Senior Backend Developer

About Tamasha

Tamasha is building next-generation live, social, and real-time consumer

experiences across gaming, audio, video, and interactive platforms. Our backend

systems power millions of real-time interactions, low-latency data flows, and high

throughput event-driven services.

Role Overview

As a Software Development Engineer III (Backend), you will operate as a senior

individual contributor owning mission-critical backend systems. You will design

scalable architectures, solve complex distributed systems problems, and influence

engineering standards across teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to

production reliability and long-term evolution.

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Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for real

time and event-driven use cases.

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Lead system design decisions including data models, service boundaries, async

workflows, and scalability strategies.

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Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests,

or messages per day.

 Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, error budgets, and

participate in incident resolution and post-mortems.

Drive architectural migrations including monolith to microservices and

synchronous to asynchronous flows.

 Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex

requirements into robust backend solutions.

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Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling,

CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.

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Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance

without direct people management.

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Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability

risks and resolve them at the system level.

Tech Stack

Backend: Node.js (NestJS / Express), Golang, Java

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

Messaging & Async: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub

Real-time: WebSockets, Server-Sent Events

Cloud & Infra: AWS / GCP, Docker, Kubernetes

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience

• Proven ownership of production systems at scale

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures

• Experience handling production incidents and system reliability

• Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems

Job Title: Java Backend Developer

Experience: ~3-6 years (Mid-to-Senior)

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location : Bangalore

Role Overview

As a Java Backend Developer, you’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems and microservices. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to build high-performance distributed services, APIs, and data-driven applications that power business solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement microservices and backend components using Java (8+) and Spring Boot.
• Build and consume RESTful APIs and integrate with internal/external services.
• Work with event-driven systems and messaging using Apache Kafka (producers/consumers).
• Develop and optimize databases, including SQL (e.g., MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB/Cassandra).
• Participate in CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, and deployments using tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins.
• Ensure code quality through unit and integration testing, documentation, and code reviews.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, QA, DevOps, and product teams following Agile methodologies.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Proven hands-on experience with Core Java and Spring Boot development.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
• Experience with message queues/event streaming (Apache Kafka).
• Skilled in relational and NoSQL databases and writing optimized queries.
• Comfortable with CI/CD tools (e.g., Git, Maven, Jenkins) and version control.
• Good problem-solving, debugging, and collaboration skills.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Cloud platform experience (AWS / Azure / GCP).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of performance tuning, caching strategies, observability (metrics/logging).
• Agile/Scrum development experience.

Are you passionate about backend development and building scalable applications? Join our growing team!

Technical Skills:

• Extensive experience in programming/scripting languages and frameworks in at least two Node.js, Java Springboot, and Python.
• Understanding of architectural patterns like Flux and MVC is a desirable
• Work experience in REST API service, Socket connections, and mechanisms to handle real-time async data is important.
• Strong knowledge in OOPS, GIT, SQL/nonSQL DB (such as Elastic DB, Mongo DB, MySQL), Design Patterns
• Preferred to have experience with microservices, API gateway, AAA service
• Good knowledge of coding standards, design patterns, unit testing frameworks, TDD, CI/CD practices.

Must have previous experience in leading a team-

• Experience with RESTful web services, CSS, and HTML5 is desirable-
• Experience with designing and building APIs with REST/Microservices
• Good to know about AWS Lambda & supporting configuration knowledge. Knowledge of any of the serverless frameworks like Serverless, AWS SAM would be an advantage.-
• Good to know of API Gateway and CloudFront.-

👉 Required Skills:

• Strong experience with Node.js
• Hands-on expertise in Payment Gateway Integration
• Proficient in MySQL Database Management
• Knowledge of Socket Programming is a big plus!

What we expect of you:

• 4+ years of experience building scalable backends using Nodejs
• In-depth knowledge of any framework of Nodejs (i.e. Express, Hapi, Koa.js)
• Hands on experience with developing REST APIs using Node.js and any of the above framework
• Good understanding of standard authentication systems such as OAuth2 and JWT
• Should have experience with Socket.IO
• Should have understanding of Model, Caching, Async mechanisms
• Knowledge of server-side templating (e.g. Jade, Handlebars.js, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with implementing Role based User authentication and authorization system
• Understanding of Caching, Database Interactions, Middlewares
• Able to engineer the best performing solutions and always keeping scalability in mind

Must haves:

• Strong problem solving skills
• Passion for building robust systems that are engineered to handle failure scenarios, an attitude to maintain coding standards
• Strong advocate for producing quality software who makes sure issues are raised and resolved

What makes you a great fit for Aubergine:

• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Hungry for more responsibility and knowledge
• Experience with at least one of the cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean etc. (docker, Kubernetes, microservice good to have)

Skills: NodeJs

Experience required: 4+ years

Job Type: Full time/ Permanent

Perks and Benefits:

• Flexible shift timings
• Company-sponsored certifications.
• Team friendly culture
• Flat hierarchy
• Carrom, Table tennis games, Cricket Tournament Participation for interested employees
• Snack-filled pantry for team members
• Group Medical Insurance (*)
• 5 days working.

Full-time

• You have an overall software development experience of 4 to 10 years
• 3+ years proficiency in Java and Spring boot
• Familiar with distributed computing and frameworks such as gRPC/ protobuf
• Understands JVM metrics, Garbage collection and performance tuning
• Experience in creating high-level design(HLD) and low-level design(LLD)
• You have a good understanding of relational database, NoSQL technologies, and REST
• Good to have experience in HTML, JavaScript, GraphQL, TypeScript, ReactJS and related toolsets
• Exposure to AWS stack/cloud computing
• Self-motivated developer who takes ownership of work
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computing related discipline
• Experience in Product Development Environment is a plus.

• • Key Result Areas
  
  
  1. Develop and lead desktop and mobile web Back end development. 
  2. Work on Node JS platform.
  3. Strong focus on UI Performance: optimize page load, rendering, caching, leveraging CDNs.
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  1. Technology Skills:
  
  
  • Advanced Javascript, CSS, HTML 5, D/XHTML, XML, JSON, DOM Concepts
  • Must have worked on a SPA frameworks:Nodejs, AngularJS or InfernoJS
  • Familiarity with common Javascript Libraries such as jQuery.
  • Fluent in responsive design and mobile / tablet UI / UX
  • Knowledge about UI testing automation
  • Web mobile (touch devices: mobiles and tablets) experience is expected
  • UI or API Performance: should have hands-on experience of optimizing page load, rendering,caching.
  • Good understanding of AJAX and its UI implications
  • Sense for appeal & aesthetics from a usability perspective

• Consultant/freelancing role
• Design and build advanced high-quality applications in .Net,.Net Core, Azure or AWS. hands on programming on C#, Web API, NOSQL DB and Azure, AWS.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle.
• Able to handle and manage the projects independently.
• Should be hands on developer and write production level code flawlessly
• Will be involved in client interactions and gathering project requirements, suggest best solutions considering NFRs insights
• Someone with an ability to ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Ability to work within a rapidly evolving environment.
• Eager to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Bring new ideas and technologies to the team that can improve our product or process.
• Help maintain code quality, unit test cases, documentation, etc

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.

Must-have skills for Node.js developers are:

• Socket.io - For chat applications
• Databases - MySQL and MongoDB
• AWS - Basic Knowledge
• Experience with Git and GitHub
• Ability to write tests
• Experience in your niche
• Efficiency in writing code