
BlackLight Gaming is looking for a top-notch, ambitious and driven Node. js developer who is confident of creating, maintaining and further optimising highly scalable backend supporting our multiplayer mobile games which are played by millions of players. If you're hard-working, enthusiastic, dedicated, have fire in the belly to accept challenges, then BlackLight Games is the place for you.
What You Bring to the team:
- More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public cloud like Google Cloud/ AWS
- Knowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
- Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliability
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Experience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks. It’s a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.
- Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysis
- Experienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable components
- Experience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above services
- Experience building data processing pipelines
- Solid understanding of code, design, and development practices
- General comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworks
- High levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all times
- Adhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD tools
Extra Gems for:
- Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.
- Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as Redis
- Demonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps security
- Knowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google Stackdriver
- Broad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.
- Experience with Github and advanced Github features.
- Experience of working in Product industry
- Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.
Why Us?
- High Growth Startup environment
- Company sponsored courses and education material
- Lots of learning opportunities
- Work with a super-talented team of professionals
- Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips
- Performance Based Bonus
- Competitive Salary
- Medical Insurance for you and your family
- Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all time

About BlackLight Studio Works Pvt Ltd
About
About BlackLight Studio Works : We are BlackLight and we bring classic game experience to Mobile .Our games have been rocking the Play Store India since launch.
Our real time multiplayer games are a piece of cutting-edge technology, we take pride that they are played by more than 1 million players daily.
Our flagship game, Ludo SuperStar has been downloaded more than 50 million times. Other titles include - CallBreak, Carrom, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire and Word games.
Why Should you Join us ?.
• Lot of learning opportunity-free Books / Courses.
• Competitive Salary
• Free Medical Insurance for you and your family!
• Lunch on all day you order we pay 60%.
• Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee on the house at all time.
• Work with super-talented team of engineers and designers.
• Casual Dress Code.
Connect with the team
Company social profiles
Similar jobs

About Company:
Our client is a luxury home decor brand. It's nothing less than a revolution in the home decor industry- where technology enables world-class home interior design. We use technology combined with internationally trained designers to help our customers achieve the style they want to express.
Our services include unique technology-driven processes and analytics, consulting, execution, and supervision – all within schedule and planned budget, so they can relax and enjoy their space transformation with peace of mind.
We encourage our consumers to explore and discover their own self-expression while amazing their senses with new cultures and design techniques, tasteful décor, and ambiance.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks
• Design performance gauging, building robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud
• Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability
• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server[1]side logic
. • Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
Skills:
• Good communication skill to communicate with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, Regularly and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap
• Curious and progressive mind to Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs
• Good technical knowledge to Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed
• Through analytical skills to Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives.
Requirements.
• Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies
• Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out-of-the-box ideas
• Experience designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps
• Computer science degree or equivalent experience
• Experience leading a team is a bonus.
• 3+ Years of relevant experience.
• PHP Laravel Framework, PHP Design Patterns.
•Proficient in MySQL. MongoDB knowledge is plus.
•APIs, REST API, API Security.
• Laravel Events, Queue, Observers.
• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design
• Experience writing highly secure web applications.
Node.js Developer Responsibilities:
- 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.
Node.js Developer Requirements:
- 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.
Context for the Candidates:
Blockchain engineers are tasked with building secure, scalable, and high-performance decentralized applications. This discussion focuses on how to utilize key technologies—Node.js, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat—in smart contract and blockchain system development, while addressing the practical challenges that arise in such projects.
Key Discussion Points:
• How do you integrate Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript in blockchain-backed applications?
• Discuss the trade-offs between using Rust or Go for performance-critical blockchain services.
• What are the key challenges in ensuring the security and scalability of smart contracts using tools like Ethers.js, viem, and Hardhat?
• How do you approach testing, debugging, and deploying smart contracts in a decentralized environment?
• Share best practices for gas optimization, contract upgradability, and backend scalability.
Evaluation Criteria:
1. Technical Knowledge:
• Strong knowledge of Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript with practical experience in blockchain development.
• Proficiency in Ethers.js, viem, Hardhat, and smart contract lifecycle (development, testing, deployment).
• Understanding of security best practices, performance optimizations, and scalability in decentralized systems.
2. Problem-Solving and Integration Skills:
• How candidates approach integrating smart contract solutions with backend services using Node.js, Rust, Go, and TypeScript.
• Solutions proposed for common challenges in blockchain projects such as gas fees, security vulnerabilities, and system bottlenecks.
3. Experience and Expertise:
• Minimum of 2 years of IT experience, including hands-on development with the specified technologies.
• Practical knowledge of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and decentralized application deployment.
4. Innovation and Critical Thinking:
• Candidates’ ability to think creatively about system architecture, proposing scalable and secure solutions for blockchain-based applications.
• Discussion on the future potential of blockchain technology and how the tech stack can evolve.
5. Communication and Team Collaboration:
• Clear articulation of technical challenges and how to address them in a team setting.
• Ability to lead or contribute to discussions in a way that encourages collaboration and team-driven problem-solving.
2. Spring boot/ Spring or any variations of Spring
3. MySQL
4. Mentions of, distributed systems, scalable systems
5. Mentions of ElasticSearch, Kafka or Redis
6. NoSQL databases like Cassandra/DynamoDB/MongoDB/Hbase etc
7. Mentions of Handling scale/scalable systems
9. Mentions of AWS or Amazon web services.
Description: Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application
requirements.
- 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.
Node.js Developer Requirements:
- 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.
Review requirements, design specifications and propose solution and have discussion before implementation
Work with team leads on the requirements and create estimates against those requirements
Deliver projects on time in an agile and continuous development environment
Writing tests in a client-side test framework such as Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, etc.
Work withQA team for resolving issues
Report status with tools like JIRA to stakeholders
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of work experience developing complex software
- Minimum 2years sound experience with back-end development in Java-script frameworks like loopback, Express, etc
- A solid understanding of core Javascript principles and its fundamentals
- Familiarity with popular Javascript tools, frameworks and design principles, and enjoy staying up to date with the changing Javascript ecosystem
- Strong communication skills across the board, with a passion for finding and sharing best practices and driving.
Skills:
- Javascript • Node • Express • Loopback • OAuth • API Development
- Plus Points • Knowledge of Go, Ruby, Python, Closure or any other languages • Test Driven Development (TDD) • Knowledge of front-end development
Who you are:
- 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.

Server Side skills:
Should have handson experience on JS technologies more than 3+ years
Building interactive dasboards from multiple systems and RESTfully
abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend
In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS and Restify
Knowledge of authentication using PassportJS, AuthO or JWT.
Knowledge of media content uploading using any cloud
Should have good understanding of request validation, schema
validation and Error handling
Good understanding of Promises, Async/Await and Callbacks
Should have knowledge of Socket, Pubsub.
Payment gateways integration using Braintree, Stripe or any other
would be a good skills to have.
Should have good understanding of scheduled tasks in NodeJS and
CronJobs
In depth knowledge of ORM like Mongoose, Sequalize or KnexJS.
Hands on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript Development on
server side.

