
Instrive is a Chennai-based start-up that provides high-quality Dev-ops solutions for clients worldwide. We strive to solve problems and create value in this increasingly digital world. Instrive was founded to create high-quality products and deliver great user experiences worldwide.
Several products are being developed for both in-house purposes and our overseas clients, and we are actively expanding our team of talented professionals.
We are constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and our employees have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this innovation. Our flat organisational structure encourages open communication and idea-sharing and provides ample opportunities for employees to take ownership of their work and make a real impact.
As part of our ambitious product roadmap, we need senior developers with experience in NodeJS.
Your primary responsibility will be to develop UI components, processes, documentation, and an organisation-wide style guide that can be reused across all applications.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain web applications using Node.js, Express, and related technologies
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
- Collaborate with the team to design and implement new features and functionality
- Troubleshoot and debug issues to ensure a smooth user experience
- Optimize application performance and scalability
- Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards
- Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends
- Work with other developers, project managers, and stakeholders to understand project requirements and deliver high-quality solutions
Desired Candidate Profile:
- 3-5 years of experience in web application development using Node.js
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including experience with popular libraries and frameworks such as Express.js, Nest.js, and Mongoose
- Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Knowledge of web protocols and technologies such as HTTP, REST, and WebSockets
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and SQL databases like MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL
- Experience with Git and version control
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Adaptability to rapid change
Good to have:
- Experience with GraphQL and Apollo
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing frameworks
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven architecture
- Familiarity with cloud-based development tools such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions
- Familiarity with load balancing, caching, and performance optimisation techniques
- Experience working with remote teams and communicating effectively with remote stakeholders.
Perks and Benefits:
By working at the intersection of product, strategy, and technology, you will learn how to make strategic decisions, prioritise product features against business objectives, and put the user first.
In addition to the exciting work, Instrive offers our employees a comprehensive benefits package. This includes health insurance, paid time off, and professional development and training opportunities, so our employees can continue to grow and advance in their careers.
We focus on fostering a positive and collaborative work environment and are committed to helping our employees reach their full potential.
You will make a meaningful impact and create lasting connections with our outstanding team, no matter where your career takes you.

About Instrive Soft Labs Private Limited
About
Instrive is a Chennai-based software Development Company focused on high quality Dev-ops solutions for clients across the world.
We aim to solve problems and create value in this increasingly digital world. Instrive was started with one goal in mind. To create high-quality products and great user experiences for people across the world.
We are currently working on multiple products for our overseas clients and actively growing our team of talented professionals.
We believe in using the best tools for developers to enable seamless cross-border work and have a no-compromise attitude when it comes to ensuring the best user experience for all our products.
Instrive is one of the top companies chosen by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India in the innovation Challenge for the development of an Indian Video Conferencing Solution.
The Instrive CHEERS philosophy
Challenging: We believe in challenging work that lets you grow and become better every day. You can walk up to us any day if you feel the work that you are doing is not challenging and we promise to deliver you better work.
Healthy: We provide health benefits to all our employees. We also provide all our employees with parental leave, and paid holidays. Other perks include free food and drink, and where possible, flexible schedules and remote working.
Ethical: WE PROMISE NOT TO OVER COMMIT AND UNDER DELIVER. We believe in honest conversations and living up to our commitments, both with our clients and our employees.
Execution-first: We have invested significantly in processes and technologies to help us deliver work significantly faster than the rest of the market without affecting our well-being. Everything from the hardware to the software we use is state of the art and ahead of what the market provides.
Realistic expectations: WE DO NOT EXPECT our employees to work six-day weeks and late nights. Period.
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Our client is a luxury home decor brand. It's nothing less than a revolution in the home decor industry- where technology enables world-class home interior design. We use technology combined with internationally trained designers to help our customers achieve the style they want to express.
Our services include unique technology-driven processes and analytics, consulting, execution, and supervision – all within schedule and planned budget, so they can relax and enjoy their space transformation with peace of mind.
We encourage our consumers to explore and discover their own self-expression while amazing their senses with new cultures and design techniques, tasteful décor, and ambiance.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks
• Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud
• Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability
• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server[1]side logic
. • Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
Skills:
• Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap
• Curious and progressive mind to Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs
• Good technical knowledge to Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed
• Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.
Requirements.
• Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies
• Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out-of-the-box ideas
• Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps
• Computer science degree or equivalent experience
• Experience leading a team is a bonus.
• 3+ Years of relevant experience.
• PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.
•Proficient in MySQL. MongoDB knowledge is plus.
•APIs, REST API, API Security.
• Laravel Events, Queue, Observers.
• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design
• Experience writing highly secure web applications.
The tech stack looks like the below (expect this to change as we scale):
- Typescript for APIs (REST and GraphQL)
- Kafka, Spark, and data warehouses for ML pipelines (spark on python/scala)
- Solidity + hardhat for smart contracts (in the future, rust, go and move)
- AWS & Terraform
- Full nodes
You can expect to do some or all of the following:
- Read through protocols’ whitepapers and smart contracts to derive metrics and analyze risks
- Architect the backend for APIs, async jobs, and blockchain integration
- Build clean, concise APIs for customer integration, along with the documentation
- Setup, run and maintain full and archive nodes across different chains
- Integrate with multiple partners like exchanges and custody providers
- Fool-proof security across the stack - encryption, hashing, privacy, VPC, etc.
- Infrastructure as code - build terraform scripts and ensure easy replication of the infra across different regions
- Research the top DeFi protocols to uncover better insights for our customers and evaluate their risk profiles, security, and historical returns
- Manage production deployments, logging, and monitoring
We expect you to be fairly comfortable with working with both web3 and web2 stacks. We do not expect that you have web3 experience on day 1, but you should be willing to wear multiple hats, learn things quickly and move fast.
About you
- Generalist, a solid engineer who can learn things on your own and have an eye for clean, tested, and well-documented code
- We don’t look at the number of years of work experience as a criterion, but rather see what you have done in your life so far (side projects, open-source contributions, blogs, etc.). We don’t care about degrees, the institutions you went to, or the companies you worked for before. We are open to talking as long as you have good judgment, great clarity, align with our values and have a strong track record of thoughtful work
- Understand the fundamentals of building and integrating APIs and secure systems. Bonus if you know a bit about blockchains and protocols
- You can be strong on the backend, front-end, or can dabble everywhere. We want you to play to your strengths and will provide enough opportunities to learn and do things outside of your comfort zone
Pay and benefits We offer a solid, competitive package (including early-stage equity) that is location agnostic. We give you the flexibility to choose the split between cash and equity.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end developers, designers, and system administrators to develop robust and scalable server-side applications.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and services using Node.js, ensuring efficient data handling and integration.
- Develop database schemas and models for MongoDB, optimizing queries and ensuring data integrity.
- Implement data migration and transformation tasks between different data sources.
- Write efficient and reusable code, following best practices and coding standards.
- Conduct thorough testing and debugging of applications to identify and fix issues promptly.
- Collaborate with DevOps team to deploy applications on servers or cloud platforms.
- Continuously monitor application performance and optimize it for scalability and reliability.
- Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends, actively suggesting improvements and innovative solutions.
Requirements:
- Strong proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript.
- Solid understanding of server-side development and asynchronous programming concepts.
- Experience working with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB).
- Knowledge of database design and query optimization techniques.
- Familiarity with web application security principles and best practices.
- Proficiency in using version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Good understanding of agile development methodologies.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Effective communication and collaboration abilities.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting system design, development, and maintenance
- Taking responsibility for personal technical quality standards within the team
- Assisting in defining structured practices, especially in source code management, building, and deployment
- Optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Taking initiatives to build better and faster solutions to the problems of scale
Requirements:
- Experience with NodeJS for at least 3-5 years
- Experience with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
- Experience with other programming languages such as Go, Python, and Java
- Experience being in a leadership/ mentorship position for 2-3 years
- Should have built systems that have scaled to at least ten thousand users
- Should have an open mind to learn and experiment with new technologies as our needs change
You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.
Your core responsibilities:
- Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
- Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
- Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
- Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
- Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
- Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.
What will help you thrive in this role?
- Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
- Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
- Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
- Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
- Good in Database schema design.
- Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
- Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
- Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
- Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.
Whom you will be sharing your work day with?
We are a language agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are:- We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
- We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
- We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
- We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
- Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
- We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.
And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.
Work Perks
- Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere.
- A great salary, commensurate with experience.
- Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
- A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
- Weekly parties (Unofficial).
- Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
- Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.
We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data
between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side
logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and
responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the
front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic
understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Must-Have:
● Strong proficiency with JavaScript.
● Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, and AJAX.
● Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (such as Express, StrongLoop, etc
depending on your technology stack).
● Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and
workarounds.
● Good understanding of server-side templating languages. (such as Jade, EJS, etc
depending on your technology stack)
● Development experience designing object-oriented JavaScript and SVG.
● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments.
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
● 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.
Good to have:
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
● Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
● Typescript and Mongo DB knowledge.
● Knowledge of REST & GRPC.
● Understanding of containerization (Docker).
Responsibilities:
● Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
● Writing API Documentation.
● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant
applications.
● Implementation of security and data protection.
● Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob
stores, etc.).
● Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side
logic.
Candidate must have experience with start up product based companies.
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