Senior Consultant (Node.js / Java + Temporal)

As a Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer, you will take ownership of backend systems and cloud infrastructure. You’ll work closely with our CTO and cross-functional teams (hardware, AI, frontend) to design scalable, fault- tolerant architectures and ensure reliable deployment pipelines.

1. What You’ll Do :

• Backend Development: Maintain and evolve our Node.js (TypeScript) and Python backend services with a focus on performance and scalability.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Manage our infrastructure on GCP and Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Storage, Functions, AppEngine, PubSub, Cloud Tasks). 
• Database Management: Handle Firestore and other NoSQL DBs. Lead database schema design and migration strategies.
• Pipelines & Automation: Build robust real-time and batch data pipelines. Automate CI/CD and testing for backend and frontend services.
• Monitoring & Uptime: Deploy tools for observability (logging, alerts, debugging). Ensure 99.9% uptime of critical services.
• Dev Environments: Set up and manage developer and staging environments across teams.
• Quality & Security: Drive code reviews, implement backend best practices, and enforce security standards.
• Collaboration: Partner with other engineers (AI, frontend, hardware) to integrate backend capabilities seamlessly into our global system.

Must-Haves :

• 5+ years of experience in backend development and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in Node.js (TypeScript) and/or Python.
• Advanced skills in NoSQL databases (Firestore, MongoDB, DynamoDB...).
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably GCP and Firebase.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps tools, and automation.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems and performance tuning.
• Experience setting up and managing development & staging environments. 

• Proficiency in English and remote communication.

Good to have :

• Event-driven architecture experience (e.g., Pub/Sub, MQTT).
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Google Monitoring).
• Previous work on large-scale SaaS products.
• Knowledge of telecommunication protocols (MQTT, WebSockets, SNMP).
• Experience with edge computing on Nvidia Jetson devices.

What We Offer :

• Competitive salary for the Indian market (depending on experience).
• Remote-first culture with async-friendly communication.
• Autonomy and responsibility from day one.
• A modern stack and a fast-moving team working on cutting-edge AI and cloud infrastructure.
• A mission-driven company tackling real-world environmental challenges. 

Skills Required:

• At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
• Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.

• System engineering and implementation in Golang.
• Working on performance issues using creative experiments and internally developed product features.
• Research, propose, and integrate relevant open-source projects based on product objectives.
• Write organized, efficient, and well documented Python/Golang code as an example for junior engineers.
• Participation in all levels of product definition, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Must include the ability to discuss abstract system architectures from ideas through implementation and
• creatively apply domain experience to solve technical challenges.
• Mentoring software engineers, fostering an environment of trust and accountability.

• Strong Golang skills to develop framework(s).
• Hands-on to design & develop re-usable framework components.
• Hands-On experience on developing framework, designing re-usable framework components.
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design driven development,
• Continuous Integration, building highly scalable applications, application security and functional programming.

• Knowledge of Cloud native would be an advantage.
• Understanding of Kubernetes from Architecture side and also understand the Standard API.
• Code contributed to CNCF or similar community will be plus.
• Performance benchmarking of K8’s or any cloud will be added advantage.

• Deep understanding of technology and passionate about what you do.
• Background in designing high performant scalable software systems with strong focus to optimize hardware cost.
• Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic environment.
• Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on.
• Prior development of a large software project using service-oriented architecture operating with real time constraints.

• You will get a chance to work on cloud-native and hyper-scale products
• You will be working with industry leaders in cloud.
• You can expect a steep learning curve.
• You will get the experience of solving real time problems, eventually you become a problem solver.

• Competitive Salary
• Health Insurance
• Open Learning - 100% Reimbursement for online technical courses.
• Fast Growth - opportunities to grow quickly and surely
• Creative Freedom + Flat hierarchy
• Sponsorship to all those employees who represent company in events and meet ups.
• Flexible working hours
• 5 days week
• Hybrid Working model (Office and WFH)

• Initial Resume screening call with our Recruiting team
• Next, candidates will be invited to solve coding exercises.
• Next, candidates will be invited for first technical interview
• Next, candidates will be invited for final technical interview
• Finally, candidates will be invited for Culture Plus interview with HR
• Candidates may be asked to interview with the Leadership team
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email
• As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a mix of telephonic and video call.

Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, REST services, PostgreSQL

Experience with Elastic Search or any NoSQL DB is preferable

Desired candidates must have 2-7 years experience as NodeJs Developer. If the candidate is not able to relocate to Gurgaon then we can also provide permanent Work from home for this position.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding functional and business requirements and translate them into effective code
• Provide support till deployment of code into production.
• Ownership for ensuring code optimization, problem diagnosis, and on-time delivery
• Implement solutions as per the pre-defined framework /guidelines and adherence to processes
• Finding an optimal solution for the problem statement
• Conduct peer code review.

What candidate should know about:

• Excellent hands-on experience with Node.Js, Express.Js, JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent hands-on experience with MongoDB, Mongo aggregation, MySQL
• Ability to build REST services, Authentications, MVC applications
• Excellent Object Oriented Programming skills and ability to write modular, secure, scalable, and maintainable code
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis.
• Knowledge about AWS components (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, Redis Clusters, etc.)
• Self-learning abilities are required
• Familiarity with upcoming new technologies is a strong plus