Lead Node Engineer

Job Title: Backend Developer

Experience: 2–7 Years

Location: On-site – Bangalore

Employment Type: Full-Time

Company: Pepsales AI (Multiplicity Technologies Inc.)

About Pepsales

Pepsales AI is a real-time sales enablement and conversation intelligence platform built for B2B SaaS sales teams. It empowers sellers across every stage of the sales cycle—before, during, and after discovery calls—by providing actionable insights that move deals forward. 

• For Account Executives: Pepsales AI transforms the discovery process, ensuring objective deal qualification and frictionless handoffs to solution engineers—enabling AEs to focus on winning, not chasing.
• For Solution Engineers and Consultants: It elevates demo experiences by delivering real-time buyer context and actionable insights, ensuring every interaction is highly personalized and impactful.
• For Sales Leaders: It provides enterprise-grade intelligence across forecasting, pipeline health, team performance, coaching, and the authentic voice of the customer—empowering data-driven decision-making at scale.

With Pepsales AI, sales teams run sharper meetings, accelerate deal cycles, and close with confidence.

Role Overview

We’re seeking a passionate Backend Developer to join our fast-paced team in Bangalore and help build and scale the core systems powering Pepsales. In this full-time, on-site role, you’ll work on high-impact features that directly influence product innovation, customer success, and business growth. 

You’ll collaborate closely with the founding team and leadership, gaining end-to-end ownership and the chance to bring bold, innovative ideas to life in a rapidly scaling startup environment

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and microservices.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in Python.
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs and WebSocket services for high performance.
• Manage and optimize MongoDB databases for speed and scalability.
• Deploy and maintain containerized applications using Docker.
• Work extensively with AWS services (EC2, ALB, S3, Route 53) for robust cloud infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for smooth and automated deployments.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and leadership on architecture and feature planning.
• Participate in sprint planning, technical discussions, and code reviews.
• Take full ownership of features, embracing uncertainty with a problem-solving mindset.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 2–7 years of backend development experience with a proven track record of building scalable systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and its ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB, Docker, and Microservice Architecture.
• Practical experience with AWS services (EC2, ALB, S3, Route 53).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and deployment best practices.
• Strong understanding of REST API design principles and WebSocket communication.
• Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and performance optimization.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

What We Value

• Excitement to work on cutting-edge technology and platforms , helping redefine how businesses engage and convert customers.
• Thrives in a dynamic startup environment that values diversity, rapid innovation, and a growth mindset—adapting to change, challenging the status quo, and making a real impact.
• Passion for ownership beyond coding, contributing to product strategy and innovation.

Why Join Pepsales?

• Direct access to founders and a voice in high-impact decisions.
• Opportunity to shape a next-gen AI SaaS product transforming sales worldwide.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies in a rapidly growing startup.
• Ownership-driven culture with fast career growth and learning opportunities.
• A collaborative, innovation-driven environment that values creativity and problem-solving.

• Develop, test, and maintain server-side applications using Node.js and related technologies.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices architecture to support frontend functionality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Optimize application performance, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Stay updated with emerging backend technologies and methodologies to improve development processes.

Mandatory

• SaaS experience of 2 years with total development experience of 4 years
• Must have worked in a smaller company of less than 100
• Should have built solutions/softwares end to end and not just as a part of bigger team
• Should see themselves going deeper into the same role even 5 years down the line
• Should have knowledge on Node.js, MongoDB, and AWS
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, event-driven architecture, and Node.js design patterns.
• Proficiency in working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or MySQL.
• Experience with API development, including RESTful services and microservices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex server-side issues.

Essential

• Proficiency with version control systems like Git.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Knowledge of system design and scalable architecture.
• Understanding of security best practices and implementing secure APIs.

Good to Have

• Experience with GraphQL and related backend technologies.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Experience with platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, or other e-commerce technologies.
• Exposure to frontend technologies such as React for better cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities :

- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it {such as NestJS, Express, StrongLoop, etc.}

- Experience in Database, Postgres Preferred.
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Integration of data storage solutions 
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript

Desired candidates must have 3-7 years of experience as NodeJs Developer.

If the candidate cannot relocate to Gurgaon, we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus

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Leadership Skill

• Technically hands on.
• Have previous experience of leading teams.
• Have experience with agile process, and ability to guide the team to follow the process.
• Comfortable in chaotic & high-energy, high-stakes start-up environment.
• Hates wasting time in unproductive meetings, and prefers getting quick consensus to move ship forward.
• Prefers delivering in production than spending time in meeting.
• Able to technically mentor team and guide them to high performance.

Technical Skills

• Loves solving technically hard problems. 
• Have previous experience with Python(Django), MySQL.
• Have previous experience with one or more of AWS, RDS, SQS, EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache. 
• NoSQL experience is good to have.  
• Loves clean and structured code, and thrives to maintain it. 
• Fast at coding, fast in learning and technically solid.
• Have previous experience in building, running and managing scalable and highly availability web services.

Look forward to

• Working with a world-class team. 
• Fun & work at the same place with an amazing work culture and flexible timings. 
• Get ready to transform yourself into a health junkie