MEAN/MERN Stack Developer

About OptimizeGEO

OptimizeGEO.ai is our flagship product that helps brands stay visible and discoverable in AI-powered answers. Unlike traditional SEO that optimizes for keywords and rankings, OptimizeGEO operationalizes GEO principles ensuring brands are mentioned, cited, and trusted by generative systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, etc.) and answer engines (featured snippets, voice search, and AI answer boxes).

Founded by industry veterans Kirthiga Reddy (ex-Meta, MD Facebook India) and Saurabh Doshi (ex-Meta, ex-Viacom), Company is backed by Micron Ventures, Better Capital, FalconX, and leading angels including Randi Zuckerberg, Vani Kola and Harsh Jain.

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build the data and services layer that powers OptimizeGEO’s analytics, scoring, and reporting. This role partners closely with our GEO/AEO domain experts and data teams to translate framework gap analysis, share-of-voice, entity/knowledge-graph coverage, trust signals into scalable backend systems and APIs.

You will design secure, reliable, and observable services that ingest heterogeneous web and third-party data, compute metrics, and surface actionable insights to customers via dashboards and reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Own backend services for data ingestion, processing, and aggregation across crawlers, public APIs, search consoles, analytics tools, and third-party datasets.
• Operationalize GEO/AEO metrics (visibility scores, coverage maps, entity health, citation/trust signals, competitor benchmarks) as versioned, testable algorithms.
• Data Scaping using various tools and working on volume estimates for accurate consumer insights for brands
• Design & implement APIs for internal use (data science, frontend) and external consumption (partner/export endpoints), with clear SLAs and quotas.
• Data pipelines & orchestration: batch and incremental jobs, queueing, retries/backoff, idempotency, and cost-aware scaling.
• Storage & modeling: choose fit-for-purpose datastores (OLTP/OLAP), schema design, indexing/partitioning, lineage, and retention.
• Observability & reliability: logging, tracing, metrics, alerting; SLOs for freshness and accuracy; incident response playbooks.
• Security & compliance: authN/authZ, secrets management, encryption, PII governance, vendor integrations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with domain experts to convert research into productized features and executive-grade reports.

Required Qualification (Must Have)

• Familiarity with technical SEO artifacts: schema.org/structured data, E-E-A-T, entity/knowledge-graph concepts, and crawl budgets.
• Exposure to AEO/GEO and how LLMs weigh sources, citations, and trust; awareness of hallucination risks and mitigation.
• Experience integrating SEO/analytics tools (Google Search Console, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Similarweb, Screaming Frog) and interpreting their data models.
• Background in digital PR/reputation signals and local/international SEO considerations.
• Comfort working with analysts to co-define KPIs and build executive-level reporting.

Expected Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building backend systems in production (startups or high-growth product teams preferred).
• Proficiency in one or more of: Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Go, or Java.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Hands-on with data pipelines (Airflow/Prefect, Kafka/PubSub, Spark/Flink or equivalent) and REST/GraphQL API design.
• Strong grounding in systems design, scalability, reliability, and cost/performance trade-offs.

Tooling & Stack (Illustrative)

• Runtime: Python/TypeScript/Go
• Data: Postgres/BigQuery + object storage (S3/GCS)
• Pipelines: Airflow/Prefect, Kafka/PubSub
• Infra: AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Cloud Logging
• Collab: GitHub, Linear/Jira, Notion, Looker/Metabase

Working Model

• Hybrid-remote within India with limited periodic in-person collaboration
• Startup velocity with pragmatic processes; bias to shipping, measurement, and iteration.

Equal Opportunity

OptimizeGEO is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

As a developer at CultureMonkey, you will be joining a world-class team of domain experts who are passionate about technology and people. An ideal day at CultureMonkey will see you working closely with the founding team to ideate and implement new features to enhance our product. As an organization helping top companies build a positive work culture, we are pretty serious about practicing what we preach. Work-life balance is a big deal here!

What you bring to the table:

• Writing and maintaining reliable code that abides to Object Oriented Design.
• Own up implementation of the entire module (comprises front-end and back-end components)
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs in the product.
• Collaborate with customer success team to understand and analyze the requirements to build efficient solutions.
• Maintaining APIs.
• Participate in design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Optimize application for performance and scalability.

What it takes:

• Ability to learn and write production-ready code
• Basic understanding of Object oriented programming and MVC.
• Exposure to front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Familiar in database concepts and writing SQL queries.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with an ability to communicate technical information, both written and oral, to technical and non-technical reviewers.

Extra brownie points if you have

• Hands on experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Basic understanding of Elastic-search
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Exposure to RESTful api.

Apart from financial gains, to know more about the benefits of working at CultureMonkey, you can refer to the following link: https://www.culturemonkey.io/life-at-cultureMonkey/

Description

• Responsible for developing Web Applications.
• Design, Develop, enhance and test front-end, back-end web modules using Node.js, Express framework, My Sql and Mongo DB.
• Research and explore existing solutions, competition, to get a holistic understanding of the Design and development.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with various teams for effective outcomes.
• Meet deadlines in a high intensity work environment 

Primary Skills :

• Proficient in Nodejs
• Understanding of Front-End Technologies
• Good Knowledge of Node
• Proficient in RESTful APIs and API Communications
• Good Grasp of Asynchronous Programming and Its Workarounds
• Database Schema Creation for Business Processes
• Working Knowledge in User Authentication and Authorization
• Write Efficient Code
• Implementing Data Protection
• Error-Handling Skills