SDE 1/2/3 - Backend (NodeJS/Scala)

Location: Bengaluru (Work from Office – 6 Days a Week)

About the Role

We're looking for a Software Development Engineer III (SDE-3) to join our growing engineering team. We're seeking engineers who have previously built, scaled, or significantly contributed to applications serving 100K+ users. You'll be joining a small, high-impact team, so we're looking for engineers who thrive on ownership, move quickly, and enjoy solving challenging technical problems.

We are technology agnostic and value strong engineering fundamentals over expertise in any particular language or framework. Whether your background is Backend, Frontend, or Full Stack, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications.
• Build robust, production-ready software that delivers exceptional user experiences.
• Take end-to-end ownership—from design and development to deployment and production support.
• Work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver impactful features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following engineering best practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or similar) to improve development speed, code quality, debugging, testing, and overall engineering productivity.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions, balancing scalability with simplicity.
• Troubleshoot production issues and continuously improve system performance and reliability.
• Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 4–6 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, such as Python, Go (Golang), C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, Scala, or Ruby.
• Strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, and System Design.
• Hands-on experience building, scaling, or maintaining production applications with a user base of 100K+ users.
• Proven experience working on high-traffic, large-scale consumer or B2B products where performance, reliability, and scalability were critical.
• Experience developing modern Backend, Frontend, or Full Stack applications.
• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and scalable application architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use AI coding assistants to accelerate software development while maintaining high standards of code quality and engineering best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a strong sense of ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on platform or infrastructure products is highly preferred.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with microservices, distributed systems, CI/CD, and containerization.
• Experience working in product companies or fast-paced startup environments.

Who You Are

• You enjoy working in small, fast-moving teams where every engineer has significant ownership.
• You're comfortable wearing multiple hats and contributing across different parts of the stack when needed.
• You've previously worked on products operating at scale and understand the engineering challenges of supporting 100K+ active users, including performance optimization, reliability, and scalability.
• You have a product mindset and care deeply about performance, scalability, and user experience.
• You're a proactive problem solver who enjoys taking initiative and driving projects independently.
• You embrace modern engineering practices, including the effective use of AI tools to enhance productivity without compromising software quality.
• You value collaboration, continuous learning, and building high-quality software.

Why Join Us?

• Join a high-impact engineering team with significant ownership and autonomy.
• Solve challenging engineering problems with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with talented engineers in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
• Build software that directly impacts thousands of users while accelerating your technical growth.

Job Overview:

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer (SDE III) with over 5 years of experience to lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in software development, deep technical expertise, and a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale engineering teams and projects. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence.As a Backend Lead, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Team Development: Lead and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Manage the hiring, training, and career development of engineering staff.
• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Define technology roadmaps and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, robust software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure high-quality product delivery.
• Project and Program Management: Oversee the successful delivery of engineering projects, ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, resource allocation, and performance metrics. Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and scalable system design.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks For this role we require expertise in Python/Django and API Development
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Good experience with MySQL and ElasticSearch. Slight experience with other NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
•  Experience in delivering full-stack B2B/SaaS applications including mobile applications, web frontend, and a scalable backend.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Job Responsibility and Duties

-We are looking for talent who is quick learner and grasp things quickly, well understand the requirement of feature/product, analysis the risk or edge cases, find the possible solutions and able to implement the one solutions out of proposed.

-Open for taking ownership of the feature and quality as leader. Able to design the user experience.

-You are responsible for the release quality feature on time.

-Your day to day job may involve system design, writing quality code, unit testing, team/co-worker handling, collaborative working and solution driven outcome execution.

Qualification & Skills 

-Actually degree doesn’t matter but if you did B.Tech./B.E/M.Tech/M.E./MCA good for the positions.

-This position for the node.js backend engineer.

-This other skill into your profile adds you more benefits, knowing multiple language such as python, golang, fullstack developer(also knows react.js, vue.js)

According to your talent we have 5 classification on Backend Engineering Department

1. Software Engineer   3-5LPA
2. Sr Software Engineer  5-8LPA
3. Lead Software Engineer 8-15LPA
4. Tech Lead    15-25LPA
5. Architects & System Designer 25-50LPA

Not just a delivery company…

RaRa Delivery is revolutionising instant delivery for e-commerce in Indonesia through data driven logistics.

RaRa Delivery is making instant and same-day deliveries scalable and cost-effective by leveraging a differentiated operating model and real-time optimisation technology. RaRa makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to get same day delivery in Indonesia. While others are focusing on ‘one-to-one’ deliveries, the company has developed proprietary, real-time batching tech to do ‘many-to-many’ deliveries within a few hours.. RaRa is already in partnership with some of the top eCommerce players in Indonesia like Blibli, Sayurbox, Kopi Kenangan and many more.

We are a distributed team with the company headquartered in Singapore 🇸🇬 , core operations in Indonesia 🇮🇩 and technology team based out of India 🇮🇳

Future of eCommerce Logistics.

• Data driven logistics company that is bringing in same day delivery revolution in Indonesia 🇮🇩
• Revolutionising delivery as an experience
• Empowering D2C Sellers with logistics as the core technology

• 5 - 7 years Experience with the following technologies: Core Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Creating API, Hibernate, JDBC, SQL/PLSQL, messaging architecture, REST/Web services, Linux
• Expertise in application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Advanced knowledge of architecture, design and business processes
• 4+ years of Java, J2EE development experience
• Strong technical development experience in effectively writing code, performing code reviews, and implementing best practices on configuration management and code refactoring
• Experience in working with vendor applications
• Experience in making optimized queries to MySQL database
• Proven problem solving and analytical skills
• A delivery-focused approach to work and the ability to work without direction
• Experience in Agile development techniques, including Scrum
• Experience implementing and/or using Git
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred

We at Wow Labz are always striving to look for exciting problems to solve. Whether we’re creating new products or helping a small startup extend its reach, we build from our heart. We’re entrepreneurial and we love new ideas. Fun culture with a team that cares about your development and growth.

You will be a part of Wow Labz’s core development team, building new software and defining standards for our very own blockchain product. You will be involved in defining technical specifications, implementing design patterns and hands-on development. You will be writing modules that all the other developers would use, including libraries, APIs, database/ storage connections and third party integrations. Your diligence and patience to build highly-secured, scalable and high-performance solutions will be most valued.

• Understanding Rust design patterns and writing performant and maintainable code in the language
• Solving development challenges and making architectural decisions by understanding the larger picture of the project’s goals.
• Expanding your existing skill-set, and picking up on various rust dependent frameworks.
• Writing code that other developers use, including libraries, APIs and configurations.
• Building secure and high-performance networked applications.
• Paying close attention to unit-testing and security.
• Confidently communicating and collaborating with your fellow developers in a remote team environment.

• 1-2 year of core Rust development experience
• 2 or more years of software development experience
• Strong understanding of macros, traits, generics and lifetimes
• Experience with Cargo, including dependency management
• Experience with frameworks like HyperWeb, Mio, Tokio, Rocket and Actix (at least two)
• Experience using the Git Version Control System (VCS)
• Experience with CI tools like Rustfmt, Clippy or Rustfix
• Experience writing Unit Tests using Rustfmt or similar 
• Exposure to performance benchmarking
• Exposure to serverless products like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloudflare Workers 
• Motivated by challenging projects, and you absolutely love developing with Rust.
• Developed multi-threaded software and understand the asynchronous functionalities.

• Experience with blockchain and/or Substrate is a plus
• Experience in Mongodb, MySQL, or Javascript is a plus
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS/ Azure/GCP is a plus
• Software architecture and API design knowledge is a plus

• Curious and aware of the latest digital and social media trends
• Extremely self-driven and able to execute in a diligent manner
• Strong relationship-building skills
• Exceptional analytical reasoning, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills
• Team player that thrives in a collaborative environment
• You can work cross-functionally and collaborative on common goals
• Fluent in English, written and spoken
• Capacity to foster a healthy, stimulating work environment that frequently harnesses teamwork

Job Description for NodeJS/Backend Developer (2 - 4 years experience ) :

Responsibilities:

1. Writing reusable, efficient code.
2. Implementation of security and data protection.
3. Development and design of high performant APIs and implementing server side logic.
4. User authentication, DB Schema design etc.

Skills and Qualifications:

1. Javascript
2. Typescript
3. Object oriented programming
4. Express and Mongo DB.
5. AWS and basic devOps

Other Tools:
1. Git and other development tools.

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in software development in an object-oriented language such as Java, .NET or Node.Js
• Exceptional design, coding, and problem-solving skills, with a bias for architecture at scale.
• Experience with HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, front-end technologies like AngularJS, Redux / React and upcoming web technologies.
• Real-world experience developing large scale commercial services with robust performance, resiliency, and telemetry, delivered both Online and OnPrem.
• Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Ability to appreciate complex problems with a thorough design.