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The Talent Enterprise is hiring experienced Node.js Architect in India.

Role Summary

As a Node.js Architect, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of backend applications and services, ensuring they are scalable, high-performing, and secure. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, DevOps, and project managers, to architect solutions that meet our business requirements. Your role will also involve mentoring and guiding the development team in best practices, code optimization, and design patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture Design: Define and implement the architecture for backend services using Node.js and related frameworks, ensuring scalability, flexibility, and robustness.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical leader on backend projects, providing mentorship and guidance on Node.js best practices, code standards, and design patterns.
• Code Reviews and Quality Assurance: Oversee code reviews and enforce quality standards, ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end teams, DevOps, and other stakeholders to deliver full-stack solutions that align with product and technical requirements.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring efficient data handling and high system performance.
• Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices to protect data and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
• Documentation: Develop comprehensive documentation for architecture, design, processes, and code to ensure ease of maintenance and scalability.
• Innovation and Research: Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in Node.js, microservices, and distributed systems, bringing innovative ideas to the team.

Requirements

• Experience: 7+ years in software development, with at least 4+ years focused on Node.js development.
• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Node.js, including Express.js, Nest.js, or similar frameworks. Strong understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, asynchronous programming, and event-driven architecture.
• Database Knowledge: Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Cloud Services: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including deploying and managing Node.js applications in a cloud environment.
• Microservices: Deep understanding of microservices architecture and experience designing RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with DevOps processes, CI/CD tools, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Agile Methodology: Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• Soft Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, effective communication, and a collaborative mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Frameworks: Knowledge of popular Node.js libraries and frameworks (NestJS, Koa, Hapi, etc.).
• Security Practices: Familiarity with security frameworks, data encryption, and access control.

You'll get:

• Competitive salary with health benefits
• An extremely energising, dynamic and fast paced entrepreneurial working culture and environment
• An opportunity to work on leading edge technology products and solutions that will be first movers in the market
• An opportunity to travel to international locations where our clients may be based
• Latest laptop, devices and technologies for your needs
• Unique and supportive opportunities to progress in your career
• On-going team and professional development

Where:

Remote

About Mercer Talent Enterprise

Mercer Talent Enterprise is a global leader in talent assessment, technology, and leadership development. As the world’s first and only company to pioneer the science of Behaviourmetrics®, we empower organizations to make critical people decisions by blending contemporary psychometric tools and assessment solutions with the latest advances in technology and data science.

Kapture CRM is an enterprise-focused Service automation SaaS platform. We help 500+ enterprises in 14 countries to manage their customer service in a more intelligent, contextual way.

Roles & Responsibilities :

    * Proven experience in Java8, Spring Boot, Microservices/API

    * Strong experience with Kafka, Kubernetes

    * Strong experience in using RDBMS (Mysql) and NoSQL.

    * Experience in working in Eclipse / Maven environments.

    * Hands-on experience in Unix / Shell scripting.

    * Hands-on experience in fine-tuning application response/performance testing.

    * Experience in Web Services.

    * Strong analysis & problem-solving skills

    * Strong communication skills - both verbal and written

    * Ability to work independently with limited supervision

    * Proven ability to use own initiative to resolve issues

    * Full ownership of projects/tasks

    * Ability and willingness to work under pressure, on multiple concurrent tasks, and to deliver to agreed deadlines

    * Eagerness to learn

    * Strong team-working skills

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

• Spent at least 3 yrs in a solid back end role
• Experience taking a problem to a product solution (module/product)
• Prior experience working with startups and understand the fast-paced, dynamic nature of work

• Javascript, NodeJS
• Client-server architecture
• OOP concepts, including design patterns
• Understanding of RDBMS (MySQL, Postgresql)
• Understanding of REST API
• Familiarity with frameworks such as ExpressJs

• Knowledge of TDD frameworks mocha, chai, jest, etc
• Knowledge of AWS (Lambda, RDS, EC2, SQS, S3, ECS, etc)
• Basic knowledge of Typescript, NextJs
• Prior experience in fin-tech

Role- Node.js Developer

Job description:

- Nodejs), MySQL, Postgre SQL
- Working experience of GIT
- Will prefer candidates preferred who have knowledge of GraphQL, Typescript
 - Well versed and experienced with unit testing, code coverage.
- Well versed with SOILD design principles and its application
- Good to have – some experience with Azure devops and/or azure functions.
- Good knowledge of designing and writing restful API

We are building for the future of work by changing the way the world looks at information and data paradigms. The Meaning Engine by India-based Needle Innovision enables building solutions by processing meaningful data out of anything stored anywhere - structured, unstructured data types, distributed, at scale and more. 

In our quest to do more, we are looking for a fantastic Java Tech Lead to join us in a hybrid setting from New Delhi. Below are some (seriously important) green flags that we are looking for from you: 

🟢 Ability to build and repeat the vision, not just work on tasks in the new phase of your career

🟢 The excitement to architect awesome products and resilient teams

🟢 Preparedness to move into enterprise-ready environments 

🟢 Build team motivation, delegate smartly and create a career path

This could be an awesome launching pad for someone who enjoys working towards big-picture goals, has a keen interest in leadership, and has a deep understanding of Java technologies.  Our teams are sustained on values of care and we offer a generous number of vacation days, the opportunity to craft your calendar with flexible schedules and very soon an insurance plan for you and your loved ones. We offer a starting salary range of 10-14LPA.

What you will do: 

• Collaborate with the client to understand problem statements and provide solutions for the same.
• Explain client requirements to the project team and plan and delegate work requirements
• Ensure the applications are released to production in the committed timeline
• Work with the QA team to ensure the code developed by the team passes the necessary quality check.
• Document application changes and development updates
• Set and evolve standards and best practices for our application development team 
• .Guide and mentor junior developers and engage in regular learning activities
• Oversee development process compliance and CI activities.

What you will bring: 

• 4 years minimum detail-oriented experience as a Senior Software Engineer.
• Experience in client interactions and/or are looking forward to doing that (preferred if, you have worked in B2B application development for large enterprises 🟢)
• Prior experience of at least one large project with a few people under your belt. (🟢)
• Expert-level knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, Oracle/Postgres.
• Expert-level knowledge on one or all of Hibernate/JPA/MyBatis.
• Experience in RESTful services and fundamentals of MVC architecture.
• Experience in working with and configuring web and application servers, such as Apache/Nginx/Tomcat.
• Proficient understanding of build tools, such as Maven/Gradle and code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN.
• Ability to review specifications documents and provide technical inputs on successfully implementing business solutions.

As a Java Tech Lead, you would be expected to understand business requirements, represent Needle to external stakeholders, and have experience in working in agile teams.

If leading a squad that implements digital transformation solutions at the intersection of data science and AI excites you, and if our awesome bite-sized team inspires you to be a part of our quest, we think you could be the one to help build the impact, we are looking to building here. 

Lets talk!

•  Past experience working with chatbots.
• Post-academic, real world experience in bring public-facing production projects to completion
• Improve dialog flow to handle those recurring questions / develop new actions

• Help with handling of multilingual support

- Notice Period : 0 to 30 Days
- Experience - 7+ Year's 
- Work from home till pandemic