Senior Level Node.js Developer

About the Role

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies. We are hiring a Backend Engineer for a dedicated client engagement building an AI-powered application builder platform.

The backend is the operational core of the product: it manages user projects and sessions, coordinates long-running AI agent workloads, maintains project state, and serves as the integration layer between the frontend, the AI system, and the underlying infrastructure.

The mandatory requirement is hands-on production experience shipping Node.js services, with end-to-end ownership of API design, data modelling, and at least one production system involving background job processing or event-driven patterns.

Responsibilities

API and service development: Design and build REST APIs in Node.js with TypeScript. Cover authentication, session management, input validation, structured error handling, streaming responses (SSE, WebSockets), and rate limiting. Maintain clean API contracts that the frontend and AI system can rely on.

Database design and management: Own PostgreSQL schema design for product domains including user accounts, projects, file trees, session state, and generated artefacts. Write efficient queries, manage migrations, and optimise for read patterns that serve a real-time editor experience.

Caching strategy: Implement and maintain caching with Redis for session data, project state, and frequently read configuration. Design cache invalidation logic that keeps the editor experience consistent without stale reads.

Queue and background job management: Implement and operate background job infrastructure using BullMQ or equivalent. AI agent runs are long-running and stateful; handle retries, failure states, priority queues, and concurrency limits.

AI system integration: Build the integration layer between the backend and the AI agent system. Manage job dispatch, result handling, streaming output to the frontend, and error propagation.

Multi-tenancy and access control: Implement tenant data isolation, RBAC, and resource ownership enforcement across all API surfaces.

Observability and reliability: Instrument services with structured logging, metrics, and tracing. Write defensive code with sensible timeouts, fallback behaviour, and circuit breaking on external dependencies.

Testing and code quality: Write unit and integration tests for the services you ship. Review the work of peers and contribute to shared engineering conventions.

Requirements

• Hands-on production Node.js experience (mandatory) — must have personally shipped at least one feature area end to end in a production Node.js service, owning API design, data modelling, and testing.

• 3 to 5 years of professional backend engineering experience. Candidates with slightly less time but strong demonstrated ownership are welcome to apply.

• Strong Node.js and TypeScript. Production experience with Express, NestJS, or Fastify. Solid with async patterns, streaming, error handling, and building services that run reliably under sustained load.

• PostgreSQL depth. Schema design, query writing, indexing, and migrations on at least one production system.

• Redis and caching. Production experience using Redis for caching and session management. Understands cache invalidation trade-offs.

• Queue and background job systems. Hands-on with BullMQ, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent. Experience managing retries, dead-letter queues, job priority, and concurrency control.

• AWS working knowledge. Comfortable with EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, and IAM. Familiar with Docker and basic deployment and environment management.

• Strong written and spoken English. Able to communicate clearly with engineers across disciplines and write precise technical documentation.

Nice to Have

Experience integrating with AI or LLM services (streaming responses, structured outputs, retry patterns); WebSocket or SSE implementation for real-time features; multi-tenant SaaS product experience; GraphQL; OpenTelemetry instrumentation; prior work on developer tools or editor-style products.

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. 

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Skills And Qualification:-

• Must have experience with any scripting language (JavaScript/NodeJS preferred)
• Experience with API-driven and highly scalable application is a plus
• Good knowledge of non-relational DB (MongoDB preferred)
• Good with data structures and algorithms
• Good to have an experience with testing framework and CI/CD pipeline
• 1+ years of experience in software development preferably B2C experience.
• Basic understanding of Frontend and client side frameworks like React, Angular, Vue will be plus
• Experience in building scalable Restful APIs & Services.

Education requirement:-

• B.Tech (computer science preferred)

Responsibilities:-

• Clarify feature requirements with product team

• Design end to end feature flow

• Write scalable and bug free code

• Take care of test and deployment pipeline

• Maintaining the existing products

• Work with product managers to understand product requirements and make them live.
• Ownership of end to end development

• Startup mindset of getting things done and focussing on business goals
• Proven problem solving skills
• 3+ years Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using server side technology (Java, Spring Boot / Node.js, Express)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Good knowledge of design patterns
• Proficiency in REST architecture
• Experience with test-driven development
• Experience with Git/CI/CD/Gradle/Maven
• Inclination towards writing quality and performant code

• Experience in Agile development
• Performance tuning, testing, refactoring and automation
• Experience working with AWS Cloud and Devops technologies (terraform , cloudformation, ansible)
• Experience running a production environment
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Must have 1+ Years of experience.

Location: Apart from the East Indian States it will be permanent work from home.

• Proficiency in Java, with a good understanding of its ecosystems
• Sound knowledge of https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/java-tutorial/oops-interview-questions" target="_blank">Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts
• Familiarity with different design and architectural patterns
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries 
• Knowhow of Java concurrency patterns
• Basic Understanding of the concepts of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and RESTful web services
• Experience in working with popular web application frameworks like Play and Spark
• Relevant Knowledge of Java GUI frameworks like Swing, SWT, AWT according to project requirements
• Ability to write clean, readable Java code
• Basic knowhow of class loading mechanism in Java
• Experience in handling external and embedded databases
• Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
• Skilled at creating database schemas that characterize and support business processes
• Basic knowledge of https://www.simplilearn.com/jvm-and-the-implications-of-sandbox-model-rar41-article" target="_blank">JVM (Java Virtual Machine), its drawbacks, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests 
• In-depth knowledge of code versioning tools, for instance, Git
• Understanding of building tools like Ant, Maven, Gradle, etc
• Expertise in continuous integration

Role: Javascript Developer [Backend Developer + Frontend]

Opening for MERN Stack Developer to lead scalable Development with competencies in: 

• Expert of NodeJS, Express & MongoDB, REST Apis
• Experience in Docker
• Exposure to React, Redis, will be preferred.

Industry: IT-Software / Software Services (SaaS)

Functional Area: Internet & Cloud Technologies

Role Category: Programming & Deployment

Role: Software Developer

Employment Type: Permanent Job, Full Time

Desired Experience: 2-4 years

Desired Qualifications: B.E. / B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA

Key-Skills:

Node.js  | Express  | REST Api   | Javascript  | Redux-Saga |   MongoDB | Web security TLS/SSL | Web Sockets |   Promises & Call-backs | Database & Data structures |   Redis | Elasticseach | React.Js

Key Deliverables: 

• New feature design and implementation, Bug fixing, testing and performance tuning.
• Work on the API and Engines.
• Code deployment on cloud & maintenance of the same.
• Take complete ownership of a product/feature from setup to deployment.
• Time-bound feature delivery & updating.
• Cost-saving using efficient & effective technologies

Role and Responsibilities: 

• Work on back-end (+ frontend integration) development of core scripts using NodeJS / MongoDB /Express /Redux, and Redis.
• Manage Key-value based databases like Redis.
• Active participation in the development of a sophisticated platform as one of the leading developers.
• Document code consistently throughout the development process by listing a description of the program, special instructions, and any changes made in database tables on procedural, modular and database level.
• Respond promptly and professionally to bug reports. 
• Knowledge of bluebird.js (Promises), Async, etc will be of advantage.
• Coding and programming using Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structure and Algorithms, architecture/ design and build RESTful API.
• Passionate about building products and features and build the product from scratch with thrust on Web security, TLS/SSL, web sockets, etc
• Knows one or more of Wireframes/ Prototyping/ Functional Documentation of business.