Lead Backend Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Node.js Developer with deep expertise in backend engineering and related frameworks. The ideal candidate will be a strong problem solver, effective communicator, and proven mentor capable of leading development initiatives while ensuring code quality, scalability, and performance optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to multiple backend development projects ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Collaborate with business analysts, architects, and cross-functional teams to define technical specifications and gather requirements.
• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance applications using Node.js and related frameworks.
• Develop detailed HLD (High-Level Design) and LLD (Low-Level Design) solutions.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, fostering knowledge sharing and growth.
• Participate in peer code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Optimize performance, concurrency, and scalability of applications.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and ensure smooth deployment processes.
• Support and troubleshoot production issues, providing L3 support as required.
• Continuously research, evaluate, and integrate new technologies to improve applications and processes.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices within the team.
• Actively participate in recruitment and talent-building initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5–10 years of strong professional experience in Node.js and frameworks like Express.js.
• Proficiency in MERN stack (preferred but must be heavy on Node.js).
• Strong understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Solid debugging, troubleshooting, and performance profiling expertise.
• Hands-on experience with source control systems (Git) and CI/CD environments.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented and service-oriented application development.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to work independently and in team settings with high ownership.

What we expect of you:

• 4+ years of experience building scalable backends using Nodejs
• In-depth knowledge of any framework of Nodejs (i.e. Express, Hapi, Koa.js)
• Hands on experience with developing REST APIs using Node.js and any of the above framework
• Good understanding of standard authentication systems such as OAuth2 and JWT
• Should have experience with Socket.IO
• Should have understanding of Model, Caching, Async mechanisms
• Knowledge of server-side templating (e.g. Jade, Handlebars.js, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with implementing Role based User authentication and authorization system
• Understanding of Caching, Database Interactions, Middlewares
• Able to engineer the best performing solutions and always keeping scalability in mind

Must haves:

• Strong problem solving skills
• Passion for building robust systems that are engineered to handle failure scenarios, an attitude to maintain coding standards
• Strong advocate for producing quality software who makes sure issues are raised and resolved

What makes you a great fit for Aubergine:

• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Hungry for more responsibility and knowledge
• Experience with at least one of the cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean etc. (docker, Kubernetes, microservice good to have)

Skills: NodeJs

Experience required: 4+ years

Job Type: Full time/ Permanent

Perks and Benefits:

• Flexible shift timings
• Company-sponsored certifications.
• Team friendly culture
• Flat hierarchy
• Carrom, Table tennis games, Cricket Tournament Participation for interested employees
• Snack-filled pantry for team members
• Group Medical Insurance (*)
• 5 days working.

Full-time

Job Profile :Sr. Software Engineer/Software Engineer/Associate Software Engineer

Technologies :NodeJS Developer

Eligibility Criteria :Requires minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, MCA or equivalent experience.

Experience :1 to 3 year

Job Description

Job roles and responsibilities

The candidate’s primary focus will be developing new features for our modern web application. They will get exposure to an ‘agile-centric’ delivery model, while leveraging modern / innovative JavaScript approaches. A candidate who is driven, innovative and has passion for elegant technical solutions will thrive in this role.

• You should have deep understanding of NodeJS

• You should be strong in Javascript and TypeScript

• You should be capable of writing complex queries

• ES6, Express, Apollo Server, Send Grid Email, Twilio SMS, Payment Gateway,

• Error Loggin, API Developement, API Security,

• PostGreSQL/MSSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/CouchDB

• Very good knowledge on REST API

• Good experience in Agile methodologies

• Ability to design and write code complying with coding standards and other factors like performance, scalability, reliability, reusability, modularity in mind

• You should have strong logical and problem solving skills

• Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills

• AWS certification is nice to have

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript and good to have ES6(Typescript) knowledge

• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express, Restify

• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

• Understanding accessibility and security compliance

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Competencies and Skills Required

• Requires excellent analytical, problem solving, and good communications skills

• Must be able to work effectively with business stakeholders

• Strong passion for delivering technical solutions to business problems

• Understanding and mindset of Agile software delivery (Ability to adapt to continually changing priorities)

• Team player who understands the importance of teamwork and collaboration

• Passion for delivering new approaches and challenging the ‘status-quo’

• Hungry to learn and always in search of continuous improvement

Key Objectives/Responsibilities of this Role:

• Understand the UI needs, backend design and data design and create the backend code for the same
• Backend development in NodeJs 12 & above, ExpressJs, NestJs, RESTful web services, Docker, MongoDB, Azure AKS or Kubernetes
• Collaboration with other team members (Architect, UI, backend developers, DBA, Data analytics team) to work in coherence
• Working experience into Agile and scrum methodologies
• Manage SDEs and Interns to drive the deliverables

Mandatory Skillset & Tools: NodeJs 12 and above, ExpressJs, NestJs, Writing Unit Tests , Scheduler, Mongo DB, working knowledge in Kubernetes (AKS), GIT version control, Event driven design, Microservices, con-currency, RESTful web-services, Docker

Primary Skill: NodeJs 12 & above ExpressJs, NestJs, Microsoft development platform, Testing & Debugging skills, Postman, CI/CD pipeline, Docker, Docker hub, Writing UNIT tests

Secondary Skill: Load & performance testing, testing REST Web services, Basic shell commands, Linux, Good written, verbal and presentation skills, Soft spoken, Pro-active

Rapido is India’s largest bike taxi player focused on solving the first and last mile connectivity problem for India. The primary focus is mobility and changing all facets of mobility across India. We believe that 2 Wheeler are the right mode of transport for developing countries like India and have much more scope than 4 wheelers, which is also reflected in the fact that the number of 2 wheelers is significantly more than the number of 4-wheelers.We have operations in close to 100 cities and are the undisputed market leader in this space. Growing close to 500% year-on-year, we have ambitious targets set for ourselves in the future as well.

What you will do :   

We are looking for a Technical Architect to design the structure of our IT systems and oversee programs to ensure the proper architecture is implemented.

Should have experience in data modelling, distributed system design, Microservice architecture and communications protocol and is passionate about writing code and the art of management

In this role, you should be an excellent communicator who is able to translate complex requirements into functional architecture. We'd also like you to have hands-on experience on software development and be able to manage complex programs. Overseeing development and implementation of programs. Providing technical leadership and support to software development teams. Your goal will be to ensure our internal IT framework operates properly.

Responsibilities:

• Understand company needs to define system specifications
• Plan and design the structure of a technology solution
• Communicate system requirements to software development teams
• Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
• Oversee assigned programs (e. g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members
• Assist with solving technical problems when they arise
• Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure
• Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions
• Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Technical Architect
• Hands-on experience with software development and system administration
• Understanding of strategic IT solutions
• Experience in project management and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Knowledge of selected coding languages (e. g. JavaScript, Java)
• Familiarity with various operating systems
• Experience in cloud technologies
• Excellent communication skills
• Problem-solving aptitude
• Organisational and leadership skills

Role Competencies:

• Proven work experience as a Back-end developer.
• Hands on experience with programming languages like Java/NodeJS/Golang, JavaScript, Familiarity with Git,
• Database (SQL/Mysql/NO SQL).Good to have Kafka/queuing/messaging system.
• Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
• Strong knowledge of design principles, user interfaces, web standards and usability.

Functional Behavioral:

• Excellent analytical and time and people management skills.
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude.

Flora2000 was established in 1999 by Mr. Rehan Yar Khan (Founder & CEO) as an online floral & gift retailer and extended its delivery services across the globe. It is the leader and pioneer of the concept of flowers and gifts in over 190 countries worldwide. Flora2000 passionately strives to be the largest premium-gifting leader with flowers, gifts, cakes being the core verticals driven by people first approach and innovation in all spheres of business.

We strive to give our customers a wow experience through continuous innovation of premium products and services by using world class technology and processes. From exquisite bouquets to gift baskets to flowering planters, you are sure to find the perfect expression of your message in our online floral boutique.

The current team comprises 15 people.

We have offices in Mumbai, Europe & UAE.

Please visit Flora2000.com for more information

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a PHP / Sr. PHP Developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a vast number of diverse devices. The primary focus will be the development of PHP applications and their integration with back-end services.

We expect the Developer will have a broad experience at Flora2000 and will play a unique role in the organization.

• Write “clean”, well-designed code
• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
• Design and build advanced applications for the PHPplatform
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Ensure smooth operations of web processes and infrastructure
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Follow industry best practicesCreate regular and ad hoc reports.

·         5 to 10 Yrs experience.

·         Proficient in PHP 7 & above, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery Expert and AngularJS.

·         Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Zend, etc.).

·         Experience in SQL, MySQL, Oracle & MongoDB.

·         Experience with building restful JSON web services

·         Strong knowledge of Restful Apis

·         Knowledge of web technologies like Node.js or CorePHP.

·         Strive for processes, quality and timely delivery.

·         Good Exposure to versioning systems like git, stash.

·         Experience building web services – WSDL, SOAP, REST.

·         Detail-oriented, proactive and self-motivated.

·         Team player with ability to work effectively.