Backend Developer - Node.JS - AirFi
AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.
AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!
Your key responsibilities
- Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.
- Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.
- You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.
- Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimisations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.
What we look for
- Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features
- You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders
- You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
- You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues.
- You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills
- Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.
- Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis
Must have technical skills
- MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 7+ years
- Experience NodeJS, MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB - 7+ years
- Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 5+ years
You get bonus point for
- Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)
- Experience in AngularJS, React, etc - 2+ years
- Linux skills (we run on embedded Linux)
- Expertise HTML5, CSS,
- Experience on Cloudant, AWS, GCP etc.
- Experience on eCommerce or payments related domains
What you can expect
We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We provide a great platform to take up multiple roles based on individual interests or skills and collaborate with different global teams. We boast of a professional, fun work environment with a flat hierarchy and super supportive people to work with. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!
What more do we offer?
Some of our benefits that our employees cherish:
- Flexible work timings, remote working and work from home options
- Liberal employee policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping the work culture non toxic
- A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves
- We provide Skill enhancement sponsorships
- Celebratory team events, regular team virtual GupShups and fun engagement activities including the annual team (destination) meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
- Meal coupons and random gift vouchers
- Career longevity perks and so on!
When we're in office some of the things that make AirFi an interesting place to work are - healthy breakfast, snacks and a fully loaded pantry (read: health alert!); we try to keep AirFi as a fun place to work at and have interesting team activities on Fridays with occasional beers.
You get the opportunity to work and socialise with our global team when they visit or when you visit our customer offices/hangers. Last but not the least, in case you are an aviation geek - the opportunity to be on test flights and learn how the aviation industry works!
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- http://airfi.aero/">Website

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WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
- Build and scale backend services using Node.js & Express
- Architect and optimize MongoDB schemas for performance
- Contribute to frontend features with Next.js & React
- Debug production issues, optimize API latency & CI/CD pipelines
- Integrate MathJax (LaTeX rendering) & VdoCipher (secure video)
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Strong DSA fundamentals — logical thinking over competitive coding
- Deep JavaScript/TypeScript knowledge: Closures, Promises, Event Loop
- 1–2 original projects (no To-Do apps or tutorial clones)
- Ability to independently pick up Docker, Redis, or AWS
- Ownership mindset — ensure it works in production, not just locally
BONUS POINTS
- Docker / containerization basics
- Real-world AWS experimentation (EC2, S3, Lambda)
- Active GitHub profile: open-source contributions or unique projects
AI Usage Policy:
We encourage AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-4) as force multipliers — but you must own your code, explain rade-offs, and debug without solely relying on AI.
HOW TO APPLY
- Share your GitHub profile link
- Include live demo links to your best, most original projects
We value what you've built far more than what's on your resume.
Do you have what it takes?
· Proficient in C, C++ development, OS concepts, Data Structures, Distributed computing, and Algorithms.
· Actively engaged in projects related to architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
· Excellent problem-solving capability with strong fundamentals in Computer Science.
· Highly proficient in data structures and algorithms.
· Ability to pick up new technologies rapidly to convert specifications to low level design.
· Ability to clearly communicate the intent and approach when producing a code design document.
How can you contribute to our success?
· Develop frontend as well as backend components for delivering product on cloud platforms.
· Participate in activities that lead up to the code design. This may include activities such as developing prototypes, proof of concept, compare pros and cons of various implementation choices being considered and recommending the most appropriate one.
· Mentor and influence junior developers to adhere to good coding standards and become quality conscious.
· Review critical pieces of code that are developed as per this code design.
· Ensure that the code being delivered is of the highest quality.
· Ensure appropriate unit tests and functional as well as non-functional tests are considered.
· Conceptualize and work towards building processes, methodology, and tools to improve team’s ability to deliver high quality software.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.
To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.
We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.
Why you should join us:
- You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
- Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
- Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
- We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.
What you will do if you join us:
- Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
- Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
- Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
- Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
- Mentor and lead junior members of the team
You should have:
- Ability to think of out of the box
- Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
- Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
- Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
- Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
- Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.
It is a plus if you have:
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud
ob Description:
We are looking for Tech geeks having hands-on experience and in love with building scalable, distributed and large web/mobile products and tech solutions. He/She must be an excellent problem solver with passion to self-learn and implement web technologies (frontend + backend). He/She would be responsible for the architecture design, code review, and technology build and deployment activities of the product.
Responsibilities:-
- Own the product development from scratch.
- Architect scalable, distributed and large-scale web and mobile solutions from scratch.
- Code for fresh development and to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Able to learn & implement new technology/framework/library at God Speed.
- Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and be able to multitask.
- Experience and knowledge of open-source tools and frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development.
Desired Candidate Profile:-
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field(or combined with related experience)
- Strong Expertise in Node.js/Javascript
- Hands-on experience in writing Node.js applications
- Deep knowledge of Restful APIs, Web Services, command-line programs and solid design principles.
- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks like Express.js,Sails.js,StrongLoop, Meteor,Loopback.js, etc
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database(MongoDB)
- Knowledge of tools like Docker, Git, Postman, JSdocs, etc.
- Well versed with front-end technologies - HTML5, and CSS3, AWS, GCP, Azure, Good hold on CLI command, OS
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages, both dynamic(Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc.) and strongly typed object-oriented language.
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a high energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
Requirements
Candidate should have at least 4-6 years of experience in enterprise web application
development using NodeJS on server side along with MongoDB and Express.
Knowledge of RESTful API is a must.
Experience with NodeJS based frameworks (example - NestJS) is highly preferred.
Experience with code optimization as well as has in depth understanding about
asynchronous programming.
Strong analytical skills and can come up with out of the box solutions.
Experience in end to end web development.
Experience with No SQL (Mongo preferred) databases with data migration Strategies
Strong knowledge in Object-Oriented Programming Concepts and Data Structures along with
Node JS best practices.
Experience in Unit Testing in NodeJS (Chai and Mocha) is a must.
Exposure to continuous deployment and integration process.
Exposure with Docker and Orchestration software.
Experience with Redis is added advantage.
Experience with RabbitMQ and Kafka is added advantage
Experience with Nginx and HA Proxy is added advantage
Experience in scalable microservices is must.
Deep in depth understanding about design pattern.
What you will be Doing
- You will abstract away complex data interactions with easy-to-use APIs that will power several mobile and web applications.
- You will also own, scale, and maintain the computational and storage infrastructure for the various micro-services and long-running jobs, designed and implemented by you and the team.
- We will look to you to make key decisions on the technology stack, architecture, networking, and security. We love working with bleeding-edge technology, especially if it improves the malleability, and simplicity of our deliverables.
What you need
- The ideal Backend Engineers are polyglots who are fluent in HTTP and core CS concepts such as algorithms, data structures, and programming paradigms, and always pick the right tools for the right job.
- They have a keen eye for common security vulnerabilities and how to act on them (example: DDOS attacks, SQL Injection etc.).
- They understand what it takes to work in a startup environment and know when to trade performance for simplicity.
- They fail fast, learn faster, and execute in time.
- Strong communication skills, get-things-done attitude, and empathy
- Strong sense of ownership, drive and obsessive attention to detail.
- Comfortable with iterative development practices and code reviews
- Previous experience as part of a product-oriented team is a plus
Technical Skillsets:
NodeJS + Javascript, GoLang, Typescript + Nodejs, Clojure/Haskell/F#/Scala (languages/environments)
Koa, Express, Play (frameworks)
Asynchronous Programming Frameworks (Akka, Nodejs, Tornado)
MongoDB, postgres, Bigtable, Dynamo (databases)
Apache Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ (queues)
FunctionalProgramming, FRP (functional reactive)
microservices, multi-tenant, distributed-systems, distributed-computing, event-sourcing
Good to have Skillsets:
Clojure/Haskell/F#/Scala
Apache Kafka, NATS
FunctionalProgramming, FRP (functional reactive)
event-sourcing
Koa
Why you should consider this role seriously?
- We have an audacious vision of helping companies fight counterfeiting and managing their supply chain more efficiently
- We have built a product and solved problems for some of the largest brands in the country and tested platform at scale (With our tags present in over 50 Million products already). We have plans to grow 10x in the next 1 year
- Ownership of key problems. Fast-paced environment
- We are a well-balanced team of experienced entrepreneurs and are backed by top investors across India and the Silicon Valley (Venture Highway, Startup Buddy etc.)
- Competitive market salary
- Opportunity to work directly with the CEO, COO, CTO of the company
- A chance to interact with top-notch executives from multiple industries
- Open vacation policy (and we really mean it!)
- Open Pantry
- As a team, we love to travel :). An off-site every quarter
Planning to Apply? Consider this:
Make sure you go through this section very carefully before applying. Here are the most crucial aspects on which we evaluate on:
1: FIT: “We’re on a crusade for something greater than any one of us”!
We are a tight-knit team that works and plays together where ‘fit’ is the most important point that you need to keep in mind while evaluating us- we will be spending a majority of our time together, in office, on calls, even weekends (sometimes) so you’ll really need to assess whether this is the right place for YOU to be in. Are you able to relate to or feel passionate about the problems we’re solving?
2: INTENT: “You won’t just be working with us, you would be investing in us!”
‘Why’ do you want to work with us? Why an early stage startup? Why Original4Sure? We are an industrious team, working tirelessly to achieve our goals so the work hours will be long and with it will come with a steep learning curve. Joining an early stage startup also means you’ll be asked to take on new things with little guidance and you’ll have to figure stuff out on your own, and in doing so, help shape the future of the company. Does that sound scary, exciting, both?
3: CAPABILITY: “Get work done!”
As long as you are working as hard as you can and giving it your best all day, every day, we will get along just fine. No one ever built one of the most valuable businesses in the World without the core team having to make a few sacrifices along the journey. It could be lesser time spent with your family or loved ones or finding lesser time to do to watch TV shows! But that's a call you need to make.
Strong proficiency with one of the Vue.js, Angular JS, React JS JavaScript Techologies
2. Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it , such as Express JS, Strong Loop, etc
3. Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and Promises and its quirks and workarounds
4. Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jade, EJS, etc depending on your technology stack)
5. Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as Styles, Less
6. Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap
7. Understanding accessibility and security compliance
8. User authentication and authorization between multiple systems(Internal or Third party), servers, and environments
9. Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
10. Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
11. Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
12. Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
13. Proficient in code versioning tools, such as Git or TFS
• 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in Node.js and Typescript (including
Express, Feathers.js or similar)
• Proficient at programming and interacting with APIs
• Strong understanding of production systems, especially in AWS
• Deep understanding of mobile backend infrastructure including service-oriented or microservice architecture
• Customer-focused, reacts well to changes, work with teams and able to multitask
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment
Bonus if you have the following:
• Experience in React and/or React Native
• Active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github etc.
• Worked with Linux
• Prior startup experience
Project
You will be working to build a browser-based IDE and various other inclusive edtech product, if you’re up for the task - apply
Requirements
Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Solid experience working with the PHP and latest Laravel version
Proven expertise in managing API services (REST and SOAP)
Good working knowledge in design and query optimization of databases
Familiarity with server tools (Apache) and cloud servers (Azure / AWS)
Our Culture
We are passionate about other’s success and believe that all individuals are unique and capable of reaching their full potential. Our goal is to challenge the status quo and make a difference.
Do you want to translate your skills & time into something more meaningful? Join us to empower individuals who have been neglected by society and break barriers through tech. Together, we will build a wider movement for educational equity.








