Lead API Engineer

Strong Backend Node.js Developer Profile

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience using Node.js building production-grade systems for B2C products at meaningful consumer scale

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must be AI-native in their own engineering workflow: already uses LLMs and agentic tooling across the SDLC, from design and code generation through testing and debugging

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have owned backend architecture end to end, including greenfield builds. Should be able to make early architecture calls and reason clearly about service boundaries, data flow, caching, queueing, failure modes, scalability, and reliability trade-offs under real constraints.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have a solid understanding of backend fundamentals, including API development, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs and backend services, including integrations with external systems and third-party platforms

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have strong experience working with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), including efficient data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning

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Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in B2C product companies / startups at meaningful consumer scale. (WealthTech, FinTech, or high-growth consumer product background is highly preferred)

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Mandatory (Stability) – Must have a stable career history, with consistent tenure across previous companies; frequent job-hopping will not be considered

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Mandatory (AI Product) – Must have experience building and shipping products that use LLMs and agentic workflows to end users.

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Mandatory (College) – ) - B.Tech or Dual degree (Btech and Mtech or Integrated Msc/MS) from Tier 1 Engineering Institutes (IITs, not NITs). Candidates from other institutions will not be considered unless they come from top top-tier product companies

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Mandatory (Compensation Alignment) – Candidate must be comfortable with the compensation structure where the company matches their current CTC and provides ESOPs, without any salary hike

Role Description

Software Engineer is a full-time role based in Hyderabad with Onsite work arrangement. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining back-end services and APIs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security across platforms. The engineer will participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making, collaborating closely with product owners, QA, and cross-functional teams. Daily responsibilities include writing clean, maintainable code, troubleshooting complex issues, improving system performance, and contributing to best practices, documentation, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring less experienced engineers and supporting continuous improvement in development processes and tooling.

Key Requirements/Skills

4-7 years of overall experience in software development with strong expertise in building scalable web & mobile applications.

• Strong technical decision-making ability, including architecture design, technology selection and implementation of best practices.
• Front-end expertise: Strong experience in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, NextJS and building responsive and user-friendly UI/UX.
• Back-end development: Hands-on experience with Node.js, Express JS, Nest JS, RESTful APIs, API design, and server-side architecture.
• Databases : Good Hands on Exprience in both SQL(PostgreSQL Preferred) & No SQL Databases
• Gen AI Expertise: Experience in building RAG & LLM Systems, implementing AI/ML models and integrating AI-based solutions to solve business problems. Expereince with Langchain, langgraph and Vector DBs, Voice AI(STT, TTS) Models and experience in using Open AI Tools (Calude, Cursor, etc.)
• Cloud & DevOps exposure: Experience with AWS/Azure, understanding of CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployments.
• Code quality & best practices: Experience in code reviews, Git version control, and ensuring maintainable and secure code.
• Team leadership: Ability to mentor developers, guide technical discussions, and collaborate across teams.
• Strong communication skills to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in high-compliance environments such as healthcare systems is a plus.
• Certifications in AWS & Other skills and technologies will be an added advantage.

Educational Qualification

• B.Tech / M.Tech in CSE/IT/AI&ML only from a recognized university/college. 

Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer – Node.js & TypeScript

Experience : 4+ Years

Employment Type : Contract – 3 Months

Location : Pune

Work Mode : On-site

Working Hours : 03:00 PM to 11:00 PM OR 03:00 PM to 12:00 AM

Time Zone : Minimum 4-hour overlap with Eastern Time (ET)

About the Role :

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and scale an AI-led digital platform. The role involves working closely with the Founder/CEO and technical team on architecture, product development, innovation, and end-to-end feature ownership.

Mandatory Skills :

Node.js, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, SQL, Prisma / TypeORM / Sequelize, AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), Airbyte / dbt / Airflow / AWS Glue, Data Warehousing, Event-Driven Architecture, Message Queues, CI/CD, Automated Testing, Backend Architecture, Scalability & Performance.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and develop scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build and optimize REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Work with PostgreSQL, SQL, and ORMs such as Prisma / TypeORM / Sequelize.
• Design data pipelines using Airbyte, dbt, Airflow, or AWS Glue.
• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure including ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
• Implement CI/CD, automated testing, event-driven architectures, and message queues.
• Optimize API performance, scalability, reliability, and data warehouse solutions.
• Own features end-to-end from design to production.
• Participate in code reviews, on-call support, and production troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, and Engineering teams and mentor junior developers.
• Work closely with the Founder / CEO on technical solutioning and product innovation.

Requirements :

• 4+ years of hands-on Node.js & TypeScript backend development.
• Strong experience with AWS, PostgreSQL, SQL, APIs, and backend architecture.
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines and data warehousing.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, event-driven systems, and message queues.
• Strong problem-solving skills and end-to-end ownership mindset.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.

Preferred :

• Terraform / CloudFormation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Docker / Kubernetes and strong DevOps exposure.
• AWS backup / disaster recovery experience.
• Exposure to GCP / Azure.
• Startup / early-stage product development experience.

Job Title : Node.js Developer

Experience : 5+ Years

Location : Gurgaon – Sector 43

Work Mode : 5 Days Work From Office (WFO)

Interview Mode : Direct Walk-in

Job Summary :

We are looking for an experienced Node.js Developer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development and building scalable applications.

The ideal candidate should have strong problem-solving skills and experience working in a fast-paced product or service-based environment.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain server-side applications using Node.js.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Work with databases like MongoDB / MySQL / PostgreSQL.
• Integrate third-party APIs and services.
• Ensure performance, security, and scalability of applications.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, QA, and DevOps teams.
• Write clean, reusable, and efficient code.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.

Required Skills :

• Strong expertise in Node.js and JavaScript.
• Experience with Express.js or similar frameworks.
• Knowledge of Microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB / SQL databases.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD processes.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Strong debugging and optimization skills.

Preferred Skills :

• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Redis, Kafka, or message queues.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies.

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.

Key Responsibilities

● Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services

using Python.

● Own technical direction and architectural decisions for backend systems and services.

● Design and build robust RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems

capable of handling high-scale workloads.

● Design and implement real-time communication systems, including WebSocket-based

services, where required.

● Drive system performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security.

● Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, monitoring, debugging, and

production issue resolution.

● Establish and promote best practices around code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD,

and production readiness.

● Collaborate closely with frontend, product, DevOps, infrastructure, and other

cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

● Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, contributing to overall team growth

and engineering excellence.

● Review code and architecture designs, identify technical risks, and drive improvements

across backend systems.

● Take ownership of complex technical problems and deliver reliable, maintainable,

production-grade solutions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

● 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend

development.

● Strong expertise in Python and experience building production-grade backend

applications.

● Proven experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices

architectures.

● Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, fault tolerance, and

high-availability architectures.

● Hands-on experience with WebSockets and real-time backend integrations.

● Strong experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching systems, and data-intensive

applications.

● Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, logging, debugging, and

production operations.

● Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and clean

architecture.

● Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.

● Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

● Experience mentoring engineers and conducting effective code and design reviews.

About NonStop io Technologies

NonStop io Technologies is a value-driven company with a strong focus on process-oriented software engineering. We specialize in Product Development and have a decade's worth of experience in building web and mobile applications across various domains. NonStop io Technologies follows core principles that guide its operations and believes in staying invested in a product's vision for the long term. We are a small but proud group of individuals who believe in the 'givers gain' philosophy and strive to provide value in order to seek value. We are committed to and specialize in building cutting-edge technology products and serving as trusted technology partners for startups and enterprises. We pride ourselves on fostering innovation, learning, and community engagement. Join us to work on impactful projects in a collaborative and vibrant environment.

Brief Description

We're seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer/Tech Lead to join our team. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable backends for the products we build at NonStop. This includes APIs, databases, and server-side logic. Also, guiding the mentoring the junior team members

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy backend systems, including APIs, databases, and server-side logic
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that adheres to industry standards and best practices
• Code Quality: Ensure code quality through code reviews, adherence to best practices, and continuous improvement
• Mentorship: Guide and mentor team members, fostering growth and innovation
• Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders to align technical goals with business objectives
• Problem-Solving: Analyze and resolve technical challenges promptly
• Innovation: Stay updated with the latest technology trends and integrate them into solutions

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience building scalable and reliable backend systems
• Strong expertise in NodeJS/NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Proficiency in database design (SQL and NoSQL)
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines
• Deep understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Frontend Development Technologies (React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and methodologies
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication skills and ability to effectively lead and maintain a collaborative team environment

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work on a cutting-edge healthcare product
• A collaborative and learning-driven environment
• Exposure to AI and software engineering innovations
• Excellent work ethic and culture

If you're passionate about technology and want to work on impactful projects, we'd love to hear from you!

Senior Software Engineer I (Backend, Enterprise SaaS - AP) Role summary

•Senior individual contributor owning backend services for a large-scale enterprise SaaS platform (Kanban-style work management and flow).

•Designs and ships features end-to-end, collaborating closely with frontend, product, and QA.

What you’ll do

•Design, implement, and maintain Node.js (TypeScript/JavaScript) backend services and APIs.

•Model and evolve core domain entities (boards, lanes, work items, WIP rules, permissions, cross-team connections).

•Build secure, multi-tenant REST/JSON APIs consumed by web frontends and other internal services.

•Implement business logic for work-flow, metrics, and cross-team visibility.

•Improve performance, reliability, and observability of existing services.

•Integrate backend services with data storage and analytics layers via well-designed interfaces.

•Write and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, contract) and participate in code reviews.

•Partner with product to refine requirements and break work into incremental, shippable slices.

Tech stack

•Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript

•REST/JSON APIs (GraphQL familiarity a plus)

•Relational/NoSQL data stores

•CI/CD, logging, metrics, and alerting tools

Experience & qualifications

•~6–9 years of backend engineering experience building web or SaaS products.

•Strong Node.js skills and experience designing clean API boundaries.

•Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed system basics.

•Experience in agile teams; comfortable collaborating across time zones.

Nice to have

•Experience with Kanban/Agile tools or other developer/productivity SaaS products.

•Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) in day-to-day development.

•Hands-on experience with React or close collaboration with React frontend teams.

About VerbaFlo.ai

VerbaFlo.ai is a fast-growing AI SaaS startup revolutionizing how businesses leverage AI-powered solutions. As a part of our dynamic team, you’ll work alongside industry leaders and visionaries to drive innovation and execution across multiple functions.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop user-friendly, scalable, and high-performance web applications. This role requires deep expertise in backend technologies, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and AI teams to deliver cohesive features and seamless user experiences.
• Ensure the reliability, security, and performance of backend systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code using modern backend practices.
• Implement automated testing, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure as code (where applicable).
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of backend features, from architecture to deployment.
• Monitor production systems and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help evolve our engineering best practices.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience in backend development in startups, preferably in SaaS or AI-driven products.
• Proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design.
• Strong experience with databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch.
• Exposure to message queues, job schedulers, or event-driven architectures (e.g., SQS, Celery, etc).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Git, CI/CD tools, and writing unit/integration tests.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a mindset geared toward performance and security.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Why Join Us?

• Work directly with top leadership in a high-impact role.
• Be part of an innovative and fast-growing AI startup.
• Opportunity to take ownership of key projects and drive efficiency.
• A collaborative, ambitious, and fast-paced work environment.
• Perks & Benefits: gym membership benefit, workation policy, and company-sponsored lunch.

If you’re looking for an exciting role that combines strategy, execution, and leadership exposure, we’d love to hear from you!

Backend Developers

• Contract To Hire (Initial Engagement: 6 months)

Experience: 5+ years

Mandatory Skills:

● Node.js

● Python

● MongoDB

● PostgreSQL

● REST API design and development

● Backend architecture and service design

● Database design, indexing and query optimisation

● Performance tuning

● Authentication/authorisation

● Third-party integrations

● Asynchronous processing and background jobs

● Logging, monitoring and debugging

● Git and collaborative development

● Scalable, maintainable and testable backend services

● Architecture discussions, code reviews, debugging and production support

Good to have:

● Microservices

● Docker

● Cloud platforms

● Redis

● Message queues

● CI/CD

● Observability