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Role overview
1) Overall 5 to 7 years of experience. Node.js experience is must.
2) At least 3+ years of experience or couple of large-scale products delivered on microservices.
3) Strong design skills on microservices and AWS platform infrastructure.
4) Excellent programming skill in Python, Node.js and Java.
5) Hands on development in rest API’s.
6) Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability.
We are looking for a skilled Backend Developer with strong experience in building, scaling, and optimizing server-side systems. The ideal candidate is proficient in Node.js, FastAPI (Python), and database design, with hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js and FastAPI
Build robust data models and optimize performance for SQL and NoSQL databases
Architect and deploy backend services on GCP/AWS, leveraging managed cloud services.
Implement clean, modular, and testable code with proper CI/CD and observability (logs, metrics, alerts)
Ensure system reliability, security, and high availability for production environments
Requirements:
2–5 years of backend development experience
Strong proficiency in Node.js, FastAPI, REST APIs, and microservice architecture
Solid understanding of PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/Redis or similar NoSQL systems
Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, and modern DevOps workflows
Experience with caching, queueing, authentication, and API performance optimization
Good to Have:
Experience with event-driven architecture, WebSockets, or serverless functions
Familiarity with Kubernetes or Terraform
Job Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
Industry: Artificial Intelligence
You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work withfront-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.
Requirements:
● B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
● 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years
in an architectural role.
● Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge
plus.
● Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive
adoption within the extended technology team
● Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s),
platforms and core technologies
● Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering
process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond
ownership
● Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
● Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
● Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
● A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
● Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS,
message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra,
Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as
Docker and Kubernetes etc.
● Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right
trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
● Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would
be a big plus.
We are a pre-seed stage startup & have set aside a large ESOP for this role that will create significant wealth for the successful candidate.
Our core customer-facing product today is a native Android application. In addition to this, we are building internal tools for customer support, investment management, marketing analytics and business management. In the future, we plan to hugely expand the features in our core product, build iOS and web products, and continuously improve our internal tools to better serve our customers.
For our back-end, we use Node.js / MySQL / AWS. We are currently a 3-member engineering team (1 back-end, 1 Android, 1 full stack) led by our founding engineer and advised by a senior technology executive from a leading fintech company.
Key Responsibilities of the Role
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software applications
- Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
- Set-up our technology infrastructure and integrate with 3rd party applications
- Contribute to internal discussions around product features, roadmap and technologies used
- Mentor & recruit engineers to the team
- Set up processes related to engineering & product
Skills / Required Experience:
- B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent, with solid foundational knowledge in at least two general programming languages, data structures, algorithms, system architecture, security and networking protocols.
- At least 6 years of back-end development experience in a software product company is required for this role.
- Exposure to modern software development processes, multiple front-end and back-end technologies, and open-source software.
- Proficiency with tools like Gitlab/Jira/Firebase, as well as AWS and commonly used database systems etc. is required
- Experience in an early-stage startup or having founded your own startup would be good to have (but not necessary).
Prefer Immediate Joiners with Node experience only
Minimum 2 Years of experience in NodeJS. Minimum 1 Year experience in MongoDB Minimum 1 Year of experience in ElasticSearch.
Desired candidates must have 2-7 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then 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











