
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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HighLevel is an AI powered, all-in-one white-label sales & marketing platform that empowers agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. We are proud to support a global and growing community of over 2 million businesses, comprised of agencies, consultants, and businesses of all sizes and industries. HighLevel empowers users with all the tools needed to capture, nurture, and close new leads into repeat customers. As of mid 2025, HighLevel processes over 4 billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message events every day. Our platform manages over 470 terabytes of data distributed across five databases, operates with a network of over 250 microservices, and supports over 1 million hostnames.
Our People
With over 1,500 team members across 15+ countries, we operate in a global, remote-first environment. We are building more than software; we are building a global community rooted in creativity, collaboration, and impact. We take pride in cultivating a culture where innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated, and people come first, no matter where they call home.
Our Impact
As of mid 2025, our platform powers over 1.5 billion messages, helps generate over 200 million leads, and facilitates over 20 million conversations for the more than 2 million businesses we serve each month. Behind those numbers are real people growing their companies, connecting with customers, and making their mark - and we get to help make that happen.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Notifications Team, which powers the delivery and orchestration of notifications across all Client Portal. This system ensures that millions of users stay informed and engaged through email, push, in-app, and other channels, reliably and at scale - handling close to 10 million notifications every day for businesses and creators around the world. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll design and build systems that guarantee reliable, ordered, and context-aware delivery across multiple channels. You’ll work on challenges such as multi-channel routing, message deduplication, rate limiting, personalization, and observability - ensuring notifications are timely, secure, and contextually relevant. Collaborating closely with product, infrastructure, and data teams, you’ll help shape the future of one of the platform’s most critical communication systems.
Responsibilities
- Own and scale the Client Portal Notifications System, ensuring reliable, real-time delivery across in-app, push, email, and other channels within Courses, Communities, and GoKollab
- Design and optimize high-throughput, event-driven backend services that process 10M+ notifications daily, maintaining high availability, ordering guarantees, and minimal latency
- Implement features such as multi-channel routing, message deduplication, rate limiting, personalization, and delivery tracking to improve user engagement and system efficiency
- Build robust observability into the notification pipeline—covering monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing—to proactively detect failures and improve delivery success rates
- Ensure data security, privacy compliance (CAN-SPAM, GDPR), and safe storage of user communication preferences and delivery metadata
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and frontend teams to design APIs, event schemas, and SDKs that simplify notification integration across all Client Portal products
- Participate in architecture reviews, on-call rotations, and incident retrospectives to uphold operational excellence and continuous improvement
Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling high-volume distributed systems or event-driven architectures
- Strong backend engineering and distributed system design skills, with hands-on experience in API development, data modeling, and systems architecture using Node.js (NestJS preferred), TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis
- Expertise in backend performance optimization, caching strategies, and event-driven architectures (e.g., Redis, Kafka, Pub/Sub)
- Familiarity with notification protocols and integrations (SMTP, FCM, APNs, in-app SDKs) and email templating systems
- Familiar with modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue, Angular), advanced UI engineering patterns, and CSS libraries like Bootstrap or Tailwind CSS
- Advanced experience with complex state management libraries (e.g., Redux, Vuex, MobX) and architectural design of large-scale application state
- Proven track record of optimizing frontend performance and web vitals at scale, including experience with server-side rendering (SSR), edge, or hybrid rendering architectures
- Familiarity with frontend and backend observability—including monitoring, tracing, error tracking, and performance profiling in production (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, PostHog)
- Strong understanding of security best practices across the full stack - including authentication, authorization, access control, secure data flow, and privacy compliance
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, able to drive complex initiatives, lead technical discussions, and mentor junior engineers
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ORBO's solutions are helping BFSI, beauty and personal care digital transformation and Ecommerce image retouching industries in multiple ways.
WHY US
- Join top AI company
- Grow with your best companions
- Continuous pursuit of excellence, equality, respect
- Competitive compensation and benefits
You'll be a part of the core team and will be working directly with the founders in building and iterating upon the core products that make cameras intelligent and images more informative.
To learn more about how we work, please check out
https://www.orbo.ai/">https://www.orbo.ai/.
We are looking for a qualified Backend Developer to design and code functional programs and applications. You will work as part of a team and individually with little supervision.
A great Application Developer has excellent knowledge of Javascript.
They must be familiar with a variety of operating systems and platforms. The ideal candidate will also have an analytical mindset and a keen eye for detail.
The goal is to write “clean” and flawless code to produce fully functional software applications according to requirements.
Experience: 2 years and more
CTC: Upto 18 LPA
Skills Required
- 2+ years of web application development experience using Javascript
- Experience in Node.js, and Express.js/loopback.js
- Deep understanding of RESTful APIs
- Data modelling experience in both relational and NoSQL databases(MongoDB preferred).
- Experience deploying and maintaining a micro-service architecture
- Experience with Microsoft Azure
- Experience with server-less infrastructure paradigms (AWS Lambda, etc).
- Experience building a scalable product is a bonus!
Knowledge/Qualifications/ Competency
- Any Graduate – Any Specialization with 3+ yrs of relevant strong object-oriented JavaScript & MVC with analytical/logical thinking & problem solving skills (Object Oriented JS, JQUERY, NodeJS)
Responsibilities
- You will write reusable, testable, and efficient code
- You will look to optimise applications for performance and scalability.
- You will be building secured backend API's to be consumed by multiple applications (e.g. web and mobile)
- You will constantly be collaborating with a team member and help colleagues
- You will make architectural decisions
- You will use every possible opportunity to share your own professional experience with your team members
Our perfect candidate is someone that:
- is proactive and an independent problem solver
- is a constant learner. We are a fast growing start-up. We want you to grow with us!
- is a team player and good communicator
What We Offer:
- You will have fun working with a fast-paced team on a product that can impact the business model of E-commerce and BFSI industries. As the team is small, you will easily be able to see a direct impact of what you build on our customers (Trust us - it is extremely fulfilling!)
- You will be in charge of what you build and be an integral part of the product development process
- Technical and financial growth!
Role : Nodejs developer
Please find below the JD for the Nodejs developer..
Role: NodeJs Developer
We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. Responsibilities
• Collaborate with other members of the team, such as front-end developers
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions • Writing unit test cases • Documenting application changes and developing updates.
Skills
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Experience of Node.js and frameworks available such as Express
• Practical experience with REST, PostgreSQL, WebSocket, MongoDB, Redis.
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform • Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Location Preferences
- Candidates located in Kerala are preferred.
Skills and Qualifications
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Strong proficiency with JavaScript, React, and Redux
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Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it(particularly Express,Loopback)
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Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
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Good understanding of server-side templating languages
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Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors
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Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
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User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
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Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
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Understanding Cloud based application deployment.
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Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
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Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
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Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
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Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
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Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
About our Client
Our client is a B2B2C tech firm backed by India’s largest retailer and tech venture capitalist founded by founders - IITB Graduates who are experienced in retail, ecommerce and fintech
It aims to become one app to manage all your brands loyalty points, cashback and coupons. It will have additional content and discovery layer for customers and brands for further engagement and commerce.
The company currently powers closed-loop loyalty programs for all different brands under its parent retail group. Currently, it has 20Mn+ registered customers and 3Mn MAU across 8 brands. Its vision is to be at the center of D2C Brands and the consumer consumption ecosystem
Job Location -Bangalore
Job Location: Bangalore
Key Responsibilities
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Implementation of security and data protection
- High volume of data and requests to be managed
Required Skills and Qualifications
- BE / MCA / B.Sc-IT / B.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3-5 years overall development experience.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript
- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Regards
Team Merito
Job Description :
- 3 or more years of experience of server side web systems engineering and middleware in a project services or product engineering organisation
- Hands-on development experience using JavaScript on the Server Side with Node.js and associated frameworks
- Published sites/systems that are now online
- Self motivation and ability to manage your own time to get the job done at the high international quality levels we expect
- An engineering Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
- A solid understanding of networking, storage, operating/browser systems engineering as well as application/software systems performance optimisation and third party systems integration
- Hands on experience with Amazon Web Services
- Prior experience working within the Media, E-commerce, Telecommunications or similar large scale consumer facing industry
• Write and maintain the back-end code as micro services & to work in API development.
• Experience in Test Driven Development.
Process Exposure:
• Able to interact with team and understand functional requirements and create design documents for new features.
• Exposure to bug fixing, maintenance, continuous integration releases.
• Participate in sprint planning and story elaboration sessions.
• Should be able to work independently contributing to Agile project.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development, Integration testing and Agile processes.
• Reviews peers code from a standard and design adherence perspective.
- Demonstrated experience in Development, unit test application modules based on specified design using PHP, AngularJS, NodeJS, HMTL5, CSS, J2EE/DB2 technologies using Agile Methods
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