Node.Js Developer

Full stack Developer (Ref.ID: VRPL-FSD-Chn-0326)

No. of Positions: 2 Nos. Senior 1 No. Junior 1 No.

API Development & Architecture:

Design and develop scalable RESTful APIs using Node.js & TypeScript

Build modular, reusable, and clean backend architecture

Implement authentication & authorization (JWT / OAuth / Role-based access)

Ensure API security best practices

Write well-structured documentation (Swagger / Postman)

Real-Time Communication (Sockets):

Develop real-time features using WebSockets / Socket.io

Implement:

Live tracking

Real-time notifications

Status updates

Chat systems

Optimize socket performance and reconnection handling

Ensure scalability under concurrent user load

Database & Data Layer (PostgreSQL):

Design scalable and optimized database schemas

Write complex SQL queries & joins

Implement indexing & query optimization

Handle transactions and concurrency control

Work with ORMs like Prisma / TypeORM (preferred)

Maintain database security and backup strategies

Ensure data security and backups

Performance & Scalability:

Optimize API response times

Implement caching strategies (Redis preferred)

Design rate limiting and throttling mechanisms

Ensure system reliability & fault tolerance

Handle background jobs & queues

Deployment & DevOps Collaboration:

Deploy applications on AWS / GCP

Work with Docker containers

Implement CI/CD pipelines

Monitor logs & performance metrics

WhatsApp Business Integration:

Integrate WhatsApp Business API (Cloud / On-Premise)

Work with providers like Exotel / Twilio (preferred)

Implement Template messaging

OTP authentication

Notifications & alerts

Two-way communication

Manage webhook events and delivery tracking

Ensure compliance with WhatsApp policies

Required Skills:

Strong proficiency in Node.js

Hands-on experience with TypeScript

Strong experience in PostgreSQL

Experience building RESTful APIs

Experience with WebSockets / Socket.io

Good understanding of system design & architecture

Git version control

Knowledge of API security best practices

Preferred Skills:

Experience in real-time platforms (ride-hailing, delivery, chat systems)

Redis for caching

Message queues (Kafka / RabbitMQ / BullMQ)

Microservices architecture

Payment gateway integration

Cloud infrastructure knowledge

Soft Skills:

Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, and debugging skills

Startup mindset & ownership attitude

Ability to work in fast-paced startup environment and work independently

Good communication skills in all aspects

🚀 We’re Hiring: Senior Python Backend Developer 🚀

📍 Location: Baner, Pune (Work from Office)

💰 Compensation: ₹6 LPA

🕑 Experience Required: Minimum 2 years as a Python Backend Developer

About Us

Foto Owl AI is a fast-growing product-based company headquartered in Baner, Pune.

We specialize in:

⚡ Hyper-personalized fan engagement

🤖 AI-powered real-time photo sharing

📸 Advanced media asset management

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Python Backend Developer, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and deploying scalable backend systems that power our cutting-edge platforms.

Architect and develop complex, secure, and scalable backend services

Build and maintain APIs & data pipelines for web, mobile, and AI-driven platforms

Optimize SQL & NoSQL databases for high performance

Manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.)

Implement observability, monitoring, and security best practices

Collaborate cross-functionally with product & AI teams

Mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews

Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with efficiency

What We’re Looking For

✅ Strong expertise in Python backend development

✅ Solid knowledge of Data Structures & Algorithms

✅ Hands-on experience with SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, etc.)

✅ Proficiency in RESTful APIs & Microservice design

✅ Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native systems

✅ Experience managing AWS-based deployments

Why Join Us?

At Foto Owl AI, you’ll be part of a passionate team building world-class media tech products used in sports, events, and fan engagement platforms. If you love scalable backend systems, real-time challenges, and AI-driven products, this is the place for you.

Role description:

We are looking for Senior Software Engineer with expertise and experience in designing, developing and testing applications including new developments, enhancements, maintenance and support. The role involves continuous collaboration with team, partners.

Candidate description:

Responsibilities

• Building interactive consumer data from multiple systems and RESTfully abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend
• Address and improve any technical issues
• Strong commitment to quality and delivery
• Collaborate well with engineers, and specialists to design and create advanced, elegant and efficient system
• Create Unit and Integration tests to ensure the quality of code
• Be responsive to change requests and feature requests
• Write code that is cross-platform and cross-device compatible
• Ability to wear many hats and learn new technologies quickly
• Used CI/CD and AWS platform

Qualifications

Experience

• 4-8 years of experience in IT industry
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with MERN Fullstack paradigm

Requirements

• In depth working knowledge of NodeJS 
• Database – MongoDB, SQL, postgre

• Obsession with lean, clean and organized code

• Solid Understanding of HTTP protocol and how server-side code is processed on the client

• Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage:
• Experience with cloud technologies also a plus
• Creating secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, Javascript,
• Creating Unit test cases

What are we looking for?

A passionate backend developer Node.js specifically.

Who Should apply?

Apply only If you

● Think you are atleast 8 on 10 in Node.js

● And have been coding in Node.js for 3+ years

● Are super enthusiastic about building something that adds immense value to the lives of atleast 10Mn people

● Have built things single handedly

● Have immense hunger to learn, grow and prove yourself

Shortlisting Criteria

You will have to do a coding test.

We respect your time and are in no way doubting your skills, but that’s how you would like to hire someone in your team, right?

Why work with us?

Infinite freedom & ownership.

Work directly with the founders.

Zerodha the most profitable startup in the country, only has a 30 member tech team. We’re presently a 4 member tech team, you will be number 5.

Like you, we too love solving for time and space complexities.

What is the company about?

We are creating a stock market of creators.

Where Social Media Influencers can get funded by their fans and in return issue them coins which represent a stake in their future income.Imagine if you had invested in Tanmay Bhatt or CarryMinati 5 years back

We’re looking for a Ruby on Rails Software Engineer/Shopify App Developer who has experience working with the Shopify platform and is able to work on a Shopify app.

Your Daily Challenges

When we welcome you aboard we’ll introduce you to your Team, which consists of a front-end developer, a Shopify App Marketer who grew 2 apps to million dollar annual revenue, and a product manager.

These are the people you’ll work closely with on Product development day-to-day. Once you get settled in and learn more about the team, your day to day activities will look something like this:

1. Own the end-to-end development cycle for the Shopify app you’ll be working on.
2. Coordinate with fellow developers to get things done on time. 
3. Implement high quality code in an agile, test driven development environment
4. Review exception reports to identify and fix bugs
5. Development of new apps and features
6. Maintenance of existing features
7. Collaboration with cross-functional teams
8. Contributions of ideas to improve the product

Your Experience

1. 3-5 years of experience with Ruby on Rails
2. Experience with Shopify app development
3. Familiar with Sidekiq, PostgreSQL
4. Good understanding of HTML and CSS (positioning and styling)
5. Excellent communication skills
6. Takes pride in writing clean, organized, efficient code
7. An eye for detail
8. Experience with vanilla JavaScript and React a plus
9. Experience working in an entrepreneurial/startup environment

Your Compensation

1. The compensation range for this role is INR 14-18 LPA (~25K USD) + up to 5% equity.
2. The compensation varies with experience and qualifications. 
3. This is a full-time remote/work from home position.

Thanks for the time you took to read about this opportunity.

Job description 

• Lead design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications & back-end  services demonstrating service-oriented architecture. 
• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable APIs, services, and systems within the  platform. 
• Choose the right Data Structures, tools, and tech stacks and do high-level design with guidance. 
• Build, develop, mentor, review code and coach junior team members. 
• Extensive programming experience with cross-platform development: Java/SpringBoot,  Javascript/Node.js, Express.js or Python 
• Extensive knowledge of ElasticSearch, MongoDB or Cassandra, Redis, SQS and data  streaming (Spark, Flink, Kafka streams, storm, etc.). 
• Well versed in Kafka Understanding cloud native technologies such as Docker and  Kubernetes, capable to cover full development lifecycle including CI/CD 
• Experience in use of source code management system like GIT, bitbucket and build tools  like ant, maven, Gradle or make. 
• Take great pride in Code quality and developer productivity. 
• Put in Microservcies architecture in place that paves road for scalability, efficiency,  observability, and availability. 
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale  with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile. 
• Write algorithms and services to influence personalisation and recommendation from a  real-time recommendation engine for both home feed to surface most viral videos +  video e-commerce 
• Build machine learning pipelines using Kinesis,Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc 
• Agile methodologies, Sprint management, Roadmap, Mentoring, Documenting, Software  architecture 
• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems Liaison with Product Management, DevOps, QA, Client and other teams Your Experience Across The Years in the Roles You’ve Played 

• Have total or more 7 - 9 years of experience with 2-3 years in a startup. Have B.Tech or M.Tech or equivalent academic qualification from premier institute. Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred 
• Thoroughly aware of cloud computing infrastructure on AWS leveraging cloud native  service and infrastructure services to design solutions.
• Follow Cloud Native Computing Foundation leveraging mature open source projects  including understanding of containerisation/Kubernetes. 

We Value Engineers Who Are :

• Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the creator is ultimately what  will drive our business forward. 
• Obsessed with Quality: Your Production code just works & scales linearly 
• Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback  and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve. 
• Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our creators desire. You know when it’s  appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability 

Chingari Benefits 

The glory. Almost too much responsibility. 

A fun-life balance 

A ticket on our rocket ship to the moon. ��