Backend Engineer (Node.js)

About Allvest :

- AI-driven financial planning and portfolio management platform

- Secure, data-backed portfolio oversight aligned with regulatory standards

- Building cutting-edge fintech solutions for intelligent investment decisions

Role Overview :

- Architect and build scalable, high-performance backend systems

- Work on mission-critical systems handling real-time market data and portfolio analytics

- Ensure regulatory compliance and secure financial transactions

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services and APIs using NodeJS and Python

- Build event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ and Kafka for real-time data processing

- Develop data pipelines integrating PostgreSQL and BigQuery for analytics and warehousing

- Ensure system reliability, performance, and security with focus on low-latency operations

- Lead technical design discussions, code reviews, and mentor junior developers

- Optimize database queries, implement caching strategies, and enhance system performance

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end features

- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions

Required Skills & Experience :

- 5+ years of professional backend development experience

- Strong expertise in NodeJS and Python for production-grade applications

- Proven experience designing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures

- Strong proficiency in PostgreSQL including query optimization and database design

- Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ and Kafka for event-driven systems

- Experience with BigQuery or similar data warehousing solutions

- Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability patterns, and high-traffic applications

- Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, and security best practices in financial applications

- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows

- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills across distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications :

- Prior experience in fintech, banking, or financial services

- Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

- Knowledge of frontend technologies for full-stack collaboration

- Experience with Redis or Memcached

- Understanding of regulatory requirements (KYC, compliance, data privacy)

- Open-source contributions or tech community participation

What We Offer :

- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge fintech platform with modern technology stack

- Collaborative environment with experienced team from leading financial institutions

- Competitive compensation with equity participation

- Challenging problems at the intersection of finance, AI, and technology

- Career growth in fast-growing startup environment

Location: Mumbai (Phoenix Market City, Kurla West)

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About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Tech Lead who can drive the development of high-performance, scalable products while contributing hands-on to coding, architecture, and system design. You will work closely with a small engineering team, guiding them in technology decisions, quality delivery, and best practices while also taking ownership of key modules yourself.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end product development from design to deployment.
• Act as both a technical contributor and mentor within a small, agile team.
• Architect scalable, robust, and secure backend and frontend systems.
• Participate in and guide:
• System design & architecture decisions
• Algorithmic analysis and performance optimization
• Database modeling and API design
• Write clean, maintainable, high-quality code.
• Own deployment pipelines and ensure reliable production releases.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable technical plans.
• Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure engineering excellence.
• Troubleshoot and solve complex technical challenges in production environments.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in Node.js and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience with TypeScript and React.js for frontend development.
• Knowledge of Go (Golang) is a strong advantage.
• Deep understanding of:
• Data Structures & Algorithms
• System Design
• Distributed systems concepts
• Microservices architecture
• Experience with deployment using:
• Docker, Kubernetes, or similar orchestration tools
• CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)
• Strong understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL).

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership and ability to guide a small development team.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ownership mindset with focus on delivering quality, on time.
• Problem-solver with the ability to make quick and correct technical decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4–10 years of experience in software development.
• Prior experience in a startup or fast-moving product environment.
• Experience deploying and managing real-world products at scale.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build and influence real products end-to-end.
• A collaborative, high-ownership environment.
• Freedom to experiment and drive product and engineering decisions.

The key aspects of this role include:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using Python.

• Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business need and architectural improvements.

• Act as a subject matter expert for Application Software developers and Engineers.

• Handle server-side code for a production platform and contribute to new features

To be the right fit, you'll need:

• More than 4+ years of experience as a software developer in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework such as Django, Flask, etc.

• Good understanding of common design patterns and architecture principles to design reliable and Scalable applications

• Strong communication skills

• Knowledge of databases line NoSQL or MongoDB

• Good to have AWS and Docker or Web services

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS

• Developing and maintaining server-side network components.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• 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.

• At least two years of 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.

Location: Remote (Work from Home)

Job title: NodeJS Developer

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience required: 3+ years

Role

As a NodeJS developer at Techwondoe, you will be designing, developing and deploying applications built using nodeJS techstack. You will start working on a project that has cloud functions, services built using nodeJS and deployed into GCP.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud functions using nodeJS and services using nestJS
• Write unit tests for all the code with good coverage
• Develop and maintain Cl/CD pipelines in gitlab
• Mentor junior engineers by reviewing their code, guiding them in right direction
• Build quality code that is easily readable, scalable and maintainable

Skills Required

• 3+ years of working experience using nodeJS
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)
• Hands on experience with SQL
• Experience in designing and developing serverless applications
• Knowledge of SOLID principles, Design patterns
• Good to have hands on experience with terraform
• Good to have experience in building efficient CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with mentoring junior engineers
• Ability to up-skill in new technologies
• Innovative thinker with strong problem-solving skills

• Experience in designing and developing web-based applications using Java, J2EE, Web Services, MVC framework, Servlets Spring, Hibernate, Struts, REST, MYSQL.
• Experience in Database application programming for MySQL server using
  Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views etc.
• Experienced in implementing presentation layer using JSP, HTML, CSS, Ajax, JQuery. Java script.
• Experienced in Analysis, Design, Development, Integration, Deployment
  and Maintenance of Web services, Client Server and Web based applications.
• Well versed with Agile development process, Scrum.
• Good knowledge in version control system tools like GIT.
• Ability to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.
• Excellent analytical, logical and programming skills, Self-Motivated, Self-Starter, Team Player can work with minimal supervision with effective Communication skills and Organizational skills combined with attention and Time management skills.

Technology is at the heart of our organization. We have a strong engineering team and we're looking for an experienced engineer to lead our backend engineering team. As part of the tech team, you will Understand product requirements and brainstorm ways to address them

• Lead large initiatives and be responsible for it
• Mentor teammates
• Set and enforce standards for writing and maintaining efficient code
• Influence team decisions in the overall architecture and practices of the company
• Contribute to company growth by participating in hiring activities

Must-haves

1. At least 4 years experience in a product based company
2. Experience working with distributed environments at scale
3. Strong command on at least one Object Oriented Programming language
4. Experience leading developers for large scale products
5. Demonstrated capability to design and architect products built for scale
6. Deep knowledge of multiple AWS services
7. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Good to have

1. Experience with at least one among C++, Java
2. Experience with Linux file systems
3. Familiarity with agile development methodologies

We're hiring a set of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate people who thrive in a high-growth environment. We believe the best way to grow is to give everyone the opportunity to pursue their interests. At Lucidity, you have complete freedom to work on projects that interest you. Plus, with benefits like flexible hours, company offsites, unlimited leaves, we ensure you enjoy the journey as much as we do. We are also offering healthy founding team ESOP's.

• 3+ years of work experience as a Python Developer. 
• Sound understanding and knowledge of Python and its ecosystem libraries like pandas and numpy. Also be able to write modular code and understand the python packaging system. 

• Experience on web crawling, scraping (Scrapy,BeautifulSoup, Selenium) and web application development using Django/Flask Framework. 
• Experience on Data-Science; exposure to Theanos, Tensorflow, Pytorch (preferable) 
• Exposure to data mining, Pyspark (preferable)