Node.js Developer

We're looking for a Backend Lead Engineer to join our Engineering Team. The Engineering Team forms the backbone of our core business. We build and iterate over our core platform that handles orders, payments, delivery promises, order tracking, logistics integrations to name a few. Our products are actively used by Fynd users, Operations, Delights, and Finance teams. Our team consists of generalist engineers who work on building REST APIs, Internal tools, and Infrastructure for all these users.

What will you do at Fynd?

• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Managing and mentoring a team of 2-5 engineers, Delegating tasks, and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
• Build bulletproof API integrations with third-party APIs for various use cases with the team.
• Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
• Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well operate large-scale applications on AWS
• Give back to the open-source community through contributions on code and blog posts
• This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements
• Write technical documentation

Some Specific Requirements

• Atleast 2+ years of Tech Lead Experience, 5+ years of Development Experience
• You have prior experience developing and working on consumer-facing web/app products
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Operating Systems
• Hands-on experience in JavaScript / Python / Node.Js. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good at any other language with experience in building web-app based tech products
• Good knowledge of async programming using Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await
• Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Flask, Sanic, Fastapi would be plus
• Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Express.js, Koa.js, Socket.io
• Hands-on experience with Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS, and AJAX. Plus knowledge of Frontend Frameworks and Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - React.Js, Angular, Vue.js.
• Deep knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, or MySQL
• Basic knowledge of event-based systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• You should have experience with deploying and scaling Microservices.
• You've worked with AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• Deep Knowledge of Cloud-Native Application Architecture: Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices

Role Overview

Join our engineering team as a developer with a strong focus on test architecture. You'll drive quality through active development and testing, contributing to core application features while maintaining test suites. Prior testing experience isn’t required—what matters is your passion for development and your potential to grow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain comprehensive unit tests.
• Investigate and resolve bugs in production code.
• Contribute to feature development as needed.
• Collaborate in code reviews and improve test coverage.
• Assist in implementing test automation strategies.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in JavaScript/Node.js development (any level).
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to balance development and testing tasks.
• A growth mindset with a desire to learn and adapt.

Growth & Learning:

• Master modern testing frameworks, enhance full-stack skills, and gain TDD expertise.

What We Offer:

• Hands-on experience, mentorship, flexible work, and competitive benefits.

• • Key Result Areas
  
  
  1. Develop and lead desktop and mobile web Back end development. 
  2. Work on Node JS platform.
  3. Strong focus on UI Performance: optimize page load, rendering, caching, leveraging CDNs.
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  1. Technology Skills:
  
  
  • Advanced Javascript, CSS, HTML 5, D/XHTML, XML, JSON, DOM Concepts
  • Must have worked on a SPA frameworks:Nodejs, AngularJS or InfernoJS
  • Familiarity with common Javascript Libraries such as jQuery.
  • Fluent in responsive design and mobile / tablet UI / UX
  • Knowledge about UI testing automation
  • Web mobile (touch devices: mobiles and tablets) experience is expected
  • UI or API Performance: should have hands-on experience of optimizing page load, rendering,caching.
  • Good understanding of AJAX and its UI implications
  • Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective

About the Role

The Engineering team in Bangalore, India is building products for the Martial Arts

fans across the world. As part of the engineering team, you would be expected to have

deep technology expertise with a passion for building highly scalable products.

This is a unique opportunity where you can impact the lives of people across 150+

countries!

Responsibilities

Own architecture, design, development, and implementation of different

modules/features of the services

Design, develop, deploy and support web applications.

Discover opportunities for performance improvements

Recommend ways to improve reliability, efficiency and code quality

Focus on continuous delivery and reducing complexity

Carry out code reviews and manage pull requests

Build applications based on micro-services architecture.

Requirements

Overall 1~3 years of experience in Backend development.

B. E/B. Tech in CS or equivalent streams from institute of repute (IITs, NITs, BITs,

IIITs or equivalent)

Strong object oriented design skills & knowledge of design patterns

Experience designing & developing distributed systems involving multiple web

services, databases (both SQL and NoSQL), caches, queues, etc. taking into

consideration scalability, availability, fault tolerance, consistency, etc. of the

overall system

Well-aware of and enforces development best practices: Unit Tests, Code Reviews,

Integration Tests, CI/CD, Monitoring, Alerting, etc.

• 2+ years of experience with Node.js
• Expertise in Typescript, AWS, Firebase, MongoDB, and Express

You will be bringing:

• Hands-on experience in writing applications using Node.js (including Socket.io and Express or similar)
• Excellent knowledge of a few of the available databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Proficiency in application deployment on Linux or Ubuntu environments
• Proficiency in JavaScript languages like React and/or Angular, along with a comprehensive experience in open-source frameworks
• Experience in server-client architecture project(s)
• Ability to prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
• An open, growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback

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 skills for Node.js developers are:

• Socket.io - For chat applications
• Databases - MySQL and MongoDB
• AWS - Basic Knowledge
• Experience with Git and GitHub
• Ability to write tests
• Experience in your niche
• Efficiency in writing code

Responsibilities:

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Own & build new modules/features end-to-end independently.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Thorough understanding of Node.js, JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds.
• Excellence in at least one framework like strongloop loopback, express.js, sail.js etc.
• Excellence in at least one Javascript framework like Angular, vue.js, Ember, React or Backbone.
• Basic architectural understanding of modern day web applications.
• Diligence for coding standards.
• Must be good with git and git workflow.
• Experience of external integrations is a plus.
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCC, Azure.
• Expertise with linux based systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like jenkins is a plus.
• Experience with testing and automation frameworks.
• Extensive understanding of RDBMS systems.
• Interpersonal Go-getter attitude and a passion for making killer web applications.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a high pressure environment.
• Ability to quickly understand complex problems and devise effective solutions.
• Knowledge of D3/NodeJS/AngularJS/lodash etc.
• Experience on Cloud as a platform or Infrastructure.
• Inclination to application design standards.