Skills Required for Back-End (NodeJS) JR Developer (2-4 Yrs) /Sr Developer (4-8 Yrs) /Lead Developer (8-10 Yrs) /Architect (10-12 Yrs):
- Must: Strong experience and understanding of NodeJS and JavaScript Programming, Good at Native Cloud or AWS
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Good understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience working with AWS or other cloud providers
- Experience in service-oriented and/or microservice architectures
- Good to have knowledge with stream processing applications, Event-driven Architecture, Identity management (OAuth) - Not Mandatory
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases along with a server-side framework
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good to have an understanding of low-level Kafka inner workings and partitioning schemes - Not Mandatory
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, review and evolve durable, highly scalable event-driven infrastructure
- Architect and lead the development of backend services.
- Work with REST APIs and integrating them with our software platform
- Develop front end capabilities such as dashboards, visualizations, features
- Work on building best performance UI features and linking with backend
- Integrate all the front end features with a backend pipeline
- Integrate our AI models with the platform pipeline
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Own new initiatives, Debug production issues
- Help define the way we work in the future including coding and design standards
- Work effectively in an agile development process
- Research cutting edge technology that can be applied to accelerate business growth
- Be the communication bridge be product owners and development teams

About Unifytech
About
Photos
Connect with the team
Similar jobs
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Backend Developer with strong expertise in Node.js and AWS to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have solid backend development experience, with additional working knowledge of PHP and Python. Exposure to frontend frameworks like React.js and Angular will be considered a strong advantage.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs using Node.js.
• Deploy, manage, and optimize applications on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (frontend, product, QA) to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Ensure application performance, security, and scalability.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following industry best practices.
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) to design efficient data models and queries.
• Integrate third-party services and APIs when required.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical discussions, and mentoring of junior developers.
• Support continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing applications.
Requirements
• 4+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong expertise in Node.js and hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.).
• Good working knowledge of PHP and Python.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB).
• Working knowledge of React.js and Angular is preferred.
● Building and maintaining micro services.
● Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.
● Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Typescript and Javascript based services.
● Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
● Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.
● Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.
● Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
● Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.
What you need to be successful
● Has proven himself as a solid individual contributor and has some initial management ability
● Understands the culture and upholds it
● Well respected with the team
● Looking to grow more as a manager than as an engineer
● Split time b/w hands-on technical work and people management of a small team
● Be a role model for the people in your team
● Responsible for team mentorship, technical planning, resource allocation & project delivery
● Build solid working relationships with counterparts outside engineering
● If we shortlist you for a lead role, then you'll have to mentor SDE-1 towards their SDE-2 journey.
● Progress up to manager in 2-3 years
● Strong Data Structure and Algorithms
● Experience of building micro services architectures, developing RESTful services, continuous integration, unit and integration testing.
● Proficient with Express, Jest, Sinon and other Javascript frameworks apart from
RDBMS and NoSQL databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB
● Gauge or other BDD frameworks and experience in Fintech would be preferred.
● Fintech experience - preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 3-5 years of professional experience in web development with a strong focus on JavaScript stack technologies.
- Proven experience in integrating blockchain technology into web applications, with a deep understanding of blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and decentralized applications (dApps).
- Proficiency in multisignature, multiparty computation and 3rd party Node provider integration
- Experience with public blockchain platforms such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and adapt to changing priorities.
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines is a plus.
- Experience in setting up Bitcoin core, and Geth node is a plus
Context for the Candidates:
Blockchain engineers are tasked with building secure, scalable, and high-performance decentralized applications. This discussion focuses on how to utilize key technologies—Node.js, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat—in smart contract and blockchain system development, while addressing the practical challenges that arise in such projects.
Key Discussion Points:
• How do you integrate Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript in blockchain-backed applications?
• Discuss the trade-offs between using Rust or Go for performance-critical blockchain services.
• What are the key challenges in ensuring the security and scalability of smart contracts using tools like Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat?
• How do you approach testing, debugging, and deploying smart contracts in a decentralized environment?
• Share best practices for gas optimization, contract upgradability, and backend scalability.
Evaluation Criteria:
1. Technical Knowledge:
• Strong knowledge of Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript with practical experience in blockchain development.
• Proficiency in Ethers.js, viem, Hardhat, and smart contract lifecycle (development, testing, deployment).
• Understanding of security best practices, performance optimizations, and scalability in decentralized systems.
2. Problem-Solving and Integration Skills:
• How candidates approach integrating smart contract solutions with backend services using Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript.
• Solutions proposed for common challenges in blockchain projects such as gas fees, security vulnerabilities, and system bottlenecks.
3. Experience and Expertise:
• Minimum of 2 years of IT experience, including hands-on development with the specified technologies.
• Practical knowledge of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and decentralized application deployment.
4. Innovation and Critical Thinking:
• Candidates’ ability to think creatively about system architecture, proposing scalable and secure solutions for blockchain-based applications.
• Discussion on the future potential of blockchain technology and how the tech stack can evolve.
5. Communication and Team Collaboration:
• Clear articulation of technical challenges and how to address them in a team setting.
• Ability to lead or contribute to discussions in a way that encourages collaboration and team-driven problem-solving.
Mentoring teams to carry forward recognised and optimised solutions, building conducive environments for knowledge transfer and maintaining standards in terms of deliveries form a major part of responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop robust scalable database systems
- Design, build and deploy internal applications to support our native technical ecosystem
- Collaborate with Subject-Matter experts to design data-driven modules for analysis
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent
- 3-4 years of experience in Java
Skills
- Expertise in object-oriented programming concepts and data structures
- Strong knowledge of working with XMLs/Jsons
- Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (MySQL, MongoDB, GraphDB)
- Good knowledge of indexing/search libraries like Lucene/Solr/Elasticsearch
- Exposure to Spring MVC architecture and RESTful APIs
- Well-versed with Agile methodology of SDLC
- Good to have: Knowledge of standard DevOps skills like Build tools (Maven/gradle), Continuous integration (Jenkins), Version Control (Github/Gitlab)
Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure.
Desired candidates must have 3-6 years experience as NodeJs Developer.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
- Provide support till deployment of code into production.
- Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
- Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
- Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
- Conduct peer code review.
Skills:
- Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
- Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
- Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
- Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
- Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
- Self-learning abilities are required
- Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus
As a WordPress Developer at our company, you will
● Design, implement and manage websites using WordPress
● Collaborate with members of a creative team
● Manage front-end and back-end website development
● Create WordPress plug-ins and themes
● Maintain well-documented, reusable, and transferrable code
● Troubleshoot and resolve website problems for clients and co-workers
● Stay abreast of new developments in software, trends, and practice
Our ideal colleague must
● Have 5+ years of experience
● Have experience in managing media websites at scale
● Be proficient in using WordPress
● Be an expertise in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery
● Have experience using debugging tools such as Firebug and Chrome Inspector
● Have strong understanding of front-end and back-end website development
● Have keen attention to detail
Job Location: Bangalore
• Should have 5+ years of work experience in design, develop, Code and Unit Test web and desktop-based applications written in .Net framework starting from 4.x and above.
• Strong analytical skills to understand a given requirement and provide work estimates.
• Strong Object-Oriented Programming knowledge.
• Strong experience with Static Code Analyzers like Fortify.
• Should have good understanding of web servers such as IIS and Front-end such as HTML’s and Razor based engines.
• Strong debugging skills using .net front end and backend.
• Strong coding experience and thorough understanding of programming languages such as C#, VB.NET, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, JQuery, JavaScript, Traditional Web Services, WCF, Web API and other Scripting languages such as pythons.
• Strong working knowledge on various design patterns such as MVC, MVVM, DDD, Repository Pattern and any custom/hybrid framework as designed by the Architects.
• Should have a strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of data sharing medium using JSON, XML and other media types.
• Strong knowledge on Entity Framework (6 and above) and other ORM such as Dapper.
• Strong knowledge and programming skills in Database such SQL SERVER, Oracle, My SQL and SQL Express. Additionally, nice to know-how knowledge in MS ACCESS.
• Strong knowledge and coding experience in REST based web services and service-oriented design patterns using WCF and other API’s.
• Should have used IDE such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code for Front-end development.
• 1+ years of building SPA web solutions using Angular 6/7/8 , BackBone, Bootstrap
• 5+ years building HTML5 complaint pages
• 3+ years of experience using TypeScript
• 3+ years of writing automated testing using Jamine or others
Day to Day job Duties: (what this person will do on a daily/weekly basis)
• Co-ordinate/mentor other Junior developers on a day to day basis.
• Understand the use cases/User Story, code and develop on a designed platform/pattern.
• Strict adherence to coding standards.
• Participate self-code review/peer reviews and correct errors wherever applicable before checking in the final code into the Branch/code repo.
• Create code documentations wherever applicable and as set guidelines by the team.
• Create and perform Unit Tests wherever applicable as set guidelines by the team.
• Provide feedback and assist in estimation planning.
• Merge code branches as and when required.
• Create and publish release documentations and application deployments as and when requested.
• Report out statuses to the leads onshore daily during the Stand-up calls.
• Additionally, update efforts on a given work item on everyday basis.
• Provide true estimates on work assigned prior development. Also ask questions/provide comments on User Stories/work items assigned.
• Be a team player and flexible towards availability in case of any urgent issues that need immediate attention.
• Plan out vacations in advance (min. 2 weeks of adv. Notice).
Nice to have(not a must) experience, skills
• Good understanding of Service Workers.
• Prior coding experience using FORTRAN.
• Experience on 3rd party tools like Spire.Pdf, PDF.Js.
• Knowledge of Rapid application development framework like DevExpress, Code on Time, HighCharts.
• Knowledge of code clean up tools like CodeMaid.
• Knowledge of Power BI and O365 Suites of applications.
• knowledge of SQL Data tools like SSIS and SSRS.
We are looking for talented engineers who are passionate about using software
engineering to make kids love to learn and redefine learning@home. You will
have an opportunity to work in a highly motivated fast paced environment in a fastest
growing Ed-Tech company. You will be building platforms and services to be used across
various products. You will have the opportunity to create significant impact on our
systems, our business and most importantly on the life of millions of our students as we
take on challenges that will reshape education industry. You will operate at the
intersection of diverse disciplines - Backend, Frontend, Big Data, ML, Computer vision
and various open source tech. You will build solutions for Byju’s learning Apps as well as
few upcoming products with huge market potential and are high on innovation.
We are looking for smart people with excellent coding skills and can-do attitude.
Candidates should be eager to learn, flexible to pivot when needed, savvy enough to
thrive in a dynamic environment and should possess a growth mindset.
Roles & Responsibilities
● Writes high quality code & unit tests, builds, tests as per agreed timelines
● Participates in technical design and provides estimation
● Owns one or more small to medium features
● Becomes a go-to person in at least one area
● Communicates clearly and gets clarification upfront to minimize rework. Knows when
to ask for help to unblock.
● Consistently follows and promotes SDLC best practices: Coding standard, testing,
code reviews, code comments etc.
● Exhibit strong problem solving skills, helps other developers and demonstrates
teamwork
Ideal Candidate Profile
● Understands detailed requirements and demonstrates excellent problem solving skills
● Deep understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data
Structures, Algorithms
● Excellent programming skills in ROR, Golang, NodeJS, Python
● Strong communication skills
● Strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to deliver results
● A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably
IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)
● Experience in Golang, RoR, Unity, ML or Python will be an added advantage















