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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.

Please find below updated JD for Java requirement.

-Work with a performance-oriented team driven by ownership and open to experiment.

• -6+ years of Java advanced software development experience, with concurrent (multi-threaded) programming highly desirable.
• -Strong experience on Core Java 8, Java EE, Spring Boot, Maven and Docker including Multi-threading.

.          -Strong problem solving skills, computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.

• -Hands on experience with any SQL Database.
• -Ability to learn new technologies like ELK, stack, redis etc.
• -Must have expert level knowledge in Java, Springboot.
• -Must have knowledge or hands on experience in microservices, apache kafka and distributed caching.

.           -Experience in distributed/scalable systems

• -Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices.
• -Familiarity with standard development tools and processes: Git, Eclipse, JUnit test, debugging, profiling, etc.

.           -Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps

.           -Strong knowledge and previous experience in end-to-end design, development and subsequent

             support of large-scale data processing systems

.           - Familiarity and confidence working in an agile development environment.

.           - Good Problem solving skills

• - Good oral and written communication skills.
• - Strong debugging skills.

• 5 years of experience as Java/Jee Developer, Springboot
• Good knowledge of OOPS concepts.
• Experience in Java8, JSP, Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Rest & Spring JPA Repository
• Experience in Hibernate, relational databases and sql.
• Experience in Rest API development.
• Experience in implementation of Jasper Reports
• Familiar with Git & Maven

Responsibilities:

• Crawl the internet/intranet for issues people are facing and convert them in to stuctured data that would be consumed downstream.
• Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to deployment.
• Comply with coding standards and technical design.
• Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing, and maintainability of the code.
• Integrate the developed functionality and/or component into a fully functional system.
• Ensure unit and integration level verification plans are in place and adheres to the great quality of code at all times.
• Actively participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live system.
• Verify user feedback in making the system more stable and easy.
• Work closely with analysts, designers, and other peer developers.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
• Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
• A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.
• 6+ years of experience working on the server-side.
• Exposure to API designing, scalable architecture, and thorough understanding of systems.
• Great database modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of Databases, both relational (such as PostgreSQL) and in-memory database (such as Redis).
• Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
• Experience with open-source projects.
• Experience in designing interactive applications.

JD:

Your role will include:

• Writing and testing your code, innovating and contributing towards increasing the value delivered by your team.
• Setting a high bar through your design, development, analysis and deployment activities
• Understanding and participating in evolving the architecture of our products.
• Keeping up-to-date with new technologies, best practices, and work on optimizing the tooling and automation.
• Understanding the latest development and engineering paradigms like Scrum/Agile/TDD/BDD/DDD etc.

You have experience with the following:

• Strong experience of leading and being part of technical teams preferably following agile methodology.
• Strong technical background with ability to provide technical guidance to other team members.
• Knowledge of microservices and must have experience of implementing a few microservices by the least.
• Knowledge of API driven platform development & Software Integration.
• You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable systems in Java.
• Exposure to JVM based languages like Java, Scala, Clojure.