Head of Technology

About the company

The client is the home base for hardware engineers. They give the teams building robots, rockets, medical devices, and the next generation of physical products a single place to move fast without breaking things, turning CAD chaos into a system of record engineers actually love to work in. We're profitable, post-Series A, and growing our Hyderabad engineering team.

About the role

We're looking for a tech lead to set the technical direction for a growing team and raise the bar for everyone around them. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll still write production code, but your largest impact comes through architecture, mentorship, and the standards you instill. You own outcomes for a team, not just your own commits. 

What you'll do

• Lead the technical direction of a team building across our TypeScript/React + Node.js + AWS stack
• Drive architecture decisions, document tradeoffs, and align the team on a clear technical path Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and guidance, growing them toward strong production ownership
• Set and uphold standards for code quality, testing, and operational rigor
• Stay hands-on: write production code on the highest-leverage and hardest problems
• Partner with product and leadership to scope work, manage technical risk, and deliver predictably
• Be accountable for the reliability and maturity of the systems your team owns in production

What we're looking for

• Demonstrated technical leadership: you've set direction for a team and elevated those around you
• Strong full-stack proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, plus solid AWS depth
• A track record of shipping to production and owning systems in operation, and of holding a team to that same standard
• Strong architectural judgment: you decompose ambiguous problems, weigh tradeoffs, and make decisions others can build on
• Excellent communication: you keep your team aligned and stakeholders informed, and you surface risk early
• Comfort leading in a fast-paced, high-ownership early-stage environment 

Why choose us?

• The teams building advanced hardware and the robots, machines, and devices shaping the future run
• Direct access to founders; you'll help shape product and engineering direction, not just execute tickets
• Fast feedback loops: what you build is in front of customers in days, not quarters
• Profitable at Series A, so you get startup upside without the constant fundraising-survival anxiety
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
• Bi-yearly appraisal cycles
• Upto 20% Bonus based on performance
• Monthly Swiggy vouchers
• Flexibility with work hours

Job Role: Software Engineer – Backend & Cloud Infrastructure

Company: Appmaker by StarApps

Location: Kochi, Kerala (On-Site)

Experience: 3–6 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

About Appmaker by StarApps

At StarApps, we build high-scale tools like Appmaker(https://appmaker.xyz/) that empower thousands of global e-commerce merchants to turn their web stores into native mobile apps. We focus on low latency, cutting-edge serverless architectures, and building scalable software that handles millions of requests every day.

About the Role

We are looking for a Mid-Senior Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our core team on-site in Kochi. In this role, you will design, scale, and maintain high-throughput backend services and cloud infrastructure capable of supporting large user bases and handling millions of daily requests.

If you thrive in solving complex distributed system design challenges, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and taking ownership of core platform scaling, this role is for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Distributed Backend Systems: Architect, construct, and optimize core backend microservices and serverless applications built on Node.js and TypeScript.
• Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps: Manage, automate, and expand infrastructure across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) using IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• System Scalability & Performance: Design for high availability, implementing caching, load balancing, message queues, and database optimizations.
• Reliability & Observability: Troubleshoot complex production incidents, optimize system latency, enforce security standards, and maintain CI/CD and automated monitoring pipelines.
• Architecture Ownership: Own critical features and system components independently while collaborating on high-level architecture decisions.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 3–6 years of hands-on software development experience with a focus on backend software architecture, systems engineering, and infrastructure.
• Tech Stack: Strong mastery of Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and major Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Edge & Serverless: Deep understanding of serverless deployment models (Cloudflare Workers/D1, AWS Lambda, or equivalent).
• System Design & Databases: Advanced knowledge of system design, load balancing, caching strategies, asynchronous message queues, relational database optimization, and high-availability architecture.
• Engineering Standards: Strong experience with production CI/CD, observability tools, automated testing, and production troubleshooting.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience with the extended Cloudflare suite (KV, R2, Queues, Workers).
• Prior experience in SaaS product engineering, Shopify app ecosystems, or high-traffic global e-commerce platforms.
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Why Join Us?

• High Scale & Impact: Build software used by thousands of global brands and millions of end consumers.
• Modern Tech Stack: Work with cutting-edge serverless architectures and infrastructure automation platforms.
• Growth & Culture: Great engineering culture, high ownership, competitive growth, and direct technical leadership opportunities in our Kochi office.

Title: Tech Lead / Engineering Lead

Experience: 8-10 years

Location: Sector 55, Gurugram (On-site, 5 days)

Industry: B2B SaaS / Enterprise Technology

About Master-O:

Master-O is a sales enablement platform used by leading enterprises across industries like FMCG, Pharma, Banking, Insurance, Automotive, Retail, Technology etc. to drive the capability development and frontline readiness for their customer-facing teams with the help of microlearning, game-based assessments and AI-powered conversational roleplays.

As we continue to expand our enterprise deployments across Pan India, North America, Middle East, and Southeast Asia, we are looking for a Tech Lead to take ownership of our engineering function and drive the successful delivery, implementation, and scalability of our solution.

The Role:

This is a high-ownership role for someone who enjoys building features, solving complex engineering problems, and collaborating with internal teams and customers. You will be leading a team of 5–6 developers and will be the face of the engineering function at Master-O.

Reporting directly to the Founder, this role requires someone who can balance engineering excellence with business priorities and ensure reliable delivery across multiple enterprise clients and geographies.

We are particularly interested in people who have prior worked in a growing SaaS organisation or have entrepreneurial experience and understand what it takes to build and deliver features from scratch.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Engineering Leadership & Technical Ownership

• Own the engineering function, including architecture, development, code quality, performance, scalability, security, and maintenance.
• Lead a team of 5-6 engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing code, ensuring timely delivery and nurturing their career path.
• Remain hands-on with development and debugging rather than functioning solely as a people manager.
• Establish engineering standards, development practices, testing protocols, and release processes.
• Make pragmatic technology decisions that balance long-term scalability with ad-hoc  business requirements.

2. Enterprise Implementations & Client Delivery

• Own the technical execution of our implementations with enterprise clients across the globe.
• Drive client-specific configurations, integrations, customizations, deployments, and production rollouts.
• Work closely with the Founder, Customer Success team, Product team, and other key stakeholders to translate client requirements into robust technical outcomes.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, manage technical dependencies within team, and ensure implementation timelines and quality standards are met.
• Build reusable frameworks and integration capabilities that reduce implementation time and minimize repetitive custom development.

3. AI Engineering & Emerging Technologies

• Evaluate and implement AI capabilities that solve real enterprise problems and enhance product functionality.
• Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI agents into enterprise applications will be a strong advantage.
• Understand the practical considerations of deploying AI in production, including data security, reliability, latency, cost, and evaluation.
• Encourage responsible adoption of AI coding tools such as Claude Code while ensuring engineers retain strong fundamentals, understand the code they ship, and take ownership of its quality.

4. Team & Execution Management

• Take ownership of engineering priorities, sprint execution, resource allocation, and delivery commitments.
• Build a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the team can independently diagnose and resolve technical problems rather than relying excessively on external tools or generated code.
• Collaborate with leadership to align engineering priorities with customer commitments, product roadmaps, and business objectives.

Required Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, Express.js, React, MySQL, Python, and AWS.
• Solid understanding of backend architecture, REST APIs, database design, system integrations, and cloud-based deployments.
• Experience building, maintaining, and scaling production-grade mobile and web applications.
• Strong debugging, code review, system design, and performance optimization skills.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle practices, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
• Ability to make independent technical decisions and take ownership of issues from identification through resolution.

Experience & Qualifications:

• 8–10 years of relevant software engineering experience, with demonstrated progression into technical leadership.
• Prior experience leading a team of junior and mid-level engineers.
• Experience in a B2B SaaS company or an enterprise technology environment is strongly preferred.
• Experience managing enterprise client implementations, integrations, and production deployments.
• B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline, preferably from a Tier-1 engineering college.

What We Are Looking For:

We are looking for a seasoned engineering professional who has experience handling multiple clients, varied integration requirements, competing priorities, and production issues.

You must be flexible to coordinate across time zones and work outside standard business hours when client implementations or critical releases require it.

This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the Founder, influence the product and architecture decisions, lead a compact engineering team, and directly shape how our technology scales across enterprise customers in not just domestic but international markets.

About the Role

We are hiring a Backend Engineer to build and operate the services that power a leading technology marketplace being relaunched under new ownership.

You will work behind the GraphQL federation, inside the ~40 microservices that own billing, subscriptions, the catalog, RBAC, the proxy's control plane, and the Analytics/Quota services. The runtime is Node.js/TypeScript on AWS EKS, with Aurora MySQL / Postgres and DynamoDB for state, Redis / Elasticache / Couchbase for caching, Kafka (MSK) and Kinesis as the event backbone, and ClickHouse for real-time analytics reads. Every consumer-to-provider call passes through the proxy your services configure, and every dollar of marketplace revenue flows through the commerce code your services own.

Roles and Responsibilities

·       Build and operate services — Design, ship, and run Node.js/TypeScript services that sit behind the GraphQL federation. Own a slice of the ~40-service estate end-to-end: API design, schema, persistence, tests, deployment, on-call.

·       GraphQL federation subgraphs — Add types, resolvers, and capabilities to the federated Platform API. Keep subgraph boundaries clean; respect RBAC at the federation enforcement layer.

·       Commerce backbone — Build the subscription, invoicing, overage, dispute, and payout flows that integrate with Stripe and PayPal webhooks and the billing state machine. Make sure metering, billing, and payouts stay accurate, auditable, and replayable.

·       Proxy control plane — Build the management APIs and background workers that configure the runtime proxy: API keys, plans, rate-limit policies, quota caches, abuse signals.

·       Event-driven systems — Produce and consume Kafka and Kinesis events safely: schema evolution, idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling. Operate Lambda consumers where they're the right tool.

·       Data services — Help own the Node.js Analytics Service and Quota Service that front ClickHouse and Snowflake. Keep latency low, queries cheap, and authorisation correct.

·       Performance and reliability — Diagnose hot paths, tune queries, add caches where they matter, and remove caches that have become liabilities. Write the SLOs and the alerts that defend them.

·       Security isolation — Implement OAuth2 / JWT / mTLS where they belong; respect least-privilege; design APIs that fail closed.

·       On-call and incident response — Take part in the rotation. Lead investigations across services when something rooted in your area breaks.

·       LLM-assisted engineering — Use LLM-based coding and agentic tooling to evolve how features are designed, reviewed, and tested.

What Success Looks Like

•    Services you own meet their SLOs, deploy multiple times a day, and rarely wake anyone up.

•    Billing, subscription, overage, and payout flows you ship are accurate to the cent, replayable, and trusted by both providers and consumers.

•    GraphQL subgraphs you maintain stay fast, well-typed, and pleasant to extend.

•    Event pipelines you produce and consume are idempotent, observable, and survive replay and back-pressure.

•    The first generation of agent-native primitives you help build land in production and start carrying real agent traffic.

What You Bring

•    5–8 years of backend engineering experience, with non-trivial work on production services that real customers depended on.

•    Strong TypeScript / Node.js in a production service environment; comfort with async patterns, streams, and back-pressure.

•    Solid API design — REST and GraphQL (ideally federation: Apollo Federation, Mercurius, or similar). Schema design, persisted queries, performance tuning.

•    Production fluency with SQL — MySQL and/or Postgres. Bonus for Redis or ClickHouse.

•    Experience with event-driven systems — Kafka or similar. You understand idempotency, exactly-once myths, and consumer lag.

•    Hands-on AWS (EKS, MSK, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Lambda, DMS) and Kubernetes. Comfortable reading and writing Terraform.

•    Modern engineering practice: observability, feature flags, CI/CD, and safe rollouts.

•    Care for correctness on the money path — you have shipped billing, metering, or payment code before and have the scars to show for it.

•    Bonus: experience with API gateways, rate limiting, quota enforcement, usage metering, agent protocols (MCP, A2A, x402), or LLM-based developer tooling.

•    You write small, reviewable PRs. You add the test before you fix the bug. You would rather ship a smaller thing well than a bigger thing badly.

About AbleCredit:

AbleCredit is on a mission to solve the Credit Gap of emerging economies. In India alone, the Credit Gap is over USD 5T (Trillion!). This is the single largest contributor to poverty, poor genie index and lack of opportunities.

Ablecredit is a rare startup because we are probably the only revenue generating GenAI startup in India.

Key Responsibilities:

● Solving highly complex technical challenges and driving large-scale projects; developing robust and scalable web applications using Node.js, MongoDB

● Participate in system design, architecture, and help build scalable, high-performance systems

● Mentor junior engineers (SDEs and SDE-2s), driving technical decisions, and leading entire projects or initiatives

● Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.

● Architect efficient and reusable back-end systems and optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.

● Implement security and data protection measures.

● Stay updated on emerging technologies and best practices in web development.

Qualifications:

● Bachelor' s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

● Minimum of 5 years of experience in backend web development.

● Proficiency in Node.js and typescript along with their core principles.

● Experience with server-side frameworks such as Express.js.

● Familiarity with database systems such as MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.

● Knowledge of RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling.

● Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

● Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

● Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders.

● Bonus: can whip up a front end or UI with AI agents or all by yourself.

Founding Full-Stack Engineer / Technical Lead — X.re

We are building X.re — an AI-first CRM built specifically for real estate companies.

X.re is not another generic CRM. It is being designed around the real estate sales funnel, with AI-powered WhatsApp conversations, AI voice, lead scoring, workflow automation and advertising intelligence built into the system.

The product is already being built and is currently being tested with a real estate pilot client.

We are now looking for a senior engineer who can take ownership of the existing codebase and help take it from AI-assisted development into a robust, production-ready SaaS product.

What you'll be doing

• Take ownership of an existing Next.js + TypeScript codebase.
• Understand the existing architecture, database structure, APIs and application flows.
• Conduct a thorough engineering review and identify production, security, scalability and reliability risks.
• Refactor and improve the code where required rather than blindly rewriting the system.
• Build and maintain production-quality frontend and backend features.
• Design and maintain APIs, database models and integrations.
• Work on a multi-tenant SaaS architecture where each real estate brand has its own workspace and data isolation.
• Work closely with AI/LLM-powered features including chat, voice and lead intelligence.
• Work on WhatsApp Business API integrations, webhooks and messaging infrastructure.
• Build reliable automation and workflow functionality.
• Implement proper authentication, authorization, data isolation, logging, monitoring and error handling.
• Help establish engineering standards, testing and deployment practices.
• Eventually build and lead the engineering team as X.re scales.

What we're looking for

We are looking for someone who has strong engineering judgment, not someone who simply knows a list of technologies.

You should be able to:

• Enter an unfamiliar codebase and understand it quickly.
• Identify what is well designed and what is technically risky.
• Take an MVP and turn it into production-grade software.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions.
• Think about security, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Work independently and take ownership.
• Read and review code generated or assisted by AI.
• Know when AI-generated code is acceptable and when it needs to be redesigned.
• Build rather than just manage developers.

Technical requirements

Strong experience with:

• TypeScript
• Next.js / React
• Node.js
• REST APIs
• PostgreSQL / SQL
• Modern SaaS application architecture
• Cloud deployment
• Git and production development workflows

Experience with the following is a strong advantage:

• AI/LLM applications
• WhatsApp Business API
• Webhooks
• Multi-tenant SaaS
• API integrations
• Docker
• AWS or similar cloud platforms
• CI/CD
• Observability and production monitoring

One important thing

This is not a greenfield project.

The existing product has been built significantly with AI-assisted development.

We are specifically looking for an engineer who is comfortable inheriting an existing codebase, understanding it deeply, challenging its assumptions, fixing what needs fixing, and taking responsibility for making it production-ready.

You will not be expected to rewrite everything just because it wasn't originally written by you.

Why this role is different

You won't just be implementing tickets.

You'll have significant influence over:

• Engineering architecture
• Production readiness
• Technical standards
• Infrastructure
• AI integration strategy
• Product engineering decisions
• Future engineering team structure

If things go well, this role can grow into Head of Engineering / CTO-level ownership as X.re scales.

Location

Hyderabad preferred. Remote candidates across India may be considered for the right candidate.

Compensation

₹20–35 LPA + ESOP

Compensation will depend on experience and level of ownership.

Technical Lead – MEAN Stack & SQL

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced MEAN Tech Lead with strong SQL expertise to take technical ownership of enterprise People Management & Employee Delegation platform.

In this role, you will quickly ramp up on complex domain workflows, direct technical implementation, and lead a dedicated team of 4–5 engineers to deliver high-performing platform updates, optimize data architecture, and maintain overall application health.

Experience

~ 8 to 10 years of experience

Location

~ Indore (Preferable) or Pune offices

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Ownership & Knowledge Transfer: Take comprehensive technical handover of the enterprise platform, becoming the internal subject matter expert on system workflows and architecture.
2. Team Leadership: Direct, mentor, and manage a team of 4–5 full-stack developers through technical guidance, sprint execution, and code reviews.
3. Database & Query Optimization: Architect, optimize, and maintain high-volume SQL schemas and MongoDB databases to ensure data consistency and query performance.
4. System Health & Continuous Delivery: Drive technical excellence, enforce clean code standards, and ensure high operational stability across all application layers.
5. Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with product teams and business analysts to translate complex HR delegation rules into clean technical specifications.

Technical Qualifications

Frontend & Backend Stack

1. Angular: Expertise in modern Angular (v21/v22), including standalone components, Signals, Reactive Forms, RxJS, and state management.
2. Node.js: Strong backend experience with Node.js (v22/v24 LTS) and Express.js, building performant RESTful APIs and microservices.

Databases & Architecture

1. SQL Mastery: Advanced proficiency in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MS SQL Server)—including complex query writing, indexing strategies, stored procedures, and performance tuning.
2. NoSQL: Hands-on experience working with MongoDB (aggregations, indexing, schema design).
3. Code Navigation: Proven ability to quickly analyze, debug, and navigate existing enterprise codebases.
4. Testing & Tools: Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g., Vitest, Jest), Git workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.

Non-Technical & Domain Skills

1. Rapid Domain Acquisition: Ability to swiftly absorb complex domain logic around organizational hierarchies, access control levels, and approval delegations.
2. Mentorship & Communication: Strong leadership skills to elevate junior/mid-level engineers and clearly articulate technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
3. Analytical Problem-Solving: Structured approach to root-cause analysis, system troubleshooting, and performance bottlenecks.

Apply and complete the screening questions on Just Interview:

https://app.justinterview.ai/apply/10004915?src=cutshort

Company: Lucid Growth Media

Website: https://lucidgrowthmedia.com/

Department: Engineering

Employment type: Full-time

Work mode: On-site

Job location: Shyamnagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Minimum experience: 4 years of professional experience

Maximum experience: 6 years of professional experience

Prior on-site development-team experience: At least 2 years

Monthly take-home salary: ₹60,000–₹80,000 — up to ₹80,000, based on demonstrated capability and relevant experience. The offer will include a salary breakdown.

Working schedule: Monday to Saturday; second and fourth Saturdays off. Sundays off.

Shift timing: 9:00 AM–6:00 PM (9-hour shift)

Application deadline: 30 September 2026

Skills: Node.js, TypeScript, Rust, asynchronous processing, REST APIs, database design, performance debugging, Git review and application security.

Job description

Join a small engineering team improving existing software and building new capabilities. You will own backend reliability, data correctness and asynchronous processing, and guide technical decisions across application and automation engineers.

This is a hands-on position involving production debugging, measured performance improvements, safe changes to existing code and release ownership. Company-provided AI coding tools support the work; you remain responsible for understanding and verifying what ships.

Responsibilities

- Develop and improve TypeScript/Node.js APIs and Rust services, including concurrency, failure handling and durable processing.

- Diagnose slow queries and API paths; improve schemas, indexes, caching and background jobs based on evidence.

- Define reliable service contracts, event identities, retries and reconciliation across connected components.

- Protect data access, credentials and permissions; plan migrations, staged releases and recovery.

- Review changes, document decisions and help engineers resolve technical blockers.

- Break work into tracked tasks with acceptance criteria, obtain the required approval and provide test/release evidence at completion.

Required skills and experience

- Substantial production Node.js/TypeScript experience and Rust experience you can explain through systems you personally changed or operated.

- Practical asynchronous Rust, ownership/error handling, network integration, persistence and debugging skills.

- Strong database fundamentals, including query analysis, transactions or consistency trade-offs, and safe migration practices.

- Experience with API authentication, automated tests, Git review, logging and controlled deployment.

- Clear written English for task plans, technical decisions, incident notes and constructive review discussions.

- Evidence of taking responsibility for a problem, responding to feedback and verifying the corrected result.

Experience with MCP/tool integrations, containerised services or performance profiling is useful. Depth in the core responsibilities matters more than a long list of frameworks.

How we work and hire

Work follows documented tasks, approval, implementation, review and verification. We value early escalation of blockers and honest reporting of results.

Selection includes a short AI-assisted initial interview, an approximately 60–90-minute practical using synthetic material, and an on-site technical discussion. Final hiring decisions include human review.

Celeco Labs is hiring a hands-on Head of Engineering on behalf of a confidential client in the housing-finance sector.

This is a role for an engineer who wants to own delivery, not only manage it. You will set the technical direction, build and maintain production systems, and work closely with the business team. You should be comfortable taking a requirement from the first discussion through technical planning, implementation, release, and production support.

What you will do

• Own the engineering roadmap and help decide what should be built first.

• Design, build, and maintain reliable customer-facing products and internal systems.

• Write production code and review code written by others.

• Turn business requirements into clear technical plans and releases.

• Choose practical architecture, tools, and vendors that fit the company's needs.

• Set working standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, backups, and access control.

• Protect customer and company data through practical security controls.

• Investigate production issues and make sure the same problems do not repeat.

• Help hire and guide a small engineering team as the company grows.

What we are looking for

• 3–5 years of professional software-engineering experience.

• Experience building and running production systems.

• Strong backend skills, including APIs, databases, and cloud services.

• Enough frontend knowledge to work across a product when needed.

• Good judgment about system design, security, reliability, and cost.

• The ability to explain technical choices in simple language.

• Comfort working independently and taking full ownership of delivery.

Experience in lending, housing finance, fintech, or another regulated industry is useful, but not required. Experience leading engineers or working directly with founders and business leaders is also useful.

How to apply

Please share your CV or LinkedIn profile and two short examples of production systems you have owned. This is a confidential search. More information about the company will be shared with shortlisted candidates during the interview process.

About the Role

We are hiring a Backend Engineer to build and operate the services that power a leading technology marketplace being relaunched under new ownership.

You will work behind the GraphQL federation, inside the ~40 microservices that own billing, subscriptions, the catalog, RBAC, the proxy's control plane, and the Analytics/Quota services. The runtime is Node.js/TypeScript on AWS EKS, with Aurora MySQL / Postgres and DynamoDB for state, Redis / Elasticache / Couchbase for caching, Kafka (MSK) and Kinesis as the event backbone, and ClickHouse for real-time analytics reads. Every consumer-to-provider call passes through the proxy your services configure, and every dollar of marketplace revenue flows through the commerce code your services own.

Roles and Responsibilities

• · Build and operate services — Design, ship, and run Node.js/TypeScript services that sit behind the GraphQL federation. Own a slice of the ~40-service estate end-to-end: API design, schema, persistence, tests, deployment, on-call.
• GraphQL federation subgraphs — Add types, resolvers, and capabilities to the federated Platform API. Keep subgraph boundaries clean; respect RBAC at the federation enforcement layer.
• Commerce backbone — Build the subscription, invoicing, overage, dispute, and payout flows that integrate with Stripe and PayPal webhooks and the billing state machine. Make sure metering, billing, and payouts stay accurate, auditable, and replayable.
• Proxy control plane — Build the management APIs and background workers that configure the runtime proxy: API keys, plans, rate-limit policies, quota caches, abuse signals.
•  Event-driven systems — Produce and consume Kafka and Kinesis events safely: schema evolution, idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling. Operate Lambda consumers where they're the right tool.
• Data services — Help own the Node.js Analytics Service and Quota Service that front ClickHouse and Snowflake. Keep latency low, queries cheap, and authorisation correct.
• Performance and reliability — Diagnose hot paths, tune queries, add caches where they matter, and remove caches that have become liabilities. Write the SLOs and the alerts that defend them.
•  Security isolation — Implement OAuth2 / JWT / mTLS where they belong; respect least-privilege; design APIs that fail closed.
• On-call and incident response — Take part in the rotation. Lead investigations across services when something rooted in your area breaks.
• LLM-assisted engineering — Use LLM-based coding and agentic tooling to evolve how features are designed, reviewed, and tested.

What Success Looks Like

•    Services you own meet their SLOs, deploy multiple times a day, and rarely wake anyone up.

•    Billing, subscription, overage, and payout flows you ship are accurate to the cent, replayable, and trusted by both providers and consumers.

•    GraphQL subgraphs you maintain stay fast, well-typed, and pleasant to extend.

•    Event pipelines you produce and consume are idempotent, observable, and survive replay and back-pressure.

•    The first generation of agent-native primitives you help build land in production and start carrying real agent traffic.

What You Bring

•    5–8 years of backend engineering experience, with non-trivial work on production services that real customers depended on.

•    Strong TypeScript / Node.js in a production service environment; comfort with async patterns, streams, and back-pressure.

•    Solid API design — REST and GraphQL (ideally federation: Apollo Federation, Mercurius, or similar). Schema design, persisted queries, performance tuning.

•    Production fluency with SQL — MySQL and/or Postgres. Bonus for Redis or ClickHouse.

•    Experience with event-driven systems — Kafka or similar. You understand idempotency, exactly-once myths, and consumer lag.

•    Hands-on AWS (EKS, MSK, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Lambda, DMS) and Kubernetes. Comfortable reading and writing Terraform.

•    Modern engineering practice: observability, feature flags, CI/CD, and safe rollouts.

•    Care for correctness on the money path — you have shipped billing, metering, or payment code before and have the scars to show for it.

•    Bonus: experience with API gateways, rate limiting, quota enforcement, usage metering, agent protocols (MCP, A2A, x402), or LLM-based developer tooling.

•    You write small, reviewable PRs. You add the test before you fix the bug. You would rather ship a smaller thing well than a bigger thing badly.