
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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We are seeking a highly skilled Node.js backend developer to join our dynamic team.
The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Node.js development. Knowledge of frontend frameworks like React.js or Angular, AI-driven development, Python, and AWS is a plus.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design and develop a NodeJS backend with a modular, scalable architecture.
• Build REST APIs and WebSocket services for real-time updates.
• Optimize PostgreSQL queries, ensure proper indexing, and manage database migrations.
• Implement role-based authentication & authorization (JWT, RBAC in NestJS).
• Set up event-driven patterns (Redis pub/sub, background jobs, async processing).
• Integrate with external api’s (JSON-RPC, XML-RPC, REST).
• Optimize API response times (caching, Redis, database tuning).
• Ensure secure API development (encryption, secure credentials storage).
• Provide technical mentorship to junior developers and contribute to architectural decisions.
Node.js Developer Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
- Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
- Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
- Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
- Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
- 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.
Node.js Developer Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
- At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
- Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
- Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
- Great organizational and time management skills.
- Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.
Backend Developer Job Description
Job Title: Backend Developer
Location: Nipania, Indore
Job Type: Full-time
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Backend Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building robust server-side applications and services. You will work closely with frontend developers to ensure seamless integration between the server-side logic and user-facing features.
Responsibilities:
- Implement efficient and secure backend services using Node.js and Python.
- Design and implement data storage solutions using MongoDB.
- Write effective APIs to support frontend functionalities.
- Optimize applications for performance, security, and scalability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Maintain cloud services on AWS, including AWS EC2, Amplify, S3, Route 53, Cloudfront, Lambda & AWS CLI..
- Troubleshoot and debug issues across the backend stack.
Requirements:
- Proficient understanding of the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js).
- Good experience using Docker and cloud services (AWS or Digital Ocean).
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and testing APIs with Postman.
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms (e.g., JWT).
- Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex issues.
- Experience or knowledge of GraphQL is a plus.
Benefits:
- Leave encashment
- Provident Fund
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Fixed shift
Location- 840, Hare Krishna Vihar, Nipania, Indore, Madhya Pradesh 452010
You will be working hands-on on a complex and compound product that has the potential to be used by millions of sales and marketing people around the world. Your contribution to delivering an excellent product platform that:
- enables quick iteration
- supports product customization
- and handles scale
What do we expect you to have?
- 2+ years of experience in backend engineering
- An intent to learn and an urge to build a product by learning different technologies
- Interest in writing complex, scalable, and maintainable backend applications
- Tech stack requirements:
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- Experience in building application server in Java (Spring / Spring boot) / NodeJS / Golang / Python
- Experience in using SQL databases and designing schemas based on application need
- Experience with container services and runtimes (docker / docker-compose / k8s)
- Experience with cloud paas (AWS / GCP / Azure cloud)
- Experience and familiarity with microservices’ concepts
- Experience with bash scripting
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- Preferred experience with org wide message queue (rabbitmq / aws sqs)
- Preferred experience with task orchestration services (apache airflow / aws step function)
- Preferred experience with infra as code (or system configuration) tools (terraform / chef / ansible)
- Preferred experience with build essential tools (make / makefile)
- Preferred experience with monitoring and tracing systems for performance / system / application monitoring (grafana + loki + prometheus / aws cloudwatch)
What will you learn?
- Building highly available, complex, compound, performant systems of microservices platform that acts as an API layer
- Industry-standard state-of-the-art tools + methodologies + frameworks + infra for building a product.
- Fable is not a trivial CRUD app. It requires a lot of consideration and care for building the API layer as the product is highly customizable per user.
- How different functions (sales, marketing, product, engineering) in a high-velocity product company work in synergy to deliver an iterative product in real life.
Who would you be working with?
- You would be directly working with the co-founder & CTO who has built multiple companies before and has built large teams in large-scale companies like ThoughtSpot, Unacademy, etc.
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- Fully remote.
- 5 days/week (all public and government holidays will be non-working days).
- No specific work hours (we will sync over zoom over the course of the day).
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• Experience in working with any NodeJs web framework(Express or Hapi)
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• Design and development of new and enhance existing applications using Node.JS
• Collaborate with internal and external team members to ensure projects get delivered as planned
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- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
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- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
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- At least 2 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
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- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
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- Responsible for team management, monitoring, reporting and proper and timely project execution
- Will lead a team of developers who will be responsible for building the product
- Work with senior management to define software requirements and take the lead on technical projects
- Develop high-quality software that is aligned with customer needs and business goals
- To ensure that software deliverables comply with quality standards and are completed on time
- Ensure maintenance of the organization’s operating systems and other technical equipment in use
- Document and demonstrate solutions by following the documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
- Experience with building scalable REST API with NodeJS (low-latency, high-availability)
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- Experience with databases - MongoDB, Redis
- Extremely competent with Javascript - objects, control structures,event loops, callbacks
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• BE/BTech in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Good knowledge of JavaScript, JSON, Relational/NoSQL DB,
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• Knowledge of Restful Web Services
• Understanding of OOPS, Data Structure, and Algorithms
• Knowledge of Python will be a plus point.
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