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The Talent Enterprise is hiring experienced Node.js Architect in India.

Role Summary

As a Node.js Architect, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of backend applications and services, ensuring they are scalable, high-performing, and secure. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, DevOps, and project managers, to architect solutions that meet our business requirements. Your role will also involve mentoring and guiding the development team in best practices, code optimization, and design patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture Design: Define and implement the architecture for backend services using Node.js and related frameworks, ensuring scalability, flexibility, and robustness.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical leader on backend projects, providing mentorship and guidance on Node.js best practices, code standards, and design patterns.
• Code Reviews and Quality Assurance: Oversee code reviews and enforce quality standards, ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end teams, DevOps, and other stakeholders to deliver full-stack solutions that align with product and technical requirements.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring efficient data handling and high system performance.
• Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices to protect data and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
• Documentation: Develop comprehensive documentation for architecture, design, processes, and code to ensure ease of maintenance and scalability.
• Innovation and Research: Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in Node.js, microservices, and distributed systems, bringing innovative ideas to the team.

Requirements

• Experience: 7+ years in software development, with at least 4+ years focused on Node.js development.
• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Node.js, including Express.js, Nest.js, or similar frameworks. Strong understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, asynchronous programming, and event-driven architecture.
• Database Knowledge: Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Cloud Services: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including deploying and managing Node.js applications in a cloud environment.
• Microservices: Deep understanding of microservices architecture and experience designing RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with DevOps processes, CI/CD tools, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Agile Methodology: Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• Soft Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, effective communication, and a collaborative mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Frameworks: Knowledge of popular Node.js libraries and frameworks (NestJS, Koa, Hapi, etc.).
• Security Practices: Familiarity with security frameworks, data encryption, and access control.

You'll get:

• Competitive salary with health benefits
• An extremely energising, dynamic and fast paced entrepreneurial working culture and environment
• An opportunity to work on leading edge technology products and solutions that will be first movers in the market
• An opportunity to travel to international locations where our clients may be based
• Latest laptop, devices and technologies for your needs
• Unique and supportive opportunities to progress in your career
• On-going team and professional development

Where:

Remote

About Mercer Talent Enterprise

Mercer Talent Enterprise is a global leader in talent assessment, technology, and leadership development. As the world’s first and only company to pioneer the science of Behaviourmetrics®, we empower organizations to make critical people decisions by blending contemporary psychometric tools and assessment solutions with the latest advances in technology and data science.

• 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.

• 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.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS. 
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture. 
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible. 
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability. 
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

• At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds. 
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database. 
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases. 
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j. 
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs. 
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks. 
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks. 
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications. 
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools. 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git. 
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms. 
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences. 
• Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.

Job Profile:-

We’re in search of a Back-End Software Engineer that specializes in server-side components. In this role, you’ll primarily work on Node JS, Mongo DB, Redis, building scalable products and will bring a depth of knowledge on algorithms and data structures. As a Back-End Software Engineer, on any given day you might be architecting new features for our customers, refactoring existing code to be more scalable, and seeing changes through to completion in a live environment.

Key Attributes you need to possess: -

- Prioritization- Should have a strong work ethics and show up on time at sessions with excellent skills in predicting the amount of time needed to plan, coordinate, and perform on a task or managing their clients as and when required.
- Quick Learning Ability- You should be an amazing self-learner who has the ability to learn new technology on their own and are not threatened by new technologies. Someone who has an ability to pull various bits of information and to process information on the fly with good logical and analytical skills.
- Deep and Broad Technical Experience- Someone who is able to hit the ground because they already know the right technology.They should be able to meet coding principles and write code that is readable and commented-on where appropriate.Through incorporating their cognitive abilities and extensive industry experience, they are able to find optimal solutions easily.
- High-End User Focus-A good programmer does what they are asked to do, while a great programmer thinks of the end user of the software and works to solve problems within the organization’s
capabilities.Someone who knows the functionality they’re creating is of high value.
-Business Acumen- Should have a great eye for Business acumen as the product build will be exposed to millions of customers on-brand digital assets hence giving you exposure for handling a large user base in a live environment.
-Teamplayer- Someone who is able to work in a challenging environment and requires complete devotion, persistence and learning new things every day. As they will be involved in every fact of the product development starting from product ideation, Interface design, user experience, analytics, and engineering.

Typical work week look like:-

- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Design and implementation of scalable applications by using asynchronous programming with low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
-Integration of data storage solutions by creating database schemas that represent and support business processes and also Integrating multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Explore technical innovation and propose new solutions as and when required.
- Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every month.


Our ideal candidate should have:-

- 4+ years of relevant experience in a Tech Startup
- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Information Technologies/Computer Science)
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and knowledge of Node.js and frameworks.
- Strong hands on MongoDB and ability to write aggregation queries.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.
- Hands-on on code versioning tools, such as Git, Redis, AWS, Sockets

• Developing and maintaining server-side network components.
• 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.

• At least two years of experience as a Node.js developer.
• 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.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.

• You will be having 3+ years of experience of writing optimized Code in Javascript/Typescript and working with Advanced NodeJs frameworks targeting Latest NodeJs version.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable codes by setting expectations and features priorities throughout the development life cycle.
• Understanding of basic RDBMS using relational databases like PostgresSQL, MySQL, or MSSQL
• API development (Rest/GraphQL)
• You will participate in regular design sessions, code reviews and agile ceremonies.
• You will work closely with the Product Owner and scrum team to help deliver high quality features inside of agreed timescales
• You will Provide technical mentorship and upskilling to scrum team members and across functional boundaries where appropriate
• You will Identify areas for modification or refactoring inside our code-base and champion their improvement.
• You will lead by example, contributing to a culture of high quality, personal ownership and customer focused execution

• B Tech/BE or M.Tech/ME in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
• Experience level of 7+ years in building large scale applications.
• Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with distributed systems handling large amount of data.
• Excellent coding skills in Java / Python / Node / Go.
• Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
• Very good understanding of any RDBMS and/or messaging.

Responsibilities:

• Execute full lifecycle software development
• Develop, designed well efficient code
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Fully adaptive to the technology needed for the current project

Requirements:

• Bachelor/ Master degree from good college.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structure
• Understanding object-oriented programming
• Excellent knowledge of PHP, Mysql, SQL. NoSQL, Mongodb
• Ability & Readiness to work with any technology
• Familiarity with software development methodology and release processes.
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent communication skills.
• He/she should have minimum 3 years working experience on PHP, PHP Frameworks, Ajax, Knowledge on CMS platform like Opencart, payment gateway integration, experience working on portals.