Senior Backend Engineer

Role Overview

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer who can build high-performance backend systems using Node.js. You’ll work on complex engineering problems, optimize for scale, and own features end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

● Develop backend services, APIs, and microservices using Node.js frameworks (Express, Nest.js).

● Own modules end-to-end: design → implementation → testing → deployment.

● Write high-quality, testable, maintainable code.

● Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability across systems.

● Troubleshoot production issues, perform RCA, and improve stability.

● Work with databases (SQL & NoSQL), caching, and async processing.

● Collaborate with DevOps for CI/CD, deployments, and automation.

● Contribute to improving engineering standards, documentation, and processes

What we’re looking for:

● 4 to 7 years of hands-on backend development experience.

● Strong in Node.js, async patterns, TypeScript (preferred), and REST APIs.

● Solid understanding of: Data modeling Queues & background jobs Caching (Redis) API optimization

● Experience with relational DBs (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB/ Redis).

● Experience with messaging/queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent.

● Familiarity with Docker, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.

● Exposure to AWS or cloud infrastructure.

● Strong debugging and performance tuning skills.

● Ability to work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Here are answers to some questions you may have

Where is your office?

Chennai (Velachery)

Work Model

Work from Office – because great stories are built in person!

Do you have an online presence?

https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)

For better insights:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11UHgXqYc7XSJ3IAdFyEm-EurgOzqsmzA/view?usp=sharing

• Must have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with Python/Node.JS/Typescript
• At least 2+ years as back-end software developer
• A deep understanding of the benefits of the Microservice and serverless paradigms
• Prepared technical documentation, and understand why it’s important
• Understanding of database principals: SQL and NoSQL
• Collaboration and communication skills (you’ll be working with clients and internal teams)
• An understanding of programming fundamentals (OOP, data structures, algorithms)
• Familiarity and comfort with REST API, Postman
• The ability to work independently or within a team structure.
• A “lead by example” attitude, and motivation to deliver work you’re proud of

Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.

In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. With a strong presence in the U.S. and subsidiaries in India and commencement of UK operations, GradRight is well-poised for global expansion, having raised a Series A round of investments. GradRight’s 200+ team members across Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Kolkata and the US are led by alumni of IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, BITS Pilani, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania.

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As a SDE at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll contribute to frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tie them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners.

• Responsibilities:Contribute to design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
• Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
• Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem and propose new technologies/methodologies that can be adopted
• Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
• Champion infrastructure as code mindset and encourage automation
• Manage and mentor a small team of junior engineers
• Requirements:At least 4 years experience as an SDE, building large scale services
• Extensive experience in at least one programming language and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
• Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
• Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
• Experience with team management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good to have:Experience working with Node.js, MongoDB and Google Cloud
• Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
• Worked on products that addressed an international audience
• Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
• Location: GurgaonAdditional resources:Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
• Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
• GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram
• People will be eligible for ESOPs only after the 6 months of engagement with Gradright.

Skills:

We would prefer it if the candidate has 1 + years of experience. 

• Node.js - must have knowledge and experience

• MySQL/MongoDB - must have knowledge and experience
• GIT

• Any JS backend framework

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and understand technical and design requirements
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

Qualification: 

• Bachelors in IT Engineering  (Preferred) 
• Master in Computer Applications
• M.Sc IT

Other Information: 

Location: 

Mumbai, Malad. 

Age group: 

22 years to 27 years. 

Working Days:

Monday to Friday only, Saturdays and Sundays fixed off. 

Working Timings: 

10:30 am to 7:30 pm

Company: SecuvyAI, Backed by Dell Technology Ventures

Location: Hyderabad

About Secuvy: 

At Secuvy, we believe Privacy & Data Security will be a necessity for every global brand. Our mission is to provide best in class Contextual Data Intelligence tools to monitor, automate & simplify data governance for security, compliance & legal teams. We hire out of the box thinkers with the passion, creativity, and perseverance to handle constantly expanding data sprawls and deliver impactful results to our customers. Secuvy’s team comprises experts with Deep AI & Security background who have launched products for Fortune 100. We are backed by Dell Technology Ventures & Top Security VC firms in Silicon Valley. Learn more at www.secuvy.ai 

About the Role: 

Our enthusiasm for leadership driven by purpose is unwavering. We believe that every individual holds latent abilities waiting to be discovered and that a bold, unconventional approach is necessary to unleash them. We have grand aspirations and never settle for mediocrity. We are meticulous in our attention to detail. Our desire to tackle challenging issues and achieve exceptional outcomes for our customers is what drives us to always strive for excellence

Responsibilities: 

• Design and develop high-quality, scalable, and performant software solutions using NodeJS and AWS services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to identify and solve complex business problems.
• Design and develop large-scale distributed systems that are reliable, resilient, and fault-tolerant.
• Write clean, well-designed, and maintainable code that is easy to understand and debug.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure that all code is of high quality and adheres to best practices.
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues and work with the team to develop and implement solutions.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and best practices in software engineering and cloud computing.
• Experience with Data Security or Cybersecurity Products is a big asset

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 2-4 years of professional experience in building web applications using NodeJS and AWS services.
• Strong understanding of NodeJS, and experience with server-side frameworks such as Express and NestJS.
• Strong experience in designing and building large-scale distributed systems, with a solid understanding of distributed computing concepts.
• Hands-on Experience with AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and RDS.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including agile development, TDD, and continuous integration and deployment.
• Hands-on Experience with Cloud technologies including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with no-sql technologies like MongoDB or Azure Cosmos
• Experience with a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system like Kafka or redis Pubsub
• Experience developing, configuring & deploying applications on Hapi.js/Express/Fastify.
• Comfortable writing tests in Jest
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and solve complex technical problems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Why Work With Us? 

• Join a rapidly growing startup with a passionate team of experts at the forefront of data privacy & security.
• Opportunity to play a key role in shaping the technical vision and strategy for Fortune 1000 Customers.
• Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where you can make an impact and drive change.
• Enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for growth and advancement.
• If you are a passionate, self-motivated, and experienced Senior NodeJS Software Engineer with expertise in AWS and large-scale system design, we would love to hear from you!