NodeJS Developer

Location: Bangalore 

About us 

RockED is the premier people development platform for the automotive industry, supporting the entire employee lifecycle from pre-hire and onboarding to upskilling and career transitions. With microlearning content, gamified delivery, and real-time feedback, RockED is educating the automotive workforce and solving the industry's greatest business challenges. 

The RockED Company Inc. is headquartered in Florida. Backed by top industry experts and investors, we’re a well-funded startup on an exciting growth journey. Our R&D team (Indian entity) is at the core of all product and technology innovation 

We partner with 10000+ dealerships, empower 60,000+ learners, complete 15000+ certifications, and have crossed 11 million lesson completions

Check out our website https://www.rocked.us/ 

Your Impact

We are looking for a Hands-on software developer with strong hands-on experience in backend technologies (Node.js) who can lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.

Engineers who can combine technical depth with strategic product thinking. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with modern backend stacks, brings strong critical thinking to the table, and can balance short-term delivery with long-term technical vision. 

• Stay updated with evolving AI technologies and encourage the team to leverage AI tools effectively to improve development efficiency and innovation.
• Build and provide technical direction and architectural guidance for backend services and APIs.
• Design, implement, and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity, security, and efficient retrieval. 
• Implement the core logic that makes applications work, handling data processing, user requests, and system operations. 
• Contribute actively to system architecture, proposing enhancements and leading design discussions for new features and services.
• Working closely with product managers and designers to turn ideas into reality and shape the product roadmap. 
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security 
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and frameworks, Drive planning, prioritization, and timely delivery of engineering initiatives.
• Drive code quality through writing unit tests, documentations and conducting code reviews.
• Take ownership of end-to-end feature development — from design to deployment and monitoring.

What skills do you need? 

• Extensive (Must have) hands-on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript, backend development using Node.js and Express.js, and database management with MySQL.
• Strong command of JavaScript and understanding of its quirks and best practices
• Exposure to system design and interest in building scalable, high-availability systems.
• Experience from a high-growth product-based startup is a must-have.
• Ability to think strategically when designing systems—not just how to build, but why
• Prior work on B2C applications with a focus on performance and user experience
• Knowledge of Sequelize, MongoDB, and AWS would be an advantage. 
• Curiosity and openness to adopt emerging AI technologies in engineering workflows and incorporate AI capabilities into products or internal tools.

Why choose a career at RockED? 

• Build from Day One: Work in small, fast-moving teams solving real problems and building products from the ground up.
• Learn from Industry Leaders: Collaborate directly with leaders who’ve held senior roles at global companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Walmart, and more.
• AI Expoure: We encourage engineers to leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to improve productivity, experimentation, and innovation.
• Global Exposure: Be part of a diverse, high-calibre team working closely across the US and India.
• People-First Benefits: ₹10 lakh health insurance coverage for you and your family—fully sponsored by RockED.

Big companies are like giant boats with a thousand rowers — you can’t feel your pull move the boat. Shoppin isn’t that boat. We’re a 10-person crew rowing like our lives depend on it — each one the best at what they do, each stroke moving the product forward every single day. If you believe small, fast, obsessive teams can beat giants, read on.

What You’ll Do:

Build and optimize Shoppin’s vibe, image, and inspiration search, powering both text and image-based discovery.

Work on vector embeddings, retrieval pipelines, and semantic search using ElasticSearch, Redis caching, and LLM APIs.

Design and ship high-performance Python microservices that move fast and scale beautifully.

Experiment with prompt engineering, ranking models, and multimodal retrieval.

• Collaborate directly with the founder — moving from idea → prototype → production in hours, not weeks.

 Tech You’ll Work With

• Languages & Frameworks: Python, FastAPI
• Search & Infra: ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL
• AI Stack: Vector Databases, Embeddings, LLM APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, etc.)
• Dev Tools: Cursor, Docker, Kubernetes
• Infra: AWS / GCP

 What We’re Looking For

• Strong mathematical intuition — you understand cosine similarity, normalization, and ranking functions.
• Experience or deep curiosity in text + image search.
• Comfort with Python, data structures, and system design.
• Speed-obsessed — you optimize for velocity, not bureaucracy.
• Hungry to go all-in, ship hard things, and make a dent.

Bonus Points

• Experience with LLM prompting or orchestration.
• Exposure to recommendation systems, fashion/culture AI, or multimodal embeddings.
• You’ve built or scaled something end-to-end yourself.

Hybrid / On-site (Bangalore)

What is the role?

Xoxoday is looking for a candidate who has a strong background in the design and implementation of scalable architecture and a good understanding of Algorithms, Data structures, and design patterns. Candidates must be ready to learn new tools, languages, and technologies. We are offering hybrid / remote options as well.

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 4 -7 years of experience as a software developer.
• At Least 3 years of experience in .net core C#, AWS stack, MS SQL Server, MVC, NodeJS experience is a plus
• Strong working knowledge in distributed event-driven messaging architecture/platform
• Strong knowledge in data access layer especially ability to work with stored procedure
• Established and stimulated software development standards and processes along with best practices for delivery of scalable and high-quality software.
• Production experience with AWS stack
• Fluent English speaker

Preferred Qualifications:l

• Experience working with OOP languages.
• Experience designing and developing Microservices and SOA.
• Experience working with AWS Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, S3, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, EventBridge, RDS, CloudWatch, APIGateway
• Experience designing and building high-performance scalable web services.
• Experience in REST API design and implementation.
• Experience in unit testing, test automation, and continuous delivery.
• Experience with stream-processing and message-broker software.

Nice to have:

• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to work quickly toward tight deadlines, and make smart tradeoffs between speed, accuracy, and maintainability.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science (or equivalent professional experience).

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact, and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

Xoxoday is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund II, Xoxoday offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with more than 2000 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Xoxoday is a 300+ strong team with four global offices in San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, New Delhi.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of Nodejs & front-end Technology.

• Strong understanding of MEAN or MERN Stack.

• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, RWD, Javascript, and JQuery.

• Bring 1+ years of Experience in Node with typescript or React.

• Strong OOPS ( Object Oriented Programming ) concepts.

• Good knowledge of browser caching, working with cookies and Java scripts for faster website loads.

• Mean/Mern Stack Developer with hands-on experience in Node.js, typescript, and angular.

• Experience developing and improving REST APIs.

• Experience working with AWS Clouds/Azure.

• Experience building web UI dashboards and other self-service solutions.

• Relational DB knowledge (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server).

• NoSQL knowledge (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or Hadoop).

• Ability to recite design patterns.

• Experience leading Agile projects and getting results in Scrum or Kanban teams and workflows.

• Experience with practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a plus

• Must have experience in either of JavaScript frameworks: Angular
• Must have experience in either of backend software development [J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring core, JPA]
• Must have experience in designing/implementing Hibernate/ORM, Restful web services, Micro Services using Java
• Knowledge with relational/ NoSQL databases (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Knowledge with versioning (Git or SVN) /build tools (Maven/Ant/Gradle/Junit), Unit testing & code coverage tools is desired
• Knowledge of App / Web servers (NGINX / Tomcat / Jboss Wildfly)
• Understands the process of new application development and has the ability to apply these concepts with minimal mentoring and supervision.
• Advanced knowledge experience using any of IDE (e.g., Eclipse, SonarQube, STS, VS Code)
• Knowledge on Cloud platform, technologies & deployments is an added advantage
• Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and
• Must have experience with Agile tools

• Good knowledge in product development domains
• Knowledge in Finance and Insurance domain preferred
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of
• Complete application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities contributing to team meetings;
• Troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
• Understanding and implementation of security and data
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications and standards and best industry
• Usage of Process tools – JIRA, TFS, HP QC or any other agile tools, also knowledge of CMM Level 3 development process.
• Self-motivated & working independently with minimal
• Maintain code integrity and
• Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual
• Follow the coding standards for java and angular

• Usage of troubleshooting tools like J Profiler, J Meter or application performance tuning
• Exposure to Non-web-based developments, for both mobile and
• Development experience using Docker, Kubernetes, Containerization etc in AWS or other cloud platforms
• Willing to take up proof of concepts and showcase the technical capability
• Usage of design tools Visio or draw io
• Usage of CI/CD pipeline

Job Responsibilities:

• Create standard RESTful APIs
• Define API models
• Define Database models
• Communicate with other teams about breaking changes
• Maintain code quality
• Optimizing services for maximum performance

Requirements:  5+ years of work experience

• Advanced understanding of SQL ( NoSQL is a plus)
• Proficient understanding of Node.js
• Willingness to learn new ways of doing things
• Experience exposing functionality through RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Perform performance tuning and query optimization using native SQL Server tools
• Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases
• Should be familiar with the AWS ecosystem and services
• Experience in deployment of scalable, low-latency, and highly available distributed systems
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development

• 6+ years of experience working with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.
• Maintain and configure MongoDB (developer)
• Keep clear documentation of the database setup and architecture.
• Backup and Disaster Recovery management.
• Adept with all the best practices and design patterns in MongoDB for designing document schemas.
• Good grasp of MongoDB’s aggregation framework.
• Ensure that the databases achieve maximum performance and availability.
• Design indexing strategies.
• Configure, monitor, and deploy replica sets.
• Should have experience with MongoDB Atlas.
• Should have minimum experience with development and performance tuning.
• Create roles and users and set their permissions.
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills and critical thinking skills