Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js, AI-Native Top Fintechp company only) at Staffnixcom · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 6 - 10 years · ₹40L - ₹50L / yr · Bootstrapped · Posted 22 Jul 2026

Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js, AI-Native Top Fintechp company only)
at Staffnixcom
What You'll Bring
• Experience: 6+ years building production backend systems in Node.js for B2C products at meaningful scale.
• System Design: This one matters a lot to us. You can reason clearly about scalability, reliability, and trade-offs under real constraints.
• Fundamentals: Strong grasp of API design, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean code.
• Databases: Depth in SQL and/or NoSQL, data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• AI-Native: You already use LLMs and agentic approaches to maximize your own efficiency as an engineer.
• Mindset: You enjoy the pace and breadth of a small team, and you are happy picking up whatever moves the product

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NonStop io Technologies is a value-driven company with a strong focus on process-oriented software engineering. We specialize in Product Development and have a decade's worth of experience in building web and mobile applications across various domains. NonStop io Technologies follows core principles that guide its operations and believes in staying invested in a product's vision for the long term. We are a small but proud group of individuals who believe in the 'givers gain' philosophy and strive to provide value in order to seek value. We are committed to and specialize in building cutting-edge technology products and serving as trusted technology partners for startups and enterprises. We pride ourselves on fostering innovation, learning, and community engagement. Join us to work on impactful projects in a collaborative and vibrant environment. We're seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our team. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable backends for the products we build at NonStop. This includes APIs, databases, and server-side logic.
Responsibilities:
● Design, develop, and deploy backend systems, including APIs, databases, and server-side logic
● Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that adheres to industry standards and best practices
● Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of the codebase
● Debug and resolve issues in the existing codebase
● Develop and execute unit tests to ensure high code quality
● Work with DevOps engineers to ensure seamless deployment of software changes
● Monitor application performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems for better scalability and efficiency
● Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies; advocate for best practices and new ideas within the team
● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize project requirements
Requirements:
● At least 3+ years of experience building scalable and reliable backend systems
● Strong expertise in NodeJS/NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL
● Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
● Proficiency in database design (SQL and NoSQL)
● Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines
● Deep understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
● Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
● Exceptional communication and leadership skills
● Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns
● Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and methodologies
● Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
● Strong communication skills and ability to effectively lead and maintain a collaborative team environmen
● Ready to be a tech-agnostic engineer and comfortable to shift on any tech stack (Java, Node, Python etc)
● Comfortable working with AI (Claude code, Cursor etc)
About VerbaFlo.ai
VerbaFlo.ai is a fast-growing AI SaaS startup revolutionizing how businesses leverage AI-powered solutions. As a part of our dynamic team, you’ll work alongside industry leaders and visionaries to drive innovation and execution across multiple functions.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop user-friendly, scalable, and high-performance web applications. This role requires deep expertise in backend technologies, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and AI teams to deliver cohesive features and seamless user experiences.
- Ensure the reliability, security, and performance of backend systems.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code using modern backend practices.
- Implement automated testing, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure as code (where applicable).
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of backend features, from architecture to deployment.
- Monitor production systems and resolve performance and scalability issues.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and help evolve our engineering best practices.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of experience in backend development in startups, preferably in SaaS or AI-driven products.
- Proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go
- Deep understanding of RESTful API design.
- Strong experience with databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch.
- Exposure to message queues, job schedulers, or event-driven architectures (e.g., SQS, Celery, etc).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with Git, CI/CD tools, and writing unit/integration tests.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a mindset geared toward performance and security.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
Why Join Us?
- Work directly with top leadership in a high-impact role.
- Be part of an innovative and fast-growing AI startup.
- Opportunity to take ownership of key projects and drive efficiency.
- A collaborative, ambitious, and fast-paced work environment.
- Perks & Benefits: gym membership benefit, workation policy, and company-sponsored lunch.
If you’re looking for an exciting role that combines strategy, execution, and leadership exposure, we’d love to hear from you!
Senior Software Engineer I (Backend, Enterprise SaaS - AP) Role summary
•Senior individual contributor owning backend services for a large-scale enterprise SaaS platform (Kanban-style work management and flow).
•Designs and ships features end-to-end, collaborating closely with frontend, product, and QA.
What you’ll do
•Design, implement, and maintain Node.js (TypeScript/JavaScript) backend services and APIs.
•Model and evolve core domain entities (boards, lanes, work items, WIP rules, permissions, cross-team connections).
•Build secure, multi-tenant REST/JSON APIs consumed by web frontends and other internal services.
•Implement business logic for work-flow, metrics, and cross-team visibility.
•Improve performance, reliability, and observability of existing services.
•Integrate backend services with data storage and analytics layers via well-designed interfaces.
•Write and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, contract) and participate in code reviews.
•Partner with product to refine requirements and break work into incremental, shippable slices.
Tech stack
•Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript
•REST/JSON APIs (GraphQL familiarity a plus)
•Relational/NoSQL data stores
•CI/CD, logging, metrics, and alerting tools
Experience & qualifications
•~6–9 years of backend engineering experience building web or SaaS products.
•Strong Node.js skills and experience designing clean API boundaries.
•Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed system basics.
•Experience in agile teams; comfortable collaborating across time zones.
Nice to have
•Experience with Kanban/Agile tools or other developer/productivity SaaS products.
•Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) in day-to-day development.
•Hands-on experience with React or close collaboration with React frontend teams.
Our Story
At The Alter Office, we build what comes next. We operate as an internal innovation lab, creating stealth products, new business bets, and high-leverage systems designed to unlock disproportionate value for us and our partner company ITW Consulting.
Our work is not centered around being a conventional service partner. Instead, we focus on building products and platforms that solve complex, strategic problems and create long-term advantage. Where needed, we have stepped in on critical opportunities beyond the usual scope, especially when speed, product thinking, and execution depth mattered most.
About the Role
We are building a holistic AdTech platform that delivers premium value to both advertisers and publishers, and the backend is where that entire ecosystem actually runs - the ad marketplace, campaign creation, ad-serving decisioning, analytics collection, attribution, and ROAS measurement.
Concretely, that means large-scale architecture: the ad-serving systems that make real-time decisioning calls at volume, the scalable data platforms that ingest and process billions of events a day, the analytics platforms that turn that data into attribution and ROAS numbers advertisers and publishers trust, and the autonomous AI agents we're building to automate campaign optimization and decisioning across the platform.
We are looking for someone who is eager to learn, enjoys solving technical problems, and wants to grow beyond simply implementing tasks. You'll have opportunities to understand how backend systems connect to the product and gradually take ownership of larger parts of the platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend APIs and services for our ad marketplace, campaign management, and analytics platforms.
- Work with senior engineers to design and implement scalable backend solutions.
- Develop RESTful APIs and asynchronous backend workflows.
- Work with SQL databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL and NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB and Redis.
- Implement data models, database queries, caching, and basic performance optimizations.
- Contribute to backend infrastructure supporting analytics, attribution, and AI-powered platform features.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, backend, and DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end features.
- Implement authentication, authorization, and basic security practices under the guidance of senior engineers.
- Write clean, maintainable, documented, and tested code.
- Use Git and participate in code reviews and team development practices.
- Learn and contribute to deploying backend services on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Work with Docker for containerizing backend services.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.
- Help monitor, debug, and troubleshoot backend services in development and production environments.
- Explore event-driven and distributed architectures using technologies such as message brokers, WebSockets, or GraphQL where appropriate.
Requirements
- 1–2 years of professional backend engineering experience, including relevant internship or project experience.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language, with the ability and willingness to adapt to other languages such as Node.js/JavaScript, Go, Python, and Java.
- Good understanding of RESTful API design and backend fundamentals.
- Good understanding of asynchronous programming and how backend services communicate.
- Familiarity with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with at least one NoSQL database such as MongoDB or Redis is a plus.
- Good understanding of data modeling and writing SQL queries.
- Familiarity with Git and software development workflows.
- Good understanding of Docker and containerized applications.
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus.
- Understanding of basic backend security concepts such as authentication, authorization, and secure API practices.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Good communication and willingness to collaborate with other engineers and product teams.
- Strong learning mindset and willingness to work with unfamiliar technologies.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
5 steps, and we tell you where you stand at each one.
Online Assessment : Evaluate coding skills, backend fundamentals, SQL, problem-solving, and technical understanding.
Technical Interview 1 : Discuss previous projects, backend experience, APIs, databases, system design, and production experience.
Take-Home Assessment : A practical backend assignment to evaluate code quality, architecture, scalability, testing, and ability to build a production-ready solution.
Technical Interview 2 : Deep dive into the take-home assignment, system design, technical decisions, scalability, debugging, cloud, and architecture.
HR Interview : Discuss communication, ownership, culture fit, career goals, compensation, availability, and overall expectations.
Why This Role Matters
Our backend is what keeps checkout, RTO, and payments fast and reliable at ~$2B GMV across 15,000+ merchants. As an SDE 2 you own services end to end, make the architecture calls that keep them performant, and set the technical bar for the engineers around you. The trade-offs you pick show up directly in merchant conversions and platform reliability - this is a builder's seat with real ownership.
What You'll Own
- Design and build backend services primarily in Node.js/NestJS, with Go for select services, backed by Postgres, Mongo, and Redis.
- Own event-driven flows on Kafka - throughput, ordering, and failure handling.
- Make and document the architecture and trade-off decisions for systems you lead.
- Ship features end to end, dropping into the frontend (React/Svelte) when it's the fastest path.
- Strengthen CI/CD, observability, and deployments on AWS.
- Review code, mentor SDE 1s and AEs, and raise the quality bar on the team.
- Take ambiguous problems and drive them to delivery with minimal hand-holding.
Who You Are
- Strong backend engineer in JavaScript/TypeScript on Node.js/NestJS (our primary stack); working knowledge of Go, or ready to pick it up.
- Solid at data modelling across Postgres and Mongo, and knows when Redis earns its place.
- Has built and scaled event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent).
- At home on the backend but happy to work across the stack in React/Svelte.
- Thinks in systems - scalability, reliability, maintainability - not just features.
- Has mentored engineers and owns code quality and delivery, not just their own tickets.
- Communicates clearly and does well with ambiguity in a fast-moving team.
Role Description
Software Engineer is a full-time role based in Hyderabad with Onsite work arrangement. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining back-end services and APIs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security across platforms. The engineer will participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making, collaborating closely with product owners, QA, and cross-functional teams. Daily responsibilities include writing clean, maintainable code, troubleshooting complex issues, improving system performance, and contributing to best practices, documentation, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring less experienced engineers and supporting continuous improvement in development processes and tooling.
Key Requirements/Skills
4-7 years of overall experience in software development with strong expertise in building scalable web & mobile applications.
- Strong technical decision-making ability, including architecture design, technology selection and implementation of best practices.
- Front-end expertise: Strong experience in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, NextJS and building responsive and user-friendly UI/UX.
- Back-end development: Hands-on experience with Node.js, Express JS, Nest JS, RESTful APIs, API design, and server-side architecture.
- Databases : Good Hands on Exprience in both SQL(PostgreSQL Preferred) & No SQL Databases
- Gen AI Expertise: Experience in building RAG & LLM Systems, implementing AI/ML models and integrating AI-based solutions to solve business problems. Expereince with Langchain, langgraph and Vector DBs, Voice AI(STT, TTS) Models and experience in using Open AI Tools (Calude, Cursor, etc.)
- Cloud & DevOps exposure: Experience with AWS/Azure, understanding of CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployments.
- Code quality & best practices: Experience in code reviews, Git version control, and ensuring maintainable and secure code.
- Team leadership: Ability to mentor developers, guide technical discussions, and collaborate across teams.
- Strong communication skills to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in high-compliance environments such as healthcare systems is a plus.
- Certifications in AWS & Other skills and technologies will be an added advantage.
Educational Qualification
- B.Tech / M.Tech in CSE/IT/AI&ML only from a recognized university/college.
About the Role
We're looking for engineers who can independently design and build reliable backend services. Beyond writing code, you should be comfortable thinking about performance, data consistency, reliability, and maintainability.
Responsibilities
● Design and implement backend services.
● Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
● Design efficient database schemas.
● Build reliable asynchronous workflows.
● Debug production issues independently.
● Review code and mentor junior engineers.
● Improve application performance and reliability.
● Contribute to technical design discussions.
Must Have Strong Programming Skills
● Proficiency in at least one backend language.
● Strong Object-Oriented Design.
● Good understanding of design principles.
● REST API design.
● Writing maintainable, testable code.
Database Knowledge Comfortable with:
● Database design
● Query optimization
● Transactions
● Indexing strategies
● Locking (high-level understanding)
● Isolation levels (basic understanding)
● Data modelling Concurrency
Working knowledge of:
● Race conditions
● Concurrent updates
● Idempotency (basic understanding)
● Optimistic vs pessimistic locking (conceptual)
● Thread safety (language dependent)
Asynchronous Systems Experience with:
● Background jobs
● Queues
● Retry mechanisms
● Scheduled jobs
● Event-driven workflows (nice to have)
Problem Solving Should be comfortable:
● Debugging production issues.
● Reading logs.
● Identifying bottlenecks.
● Breaking large features into smaller tasks.
● Evaluating trade-offs before implementation.
Good to Have Experience with:
● Redis
● RabbitMQ / Kafka / BullMQ or similar
● Docker
● Kubernetes
● AWS
● CI/CD
● Monitoring & Logging tools
What We Look For Successful engineers here typically:
● Think before coding.
● Write maintainable solutions.
● Understand why a design works, not just how.
● Consider edge cases.
● Take ownership of production issues.
● Help improve the engineering practices of the team.
Interview Focus
● Programming fundamentals
● Database design
● SQL
● Concurrency scenarios
● API design
● Production debugging
● Problem-solving exercise
● Code review discussion
Job Overview
Architect and build scalable, high-performance backend systems while working on mission-critical platforms that process real-time market data and portfolio analytics. The role also involves leveraging Generative AI capabilities to enhance data intelligence, automation, and user-facing features, while ensuring regulatory compliance and secure financial transactions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using NodeJS and Python
- Build event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ and Kafka for real-time data processing
- Develop and manage data pipelines integrating PostgreSQL and BigQuery for analytics and warehousing
- Integrate and deploy Generative AI models (LLMs, embeddings, AI APIs) into backend systems for automation, insights, and intelligent workflows
- Design AI-powered features such as recommendation systems, document processing, or conversational interfaces
- Ensure system reliability, security, and low-latency performance for mission-critical systems
- Lead technical design discussions, conduct code reviews, and mentor junior engineers
- Optimize database queries, implement caching strategies, and improve overall system performance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end product features
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 2+ years of professional backend development experience
- Strong expertise in NodeJS and Python for production-grade applications
- Proven experience building RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
- Experience working with Generative AI frameworks/APIs (OpenAI, LangChain, vector databases, prompt engineering)
- Understanding of integrating LLMs into production systems (RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning basics)
- Strong proficiency in PostgreSQL, including query optimization and schema design
- Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ and Kafka
- Experience with BigQuery or similar data warehousing solutions
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability patterns, and high-traffic applications
- Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, and security best practices
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Exposure to fintech or financial services, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), Docker/Kubernetes, caching tools (Redis/Memcached), and regulatory requirements (KYC, compliance, data privacy) is a plus
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DataFlow Group is a pioneering global provider of specialized Primary Source Verification (PSV) solutions, and background screening and immigration compliance services that assist public and private organizations in mitigating risks to make informed, cost-effective decisions regarding their Applicants and Registrants.
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● Tech Stack Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB (Mongoose/Aggregation framework), and TypeScript. Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, S3, ECS/Lambda, CloudWatch) and containerization (Docker).
● Architectural Fluency: A solid understanding of modern backend patterns (Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Pub/Sub, Caching strategies, Message Queues like RabbitMQ/Kafka, State Management, and Authentication/Authorization protocols).
● Optimization Expert: Proven experience in tuning database performance, scaling server instances, managing connection pools, and debugging memory leaks or high CPU usage under heavy load.
● Grit & Speed: You thrive in high-pressure environments and enjoy the challenge of meeting tight deadlines without compromising on quality or system reliability.















