
Principal Engineer (node.js)
at FinTech Product Development Firm
Your Responsibilities:
- Own the backend stack – Node.Js based, that powers our product
- Collaborate with Backend Developers (Python), Front-end developers, DevOps, and Data Scientists to design and implement new features
- Build and maintain several REST’ful Services/Endpoints which will be used both internally and externally in a Macroservices/Distributed services environment.
- Deploy and monitor the Services/Endpoints ensuring availability and scalability(ability to handle 100X traffic)
- Work on full project lifecycle starting from requirements gathering/understanding the problem to deploying and maintaining the project.
Skills that you bring Along:
- A minimum 8+ years of extensive work experience with Node.Js and related frameworks – particularly Express.Js.
- Extensive experience in designing and maintaining REST’ful API endpoints
- Extensive experience with databases such as Postgres and Mongo.
- Extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS based) – e.g. AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions etc.
- Experience with cache like Redis and/or Memory cache
- Good experience in Microservices/Macroservices or Event driven Architectures
- Good experience with design patterns
- Experience in writing advanced SQL-queries, good knowledge of PL/SQL
- Good understanding of Software Design Principles and domain-driven design
- Good experience with Continuous Delivery and Containerization(Docker)
- Ideally maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex topics in a simple manner

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About the Job
As a Cloud Backend Engineer you will design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend systems in cloud environments. You will be responsible for building cloud-native applications, optimizing backend performance, and ensuring seamless integration with frontend services and third-party systems.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Backend Development
- Design and implement scalable and high-performance backend services and APIs for cloud-based applications.
- Develop microservices architectures and serverless functions to support business needs.
- Ensure backend systems are secure, reliable, and performant, adhering to best practices and industry standards.
- Cloud Infrastructure and Deployment
- Build and manage cloud infrastructure using platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Azure.
- Deploy and maintain backend services using cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions).
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes and ensure smooth delivery of updates.
- Performance Optimization
- Monitor and optimize the performance of backend services, including database queries, API responses, and system throughput.
- Implement caching strategies, load balancing, and other performance-enhancing techniques to ensure scalability and responsiveness.
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues and system bottlenecks.
- Database Management
- Design and manage relational and NoSQL databases, ensuring data integrity, scalability, and performance.
- Implement data access patterns and optimize queries for efficient data retrieval and storage.
- Ensure backup, recovery, and data security practices are in place.
- Integration and Collaboration
- Collaborate with frontend developers, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders to integrate backend services with frontend applications and third-party systems.
- Participate in architectural discussions and provide input on system design and technology choices.
- Ensure clear communication and documentation of backend services, APIs, and system interactions.
- Security and Compliance
- Implement security best practices to protect backend services from threats and vulnerabilities.
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards, including data privacy and protection requirements.
- Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability scans to maintain system integrity.
- Testing and Quality Assurance
- Develop and maintain automated tests for backend services, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.
- Perform code reviews and participate in quality assurance processes to ensure high code quality and reliability.
- Monitor and address issues identified during testing and production deployments.
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing
- Document backend services, APIs, and infrastructure setups to facilitate knowledge sharing and support.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API specifications, and deployment guides.
- Share knowledge and best practices with team members and contribute to a collaborative development environment.
What We Need To See
- Strong experience in backend development, cloud technologies, and distributed systems, with a focus on building robust, high-performance solutions.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in backend development, with a strong focus on cloud-based applications.
- Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs, microservices, and serverless architectures.
- Technical Expertise in:
1. Backend Development
- Strong experience with backend programming languages such as Node.js, Python
- Expertise in working with frameworks such as NestJS, Express.js, or Django.
2. Microservices Architecture
- Experience designing and implementing microservices architectures.
- Knowledge of service discovery, API gateways, and distributed tracing.
3. API Development
- Proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with API security, rate limiting, and authentication mechanisms (e.g., JWT, OAuth).
4. Database Management
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB).
- Experience in database schema design, optimization, and management.
5. Cloud Services
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Azure,AWS or Google Cloud.
6. Performance Optimization
- Experience with performance tuning and optimization of backend services.
7. Security
- Understanding of security best practices and experience implementing secure coding practices.
- Soft Skills:
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Requirements / Experience:
- 4-8+ years of PHP application development experience
- Strong Experience using Laravel/CodeIgniter/ Symfonyframeworks
- Strong experience and theoretical knowledge of PHP
- Front end and back end development expertise
- JavaScript (Vue.js, React, node, Typescript, RequireJS)
- Front end frameworks (Bootstrap, Tailwind, etc.)
- Good background with SQL Databases (writing queries, optimization, query builders usage, ORMs)
- API development and documentation (OpenAPI)
- Troubleshooting (ability to react in the most effective manner to eliminate technical issues)
- Solution-Making (ability to propose the most effective technical solutions)
- NoSQL experience is nice to have
- Ability to work on existing live projects and do the modifications as required.
- Ability to work independently and in a team as well
About Us:
Nativebyte is a software services company with focus on building large scale enterprise applications which work with millions of users. We work with startups and large corporates alike to develop end to end technology solution for them.
Job Description:
We are looking for a Backend developer who is proficient with Node.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known Node.js workflows. You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for server-side web application logic and integration of the work front-end developers
- Write the web services and APIs used by front-end developer and mobile application developers.
- API integration Backup and restore technologies for a website’s files and DB
Skills:
- Proficient knowledge of the back-end programming language and the framework that is used by the company
- Understanding of front end technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (to communicate with team members on the front-end)
- Ability to manage a hosting environment, including database administration as well as scaling applications to handle load changes
- Knowledge of accessibility and security compliance
- Experience with version control, such as Git
Notice Period - Immediate or 15 days or 30 days.
- 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.
Node.js Developer Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
- At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
- Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content creators together to scale up content creation processes across 50+ content verticals and 150+ industries. Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve worked with companies like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Paisabazaar, IndiGo Airlines, Apollo Hospitals, Infoedge, Times Group, Digit, BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, YourStory, and 350+ other brands.
We are creating high-quality remote talent workforces across Content Writers, Graphic Designers, Video Makers, Content Strategists, Audio Artists, and eventually aim to cover each and every creative professional involved in the marketing domain. Imagine us being able to build virtual marketing teams for any company globally, by providing them a product that solves for content operations and gives the customer the ability to strategize, create, distribute and manage all their content projects at one place. At the same time, they have the ability to be able to extend their team by being matched with high-quality creators from our talent marketplace for different projects that they have. It isn’t long before content becomes so fundamental to individuals and brands alike, that there is a need for buying and selling content on-demand. We want to be that force of change!
Responsibilities: -
- We are looking for solid senior back-end developers who are well-versed with NodeJs.
- The tech stack on the back end side - MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Node, TypeScript, Express, Knex.
- We are looking at folks who have a minimum of 6-7 years of experience in back-end development and have been strong experience.
- The mindset is very different and we are looking for folks who have evolved fast in terms of skills and in terms of working on their own projects.
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.
What candidate should know about:
- 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
Why this role?
Help build the future of sales: At Nektar, you will help redefine the way people sell. Across countries and industries. There are few startups with this kind of market potential.
A team with decades of domain expertise: Between them, the founders have nearly two decades of experience founding and growing startups and building and selling SaaS products globally.
Tackle our most impactful problems: Our team is still small, and people wear many hats. You’ll jump between product, design, engineering, devops and growth. You will not be bored.
Join us at a magical time: Founded and headquartered in Singapore, Nektar raised a substantial seed round from great SaaS VCs in less than 4 weeks of starting the company, giving us a massive jump start and room to focus on our product and users.
What do we do?
Nektar’s mission is to help people work smarter. Our first product is an assistant for sales teams that will help close more deals faster.
Sales organizations have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on systems of record to collect vast amounts of data. This data might produce pretty graphs on managers’ reports but it hardly ever helps the salesperson in the field move their deals forward. This is why, in 2019, less than 30% of salespeople used their organization’s CRM as intended, and 57% of the sales teams globally missed their sales quota.
This is where we’re different — we are laser-focused on the specific actions that help salespeople close deals. We’re building a real system of growth, a first of it’s kind to help salespeople become better salespeople by helping our users build productive habits, adopting best practices and eliminating friction from the sales process.
What we’re looking for?
- We’re looking for engineers who can hit the ground running, with at least a year’s experience building production servers using Node.js. Experience with the frontend is positive but not required.
- As an all-remote team, we require great communication skills, particularly in writing. You must be a self-motivated manager of one with the ability to work independently, take ownership and proactively seek help when required. Prior experience working remotely will be positive but is not required.
- As a startup, we prefer generalists over specialists and product-focused engineers who can empathize with users. Experience working at a fast-growing startup would be positive but is not required.
- Experience in sales tech will be a strong positive but is not a must.
How do we work?
We’re an all-remote engineering team from the beginning (yes, since before the pandemic!), and we’ve built a fantastic remote-friendly culture. We support every team member to set up a great personal workspace that fits them — whether that’s a home office, a co-working space or just hanging out at a coffee shop. We are location agnostic and you can literally choose a location that works for you . Our distributed team currently sits in Singapore, India, Vietnam, Australia and Indonesia.
We do weekly team activities, like online gaming and coffee chat to ensure that physical distance doesn’t keep us from being a close-knit team.
Nektar is a small team, and everyone’s involved in shaping the product we build. We’re still iterating and figuring out the product-market fit, so we’re not averse to throwing away code. We’d rather build a few powerful features that solve important needs than lots of features that are not as valuable.
In line with our mission — helping people work smarter — we’re always thinking about how we can work smarter ourselves. We try to avoid large and long meetings and prefer ad-hoc collaboration with one or two other people instead. We invest in continuous integration and deployment, automated testing and other tooling to eliminate friction from our engineering processes. We aim for clear written documentation and communication.








