Role Overview
Zolvit is seeking a Node.js Backend Lead Engineer to lead our engineering efforts in building scalable systems with a microservices architecture. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in backend development, platformization expertise, and the ability to mentor junior engineers. You will play a key role in driving architectural decisions, ensuring system scalability, and fostering a strong engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable backend systems using Node.js and microservices architecture.
- Lead the development of platform components to enable efficient code reuse, modularity, and scalability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define system architecture and technical roadmap.
- Design and build solutions using event-driven architecture and middleware such as Kafka.
- Develop and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
- Define and implement high-level and low-level designs, documenting key decisions and ensuring junior engineers understand the architecture.
- Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and promote best practices in coding, design, and system architecture.
- Lead technical discussions, participate in hiring processes, and contribute to building a high-performance engineering team.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless integration and deployment.
- Leverage AWS services for scalable infrastructure and deployment solutions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in building scalable backend systems using Node.js.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and middleware like Kafka.
- Experience in building platform solutions with a focus on reusability and modularity.
- Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases with a clear understanding of their tradeoffs.
- Solid knowledge of high-level and low-level system design concepts.
- Proven experience in mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and driving engineering excellence.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
- Proficient in leveraging AWS services for building scalable infrastructure.
- Strong problem-solving skills, effective communication, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to lead technical initiatives and shape the platform architecture.
- Work on cutting-edge technologies with a team that values innovation and engineering excellence.
- A collaborative environment where mentorship and growth are highly encouraged.
- Competitive compensation and growth opportunities aligned with your contributions.

About Zolvit (formerly Vakilsearch)
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About Vakilsearch
Vakilsearch is India's largest online legal, tax and compliance provider. Vakilsearch, through its products and end-to-end workflow automation journey has revolutionized how Start-ups/ Small & Medium Enterprises register, seamlessly run and comply with Government regulations. On our mission to provide one-click access to individuals and businesses for all their legal and professional needs, we have helped over 4 Lac start-ups/ small and medium enterprises to date.
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Vakilsearch is a people-first organisation that thrives on the enthusiasm of our team to execute our mission to the satisfaction of our customers. Towards this end, we stress on creating an optimal work-life balance and inculcating a strong sense of team spirit that stems from enthusiasm and good vibes. When you work at Vakilsearch, you don't just become an employee, you become family, and we always coalesce around each other to ensure a strong sense of family.
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The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Node.js development. Knowledge of frontend frameworks like React.js or Angular, AI-driven development, Python, and AWS is a plus.
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• Design and develop a NodeJS backend with a modular, scalable architecture.
• Build REST APIs and WebSocket services for real-time updates.
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• Implement role-based authentication & authorization (JWT, RBAC in NestJS).
• Set up event-driven patterns (Redis pub/sub, background jobs, async processing).
• Integrate with external api’s (JSON-RPC, XML-RPC, REST).
• Optimize API response times (caching, Redis, database tuning).
• Ensure secure API development (encryption, secure credentials storage).
• Provide technical mentorship to junior developers and contribute to architectural decisions.
Senior Software Engineer (Java)
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Java
If you're a creative problem solver who is eager to develop amazing products and hungry for a new adventure, a word class workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Kolkata.
An exhaustive list of expectations :
✓ Design and implement cutting-edge applications
✓ Participate in code reviews and application debugging and diagnosis.
✓ Practice modern software development methodologies such as continuous delivery, and scrum.
✓ Collaborate with product managers and engineers to build scalable systems enabling innovative ordering experiences.
Requirements -
✓ Knowledge and 5+ years of experience in developing Java applications
✓ A completed technical degree in Computer Science or any related fields.
✓ Profound knowledge and working experience with Java Frameworks (Springboot) and SQL databases.
✓ Solid experience in the design and implementation of Restful APIs and design patterns.
✓ Strong knowledge in Core Java, REST , Spring Framework, Spring Boot Microservice , JPA (e.g. Hibernate, OpenJPA, etc.) , Docker, Jenkins, ELK Stack
✓ Experience working with NoSQL Technologies and interest in Elasticsearch, and Microservices architectures.
✓ Curiosity, out of box problem-solving abilities, and an eye for detail.
✓ Passion for clean code
What really makes us interested in you - You are self-motivated. You think like an entrepreneur, constantly innovating and driving positive change, but more importantly, you consistently deliver stupendous results.
Number of position – 3
Job Location – kolkata, Sector 5


· Should have 5 to 6 years of work experience as a Python Developer
· Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
· Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
· Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
· Should have completed B.E/B.Tech. /MCA in any field.
· Good problem-solving skills and Team spirit.
· Writing scalable code using Python programming language.
· Testing and debugging applications.
· Developing back-end components.
· Integrating user-facing elements using server-side logic.
· Assessing and prioritizing client feature requests.
· Integrating data storage solutions.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Node JS.
- Minimum 1 years of experience in Mongo DB (optional)
- Good Hands-on experience in Angular or React.
- Experience in designing and building large-scale, high availability, secure web applications and REST-full API using Node.js in an agile methodology.
- Good Hands-on experience in Node Js frameworks like Express, .
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and Node.JS
- Knowledge and understanding of Event Loop architecture.
- Knowledge and understanding of promises and (async or await)
- Implementation of security like oauth 2.0, JWT and data protection.
- Good Hands-on experience on cache server.
- Knowledge and understanding of Request, Axios, proficiency in REST-ful APIs.
- Knowledge of data structures and Algorithms, Node Global variables and In-built libraries
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and Workarounds
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.

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3) Work with the team to define, design, and deliver new features.
4) Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
5) Implementation of security and data protection.
6) Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient, reusable and testable code.
7) Should be able to participate in the requirements gathering and come up with efficient solutions.
8) Ensure platform is up-to-date with the latest technologies.
9) Should be a problem solver to contribute toward the success of the start-up.
10) Develop/Improve the core infrastructure and optimize the platform for high scalability.
11) Should be familiar with startup culture and be comfortable working with early-stage start-up.
Skills and Requirements: -
1) Expert in Python with complete knowledge of Python’s web framework ‘Django’ and related frameworks.
2) Good understanding of AWS and Azure platforms and able to make the platform optimize on the hosting, maintaining workload balancing on server.
3) Stronghold on Nginx, Redis and Celery.
4) A good experience in WebSocket to maintain In-Platform Chats.
5) Basic understanding of front-end technologies like Bootstrap, JavaScript,
JQuery, HTML5, CSS and AJAX while experience in Angular, Node JS, and React will be an added advantage.
6) Good hands-on experience in Creating REST APIs and API Integration with best coding practices.
7) Good knowledge of Relational and Non-Relational Databases.
8) Understanding of online payment gateways and integration knowledge.
9) Good understanding on Web Servers.
10) Experience working in an Agile development environment.
11) Data structure analysis and algorithm design, Solving complex performance problems and challenges.
12) Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like GIT and SVN.
13) Able to work with complex SQL queries and stored procedures.
14) Strong unit testing, integration testing and debugging skills.

Your responsibilities as a backend engineer will include:
- Back-end software development
- Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
- Working together with engineers and product teams
- Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
- Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
- Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team
What we are looking for:
- 2+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
- Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle.
- Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
- Experience with Databases.
- Experience with writing REST-APIs.
- Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
- Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
- Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
- A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
Bonus:
- Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Requests, sklearn, Selenium
- Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
- Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
- Good Humor
The Solution Architect plays a critical role in the architecture design and development of globally consistent Liquidity and Cash Management solutions and is a key contributor to the overall delivery in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
Responsibilities:
- Develops technology road maps, while keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies, and recommends business directions based on these technologies
- Provides technical leadership and is responsible for developing components of, or the overall systems design.
- Translates complex business problems into sound technical solutions.
- Provides integrated systems planning and recommends innovative technologies that will enhance the current system.
- Contribute to ongoing architecture governance and reviewing proposed solutions.
- Lead integration of new and existing components with ICG Platforms.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years relevant experience
- Experience as Full-Stack Developer and Experience as Architect Desired
- Understanding of integration technologies concepts like Webservices, REST API etc
- Familiar with DevOps tools like Maven, Jenkins, Bitbucket etc
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Management and prioritization skills
- Ability to develop working relationships
- Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
Education:
- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree
- B.E/B.Tech or any relevant Masters degree from reputed college
- 2 to 4 years of experience with Java / J2EE application development stack
- Experience with: Spring framework(Core, JPA, Security, Boot), Hibernate, Secure APIs using JWT/OAUTH
- Good understanding of OOPS concepts
- Proficient understanding of code quality standards
- Solid experience in design, coding, unit testing and debugging
Good to have: Optional
- Working experience with microservices, sonar, docker, K8s, jenkins
- Knowledge of AWS cloud


