Backend developer

Job Summary: 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Lead to design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend solutions for our multi-tenant SaaS products. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-based architectures, with a proven track record in handling production issues at scale. You will collaborate closely with the AI Lead and Frontend Lead to ensure seamless integration of backend services, AI/ML pipelines, and front-end functionalities, thereby

delivering a robust, secure, and feature-rich experience to our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

1. System Architecture & Design

• Define and implement the overall backend architecture for multi-tenant SaaS applications, ensuring scalability, high availability, security, and compliance.
• Design microservices and RESTful/GraphQL APIs and Websockets in alignment with front-end and AI requirements.
• Establish design patterns and best practices for code modularity, performance optimization, and scalability.
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2. Scalability & Performance

• Identify performance bottlenecks and oversee optimization strategies (caching, load balancing, message queues, etc.).
• Implement and maintain monitoring/observability solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK Stack) to ensure real-time system health insights and rapid incident response.
• Establish performance baselines, conduct stress tests, and implement disaster recovery strategies.

3. Production Stability & Issue Resolution

• Proactively monitor production environments, anticipating potential failures and bottlenecks.
• Triage, diagnose, and resolve production incidents with minimal downtime, using robust logging, tracing, and on-call rotation strategies.
• Drive root cause analysis and post-mortems for production incidents, implementing preventative measures.
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4. Collaboration & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Work closely with the AI team to integrate MLOps pipelines, ensuring smooth data flow and secure model deployment.
• Collaborate with the Frontend team to provide well-defined API contracts, enabling efficient UI/UX development.
• Partner with DevOps to define CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) practices.

5. Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead and mentor a team of backend developers, setting clear goals and providing guidance on best practices.
• Perform code reviews to ensure high code quality, maintainability, and adherence to design standards.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, encouraging the adoption of new technologies, tools, and methodologies.

6. Security & Compliance

• Implement secure coding practices and follow industry standards (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
• Work with compliance teams to ensure data privacy and regulatory requirements (HIPAA) are met.
• Oversee authentication/authorization frameworks (OAuth, JWT, etc.) and data encryption at rest and in transit(Encryption, SSL/TLS).

7. Documentation

• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, APIs, database schemas, and operational runbooks.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions and handovers to ensure smooth onboarding of new team members.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s or master's degree in computer science,engineering, or a related field.

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development, with 3+ years in a technical lead or architect role.
• Demonstrated history of leading and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production environments.

Technical Expertise:

• Languages & Frameworks: Proficiency in modern backend languages (e.g., Python) and associated frameworks (Django/FastAPI, etc.).
• Database Systems: Strong knowledge of both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases, including data modeling and query optimization.
• Microservices & Architecture: Hands-on experience with microservices,containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and service mesh architectures.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud providers like AWS and Azure for deployment, scaling, and monitoring.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows,infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing.
• Monitoring & Observability: Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Loki for real-time monitoring and log analysis.

Soft Skills:

• Leadership: Ability to lead teams, manage conflict, and drive a vision for the backend architecture.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills to coordinate with cross-functional teams (AI, Frontend, QA, Product).
• Problem-Solving: Analytical mindset for troubleshooting complex issues in high- pressure environments.
• Collaboration: Demonstrated capability to work seamlessly across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Desired candidates must have 2-7 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus

Key Responsibilities 

• Build and create Credflow Product - Do development on our tech Stack 
• Understand requirements from the product manager and sometimes talk to customers to understand the exact requirement and develop insights. 
• Maintain the product and optimize over time for performance
• Identify needs of the stakeholders and work with technology and management team to build future timeline of products and features
• Be the go-to person for all technology related requirements, queries, discussion etc
• Develop a complete analytics framework as the product evolves.

What we seek

• We are looking for someone who is a hustler and is deeply passionate about solving technology-led complex problems
• The person should be able to take ownership of work in a highly challenging and dynamic startup environment

Benefits

• Chance to be with the right team, at the right time
• Work as part of the core team and experience the aspects of growing a business exponentially
• Get a deep understanding of the Fintech domain and unleash your potential to create an impact. 

Qualifications and skills

• Undergraduate/Graduate degree from an engineering college
• Has full stack proficiency, managing large amounts of data and prior exposure to backend, web frontend, mobile apps etc. 
• Full Stack Proficiency on Node.JS, React.JS
• SQL
• In memory data stores like Redis
• Experience in AWS (preferable)

Experience

2-4 years of experience 

Preference

Previous experience in a startup or as an entrepreneur

Looking for a candidate who holds a rich experience in the following programming languages: If you are interested please forward me your updated resume.

- MY SQL

- JavaScript

- Core PHP

- Linux

- Laravel

Additional Skills (Anyone is required):

- Elastic search

- MongoDB

- Redis

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Experience in working with REST APIs, OAuth, etc.

- Well versed with cross-browser development fundamentals

- Experience in building dashboards is a plus

- Experience in working on scalable systems is a plus

- Experience in building dashboards is a plus (based on jQuery Datatables)

- Compile and analyse data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.

- Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.

- Flexible working hours, a friendly work environment and lots more

Immediate Joiners Preferred