
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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CTC: up to 40 LPA
Mandatory Criteria (Can't be neglected during screening) :
Need candidates from Growing startups or Product based companies only
1. 4–6 years experience in backend engineering
2. Minimum 2+ years hands-on experience with:
- TypeScript
- Express.js / Nest.js
3. Strong experience with MongoDB (or MySQL / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB)
4. Strong understanding of system design & scalable architecture
5. Hands-on experience in:
- Event-driven architecture / Domain-driven design
- MVC / Microservices
6. Strong in automated testing (especially integration tests)
7. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
8. Experience managing production systems
9. Solid understanding of performance, reliability, observability
10. Cloud experience (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable)
11. Strong coding standards — Clean Code, code reviews, refactoring
If interested kindly share your updated resume at 82008 31681
- Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
- Hands on experience on DynamoDB, Lambdas and serverless architecture
- Good understanding of Microservices
- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
- 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.
- 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.
1. Design patterns- socket communication/ micro services architecture
2. Caching - REDIS MEMCACHED etc
3. Database - MONGO, SQL etc. min 2yrs experience with these.
4. Features created for large concurrent requests.
5. Node Js, Go lang any asynchronous programming language min 2 yrs exp with any one of them.
6. Message Queues - RABBIT MQ, Kafka etc.
7. Logging and APM (application process manager) good to have.
8. DS ALGO good to have.
Your Impact:
• Implements Digital Consumer experiences based on a foundation of SFCC (Salesforce commerce cloud) to meet expected quality standards
• Ensures functional requirements and high-level solution designs are understood and are translated into detailed technical design
• Implement proofs of concept to prove any new technologies, application flows or integration scenarios and identify customizations needed to SFCC platform for meeting client requirements
• Guides the performance tuning and scalability of the ecommerce solution
• Diagnose and solve technical problems during implementation and support phases
Your Skills & Experience:
• 4-8 Years with 2+ years of implementing commerce application on any eCommerce platform in last 3 years
• If you have not worked in eCommerce platform, we can still discuss with you if you are expert in Java/.Net and understand REST/SOAP webservices.
• Demonstrate proficiency in build and release management using CI/CD strategies (leveraging tools like Jenkins and DevOps practices), implement Mocha/Chai unit and functional test cases in order to reduce costs while ensuring quality
• Contributes to designing, implementing and documenting the build release process as well as system configuration and deployment characteristics of the applications
• Participates in technical walkthroughs/ code reviews of other team members’ components, test plans and results and help them with gaps
• Collaborate with architect to define implementation processes and quality gates and standards
• Identifies risks and issues, and help monitor them
• Guides the development of reference and resource materials
• Mentors developers in improving their platform knowledge and development skills
• Communicate technical design to the developers and help/guide them in the implementation
• Participates in Agile sprints
Set Yourself Apart With:
• eCommerce platform certification
• Security considerations – OWASP, CSRF, reCAPTCHA etc. – Basic knowledge or experience
• Git Development workflow – Proficient
• Visual Studio Code IDE or Eclipse IDE - Proficient
• Knowledge on Agile methodology and desired tools like Jira, confluence etc.
• Scripting/development experience with Node.js, Mocha/Chai
• Experience working in any Salesforce cloud environment like SFMC, SFSC etc.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and articulation skills & Good team player
• Self-starter and self-learner with keen interest to grow
• Process orientation and the ability to define and setup processes
• Ability to provide necessary coaching to bring team members up to speed on the technology
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
• Excellent and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions
• Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with excellent personal ownership of problem resolution
We Want To Power The Workforce Towards Financial Wellness
If you're an experienced back-end developer with experience using serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, DynamoDB) and microservices, this could be the ideal job for you!
Job Description:
You'll be at a senior position, developing & maintaining microservices, business logic, and optimization/maintenance of the global database(s) to ensure a high performance & responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
Language:
Node.js/Tyepscript
Resposibilities:
Building stable, testable, and reusable code libraries for future use.
Write & maintain REST APIs for front-end consumption.
Managing deployments, code pushes (CI/CD pipelines).
Ongoing optimization of backend applications for maximum speed and scalability.
Implementation of security and data protection.
Design and implementation of data storage solutions.
Ideal Candidate:
At least 3-4+ years of server-side programming experience.
Solid experience working with NoSQL databases & microservices architecture.
Solid experience with version control (we use Github).
Decent experience with serverless architecture, code deployment and cloud platforms like AWS.
GOOD TO HAVE: Any experience working with fintech projects.
6-8 yrs experience
Fully Remote position
Max compensation - 45 LPA per annum (Full in hand)
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain software to the demanding standards of a real time, highly concurrent distributed system.
- Working in conjunction with the rest of the development team, you will architect and build highly performant, scalable and extensible external APIs
- Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders, at all levels, to continuously improve our product in a measured data-driven approach
- Learn quickly, adapt, and invent based on changing company needs and priorities
- Contribute to code reviews, tech talks, innovation drives and patents
Minimum Qualifications
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Bachelors in a computer science or other equivalent field
- Proficiency in deploying production systems using a major programming language like Java, Python, NodeJS or similar
- Excellent command over object oriented design and system design
- Experience building distributed systems and scaling them with high availability
- Ability to exercise autonomy rather than needing detailed direction and proactively get things done
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in customer facing software development
- Proficiency building unit and performance tests to ensure reliability and scalability
- Experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning (ML) models, Natural Language Processing or Deep Learning is a plus
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP is a plus
Why work with us
- A small collaborative and excited team
- We value autonomy, allowing you to choose the configuration that makes you most productive
- Able to work remotely anywhere in Indian Standard Time
- Continuous learning and up-skill opportunities
- We love ideas, innovation and experiments!
- Competitive salary
Aimed at building a massive parallel economy, This For That, is looking for highly driven engineers to build out a world class product. The product is in its early stages so there’s a lot to learn and build from scratch. You will get to work alongside seasoned business and marketing professionals and become part of the core engineering team.
Ideal skills:
1) 2-5 years of professional JavaScript development experience
2) Understanding of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
3) Comfortable working through the entire stack from the user interface through systems levels
4) Understanding accessibility and security compliance
5) Strong Logical and Analytical Skills
6) Experience in consuming web services (REST) and processing data (JSON)
7) Experience with SQLite, NoSQL, Redis or other databases
8) Proven experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
9) Good understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
10) Good understanding of JS concepts on callbacks and closures
11) Experience in debugging issues related to memory leaks
12) Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub-second response times
13) Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr
14) Experience working in a collaborative team environment
15) Ability to understand and analyse issues across multiple vendors and interfaces
16) Experience with NoSQL queries
17) Experience with AWS
18) Experience in managing/mentoring small teams
In depth knowledge of all of the above is not mandatory but the nature of the work will involve learning and getting involved with all of the above. You would be working directly with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy.
Experience in the mobile space is mandatory. Please only apply if you have been part of building a mobile product. Since our product is mobile only, it is essential that you understand implications on the front end.
NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION:
Truminds Software Systems
LOCATION:
Gurgaon
POSITION TITLE
Backend Engineer
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:
4--7 Yrs.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Good programming experience on Nodejs, Express, promises, having developed production applications using these frameworks.
Should be able to architect and design the backend services without supervision
Interface and integration with Mysql or MongoDB databases
Deployment experience on AWS including understanding of Nginx, AWS services would be desirable
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
• B.E./B.Tech. in Computer Science/ IT or MCA would be preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills







