Senior Backend Developer

Job Title: Backend Engineer - NodeJS, NestJS, and Python

Location: Hybrid weekly ⅔ days WFO (Bengaluru- India)

About the role:

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Senior Backend Developer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Node.js and NestJS, along with a solid understanding of database management, query optimization, and microservices architecture. As a backend developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining scalable backend systems, building robust APIs, integrating databases, and working closely with frontend and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

What You'll Do 🛠️ 

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side logic using Node.js, NestJS, and Python.
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and microservices to support scalable systems.
• Work with NoSQL and SQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) to create and manage schemas, write complex queries, and optimize performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend, DevOps, and QA.
• Ensure code quality, maintainability, and scalability through code reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Implement security and data protection best practices.

What You'll Bring 💼 

• 4 to 6 years of professional experience as a backend developer.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js and NestJS framework.
• Good hands-on experience with Python (Django/Flask experience is a plus).
• Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
• Proficient in writing complex NoSQL queries and SQL queries
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
• Basic understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and cloud services is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

Bonus Points ➕ 

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture or message brokers (MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ)

Why this role matters

You will help build the company from the ground up—shaping our culture and having an impact from Day 1 as part of the foundational team.

As an engineer, you will help with the implementation, and launch of many key product features. You will get an opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies (including Spring, AWS Elastic Search, Lambda, ECS, Redis, Spark, Kafka etc.) and apply new technologies for solving problems. You will have an influence on defining product features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will get to work with skilled and motivated engineers who are already contributing to building high-scale and high-available systems.

If you are looking for an opportunity to work on leading technologies and would like to build product technology that can cater millions of customers inclined towards providing them the best experience, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!

What You'll Do:

• Creating detailed design, working on development and performing code reviews.
• Implementing validation and support activities in line with architecture requirements
• Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks.
• Designing, building, and implementation of the product; participating in requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation and review of high and low level design, assigning and reviewing tasks for product implementation.
• Work closely with product managers, UX designers and end users and integrating software components into a fully functional system
• Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production.
• Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns.
• Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
• Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent.
• Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.

The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/she should be able to commit and own the deliveries end-to-end.

What You'll Need:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 2-3+ years of Software Development experience with proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA
• Fluency with Java, and Spring is good.
• Experience in JEE applications and frameworks like struts, spring, mybatis, maven, gradle
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and CS fundamentals.
• Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and data modeling skills
• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
• Ability to learn new domains and deliver output
• Hands on Experience with the core AWS services
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, GitLab, TeamCity, GoCD, etc.)

• Expertise in at least one of the following:

    - Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology

    - Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached

    - Distributed column store databases like Snowflake, Cassandra, or HBase

    - Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks

• Proficient with writing and reviewing Python and other object-oriented language(s) are a plus
• Experience building automations and CICD pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
• Experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.
• Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile: Scrum, Kanban
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! https://www.happyfox.com/

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team to help build and maintain our growing list of products. You should have prior experience being responsible for building sufficiently complex features by yourself.

Responsibilities: 

• Implement product features by writing clean, robust, reusable code with tests
• Conduct peer reviews to keep the codebase a great environment to work on
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver high-quality features
• Bring new ideas and best practices to improve the team and the codebase

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional work experience
• Proficiency in backend programming languages like Python
• Experience working with web application frameworks like Django
• Experience in building web services using relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Proficiency in writing highly performant and scalable code
• Experience in building REST APIs and a good understanding of best practices around building APIs
• Good communication skills with an ability to articulate your views
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

We are seeking Software Engineers for developing Html5 based content for various target platforms like Android, IOS, and Windows. Primary responsibility will be to create new Html5 Games and modules with new features, translating new design idea, concepts, and requirements into a live interactive module.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:
· Transforming ideas into functional games.
· Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
· Create/update web modules (games/engines/templates)
· Responsible to handle game singlehandedly.

Skills:
· Strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
· Strong knowledge of how the web works and different kind of optimization techniques. · Deep dive onto different HTML5 Game Frameworks used in the industry like CreateJS, Phaser.io, PixiJS, Cocos2d-X.
· Knowledge of how the game physics works.
· Strong & excellent knowledge of Html5 development with Html5 APIs, Canvas, Object       Oriented JavaScript, jQuery, bootstrap, desktop and portable device based web     application & modules development.
· Good Problem solving and analytical skills.
· Strong Debugging skills.
· Proficient knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git and SVN.
· Knowledge of E-Learning Interactive Content Development Skill Requirements.
· Good Communication skills and ability to work with a team of peers.
· Prior experience with educational content development is a plus.

Qualifications and Experience:

Education – B. Tech, MCA

At least 1-4 years’ experience of developing HTML5 games.

• 5 years experience with the Django framework
• Experience with building APIs (REST or GraphQL) 
• Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
• React.js knowledge would be an added bonus 
• Understanding on how to use a database like Postgres (prefered choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented design and analysis.
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.

Experience:

• Min 5 year experience
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote developer

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

We are looking for developers who are passionate about Python and know what are the benefits of python well.

Responsibilities:

• Design & implement new software modules based on the product requirements
• Debug existing software components, fix issues, and avoid regressions
• Be proactive, take ownership, and be accountable
• Familiar with Test Drive Development.
• Participate in software architecture, design discussions, and code reviews

Technologies we’re hiring for:

• Developed HTTP based REST APIs and implemented Authentication, Caching
• Worked with relational and NoSQL databases and aware of concepts like ORM, Migrations
• Languages & Frameworks: Python Django/Flask
• Database: Postgres/ Mongo
• Must have worked in a Unix/Linux based environment
• Advanced middleware like RabbitMQ, Celery Beat is definitely a plus.

Minimum 3+ year hands-on experience in Python needed