concepts of object oriented programming and design patterns
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Location - Remote
Good to have
- Familiarity with microservices design and testing
- Familiarity with docker based setup
- Prior experience in designing scalable microservices
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and cloud deployment
- Familiarity with CI/ CD pipelines





