
Counter (https://counter.app/) a young, ambitious investor-funded technology startup bringing innovative new ideas to age-old problems within the hospitality sector. Our product connects and creates a global community of makers in the hospitality space while offering an efficient, simple solution for all their property management needs. Our team has a collective experience of over 25 years in this sector and are determined to use this knowledge to create a product that we would love to use. We currently operate out of Berlin, Germany and Goa, India (yes, you read that right). You will be working alongside a dynamic, creative, analytical & collaborative team that is passionate about meaningful work and always treat each other with kindness and respect.
Job Description
We are looking for a NodeJS developer interested in building a web application. You will be responsible for architecting and building this application, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, we are looking for a strong team player who can find the balance between perfectionism and speed.
We are currently building most of our product using the MERN stack but fundamentally believe that any technology is merely a tool to serve a greater purpose of making our customers lives amazing.
Responsibilities
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Build smooth and functional API endpoints in line with our product roadmap
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Work on 3rd party integrations to strengthen the product functionality
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Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks.
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Work with CI/CD and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest
quality
Skills
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Strong written and verbal communication skills enabling a remote work culture within the organization
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Knowledge of programming in NodeJS is a fundamental requirement. It would be really helpful if you could showcase a past project.
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Experience with MongoDB/NoSQL databases is desirable
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Proficiency with git is critical. Familiarity with Jira and Confluence is a plus
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Comfortable working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency
conflicts Deep understanding of efficient REST APIs
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Experience with automated testing suites (jest, enzyme) would be desirable
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Self-driven, an ability to learn fast, efficiently troubleshoot and independently deliver
results without constant supervision
Our product is currently live with active customers across the globe. Happy to assist with any queries and questions about the role

About Hostel Crowd Hospitality Pvt Ltd.
About
We are a young, ambitious investor-funded technology startup bringing innovative new ideas to age-old problems within the hospitality sector. Our product connects and creates a global community of makers in the hospitality space while offering an efficient, simple solution for all their property management needs. Our team has a collective experience of over 25 years in this sector and are determined to use this knowledge to create a product that we would love to use. We currently operate out of Berlin, Germany and Goa, India (yes, you read that right). You will be working alongside a dynamic, creative, analytical & collaborative team that is passionate about meaningful work and always treat each other with kindness and respect. You will initially be working out of Goa with opportunities to progressively move towards remote work.
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We're looking for engineers with hands-on experience across most of the following technologies:
- Python Backend Development (3+ years)
- FastAPI (2+ years of production experience required)
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Docker
- Celery or equivalent async task queues
- REST APIs & Microservices
- AWS/GCP
- GitLab CI/CD
The selected Sr. Backend engineer will ship the backbone that powers 4 million + learners in 64 countries—owning APIs that crunch 1 billion learning events & the AI that supports it with <200 ms latency.
What You'll Do:
At LearnTube, we’re pushing the boundaries to revolutionize how the world learns. As a Senior Backend Engineer, your roles and responsibilities will include:
- Shipping Micro-services – Build FastAPI services that handle ≈ 800 req/s today and will triple within a year (sub-200 ms p95).
- Power Real-Time Learning – Drive the quiz-scoring & AI-tutor engines that crunch millions of events daily.
- Design for Scale & Safety – Model data (Postgres, Mongo, Redis, SQS) and craft modular, secure back-end components from scratch.
- Deploy Globally – Roll out Dockerised services behind NGINX on AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) and GCP (GKE) via Kubernetes.
- Automate Releases – GitLab CI/CD + blue-green / canary = multiple safe prod deploys each week.
- Own Reliability – Instrument with Prometheus / Grafana, chase 99.9 % uptime, trim infra spend.
- Expose Gen-AI at Scale – Publish LLM inference & vector-search endpoints in partnership with the AI team.
- Ship Fast, Learn Fast – Work with founders, PMs, and designers in weekly ship rooms; take a feature from Figma to prod in < 2 weeks.
What makes you a great fit?
Must-Haves (Applicants without these skills are unlikely to move forward):
- 3+ yrs Python back-end experience (FastAPI)
- Strong with Docker & container orchestration
- Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD, AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) or GCP (GKE / Compute) in production
- SQL/NoSQL (Postgres, MongoDB) + You’ve built systems from scratch & have solid system-design fundamentals
Nice-to-Haves
- k8s at scale, Terraform,
- Experience with AI/ML inference services (LLMs, vector DBs)
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
Why LearnTube?
- Build AI products at global scale – Your work will power learning experiences for 4M+ learners across 64 countries.
- Work directly with experienced founders – Collaborate closely with founders who are deeply involved in product and engineering decisions, giving you ownership and a direct impact on the product roadmap.
- Learn fast – Join a high-performing team where you'll own features end-to-end and solve challenging backend and distributed systems problems.
- Recognized AI startup – LearnTube is a Google Top 20 AI Startup and part of Google's AI First Startup Accelerator, with access to cutting-edge AI technology and mentorship.
Why Work With Us?
At LearnTube, we believe in creating a work environment that’s as transformative as the products we build. Here’s why this role is an incredible opportunity:
- Cutting-Edge Technology: You’ll work on state-of-the-art generative AI applications, leveraging the latest advancements in LLMs, multimodal AI, and real-time systems.
- Autonomy and Ownership: Experience unparalleled flexibility and independence in a role where you’ll own high-impact projects from ideation to deployment.
- Rapid Growth: Accelerate your career by working on impactful projects that pack three years of learning and growth into one.
- Founder and Advisor Access: Collaborate directly with founders and industry experts, including the CTO of Inflection AI, to build transformative solutions.
- Team Culture: Join a close-knit team of high-performing engineers and innovators, where every voice matters, and Monday morning meetings are something to look forward to.
- Mission-Driven Impact: Be part of a company that’s redefining education for millions of learners and making AI accessible to everyone.
Minimum 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise
Experience building scalable systems from scratch
Expert-level proficiency in Node.js
Deep understanding of distributed systems
Strong NoSQL design skills
Hands-on AWS cloud experience
Proven leadership and mentoring capability
Preferred candidates from SAAS/Software/IT Services based startups or scaleup companies
We are looking for a highly capable Node.js/ExpressJS developer to optimize our web-based application performance. You will be collaborating with our front-end application developers, designing back-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions.
To ensure success as a Node.js developer, you should possess extensive knowledge of Node.js/ExpressJS based services and experience in a similar role. An accomplished Node.js developer will be someone whose expertise results in the stable, fast, and secure exchange of data between servers and end-users.
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.
Qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
- At least three years’ experience as a Node.js and ExpressJS 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.
3+ yrs of exp develp'g in PHP and open source language, knowledge in MySQL, JQuery, Javascript, and other popular& widely used server technologies like Drupal, WordPress, Joomla used to implement php web applications. Knowledge of UNIX & Web Hosting.
Role IT Project Lead
Industry Type IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area Project & Program Management
Role Category Technology / IT
Location:Hyderabad
Position: PHP / MYSQL Developer & NodeJS / MongoDB Developer
- The selected candidate is required to work on Core PHP or NodeJS/MongoDB.
- Building web services for Mobile applications.
Selected candidate will be a part of product development team and have to manage both maintenance and enhancement projects.
As a PHP Developer:
- You love an Agile work culture and deliver as per plan
- You're a lively person who's passionate on what you do
- You're a nonstop learner and enjoy sharing the learning to your juniors
- You're socially connected with the team and helping others team voluntarily.
- You're tech- expertise and effective in tools operation and automate the regular process
- You're someone who loves problem- working by seeing the occasion in every challenge and you enjoy learning from failures
- Honestly share your experience, feedback, challenges, learning and emotions for the day in your daily diary.
- Think of user needs instead of system needs
Skills & Expertise we look for:
- Hands-on experience in Core PHP and MySQL Database
- Design and implement the Restful services.
- Familiar with HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript
- Good knowledge in front-end frameworks such as Angular JS / React JS
- Good knowledge in gathering requirements, creating technical specifications, architecture documents and project planning
- Maintain and improve the performance of the applications.
- Should good in evaluate and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency and improve the applications.
- Should good in communication skills and ability to work closely with diverse teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Should have some experience in integrating projects with third-party vendors
As Back end developer, we expect you to be motivated in solving real-life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our Resellers. Being a small company we have a culture of creative problem solving, intellectual design, fast-paced development, and passionate product delivery. Enhance or build Restful web services for our mobile app.
Responsibilities:
- Develop server-side components, REST APIs
- Assume ownership for existing and new modules including design, development, and unit testing for enhancements of existing modules and development of new modules.
- Analyse problems logically and exercise sound judgment in defining, evaluating, and solving difficult technical and operational problems where solutions may be of a precedent-establishing nature.
- Lead the design and architectural improvements
- Participate and collaborate with team members in design discussions, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, suggest enhancements to architecture, implement POCs, and enhance application.
- Reduce technical debt with quality coding
Requirements:
- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) from IITs and Premier Engineering College.
- Excellent Object Orientation, coupled with excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
- Highly skilled at Java and related technologies, including Java Frameworks like Spring-boot or Drop wizard, RESTful web services, JSON, Servlet, JSP, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS Solr.
- Must have hands-on experience in building scalable and secure back end systems.
- Have hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency
- Good to have knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, deployment.
The ideal candidate is a highly resourceful and innovative developer with extensive experience in the Node Js . You must also possess a strong knowledge of Mongo DB
Responsibilities
- Perform a mix of maintenance, enhancements, and new development as required
- Work in a data analyst role and with business intelligence applications
- Document features, technical specifications & infrastructure Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally to convert business needs into technical specifications
Qualifications
Back-end technologies& Front-end (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), Node js,Mongo Database, MySQL databases
- 1+ years' of experience in web development and software design
- Expertise in Strapi will be a plus point
- should be able to create the APIs
- Payment Gateway Integration( Stripe)
Our client was founded in 1999 by Mr. D.N. Prahlad (an early employee of Infosys), to create software products. Headquartered in Bangalore, we also have offices in the USA and France.
What We're Looking For
• An unwavering attention to detail and care towards your work. We double-check PRs they submit for review. Each variable name is thought through in detail; attention is paid to how decisions made today will affect the future.
• An absolute commitment towards doing the best work of your life, while helping others to do the same. We deliver with utmost focus on the job at hand. The team works towards crafting the best products for our users, and customers. Working as a team, we take on problems out of the original scope of their work if this results in a better end product.
• You should be comfortable working in an agile environment. You are also expected to
participate in code reviews—both receiving and offering them as needed. You are needed to communicate flexibly with your team—pitching in on designs, features, and ideas for the product, wherever needed.
What is Needed for the Role
• Strong command of Java & the JVM ecosystem
• Strong command of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, etc. (both with & without ORMs)
• Strong command of HTTP
• Strong command of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Extensive experience with at least one JVM based web framework (SpringBoot, Micronaut, Play, Dropwizard, etc.)
• Experience with concurrency & parallelism on the JVM
• Experience with Docker, and cloud-native concepts
• Experience with Gradle
• A good grip on Git
What You Will Work On
The specific project you work on is decided based on the list of available projects at the time. While what you work on will change over time, we assure you that you’ll work with people who care deeply about their work and deliver with great attention to detail.
Your Growth
Our growth is driven by ordinary people who have extraordinary dreams and are bold enough to pursue them. Our leadership team, including our Managing Director, is comprised primarily of people who joined us as freshers. Through our process of continuous feedback, and regular 1-1 conversation, we believe in upskilling our team, and enabling each of them to grow along paths they find satisfying.
Your Level of Experience
We do not evaluate people based on the number of years of experience they have.
Instead, we look for skills that have been gained, regardless of how long they’ve, it has taken a person to gain those skills.
However, as a point of reference, historically, we have successfully recruited candidates for this role with 1-5 years of prior experience.
Evaluation Process
The evaluation process starts with a short phone conversation.
After that, the candidate will be required to take both a technical and writing test, which will be shared with them after the phone screen.
This will be followed by 1-3 interviews, over Google Meet. We will require candidates to be alone, in a quiet place (with no background noise). They must also have a fast & reliable internet connection. They will be required to take the call on a laptop with a camera, and have their technical test code ready for perusal. We recommend using Google Chrome to join the call, and strongly urge candidates to use headphones/earphones.
Please note that the evaluation process may take up to 6 hours
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to design for scale
- Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
- Drive best practices and engineering excellence
- Development of code in object oriented languages like C++ and Java and build large scale robust distributed systems
- 3+ years experience building successful production software systems
- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field)
- Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
- Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
- Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture.
Job description
Do you want to work with high traffic OLTP and OLAP systems that provide real value to retailers? Want to build real web applications that work across multiple channels and devices? In this critical role, the right candidate should have an entrepreneurial mind-set, have experience working across an application stack and a strong background in developing complex web experiences that are rich, responsive and interactive. The individual should have exhibited good technical leadership skills and be a highly motivated individual.
Role & Responsibility
- Exhibit strong technical knowledge, leadership skills and independent execution.
- A keen eye for good experiences. Understanding the experience from a customer perspective.
- Drive design discussion of complex features and own development of these modules across the application stack.
- Ability to adapt to changing business and product needs.
- Experience evolving the design and operation scale as new features are added to the product
- Mentor junior developers and ensure quality code output (via code reads, reading references, etc.) from them.
- Co-ordinate with internal teams and external partners in ensuring we build the best solution on time for the customer. Constantly looking at ways to innovate and improve the product.
- 8+ years of experience in Java & J2EE based Web Technologies & Frameworks with a focus in either Service Oriented Architecture or APIs.
- Experience in designing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
- Strong knowledge of web technologies, common web frameworks, networking, SQL and database technologies
- Well versed in software engineering principles, frameworks and technologies
- Strong debugging / troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to propose and defend solutions.
- Ability to work closely with product management, customer support, and other engineering teams to continuously evolve and innovate the enterprise-class Products.










