

- Experienced backend developer with extensive work on nodejs and backbonejs along with good English spoken language.
- Develop new user-facing features
- Build structured, reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Maintain, contribute and adhere to our programming best practices and guidelines
- Advanced understanding of emerging web technologies
Key Functions & Roles of the Candidate:
- Would be part of core technical team and will be updating the product with new and challenging tasks
- Good understanding of the concepts behind models, collections, and views
- Familiarity with input validation techniques and approaches
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Enthusiasm for innovation in the tech industry, including continuous learning and improvement
Specific Skill Set:
- Salesforce Implementation or Knowledge
- Node.js, MongoDB, Heroku API
- API and NODE.JS is a must

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Role: Backend Engineer
Experience: 2–4 Years
Location: Remote
Education: B.Tech/M.Tech from IITs only
Tech Stack: Node.js, Golang, Microservices, REST APIs, AWS
What You’ll Do
- Design and build scalable backend services using Node.js and Golang
- Develop RESTful APIs and microservices architecture for high-performance applications
- Optimize and refactor code for performance and scalability
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and data teams
- Work in a cloud-native AWS environment with CI/CD and containerization
What We’re Looking For
- 2–4 years of backend development experience
- Strong hands-on with Node.js and Golang
- Experience in building distributed systems and APIs
- Good understanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and performance optimization
- Must be from IITs (any campus)
- Strong problem-solving skills and startup mindset
Perks:
- 100% Remote Work
- Work with a high-caliber team from top institutes
- Impact-driven, fast-paced startup culture
We're seeking passionate, next-gen minded engineers who are excited about solving complex technical challenges and building innovative, first-of-its-kind products which make a tangible difference for our customers. As a Backend SDE-1, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams across business, product, and operations to solve exciting problems. This role demands strong technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and a mindset focused on innovation and operational excellence.
We value individuals who think independently, challenge the status quo, and bring creativity and curiosity to the table—not those who simply follow instructions. If you're passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and constantly prioritise your own work.
- Technical Excellence: Understand the onground problems, explore and design various possible solutions to conclude and implement scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Implement and learn best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
- Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
- Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 1+ years of experience in software engineering
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
- Hands on with multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
- Understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.
Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch
- Candidate should have strong work experience in JavaScript(ES6+)
- Hands on application development using Node JS, Express JS, MongoDB and Mongoose
- Good understanding of Web Technology, RESTful APIs, JSON structures
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Exposure in AWS Services will be an added advantage
Responsibilities and Duties
- Design, code, test and document software according to the functional requirements.
- Analyze, diagnose and resolve errors related to applications.
- Provide application and user support.
• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support changing business processes thereby
ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
Integrating multiple data sources & databases in one system
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing & implementing low-latency & high-performance applications by writing testable,
reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests. Running diagnostic tests, repairing
defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development
Desired Candidate Profile :-
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript & ES6
• Good Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express, HapiJS, Mongoose,
Sequelize, etc.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Handlebars, EJS, etc
• Good knowledge of MongoDB, its limitation and workarounds, replica sets, sharding, clustering
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and
optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Proficient understanding of API testing tools, such as Postman
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude
Backend Developer - Node.JS - AirFi
AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.
AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!
Your key responsibilities
- Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.
- Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.
- You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.
- Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimisations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.
What we look for
- Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features
- You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders
- You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
- You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues.
- You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills
- Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.
- Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis
Must have technical skills
- MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 7+ years
- Experience NodeJS, MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB - 7+ years
- Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 5+ years
You get bonus point for
- Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)
- Experience in AngularJS, React, etc - 2+ years
- Linux skills (we run on embedded Linux)
- Expertise HTML5, CSS,
- Experience on Cloudant, AWS, GCP etc.
- Experience on eCommerce or payments related domains
What you can expect
We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We provide a great platform to take up multiple roles based on individual interests or skills and collaborate with different global teams. We boast of a professional, fun work environment with a flat hierarchy and super supportive people to work with. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!
What more do we offer?
Some of our benefits that our employees cherish:
- Flexible work timings, remote working and work from home options
- Liberal employee policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping the work culture non toxic
- A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves
- We provide Skill enhancement sponsorships
- Celebratory team events, regular team virtual GupShups and fun engagement activities including the annual team (destination) meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
- Meal coupons and random gift vouchers
- Career longevity perks and so on!
When we're in office some of the things that make AirFi an interesting place to work are - healthy breakfast, snacks and a fully loaded pantry (read: health alert!); we try to keep AirFi as a fun place to work at and have interesting team activities on Fridays with occasional beers.
You get the opportunity to work and socialise with our global team when they visit or when you visit our customer offices/hangers. Last but not the least, in case you are an aviation geek - the opportunity to be on test flights and learn how the aviation industry works!
Follow and engage with Us!
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/airfi">LinkedIn
- https://www.facebook.com/AirFi.aero">Facebook
- https://twitter.com/airfi_aero">Twitter
- http://airfi.aero/">Website

• You will design high level architecture solutions, write high quality code, do code reviews
• You will take ownership to run and maintain the services in Cloud infrastructure
• You will continuously evaluate relevant technologies, influence and drive architecture and design discussions
You must have
• Strong desire to work at an early stage startup
• Strong desire to learn and improve yourself every day
• Strong hands-on development experience
• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, and complexity analysis
• Strong knowledge of sql/nosql databases
• Strong experience in developing Rest APIs
• Hands-on experience in developing and deploying MicroServices
• Experience with designing scalable architecture
• Strong knowledge of git
• Experience with redis, memcache
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Experience with ElasticSearch, Solr
• Experience with running applications in production, CI/CD
• Experience with performance tuning
• At least 2 year experience in leading a small team of developers
It would be nice if you also have
• Experience with Google Maps or similar technologies
• Experience with geospatial applications/libraries
Advanced proficiency in MEAN Stack (NodeJS, MongoDB, Express, Angular JS)
Proficiency and hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Backbone / Knockout JS / Ember JS / React JS
Knowledge of JQuery would be an added advantage
Thorough knowledge of software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, continuous integration and continuous delivery
Thorough knowledge of Node.JS, MongoDB, Angular JS, Express JS and JavaScript
Ability to plan core architecture, and to enhance it from time to time
Strong analytical mindset to derive actionable analytics from data





