Senior Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Tech Lead to design and implement scalable, maintainable backend systems.
• Build robust APIs and backend logic using NestJS, Node.js, or similar frameworks.
• Translate product and feature requirements into efficient, production-ready code.
• Contribute to database schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning (primarily with PostgreSQL).
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to maintain high code quality.
• Take full ownership of backend modules, ensuring seamless integration with frontend and third-party services.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience building and maintaining backend APIs.
• Proficient in Node.js and familiar with NestJS or Express frameworks.
• Strong understanding of relational databases—preferably PostgreSQL (MySQL or SQLite also acceptable).
• Solid grasp of REST API design principles and backend architecture best practices.
• Familiarity with version control (Git), containerization (Docker), and basic cloud deployment workflows.
• Self-driven, detail-oriented, and capable of owning features end-to-end.

Who We Are

DAITA is a German AI start-up. We’re transforming the fashion supply chain with AI-powered agents that automate the mundane, freeing teams to focus on creativity, strategy, and growth.

After a successful research phase spanning 8 countries across 3 continents—gathering insights from Indian cotton fields to German retailers—we’ve secured pre-seed funding and key industry partnerships.

Now, we’re building our MVP to deliver speed, precision, and ease to one of the world’s biggest industries.

We’re set on hypergrowth, aiming to redefine textiles with intelligent, scalable tech—and this is your chance to join the ground floor of something huge.

What You’ll Do

As our Chief Engineer, you’ll lead the technical charge to make our vision real, starting with our MVP in a 3–5 month sprint. You’ll:

• Design and code an AI-driven/agent system (leveraging machine learning and NLP) with integrated workflow automation to streamline and automate tasks in the textile supply chain, owning it from scratch to finish.
• Develop backend systems, utilize cutting-edge tools, critically assess manpower needs beyond yourself, oversee a small support team, and drive toward our aggressive launch timeline.
• Collaborate closely with our founders to align tech with ambitious goals and client input, ensuring automated workflows deliver speed, precision, and ease to textile industry stakeholders.
• Build an MVP that scales to millions, integrating APIs and data pipelines, using major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)—keeping us nimble now and primed for explosive growth later.

What You Bring

• 2–5 years of experience at high-growth startups or leading tech firms—where you shipped real products, solved complex problems, and moved fast.
• End-to-end ownership: You've taken tech projects from zero to one—built systems from scratch, made architecture decisions, handled messy edge cases, and delivered under pressure.
• Team Leadership: 1–3 years leading engineering teams, ideally including recruitment and delivery in India.
• Technical horsepower: AI Agent Experience, strong across full-stack or backend engineering, ML/NLP integration, cloud architecture, and API/data pipeline development. Experience with workflow automation tools and platforms (e.g., Apache Airflow, UiPath, or similar) to automate processes, ideally in supply chain or textiles. You can code an MVP solo if needed.
• Resource Clarity: Bring as much technical expertise as possible to build our MVP, and if you can’t own every piece, clearly identify the specific areas where you’ll need team members to deliver on time.
• Vision Alignment: You think like a builder, taking ownership of the product and team as if it were your own, while partnering closely with the founders to execute their vision with trust and decisiveness.
• Execution DNA: You ship fast, iterate intelligently, and know when to be scrappy vs. when to be solid.
• Problem-First Thinking: You’re obsessed with solving real user problems, understanding stakeholder needs beyond just writing beautiful code.
• High-Energy Leadership: Hands-on, humble, and always ready to jump into the trenches. You lead by doing.
• Geographical Fit: India-based, ideally with previous exposure to international teams or founders.
• Values-driven: You live our culture—live in the future, move fast, one team, and character above all.

Why Join Us?

• Be the technical linchpin of a hypergrowth startup—build the MVP that launches us into the stratosphere.
• Competitive salary and equity options to negotiate—own a piece of something massive.
• On-site in our Tiruppur (Tamil Nadu) offices for 2 months with the German founders, to sync with the founders, then remote flexibility long-term.
• A full-time role demanding full availability—put in the time needed to smash deadlines and reshape the second-biggest industry on Earth with a team that moves fast and rewards hustle.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end developers, designers, and system administrators to develop robust and scalable server-side applications.

- Design and implement RESTful APIs and services using Node.js, ensuring efficient data handling and integration.

- Develop database schemas and models for MongoDB, optimizing queries and ensuring data integrity.

- Implement data migration and transformation tasks between different data sources.

- Write efficient and reusable code, following best practices and coding standards.

- Conduct thorough testing and debugging of applications to identify and fix issues promptly.

- Collaborate with DevOps team to deploy applications on servers or cloud platforms.

- Continuously monitor application performance and optimize it for scalability and reliability.

- Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends, actively suggesting improvements and innovative solutions.

Requirements:

- Strong proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript.

- Solid understanding of server-side development and asynchronous programming concepts.

- Experience working with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB).

- Knowledge of database design and query optimization techniques.

- Familiarity with web application security principles and best practices.

- Proficiency in using version control systems (e.g., Git).

- Good understanding of agile development methodologies.

- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Effective communication and collaboration abilities.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with the Tech/Team Lead, and the rest of the engineering team to build and scale a data-driven platform.

This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Lead level role.

Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, building new services and APIs, developing UI components, supporting the maintenance of current APIs, reviewing work, and improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization

• An effective Senior Software Engineer will be a self-motivated learner; a highly creative engineer having obsessive attention towards detail and thoroughness.
• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years
• You’re proficient in NodeJS, TypeScript, MySQL, and MongoDB
• You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experience with TDD (Test Driven Development)
• You’ve got the ability to build RESTful APIs
• Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
• Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems
• FrontEnd experience; (Good to have) Angular
• Startup experience, preferably a tech startup
• Open Source contributor
• You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g. Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, C, etc.
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Key Responsibilities:

· You’ll be actively involved with development of server backend that support mobile apps.

· You’ll be architecting and implementing best-in-class complex ‘real time’ web software and/or messaging systems to power highly scalable apps for users.

· Translate high level business problems into scalable design and code. Create libraries & Utilities for larger consumption.

· Work closely with UI/UX designers to create exciting user experiences and ensure delivery of graphic assets as per modern web standards.

· You’ll be continuously keeping an eye on the latest cutting-edge technologies and leveraging these in one’s own and the team’s work as necessary.

· Care about the business results of what you build, not just the elegance of the technology you build.

· Work on the end to end stack (Platforms, UI, distributed systems, databases) rather than specialize in one area.

· And of course, get hands dirty by writing server-side code for mobile-based applications, create robust high-volume production applications, and develop prototypes quickly.

Eligibility

Desired Candidates Profile:

• 5+ years of experience on Node.js based web applications and systems development.
• Strong knowledge of MEAN, Linux/UNIX based development & client-side JavaScript/jQuery.
• Knowledgeable on ORMs, their utility and limitations.
• Knowledge of web services and serialization techniques like REST, SOAP, XML & JSON.
• Knowledgeable about caching mechanisms & tools like memcache, CDNs, nginx.
• Scripting experience in using Shell/Python for creating quick technology solutions to problems.
• Prior expertise of working with AWS Cloud, CDNs and other PAAS based services.
• A strong penchant for Object-Oriented Design.
• Experience of working with version control, bug tracking, continuous integration and other productivity enhancement software like SVN, Bugzilla, Jira etc.
• Prior experience in implementing Agile software methodologies.
• Passionate about software development & modern-day web technologies like:
• Server-Side JavaScript – Node.js, Backbone.js
• Web Sockets
• NoSQL based databases like MongoDB/Couchbase/Redis
• Big Data
• Taking responsibility and ownership in the team’s work.

Additional Requirements:

• B-Tech/BS/BE/BS/MS/M.Tech/MS in Electronics or Computer Science from a premier institute in India (IITs, BITS, NITs etc) or abroad.

• Experience in Web and Mobile Applications
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
• Experience in Java, Python.
• Deep understanding of data structures and microservices.
• Knowledge of Node.js
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Familiarity with front-end technologies
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Interaction with multiple data sources
• Good understanding of SQL
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git .