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Experience: 6+ years building production backend systems in Node.js for B2C products at meaningful scale.
• System Design: This one matters a lot to us. You can reason clearly about scalability, reliability, and trade-offs under real constraints.
• Fundamentals: Strong grasp of API design, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean code.
• Databases: Depth in SQL and/or NoSQL, data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• AI-Native: You already use LLMs and agentic approaches to maximize your own efficiency as an engineer.
• Mindset: You enjoy the pace and breadth of a small team, and you are happy picking up whatever moves the product forward.
Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
- Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family
Job Summary:
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Java Backend Developer with 4.5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, system design, and API integration. You’ll play a key role in designing and building high-performance backend systems that are scalable, secure, and reliable. As a core member of the engineering team, you’ll collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and other developers to deliver quality solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop backend components, REST APIs, and microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
- Contribute to the architectural decisions and system design discussions.
- Write clean, efficient, and testable code following best practices.
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Integrate third-party APIs and work with external systems.
- Participate in code reviews, mentor junior developers, and support the team’s technical growth.
- Work closely with DevOps to support CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in production and non-production environments.
- Keep up with industry trends and advocate for best practices in backend development.
Required Skills:
- 4.5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development with Java (Java 8 or above).
- Strong expertise in Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data).
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with microservices architecture.
- Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
- Proficient with version control systems like Git and tools like Maven or Gradle.
- Familiarity with Docker, containerization, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Experience with unit testing and integration testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc.).
- Good knowledge of software design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Responsibilities:
• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.
• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results
Requirements:
• Experience: 3+ years
• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science
• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms
• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications
• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus
• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms
• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python
• Language: GO or Python
• Strong expertise in DS and Algo
• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.
• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.
• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code
• Both HLD and LLD
Node.js Developer Responsibilities:
- Developing and maintaining server-side network components.
- 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:
- At least two years of 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.
Develop server-side applications using NestJS and NodeJS.
. Should have great hands-on knowledge of TypeOrm.
• Design and implement APIs, web services, and database models.
• Collaborate with front-end developers and other team members to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Optimize application performance for maximum speed and scalability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging of applications.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues, ensuring high application reliability.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and apply them to projects as necessary.
• Collaborate with team members, participate in code reviews, and provide constructive feedbacks.
• Follow best practices and coding standards to ensure high-quality and maintainable code..
Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science...
● Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
● Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
● Implementation of security and data protection.
● Integration of data storage solutions.
● Familiar with Graphql, REST APIs, MongoDB, SQL, NoSQL, AWS services, Firebase. (Knowledge of web sockets is optional)
Skyber is a fintech based in Mumbai, India, and is building a connected commerce platform and disruptive Enterprise SaaS with the fundamental of digitalizing, unifying, and streamlining business processes and transactions.
Our flagship platform - Dhanda (https://mydhanda.com">https://mydhanda.com) is live on Play Store and iOS App Store🚀
At Skyber, we are obsessed with our vision to create an ecosystem for Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Business Owners & freelancers of Bharat where we provide them with procurements to payments & enquiry to invoicing platform. Skyber was born out of the need to bring back the focus on these business owners, to empower them so that they can ride along with the technology wave and adopt the phigital way.
To build such a community we require people with the same vision who are working towards making this dream possible for us and for all these business owners.
Your Key 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.
- 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
- Following an agile framework of development
Who can apply :
Only those candidates can apply who:
- Are available for full time. Right now the team is working from home but when the situation improves we expect them to come to Office. ( Office is situated in Goregaon, Mumbai )
- At least 2 years of professional work experience in the field of design along with a strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience.
- Can join the team on an immediate basis.
- Have relevant skills and interests.
Perks :
- Flexible work hours
- Informal dress code
- A ticket on our rocket ship to the Moon 🚀
Here’s what you will get if you work with us :
- Working with a young & dynamic team that constantly tests your thinking and beliefs.
- No specific work timings. We believe that your work should speak for you and not the time.
- Constant amusement by Dot (Warning: Apply only if you love dogs) 🐶
- Occasional doses of Yummy Home Cooked food 😋
- Homelike Work Environment (We also have a bed if you need to sleep - even though we think you won't get any for a while)










