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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Responsibilities:
● Design and build scalable APIs and microservices in Node.js (or equivalent backend frameworks).
● Develop and optimize high-performance systems handling large-scale data and concurrent users.
● Ensure system security, reliability, and fault tolerance.
● Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers for seamless delivery.
● Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code with a focus on best practices.
● Contribute to architectural decisions, technology choices, and overall system design.
● Monitor, debug, and continuously improve backend performance.
● Stay updated with modern backend technologies and bring innovation into the product.
Desired Qualifications & Skillset:
● 2+ years of professional backend development experience.
● Proficiency with Node.js, Express.js, or similar frameworks.
● Strong knowledge of web application architecture, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and caching strategies.
● Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.
● Ability to break down complex problems into scalable solutions.
● Strong logical aptitude, quick learning ability, and a proactive mindset
Backend - Principal IC/Lead SDE
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years development experience
- Solid Experience and knowledge of
- Coding and debugging using Object Oriented languages like Java, C++, Go or similar languages.
- Database design, Query optimizations, pitfalls (both SQL, NoSQL)
- Developing Scalable, distributed systems and patterns
- Developing REST and/or GraphQL based APIs
- Writing and driving Clean code in a team (via SOLID principles).
- Knowledge of writing unit tests
- NodeJS
Good to have
- Experience with GoLang/Python
- Experience with Microservices, designs and patterns
- Experience with Dockers/Kubernetes and orchestration
- Familiarity with Reactive programming and patterns like RxJs/RxJava, CQRS, Eventing systems
- Experience with automating DevOps lifecycle
- Proficiency with
Responsibilities
- Work with Product team and Drive design, development and deployment of the overall architecture and individual modules to support our Apps , website and internal tools
- Ensure the entire stack is designed and built for availability, speed, scalability, testability, debugging
- Design and development of our REST and GraphQL API
- implement and improve continuous integration and deployment
- Serve as a technical lead for the team
- Mentor team members
● Should have 6+ years of experience as a software developer
● Good experience with Nodejs & Express js.
● Good with MySQL
● Experience with Linux Scripting
● Experience with elastic search and Logstash
● Experience with cyber security
● Great interpersonal and communication skills candidate can work independently
● Agile project methodology experience preferred.
● Excellent communication skills.
● Critical thinker and good problem-solver.
● Good time-management skills
● Great interpersonal skills
Working Timings: 3:00 pm to 12:00 am (midnight)IST
· Understanding the fully asynchronous behaviour of NodeJs
· Knowledge of the common NodeJs or web server exploits and their solutions, accessibility, and security compliance's.
· Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
· Excellent working knowledge of databases, database schema that represent and support business processes
Mandatory:
Skill sets: Node JS, JavaScript, Mongo DB
Deployment experience on Production Server.
Location: Bangalore
Responsibilities:
- Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
- Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
- Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performant database queries
- Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
- A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
- Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
- Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions
We’re seeking an expert Full-Stack developer ( Expert in HTML 5, PHP, Canvas & JQuery) to help us update our back-end admin. You will work from layouts in Adobe XD and Anima and work side by side with our development team in Manila and coordinate tasks and timelines to complete our project. Estimate full-time 3 month timeline- possibility may need you for ongoing freelance work after project completion.
We are looking to hire a temporary, freelance position for now.
REQUIREMENTS
• At least 3 year(s) of working experience in eCommerce web development is required for this position
• Strong knowledge of current architectural approaches to web-based applications development
• Experience with Agile development projects
• Ability to effectively manage changing and multiple priorities
• Experience with PHP, CSS, HTML / HTML 5, Javascript coding
• MVC based PHP framework (Laravel)
• jQuery/AJAX/JSON or other Javascript frameworks (AngularJS, React Backbone, etc)
• HTML5 Responsive framework (Bootstrap, foundation, skeleton, etc)
Knowledge of Linux command-line
• Experience of using version control (Github, Subversion, BitBucket, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Anima)
• Knowledge and understanding of how to update modules using Angular or React
• Knowledge and understanding of Databases (MySql/MSSQL)
• Knowledge and understanding of SEO tools application
• Experience with open-source software
• Enjoy mentoring team members; helping them to advance their technical skills
• Must be able to stay on top of advancing internet and computer technology and its effects to the business environment
• Be willing to work in a research capacity ñto find, test, and critically review open-source frameworks and technologies.
HOW TO APPLY
Make an intro answering the following questions:
1) Provide an example of a web application that you've built that uses HTML 5, Canvas or where multiple files can be uploaded simultaneously
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a full product development lifecycle from ideation, design, development, to roll out and support
- Own the delivery of multiple features of the product end to end while hands-on in development as well
- Advocate best development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, automation (testing and infrastructure)
Role and Qualifications:
- 7+ Years’ of experience, managing teams of 5+ people
- Must have excellent programming, debugging and scripting skills with a solid understanding of Object Oriented Design principles.
- Proficiency in at least two of the following: Java, NodeJS, Go, JavaScript, Python programming stacks, and passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
- Knowledge of software practices like refactoring, clean code, domain driven design, Encapsulation etc
- Hands on experience managing databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis.
- Exposure to event driven systems and event streaming engines like Kafka
- Good knowledge of DevOps tooling like docker, kubernetes, ansible/chef, AWS.







