
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 Role
We’re looking for energetic, sharp-minded Node.js Developers with incredible algorithmic thinking and real world experience in building scalable systems. If you have 4–6 years of hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript, and want to create something meaningful at scale, this is your calling.
- Location: Gurugram (In office)
- Experience: 2–6 years
- Open Roles: 5–10 Developers
- Type: Full time, Permanent
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain efficient and scalable server-side applications using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Write clean, modular code with strong test coverage.
- Optimize applications for speed and scalability.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and tech brainstorming.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies.
- B-Tech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
What We're Looking For
- 4–6 years of experience with Node.js and TypeScript(6 months atleast).
- Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Experience working in fast-paced, scalable product environments.
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and asynchronous programming.
- Prior experience in a high-growth startup or scalable business is a strong plus.
- Bonus if you come from an IIT or Tier1 engineering background.
Ready to Build the Future?
If you're passionate about backend engineering and want to be part of an ambitious, growing team at Infosec Ventures, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now and let’s build something extraordinary together!
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
Senior Software Engineer - Payments
MishiPay
Competitive salary, bonus and potential share options
Bangalore
Please read our full advert before applying. You MUST have payments experience.
About Mishipay:
MishiPay (https://mishipay.com/" target="_blank">https://mishipay.com/) was founded in 2015 by Mustafa Khanwala (https://t.sidekickopen87.com/s3t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7kv8cW0B4W4V2M7g2zGCwVW8Jbw_83My4KPW4XXYRz3MqbyWW4Xq_Cl16gGDkf34lRCG01?te=W3R5hFj4cm2zwW4mKLS-3ZWVWBW3K2-zv1JxwY5W1Lyz993_-rybW3z9CQ13QZn51f3zd5DJ04&si=6558133869871104&pi=23656670-1dc8-41be-f0fe-f4c7fec4c64c" target="_blank">/in) bringing the best of the online checkout experience to physical stores.
We do this with our Scan, Pay and Go experience. Using our native apps on Android or iOS, or our web app available on Chrome or Safari, customers scan the products they wish to buy in store using their own phone and pay instantly. This eradicates the need to wait in line or touch store hardware.
As the world’s leading Scan and Go provider, we work with 30+ brands across 15 countries, including names like MUJI, Eroski, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, Spar, Londis and many others. The work is challenging, hard and long and requires you to be on top of your game but if the adventure and journey excite you then this is the place for you. We want to make sure that in exchange for this commitment from our team, we offer them the best package possible in terms of options, salary and bonus linked to the success of the business. You’ll also quickly see the impact of your work as we develop our products and customers
Requirements
We are looking for a Backend Engineer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. You’ll play a key part in the development of our products, help to evolve and streamline our tech stack to suit our needs as we grow, and you’ll enjoy working in an environment surrounded by like-minded inspirational individuals.
Ideally we would love you to have Python, but we will also look at Java or other languages. It's essential you have worked as a Backend Engineer in a Payments domain.
Qualifications:
- Ideally, deep expertise with Python programming language and Django + DRF framework to build backend services
- Experience with Node.js and Kafka
- Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions using SQL databases
- Hands-on experience of database modelling for any NoSQL databases like MongoDB / Cassandra / DynamoDB or other
- Experience with full backend development life cycle in any programming language on a Linux platform
- Comprehensive operational experience including, optimizations & deployments with Kubernetes
- Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers
- Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
- BTech, MTech, or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)
You will:
- Take ownership of a functional area from product conception to delivery
- Contribute to engineering requirement documents (ERDs) by defining work breakdown, estimating tasks duration & setting milestones
- Take non-functional requirements (Reliability & Availability, Scale, horizontal scalability) and Tech stack decisions
- Participate in daily agile team stand-ups
- Coach and mentor junior team members
- Own code base & documentation quality
- Actively work to clear maintenance debt as we continue improving our tech
Benefits
Why MishiPay?
You’ll work with an inspirational multi-cultural team, based in our central London HQ, the US and Bangalore, who are redefining the retail industry globally. We offer a tight-knit, collaborative and exciting work environment, coupled with the opportunity to see the apps we develop live in action within some of the world’s largest retailers, impacting the lives of millions of shoppers. You’ll also get:
- Yearly Bonuses and Share Options
- Learning and Development Monthly Allowance
- A chance to be recognised in one of our two monthly award schemes (and win various prizes)
- A new MacBook
- Pitch Training
- Online Fitness Sessions
- Quarterly team-building and fun events for our London office and free lunches in Bangalore!
- Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
- Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions
- Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time
- Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions
- Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them.
- Drives people to solve engineering challenges
- Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams
- Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and
internal/external clients as necessary.
- Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them
- Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards
- Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
- Must have experience in cloud computing
- Operates independently with almost no oversight
- Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the
team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership
- Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
- 7+ years of experience in product driven organization
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably
You have 7 years or more of backend development experience with expertise in designing and
implementing high-performance applications.
Worked with and built high performance products using Node Js/GoLang/ Python and have seen
the product evolution cycle from PoC to Production
You have a deep understanding of design principles and can rightly judge/implement solutions to
complex problems
You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a
particular language/framework.
You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.
You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either
yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then
production environment, and finally monitoring.
What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻
Leading parts of the product from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product’s execution.
Working with our Sales and frontend team to build products with the goal of delighting and increasing the success of our users.
Architecting, building, testing, and releasing product-facing features.
Contributing to our side projects and free tools for the education industry.
What do I need? 🤓
1-2 years of industry experience in a software engineering role, preferably building a SaaS product. You can demonstrate significant impact that your work has had on the product and/or the team.
Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, PHP, Python, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)
Deep knowledge of SQL Databases
Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch as well as on AWS primitives
Willingness to learn and use new technologies
Extremely data-driven
Ability to debug complex systems
Brownie points 🍰
Using a framework (for example, Laravel, Code Igniter, Django)
Understanding of containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) along with ability to deploy to AWS ECS (or similar tools)
Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.
Perks 😍
Flexible vacation
Take a tutorial, on us
Monthly remote meals
Tech stack 🔨
PHP
Laravel
NodeJS
VueJS
Ionic Angular
Digital Ocean
AWS
MySQL
Why Classcard? 🚀
We are still in the early stages of our journey. You will be working closely with our users, acting on both their feedback and what our data says. Things you build here will have tremendous impact on both our business and Classcard as a company.
What happens after I apply? 🤔
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Quick phone call with a member of our engineering team to find out more about your experience and why you want to work at Classcard.
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Video interview:
Technical discussion with a senior engineer
Pairing on an interesting problem
Meet the founders
Job description
- Lead design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications & back-end services demonstrating service-oriented architecture.
- Design, build, test, and maintain scalable APIs, services, and systems within the platform.
- Choose the right Data Structures, tools, and tech stacks and do high-level design with guidance.
- Build, develop, mentor, review code and coach junior team members.
- Extensive programming experience with cross-platform development: Java/SpringBoot, Javascript/Node.js, Express.js or Python
- Extensive knowledge of ElasticSearch, MongoDB or Cassandra, Redis, SQS and data streaming (Spark, Flink, Kafka streams, storm, etc.).
- Well versed in Kafka Understanding cloud native technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, capable to cover full development lifecycle including CI/CD
- Experience in use of source code management system like GIT, bitbucket and build tools like ant, maven, Gradle or make.
- Take great pride in Code quality and developer productivity.
- Put in Microservcies architecture in place that paves road for scalability, efficiency, observability, and availability.
- Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile.
- Write algorithms and services to influence personalisation and recommendation from a real-time recommendation engine for both home feed to surface most viral videos + video e-commerce
- Build machine learning pipelines using Kinesis,Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc
- Agile methodologies, Sprint management, Roadmap, Mentoring, Documenting, Software architecture
- Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems Liaison with Product Management, DevOps, QA, Client and other teams Your Experience Across The Years in the Roles You’ve Played
Requirement:
- Have total or more 7 - 9 years of experience with 2-3 years in a startup. Have B.Tech or M.Tech or equivalent academic qualification from premier institute. Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred
- Thoroughly aware of cloud computing infrastructure on AWS leveraging cloud native service and infrastructure services to design solutions.
- Follow Cloud Native Computing Foundation leveraging mature open source projects including understanding of containerisation/Kubernetes.
We Value Engineers Who Are :
- Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the creator is ultimately what will drive our business forward.
- Obsessed with Quality: Your Production code just works & scales linearly
- Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve.
- Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our creators desire. You know when it’s appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability
Chingari Benefits
The glory. Almost too much responsibility.
A fun-life balance
A ticket on our rocket ship to the moon. ��









